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💫 NEW! Knowing how to use spreadsheets is a crucial skill, as it allows you to find potential stories in large amounts of data.
@markhorvit
,
@tbkaas
, and Andy W. Lehren share this step-by-step guide for journalists on the basics of google sheets:
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📣 New on GIJN: What can journalists learn from Alexey Navalny's investigative team? In our latest piece,
@pevchikh
shares how FBK made “A Palace for Putin”, a documentary that exposed massive corruption and attracted more than 110 million Youtube views.
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We're working with various groups to get our colleagues out of Afghanistan. If you know journalists who need evacuation, send their case to safety
@womeninjournalism
.org and emergencies
@cpj
.org. Thanks to everyone who is helping.
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For all the people
@carolecadwalla
has managed to set against her, she maintains that her real adversaries are tech platforms.
@CJR
profiles Cadwalladr, who broke the Cambridge Analytica story, & the threats she faces due to her reporting
@_EmmaGH
@Stammi
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"If the world does not create a system of rules to protect sources who provide information of public interest, I’m worried that we will run out of sources when we need them the most."
@Snowden
speaks to
@SZ_Investigativ
about
#whistleblowing
@f_obermaier
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Best Investigative Stories in Portuguese 2018 handpicked by
@gijnPortugues
Editor: Includes
@RevistaCrusoe
's investigation into the suspicious financial activities of
#Brazil
's supreme court president
@dubarretto_
@filipecoutinho
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Covering political events during the
#COVID19
pandemic?
@journalismnews
spoke to
@ndtv
's
@umashankarsingh
about his experience of covering elections & rallies using just a smartphone . More tips on mobile journalism here:
#mojo
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Can
#Brazil
's president jail
@theintercept
’s
@ggreenwald
for publishing leaks? Media attorney Walter Vieira Ceneviva says: "Even if the origin of the info turns out to be criminal, this does not associate the journalist with the crime."
@bramatti
@demori
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Congratulations to the great journalists
@thecaravanindia
for winning the Lyons Award for Conscience & Integrity at a time of unprecedented attack on
#pressfreedom
in India.
@vinodjose
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Editor's Pick 2021: Best Investigative Stories (India) —
@thewire_in
examined the Delhi riots & exposed the men who played a prominent role in spreading hate, mobilizing the mobs, and then instigating the violence.
@alishan_jafri
@maknoonwani
@svaradarajan
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And..
#GIJC19
is a wrap! The past 4 days, more than 1,500 journalists from 130 nations gathered in Hamburg to learn, share experiences & find partners for their next investigations. It was the perfect place to find kindred spirits & be inspired
@nrecherche
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ANNOUNCING the winners of the 2019 Global Shining Light Award from Peru, Philippines & South Africa! Congratulations!
👉SMALL OUTLETS:
@IDL_R
👉LARGE OUTLETS:
@rapplerdotcom
&
#GuptaLeaks
team
@dailymaverick
,
@amaBhungane
,
@News24
&
@FinUncovered
#GIJC19
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Great conversation between two famous whistleblowers
@Snowden
(
#NSALeaks
) and
@DanielEllsberg
(
#PentagonPapers
) about changes in whistleblowing in the 40-plus years between both leaks & whether it was worth the risk
@ewenmacaskill
@guardian
@ThePostMovie
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Congratulations to journalists
@mariaressa
, who has been a speaker at several of our global journalism conferences, and Dmitry Muratov for winning the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize!
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@IDL_R
@rapplerdotcom
@dailymaverick
@amaBhungane
@News24
@FinUncovered
@AfUncensored
@OCCRP
Global Shining Light Award (Small Outlets) winner: Car Wash/White Collars (Lava Jato/Lava Juez), by Peru's IDL-Reporteros
@IDL_R
. This series of investigations delved into a complex transnational corruption network & corruption in Peru’s courts
#GIJC19
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"It’s the times when it is the most unwise to speak in terms of consequences that it is the most meaningful. That’s when people listen."
@Snowden
speaks to
@SZ_Investigativ
's Georg Mascolo,
@f_obermaier
&
@b_obermayer
about
#whistleblowing
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Editor’s Pick: Best Investigative Journalism in Sub-Saharan Africa 2018 includes a 2-year investigation by
@anasglobal
&
@BBCAfrica
Eye that filmed nearly 100 football referees & officials taking cash bribes ahead of important matches
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NEW! GIJN has assembled a starter-toolkit to help journalists track Russian money, political interference, and disinformation in their own countries.
