Some official information can be hard to access through Freedom of Information. If it's in private emails or Whatsapps, it might be overlooked or hard to get...

The latest “wife of” headline — ITV News’s report on the actor Lisa Faulkner revealing that she has undergone surgery after a cancer diagnosis — is an opportunity to get journalis…

Image by Cory Doctorow, from Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs Some essential reading by Agnes Stenbom Swedling explores how news organisations integrate AI into their workflows and the i…

Check out the schedule for Dataharvest 2026 - the European Investigative Journalism Conference

Freedom of Information (FOI) requests are not only one of the best ways to get original and exclusive stories that set your reporting apart — they’re also a good way to develop core journalis…

A pirâmide invertida do jornalismo de dados mapeia o processo de utilização de dados na reportagem, desde a geração de ideias, passando pela limpeza, contextualização e combinação, até à comunicaçã…

Os projetos de jornalismo de dados envolvem várias etapas, cada uma apresentando seus próprios desafios. Para ajudar a compreendê-las, criei o que chamei de ‘Pirâmide Invertida do Jornalismo …

Photo by Markus Winkler Too often discussion around using AI is “either/or” — an assumption that you either use AI for a task, or do it yourself. But there’s another option: do bo…

In September I took part in a panel at the African Journalism Education Network conference. The most interesting moment came when members of the audience were asked if they didn’t use AI — an…

Last month I wrote about destination and journey prompts, and the strategy of designing AI prompts to avoid deskilling. In some situations a third, hybrid approach can also be useful. In this post …

In this extract from a book chapter in the new Routledge Companion to Visual Journalism, I look at how the explosion of data as a source for journalists, and the separation of content from interfac…

People in deprived areas are more likely to have adult gaming centres on their doorstep, data shows.

A second-term boom in crypto and other areas has created billions in new wealth for the first family.

Double counting — counting something more than once in data — can present particular risks for journalists, leading to an incorrect total or proportion. Here’s how to spot it — and what to do about…

BRUSSELS - How and when does a journalist or team of journalists start negotiations with a media company? And how do they not only get their international cross-border investigative journalism publish...

Image by Andy Maguire | CC BY 2.0 If you’ve been working on a story involving data, the temptation can be to throw all the figures you’ve found into the resulting report — but the same …

A refused or unanswered Freedom of Information request can still be a story. (But there's some successes too...

A field rant about shortcuts, ego, and other creative ways to waste everyone’s timeLet’s just say the quiet part out loud: most of what’s sold as “OSINT” online is cosplay. It’s people screenshotting ...

Bellingcat challenged the latest models—Grok, GPT and Gemini—on geolocation tasks, revealing GPT-5 as a clear downgrade.

TLDR; Saying “AI has biases” or “biased training data” is preferable to “AI is biased” because it reduces the risk of anthropomorphism and focuses on potential s…

A new AI function is being added to Google Sheets that could make most other functions redundant. But is it any good? And what can it be used for? Here’s what I’ve learned in the first week… AI has…

Spotlight photo by Paul Green on Unsplash In many countries public data is limited, and access to data is either restricted, or information provided by the authorities is not credible. So how do yo…

When I first dyed my hair, the difference in how I was treated made me assume life got better the more you lightened your look. I have now spent years testing the theory ...

Post published:October 25, 2024 Post category:Freedom of Information Reading time:8 mins read Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 25/10/2024 – #FOIFriday Scottish public bodies have been warned not to take court action they are likely to lose…advice that would probably apply to pu...

Campaigners voice concern as an investigation shows a police unit blocked requests for information.

Pfänder and Altay conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of 67 experimental articles, showing that people discern true from false news with ease. When making mistakes, people err on the side of...

GIJN is proud to announce that it is the new administrator for the annual SIGMA data journalism awards, which are now accepting submissions for the 2025 round.

Tools like ChatGPT might seem to speak your language, but they actually speak a language of probability and educated guesswork. You can make yourself better understood — and get more professional r…

How the Arts and Crafts movement merged industry with artisan

New figures show that if the model’s energy-intensive “chain of thought” reasoning gets added to everything, the promise of efficiency gets murky.

Datadrevet historiefortelling kan deles i syv hovedkategorier ifølge en analyse av 200 artikler. I den første av to poster vil jeg demonstrere de fire mest brukte vinklene i nyhetshistorier, hvorda…

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Undercover recording reveals Melanie Gill berating ‘completely biased’ judges who have bought into ‘radical feminism’

There are three broad paths in ethics. Image by pfly CC BY-SA 2.0 Many people — including me — are quite uncomfortable with generative AI. Most of this discomfort can be traced to the various ethic…

There are three broad paths in ethics. Image by pfly CC BY-SA 2.0 Many people — including me — are quite uncomfortable with generative AI. Most of this discomfort can be traced to the various ethic…

"Some pivots, once deemed infeasible, might be worth a second look using new technology."

A landmark judgment has found that forces across the UK illegally tried to discover journalists’ sources—now we need the full story

The Christmas number ones of recent years are more danceable and energetic than ever, according to Spotify data. Sky News examines every UK Christmas number one to see how the nation's taste in festiv...

Given the 32-year-old’s present form, the case for meeting his contract demands may seem convincing, but the stats show a sharp drop-off once forwards reach the age of 33

Get Involved On this page, you will find three different ways to get involved with the Powerful Perpetrators project: through interviews, by completing an online survey, or providing comments and s…

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s Big Tech Reporter Niamh McIntyre has been working with data for eight years — but it all stemmed from an “arbitrary choice” at university.…