Also highlighting how neglected rural land is driving wildfires in Europe, China’s naval expansion, and unusual causes of death in Mexico.
Anyone who has been following news in the Middle East in recent years has heard of Timour Azhari, whose award-winning investigations helped uncover what was happening in Syria after the fall of the old regime.
The DX Festival, which takes places in Washington, DC, focuses this year on “what happens to a democracy when the record itself is under assault.”
In this GIJN Academy masterclass video, Stéphane Horel, lead journalist of the award-winning Forever Pollution Project, shares her approach to working with scientists and other experts on investigations.
The next Global Investigative Journalism Conference will be brought to you by GIJN and VVOJ, together with their regional partners Journalismfund Europe and Free Press Unlimited.
The Dutch-Flemish Association of Investigative Journalists (VVOJ) is a small but mighty force for accountability reporting in Europe, training journalists and recognizing the best in the craft at its annual conference.
This guide provides investigative and data journalists a variety of references to use for different types of measurements, plus tools, tip sheets, and a bonus quiz.
A team of reporters worked with survivors of youth residential treatment centers to create a toolkit to help others find records about themselves and pursue accountability for abuses.
In this second part of our series on impact, GIJN talked with six reporters who have used our training and resources to produce high-quality accountability reporting and further train others in their region.
GIJN followed up on the detailed testimonies of five reporters who have come to past conferences to better understand and hear, in their own words, how these events have furthered their journalism.
The inaugural Global Investigative Journalism Conference 25 years ago came from a radical idea: gather reporters from around the world to share techniques and inspire each other. It changed everything.
Also highlighting police response to demonstrations in India, where European Nobel laureates do their research, and shrinking food budgets in Indonesia.
This award honors investigative journalism in a developing or transitioning country, done under threat, duress, or in the direst of conditions. Deadline to apply is February 28, 2027.
Since August 2025, this former Washington Post reporter, now working freelance, has written dozens of stories mapping the Trump administration’s massive, third-country deportation apparatus.
Citra Dyah Prastuti reflects on her 24 years with KBR, Indonesia’s public radio broadcaster, and on centering public service, joy, and rigorous journalism in every story.
We spent 12 months building an AI tool for our independent news site in Colombia. Here’s what it taught us about running a newsroom in the age of AI.
Journalist Léo Arcoverde started a blog in 2015 publishing one story a day based on information obtained through Brazil’s new access-to-information law. The initiative eventually became Fiquem Sabendo.
Technology is rapidly rewriting the nature of war and conflict, investigative reporters need new resources and reporting strategies so they can keep up.
There is a central tension facing investigative journalists: the “AI and tech paradox.” Explore our report on the most urgent technology-related challenges facing investigative journalism today.
The open source desktop geographic information system software QGIS can be a powerful tool for investigative journalists. This resource takes you from the basics to advanced data mapping.
This reporting guide helps investigative journalists understand some of the nitty-gritty of the technology underlying AI and to give them a framework through which they can examine it.
Featuring advice on fact checking, digital security tips, interview techniques, and guidelines for editors.
The negative effects from higher temperatures can be seen everywhere, offering many opportunities for investigative journalism.
This popular, full-day session with investigative trainer Henk van Ess is back once again, teaching how to use AI for source discovery and data analysis, stop hallucinations, and prompt more effectively.
To create the most inclusive and impactful global conference for investigative journalists, we are now soliciting great ideas for sessions for GIJC27. Send us your proposals!
Empower the World’s Watchdog Journalists
This course, back by popular demand, is built around collecting both qualitative and quantitative data, digital research, and information extraction, and will enable participants to strengthen their investigations and diversify their sources.
Due to strong demand, GIJN is launching a second cohort of this in-depth course, to equip journalists with the skills needed to uncover the financial flows behind corruption, organized crime, and abuse of power.
The Pulitzer Center offers grants of up to US$25,000 for data and investigative journalism projects that use advanced data mining techniques, such as machine learning and natural language processing. Past grantees have used machine learning to show the scope of oil-well abandonments in Texas and map the proliferation of gold mines in the Amazon rainforest. The supported projects have all involved collaborative work, whether across newsrooms or disciplines, and the Center encourages journalists to look for “smart partnerships” that can complement their own skills; they also accept any size or scope of projects. Rolling deadline.
The Global Investigative Journalism Network has officially joined more than 130 other journalism and human rights organizations condemning the actions of the Egyptian government, which earlier this week detained Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah, after summarily declaring her guilty of operating an unlicensed website, and ordered the shutdown of the site and the seizure of its property. Amnesty International and the Committee to Protect Journalists organized the statement of solidarity and called upon the country's leadership to "end the campaign of intimidation" against independent media and "release the 25 journalism currently in Egyptian custody immediately and unconditionally."
