Despite numerous press freedom threats, Pakistani journalists continue to publish high-impact investigations — and offer lessons for reporters navigating restrictive environments worldwide.
Our round-up of the best in recent data journalism also highlights a deadly train accident in Spain, new migration patterns from Venezuela, and Japan’s nuclear power resurgence.
In 2025, journalists across Africa have courageously reported on illegal activities — and their impact — long after they’ve occurred, and despite attempts to bury this information.
Despite numerous obstacles, journalists from the region continue their investigative work through partnerships, cooperation with civil society, and open source research.
This collaborative investigation brought together international and local journalists to reveal how the Assad regime used a global childcare charity to aid the disappearance of children.
Journalists have used local reporting, open source analysis, and forensic reconstruction to verify events happening on the ground in Gaza, allowing them to challenge official narratives and preserve evidence for future accountability.
Speakers at this GIJC25 session dismantled the myth that offshore finance is inaccessible or unknowable and argued that the real barrier is not secrecy alone, but confidence, skill, and persistence.
Featuring stories from France to Tunisia, Canada to DR Congo, touching on allegations of abuses in the labour chain, corruption, and investigations into gold mining.
Direkt36 co-founder Andras Petho speaks about how an investigative documentary became a rare viral success, what it revealed about Viktor Orban’s Hungary, and what other small newsrooms can learn from its impact.
This GIJC25 panel discussion surfaced a set of unresolved questions about what investigative journalism can sustainably support — and what it may need to leave behind.
Despite domestic threats to press freedom and power cuts and sleepless nights from Russian attacks, Ukrainian independent journalists continue their work with depth and skill.
Our round-up of the best in recent data journalism also highlights noise pollution in Singapore, India’s ditching of Bollywood romance movies, and a visual investigation into rocket debris.
Workers in East Africa and South Asia are now paid low wages to perform behind-the-scenes data tasks are used to power AI-driven facial recognition systems around the world.
One of India’s most renowned investigative reporters, Sarin has reported and edited stories digging into security, corruption, and money laundering.
This reporting guide is designed to help journalists understand the causes of food inequity, famine, and starvation as well as the global agencies and data sources tracking these phenomena.
This guide offers journalists a new detection tool and seven advanced techniques for spotting probable AI-generated content.
Featuring tips, techniques, and best practices for covering the algorithms — and their corresponding impacts — used by tech giants’ social media platforms.
This comprehensive guide includes expert advice from more than two dozen specialists and journalists.
Featuring advice on fact checking, digital security tips, interview techniques, and guidelines for editors.
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The African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC) returns in 2026 for its 22nd year, this time in Nairobi, Kenya — the first time it will not be held at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa. To ensure that the conference will continue to "present the most interesting, urgent work and journalists on the continent,” AIJC is inviting proposals for suggestions on speakers, panels, themes, or training that would elevate the conference, which will take place at Aga Khan Graduate School of Media and Communications in Nairobi, Kenya, from November 10-12 2026. Email AIJC@journalism.co.za for enquiries.
According to digital rights website netzpolitik.org, in recent weeks, journalists have been targeted by a well-known phishing attack on the Signal messaging service. Dozens of investigative journalists from television and newsrooms, including Die Zeit, CORRECTIV, and netzpolitik.org were targeted. Netzpolitik.org said it has not yet been able to find any victims of the attack outside these fields, suggesting a targeted phishing attack on specific phone numbers. According to Donncha Ó Cearbhaill, head of Amnesty International’s Security Lab, the spread of attacks appears to be fueled by stolen address book entries.
The Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) has awarded US$750,000 in grants to 25 fact-checking organizations, including those working under pressure in Russia and Belarus, verification newsrooms in Venezuela, and those building capacity for verification in Nigeria, Kosovo, and Iraq. The awards — at US$30,000 each — arrive at a moment when fact-checkers worldwide are facing numerous challenges, such as platform partnerships being reduced and major funders pulling back. “These grants are designed to keep fact-checkers publishing while they continue working toward more sustainable business models,” said Angie Drobnic Holan, IFCN director.
Ugandan authorities suspended internet access amid tensions two days ahead of its elections on Thursday, January 15, when 81-year-old President Yoweri Museveni is expected to extend his nearly four decades of rule. Journalists in Uganda suffer high rates of violence that spike during election seasons, and accountability is rare, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which has recorded five incidents of serious assault on journalists since November 2025. Authorities have also barred journalists from certain outlets from covering the president’s events since March, and have denied them access to parliament since October.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Germany invites journalists from countries with restricted press freedom to apply for its annual Berlin-based fellowships. The deadline for applications is January 15, 2026. The program runs from June until November and includes comprehensive, hands-on training in digital security and risk assessment, workshops on safety and resilience building for journalists covering sensitive issues, networking with German media professionals and newsrooms, and more. RSF Fellowships are open to journalists with at least three years of professional experience, including those working as full-time staff, freelance, or citizen journalists in any type of medium.
