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How do you take a complex, months-long investigation and make it work in a format built for fast-scrolling readers? And how do you do that without losing what makes the reporting credible?

More newsrooms are now treating this as an editorial question, not just a distribution task. Read how newsrooms in 2025 and 2026 are turning their investigations into formats their readers actually want ⬇️

https://t.co/rRA8NFecsn

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🌊⛏️ Pulitzer Center grantee Elizabeth Claire Alberts along with CNN senior reporter Kara Fox, followed the development of the nascent deep-sea mining industry and how it’s become intertwined with defense priorities in the US and China.

Pulitzer Center Editorial Intern Ella Beiser spoke with Alberts about challenges of reporting about the sea floor, accountability, and the future of the deep-sea mining industry.

Read full interview here ⬇️

https://t.co/xqBJzvGz0S

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🕵️ GIJN is hosting a webinar on 18 June 2026 in which leading experts in investigative journalism will share hands-on strategies for securely managing leaks. They will walk through the full life cycle of an investigation built on large data, from initial assessment and secure data management to corroboration, collaboration, and what to do with the data after publication.

Sign up for webinar here ⬇️

https://t.co/BP8PbDeUL1

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In this masterclass video of #GIJNAcademy, @thinink, lead reporter at @LHreports, shares four key lessons for investigating hunger and the global food system. She explains how to define food insecurity beyond availability, including access, use, and stability, and how to find and verify reliable data through sources like FAOSTAT and the World Resources Institute.

Watch the full video here ⬇️

https://t.co/H4wnUIfBkH

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The Black Sea (Turkey) is an independent, nonprofit platform specializing in in-depth, narrative-driven journalism and investigations in Turkey, southeast Europe, and beyond. It was among the winners of a recent 2026 Sigma Award for its work on Green to Grey, a collaborative data investigation that revealed Europe is losing natural and fertile land to construction at a rate equivalent to 600 football fields every day; a loss that is one-and-a-half times more than previously estimated.
11/11

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💫 We are proud to welcome 10 new members in our membership family. These members come from a diverse group of nonprofit newsrooms and investigative journalism support organizations from 9 countries that are doing independent work in furthering the cause of accountability. Notably, three of the new members are based in Africa, including our first member from the Democratic Republic of Congo. GIJN now has 266 members across more than 90 countries.

Read about our new members here ⬇️

https://t.co/V9kkQTlYTy

1/11

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Ortak (Turkey) is an independent investigative journalism newsroom based in Istanbul, and founded to address accountability gaps in areas such as organized crime, conflict, environmental degradation, and corruption. This newsroom prioritizes stories that require sustained effort and multidisciplinary collaboration as well as investigations that individual journalists or newsrooms often lack the resources or time to pursue alone.
10/11

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🌍 Our free climate journalism course kicks off Monday, June 1!

Led by @arguedasortiz, a climate journalist and media trainer, and @tobyjmcintosh, senior advisor at the GIJN Resource Center, this course will help you identify key sources and data, and hold powerful actors accountable for their role in the climate crisis.

Register now ⬇️

https://t.co/J2ewdnwUv8

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Patrick Radden Keefe does not let go of a story until there is no one left to talk to. Here are four lessons from his latest book, London Falling, on investigating a mysterious death, managing sources, and knowing when a story becomes a book.

https://t.co/fgGTkU5Yjb

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💫 #GIJNAcademy is organizing a free webinar that will bring together four leading experts in investigative journalism to share hands-on strategies for securely managing leaks and navigating this rapidly evolving landscape.

They will walk through the full life cycle of an investigation built on large data, from initial assessment and secure data management to corroboration, collaboration, and what to do with the data after publication.

Register for the free webinar here ⬇️

https://t.co/Gh32sSmf1a

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🇯🇵 Japan has some of the world's most widely circulated newspapers. Yet there is only one GIJN-affiliated investigative newsroom in the country, the nonprofit @tansa_english. Despite the odds, Tansa has, over a decade, worked on several longform investigations on issues ranging from gender, health, politics, and the environment.

Read more about Tansa and its investigations here ⬇️

https://t.co/t4WhwYgkBs

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💡 What do you do when the event you are planning to cover gets canceled or altered? Report on the change. RightsCon 2026 was canceled at the last hour, when participants had already left their home countries for Lusaka. Drawing on that, here are some tips to find the story when the story is canceled.

Read the full article here ⬇️

https://t.co/GQDLFKctgR