Here are resource pages assembled by the GIJN staff on critical topics affecting investigative journalists. There are links to key groups, documents, and people. Let us know if you have additions or if the info and links get out of date!
Reporting Tips and Techniques
- Data Journalism: A guide to resources on computer-assisted reporting, including data collection and analysis, visualization, mapping, and more.
- Defining Investigative Journalism: While definitions of investigative reporting vary, among professional journalism groups there is broad agreement of its major components: systematic, in-depth, and original research and reporting, often involving the unearthing of secrets.
- Extractives Industries: A road map to improve your coverage, including new tools that enable journalists and bloggers to obtain and verify information, and where to get ideas for future stories.
- Freedom of Information Laws: More than 90 countries now have freedom of information laws. Here are links to guides and groups, and a directory of FOI offices around the world.
- GIJC13 Tipsheets: See tipsheets from top journalism trainers on investigative techniques, data analysis, and more from the 2013 Global Investigative Journalism Conference.
- Investigative Books and Films: Recommended Readings and Films from the Global Investigative Journalism Network and Story-Based Inquiry. Compiled by Mark Lee Hunter.
- Investigative Journalism Manuals: Here are some widely used guides to investigative journalism, including casebooks and teaching curricula, many of them downloadable for free.
- Investigative Journalism Organizations: Get connected! GIJN lists how to contact more than 100 investigative journalism organizations. Includes nonprofit newsrooms, online publishers, professional associations, NGOs, training institutes, and academic centers in nearly 50 countries.
- Whistleblowing: This guide to whistleblowers -- insiders who expose corrupt or illegal activities -- offers links to secure tools and useful groups in a dozen countries.
Fundraising, Grants, and Sustainability
- Fundraising: With the global spread of nonprofit media, journalists are looking for new ways to raise funds and structure the “business side” of their news organizations. As a starting point, GIJN asked for advice from fundraising expert Bridget Gallagher.
- Grants and Fellowships: Need a break? Here’s a guide to more than 30 fellowships and a dozen grant programs of interest to investigative journalists. Spanish version here.
- Sustainability: Here's a survival guide for both start-ups and existing investigative nonprofits, full of ideas on how to diversify funding and build a sustainable structure.
Safety, Security, and Legal Defense
- Digital Security: Ensuring your digital files and communications are secure has never been more important. Here are some straightforward guidelines, tipsheets, and tutorials.
- Emergency Aid for Journalists: A number of organizations provide emergency support to journalists in danger. Assistance ranges from medical and legal aid to moving a targeted journalist out of the country.
- Legal Defense: Here are several well-established groups that specialize in getting legal assistance for journalists.
- Safety and Security Organizations: This guide, from the Center for International Media Assistance, lists major international press freedom and safety groups that concern themselves, in some fashion, with violent attacks on journalists. Spanish version here.