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