GIJC 2025

The Global Investigative Journalism Conference is the world’s largest international gathering of investigative journalists. The conferences are held every two years. The conference features training on the latest tools and techniques, cutting-edge workshops, and extensive networking and brainstorming sessions. In 2025, the conference will be held for the first time in Asia — in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 20-24 November 2025.

This is the 14th global conference and over 1,500 journalists from over 100 countries and territories are expected. The conference will host over 150 state-of-the-art sessions, with expert panels, cutting-edge workshops, and the best networking in the business.

We’ll cover online search techniques, best practices for cross-border collaboration, and exiled media tips and tools. We’ll be hosting top journalists who have developed innovative uses of technology to hold powers to account, and others who have worked in environments with press freedom limitations and developed techniques to continue investigating while maintaining high standards and reducing risks. There will be experts on satellites, artificial intelligence, and other investigative journalism techniques.

You’ll find special tracks on climate change, the threat to democracy, crime and corruption, human rights, teaching and training, and sustainability strategies — plus the latest on security, media law, and dealing with stress and burnout. We will also include sessions with experts who have worked on engaging ways of presenting journalistic investigations in various formats.

As always, we’ll feature the world’s best data journalists and researchers, offering hands-on workshops, and advice. The data track will range from basic spreadsheets to sophisticated coding, visualization, and analysis. The GIJC has trained three generations of data journalists, and the best is yet to come.

And then there’s the networking. Ask a journalist who’s been to a GIJC about their favorite part, and they’re likely to say it’s the people — those chance encounters in the hallways, at the elevators, in the bars. Imagine what it’s like to have more than 1,500 journalists from 100 countries and territories brainstorming about how to get data, documents, and the truth. That’s the GIJC. We are planning networking sessions — by language, region and topic — to collaborate and brainstorm in a relaxed setting.

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.

Program

The program will be published here: https://gijc2025.org/