From oligarch planes to sanctions trackers, you'll find over 30 useful sites here.
@IJNet
@bellingcat
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💫 NEW! Smaller investigative news outlets in India such as
@reporters_co
,
@newslaundry
,
@scroll_in
,
@TheQuint
&
@thenewsminute
have been producing impactful accountability reporting leading up to the country's parliamentary elections.
More on their work:
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At
#GIJC2023
we stand in solidarity with French reporter
@AriaLavrilleux
. The detention of journalists & the confiscation of equipment under the guise of “national security” represent a huge threat to the protection of sources
#JournalismIsNotACrime
📸 Leonardo Peralta
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Journalists: Our team at GIJN put together this comprehensive guide to covering the
#coronavirus
crisis, with sources, tips, data.
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⚠️ Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes eBook.
GIJN’s Investigating War Crimes guide will soon be available in eBook format. The comprehensive guide includes expert advice from more than two dozen specialists and journalists.
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NEW!
@bellingcat
's Logan Williams
@obtusatum
, who presented a panel on digital forensic reporting labs at the
@journalismfest
in Perugia, Italy, gives his top tips for journalists interested in
#opensource
digital investigations.
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Editor's Pick 2021: Best Investigative Stories (India) — Using satellite images,
@ndtv
documented China-constructed enclaves inside the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.
@VishnuNDTV
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"I will not deliver (the information requested) in 3, 30 or 300 days," journalist Gustavo Gorriti, director of IDL-Reporteros, said after Peruvian judicial & legislative authorities requested
@IDL_R
to reveal its journalistic sources
@utknightcenter
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4 years ago,
@IDL_R
began investigating the
#LavaJato
case, a
#corruption
scandal implicating
#Peru
's ex-president Alan García, who committed suicide last week when prosecutors came to detain him. Journalists are now being unjustly blamed for his death
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In 2021, as the mainstream Indian media continued to transform into the propaganda arm of the ruling party, intrepid digital media have published some groundbreaking investigative stories. Some of the best are listed here by
@gijnHin
editor
@Deepak_Scribe
.
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1. More than 180 journalists worldwide were selected as potential targets for surveillance with NSO Group’s
#Pegasus
spyware, according to an investigation coordinated by
@FbdnStories
. Revelations from the project continue to make headlines.
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GIJN members have voted! We are happy to announce that your next Global Investigative Journalism Conference will be at Hamburg, Germany, & your host will be
@nrecherche
. See you at
#GIJC19
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"My only crime is to be a journalist, and I will continue speaking truth to power." said
@rapplerdotcom
's
@mariaressa
, who faces 11 different charges from the Philippine govt. The charges are widely believed to stem from Rappler's critical reporting
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Unacceptable the online harassment against award-winning journalist
@RanaAyyub
. GIJN stands with Rana,
@IWMF
, and good journalism everywhere. Indian trolls: the world is watching.
The IWMF condemns the attacks against Rana Ayyub and supports all female journalists and their right to free expression online and everywhere. When journalists are targets of online abuse, the attacks take a toll on freedom of expression and
#PressFreedom
.
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A new, free
@bellingcat
tool that requires just an hour of tech-savvy set-up, allows you to preserve video from Telegram & other social media channels in seconds, using nothing but the copy-paste function.
Learn more about the latest reporting tools:
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Reporter
@chicofelitti
created a podcast, The Woman from the Abandoned House, surrounding the strange story of a woman with a dark backstory residing in a decrepit mansion within one of the richest neighborhoods of São Paulo.
@Emmendoerfer
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The deterioration of the climate can be slowed down but instead it is accelerating. Who is responsible?
Read GIJN's report on the top priorities for investigative journalism on climate change.
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Questions every editor should ask in editing
@datajournalism
:
👉Does the data answer your questions? Does it surface other questions?
👉Where did you find the data?
👉How did you vet & clean the data?
👉How did you calculate those numbers?
More here:
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#GIJC17
Voices: "This is a time of incredible danger not just for investigative journalism, but for the liberties of people."
