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War Crimes Reporting Guide

Reporters’ Guide to Investigating War Crimes: Introduction

By Anne Koch | Photography by Ron Haviv | September 12, 2023

In the introduction to GIJN’s War Crimes Reporting Guide, GIJN Program Director Anne Koch discusses international law relating to conflict and the role of investigative reporting in uncovering war crimes.

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‘Don’t Give Up’: DIG Festival Announces 2023 Awards Shortlist for Investigative Documentaries and Podcasts

By Laura Dixon | September 11, 2023

Each year the jury for the DIG Festival scours hundreds of submissions to find the best investigative films and podcasts from around the world. This year 25 documentaries and six podcasts, from more than 400 entries, were shortlisted, featuring films or audio from Myanmar, Italy, the Philippines, and the Nordic countries.

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Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes: Environmental and Property Damage

By Wim Zwijnenburg | Photography by Christopher Morris, Ed Kashi | September 8, 2023

In this excerpt from GIJN’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes, humanitarian disarmament researcher Wim Zwijnenburg offers best practices for reporting on environmental and property damage during conflicts.

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Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes: Self-Care for Covering Traumatic Events

By Gavin Rees | September 7, 2023

In this excerpt from GIJN’s Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes, the Dart Center’s Gavin Rees discusses best practices for self-care and processing coverage of traumatic events.

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Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes: Interviewing Victims and Survivors

By Gavin Rees | Photography by Ron Haviv | September 6, 2023

In the first section of Chapter 13 of the GIJN Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes, the Dart Center’s Gavin Rees discusses best practices for interviewing victims and survivors of war crimes and armed conflict.

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Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes: Command Structures

By Tony Wilson | Photography by Ron Haviv | September 5, 2023

This chapter of GIJN’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes, written by military expert Tony Wilson, offers an overview of command structures and their roles in holding leaders accountable for war crimes.

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Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes: Finding the Missing

By Sarah El Deeb | Photography by Ron Haviv | September 4, 2023

In this chapter excerpt from GIJN’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes, investigative reporter Sarah El Deeb discusses techniques for tracking the missing and those subject to forced disappearances.

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Data Journalism Top 10: US Wage Theft, Airline Near Misses, Russia’s Brain Drain, and the Great Kantō Earthquake

By Laura Dixon and Eunice Au | September 1, 2023

In this week’s look at the Top 10 in Data Journalism, GIJN highlights mapping wage theft in New York, the alarming rise in US airliner near misses, Russia’s brain drain, and a historical analysis of the Great Kantō earthquake in Japan 100 years ago.

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‘Things Are About to Get Worse:’ GIJC23 Keynote Speaker Ron Deibert On the Battle Against Hidden Cyber Threats

By Rowan Philp | August 30, 2023

As director of Citizen Lab, Deibert, 58, will be the keynote speaker at the 2023 Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC23) in Gothenburg, Sweden. His warnings about the new cyber threats to independent journalism and democracy at that event promise to be even more ominous, and even more prescient.

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Behind Closed Doors: Investigating the System for Settling Investor-State Disputes

By Claire Provost | August 29, 2023

The little-known but powerful Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system considers high stakes cases between companies and national governments, which often take years to resolve and impose extensive legal and other fees. Here, investigative reporter Claire Provost argues that we need more reporting to expose the impact this system has on our democracies.

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