Global Investigative Journalism Network (https://archive.gijn.org/tag/ukraine/page/5/)
From college sophomores to 9-to-5 tech workers, open source hobbyist-investigators are gaining huge audiences by reconstructing events on the ground in Ukraine and elsewhere around the world.
In GIJN’s weekly Top 10 in Data Journalism, we look at Russia’s overconfident war plans, the Ukrainian refugee crisis, the potential for a new malaria vaccine, and the ongoing COVID-19 catastrophe in Hong Kong.
Meduza, one of Russia’s last remaining independent news sites, lost 30,000 donors after the government cut off subscriber payments from the country due to unflinching coverage of the war. In less than a week, two German reporters organized a crowdfunding campaign to replace those funds to try to save Meduza.
Following the news of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is difficult, especially if you’re not already extremely knowledgeable about the situation. So, Nieman Lab has compiled a resource list for journalists looking for reliable news coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
An editor from Novaya Gazeta and the chief executive of Meduza discussed ongoing censorship and other threats to independent media inside Russia, plus their plans for the future, during an International Press Institute webinar.
Christo Grozev, the executive director of Bellingcat, gives his insights for covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He talks about how the role of reporters has changed in modern day conflict, and reveals how his team is gathering and verifying data while focusing on investigating potential war crimes.
In this GIJN webinar, we bring together three senior journalists with broad experience in investigating Russia. They will offer tips and tools on tracking Russian disinformation, following the money, digging into its oligarchs, and identifying Kremlin political interference abroad.
Our weekly round-up of the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter features an item from The Washington Post on refugees crossing Ukraine’s borders, an examination of vaccine hesitancy in the US, a look at how the coronavirus pandemic has changed life in the UK, and mapping the price of the Vietnamese staple of bánh mì in Australia.
An interview between Nobel Peace prize-winning editor Maria Ressa and Ukrainian-born disinformation journalist Jane Lytvynenko revealed that long-running disinformation has been at the heart of Russia’s latest, and most devastating, attack on a democratic Ukraine.
This week’s curation of the most popular data journalism stories on Twitter features a breakdown of Russia’s export ties to Europe, a global collaborative investigation led by Süddeutsche Zeitung and OCCRP into a Swiss bank leak, results from DataJournalism.com’s 2021 State of Data Journalism survey, and a New York Times report on the quadruple jump revolution in women’s figure skating.