The 2027 Global Investigative Journalism Conference (#GIJC27) is brought to you by the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN), and VVOJ, together with their regional partners Journalismfund Europe and Free Press Unlimited.
In this second part of our series on Impact, GIJN talked with six reporters who have used our training and resources to produce high-quality accountability reporting and further train others in their region.
GIJN followed up on the detailed testimonies of five reporters who have come to past Global Conferences to better understand and hear, in their own words, how these events have furthered their journalism.
The inaugural Global Investigative Journalism Conference 25 years ago came from a radical idea: gather reporters from around the world to share techniques and inspire each other. It changed everything.
Also highlighting police response to demonstrations in India, where European Nobel laureates do their research, and shrinking food budgets in Indonesia.
This award, sponsored by GIJN, honors investigative journalism in a developing or transitioning country, done under threat, duress, or in the direst of conditions. Deadline to apply is February 28, 2027.
Since August 2025, this former Washington Post reporter, now working freelance, has written dozens of stories mapping the Trump administration’s massive, third-country deportation apparatus.
In this GIJN Academy masterclass video, Carlos Gaio, lawyer and CEO of Media Defence, shares practical advice for journalists facing legal threats, from getting an attorney review prior to publication to partnering with groups like his to fend off lawsuits.
Citra Dyah Prastuti reflects on her 24 years with KBR, Indonesia’s public radio broadcaster, and on centering public service, joy, and rigorous journalism in every story.
We spent 12 months building an AI tool for our independent news site in Colombia. Here’s what it taught us about running a newsroom in the age of AI.
Journalist Léo Arcoverde started a blog in 2015 publishing one story a day based on information obtained through Brazil’s new access-to-information law. The initiative eventually became Fiquem Sabendo.
A step-by-step guide to investigating online across the world, including how to find material from dead government links, and tracking down material in languages that you do not speak.
Over the past five years, an international team of journalists at The Outlaw Ocean Project has examined the largely overlooked $313-billion food-for-feed aquaculture industry.
Also highlighting how pro-Russian channels fabricated a mass migration threat in Ukraine, charting South Africa’s micro schools, and how beliefs in an afterlife vary around the world.
Operating a newsroom hundreds or thousands of miles away from a country presents a challenge: how do journalists deliver accurate, reliable news to audiences when reporters can’t safely be on the ground?
More than 100 journalists from across the Global South received financial aid to attend our last global conference, apply now for the opportunity to attend GIJC27 on a fellowship.
These exposés from Europe, South America, the Philippines, and the United States combined innovative data analysis with on-the-ground reporting to uncover critical environmental issues.
OCCRP’s research director offers up a series of tips and techniques to help reporters safely and effectively build a profile of whoever they are looking for.
Technology is rapidly rewriting the nature of war and conflict, investigative reporters need new resources and reporting strategies so they can keep up.
There is a central tension facing investigative journalists: the “AI and tech paradox.” Explore our report on the most urgent technology-related challenges facing investigative journalism today.
The open source desktop geographic information system software QGIS can be a powerful tool for investigative journalists. This resource takes you from the basics to advanced data mapping.
This reporting guide helps investigative journalists understand some of the nitty-gritty of the technology underlying AI and to give them a framework through which they can examine it.
Featuring advice on fact checking, digital security tips, interview techniques, and guidelines for editors.
The negative effects from higher temperatures can be seen everywhere, offering many opportunities for investigative journalism.
Journalists, data gurus, and subject matter experts from 65 countries will take part in IJ WEEK, which will feature panels, workshops, and networking sessions across 13 thematic areas.
To create the most inclusive and impactful global conference for investigative journalists, we are now soliciting great ideas for sessions for GIJC27. Send us your proposals!
Empower the World’s Watchdog Journalists
This course, back by popular demand, is built around collecting both qualitative and quantitative data, digital research, and information extraction, and will enable participants to strengthen their investigations and diversify their sources.
Due to strong demand, GIJN is launching a second cohort of this in-depth course, to equip journalists with the skills needed to uncover the financial flows behind corruption, organized crime, and abuse of power.
Source: Committee to Protect Journalists
An Egyptian judge detained Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of GIJN member Mada Masr, after convicting her on charges of operating an unlicensed website. The court also handed down a three million EGP (US$54,500) fine and demanded the website by shut down and its property seized by the government. Attalah has faced six previous investigations by the state over the past six years in retaliation for Mada Masr's accountability reporting. "The conviction of Lina Attalah and the order to shut down Mada Masr represent a devastating blow to press freedom in Egypt," said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah. "No independent journalist is safe. Attalah must be released immediately, and Mada Masr must be allowed to keep reporting."
