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FEATURES / DOCUMENTARY
France’s Olympic Gamble
For the latest project of the Global Reporting Program (GRP), students travelled to Paris ahead of the 2024 Summer Games to investigate some of the impacts of hosting the Olympics. The result of that work is a 25-minute documentary for Al Jazeera’s People & Power.
The GRP is a graduate-level course at UBC that brings students together to produce ambitious global reporting projects. Learn more about the GRP.
PARIS, FRANCE The anti-Olympic protest group, “Revers de la Médaille,” have been staging protests at Paris landmarks across the city to voice opposition to the upcoming games. They gathered at Sacré Cœur church in Montmartre, Paris on December 15, 2023. Photo by Bhagyashree Chatterjee.
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Tech / Feature Story
DNA technique
New DNA technique could bring closure for families of missing and murdered Indigenous people
But experts say this risks DNA sovereignty.
By Martha Troian and Hilary Beaumont, published by High Country News. Supported by the GRC and The Citizens through the Tiny Foundation Fellowships for Investigative Journalism.
Photo: Tailyr Irvine / High Country News Tech / Feature story
Foreign loan apps
How digital lenders “monitor, threaten and blackmail debtors” in Nigeria
“Most loan apps operating in Nigeria are below the radar,” says a loan risk analyst.
By Amos Abba and Jennifer Ugwa, published by the Foundation for Investigative Journalism. Supported by the GRC and The Citizens through the Tiny Foundation Fellowships for Investigative Journalism.
Credit: Osita Ogbonna Tech / Feature story
Safety scoring tool
Inside New Mexico’s struggle to protect kids from abuse
A safety scoring tool was supposed to improve child welfare. But former caseworkers say it’s not helping.
By Caitlin Thompson, published by Coda Story. Supported by the GRC and The Citizens through the Tiny Foundation Fellowships for Investigative Journalism.
Photo: Adria Malcolm / Coda Story
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Latest Feature / Trust Us
Episode 1
Inside Jersey Offshore
Trust Us is a four-part podcast series that tells the fascinating(ly brazen) story of a trove of leaked documents that exposed the machinations of a trust company in Jersey.
Hosted by Sam Eifling, produced by the GRC and EIC. In partnership with Bribe, Swindle or Steal from TRACE International. Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Illustration: Kathleen Fu Latest Feature / Trust Us
Episode 2
The investigation
“No matter how much you try to obscure it, you still leave some traces.”
Hear about how the discovery of some key documents among thousands helped journalists uncover an elaborate money laundering scheme. Episode 2 is out now on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Illustration: Kathleen Fu Latest Feature / Trust Us
Episode 3
The Jersey way
“I think as soon as you’ve got your money into Jersey, you’re halfway there to cleaning it.”
Journalist Isobel Koshiw and Sam Eifling discuss the inner-workings of Jersey and the nearly $150 billion USD that enters London from Jersey every year. Episode 3 is out now on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Illustration: Kathleen Fu Latest Feature / Trust Us
Episode 4
Beyond the 11 ways
“It was a different kind of leak: it was the forensics, the wire transfers, the emails…”
In the fourth and final episode, Sam Eifling talks to journalists Robert Cribb, Marco Chown Oved, and Calyn Shaw about their experiences with the Jersey Offshore investigation. Out now on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Illustration: Kathleen Fu
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ENVIRONMENT / Short Doc & Story
A Mekong island too tiny for industrial farming now points to Vietnam’s future
GRP Fellow Sonal Gupta reports on how the small Vietnamese island of Con Chim could be a model for more sustainable agriculture and tourism.
Produced in partnership with the Global Reporting Program, with additional reporting support from Kathryn Gretsinger, Giang Pham, Sen Nguyen, Dung Le, JJ Mazzucotelli, and Hafsa Maqsood.
Photo: Sonal Gupta/Mongabay
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Finance / podcast & Story
Microfinance was meant to help the world’s poor, but in Cambodia, it’s plunging people deeper into debt
Microfinance was hailed as a way to change the lives of hundreds of millions of people without access to credit.
Global Reporting Program fellow Hanna Hett reports that in Cambodia, borrowers are now drowning in debt and being forced off their land.
Photo: Hanna Hett/The World
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Environment / Series
Rice farmers pay the price for conservation in the Mekong Basin
This series follows rice farmers from Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake downstream to the Delta in Vietnam where the Mekong River joins the South China Sea. Rice farming is a major industry and food source, but is under threat from a changing climate. As farmers face pressure to change how they farm in an effort to conserve the waterways, the lives and livelihoods of the small-scale farmers who fill the world’s rice bowl are being upended. Produced by students of the Global Reporting Program and published in partnership with Mongabay.
Photo: Shaurya Kshatri Environment / Story
Vietnam
Growing rice in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, where fresh water is no longer a sure thing
Farmers in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta face worsening impacts of a changing climate making it tougher to farm what is one of the country’s biggest exports — rice. In response, the Vietnamese government is pushing for more sustainable farming methods.
Photo: JJ Mazzucotelli Environment / Story
Cambodia
Small farmers in limbo as Cambodia wavers on Tonle Sap conservation rules
Rice farmers in the flood plains of Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake were evicted from their land after a government conservation crackdown in 2021. But ahead of the upcoming national election, officials are backpedaling, returning land to some farmers while leaving others uncertain of their fate.
Photo: Thomas Cristofoletti
Corruption / Feature story
How to conceal your money offshore
Ever wondered how the rich move assets offshore? Thanks to a leak of 350,000 documents from a trust company on the island of Jersey, we found out.
Part of the Jersey Offshore reporting partnership led by European Investigative Collaborations (EIC). View all stories related to the investigation.
Illustration: Kathleen FU
Corruption / Series
Dirty money
A series of exposés revealing graft and corruption at the highest levels of government and business. From kickback schemes to corporate funding of terror groups, this partnership between The Walrus and the Global Reporting Centre exposes those who’ve profited from others’ misery.
Environment / series
China’s generation green
How can China manage its dangerous water, contaminated soil, mountains of waste, and disappearing biodiversity? This series is about the generation who are openly and actively fighting to change the trajectory of the country to avoid disaster. Produced by students of the Global Reporting Program (formerly IRP) in partnership with The Toronto Star.
