GIJN has assembled a collection of how-to stories and tip sheets with tools and techniques useful to journalists worldwide. Here is a selection of our most popular articles from the GIJN Resource Center, organized by topic.
Tips and Tools
- Afghanistan Guide: How to Help Journalists and Others At Risk
- Business Tools for Newsrooms
- Building a Database for Investigations
- Defining Investigative Journalism
- Disinformation
- Distribution & Promotion
- Drone Journalism
- Editing and Managing
- US Elections
- Fact-checking and Verification
- Finding Expert Sources
- Interviewing Techniques
- Investigative Tools & Techniques
- Investigative Books
- Investigative Journalism Manuals
- Image Verification
- Journalism Security Assessment Tool (JSAT)
- Mobile Journalism
- Online Advanced Search
- Online Research Tools
- Open Source Verification & Investigation Tools
- Photojournalism
- Podcast
- Refugee Issues
- Reporting in Autocracies
- Surveillance and Spyware
- Tips to Reveal Inequality
- Tracking US Actions in Your Country
- Tracking Far-Right Groups
- Using The Wayback Machine
- Video Forensics
- Video Verification
- War Crimes
- Whistleblowing
- 2021 Best Investigative Stories by Region
Resource Guides
- Legal Guide: Avoiding Lawsuits
- Asset Disclosure
- Business and Trade
- Citizen Investigations
- Climate Crisis
- Corporations
- Corruption
- COVID-19
- Crime
- Data Journalism
- Disabilities
- Disappearances
- Education
- Elections
- Extractive Industries
- Environment
- Fact-checking
- Femicide
- Food and Agriculture
- Freedom of Information Laws
- Health and Medicine
- Health Organizations
- Human Rights
- Human Trafficking
- Illegal Wildlife Trafficking
- Illegal Wildlife Trafficking (short version)
- Indigenous Investigative Journalists
- LGBTQ Issues
- Methane
- Methane (short version)
- Migration
- Migration in the Gulf
- Military and Conflict
- Organized Crime
- Organized Crime: Africa
- Organized Crime: Golden Triangle
- Planespotting
- Poverty
- Property
- Russia & Ukraine
- Satellite Imagery
- Sexual Abuse
- Sea Level Rise
- Shipping Industry
- Sports
- Supply Chains
- Terrorism
- Undercover Reporting
- Video for Small Newsrooms & Freelancers
- Women Journalists
- GIJN Video Series