Investigative reporters are constantly finding creative ways to find data, including adapting sensor technology to collect real-time information on air pollution. Continue Reading →
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China: Investigative Journalism Struggles but Survives
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Investigative journalism in China, which enjoyed a period of vitality from the mid-1990s to around 2013, is struggling to survive today as the government steps up its control of traditional and digital media. In recent years, a government crackdown has driven an exodus of veteran investigative journalists from the news media. Some have landed at cash-rich Internet companies, others at startups and philanthropic ventures. Still others have abandoned the media industry all together. Meanwhile, globalization, technological changes, and market pressures have shifted the paradigm for in-depth and enterprising reporting on China. Continue Reading →
Filed under: News, Asia investigative reporting, China, data journalism, investigative reporting, Press Freedom
“Uncovering Asia” Kicks Off in Nepal
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Corrupt authorities, be very afraid. The Uncovering Asia 2016 conference has assembled some 350 top reporters, data journalists, and media law and security experts from 45 countries to tool up, network and collaborate on cross-border investigative projects. Continue Reading →
Filed under: News, Asia Investigative Journalism Conference, crowdfunding, financing investigations, GIJN, harrassment of journalists, investigative journalism, KAS
GIJN Help Desk Launched
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GIJN has created a formal Help Desk to better marshal its resources and tap the expertise of its global network. Hundreds of tip sheets, how-to stories, and conference videos have been loaded into the GIJN Resource Center, which is integrated with the Help Desk. Continue Reading →
Filed under: News, Asian Investigative Journalism Conference, GIJN, Help Desk, investigative reporting, resources, tips and tools
Global Conference, Global Network
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A simple idea at the end of the 20th century – to gather the world’s investigative journalists to share their knowledge with each other – gave birth to the Global Investigative Journalism Network, which has now grown to more than 138 member organizations in 62 countries. Continue Reading →
Filed under: News, Asian Investigative Journalism Conference, GIJC, GIJN, Global Investigative Journalism Conference, Global Investigative Journalism Network, IJAsia, investigative reporting
Survey Highlights Need for Use of RTI Laws By Pakistan Journalists
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Journalists surveyed in Pakistan are lacking in harnessing the potential of data journalism: as a survey found that majority of the respondents did not utilize Right to Information laws to obtain official data and only a handful of journalists knew how to scrape data from the web. Continue Reading →
Filed under: News, data analysis, data journalism, Excel, FOIA, freedom of information, Pakistan, right to information laws
Independent Media in Asian Democracies Battle Internet Rules
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Governments are “playing catch-up” after recognizing that the Internet can be an effective tool for voices to be heard. Continue Reading →
Filed under: News, asian investigative journalism, Censorship, free speech, independent media, Internet freedom, journalistic standards, media laws
CPJ: Impunity, Lack of Solidarity Expose Indian Journalists to Attack
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For eight years India has been a fixture on the Committee to Protect Journalists’ annual Impunity Index, which spotlights countries where journalists are slain and their killers go free. Perpetrators are seldom arrested and CPJ has not recorded a single conviction upheld in any of the cases of journalists murdered in India in direct relation to their work. Continue Reading →
Filed under: News, corruption, CPJ, democracy, India, protection of journalists, safety
Freedom of Expression: An Asia-Pacific Round-Up by IFEX
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Threats to the media, NGOs, and civil society actors have escalated in countries across Asia and the Pacific. Among the more worrisome developments are anti-press freedom moves in India, Pakistan, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. Here’s a round-up from IFEX, the global freedom-of-expression network. Continue Reading →
Filed under: News, Asia and Pacific, attacks on journalists, Cambodia, digital rights, freedom of expression, Hong Kong, IFEX
Spotlight’s Robinson to Keynote Asia Investigative Conference
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The keynote speaker for Uncovering Asia — the Asian Investigative Journalism Conference — will be journalist Walter “Robby” Robinson, who led the Boston Globe Spotlight team’s Pulitzer Prize winning investigation into the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal. In the Academy Award-winning movie “Spotlight,” Robinson’s character was portrayed by actor Michael Keaton. Robinson has worked at the Globe as reporter and editor since 1972. He is currently the paper’s editor at large. “There is nothing in life more fun, more rewarding, than digging for the truth and finding stories that the people in power don’t want us to know,” Robinson recently told journalism students. Continue Reading →