News & Analysis

How Forensic Architecture Supports Journalists with Complex Investigative Techniques

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Since it was founded in 2010, Forensic Architecture has “hacked into the source code” of architecture to produce innovative and ground-breaking investigations that use 3D modelling, data mining, machine learning, and audio analysis. Working like a lab for the development of new tools, the outfit uses many of the forensic methods of investigation that have historically been the preserve of law enforcement to investigate social and political topics and injustices.

COVID-19

Collaborating to Identify COVID-19’s Victims in New York City

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When a team of student journalists realized that thousands of New Yorkers had died due to COVID-19 but had been left out of the obituary pages, they teamed up to create Missing Them, an ambitious collaborative journalism project working to memorialize everyone that died due to COVID-19 in one of the hardest-hit cities in America.

The Friday 5

What We’re Reading: Pegasus Spyware Targets Another Journalist, Cybersecurity Reading List, and Capitalizing Black

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This week’s Friday 5, where we round up our favorite reads from around the online world in English, includes a report from The Guardian and GIJN member Forbidden Stories about a Moroccan journalist targeted by Pegasus spyware, five books on cybersecurity that you should be reading, and, in the midst of the global Black Lives Matter movement, AP Stylebook’s decision to capitalize Black.

COVID-19

Investigating the Pandemic: A Guide to Sources of Data

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GIJN has created a multi-part guide on where to obtain data about the spread of COVID-19 and its consequences. The document links to official and unofficial international sources on health and economic data, links to information on government policy responses, and more than a dozen sites working on pandemic projection modelling.

Data

اساليب فعالة لإنشاء فريق صحافة بيانات ناجح

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منذ خمسة أعوام، كان يُنظر إلى الصحفيين الذين يستخدمون قواعد البيانات أو يستعينون بقراصنة إنترنت ومبرمجين باعتبارهم مهووسين، أما الآن فقد اختلف محيط العمل؛ أصبحنا على دراية بقصص فساد حقيقية مثل وثائق بنما التي أكدت وجود اتحاد بين الصحفيين والتكنولوجيا، كذلك فإن منح جائزة بوليترز للتحقيق الذي كشف الجانب المظلم للصناعة الخارجية عام ٢٠١٧ هو اعتراف بالهزة والتأثير الذي أحدثته هذه الطريقة الجديدة من العمل.

Los retos para el periodismo de investigación en 2020

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English

La comunidad global de periodismo de investigación puede estar enfrentando sus desafíos más difíciles hasta ahora, con el aumento del autoritarismo en todo el mundo y líderes que utilizan las redes sociales para dar forma a sus narrativas políticas manipuladoras para intentar controlar a la sociedad. A esto hay que agregarle la lucha permanente por lograr la sostenibilidad y la constante impunidad de los crímenes perpetrados contra los reporteros.

collaboration

How They Did It: ProPublica’s Engagement Journalism

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There is power in a crowd, and harnessing crowd contributions have become increasingly useful in investigative journalism. New York-based ProPublica shows how newsrooms are integrating crowdsourcing as a routine reporting tool, using it for data collection and to connect with and gather personal stories from readers.

Data

Struck by Lightning: A Quick Lesson on Cleaning up Your Data

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Being struck by lightning is often used as an example of heavenly retribution because it is so unlikely. Fatalities due to lightning are statistical outliers, since most people struck by lightning survive. So what is the best way to avoid becoming one of these outliers? The following is a step-by-step set of instructions for unpacking a dataset – and being careful about the conclusions we draw.

How They Did It

How Univision Revealed Flaws in Costa Rica’s Judicial System

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Four years of work and 8,000 judicial rulings later, the team at Univision Data shows how in Costa Rica, a person is more likely to be convicted of a crime if they are assigned a public defense attorney than if they have a private one. Their methodology included web scraping, R and logistic regression — a statistical method common in social sciences but practically unexplored in newsrooms.