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GIJN Votes Johannesburg as Site of GIJC17, Re-elects Board Members
Join us in 2017 as Africa’s investigative journalism conference joins forces with the Global Investigative Journalism Conference. Global Investigative Journalism Network members have voted to hold the...
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GIJN Election Results: October 2015 Votes on GIJC17, Board
GIJC17 Votes Johannesburg 31 Amman 13 Vancouver 13 Board Member Votes: At Large Paul Radu 34 Jan Gunnar Furuly 31 Marina Walker Guevara 29 Brant Houston 29...
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Pirate Fishing: Journalism with Gamification Elements
Pirate Fishing, an interactive investigation by Al Jazeera, exposed the world of illegal fishing in Western Africa to an internet audience using elements of an online computer game. Juliana Ruhfus,...
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How Other Investigators Do It
Jim Mintz presents his interactive guide: Hide & Find Dirty Money. “The skill of digging into complex wrongdoing is required for both my day job and my evening job,” said Jim Mintz, founder of the...
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Hands-On Data: Basics of Analysis, Statistics, Visualization
The second day of the 9th Global Investigative Journalism Conference offered data-driven journalists the opportunity to sharpen their skills through sessions focused identifying useful data, extracting...
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Whistleblowers & Journalists: A Complex Relationship
[View the story “Whistleblowers & Journalists: A Complex Relationship” on Storify] María Paula Brito, a native of Peru, has worked as an associate editor at The Cambodia Daily in Pnom Penh, an...
View ArticleTen Tips for a Great Documentary
When documentary filmmaker Hanna Polak arrived in Russia in 1999, she was immediately inspired to help the children. For 14 years, Polak filmed Yula, a young girl living inside the largest junkyard in...
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Reporting from the Middle East
Joakim Medin (left) and Rana Sabbagh (right) on stage during the panel: “Investigations in the Middle East: Focus on ISIS/Daesh.” Photo: Harald Stolt-Nielsen Being a journalist in countries with...
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Lightning Round: My Favorite Data Tool
Linda Larsson Kakuli, a researcher with Swedish Television, votes for Excel and Tabula. In this Lightning Round panel at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference, presenters had just five minutes...
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How To Investigate Disasters
“The first casualty of war is the truth, but can we say the same about natural disasters?” asked Yohan Shanmugaratnam. The international news editor of Norwegian daily Klassekampen, Shanmugaratnam was...
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Universities and Investigative Reporting
Attendees at the session Approaches in Teaching Investigative Reporting at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference heard about Chinese student investigations and also called for more courses on...
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How to Mojo: Using Mobile Phones for Reporting
Journalism increasingly involves using mobile phones and attendees got three hours of intense instruction at the MoJo Master Class at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Lillehammer. Ivo...
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Secrets of Successful Startups
Know how your organization will distinguish itself from the rest, have a business plan that you are passionate about, find what will bring value to your readers, and be courageous. These are some...
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How To Integrate Mapping into Your Stories
As someone who has spent many years discovering, describing, and sharing GIS data and maps, my skills to actually create maps were in need of some help. So, on Saturday afternoon at the Global...
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Investigating the Shipping Industry
Participants in sessions on using data to cover organized crime were exposed to a revealing set of databases on shipping at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Lillehammer last weekend....
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Fact Check Your Story — Before It’s Too Late
In order to publish or broadcast a piece of journalism that successfully empowers citizens to hold those in power accountable, the work must be, above all, one thing: credible. “Fact-checking is career...
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Interview: Leslee Udwin, on the Power of Filmmaking
Leslee Udwin, an Israeli-born British filmmaker, was raped when she was 18 years old. Appearing recently at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Lillehammer, Norway, the 56-year-old...
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Working with Students: Learning by Doing
Deborah Nelson and Sheila S. Coronel Are muckrackers born or made? The question was asked by Sheila S. Coronel, academic dean at Colombia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, in the session...
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Declaración de GIJC15 sobre la Seguridad de los Periodistas
Photo: Harald A. Stolt-Nielsen. En la sesión plenaria de la novena Conferencia Global de Periodismo de Investigación, que se realizó del 8 al 11 de octubre en Lillehammer, Noruega, se debatió cómo los...
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Using Facebook To Investigate
BBC Internet investigations specialist Paul Myers explains how to use Facebook to investigate. Facebook has become an important tool for investigators, but journalists need to learn unique search tools...
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