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There are the two essential questions a reporter covering business, the economy, or just about any topic should always ask: ‘How much does it cost?’ and ‘Where will you get the money from?’. These simple questions are not only key to gaining information about your current story’s topic, but they offer greater insight into reasons for decisions that have a direct impact on a country and its citizens.
The environment is the overarching issue of the 21st century for two reasons:
1. The environment includes and touches everything: air, water, food, health, climate, energy, development, poverty, economics—the list could go on without end.
2. Nearly every major environmental indicator is in decline.
We are pushing up against the limits of the Earth’s ability to support us. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and nitrogen pollution are moving toward crisis levels, according to recent studies. There is little public awareness of this reality, which means journalists covering the environment have a plethora of important stories to cover.
There are many different concepts and definitions of poverty. According to the Oxford University Poverty and Human Development Initiative, ‘Poverty is often defined by one-dimensional measures, such as income. But no one indicator alone can capture the multiple aspects that constitute poverty. Multidimensional poverty is made up of several factors that constitute poor people’s experience of deprivation–such as poor health, lack of education, inadequate living standard, lack of income (as one of several factors considered), disempowerment, poor quality of work and threat from violence.’
Planespotters are hobbyists who have a passion for planes: they track, photograph and record aircraft takeoffs and landings, taking note of registration numbers and other markings. I became interested in planespotting some years ago, after viewing the clever video posted by the Tunisian blogger Astrubal, who put together planespotters’ photographs of the Tunisian presidential plane’s comings and goings.
Close to 100 journalists, vizualisers and hackers gathered data and shared methods 6th to 8th of May 2012 in Brussels. [View the story “Lessons from Data Harvest Festival in Europa” on Storify]
(By Dan Meredith)
While I am by no means a seasoned investigative journalist, I have the good fortune to work with some. Looking ten years back I couldn’t imagine a media organization considering geek qualifications a core part of an investigative team.
The 7th global investigative journalism conference in Kiev was the place for so many new presentations on tools and methods. Inside you will find links to many.
Over the past several years, the ubiquity of data journalism has increased. Last year, the Guardian released a how-to guide on becoming a data journalist, and earlier in October Poynter published five essential tips for getting started in data journalism.
This is an ongoing service of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
By Simona Raetz | May 02, 2011, 11:28 am
An 11-country-investigation by Consejo de Redaccion in Columbia looked into resource mismanagement in Latin America and found that the region is missing profitable opportunities to conserve its forests because of red tape and excessive paperwork. Instead carbon emissions trading and forest conservation have become ambiguous projects with little oversight.
Submitted by globadmin on Tue, 2010-01-26 18:12
A series of Investigative Journalism Manuals, conceptualised and produced by FAIR in partnership with the University of the Witwatersrand and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, have been placed online at the FAIR website www.fairreporters.org/home. The ‘IJ Manuals’ are tailor-made to assist investigative journalists who operate in Africa or in similar difficult, resource- and transparency-poor environments.