Resources
Essential Resources for the US Election: A Field Guide for Journalists on the Frontlines
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Update: In 2022, GIJN published an elections guide with four chapters. You can read it here.
Resources
Guides to Finding Expert Sources
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Looking for sources? Finding experts in a particular field is a good place to start for many stories. GIJN took a look at various guides to expert sources. After cutting those that are outdated, too specialized, or tools of the PR industry, we found a handful worth consulting. Here are six services with functioning, reliable databases used by journalists searching for expert sources.
Climate Change
GIJN’s Guide to Investigating Sea Level Rise: Chapter Three — Maps and Data
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Writing about sea level rise doesn’t necessarily require using historic data or scientific projections, although such information is available for coastal locations worldwide. The practical effects are already visible and affecting people’s lives.
Organized Crime Guide
Investigating Organized Crime: A New GIJN Guide
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In concert with GIJC21’s panel on the “New Organized Crime,” GIJN has released a comprehensive, multi-part reporting guide to investigating organized crime around the world, looking at nine key areas: criminal finance, narcotics, arms trade, environmental crime, forced disappearances, cybercrime, mafia states, human trafficking, and art and antiquities.
Climate Change Guide
GIJN’s Guide to Investigating Sea Level Rise
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For journalists, explaining the causes and consequences of rising sea levels is a critical and challenging assignment. To address this aspect of the climate crisis, GIJN is publishing an extensive guide to support journalists covering the impact of rising seas around the world.
Climate Change
GIJN’s Guide to Investigating Sea Level Rise
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
This guide was written by GIJN’s Resource Center senior advisor, Toby McIntosh. It was edited by Nikolia Apostolou, Laura Dixon, and Reed Richardson, with fact-checking by Miranda Woolen.
Climate Change
GIJN’s Guide to Investigating Sea Level Rise: Chapter Six — Notable Investigations
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What follows is a collection of sea level rise stories representing either unique investigative work or interesting ways of approaching sea level rise stories. This list is categorized by topic, though given the wide-ranging impact of sea level rise, a story about ecological loss often morphs into stories about economics, migration, and other topics.
Climate Change
GIJN’s Guide to Investigating Sea Level Rise: Chapter Five — Visualizing Rising Oceans
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The dramatic effects of sea level rise can be visualized in a variety of ways. For emotional appeal, digitally modified photos can show how rising water levels might affect treasured monuments and buildings.
Top 10 in Data Journalism
Data Journalism Top 10: Russian Propaganda, India’s Cyber Mercenaries, Australian Flooding
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This week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism digs into noise pollution in megacities, the trade in stolen Ukrainian grain, Russian state propaganda about its invasion, abortion access in the United States, and devastating floods in Australia.
GIJC21
Expert Tips for Digging Out the Roots of Disinformation
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At GIJC21, two investigative journalists who have used their cutting-edge expertise in media manipulation to expose scamsters, far-right propagandists, and secret troll farms discussed tracking digital footprints, free resources for content verification — and the kind of tips that might just break a big story.