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In this installment of GIJN’s Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes, investigative reporter Christina Lamb discusses conflict-related sexual violence and the role of the press in investigating these often neglected atrocities.
Editor’s Note: The tipsheet was updated in 2023 by GIJN’s Leonardo Peralta and edited by Nikolia Apostolou. The subject of sexual violence remains a sensitive if not taboo subject in much of the world and often goes unreported.
Karachi is Pakistan’s largest city and financial capital, but it is also a place with the dubious reputation of being one of the most unlivable cities in the world. These challenges provide fertile ground for investigative reporting and some of the country’s best stories.
From birth control disinformation to cross-border surrogacy, from high-level sexual harassment to the brutality of “everyday” violence against women, 2022 was a year marked by a number of noteworthy investigations into stories with a gender angle.
Our weekly curation of the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter features stories on the future impact of deadly cold temperatures, ATM explosions in Germany, mapping buildings damaged by the earthquake in Turkey, and several open source mapping alternatives to Mapbox.
GIJN’s Urdu editor, Amer Ghani, offers her editor’s picks for the best investigative reporting from Pakistan in 2022.
Officials and executives who are under intense scrutiny often dodge interviews with journalists. Here, four veteran investigative reporters share tips on how to land and ‘nail’ tough accountability interviews, based on experiences from their recent investigative projects.
At a time when newsrooms in Africa are increasingly struggling with shortages of cash and threats to press freedom, the level of investigative journalism that emerged from sub-Saharan Africa in 2021 was remarkable. Here, we share 10 outstanding examples from the region.
The French investigative journalism outlet Disclose made waves in 2019 by revealing the shocking extent of pedophilia in amateur sports and the widespread use of French-manufactured arms in the Yemen conflict. One of its founders tells GIJN why a reader-supported model is allowing it to exist “halfway between the media and an NGO.”
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from December 2 to 8 finds The New York Times visualizing particle pollution in augmented reality; various media outlets investigating #29Leaks, a global reporting project based on a massive data leak from an offshore services provider; Columbia Journalism Investigations and ProPublica digging into the problem of sexual predators lurking in dating apps; and The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists breaking down the significance of the China Cables.