World Cup 2026: Investigations, Data Dives, and Podcasts Covering the Global Football Tournament
How investigative and data journalists covered the world’s most popular sports event, from FIFA to footwear.
Masterclass Videos
Building the Team: The Key to Cross-Border Success
Marina Walker Guevara
In this GIJN Academy masterclass video, Marina Walker Guevara, executive editor at The Pulitzer Center, shares important advice on how to build cross-border investigative teams.
10 Questions
Curiosity and the Long Road to the Truth: Lessons from an Award-Winning Portuguese Reporter
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.
Data Journalism Top 10
Late World Cup Goals, Foreigners Fueling Sudan’s War, Venezuela’s Deadly Double Earthquake, and Fatal SUV Blindspots
Also highlighting the civilian casualties of the first 40 days of the US-Iran war, why carbon capture won’t solve climate change, and the 370,000-plus prisoners still awaiting trial in India.
Getting the Story Out
Expert Tips for Editing Investigative Podcasts
In a session on editing investigative podcasts at IRE26, veteran audio journalists offered several key lessons for producers and reporters new to investigative podcasts.
Member Profiles
The Black Sea: How Investigative Journalism Endures in Turkey
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.
Masterclass Videos
The Investigative Journalist’s Guide to Impact
Pierre Leibovici
In this GIJN Academy masterclass video, Disclose deputy editor-in-chief shares six practical strategies to help journalists maximize the real-world impact of their investigations.
Investigative Techniques Reporting Tools & Tips
Listen Up: Podcasts for Investigative Journalists
We have rounded up the podcasts that go behind the scenes of major exposés, in which reporters dive into how they did their investigations or offer tips for journalists in similar fields.
Climate Data Journalism
Turning the Threat to a Distant Glacier into a Local Story Through Data Visualization
New York Times climate and environmental graphics reporter Mira Rojanasakul discusses how her team visualized the sea level rise threat from the melting Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Exiled Journalists’ Tips for Source Protection and Avoiding ‘Propaganda Creep’
Veteran exiled journalists from Iran, Venezuela, and Tibet discuss source protection best practices and publishing survival strategies when reporting on your home country from afar.
Data Journalism
One Name at a Time: How Die Zeit Built a Searchable Database of Nazi Party Members
An online tool set up by the German newspaper Die Zeit, in cooperation with archives in Germany and in the United States, allows people to search several million Nazi Party membership cards.
Reporting Tools & Tips
Tips to Investigate Links Between Pesticide and Cancer
At the 2026 IRE conference, veteran reporters shared tips on how to get around the problems of causation and toxicology jargon in data-driven investigations about pesticide exposure.
Data Journalism Top 10
Visualizing a Trillion Dollars, India’s Warming Cities, Russian Mercenaries at Sea, and World Cup Player Physiques
Also highlighting how films portray Ukrainians, increasing tree cover in Spain, and how couples meet.
How They Did It News & Analysis
Building a Multi-Agent AI System To Sift Through Thousands of Russian Social Media Posts
The system built by BBC Eye allowed a team of open source specialists and reporters to accelerate their investigation of Russian ultra nationalists and their political impact.
News & Analysis
Women and LGBTQ+ People in Investigative Journalism: Challenges, Strategies, and What’s Next?
At a 2026 Netzwerk Recherche conference panel, participants discussed their struggles and successes working as women and LGBTQ individuals in investigative journalism.
GIJN Toolbox
New Tools for Tracking US Migrant Detention Centers and Illicit Dual-Use Exports for Russian War Effort
We profile two new, free-access databases made for investigative journalists that provide hard-to-find accountability evidence on pressing harms.
Global Academy Guides Resource Guide
AI Accountability Reporting Guide
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.
Global Academy Guides Resource Guide
GIJN Guide to Investigating Extreme Heat
The negative effects from higher temperatures can be seen everywhere, offering many opportunities for investigative journalism.
Resource
10 Investigative Questions to Ask after a Natural Disaster
Watchdog reporters should discard the idea that damage from natural disasters is simply due to “acts of nature,” and rather think of it as a mix of hazardous events and human actions.
Global Academy Guides Resource Guide
Guide to Mapping Analysis Using QGIS
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.
Resource Guide
Tech Focus Project
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.
Resource Guide
Guide: Introduction to Investigative Journalism
Featuring advice on fact checking, digital security tips, interview techniques, and guidelines for editors.
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For the fifth time, GIJN is working with cutting-edge trainers to offer a unique cyber investigations training program specifically tailored for reporters and others in watchdog journalism.
