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In this week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism, GIJN features a look at dodgy climate finance deals, a hidden fleet of ships moving Russian oil, and the historical rise and fall of ransom kidnappings in Argentina.
Our most popular data journalism stories of the week include a UK political money tracking tool, Central Asia’s perception of the Russian war in Ukraine, and an analysis of the sentencing of rioters involved in the 2021 US Capitol attack.
Early this February, we launched a new series on investigative tips and tools to add to our Resource Center for journalists worldwide who want to dig deeper and ask tougher questions. Now, this compact set of crash seminars featuring leading experts with insights on how to better investigate has been translated into four additional languages and will be released over the coming weeks.
মিরান্ডা প্যাট্রুচিচ, অসংখ্য ক্রসবর্ডার অনুসন্ধানে নেতৃত্ব দিয়েছেন। উন্মোচন করেছেন মুদ্রা পাচারের জটিল নেটওয়ার্ক, শত কোটি ডলারের ঘুষ কেলেংকারি এবং মধ্য এশিয়া ও পূর্ব ইউরোপের শাসক গোষ্ঠীর সন্দেহজনক ব্যবসায়িক লেনদেন। তার উল্লেখযোগ্য কাজের মধ্যে রয়েছে আজারবাইজানী লন্ড্রোম্যাট, প্রডিগাল ডটার, এবং পানামা পেপারস। এই প্রশ্নোত্তরে মিরান্ডা তুলে ধরেছেন, কীভাবে সাংবাদিকরা টাকার সূত্র ধরে বড় বড় ঘটনা উন্মোচন করতে পারেন।
Governments have already spent more than 40 billion dollars to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, so how can journalists investigate how the money is being used and who is getting the contracts? GIJN’s latest webinar, Tracking Billions in COVID-19 Contracts, focuses on how to investigate the contracting process, what red flags to look out for and how to find out where the money is going.
GIJN has rounded up seven of the talks in the TED back-catalogue that are most interesting and relevant for investigative journalists. Available for free online, and in multiple languages, this selection spreads the word about tools, stories, and interesting investigations to audiences around the world.
Across the data science community, knowledge graphs have become a growing phenomenon in recent years, driving many applications including virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa. Friedrich Lindenberg, from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, writes about how its data platform Aleph makes use of knowledge graphs to help investigative reporters analyze and cross-reference data.
Show me the money! Experts from around the world shared their tips about how to track looted wealth at the 2017 Global Investigative Journalism Conference.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be rolling out our new video series on investigative tips and tools. This compact set of crash seminars features leading experts with insights on what investigative journalism is, as well as how to follow public records, investigate with data, understand financial records and the best online search strategies.
Want to track what Chinese businesses — big or small — are up to in Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia? These tips from reporters from The New York Times, The Guardian and The South China Morning Post will help.