Using Hypotheses and Timelines
Trainers Mark Lee Hunter and Luuk Sengers offered ways to begin and carry out investigative reporting during two sessions at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference. Their first session was...
View ArticleReporting in the Time of Ebola
Depiction of a rural clinic by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Nearly two years have passed since the deadliest Ebola outbreak burned through West Africa, claiming the lives of over 11,000 and...
View ArticleMeydan TV Campaign To Support Press Freedom in Azerbaijan
In Azerbaijan, journalists are working under huge risks of arrest. Emin Milli, writer and dissident from Azerbaijan, was imprisoned in 2009 for two and a half years for his critical views about the...
View ArticleAssignment China: Follow the Money
Over the many decades of Western news coverage of China, the year 2012 was a watershed. In the space of just a few months, a Bloomberg News team headed by correspondent Michael Forsythe published a...
View ArticleDisaster Reporting: An Interview with Nepal’s Kunda Dixit
Kunda Dixit is Chief Editor of the Nepali Times, an English weekly magazine based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Long before the 2015 Nepal Earthquake, he and his paper had warned the public about the...
View ArticleInterview: Miranda Patrucic on Investigating a Mafia State
Kristine M. GutterødMiranda Patrucic receiving the Global Shining Light Award at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Lillehammer. Photo: Kristine M. Gutterød. Miranda Patrucic is a lead...
View ArticleLooking for the 2017 GIJC?
The 2017 Global Investigative Journalism Conference will be held November 16-19 in Johannesburg. Don’t miss this one — it will be the GIJC’s 10th anniversary and our first time in Africa. GIJC17 is...
View ArticleWorking 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...
View ArticleDeclaración de GIJC15 sobre la Seguridad de los Periodistas
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 periodistas están combatiendo...
View ArticleUsing Facebook To Investigate
Facebook has become an important tool for investigators, but journalists need to learn unique search tools to navigate the system. For example, when the CIA arrested Russian spy Anna Chapman, reporters...
View ArticleUsing Hypotheses and Timelines
Their first session was Using Hypotheses: The Core of the Investigative Method and the second was Mastering Timelines: The Road to a Successful Project. During their sessions they broke down...
View ArticleReporting in the Time of Ebola
Depiction of a rural clinic by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Nearly two years have passed since the deadliest Ebola outbreak burned through West Africa, claiming the lives of over 11,000 and...
View ArticleMeydan TV Campaign To Support Press Freedom in Azerbaijan
At the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in October, Milli launched a campaign to support Meydan TV. He asked that journalists worldwide send in original pieces of reporting to Meydan TV, as a...
View ArticleAssignment China: Follow the Money
The behind-the-scenes story of the journalists who conducted the investigations—and faced the dramatic, controversial, and often frightening consequences—is the subject of the documentary “Follow the...
View ArticleDisaster Reporting: An Interview with Nepal’s Kunda Dixit
Kunda Dixit is Chief Editor of the Nepali Times, an English weekly magazine based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Long before the 2015 Nepal Earthquake, he and his paper had warned the public about the...
View ArticleInterview: Miranda Patrucic on Investigating a Mafia State
Miranda Patrucic is a lead investigative reporter for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, based in Sarajevo, Bosnia. She recently shared first prize in the Global Shining Light...
View ArticleLooking for the 2017 GIJC?
The 2017 Global Investigative Journalism Conference will be held November 16-19 in Johannesburg. Don’t miss this one — it will be the GIJC’s 10th anniversary and our first time in Africa. GIJC17 is...
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