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AIJC 2025 Fellowship Applications Open

AIJC 2025 Fellowship Applications Open

The African Investigative Journalism Conference is running two Fellowship tracks in 2025 — one for practicing early-career journalists under the age of 30 with five or less years’ experience, and one for mid-career journalists with five or more years’...

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From 2024:

Following the money when nobody wants you to

Following the money when nobody wants you to

Facing a lack of resources and media silencing, exposing corruption and money laundering is no easy task across Africa. For amaBhungane journalists, the key to accessing information and telling the truth is to get creative, both in court and with their words. By Ruby...

AIJC 2024 – Statement on Safety of Journalists in Africa

AIJC 2024 – Statement on Safety of Journalists in Africa

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE This week marks the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, a day where UNESCO as the leading agency to protect and promote freedom of expression aims to remind us all that journalism is in danger and impunity remains in...

Ugandan journalist Blanshe Musinguzi is named Africa’s best in 2024

Ugandan journalist Blanshe Musinguzi is named Africa’s best in 2024

By Stuart Dickinson Blanshe Musinguzi, writing for Africa Report, took top honours at the second annual African Investigative Journalist of the Year Award for his far-reaching and impactful investigation into the smuggling of precious Congolese hardwoods through East...

Bellingcat: using technology to investigate war crimes

Bellingcat: using technology to investigate war crimes

The importance of technology in investigative journalism came to the fore in a panel hosted at the African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC). By Kabir Jugram (Wits Centre for Journalism 2024 honours student) Bellingcat hosted a panel discussion on October 30,...

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