Data Journalism Top 10: China’s Gene Data, Norway’s Terror, India’s Sugar,...
Image: Reuters/Screenshot Ten years ago, a single terrorist’s attacks in Norway claimed the lives of 77 people and seriously injured at least 40. Our NodeXL mapping from July 5 to 11, which tracks the...
View ArticleData Journalism Top 10: Where Raindrops Go, Spiral Chart Debate, Prenatal...
Reuters analyzed threatening messages sent to staff working on the 2020 US election. Image: Screenshot (Reuters Graphics) As we roll into the third calendar year of the pandemic, the debate about how...
View ArticleHow They Did It: Covering One of the World’s Most Dangerous Border Crossings
Heading north through the Darién Gap, a stretch of rainforest spanning the Colombia-Panama border that migrants must cross to reach Central America. Image: Nadja Drost Every year thousands of migrants...
View ArticleTracking Environmental Crimes During the War in Ukraine
Environmental destruction from the war in Ukraine includes polluted waterways, burned forests, and threatened animal species. Image: Shutterstock This story was originally published by Undark, a...
View ArticleMarcela Turati on a Career Spent Investigating Mexico’s Crisis of Missing People
Mexican journalist Marcela Turati. Image: Courtesy of Santi Palacios for 5W “All you talk about is missing people.” It’s the criticism leveled over and over again at Mexican journalist Marcela Turati,...
View ArticleData Journalism Top 10: Native American Remains, Disparities in French...
ProPublica created a database documenting the remains of nearly 100,000 Native Americans in hundreds of US universities and museums that have yet to be repatriated, despite a 30-year-old law mandating...
View ArticleData Journalism Top 10: Global Migration, EU Pesticides, Russian Occupation,...
A global survey by Gallup found that the urge to leave one’s country rose in most of the world between 2011 and 2021. Image: Screenshot, Gallup Recently, Gallup released its first worldwide survey...
View ArticleData Journalism Top 10: Abortion Pill Access, India Surpasses China, Pandemic...
A New York Times report found that, over the span of two weeks in February, one online seller fulfilled more than 300 abortion pill orders, mostly to customers in US states with strict abortion laws....
View ArticleData Journalism Top 10: Bats and the Next Pandemic, China’s Electric Battery...
Reuters’ five-part data investigative series looked into areas where bats and humans increasingly interact — like West Africa — to offer a preview of where the next global pandemic may come from....
View ArticleData Journalism Top 10: Retracing a Migrant Tragedy at Sea, Nepotism in US...
The Washington Post’s visual forensics team used various sources to map the path of the Adriana and the vessels that came across its path before it sank. Image: Screenshot, The Washington Post There...
View ArticleFinding — and Protecting — Sources for Human Trafficking Investigations
There are more than 50 million people trapped in some form of human trafficking and modern-day slavery around the world, according to the International Labor Organization (ILO). Human trafficking and...
View ArticleHow They Did It: Investigating the Pylos Shipwreck
In the early hours of the morning of June 14, 2023, a small fishing trawler carrying hundreds of migrants sank off the coast of Pylos, Greece. Roughly 600 people died in what has become one of the...
View ArticleUpdated Resources on Migration
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View Article‘Smoke and Lies’: How Visual Forensics Disproved Official Accounts of a...
In March 2023, 40 people, locked in a cell in a temporary detention center in Ciudad Juarez, asphyxiated in a fire — one of the deadliest incidents in a government-run migrant detention facility in the...
View ArticleIllegal Fentanyl’s Global Smuggling Pipeline, One Year of Destruction in...
Less than a week before the first anniversary of the conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israeli troops began a new offensive, advancing on land through Lebanese territory. In an...
View ArticleLatin American Journalists Share Best Practices on Migration Reporting
Collaborative journalism, feminist perspectives, diverse newsrooms, and support from local journalists are practices that can lead to better coverage of migration, according to journalists from Latin...
View ArticleInvestigating Yemen’s War, Uncovering Famine in Sudan, and Telling the Story...
It can be extremely challenging and perilous to work in investigative journalism in a region ravaged by war, where unpredictability, widespread destruction, and tragic loss of life are constants. In...
View ArticleTracking the Exploitation of Illegal Gold, Human Trafficking, and Government...
Join me on a tour of the best investigations from across the Spanish-speaking world, where journalists are uncovering the stories that impact their communities, from digging into organized crime to...
View ArticleInvestigating Mining, Tracking Trolling, and Deconstructing a Building...
Investigative journalism in Turkey faces many challenges and obstacles, with legal and economic pressures making it increasingly difficult for reporters working in this field to do their jobs. The...
View ArticleDocumenting the Unidentified Graves of Migrants in Europe’s Borderlands
Multimedia journalist Tina Xu was taken aback the first time she came across an unmarked grave of a migrant in Lesbos — a Greek island and a main arrival point for people crossing the Mediterranean Sea...
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