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Around the World
Early Registration for the 2026 African Investigative Journalism Conference
Early bird registrations for the 22nd African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC26) are open. Attendees can save R1,000 (US$61) from the standard ticket price of R4,700 (US$285) if they register before August 1. Discounts are also available for students, freelancers, and bulk ticket purchases — students and freelancers can get 50% off the standard ticket price, but must apply directly with the organizers. The conference fee includes full access to the three-day programme and includes meals, coffee/tea), and the African Investigative Journalist of the Year Award formal gala dinner on November 11.
Nigerian Investigative Journalist Disappears Following Report on Corruption, Adultery Allegations
The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on Nigerian authorities to investigate the disappearance of journalist Stanley Ugagbe, who witnesses say was seized by two armed men in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, on Wednesday. Ugagbe’s colleagues at Secret Reporters believe the incident was related to the outlet’s recent investigation into corruption and infidelity allegations involving a Nigerian Central Bank executive, for which Ugagbe was the lead reporter. “Authorities must swiftly investigate the whereabouts of journalist Stanley Ugagbe, ensure his immediate safety, and hold those responsible... to account,” said CPJ Africa Director Angela Quintal.
Apply for 2026 Data Fellowship: USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism
Source: USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism
The Data Fellowship, open to US -based journalists writing about health and social welfare for independent media outlets, offers training on on data acquisition, cleaning, analysis, and visualization, one-on-one mentoring, and a reporting grant to complete a project in partnership with the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Center for Health Journalism — a major investigative or explanatory health reporting project or a series of individual data-driven health stories, and offers training. The program starts with an in-person learning session on the USC campus in Los Angeles, October 6 - 9, 2026. Applicatiojn deadline is July 22, 2026, at midnight PT.
Play the Game Launches Journalism Fund to Finance Sports Investigations
Play the Game, an initiative run by the Danish Institute for Sports Studies that promotes democratic values in world sports, is launching a fund to support independent sports journalism. Backed entirely by public donations, the fund will help journalists and researchers investigate and explain critical issues in international sports — such as corruption, governance failures, abuse of power, and human rights violations. “Much of what we know about the darker sides of international sport does not stem from official transparency. We owe it to journalism,” says Stanis Elsborg, head of Play the Game.
Call for Entries: 4th Annual African Investigative Journalist of the Year Award
The African Investigative Journalist of the Year Award is open to all African journalists or teams of journalists working in any media for stories from and about Africa, published or broadcast in African media between July 1, 2025 and July 1, 2026. The award recognizes “outstanding examples of investigative reporting from Africa that reveal untold stories, hold the powerful to account, question those in public life and serve the public interest.” The top prize in 2026 is US$5,000, while the runner-up receives US$2,000. Entries close at 5pm (SAST) on July 10, 2026. The ceremony will be held at the AIJC in Nairobi, Kenya in November.
Mongabay Southeast Asia Ocean Reporting Fellowship
Mongabay’s Southeast Asia Ocean Reporting Fellowship is an opportunity for early- and mid-career journalists from Southeast Asia coastal countries to report on ocean challenges and their solutions in their region, and is designed for them to become part of a global network of regular Mongabay contributors. The 2026 Southeast Asia Ocean Reporting Fellowship Program will support up to five fellows in Mongabay’s Global Bureau. The fellowship is run in English, and applicants must be from and based in a coastal Southeast Asian country, with a particular focus on Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Piraeus Deputy Mayor Files Lawsuit Against Solomon Over Real Estate Investigation
Greece-based GIJN member Solomon and three of its journalists face legal action from a deputy mayor in the Greek port city of Piraeus, following their investigation into a real estate development project. Dimitris Arapis, responsible for urban planning and construction in Piraeus, has filed a lawsuit, injunction request, and criminal complaint, including a demand to take down the investigation. The investigation examined a large development that includes hundreds of apartments, offices, shops, and commercial spaces in a former industrial area in Piraeus, as well as possible potential conflict of interest issues related to Arapis’ public role and private work for the developer.
Anti-Corruption Reporting Grant for Journalists Based in Montenegro and Kosovo
Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) has opened a call for independent journalists based in Kosovo and Montenegro to apply for grants to support investigations into corruption and accountability issues. Journalists can get grants of up to US$1,500, as well as mentoring and technical and editorial support. The program, which supports journalists investigating issues related to governance, misuse of public resources, and institutional accountability, is led by the Society Against Corruption in Montenegro and Kosovo, a regional anti-corruption initiative and grant program implemented by BIRN and Civic Alliance (CA). The deadline for applications is June 7, 2026.