The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS), in partnership with The University of Amsterdam, Maastricht University and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) offers the five-month Safe Haven Fellowship to scholars, artists, writers, and journalists who can’t dotheir work in their current location or circumstances due to conflict or war, by offering them temporary relocation and the opportunity to continue their work. Applications for the first semester of 2027–2028 can be submitted until 14 December 2026 at noon (CET).
The finalists for the 2026 African Investigative Journalist of the Year include: Your Eyes, Their Data, by Naipanoi Lepapa, in collaboration with Julia Lindblom of Göteborgs-Posten and Ahmed Abdigadir of Svenska Dagbladet, on how footage from Meta’s AI-powered glasses is routed to Nairobi-based data annotators; Nine Lives: King Cat and His Tender Empire, by Jeff Wicks of South Africa’s News24, who traced a tenderpreneur’s capture of a R360-million police tender; and Lead In Their Blood: Poor Oversight, Regulatory Failure Expose Nigerians to Slow Death from Battery Recycling, by Folashade Ogunrinde and Oladeinde Olawoyin of the Premium Times, with The Examination, Nigeria.
The Tarbell Fellowship is a one-year program for journalists and subject-matter experts who want to cover artificial intelligence, and it consists of a three-month training program and a nine-month newsroom placement. It starts with a remote course in June 2027 covering AI and journalism fundamentals, followed by a weeklong in-person session before newsroom placements from September 2026 to May 2027. Previous host newsrooms include CBS News, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, MIT Technology Review, TIME, and many others. Applications for the 2027-28 Tarbell Fellowship are open and will close on Nov. 22, 2026.
Authorities confirmed that they detained Abdallah Qadri, Mohamed Ashraf, Mohamed Adel, Islam Barakat, Mohamed Mahmoud, and Omar Helal — the editorial team of the Egyptian fact-checking and investigative outlet Matsadaash — and charged them with terrorism offences and “destabilizing” the country through disinformation. The International Press Institute (IPI) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called for their immediate release and urged Egyptian authorities to stop using national security laws against the press in retaliation for critical reporting. Several of the detained journalists have reported that security officers tortured them and interrogated them for hours.
Canal France International (CFI) is accepting applications for projects to strengthen independent journalism and fight disinformation in the Republic of Moldova — to counter an environment in which Moldovan audiences have “increasingly been exposed to misleading or unverified information, including information related to public policies and Moldova’s closer cooperation with the European Union.” The program is run by CFI and funded by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. Three media outlets will receive grants of up to €30,000 (US$34,000), with an indicative total budget of €90,000 (US$US102,000). Apply by October 17, 2026.
The Equality Fund is partnering with Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) and African Women in Media (AWiM) to “surface the stories of local solutions to global crises,” with a focus on gender. Five five journalists in ODA-eligible countries will be selected for fellowship, which will run from January to September 2027, with a stipend of up to CAD$4,000 (US$2,927) and reporting costs up to CAD$500 covered. Applications are welcome from working journalists on any platform (text, digital, video, audio). Journalists should be reporting on their own communities and geographies. The application deadline is November 8, 2026.
According to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) this week South African journalist Micah Reddy, who heads up ICIJ’s Africa program, and local reporter Mohamed Willo Ismael (“Kooki Mahmoud”) were detained in Djibouti, prompting the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) to urge Djiboutian authorities to confirm their safety. On Tuesday, September 22, a CPJ update stated that Reddy had been freed and deported to South Africa: "Authorities claim he did not have proper media accreditation. He will return to Johannesburg soon. His fixer, Kooki Mahmoud, is apparently released without charge," CPJ Africa posted on Twitter/X.
The 12th DIG Festival (“Documentari, Inchieste, Giornalismi” or documentaties, investigaitos, journalism), Europe’s premier multimedia investigative journalism festival, will take place September 23-26 in Modena, Italy. Participation and attendance at the festival are free and except certain screenings, do not require tickets or registration. The program includes panel discussions, presentations, DIG Academy — which is offering 12 new, free-to-attend workshops — and the screening of 25 new investigative films shortlisted for the annual DIG Awards. The opening ceremony and awards ceremony will be available for live streaming on DIG Festival’s YouTube channel.
Source: The Henry Nxumalo Foundation
The Henry Nxumalo Foundation, originally set up in 2006 as the Taco Kuiper Fund, provides grants to individuals and organizations to produce public interest investigative journalism on topics relevant to South Africa. Applications can be made on a rolling basis for work in any medium, from individuals, teams, or a publication or broadcaster; the Fund will assign an editor to work with you. Applicants should send a brief proposal (no more than three pages), a CV, and a budget to henrynxumalofund@gmail.com. (The Fund also now makes occasional calls for grant applications that cover multiple African countries.)
Citra Dyah Prastuti reflects on her 24 years with KBR, Indonesia’s public radio broadcaster, and on centering public service, joy, and rigorous journalism in every story.
