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David Leffler and Savanna Strott, who cover pollution and other environmental health issues for Public Health Watch, share details behind their investigation into a massive chemical fire in Houston in March 2019.
This guide is created to encourage Indigenous investigative journalists and to provide empowering tips and tools. Developed collaboratively by the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) and the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA), the guide explores eight key topics.
More than 115 countries worldwide have laws that require officials to turn over public records. Of course, even in countries that have no laws it never hurts to ask.
Despite government restrictions, journalists around the world are using freedom of information laws to understand the COVID-19 pandemic and the response of international, national, and local authorities. GIJN’s Toby McIntosh outlines how to craft an effective freedom of information request and provides tips and suggestions on where to make requests and important questions to ask.
Governments around the world, some which have sent workers home, are announcing interruptions in responding to freedom of information requests. Journalists are being told to expect delays in more than a dozen countries. But press freedom advocates warn that countries are taking big steps backward just when the free flow of information is most needed. GIJN’s Toby McIntosh rounds up some of the nations which have been affected.
কোভিড-১৯ মহামারিতে সাংবাদিকদের জন্য তথ্য পাওয়ার সবচেয়ে বড় উৎস হতে পারে তথ্য অধিকার আইন। কিন্তু দেশে দেশে সরকারি কর্মকর্তারা অফিসে যাচ্ছেন না। তাই আবেদন করেও তথ্য পেতে দেরি হচ্ছে গণমাধ্যম ও নাগরিক সংগঠনগুলোর। অথচ এই সময়টিতে সরকার কী ব্যবস্থা নিচ্ছে, সেই তথ্য জানা সবচেয়ে জরুরি হয়ে উঠেছে নাগরিকদের জন্য। তাই জাতিসংঘ থেকে শুরু করে নানান প্রতিষ্ঠানের কাছ থেকে দাবি উঠেছে – স্বচ্ছতা নিশ্চিতের স্বার্থে দ্রুত তথ্য প্রদানের।
A team of Reuters reporters, editors and data analysts reviewed the results of hundreds of autopsies and filed hundreds of public records requests involving deaths by Taser in the US. The result? Not only did the investigation catalogue 1,005 deaths, but it ended up building the most comprehensive database ever on Taser-related deaths.
Taboom Media has created a reporting guide for journalists interested in investigating how US-based faith groups and NGOs foment hate against LGBTQI+ communities, both in the United States and abroad.
Третий и заключительный раздел включает национальные ресурсы и способы получения официальной информации от государственных органов в разных странах мира.
In researching Settling for Misconduct, a story on settlements and judgments of police misconduct, the Chicago Reporter had to account for details from hundreds of county and federal court filings, identify thousands of officers named in civil complaints, tally hundreds of millions of dollars in monetary awards and input all these data in a proper database. They also had to build a slick web app to present the data to the public. Here is how they did it.