The NEXT-IJ Project to Empower Investigative Journalism
As corruption, organised crime, and financial misconduct grow more sophisticated, investigative journalism needs cutting-edge resources to expose wrongdoing. The Next-Level Data and Tools for Investigative Journalism (Next-IJ) initiative, funded by the EU, aims at providing journalists, newsrooms and media outlets with AI-powered tools, advanced data analysis capabilities, and enhanced cross-border collaboration networks needed to investigate in today’s interconnected digital landscape.
Transcrime and the School of Journalism of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, will partner with the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and the Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) to achieve this goal. As leaders of Work Package 3 (WP3), we will develop and integrate data sources, tools and a risk-based approach, applying proprietary risk indicators and intelligence analysis. We will also carry out an analysis of potential legal and ethical issues to ensure that activities, tools and datasets comply with both applicable laws and regulations, and ethical considerations, to also develop guidelines for journalists (WP4).
As part of this initiative, Next-IJ is organising three online investigative journalism workshops on the following days:
- Thursday, 26 June 2025
- Friday, 18 July 2025
- Saturday, 20 September 2025
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