Global Investigative Journalism Network (https://archive.gijn.org/tag/authoritarian-regime/)
This edition off GIJN’s Top 10 in Data Journalism highlights a cross-border exposé of the different underworld groups operating in the Amazon’s border areas, an investigation into the Myanmar junta’s accelerating airstrike campaign, and a look at the global impact of violence from US gun exports.
From a film investigating the attempted murder of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny to a stark cautionary tale about how climate change is playing out on the Arctic coast, see the Oscar-nominated documentary shortlists.
With key votes scheduled in many countries around the world in 2022, GIJN’s new guide to investigating elections includes this chapter offering comprehensive preparation tips for how to tackle investigations in upcoming elections.
Meduza, one of Russia’s last remaining independent news sites, lost 30,000 donors after the government cut off subscriber payments from the country due to unflinching coverage of the war. In less than a week, two German reporters organized a crowdfunding campaign to replace those funds to try to save Meduza.
An editor from Novaya Gazeta and the chief executive of Meduza discussed ongoing censorship and other threats to independent media inside Russia, plus their plans for the future, during an International Press Institute webinar.