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Bellingcat fellow Dennis Kovtun tests the online geolocation capabilities of two popular AI chatbots — Microsoft’s Bing AI and Google’s Bard — and finds both have some serious limits and drawbacks to their effectiveness.
A study found many Google News Initiative projects in Middle East and Africa struggle to become more than makeshift versions of the original idea.
BuzzFeed News investigative correspondent Tom Warren reflects on the rise and fall of their award-winning investigations team.
GIJN associate editor Laura Dixon and GIJN Francophone Africa editor Maxime Domegni round up seven key takeaways from the 2023 Centre for Investigative Journalism’s 2023 summer conference in London.
Geographical diversity, the stories’ impact and uniqueness, the risks taken, and the techniques used were some of our criteria for selecting the strongest French language investigations of the year, selected by GIJN French Editor Alcyone Wemaëre, GIJN Francophone Africa Editor Maxime Domegni, GIJN French Assistant Editor Moran Kerinec, and Africa Assistant Editor Aïssatou Fofana.
Here’s an early look at the schedule for the 2023 Global Investigative Journalism Conference, where we expect a record 2,000 journalists from more than 110 countries to join us in Gothenburg, Sweden. The conference takes place Sept. 19-22.
For every human source who assists investigative journalists, there are dozens of officials, victims, and potential whistleblowers with vital information whom reporters never engage.
The award-winning Ghanaian journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni says there are a series of challenges that investigative reporters in Africa must confront during the course of their work. Read about the difficulty of getting accurate data, the challenges of impunity, funding issues, and press freedom challenges in this excerpt from his new book.
The Global Investigative Journalism Network is delighted to announce a major new translation initiative in partnership with EU4 Independent Media (EU4IM), a program financed by the European Commission and implemented by DT Global Europe. EU4IM is supporting GIJN to translate core investigative and data journalism materials into seven languages spoken by EU Partnership Countries in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus: Armenian, Azeri, Belarusian, Georgian, Romanian, Russian, and Ukrainian.
Editor’s Note: The tipsheet was updated in 2023 by GIJN’s Leonardo Peralta and edited by Nikolia Apostolou. The subject of sexual violence remains a sensitive if not taboo subject in much of the world and often goes unreported.