In what press freedom and human rights organizations have described as a "sham trial," a Hong Kong court has found British media publisher and press freedom advocate Jimmy Lai guilty of “collusion with foreign forces” and “seditious publication” under its harsh National Security Law. Lai, 78, founded the newspaper Apple Daily and has been arbitrarily detained since 2020. His sentence will be announced at a later date; six of his Apple Daily colleagues were also convicted and are awaiting sentencing. Reporters Without Borders has called on democratic leaders to lobby for Lai’s release.
Source: One World Media Awards
Submissions for the One World Media Awards, which honor the best media coverage from and about the Global South, will open on January 12, 2026. The judges will look for “stories that break through stereotypes, change the narrative and connect people across cultures,” that highlight underreported stories or issues, or explore new angles on familiar topics. Entries can be print, audio, film, or online. There are 12 categories, including Environmental Reporting, Refugee Reporting, the Press Freedom Award, the Student Award, and the Women’s Solutions Reporting Award. The submission window closes on February 9, 2026.
On a rolling basis, the Pulitzer Center encourages journalists or newsrooms seeking funds for projects covering conflict, or to meet the increased costs of reporting safely from conflict zones, to submit a proposal for the Center’s conflict reporting grant. Proposals should include a 250-word summary of the project, a preliminary budget estimate, a distribution plan, and a letter from the editor of the proposed outlet that states the publication takes full responsibility for your safety — particularly important for freelancers. For more information, applicants can review the grant application guidelines or contact reacheditorial@pulitzercenter.org.
Source: Nepal Investigative Multimedia Journalism Network
At the 14th Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC25) in Kuala Lumpur, five media organizations from the South Asia region — home to 2 billion people — announced they were uniting to counter rising threats to investigative journalism. The South Asia Journalism Collective (SAJC) aims to foster collaboration among journalists and newsrooms in South Asia and support cross-border reporting. The founding members are: Center for Investigative Reporting (Sri Lanka), Digitally Right (Bangladesh), Media Unlimited (Pakistan), Nepal Investigative Multimedia Journalism Network (NIMJN) (Nepal), and The Reporters' Collective (India).
Reporters interested in spending a year away from the newsroom mulling over the challenges and opportunities of journalism in the future are invited to apply for the John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford. The fellowships are designed as an opportunity to step back from demands of daily work to reimagine "the future of journalism." Selected journalists work on leadership in a rapidly changing field, and use their time to "explore ideas, experiment with new approaches, and develop practices that strengthen journalism's essential role in building informed, democratic communities." Applicants need at least five years of professional work experience. Deadline: December 3
One of India’s most renowned investigative reporters, Sarin has reported and edited stories digging into security, corruption, and money laundering.
The award-winning reporter and deputy CEO of Taiwan’s The Reporter says public support is the “vital force” that ensures investigative journalism continues to exist.
Kunda Dixit speaks to GIJN about the challenges he has faced in a storied career in investigative reporting, from going into exile to reporting in the face of legal attacks.
The investigative journalist — who has covered topics from ISIS to troll armies — talks to GIJN about his novel reporting methods and keeping investigative journalism alive in Turkey.
The Sigma Awards celebrate the best data journalism from around the world. Submissions are now open for data projects published in 2025.
Understanding, organizing, and validating data directly affects the accuracy of stories. New tools make cleaning accessible to journalists without coding.
With basic web knowledge, guidance, and examples, even non-coding journalists can build a scraper with large language models.
The global nonprofit WITNESS seeks to address one of the biggest data gaps in the digital verification landscape: the dependence on tools-based methods that lack local knowledge.
Since 2020, the exiled outlet’s investigations have led to approximately 90 sanction actions, proving how journalism can make a real impact on authoritarian regimes.
This small yet notorious investigative outlet was formed almost by accident — but has gone on to investigate electoral issues, conflict, and the death of an Indian journalist.
Being a journalist in Haiti means not only witnessing daily violence but also being a potential target, one news outlet remains a home for those who refuse to stop reporting.
GIJN sat down with newsroom leaders from the Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI) to discuss the group’s history, its current business model, and where it plans to go next.
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.
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.
Satellite imagery has become a game-changer for investigative journalism, offering powerful tools to uncover hidden stories.
The 2024 elections marked a seismic year for democracies worldwide, presenting investigative journalists with unique challenges and opportunities.
In Africa, more than in most other parts of the world, the hurdles that journalists have to overcome to report beyond their own countries or continent are numerous.
