FREE Webinar Series: Investigating the Climate Crisis with Results
#CIJCardiff 2026
Friday 13th November 2026. The CIJ are coming back to Cardiff. Once again in partnership with Cardiff University's School of Journalism, the CIJ is returning to Wales. Join us on Friday 13th November for a day of free workshops where journalists will give practical guidance on the tools they used for their most recent investigations.
Training
Investigating the AI Industry – Online (PM)
The rise of a global AI industry has accelerated rapidly over the past decade. Research into AI systems is dominated by some of the largest and most powerful corporations on the planet and governments and companies alike are committing billions of pounds of investment towards creating the infrastructure for AI products.
Investigating Data with R
Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)
Events
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 Wall Street Journal 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 defamation lawsuit from President Trump.
Spies Like Us: The Rise of London’s Private Intelligence Industry
#CIJCardiff 2026
Friday 13th November 2026. The CIJ are coming back to Cardiff. Once again in partnership with Cardiff University's School of Journalism, the CIJ is returning to Wales. Join us on Friday 13th November for a day of free workshops where journalists will give practical guidance on the tools they used for their most recent investigations.
FREE Webinar Series: Investigating the Climate Crisis with Results
Initiatives
Source Protection Programme
The Source Protection Programme (SPP) is a unique operational and information security training course, delivered online through hands-on practical training sessions and interactive resources. The programme is developed and delivered by the Centre for Investigative Journalism and the Freedom of The Press Foundation with generous support from The Reva & David Logan Foundation.
Open Climate Reporting Initiative
Climate change is a multi-faceted problem in which the issues at play are interlinked and complex, running across many different fields; scientific, financial and political. Finding solutions requires an understanding of these issues that can be facilitated through access to high-quality, trusted information and the ability to construct compelling narratives.
The Investigative Journalist’s Guide to Company Accounts
by Raj Bairoliya
An introduction from the author, Raj Bairoliya A little history is in order. A dozen or so years ago, I was complaining to my friend Michael Gillard about the standard of financial investigative journalism in the UK – it was a matter of serious concern to me as I make my living from investigating wrongdoing.
The Hidden Scenario
by Luuk Sengers and Mark Lee Hunter
The Hidden Scenario focuses on how making a scenario can help you investigate. Part One details the basic principles of constructing a chronology. In Part Two, we move on to the construction of powerful scenes.
The Story Tells the Facts
by Luuk Sengers and Mark Lee Hunter
This book will help you to make your investigative writing better by focusing on writing skills, because they transpose very well into other media. To order, please complete the order form. If you can tell a story in words and capture information in a narrative, the odds of telling a good story in film or radio go up, too.