Award-winning journalist Vladimir Thorik discusses reporting in an oft-overlooked part of Europe and how he approaches exposing the long reach of Russia on his native country and its neighbors.
Marthe Akissi Kra’s reporting translates complex scientific and ecological data into accessible stories, connecting global environmental issues to her local listeners.
The journalist explains how he has built a career around long-form investigations, and delves into the process behind his recent book exposing the far-right in Portugal.
Two journalism and technology projects are sharing tools and methods across continents to map where mining is devastating the Amazon and Congo basins.
Watch Duty is a NGO nonprofit and its data is sourced from all over: radio scanners, cameras, satellites, and other public sources, including the agencies actually fighting the fires.
In this round-up of recent GIJN Academy masterclasses on data journalism, we share practical videos on data reporting basics, using spreadsheets, and incorporating satellite imagery.
Journalist Léo Arcoverde started a blog in 2015 publishing one story a day based on information obtained through Brazil’s new access-to-information law. The initiative eventually became Fiquem Sabendo.
This small Lithuanian outlet Siena punches above its weight by publishing agenda-setting stories — but the founders say they also never want to take themselves too seriously.
The investigative outlet focusing on the Black Sea region and Turkey is not quite exiled media, not quite traditional newsroom, but a collaborative group focused on abuses of power.
Over the past decade, the nonprofit Tokyo Investigative Newsroom has published numerous longform exposés on issues ranging from gender, health, politics, and the environment.
The 14th Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC25) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, assembled more than 1,500 journalists from over 135 countries and territories to hold workshops, share best practices, and build a community increasingly confronting funding crises, disinformation campaigns, digital surveillance, and authoritarian threats. This project is a compendium of GIJN’s coverage of the conference.
This regional spotlight series examines the world’s largest and most populous continent, which is also the host of the 2025 Global Investigative Journalism Conference. Asia serves as a unique laboratory in the global media landscape, but journalists here face multifaceted challenges, from censorship to physical threats, digital surveillance to financial pressures. Despite this, watchdog reporters […]
Our third regional spotlight series examines the challenges facing our members and other outlets in the Middle East and North Africa, such as war, backsliding democracies, self-censorship, exile, surveillance and imprisonment of journalists, and the hostile legal environment — and why this reality on the ground makes investigative journalism there all the more essential.
Our second regional spotlight series examines the successes and challenges facing our members in Africa and others reporting from the continent. These articles tell the stories of growing journalistic collaboration, courage, and innovation in the face of repression, legal intimidation, lack of access to information, and even physical threats.
Online scams have become borderless threats that evolve rapidly in scale, sophistication, and impact. From fraudsters using the Internet to steal to phishing networks that engage in social engineering and trick individuals, scams are often backed by organized criminal groups that exploit weak law enforcement, jurisdictional loopholes, and digital anonymity.
In this free online workshop, GIJN will convene four experienced African journalists to discuss how to dig out information from repressive regimes and military dictatorships on the continent.
What innovative tools and techniques are shaping the future of data journalism? A special Lightning Round webinar with the 10 winners of the 2025 Sigma Awards, celebrating some of the world’s best data-driven investigations.
A webinar exploring how investigative journalists can document human rights abuses in war zones, with a focus on methods to ensure the information gathered can later be used by legal investigators or international courts.
In 2001 GIJN was born, as investigative journalists from around the globe met for the very first time to share ideas, tips, and best practices to strengthen their reporting in a world where journalism was increasingly under threat.
Today the threat has multiplied, and at GIJN we find ourselves under the same pressures as our member organizations. Most urgently: available funding for investigative journalism has been impacted as some longtime funders who supported journalism in the past are no longer doing so or have closed. Yet our work continues, more important than ever before.
GIJN serves as the global hub for the world’s investigative reporters. Our core mission is to support and strengthen investigative journalism—with special attention to those from repressive regimes and marginalized communities.
We are embarking on our first-ever campaign initiative to help us expand our revenue by the end of the year through individual donors. If you have ever joined one of our free webinars, used one of our free resources, learned a new skill thanks to a GIJN training, or simply believe that press freedom is essential to civil society, we ask you to show your support for GIJN’s work with a donation of your choosing. Called “Friends of GIJN,” this campaign includes a more personalized experience, starting in 2027, for individuals who answer the call to join with us during this unprecedented time.
Truth and democracy are under attack around the world. You can fight back by helping GIJN support investigative journalists with free access to the latest tools and techniques — so they can foster justice and hold accountable those who abuse the public trust.
With a staff based in 24 countries, GIJN works in a dozen languages each day, linking together the world’s most enterprising journalists, offering state-of-the-art training, webinars, tip sheets, and a Help Desk that responds to 2,000+ requests for assistance each year. More than 84% of GIJN’s operating budget goes directly to our program work.
Please make a gift today to support journalists on the front lines of the fight for accountability and human rights.
