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Fact Check Your Story — Before It’s Too Late
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In order to publish or broadcast a piece of journalism that successfully empowers citizens to hold those in power accountable, the work must be, above all, one thing: credible.
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Investigating the Shipping Industry
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Participants in sessions on using data to cover organized crime were exposed to a revealing set of databases on shipping at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Lillehammer last weekend.
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How To Integrate Mapping into Your Stories
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As someone who has spent many years discovering, describing, and sharing GIS data and maps, my skills to actually create maps were in need of some help. So, on Saturday afternoon at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference, I attended a two-session, hands-on workshop, “Mapping With Arc.” The session was described in the conference program as an introduction to “analyzing data for stories by using mapping software.”
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Investigating on Foreign Ground
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Tom Heinemann is a Danish independent investigative journalist and filmmaker who focuses on global issues. He has 19 years of experience as a journalist. In his session at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference, Investigating on Foreign Ground, he offered tips on how to do in-depth reporting on foreign soil.
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Secrets of Successful Startups
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Know how your organization will distinguish itself from the rest, have a business plan that you are passionate about, find what will bring value to your readers, and be courageous. These are some pieces of advice given by Kim Yong Jin of the Korea Center for Investigative Journalism, Christian Humborg, executive director of CORRECT!V and Teun Gautier, owner of Gautier CIMC, in the GIJC15 panel New Models and Startups.
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Universities and Investigative Reporting
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Mark Lee Hunter from INSEAD and Wang Shiyu from Beijing Foreign Language Studies University share their insights on investigative journalism education.
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Lightning Round: My Favorite Data Tool
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In this Lightning Round panel at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference, presenters had just five minutes to describe their favorite data tool. The results: tips ranging from basic Excel to Z-score.
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Favorite Tips, Tools, and Quotes from #GIJC15
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The first day of the Global Investigative Journalism Conference was a busy and productive one. Below, you can read some highlights of four popular panels on reporting organized crime, teaching investigative reporting, the Migrant Files project, and “finding Africa’s missing money”.
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Using Computer Game Techniques To Tell Your Story
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Pirate Fishing, an interactive investigation by Al Jazeera, exposed the world of illegal fishing in Western Africa to an internet audience using elements of an online computer game.
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How Other Investigators Do It
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“The skill of digging into complex wrongdoing is required for both my day job and my evening job,” said Jim Mintz, founder of the Mintz Group, of his days as a private investigator and his nights teaching investigative reporting at Columbia University.