Open Call: CORRECTIV’s Residency Program for Exiled Journalists
German investigative newsroom CORRECTIV has announced its 2026 Exile Journalist-in-Residence Program, which supports journalists forced into exile by persecution related to their work. The program “provides what many lose in exile: a professional newsroom, trusted colleagues, technical infrastructure, and public visibility within a safe environment,” states CORRECTIV. The six-month residency in Berlin — from July to December 2026 — will be offered to two journalists, who will work alongside exiled and investigative journalists and pursue their own projects, and have access to workspaces, studios, publishing platforms, and public-facing formats.
Alicia Patterson Investigative Journalism Fellowship 2027
Source: Fund for Investigative Journalism
Applications are open for the Fund for Investigative Journalism’s Alicia Patterson Fellowship 2027, which runs for six (paying US$20,000) or 12 months (paying US$40,000) for in-depth written reporting. Proposals are due October 1 every year, with decisions made in January. The Fellowships are designed to support significant, in-depth written reporting on subjects of public interest. Projects must be for print or online publications (in text format) and must be US-focused — fellows aren’t required to live in the US, but the reporting project must be focused on the US and for publication in US-based outlets.
10 Questions
Curiosity and the Long Road to the Truth: Lessons from an Award-Winning Portuguese Reporter
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.
10 Questions
The African Investigative Journalist of the Year on Deep Dives, Funding, and ‘Paying Your Dues’
The award-winning South African investigative journalist says he spent years ‘in the wilderness’ digging into spreadsheets and paperwork to find his niche.
10 Questions
Confront Them With the Numbers: This Former Physicist’s Path to Investigative Data Journalism
Anna Behrend is a self-taught data journalist who has found in data-driven reporting and visualization a way to combine her academic background in science with her creative interests.
10 Questions
‘As Long as There Is Journalism, There Is Hope, There Is Life’
Based in the Mexican border region of Chihuahua, a state where organized crime exerts a strong presence, means working “under constant threat,” but Gallegos refuses to be silenced.
Climate Data Journalism
Turning the Threat to a Distant Glacier into a Local Story Through Data Visualization
New York Times climate and environmental graphics reporter Mira Rojanasakul discusses how her team visualized the sea level rise threat from the melting Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica.
Data Journalism
One Name at a Time: How Die Zeit Built a Searchable Database of Nazi Party Members
An online tool set up by the German newspaper Die Zeit, in cooperation with archives in Germany and in the United States, allows people to search several million Nazi Party membership cards.
Global Academy Webinars
The Data Investigator’s Toolkit: Lessons from 2026’s Sigma Award Winners
In this fast-paced session, all 10 winners of the 2026 Sigma Awards showcased the data journalism approaches and breakthroughs that helped them uncover complex stories.
Data Journalism
How The Washington Post Combined Data and Human Stories to Cover Hurricane Helene’s Aftermath
From Storybench, Washington Post climate reporter Brady Dennis is interviewed about his immersive story on Hurricane Helene and the importance of combining data and human experience.
Member Profiles
The Black Sea: How Investigative Journalism Endures in Turkey
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.
Member Profiles
Tansa: Pioneering a New Model for Investigative Journalism in Japan
Over the past decade, the nonprofit Tokyo Investigative Newsroom has published numerous longform exposés on issues ranging from gender, health, politics, and the environment.
Member Profiles Press Freedom
After a Government Suspension, What’s Next for Uganda’s Premier Journalism Training Organization?
The African Centre for Media Excellence fills a critical gap between journalism schools and newsrooms, but earlier this year Ugandan authorities ordered it to shut down and it’s now fighting for its survival.
Member Profiles News & Analysis
Abzas Media: From Exile, Fighting for Press Freedom and Civil Space in Azerbaijan
Founded in 2016, this news site was created to report on issues often ignored or suppressed in state-controlled media, including corruption, misuse of public resources, and human rights violations.
GIJC25
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.
Asia Focus
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 […]
MENA Focus
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.
Africa Focus
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.
Videos
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Resource Video
Tips and Tools for Uncovering Online Scams
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.
Global Academy Webinars Resource Video
GIJN Africa Webinar: Investigating Revolutionary and Military Regimes
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.
Resource Video
Behind the Data — Tools and Techniques from the 2025 Sigma Award Winners
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.
Global Academy Webinars Resource Video
Gathering Evidence and Documents in Conflict and War Zones — A MENA Case Study
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.