Global Investigative Journalism Network

The Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) is "an international association of nonprofit organizations that support, promote and produce investigative journalism." Its membership is open to "nonprofits, NGOs, and educational organizations" that are active in investigative reporting and data journalism. As of January 2016, GIJN had 145 member organizations in 62 countries.

The organisation’s projects include a help desk to provide investigative journalists with advice and assistance, a resource center with tips, tools, and manuals, and large training conferences that have attracted over 5,000 journalists from 100 countries.

GIJN was formed in 2003 as a loose network in support of the biennial Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC), which had been launched two years earlier by veteran journalists Brant Houston and Nils Mulvad. The GIJN secretariat was officially formed after participants of the 7th GIJC in Kiev voted for the formation of a provisional secretariat in 2013. The organization registered as a nonprofit corporation in Maryland, United States of America in 2014 and was approved as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in October 2014.

Member organizations include the Center for Investigative Reporting, Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), International Consortium of Investigative Journalism (ICIJ),Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism, Investigative Journalism Programme at Wits University,Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism and ProPublica.

GIJN co-organizes a biennial Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC), to bring together investigative journalists across the globe to share their knowledge and expertise with each other and to form cross-border networks for collaborative reporting.

The first GIJC was held in Copenhagen in 2001, followed by Copenhagen again in 2003, Amsterdam (2005), Toronto (2007), Lillehammer (2008), Geneva (2010), Kiev (2011), Rio de Janeiro (2013) and Lillehammer (2015). The next conference will be held in Johannesburg in November 2017.

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