Open Source Research Guide
Social Search Techniques Using Instagram, from Henk van Ess
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Tips for navigating the social media site Instagram from GIJN’s forthcoming guide to open source researching online.
News & Analysis
Experts Discuss Investigating Social Media Companies Like Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok
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Investigative journalists intending to cover social media and its societial effects must understand the intricacies of the companies that drive them, and think critically about novel angles of coverage.
audience engagement
Mastering the Rollout: Increasing the Impact of Your Investigative Story
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GIJN social media editor Holly Pate looked into best practices for increasing impact and audience engagement of investigative stories, gathering real-life examples from journalism sites around the world.
News & Analysis
Lessons from a Retracted Investigation in India: How to Avoid Fabricated Evidence
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A recent Reuters Institute webinar dug into a highly embarrassing, retracted investigation by India’s The Wire and also laid out best practices for investigative newsrooms to avoid both deliberate and unintentional source errors.
Methodology
Tracking Down Horses Owned by Families of the Oligarchs
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Reporters at the OCCRP are used to cataloging shell companies and trawling through bank records in search of assets. But when they received a tip-off about show jumping horses linked to the oligarchs, they decided to dig into the subject as part of the Russian Asset Tracker project.
Português
Pesquisa on-line avançada
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Paul Myers, um dos principais especialistas internacionais em investigação online, compartilha suas dicas sobre as melhores ferramentas e estratégias para desenterrar informações sobre pessoas.
News & Analysis
How a Journalist Got 80,000 Instagrammers Interested in Procurement in Kazakhstan
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At first glance, public procurement may not seem like the most Instagrammable subject. But what it lacks in visual appeal, it makes up for in scandal. So when journalist Jamilya Maricheva started posting stories about contracts and procurement in Kazakhstan, she soon amassed thousands of followers.
Tools & Techniques
Henk van Ess on Visual Thinking for Online Investigations
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In a recent GIJN webinar, open source reporting expert Henk van Ess shared several online search tricks. But he explains that these work-arounds are merely tools for a new approach to online research that he calls “thinking visual,” which invites reporters to think of keywords like a search engine, rather than a person.
audience development
How a Polish Nonprofit Newsroom Developed a Loyal Audience by Going “Newsletter First”
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Outriders, the Polish journalism nonprofit, decided to postpone their membership launch and begin with a newsletter-first editorial strategy, boosted by Instagram influencers, to grow their audience and build a strong foundation for membership. And it’s working.
How They Did It
What Journalists Can Learn from Navalny’s Investigative Team in Russia
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Despite its overt political objectives, the research section of FBK — an anti-corruption nonprofit founded by Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny — has emerged as a potent investigative team that recently attracted 110 million YouTube views for a video that exposed massive corruption at a Black Sea palace. FBK’s head of investigations told GIJN about the methods the team uses for these investigations, and what professional journalists can learn from their approach.