Global Investigative Journalism Network (https://archive.gijn.org/tag/war-reporting/)
In this excerpt from GIJN’s Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes, the Dart Center’s Gavin Rees discusses best practices for self-care and processing coverage of traumatic events.
In the introduction to GIJN’s War Crimes Reporting Guide, GIJN Program Director Anne Koch discusses international law relating to conflict and the role of investigative reporting in uncovering war crimes.
In this excerpt from GIJN’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes, humanitarian disarmament researcher Wim Zwijnenburg offers best practices for reporting on environmental and property damage during conflicts.
In this excerpt from GIJN’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes, former British Army officer and open source analyst Nick Waters discusses banned and restricted weapons and the international laws that regulate them.
In the 12 months since Russia invaded Ukraine, investigative journalists have navigated enormous information challenges and personal risks to expose everything from war crimes and sanctions busting to hidden oligarch loot and Russian “filtration” camps.
At a recent GIJN webinar, journalist and experts discussed best practices for investigating conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), including tips for interviewing possible war crimes victims and corroborating incidents without re-traumatizing survivors.
Reporting violations in an active conflict, previously a daunting and life threatening task, has now become easier thanks to open-source reporting techniques, which provide investigative journalists much greater ability to investigate war crimes as they happen.
How reporters at OCCRP took a neighborhood Telegram chat from Bucha, Ukraine and turned it into an investigation of life under Russian occupation.
Speaking at IJF22, Centre for Information Resilience investigations director Ben Strick offered 10 tips for integrating geolocation and open source data in investigative journalism.
The reporter who first broke open the US military burn pits scandal and its hazardous environmental impact on veterans discusses how she reported the story and tracked its evolution to the halls of the US Congress.