✨ GIJN is excited to announce that the registration page for the 15th Global Investigative Journalism Conference (#GIJC27) is now open and early bird tickets are available through March 15, 2027.

#GIJC27 is brought to you by the Global Investigative Journalism Network, and ir regional partners @journalismfund and Free Press Unlimited.

It will be held from Wednesday, October 20 through Saturday, October 23, 2027 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. A pre-conference day will take place on Tuesday, October 19.

Find out more and get your tickets here ⬇️

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🌍 VVOJ will co-host #GIJC27, GIJN’s biennial Global Investigative Journalism Conference, alongside regional partners Free Press Unlimited and @journalismfund. With just two part-time staff and eight board members, VVOJ has harnessed a relentless focus on the resources watchdog reporters in Western Europe need most, and it has become a regional force for accountability and public transparency since its founding in 2002. It has now grown to a membership of 800 investigative journalists.

Read more about VVOJ here ⬇️

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💰GIJN, in partnership with @ICIJorg, is offering a free training for investigative journalists who want to understand cryptocurrency and follow the money on the blockchain.

What will this training cover?

🪙 The basics of crypto
⛓️ Differences between blockchains and how basic transactions work
🕵️ How to tie crypto wallet addresses to individuals, crime groups, and companies
🔍 How to begin simple tracing with open-source tools
✅ How to use primary source material to fact-check the tracing

Trainer: @spencerwoodman, Reporter at @ICIJorg
📅 Tuesday, November 24, 2026
🕤 9:30 am EST / 3:30 pm CET

Register for this training here ⬇️

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“The best collaborative stories need to be global, but they also need a strong local national angle as well.” — @andraspe, co-founder of @direkt36

📏 Journalists often use standard references to put very large or very small things in perspective. Comparing something unfamiliar with something widely known helps readers understand facts and concepts. This GIJN guide offers references for different types of measurements, plus examples of stories that have used them. It also includes tools, tip sheets, and a bonus quiz!

Read the full guide here ⬇️

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🎉 Welcome to the final day of #IJWeek! We are wrapping up the week with practical workshops, new investigative tools, and chances to connect with fellow journalists.

Are you ready for the day?

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Here is today’s agenda:

🏢 2 exhibitor sessions
🛠️ 6 workshops
🎙️ 3 panels

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We also have:

🤝 1 networking session
📝 The final editor clinic
🌍 A special session on #GIJC27

Which session are you joining?
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🫶 In an exhibitor session at #IJWeek, the panelists said that innovative partnerships can support journalism and help investigative reporting reach wider audiences.

Panelists: @_jonatanro, Senior Program Manager, @pulitzercenter; and Malu Junco, Independent Content Creator

🛠️ A team at @MarshallProj worked with survivors of the US “troubled teen” industry to create a toolkit that helps fellow survivors find their own records and state oversight reports about their often traumatic treatment. That can be challenging, because many residential youth treatment centers are privately run.

Read more about how they did it here ⬇️

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🎉 It is Day 4 of #IJWeek!

Here is today's agenda:

🤝 4 networking events
🎙️ 5 panel discussions
🛠️ 1 workshop
🏢 1 exhibitor session
💬 1 In Conversation session
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Today's #IJWeek sessions are on cross-border investigations, financial crime, corruption, and environmental reporting.
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Which #IJWeek sessions are you heading to? Tell us in the comments! 👇
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✨@gijn offers free trainings, webinars, and resource guides to support investigative journalism and accountability projects worldwide, particularly in the Global South.

These resources have helped journalists in Bangladesh, Zambia, Puerto Rico, Egypt and Russia break important them led the Puerto Rican government to step in and restore a damaged nature reserve.

Read more about the impact of GIJN’s work here 👇

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📢 Welcome to Day 3 of #IJWeek!

Here is today's agenda:

🤝 3 Networking Sessions
🏢 2 Exhibitors
🎙️ 3 Panel Discussions
💬 1 In-Conversation Session

Which one are you joining? Tell us in the comments! 👇
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Join the sessions and networking opportunities at #IJWeek to exchange ideas, learn from fellow journalists, and explore ways to collaborate across borders and beats.

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🤖 On the first day of GIJN’s #IJWeek, panelists at the Tech and Conflict session looked at how the technologies and AI systems increasingly shaping conflict are conceived, financed and coded in conference rooms, data centres and tech offices far from the battlefield.

They said dig into procurement records, trade databases, export licenses, corporate filings, and the digital breadcrumbs left behind by the military-tech ecosystem to understand complicity and responsibility in conflict.

Panelists: @brown_johnbrown, lecturer at @bengurionu; @iainoverton, executive director of @AOAV; @tkbarnes, field reporter at @inkstickmedia
Moderator: @sandrinerigaud, program director at @gijn

🌍 How do @gijn’s Global Conferences shape investigative journalism?

In this series, we share personal stories, one-on-one feedback, and survey responses from attendees of GIJN’s biennial Global Investigative Journalism Conference (#GIJC). Together, they show the wider impact he investigative journalism community and the work its members do.

Here’s what #GIJC25 attendees had to say 👇

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🎉 Day 2 of #IJWeek is here! 🎉

Today we have:

🤝 4 Networking Sessions
🎤 5 Panel Discussions
📰 1 exhibitor
🛠️ 3 Workshops
💬 1 In-Conversation Session

Which one are you most excited about? Tell us in the comments 👇

✨ “Imagine if we could share skills so that there would be at least a group of capable, connected investigative journalists in every country of the world.”

That was the vision of @nmulvad and @branthouston when they launched the first Global Investigative Journalism Conference years later the legacy of that first gathering and the 13 others since is evident in accountability projects, new regional journalism associations, innovative newsroom approaches, and collaborative strategies around the globe.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the first Global Investigative Journalism Conference, we reached out to a range of speakers and attendees to ask their reflections on the historic event, and on how it affected their careers, and their craft.

Read their reflections here ⬇️

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