Global Investigative Journalism Network
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📢 Applications are now open for the sixth edition of the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize! Open to journalists of any nationality, as long as the piece was published or broadcast by media based in one of the 27 EU countries. 🗓️ Submissions close 31 July 2026 at midnight. https://twp.ai/E5DQh9
📊 This week's Top 10 in Data Journalism: Sky News on the US's use of outdated intel to strike an Iranian school; IStories on Russia's "second service" surveillance priorities; Lighthouse Reports on Big Food's legal threats against public health efforts; and many more. https://twp.ai/E5DQfx
📣 GIJN is accepting applications for its Fifth Cyber Investigations Training Course designed to teach journalists to identify and investigate digital threats in today's AI-infused digital environment. Deadline: August 7, 2026 Find more details about program here ⬇️ https://twp.ai/E5DJD1
@disclose.ngo & @rembobine.info's "Guide to Impact Journalism" is for newsrooms that want their investigations to actually move the needle. GIJN spoke to co-authors Pierre Leibovici and @timvinchon.bsky.social about what that looks like in practice. Read their interview ⬇️ https://twp.ai/E5DTFe
⏰ Early Bird tickets for #IJWeek end July 31. Buy your tickets now to join more than 35 panels, workshops, and networking sessions with over 100 speakers. ⬇️ https://twp.ai/E5DFJ4
✨ One effective approach for holding actors accountable is with damning contrasts: by presenting their policies and outcomes side-by-side with comparable institutions that avoid those problems despite near-identical resources. This is called finding the "positive deviant." https://twp.ai/E5DF6H
🇵🇪 A behind the scenes look at how reporters investigated how thousands of people have been unjustly excluded from Peru’s pension program due to flaws in the poverty classification system. Read this "how they investigated" and more on our Substack. Subscribe here ⬇️ https://twp.ai/E5DHGq
In our latest masterclass video, @tahtone.bsky.social, editor-at-large at Grist and member of the Kiowa Tribe, shares practical techniques for using historical archives and colonial documents as accountability tools in investigative reporting. Watch the full video here ⬇️ https://twp.ai/E5DGzs
As the World Cup comes to an end, GIJN takes a look at a host of investigations into its the sport's global, governance, finances, and impact, as well as the data behind its athletes and game play. https://twp.ai/E5DK3d
How do you follow money that is designed to be untraceable? Our new Reporter's Guide to Investigating Cryptocurrency, produced with @icij.org, breaks down how to trace wallet addresses, work with blockchain explorers and verify crypto transactions for your next investigation. https://twp.ai/E5DK3S
In our latest Academy masterclass video, @marinawg.bsky.social, executive editor at @pulitzercenter.org, shares important insights on building a team for an investigative collaboration, from how to pick partners and collaborators to why culture matters. Full video ⬇️ https://twp.ai/E5DLZn
With 35+ years in long-form investigative reporting, Miguel Carvalho talks to GIJN about the future of investigative journalism, and why he still believes that journalism’s greatest responsibility is to defend the public’s right to understand the world. https://twp.ai/E5DMyi
🇮🇳 What began as a small WhatsApp group of isolated data journalists in India has grown into a 1,600+ member community. This month, the group gathered in Bengaluru for VizChitra 2026, a conference on data visualization and storytelling. Here is how they built it 👇 https://twp.ai/E5D8pe
🎙️ "Always be recording, it's easier than you might think." At #IRE26, top podcast editors from NPR, APM Reports & NH Public Radio shared their best tips for editing investigative podcasts, from tape inventories to knowing when a story deserves the format. Read more 👇 https://twp.ai/E5DzlY
🇹🇷 "If we don't have a story, we don't write." That's the rule at The Black Sea, GIJN's newest Turkey-focused member, whose reporting exposed corruption tied to President Erdoğan's family and spanned cross-border investigations like Football Leaks and Malta Files. https://twp.ai/E5E2UF
🎥 In this masterclass video, Pierre Leibovici, deputy editor-in-chief and environment editor at @disclose.ngo shares six practical strategies to help journalists maximize the real-world impact of their investigations. Watch the full video here ⬇️ https://twp.ai/4htIqD
‼️ Last call for registration Join @henkvaness.bsky.social tomorrow as he teaches techniques to deal with AI hallucinations, make it understand large amounts of data, compare documents and feed it sensitive material ethically without risks. For more details ⬇️ https://twp.ai/E5Dn9g
✨ A collection of resources for deepening understanding of dual-use technology and global supply chains, grants, a residency in Berlin, and more in our latest global newsletter. Subscribe to our newsletter here ⬇️ https://twp.ai/E5DrvZ
🎙️ What does it take to produce outstanding data journalism today? GIJN is putting that question to all winners of the 2026 Sigma Awards in a webinar on July 7. Join them to find out the efforts behind this year's most compelling data investigations. Register here ⬇️ https://twp.ai/E5DedB
🌡️🔥 Extreme heat is killing more people every year around the globe. This GIJN guide suggests multiple angles for investigating extreme heat as a global phenomenon, with real examples from newsrooms worldwide. A must-read for climate journalists. https://twp.ai/E5Dect
🌊 How do you make a melting glacier in Antarctica feel real to your audience? In this interview, Mira Rojanasakul of NYT explains how she used data visualisation 📊 to map the sea level risks Thwaites Glacier's collapse poses to the world's biggest coastal cities. 🏙️ 🔗 https://twp.ai/E5DgM5
Last tickets: Data Collecting for Journalists This on-demand course with GIJN’s data trainer and Turkish editor, Pınar Dağ, teaches journalists the data collection process using practical tools and hands-on techniques. For more details ⬇️ https://twp.ai/E5Dj8j
🔍 For investigative journalists, civil society organizations and NGOs often serve as a bridge between the newsroom and real-world impact, but partnering with them requires a clear sense of independence and ethical boundaries. Here is our tipsheet on how to get it right ⬇️ https://twp.ai/9OYTke
✊Reporting on autocracies from exile? #IRE26 panelists say: pick your topic battles in autocratic countries, reassess risks for sources AND their diaspora families, reveal all that you safely can in a single story, and protect sources from surveillance after publication. https://twp.ai/9OYWOd
✨ Joy Mayer, founder of Trusting News, is leading a free #GIJNAcademy workshop on July 2nd to help journalists better explain their sourcing, be more transparent about AI tools, respond to reader criticism and improve engagement with an increasingly skeptical audience. https://twp.ai/9OXCvY
🎥 In our new masterclass video, Fabiola Torres, founder and director of Salud con Lupa, shares a practical approach to data journalism, starting not with tools, but with documents. Watch the full video here ⬇️ https://twp.ai/9OXBmw
🇩🇪 At the 2026 Netzwerk Recherche conference, three experts shared their experiences working in investigative journalism as women, LGBTQ+ individuals, and as individuals with intersectional identities. Read their accounts of how they found the field here ⬇️ https://twp.ai/9OXENz
🗓 Mark your calendars, we have three events coming up in the next days. For registration and more details 👇 https://twp.ai/4hs3QU
🇩🇪 German newspaper Die Zei turned millions of Nazi Party membership cards into a searchable public database. Gregor Aisch and Andreas Loos of newspaper spoke to GIJN about the project, the role AI played in it and the unexpected response that followed publication. https://twp.ai/9OX4VL
💫 BBC Eye built a multi-agent AI system, Haystack, to investigate Russian nationalist social media posts. They used it to gather social media posts and produced assessments of their content for different signals. Read how did it help them in their investigation here ⬇️ https://twp.ai/9OX6aJ