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The latest cross-border investigation by the ICIJ — Deforestation Inc. — used thousands of pages of documents, court records, green certificates databases, trade data, and audit reports to expose how a lightly regulated sustainability industry overlooks forest destruction and human rights violations.
The vast majority of people who own properties are not engaged in any misconduct or possible criminal behavior. But land deals or real estate purchases made with inexplicable funding sources can be a telltale sign of corruption.
GIJN’s weekly, curated look at the Top 10 in Data Journalism highlights bats and predicting the location of the next pandemic, China’s electric battery dominance, and mapping out Brazil’s healthcare “holes.”
Swedish reporter Ester Blenda Nordström went undercover to expose working conditions on rural farms, the difficult journeys of migrants traveling to the United States, and to explore the life of the country’s Indigenous Sami community. In this book excerpt, read about the woman dubbed the country’s first investigative reporter.
Hassan Adebayo has built a storied career at the Premium Times, leading investigations into terrorism and violent extremism, corruption, and financial crime.
This guide was written by GIJN Resource Center Senior Advisor Toby McIntosh. Editing by Nikolia Apostolou, Alexa van Sickle, and Reed Richardson.
In an era where corruption, financial crime, and illicit trade routinely span the globe, so too must the investigations that uncover them. But one of the least discussed and often unexpected obstacles in that pursuit involves the difficulties investigative journalists can face when traveling and physically crossing borders.
A France-based nonprofit founded in 2020, EIF has built an international network of more than 100 trained investigative journalists and environmental experts, connecting them to each other and to opportunities to probe activities shaping the natural world.
Six outstanding investigative projects from Large Outlets have been selected as finalists for the 2023 Global Shining Light Awards (GSLA) — the prize honoring watchdog journalism in developing or transitioning countries that was carried out under threat, or in perilous conditions.
This week’s Top 10 Data Journalism stories curated by GIJN includes projects on Turkey’s toxic earthquake rubble, Eurovision song metrics, US migration from coastal cities, and world leaders’ heights.