Dalit representation in Indian media organisations is very low. Some journalists from the lowest Hindu caste are finding innovative ways to start up their own news platforms

Data is only one part of the investigative story. In Part 5 of our series on investigative journalism, we look at different methods of gathering evidence

How should journalists set about covering the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria without adding to the trauma of victims? 

Covert operations for a journalistic investigation should be undertaken as a last resort only. In Part 4 of our series on investigative journalism, we explore the best ways to go undercover

Twenty-two years after the bombing of a newspaper printing plant in January 2001, the perpetrators are still at large - and a state-sanctioned assault on a free press continues

Your sources are the backbone of any investigation. In Part 3 of our series on investigative journalism, we look at how to find, foster and manage them

Journalists are being targeted and killed in greater numbers than ever before. What will it take to get our leaders to act?

Social media and complex AI newsroom tools have produced a toxic environment in which dangerous misinformation is flourishing

What is a hypothesis-based investigation, how do you come up with one and how do you investigate and prove it? Part 2 of our series on investigative journalism

The evidence that mass violence and vigilante killings have been sparked by the media in South Africa is undeniable

In the first of our series on investigative journalism, we look at how journalists decide what to investigate

A record number of journalists are languishing in prisons around the world, yet Assange is constantly held up as a poster boy for this type of injustice. There are far more deserving candidates

International media is blacked out in China - and very few are willing to try to bypass the country’s Firewall  

Indian journalists say the platform is a more democratic and uncensored place to work, but is the growing trend of YouTubers calling themselves journalists a cause for concern?

THE LONG READ: Hungary was one of the first Soviet-controlled countries to welcome refugees in the late 1980s. These days its government is one of the most opposed to migration in Europe. We examine how the media paved the way for this turnaround

A large part of the work associated with foreign correspondents is actually carried out by local journalists who are rarely credited - they work in the shadows

Scenes of players frolicking on the pitch with their mothers were more than enough for me

The common perception of sports journalists as mere entertainment reporters is far from the full story

Well over half of women journalists in Africa have been subjected to sexual harassment, abuse or victimisation in news rooms. It’s time to crack down

What is the future for journalism in the ‘third drone age’? Full of manipulated news, most likely

THE LONG READ: As political and commercial elites continue their stranglehold on mainstream media in Colombia, some independent minnows are starting to emerge