Document of the Day

Document of the Day: Funding the News in the Wake of the Trump Bump

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A comprehensive study released earlier this week delved into the nonprofit news sector following the flurry of funding into the troubled US news industry in what has become known as the Trump Bump. Co-published by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and Northeastern University’s School of Journalism, the study analyzed 32,422 journalism and media-related grants totaling $1.8 billion between 2010 and 2015. Here are some of the major findings.

Award Recipients

New Resource Guide: Awards for Investigative Journalists

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Follow this link to GIJN’s guide to prominent journalism awards competitions around the world. We’ve looked for awards that are of special interest to investigative journalists, that are open to international entries, and that are global or regional in scope.

Resources

Where Can Foreigners Make FOIA Requests? Read the New GIJN Guide

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In some countries, foreigners can use the national freedom of information law to file requests, according to a new GIJN resource, GIJN’s Guide to National Rules on Where Foreigners Can Make FOI Requests. Check out the color-coded chart, which includes the pertinent language of the laws in countries around the world.

Resources

Introducing GIJN’s New Guide to Citizen Investigations

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Citizens can investigate, and they do — all over the world. Today we’re launching a new GIJN guide to help non-journalists investigate even more. It’s full of techniques used by investigative journalists that will be helpful to citizen investigators, too. These include searching the internet, finding out who owns corporations, investigating politicians, and much more.

climate

Investigating Climate Change: A New GIJN Guide

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What’s the investigative journalism twist on covering the climate crisis? Much of the biggest news understandably comes from scientists, but there’s lots of potential for imaginative reporting, as discussed in a new GIJN resource guide on climate.

audience engagement

Document of the Day: Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018

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The Reuters Institute surveyed 74,000 people in 37 countries to find out how consumers around the world are using digital news. The findings are included in its 2018 Digital News Report, revealing insights about digital news consumption that could help inform newsrooms on their digital news strategies. The report focuses on the issues of misinformation, new business models, rise of messaging apps and new audio growth.

Document of the Day

Document of the Day: Danske Bank’s Dirty Money

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An internal report of Danske Bank, the largest financial institution in Denmark, found a series of “major deficiencies in controls and governance” that allowed $235 billion in questionable transactions to be made in its branch in Estonia.

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