The Centre for Investigative Journalism

Upgrade your investigative skills with our upcoming online courses. 🌏 Data-Driven Climate Investigations with Jonathan Stoneman and Leila Haddou. "It was challenging, & interactive. the trainers were great: [they] really pushed us as a group to try new things out in the session." - Feedback 2026.

🤖 Investigating the AI Industry with Anne Alexander. "The course addresses a vital and widely misunderstood issue of our time." - Feedback 2026. 💻 Investigating Data with R with Jonathan Stoneman "I really enjoyed this course and found I learned a lot." - Feedback 2025

Overreach - CIJ Logan Symposium Updates: Talk highlights 📆 30 October 2026 📍 The Barbican 🔦 Talks highlight: The Epstein Files We don’t know the full extent of the Jeffrey Epstein story because of U.S. government transparency: it was forced out, page by page, by investigative reporters.

...to manage all the information and make connections between it, weaponising public records law, and then publishing under legal threat. They also ruminate on what the Epstein files and files like them reveal about official secrecy - and how to beat it.

Overreach - CIJ Logan Symposium Updates: Talk highlights 📆 30 October 2026 📍 The Barbican 🔦 Talks highlight: The Epstein Files We don’t know the full extent of the Jeffrey Epstein story because of U.S. government transparency: it was forced out, page by page, by investigative reporters.

Khadeeja Safdar's @wsj.com investigation (with Joe Palazzolo) uncovered the 2003 "birthday book" and exposed the government's handling of the Epstein files — Pulitzer-finalist work that helped trigger the release of more than three million Justice Department documents and drew a $10 billion...

Impact is a buzzword in journalism these days. It is no longer enough to produce well-researched, well written investigations, the audience wants to know,but did it make any difference? Since we started our Open Climate Reporting Initiative #OCRI nearly 5 years ago, we set ourselves a tough... /1

...award nominations forcing governments to act, changing laws and improving natural disaster mitigation. We feature impactful individual and collaborative stories from Emilio Godoy @periodistagodoy.bsky.social (Mexico) Jonathan Palma, Jorge Rodríguez (Guatemala), Breidy Hernández (Honduras),... /3

Impact is a buzzword in journalism these days. It is no longer enough to produce well-researched, well written investigations, the audience wants to know,but did it make any difference? Since we started our Open Climate Reporting Initiative #OCRI nearly 5 years ago, we set ourselves a tough... /1

Have you heard about Overreach - CIJ Logan Symposium 2026 on 30 October? Our director James Harkin talks to The Reva & David Logan Foundation on what to expect, how it is different from other journalism events and why spending a day with us at the Beautiful Barbican Conservatory is worth it. /1

"I honestly believe that this year’s symposium will be the best I’ve ever seen and you will find it nowhere else in the world. Because we stay close to our original mission to speak beyond the echo chamber, we’re capable of getting the best journalists on earth as well as people you’ve never... /2

What exactly do we teach at our courses and conferences? And how do journalists use these skills? Hear from Elizabeth Salazar, who was one of the inaugural recipients of our Climate Investigations Training Scholarship and attended the 2025 #CIJSummer Conference in London. /1

The programme of CIJ Logan Symposium 2026 is now online! You don't want to miss this! Book your tickets here: tcij.org/logan-sympos... Featuring: 1) Khadeeja Safdar from the Wall Street Journal @wsj.com, who found the Trump birthday note, on investigating the Epstein Files.

4) Katrina Manson @katrinamanson.bsky.social, on AI and the future of war. 5) Andras Petho from Direkt36 @direkt36.bsky.social and author Thomas Fazi on what’s happening to journalism in Hungary. 6) Gavin Millar KC on the legal assault on investigative journalism.

The programme of CIJ Logan Symposium 2026 is now online! You don't want to miss this! Book your tickets here: tcij.org/logan-sympos... Featuring: 1) Khadeeja Safdar from the Wall Street Journal @wsj.com, who found the Trump birthday note, on investigating the Epstein Files.

We had a great time last week hosting first of our Investigating the Climate Crisis with Results Webinar Series! Jessica Aldred from the @pulitzercenter.org did a deep dive into ocean and biodiversity reporting and governance, as well as how and why to increase the visibility of these topics.

We then had Regina Lam from @dialogueearth.bsky.social and Jennifer Verma @jennthornhillverma.bsky.social , an Ocean Reporting Fellow, giving tips and showing what biodiversity reporting in practice looks like, from the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework...

⚙️ All geared up as we host the first of our Investigating the Climate Crisis with Results webinar series tomorrow, 10 September 2026! Speaker? ✔️ Jessica Aldred Host? ✔️ Adeolu Adekola But here is the plot twist 👇 Introducing Regina Lam and Jennifer Verma @jennthornhillverma.bsky.social ! /1

We are counting down to the first in our Investigating the Climate Crisis with Results webinar series with Jessica Aldred from @pulitzercenter.org focusing on biodiversity and ocean reporting! 🗓️ Thursday, September 10 ⏲️ 3 pm - 4:30 pm (UK Time) One Register here: bit.ly/ClimateInves... /1

The session will: - provide an overview and background of the international governance framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), - highlight the importance of biodiversity and ocean reporting in the global climate change discourse, and /2

Don't know about you, but we are very much in the back-to-school mood here, at the CIJ HQ. Feeling the same? Book your place at our autumn online courses. Here are some highlights: 🔦 🎙️ Audio Skills Bootcamp with Sally Herships: 8-10, 14, 18 Sept. Details: tcij.org/scheduled-tr... /1

🚢 Investigating Trade Data with Edoardo Anziano: 9 September. Find out more here: tcij.org/scheduled-tr... 🌍 Climate Investigations Fundamentals with Lina Yassin and Akintunde Babatunde. 16-18 Sept. Book here: tcij.org/scheduled-tr... /2

Yet to register for our upcoming Investigating the Climate Crisis with Results webinar series between September and November? Well, seats are filling out fast, and we are happy to introduce our speakers! One registration here tcij.org/initiative-e... signs you up for all three webinars. /1

🗓️ Thursday, September 10, is with Jessica Aldred, from @pulitzercenter.org focusing on biodiversity and ocean reporting 🗓️Thursday, October 1, is with Lina Yassin, from @iied.bsky.social, preparing participants for #COP31 and Tom Sanderson, our Deputy Director /2

Want to learn how to produce a podcast or radio story from start to finish? Our Audio Skills Bootcamp will introduce you to the basic principles and craft of reporting for the ear. /1

Through this five-module online course, you’ll be introduced to writing with and for tape, audio interviewing essentials, and key skills for editing audio tape. Sign up here: tcij.org/scheduled-tr... /2

With just one registration, you get access to three FREE webinar sessions! We have opened registration for our 'Investigating the Climate Crisis with Results' webinar series, which we will be hosting with expert speakers drawn from across the world.

Overreach. Privacy, power and investigative journalism in the age of surveillance. A short film by the incredibly talented @benclarkson.bsky.social to launch our new Logan Symposium.

▶ Watch the full film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Chl...