On Friday, Argentinian president Javier Milei called veteran investigative reporter and ICIJ member Hugo Alconada Mon, along with Carlos Pagni, Paulino Rodrígues, Natalia Volosin, and Luis Novaresio, “mercenaries of lies” and said they should be “burned at the stake.” Journalists' associations in Argentina described the remarks as a “death threat” and asked the UN special rapporteur for freedom of expression to intervene; Amnesty International also condemned Milei, who made the remarks at a private, livestreamed event after a judge dropped a cryptocurrency fraud investigation into Milei and his sister on which the Alconada Mon and others had been reporting.
Source: Committee to Protect Journalists
An Egyptian judge detained Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of GIJN member Mada Masr, after convicting her on charges of operating an unlicensed website. The court also handed down a three million EGP (US$54,500) fine and demanded the website by shut down and its property seized by the government. Attalah has faced six previous investigations by the state over the past six years in retaliation for Mada Masr's accountability reporting. "The conviction of Lina Attalah and the order to shut down Mada Masr represent a devastating blow to press freedom in Egypt," said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah. "No independent journalist is safe. Attalah must be released immediately, and Mada Masr must be allowed to keep reporting."
The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS), in partnership with The University of Amsterdam, Maastricht University and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) offers the five-month Safe Haven Fellowship to scholars, artists, writers, and journalists who can’t dotheir work in their current location or circumstances due to conflict or war, by offering them temporary relocation and the opportunity to continue their work. Applications for the first semester of 2027–2028 can be submitted until 14 December 2026 at noon (CET).
The finalists for the 2026 African Investigative Journalist of the Year include: Your Eyes, Their Data, by Naipanoi Lepapa, in collaboration with Julia Lindblom of Göteborgs-Posten and Ahmed Abdigadir of Svenska Dagbladet, on how footage from Meta’s AI-powered glasses is routed to Nairobi-based data annotators; Nine Lives: King Cat and His Tender Empire, by Jeff Wicks of South Africa’s News24, who traced a tenderpreneur’s capture of a R360-million police tender; and Lead In Their Blood: Poor Oversight, Regulatory Failure Expose Nigerians to Slow Death from Battery Recycling, by Folashade Ogunrinde and Oladeinde Olawoyin of the Premium Times, with The Examination, Nigeria.
The Tarbell Fellowship is a one-year program for journalists and subject-matter experts who want to cover artificial intelligence, and it consists of a three-month training program and a nine-month newsroom placement. It starts with a remote course in June 2027 covering AI and journalism fundamentals, followed by a weeklong in-person session before newsroom placements from September 2026 to May 2027. Previous host newsrooms include CBS News, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, MIT Technology Review, TIME, and many others. Applications for the 2027-28 Tarbell Fellowship are open and will close on Nov. 22, 2026.
Authorities confirmed that they detained Abdallah Qadri, Mohamed Ashraf, Mohamed Adel, Islam Barakat, Mohamed Mahmoud, and Omar Helal — the editorial team of the Egyptian fact-checking and investigative outlet Matsadaash — and charged them with terrorism offences and “destabilizing” the country through disinformation. The International Press Institute (IPI) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called for their immediate release and urged Egyptian authorities to stop using national security laws against the press in retaliation for critical reporting. Several of the detained journalists have reported that security officers tortured them and interrogated them for hours.
Canal France International (CFI) is accepting applications for projects to strengthen independent journalism and fight disinformation in the Republic of Moldova — to counter an environment in which Moldovan audiences have “increasingly been exposed to misleading or unverified information, including information related to public policies and Moldova’s closer cooperation with the European Union.” The program is run by CFI and funded by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. Three media outlets will receive grants of up to €30,000 (US$34,000), with an indicative total budget of €90,000 (US$US102,000). Apply by October 17, 2026.
The Equality Fund is partnering with Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) and African Women in Media (AWiM) to “surface the stories of local solutions to global crises,” with a focus on gender. Five five journalists in ODA-eligible countries will be selected for fellowship, which will run from January to September 2027, with a stipend of up to CAD$4,000 (US$2,927) and reporting costs up to CAD$500 covered. Applications are welcome from working journalists on any platform (text, digital, video, audio). Journalists should be reporting on their own communities and geographies. The application deadline is November 8, 2026.
Anyone who has been following news in the Middle East in recent years has heard of Timour Azhari, whose award-winning investigations helped uncover what was happening in Syria after the fall of the old regime.
Citra Dyah Prastuti reflects on her 24 years with KBR, Indonesia’s public radio broadcaster, and on centering public service, joy, and rigorous journalism in every story.
