Partners

The Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) serves as the international hub for the world’s investigative reporters, with 250 member organizations in 91 countries. Its staff works in a dozen languages daily, giving watchdog reporters the tools, technology, and training to go after abuses of power and lack of accountability.

Malaysiakini is a GIJN member, and an independent online news outlet created in 1999. The Malaysian-based media has been recognized both locally and internationally for its contributions to the media landscape, commitment to press freedom, and in-depth reporting. Its editorial policies and decisions remain in the full control of its editors and journalists who are committed to holding those in power to account and to deliver the news and views that matter.

Past Editions

The Global Investigative Journalism Conference is held every two years. Since the first gathering in Copenhagen in 2001, the GIJC has brought together thousands of journalists from 140 countries and territories. Later conferences were held in Copenhagen (2003), Amsterdam (2005), Toronto (2007), Lillehammer (2008), Geneva (2010), Kyiv (2011), and Rio de Janeiro (2013). Rio was the 8th GIJC, and the first in the southern hemisphere, and was followed by a return to Lillehammer (2015) and then our first GIJC in Africa, Johannesburg (2017), followed by Hamburg (2019). The GIJC was held online in 2021 and resumed in-person two years later in Gothenburg (2023), with a record number of more than 2,100 attendees.

The conferences are widely credited with playing a key role in the rapid global expansion of investigative reporting over the past decade. By focusing on skills and training, they have helped spread state-of-the-art investigative reporting, data journalism, and cross-border collaboration around the world. Attendees have returned home to run groundbreaking projects that dig into corruption and abuse of power, launch investigative teams and nonprofit centers, and spread investigative reporting to where it is needed most.

Each GIJC is co-hosted by a member organization of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, which oversees and co-sponsors the conference. GIJN also co-hosts an Asian regional conference, Uncovering Asia, which was held in Manila, Philippines (2014), Kathmandu, Nepal (2016) and Seoul, South Korea (2018).

GIJN is particularly pleased to bring GIJC25 to Malaysia as an earlier planned Asian conference in Kuala Lumpur in 2020 had to be canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.