@DavidCayJ
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Sign up for
@utknightcenter
's online course "Digital investigations for journalists: How to follow the digital trail of people and entities." Learn from instructors
@BrandyZadrozny
,
@CraigSilverman
,
@JaneLytv
&
@Johanna_Wild
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In 2018, private investigator Igor Ostrovskiy revealed to
@RonanFarrow
he was spying on him, and became a whistleblower on the threat of “hunting journalists.” Ostrovskiy recently briefed journalists on how to deal with the menace of physical surveillance.
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🧵1. In light of the devastating
#Israel
-
#Hamas
war,
#GIJN
's guide to investigating
#warcrimes
is sadly relevant once again.
For any journalist investigating the conflict, here are tools and techniques from experts in the field to help your reporting:
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The
@bellingcat
team has put together a useful guide on how to chronolocate with a few examples from their own investigations and training catalogue.
Read it here:
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Oct. 1, 2022 was a dark day for Indonesian football. A classic duel btw 2 clubs led to the deaths of 135 spectators & 100s of injuries after a crowd-crush.
Instead of relying on the govt probe,
@narasitv
conducted their own investigation.
@aqfiazfan
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We’re delighted to announce that
@mariaressa
, a
@TIME
Person of the Year in 2018, will be the keynote speaker at
#GIJC19
. A global symbol of
#pressfreedom
, Ressa & her
@rapplerdotcom
staff are under sustained attack by the Philippine govt
@DoughtyStPublic
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❗ Check out this new tool by
@bellingcat
, which will help open source researchers track destruction of
#Ukraine
's forests and protected areas from afar, and show what the war has done to Ukraine's forests.
Discover it here: ⬇️
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📢 Award-winning journalist Emilia Díaz-Struck has been named the incoming executive director of GIJN❗️
🌟Díaz-Struck will join GIJN as editor-at-large in mid-August, and then become executive director in September at the biennial
#GIJC23
conference.
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“Help us make sure every single child is accounted for." Great example of
#collaborative
#journalism
: 10 news orgs from 4 nations work together to find where the govt has kept immigrant children
@otraletra
@Univision
@TexasTribune
@PlazaPublicaGT
@_ElFaro_
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Editor's Pick 2021: Best Investigative Stories (India) —
@thewire_in
's
#PegasusProject
's reporting prompted India's Supreme Court to convene a high-level committee after the Modi govt refused to admit it was snooping on opposition leaders.
@svaradarajan
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New on , we're launching a new series on GIJN’s YouTube channel, Talking Investigative Journalism, which features 1-on-1 interviews with groundbreaking investigative journalists around the world . 1st video:
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Editor's Pick 2021: Best Investigative Stories (India) —
@seekingsrishti
&
@shreegireesh
exposed the ecosystem of right-wing Hindu trolls who used social media to attack those they believed to have made "anti-Hindu" remarks.
@newslaundry
@reporters_co
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What is going on in
#bangladesh
? One of the country's most respected women journalists is detained for hours. Hey, Health Ministry: journalism is not a crime! The world is watching.
Bangladeshi journalist
@rozinaislam
is kept confined for 5 hours & tortured after she has collected a document related to Covid vaccine purchase. She is charged under Official Secrets Act 1923 which her family denied, rather said action is taken out of vendetta for her reporting.
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How can investigative journalists combine
#opensource
reporting techniques with fieldwork to expose human rights abuses in conflict and war?
🧵
@manisha_bot
wrote for GIJN 15 tips and techniques to investigate war crimes.
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#IJAsia16
speaker & Global Shining Light Award certificate of excellence honoree
@RanaAyyub
received an onslaught of anonymous, graphic threats via social media after a parody Twitter account maligned her.
@pressfreedom
calls for
#India
's immediate action
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NEW! An interview between
@NobelPrize
-winning editor
@mariaressa
& Ukrainian-born disinformation journalist
@JaneLytv
revealed that long-running
#disinformation
has been at the heart of Russia's latest, and most devastating, attack on a democratic Ukraine.
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📣 We are happy to announce that the GIJN Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes will soon be available in e-book format.
The comprehensive guide includes expert advice from more than two dozen specialists and journalists.
❗Follow our page for more updates.
