Alexa Van Sickle

GIJN speaks to the veteran reporter who covered the Pacific region from the small island nation of Palau for more than 20 years. 

The German Bundestag’s new lobby register is a trove of data for investigative journalists reporting on influence and money in federal politics.

At the 2025 Netzwerk Recherche conference, radio journalists shared how they used data and AI tools to investigate Germany’s cultural sector and the influence of the country's far right.

A panel of experts investigating and documenting crimes committed by the old regime share their experiences of working in the “new Syria.

Climate Change Reporting and Mental Health: Practical Tips for Newsrooms and Journalists

Three investigations into food systems show how investigative journalists can capitalize on the huge interest in food — and food-related content — to make their reporting more impactful.

A cross-border investigation into Russia’s use of drones in Ukraine includes how drones are assembled despite sanctions, and cooperation with Tehran to produce UAVs on Russian soil.

GIJN talked with reporters doing the difficult work of covering the Hamas attack on Israel and its aftermath, to show how preparations for the October 7 assault were sophisticated, coordinated, years in the making — and conducted in plain sight.

Experts discuss their experiences with diversifying revenue along with their successes, failures, and how they have balanced revenue and independence.

Telegram’s rapid growth means reporters and investigators need to become trained in new tools that can be used to search and analyze data from the platform.

Collaborating with Vienna’s Volkstheater, Austrian investigative outlet Dossier is bringing its reporting to the stage.

Featuring stories on extrajudicial killings in Bangladesh, protests about the Israel-Gaza conflict, China’s global maritime footprint, and a memoriam for Philip Meyer, a pioneer of data-driven journalism.

Our roundup features stories about airstrikes in Gaza, Haiti’s gang problem, carbon “bombs,” and blocking ChatGPT crawlers.

Featuring the first-round results of Argentina’s presidential election and a closer read of Australia’s

Renewed attention to the Native American boarding school system — hundreds that sprang up in the 19th century as part of assimilation policies — has yielded new data and archival evidence about the network and the abuse of children, which underpinned a comprehensive article on the issue by The New York Times. This edition of […]

With stories about global water stress, the boom in fentanyl trafficking at the US-Mexico border, the devastating fires in Maui, and strategies for taking penalty kicks.

A panel about the “brave new world” of surveillance at the 2023 IPI World Media Congress in Vienna discusses success stories around the world of journalists and activists pushing back against new and enhanced surveillance methods.

This week, GIJN's Top 10 in Data Journalism examines why the world's tallest mountain has become increasingly deadly for those trying to climb it, pollution in Paris metro stations, US laws expanding gun access one year after the Uvalde mass shooting, and migrant worker struggles in Singapore.

This week GIJN's Top 10 in Data Journalism features the Wall Street Journal’s dive into how COVID-19 changed the daily lives of Americans, the Straits Times on Singapore’s gold medal history at the Southeast Asian Games, and how data journalists visualized the coronation of King Charles III.

To get a better sense of the investigative journalism landscape on Substack, GIJN spoke with watchdog reporters who use the platform to publish original investigations and who are not part of a larger news or media organization.