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By David Kaplan | March 16, 2017
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 brought to you by the Global Investigative Journalism Network and the Wits Journalism Program of University of the Witwatersrand. Check our conference website here and register here. See you in Joburg!
Interview: Miranda Patrucic on Investigating a Mafia State
Disaster Reporting: An Interview with Nepal's Kunda Dixit
Assignment China: Follow the Money
Meydan TV Campaign To Support Press Freedom in Azerbaijan
Reporting in the Time of Ebola
By Abby Ellis | October 30, 2015
Western journalist Ashoka Mukpo spent two years in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, prior to the outbreak. When the crisis unfolded he found himself right in the center: as a freelance journalist reporting on the outbreak, as a local producer and camera operator working for a myriad of international outlets and correspondents, and as a victim. Mukpo came down with the virus in October 2014.
Using Hypotheses and Timelines
By Zita Campbell | October 29, 2015
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 Using Hypotheses: The Core of the Investigative Method and the second was Mastering Timelines: The Road to a Successful Project.
Using Facebook To Investigate
By Luigi Serenelli | October 27, 2015
Photos. Friends. Likes. Facebook contains countless amount of information. BBC's internet investigations specialist Paul Mayers disclose the secret, simple strategies to dig into the world's most popular social network.
Declaración de GIJC15 sobre la Seguridad de los Periodistas
By GIJN Staff | October 26, 2015
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 los ataques en su contra en todo el mundo. Después de escuchar casos de estudios de colegas en Angola, Azerbaiyán, Malasia y México, periodistas de 121 países aprobaron la siguiente declaración.
Working with Students: Learning by Doing
By Olivia Knudsen & Agnete Bråtun | October 22, 2015
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 Investigative Journalism with Students.
Investigating the Shipping Industry
By Zita Evangeline Campbell, Gary Price & Lena Votveit | October 19, 2015
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.
How To Integrate Mapping into Your Stories
By Gary Price | October 19, 2015
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 Investigative Journalism Conference, I attended a two-session, hands-on workshop, "Mapping With Arc." The session was described in the conference program as an introduction to "analyzing data for stories by using mapping software."
Investigating on Foreign Ground
By Ingrid Cogorno | October 19, 2015
Tom Heinemann is a Danish independent investigative journalist and filmmaker who focuses on global issues. He has 19 years of experience as a journalist. In his session at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference, Investigating on Foreign Ground, he offered tips on how to do in-depth reporting on foreign soil.
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 pieces of advice given by Kim Yong Jin of the Korea Center for Investigative Journalism, Christian Humborg, executive director of CORRECT!V and Teun Gautier, owner of Gautier CIMC, in the GIJC15 panel New Models and Startups.
How to Mojo: Using Mobile Phones for Reporting
By Line Løtveit | October 15, 2015
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 Burum, Australian journalist, author and award-winning television producer, taught the workshop in which the participants learned basic camera filming, sound recording, and editing on smartphones.
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 brought to you by the Global Investigative Journalism Network and the Wits Journalism Program of University of the Witwatersrand. Check our conference […]
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) "Unholy Alliances", winner of the Global Shining Light Award at the GIJC, unveiled the link between Montenegro's government and organized crime. "Montenegro is a Mafia state, it is facilitating and helping the organized crime," said OCCRP's Miranda Patrucic.
Disaster 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 approaching danger. Unfortunately, few were listening.
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 sweeping expose of how relatives of China's new leader, Xi Jinping, had earned vast fortunes in a variety of often disguised business deals. Soon after, David Barboza of the New York Times published his own revelations of the wealth accumulated by the relatives of Chinese premier Wen Jiabao.
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 government. After his release, Milli started his own non-profit online media, Meydan TV. Since then, he and his coworkers, as well as […]
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