Resources

  • 10 Steps to Investigative Reporting – Free Download

    It's especially hard for reporters living in emerging democracies and developing countries to do investigative reporting. Unlike countries with a strong foundation of democracies, journalists often times risk everything, including their lives to report on corruption and criminal activity.

  • Journalism Ethics: The Global Debate – Free Download

    All over the world, journalists are facing threats to the professional standards of journalism. This manual encourages journalists and media managers to think about ethics in their profession and develop guidelines to meet their circumstances.

  • Business and Economic Reporting: Covering Companies, Financial Markets and the Broader Economy – Free Download

    Now more than ever, it's important for journalists to know how to report on the broader economy. With the global market in the balance, in order to create a concise, knowledgeable report on the economy worldwide, reporters should be informed on market conditions, financial transactions and the latest economic developments. This manual is designed to teach the basics of business and economic reporting.

  • Citizen Journalism – Free Download

  • Disaster and Crisis Coverage – Free Download

    The Disaster Guide is divided into two sections. Section I provides guidelines for delivering news in a professional manner and maintaining personal safety. Crises often render severe mental and emotional stresses on victims and survivors, the individuals who are often vital sources. Thus, Section II addresses trauma and offers suggestions helping journalists work with grieving victims and survivors in an ethical, sensitive, and effective manner. This section defines traumatic stress and offers tips to media professionals for their own self-care.

  • Ten Practical Tips for Environmental Reporting – Free Download

    Ten Practical Tips for Environmental Reporting is the second in a series of instructional guides on specialized reporting techniques published by ICFJ. The tips are aimed mainly toward reporters. Those new to the environmental beat can use the booklet as a guidebook, while veterans may use it to rethink ways of building sources or following up on daily stories. Editors, the “gatekeepers” for what appears in print and broadcast, also can benefit from the tips by learning how to make environmental news clearer and more germane to the public.

  • Follow the Money: A Guide to Tracking Corruption – Free Download

    Knight Fellow Paul Radu created a new digital handbook designed to help investigative journalists track corruption across borders. The handbook provides an array of new tools for investigative journalists that will help them give the public a better understanding of regional and global criminal networks. The manual includes new techniques in cross-border investigative journalism and lists of Web sites and databases with information about commercial enterprises worldwide.

  • Free and Fair: A Journalist's Guide to Improved Election Reporting in Ghana – Free Download

    Alison Bethel, the Knight International Journalism Fellow in Ghana, has published “Free & Fair: A Journalist’s Guide to Improved Election Reporting in Ghana.” The guide is designed to give journalists in emerging democracies a deeper understanding of media’s role in elections and the need for impartial coverage.

  • Journalism and Trauma – Free Download

    Covering tragedy and human suffering is at the heart of what journalists do. This manual provides a starting point for news organizations seeking to deal more efficiently with journalism and traumatic stress.

  • The Business of News: Know Your Audience Increasing Readership and Advertising Through Research – Free Download

    Newspapers everywhere are facing the increasing, intense competition for readers' attention and advertising business. Newspaper editors and managers must be aware of the needs and desires of both their readers and advertisers in order to grow in the future. And the learning process must be an ongoing process, because those needs and desires change frequently in a rapidly changing world. This manual walks you through the process of conducting useful market research through quantitative and qualitative methods.