📊 Our Top 10 in Data Journalism this week features Atlatszo’s live tracking of Hungary’s election, South China Morning Post’s reconstruction of a deadly housing fire, and The Guardian’s analysis of Earth’s increasingly crowded satellite orbit.
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🎥 In this masterclass video of #GIJNAcademy, Maria Teresa Ronderos, director of the Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (El CLIP), shares practical insights on how to coordinate cross-border investigations.
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🎙️In this interview with GIJN, Dewald van Rensburg of amaBhungane, known for his reporting exposing money laundering and corruption in South Africa, talked about his journalism journey, the stories that shaped him, and the lessons learned along the way.
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🎥 In this masterclass video of #GIJNAcademy, Frederik Obermaier, co-founder of paper trail media and one of the journalists behind the Panama Papers, shares practical advice on how to investigate leaks.
💫 Today, we are launching #GIJNAcademy, a unique hub dedicated to connect, expand, and support the journalism community around the world through key training, networking, and knowledge-sharing opportunities.
Read more about our global academy here ⬇️
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Tomorrow, @gijn.org launches a new project in helping to build the next generation of investigative journalists. Go to our homepage to learn more about our #GIJNAcademy.
Coming soon, @gijn.org will be launching an exciting new phase of our mission to help build the next generation of investigative journalists.
Check out our homepage on Monday to find out more… 👀
Coming soon, @gijn.org is launching an exciting new phase of our outreach, to help build the next generation of investigative journalists. Check back next week to learn more…
🇮🇳 Journalists at The Hindu to analyze nearly 22 million voter records across three states, built an election results interface without manual coding, and created low-cost heat sensors to track how workers experience extreme temperatures.
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Next Monday, we're launching our newest project to build the next generation of investigative journalists. Stay tuned...
Africa Uncensored has built a unique model for investigative journalism in East Africa, and demonstrated how to endure sustained pressure while holding power to account.
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Veteran journalist, founder, and advocate Li Sipan lived through the full arc of commercial media era in China. In an interview with GIJN, she reflected on navigating the various waves in the Chinese media landscape, and the current landscape and the challenges that remain.
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In 2016, the ICIJ, German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, and more than 100 media partners published the #PanamaPapers. In the decade since, the investigation has pushed for greater transparency in public and political conversations around tax, secrecy, and inequality.
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In other conflict zones like Ukraine and Iraq, journalists have faced risks but still had mobility. They could often get physical access to a bombed site after a battle, interview survivors, or meet eyewitnesses face to face. The war in Gaza has allowed none of this.
In this #TechFocus masterclass video, investigative data journalist Athandiwe Saba of Code for Africa shares practical tips for reporters investigating the impact of Big Tech across the African continent.
In this fer #TechFocus masterclass video, investigative journalist Karen Hao, author of the bestselling book "Empire of AI," shares practical guidance for reporters covering artificial intelligence and explains how to deconstruct tech narratives. Watch the full video ⬇️
In GIJN’s latest #TechFocus project masterclass video, John Scott-Railton, senior researcher at the University of Toronto’s The Citizen Lab, shares practical steps investigative journalists can take to reduce digital risks while working on sensitive stories.
In this masterclass video, part of @gijn.org's new #TechFocus, Lighthouse Reports investigative journalist Gabriel Geiger shares practical tips for reporting on how governments use algorithms and AI systems for policing, welfare, & healthcare.
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Online search guru Henk van Ess led this @gijn.org webinar — part of our #TechFocus project — which offered up expert advice and updated tools for detecting AI-generated content and misinformation.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune data editor MaryJo Webster is helping editors and journalists with developing and editing a data-driven story. GIJN attended her course in order to share the key lessons for editors working with data-driven stories. Read our takeaways here.
In this @gijn.org #TechFocus masterclass video, John Scott-Railton, senior researcher at the Univ. of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, shares practical steps investigative journalists can take to reduce digital risks while working on sensitive stories.
Watch on our YouTube channel⬇️
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How can investigative journalists expose money laundering and corruption so that bad actors are held accountable? In a conversation with GIJN, journalist Oliver Bullough shares key ideas to get started from his new book “Everybody Loves Our Dollars.”
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This @gijn.org webinar with Henk van Ess on updated tools for detecting AI-generated content and misinformation has already become one of our most popular ever.
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Longform right-leaning podcasts are shaping politics, public opinion, and online culture — often beyond the reach of traditional scrutiny. In this story, Bloomberg’s nvestigative data journalist Leon Yin shares techniques to investigate influencers and livestreamers.
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Ulla Sätereie, head of the Swedish Association for Investigative Journalists and Brigitte Alfter, the director of Arena for Journalism in Europe told GIJN some tips for journalism educators who might want to train their student journalists to operate across borders.
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Wrapping up our #TechFocus project, GIJN offers expert tips from journalists at the NICAR conference on how to report on the impact of the resource-hungry data storage facilities that power AI — from water exploitation to greenwashing to flouting environmental regulations.
In this #TechFocus masterclass video, data journalist Athandiwe Saba of Code for Africa shares practical tips for investigating the impact of Big Tech across the African continent, including the critical minerals used to power digital infrastructure and AI systems.
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The sixth chapter of GIJN's #TechFocus project stresses that investigative journalists must play a crucial role in revealing the very material infrastructures, labor regimes, and extractive dynamics that underpin today’s AI boom.
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GIJN as part of its latest #TechFocus project hosted a webinar with online search guru Henk van Ess in which he presented an updated version of the Reporter’s Guide to Detecting AI-Generated Content.
If you missed Thursday’s session, watch it here ⬇️
Through #TechFocus, we have also shared masterclasses and webinars with leading experts including Henk van Ess and Gina Chua, offering practical guidance, tools and investigative approaches for covering AI and Big Tech.
Explore the full project here ⬇️
