The Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC) is the world’s largest international gathering of investigative journalists. The conference features training on the latest tools and techniques, cutting-edge workshops, and extensive networking and brainstorming sessions. In 2027, the conference will be held in Europe — in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Partners

Co-hosts:

The Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) serves as the international hub for the world’s investigative reporters, with 266 member organizations in 95 countries. Its core mission is to support and strengthen investigative journalism around the world. 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.

The Dutch-Flemish Association of Investigative Journalists (Vereniging van Onderzoeksjournalisten, VVOJ) is a regional force for watchdog training and public transparency. Since its establishment in 2002, it has welcomed Dutch and Flemish investigative journalists into its community and has more than 800 members today. VVOJ is committed to being an advocate of investigative journalism, as a lobby organization, as a knowledge and education center, and as a network.

Regional Conference Partners:

Free Press Unlimited (FPU) is a press freedom organization committed to protecting journalists and press freedom by offering worldwide support to journalists and media professionals through its advocacy work, emergency assistance, advice, training, capacity building and awareness raising. 

Journalismfund Europe is a nonprofit intermediary organization set up with the aim of strengthening democracy in Europe by facilitating independent, cross-border investigative journalism and by bringing donors and journalists or media together without endangering the journalists' independence.

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 meeting two years later in Gothenburg (2023). In 2025, GIJC was held for the first time in Asia, in Kuala Lumpur, attracting more than 1,500 participants.

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 produce groundbreaking projects exposing 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 is excited to bring GIJC27 back to The Netherlands, which also hosted the conference in 2005.