Afghanistan
Afghanistan: How to Help Journalists and Others at Risk
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In an effort to help journalists and others trying to leave Afghanistan, GIJN has put together this list of resources for emergency evacuation and asylum processes.
Resources
Business Tools for Newsrooms: A New GIJN Guide
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GIJN is publishing a new business tools guide focused on helping news outlets solve their administrative needs. Written by Talya Cooper and illustrated by Chafiq Faiz, the guide includes useful software and applications – many of which are free – for small newsrooms. Tools included cover administration, management, communication, file sharing, accounting, SEO, audience engagement, audiovisual, content management, subscriber management, design and data visualization, social media and email marketing, site security, and password management.
Organized Crime Guide
Investigating Antiquities Trafficking
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The illicit trade in antiquities is a form of transnational crime that connects the theft at heritage sites to the elite world of the global art market, often via a web of organized crime.
GIJC21
Resilient Reporting: Tips on How to Cope with Burnout and Trauma
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At GIJC21, experts from the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma offered advice for journalists on how to take care of their own mental well-being while working in stressful or even dangerous circumstances.
GIJC21
‘Pacific Plunder’: Using Local Partners to Investigate in Remote Locations
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A major collaboration between the Guardian Australia and more than a dozen contributing Indigenous journalists — supported by the Judith Neilson Institute — has generated hundreds of relevant stories, including several investigations, on small South Pacific nations in the past two years.
Resources
Reporting on Migration in the Gulf: A Revised and Expanded GIJN Guide
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There are 23 million migrant workers in the Gulf, but reporting in this region presents a series of unique and often difficult challenges for investigative journalists due to widespread restrictions on press freedom and threats to reporters’ security. GIJN and Migrants-Rights.org have collaborated to update this bilingual guide to educate journalists on best practices, tools, and country-specific resources for covering the subject, all against the backdrop of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
wildlife crime
What the Experts Say: Tips on Investigating Illegal Wildlife Trafficking
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GIJN invited journalists and activists to answer one key question about reporting on illegal wildlife trafficking: What stories should investigative journalists interested in this subject concentrate on? From the trafficking of less-noticed animals to bushmeat and investigating the zoonotic diseases that can pass between humans and animals, read their answers based on years in the field, in this story.
Organized Crime Guide
How to Investigate Money Laundering
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The criminal blueprint and its elements need to be understood to efficiently follow the money and stop criminals from doing business as usual. Criminals, both the ones just starting out as well as those who are already well established, have regional and global infrastructure that is continuously built and maintained by what the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) team calls the “criminal services industry.” Here’s OCCRP’s Paul Radu on how it works and how to untangle it.
My Favorite Tools
My Favorite Tools: Venezuela’s Lisseth Boon on Design and Data Visualization
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Since her arrival at Runrun.es, Lisseth Boon has conducted investigations on human rights violations, gold trafficking, illegal mining, and environmental crimes, many of them recognized with national and international awards. Her team has also worked with media platforms both inside and outside of Venezuela such as Consejo de Redacción and Connectas in Colombia, Convoca in Perú, and Mongabay. It has also participated in transnational collaborative projects such as the Panama Papers, Fincen Files, Swiss Connection, Lava Jato (Operation Car Wash), Vigila La Pandemia, and Tierra de Resistencia.
Batchgeo
Tools for Measuring Your Group’s Audience and Impact
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As news publishers, it’s tempting to think of our analytics like the weather: they just happen to us. But it doesn’t have to be that way. By tracking our readers’ behavior and understanding what makes them act a certain way or click on a certain page, we can better understand how to recreate or manipulate their behavior the next time around. The following is a comprehensive list of tools to give you incredible insight into your readership.