Tools & Techniques
10 Tips for Tracking Russian-Owned Assets
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OCCRP senior investigator Tom Stocks shares 10 best practices for tracking the mansions and superyachts of Russian oligarchs and officials deemed closest to President Vladimir Putin.
GIJN
From Sri Lanka to Greece: Eight New Journalism Groups Join GIJN
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The Global Investigative Journalism Network is pleased to welcome eight new member organizations based in eight countries, including GIJN’s first members in Greece and Zambia. With these new members, our network now includes 211 organizations in 82 countries.
News & Analysis
The Teen Muckraker Who Exposed Police Training Materials Quoting Hitler
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On October 30, the student news site of duPont Manual High School in Louisville, Kentucky, in the United States, published a bombshell of an investigation: While training officers, the Kentucky State Police had used a slideshow that quoted Adolf Hitler. The reporters behind the story were a 16-year-old and his younger brother.
Tools & Techniques
Blending Animation and Investigative Reporting
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The Center for Investigative Reporting embarked on a new experiment last year: piloting an Animated Investigations collaborative course with the California College of the Arts. The course, which is intended for three semesters and a malleable work in progress, first taught students to animate existing Reveal investigations. However, it slowly transformed into a course where students identified their own underreported stories to animate.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Can Philanthropy Save the Media?
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The media, civil society, and democracy are under unprecedented duress around the world. Protecting the independent media and the public sphere presents an “epic challenge,” but there is great opportunity for philanthropy to step up and help. Bruce Sievers and Patrice Schneider detail five avenues worth pursuing in funding news media and argue that charitable donors should significantly increase their investment in the media.
How They Did It
Journalists Collaborate in Oregon on Mountain of Data on High School Concussions
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John Schrag had known for a while about an unexamined pool of data that could shed new light on the issue of concussions in high school sports. The executive editor of a newspaper in Oregon, his first instincts were to keep the story in-house and garner all the glory, but he quickly realized the only way the story would see the light of day was through collaboration.