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Key takeaways from
@LSHTM
's
#COVID19
Superspreading Events Database:
👉 Religious events accounted for almost 10 times the cases contracted from bars
👉 Recorded superspreading events almost always occurred in indoor settings
More here:
@picardonhealth
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Announcing the FINALISTS of the 2019 Global Shining Light Awards, congrats! 12 investigative projects were selected from a record 291 entries. Winners will be revealed at
#GIJC19
in Hamburg
@dailymaverick
@amaBhungane
@FinUncovered
@News24
@OpenUpSA
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Editor's Pick: 2020's Best Investigative Stories from Latin America includes
@_elfaro_
's exposé of negotiations between El Salvador's govt & incarcerated leaders of the criminal gang Mara Salvatrucha: an exchange of prison privileges for electoral support
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Today marks the grim anniversary of Turkish journalist
#UgurMumcu
's assassination.
GIJN's recent profile of member organization,
@umagduyuru
, by
@SerdarVardar_
highlights the work this foundation is doing to honor Mumcu's legacy:
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"Being a truth-teller is the greatest service to society. It gave me a reason to live because I didn’t want to only exist.
#Journalism
was the answer."
@ICIJorg
speaks to
@UmarCheema1
, an award-winning Pakistani investigative reporter with
@thenews_intl
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🎉The 2023 Global Investigative Journalism Conference is now scheduled for September 19–22 in the historic city of Gothenburg, Sweden.🎉
GIJN is excited to organize
#GIJC23
with two local co-hosts —
@fojo_int
at Linnaeus University, &
@FGJ_foreningen
.
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Italian fact-checker
@DavidPuente
has received plenty of threats for debunking hoaxes, including insults & trolling on social media. But last December, the threats escalated into death threats & his home address was made public by a
#fakenews
creator
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"I was arrested twice in a 5-week period&posted bail 8 times in a 3-month period."
@mariaressa
, a
@TIME
Person of the Year, knows firsthand the abuse of power . She will keynote
#GIJC19
, co-hosted by
@gijn
@nrecherche
&
@InterlinkAca
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📣 New: To investigate the involvement of Russian security services in the poisoning of Alexey Navalny, a joint investigation chose to purchase black market data. Journalists from
@bellingcat
and
@the_ins_ru
explained how and why they did it.
@RowanPhilp
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Las oficinas de
@IDL_R
, miembro de GIJN, fueron allanadas después de que publicaran audios donde integrantes del CNM se ven implicados en un caso de corrupción.
@FiscaliaPeru
el mundo está viendo, así como organizaciones miembros de GIJN en 72 países
#LibertadDePrensa
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Today to honor the 30th anniversary of the
@UN
's
#WorldPressFreedomDay
, GIJN shares the stories of investigative journalists facing the biggest challenges & threats around the world.
🧵Read more about these 7⃣ journalists from 🇵🇰, 🇵🇪, 🇷🇼, 🇱🇧, 🇰🇬, 🇲🇽, 🇪🇨.
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The New York Public Library just uploaded nearly 200,000 images you can use for free
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A murdered journalist. Shady offshore deals. A tiny nation in the grip of large-scale criminal interests. The "honor" of the title '2019 Man of the Year in Organized Crime and Corruption' goes to Malta's prime minister Joseph Muscat
@OCCRP
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📏 Are you a
#digitalinvestigator
looking to expand your arsenal of tools for measuring objects in images?
@bellingcat
investigator and trainer
@georgeskatz
has created a guide on how to do so.
Find it here: ⬇️
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Looking for new, addictive podcasts to binge listen? Here is GIJN's list of some of the best global podcasts from 2020 — so far! — that are either investigative in nature, or about investigative journalism, and compiled by our global team
@journalismnews
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“Carbon offsetting” is a controversial tool in the fight against global heating. Oversight by journalists is essential.
Read GIJN's Reporter’s Guide to Investigating Carbon Offsets, which includes tips on digging into the validity of offset projects.
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"Remember the power of your audience, they know much more than you ever could." Enroll in this free
@newmarkjschool
online course with
@PulitzerPrizes
winner
@Fahrenthold
, who will teach you his craft & talk about how to crowdsource for investigations
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🧵 Journalists in Afghanistan are among the most at-risk in the country and may be targeted by the Taliban simply because of their reporting.
