Coverage of AI ethics, newsroom tooling, and investigative data practices.
It was March 2016 and Paul Farrell, then a reporter at Guardian Australia , had agreed to meet an anonymous source. He had been reporting on immigration for several years but still, when he was …
In cities across Australia in 2020, as Black Lives Matter protests erupted around the world, the number 432 was everywhere – displayed on banners at rallies and at marches. “That number didn’t exist …
News Corp Australia is producing 3,000 articles a week using generative artificial intelligence, executive chair Michael Miller has revealed. Miller told the World News Media Congress in Taipei that a …
A German court this week sentenced a former political aide featured in ICIJ’s China Targets investigation to more than four years in prison after finding that he spied for China for nearly two …
From Mexico to Puerto Rico, Brazil to Miami, the winners of the 2025 Maria Moors Cabot Prize share one thing in common: a track record of working with ICIJ. The four prize winners — all women for the …
Five Peruvian investigative media outlets are seeking to block a law they say threatens their ability to operate independently by expanding state oversight of nongovernmental organizations that …
Welcome to The Crunch! I’m Nick Evershed, Guardian Australia’s data editor, and today we are launching a new video series and newsletter , and bringing together our data, interactive and visual …
Hello and welcome to another edition of The Crunch. In this week’s newsletter we are going hard on maps. We have a map based on a Billy Joel song, a Lego US election map and much more. For the non-map …
Russia is using sensitive high-tech equipment it secretly acquired from European, U.S. and Asian companies to protect its nuclear submarine fleet in the Arctic, according to Russian Secrets, a new …
More than 1,100 people have been charged in connection to the summer 2024 riots. A small number of them were charged for offences related to their online activity. Their jail sentences – which ranged …
A few months ago, I wrote in SOURCE about learning to work with development teams and software vendors as a new news product manager. My next step at the time: taking an introduction to web …
Editor’s note: This article is published in collaboration with MuckRock . You may also be interested in their 2023 review of OCR tools ! Extracting tabular data from documents presents a persistent …
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has recorded a steep 75% drop in full-year profit but sees opportunities ahead as it expands the use of cost-saving AI-produced content. The US-listed media …
The targeted repression of human rights activists across borders is becoming more frequent and sophisticated, according to the latest annual U.N. report detailing acts of intimidation and reprisals …
I don’t think I truly understood which features and voices made Twitter so special for journalism until we suddenly lost them. Since Elon Musk took over, Twitter has cut the trust and safety team, …
Data on LGBTQ people can be scarce, inconsistent, or less methodologically rigorous than what data journalists are used to relying on. At the end of the day, though, doing good LGBTQ data journalism …
The statistic seemed to crop up everywhere. Versions were cited at UN negotiations, on protest banners, in 186 peer-reviewed scientific papers – even by the film-maker James Cameron , while promoting …
In the heat of the 2024 election cycle, opportunities for political fact-checking are everywhere — in candidate debates, campaign ads, mailers sent to prospective voters and more. At the Reporters’ …
A recent study based on data from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ Offshore Leaks Database found that elites around the world rely on specific secrecy tactics to obscure and …
“Where did you learn to teach?” This is the question that the authors of this post–all recently appointed professors of data journalism–found themselves confronted with after their first semester of …
Even as key Arab states condemned the war in the Gaza Strip, they quietly expanded security cooperation with the Israeli military, leaked U.S. documents reveal. Those military ties were thrown into …
I n the weeks before a gunman wielding an AR-15 style rifle killed 21 people at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, in 2022, he purchased 2,115 rounds of ammunition. Every one of them was made at a …
Data about LGBTQ people has gotten more plentiful as census collections in the U.S. and internationally have added surveys and questions seeking to understand those communities. But between spotty …