Award-winning journalist Vladimir Thorik discusses reporting in an oft-overlooked part of Europe and how he approaches exposing the long reach of Russia on his native country and its neighbors.
Marthe Akissi Kra’s reporting translates complex scientific and ecological data into accessible stories, connecting global environmental issues to her local listeners.
Two journalism and technology projects are sharing tools and methods across continents to map where mining is devastating the Amazon and Congo basins.
Watch Duty is a NGO nonprofit and its data is sourced from all over: radio scanners, cameras, satellites, and other public sources, including the agencies actually fighting the fires.
In this round-up of recent GIJN Academy masterclasses on data journalism, we share practical videos on data reporting basics, using spreadsheets, and incorporating satellite imagery.
The Dutch-Flemish Association of Investigative Journalists (VVOJ) is a small but mighty force for accountability reporting in Europe, training journalists and recognizing the best in the craft at its annual conference.
Journalist Léo Arcoverde started a blog in 2015 publishing one story a day based on information obtained through Brazil’s new access-to-information law. The initiative eventually became Fiquem Sabendo.
This small Lithuanian outlet Siena punches above its weight by publishing agenda-setting stories — but the founders say they also never want to take themselves too seriously.
The investigative outlet focusing on the Black Sea region and Turkey is not quite exiled media, not quite traditional newsroom, but a collaborative group focused on abuses of power.
The 14th Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC25) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, assembled more than 1,500 journalists from over 135 countries and territories to hold workshops, share best practices, and build a community increasingly confronting funding crises, disinformation campaigns, digital surveillance, and authoritarian threats. This project is a compendium of GIJN’s coverage of the conference.
This regional spotlight series examines the world’s largest and most populous continent, which is also the host of the 2025 Global Investigative Journalism Conference. Asia serves as a unique laboratory in the global media landscape, but journalists here face multifaceted challenges, from censorship to physical threats, digital surveillance to financial pressures. Despite this, watchdog reporters […]
Our third regional spotlight series examines the challenges facing our members and other outlets in the Middle East and North Africa, such as war, backsliding democracies, self-censorship, exile, surveillance and imprisonment of journalists, and the hostile legal environment — and why this reality on the ground makes investigative journalism there all the more essential.
Our second regional spotlight series examines the successes and challenges facing our members in Africa and others reporting from the continent. These articles tell the stories of growing journalistic collaboration, courage, and innovation in the face of repression, legal intimidation, lack of access to information, and even physical threats.
Online scams have become borderless threats that evolve rapidly in scale, sophistication, and impact. From fraudsters using the Internet to steal to phishing networks that engage in social engineering and trick individuals, scams are often backed by organized criminal groups that exploit weak law enforcement, jurisdictional loopholes, and digital anonymity.
In this free online workshop, GIJN will convene four experienced African journalists to discuss how to dig out information from repressive regimes and military dictatorships on the continent.
What innovative tools and techniques are shaping the future of data journalism? A special Lightning Round webinar with the 10 winners of the 2025 Sigma Awards, celebrating some of the world’s best data-driven investigations.
A webinar exploring how investigative journalists can document human rights abuses in war zones, with a focus on methods to ensure the information gathered can later be used by legal investigators or international courts.
In 2001 GIJN was born, as investigative journalists from around the globe met for the very first time to share ideas, tips, and best practices to strengthen their reporting in a world where journalism was increasingly under threat.
Today the threat has multiplied, and at GIJN we find ourselves under the same pressures as our member organizations. Most urgently: available funding for investigative journalism has been impacted as some longtime funders who supported journalism in the past are no longer doing so or have closed. Yet our work continues, more important than ever before.
GIJN serves as the global hub for the world’s investigative reporters. Our core mission is to support and strengthen investigative journalism—with special attention to those from repressive regimes and marginalized communities.
We are embarking on our first-ever campaign initiative to help us expand our revenue by the end of the year through individual donors. If you have ever joined one of our free webinars, used one of our free resources, learned a new skill thanks to a GIJN training, or simply believe that press freedom is essential to civil society, we ask you to show your support for GIJN’s work with a donation of your choosing. Called “Friends of GIJN,” this campaign includes a more personalized experience, starting in 2027, for individuals who answer the call to join with us during this unprecedented time.
Truth and democracy are under attack around the world. You can fight back by helping GIJN support investigative journalists with free access to the latest tools and techniques — so they can foster justice and hold accountable those who abuse the public trust.
With a staff based in 24 countries, GIJN works in a dozen languages each day, linking together the world’s most enterprising journalists, offering state-of-the-art training, webinars, tip sheets, and a Help Desk that responds to 2,000+ requests for assistance each year. More than 84% of GIJN’s operating budget goes directly to our program work.
Please make a gift today to support journalists on the front lines of the fight for accountability and human rights.
