Member Profiles
Thriving on Change: El Surtidor’s Groundbreaking Multi-Platform, Visual Journalism
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GIJN member El Surtidor is a Paraguayan news organization created in 2015 that prioritizes innovation and multi-platform, visual journalism.
Member Profiles
France-Based Environmental Investigative Forum Is Taking Cross-Border Collaboration to the Next Level
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A France-based nonprofit founded in 2020, EIF has built an international network of more than 100 trained investigative journalists and environmental experts, connecting them to each other and to opportunities to probe activities shaping the natural world.
Member Profiles
Danwatch: How a Danish Investigative Site Exerts Global Reach
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GIJN member Danwatch was launched in 2007 by civic groups in Denmark with a focus on both research and journalism. Danwatch has since grown to have one of the largest specialized investigative journalism teams in Denmark, with 13 reporters, one of them based in South America.
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How a Wiretapping Scandal Reinforced the Need for Independent Media in Greece
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The Greek wiretapping story has become an international scandal. But for months, the only outlets covering the story were small independent ones like Reporters United, whose dogged reporting has shaken up the country’s media landscape.
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Uğur Mumcu: The Foundation Continuing the Legacy of an Assassinated Turkish Investigative Reporter
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The Uğur Mumcu Investigative Journalism Foundation — a GIJN member since 2018 — plays a unique role in Turkey. Decades after its creation, it is still training investigative journalists in the country’s increasingly polarized media environment.
new members
GIJN Welcomes 9 New Members – from Lebanon to Indonesia
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GIJN is delighted to welcome nine new member organizations – a diverse group of nonprofit newsrooms from eight countries that are bravely holding individuals and institutions to account in tough press environments. These admissions now grow GIJN’s global network to 244 member organizations in 90 countries.
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How Viewfinder Is Re-Imagining Investigative Journalism in South Africa to Expose Systemic Failures
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New GIJN member Viewfinder, a small nonprofit journalism organization, is re-imagining investigative reporting in South Africa by exposing the disproportionate effects of systemic failures on marginalized communities.
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Alqatiba: Tunisian Digital Magazine Hopes to Shake Up Journalism in the Region
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In Tunisia, where the first protests of the Arab Spring took place, a start-up with a focus on investigative journalism and narrative storytelling is attempting to exploit the country’s relative media freedom to win over readers.
Member Profiles
Jordan’s 7iber: From Citizen’s Blog to Watchdog Journalism
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One of the newest members of GIJN, the Jordanian investigative site 7iber, began as a blog in 2007 but has since matured into an online magazine bravely covering issues in a hostile press environment.
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How La Maison des Reporters Became Senegal’s First Reader-Funded Independent Media Site
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Senegal’s first publicly-funded, independent media site — La Maison des Reporters — was launched after a young journalist, Moussa Ngom, grew frustrated with his country’s mainstream news.