Investigative Journalism

News

How BBC Eye built a multi-agent AI system to sift through ten thousand Russian social media posts

The system allowed a team of OSINT specialists, reporters and computational journalists to accelerate their investigative work

How National Geographic supports global storytellers in a shrinking news industry

The Society’s chief storytelling officer, Kaitlin Yarnall, on how the organisation funds freelance work.

How Mongabay built a global model for environmental accountability journalism

"You’ll have people who say it feels like advocacy and others who say it doesn’t go far enough. But the basis is factual information," says founder Rhett Butler.

The journalist pioneering a new approach to journalism training in Ghana

Emmanuel K. Dogbevi shares how his free, informal sessions are helping colleagues: "The beauty of this model is that dwindling donor funding won’t affect it."

What we learnt at our annual conference on AI and the future of news: lessons on chatbots, fact-checking and investigative journalism

The second instalment of our annual conference looked at how GenAI is reshaping the news ecosystem. Here’s a summary of the panels.

La 2026 Reuters Memorial Lecture de Carlos Dada: El periodismo como resistencia

El 9 de marzo Carlos Dada dictó la Reuters Memorial Lecture de 2026. Esta es la transcripción de su conferencia

Research

Informar sobre el equilibrio de la justicia en México: lecciones de los defensores ambientales

Frente al retroceso de las protecciones legales, este proyecto revela que la organización, el conocimiento jurídico y la memoria colectiva se han convertido en formas de defensa ambiental en México.

How journalists can hold algorithms accountable in India – and beyond

Journalist Karen Rebelo from India unpacks tech accountability in India.

How journalists worldwide deal with coordinated discrediting

Nigerian investigative journalist and editor 'Fisayo Soyombo gathers stories from three continents to illustrate the impact of coordinated discrediting.

Bypassing secrecy: New tools to facilitate more cross-border investigations with RTI

Journalist Fellow Tarjei Leer-Salvesen creates an interactive map detailing RTI in 136 countries to encourage more cross-border collaboration.

Unlocking the investigative potential of FOI

Brazilian journalist Luiz Fernando Toledo spent six months investigating the strategies that make Freedom of Information requests part of a successful news cycle.

Periodismo, medios y tecnología: tendencias y predicciones para 2021

Este informe anual analiza retos y oportunidades para el periodismo en 2021.

Events

Who will rule? The significance of South Africa’s upcoming election

Fear is just a word: journalistic challenges in Latin America

Six years of #MeToo reporting: what we've learnt

Networking Africa's investigative journalists

Unpacking Canada’s cruel history: lessons from a Pulitzer-winning podcast

Lessons from the Amazon: novel ways to report on the climate