Here are some resources for emergency evacuation and asylum processes for trying to get journalists out of Afghanistan:
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Filipino journalist
@jaemark
created an AI tool to help investigative journalists find stories in audit reports.
Here’s how he did it and what other newsrooms can learn from it:
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💫 NEW!
@DianaSalinasP
, award-winning watchdog journalist and groundbreaking co-founder of Colombian investigative outlet
@cuestion_p
, is committed to uncovering wrongdoing & empowering women.
She shares tips & insights with
@gijnEs
editor
@andrea_arzaba
:
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Unprecedented: Over 70 science and climate journalists sign statement calling US Supreme Court nominee profoundly unqualified.
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The
@internetarchive
and its
@waybackmachine
, which captures more than 1 billion URLs per day, can be valuable tools for investigative journalists. In our latest piece,
@MarkGraham
gives excellent tips on how to make the most of this service.
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Happy
#InternationalWomensDay
!
We asked women investigative journalists from around the world about their experiences, tips for other aspiring reporters, and their achievements.
🧵 Stay tuned throughout the day as we feature inspiring women from more than a dozen countries. 🌎
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#GIJC19
attendees were brought to their feet by
@mariaressa
's rousing keynote +
@IDL_R
,
@rapplerdotcom
&
#GuptaLeaks
team
@dailymaverick
@amaBhungane
@OpenUpSA
@News24
&
@FinUncovered
won the 8th Global Shining Light Award. More pix by
@NickJaussi
here
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Why are Serbian officials running a smear campaign against the award-winning
@KRIKrs
investigative group? The world is watching.
@SerbianPM
@Vladimir_Orlic
@avucic
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Editor's Pick 2021: Best Investigative Stories (India) —
@thecaravanindia
revealed how the Modi govt badly botched the country's 2nd COVID-19 wave, turning it into a major catastrophe that resulted in thousands dying outside hospitals.
@chahat_rana1
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Pope Francis: "Journalists are the protectors of news. In today’s world, theirs is, in every sense, not just a job; it is a mission". He calls for "a journalism... at the service of all, especially those... who have no voice."
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GSLA finalist:
@RanaAyyub
's undercover investigation exposed India’s top officials' complicity in 2002 Gujarat riots
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My Favorite Tools:
@AP
's
@nixonron
recommends Onionshare, a secure tool for sending files through
@torproject
. "I use it for sharing stuff with reporters in China or in any other place where we are afraid that information might be intercepted."
@micahflee
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🧵1. 🏆 Tonight
#GIJC23
attendees gathered to celebrate our community and to recognize some of the best work with the
#GlobalShiningLightAwards
, a
#GIJN
tradition that honors great
#investigativejournalism
in developing or transitioning countries while under threat or duress…
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Small arms & light weapons have been particularly significant in the rising rates of homicide & violence in Latin America.
In a recent
@bellingcat
piece,
@SerbinPont
writes about an easy-to-navigate database tracking the trends in illegal weapons markets.
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NEW!
@bellingcat
has been overwhelmed with messages from people globally who want to help identify & analyze images of potential war crimes taking place in
#Ukraine
.
But these good intentions can come at a great mental health cost:
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The Committee to Protect Journalists
@pressfreedom
, the Int'l Center for Journalists
@ICFJ
, & Reporters Without Borders
@RSF_inter
launched the
#HoldTheLine
campaign in support of journalist
@mariaressa
& independent media under attack in the Philippines
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Top 10
#ddj
:
@datosundav
interviewed Colombian data journalist
@claudibaez
, co-founder of independent digital media site
@cuestion_p
, about data journalism in the region & how Cuestión Pública utilizes data to support investigative journalism
@CoceresMaqui
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Editor's Pick: 2020's Best Investigative Stories in Russian & Ukrainian includes
@mediazona_by
's investigation that revealed a "significant number" of people were injured by police in Belarus following last year's protests against alleged election fraud
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Editor's Pick 2021: Best Investigative Stories (India) —
@newslaundry
analyzed COVID-19 related data published by various state govts & India's central govt. They discovered a lot of ambiguity and inconsistencies in the official data.
@kaul_vivek
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Have you used
@internetarchive
's
@waybackmachine
in your investigations? The service archives and makes available much of the public web at the rate of more than 1 billion archived URLs per day. Here are some investigative techniques for you to try out.
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