ORGANISATIONS

The Global Investigative Journalism Network serves as the international hub for the world’s investigative reporters. Its core mission is to support and strengthen investigative journalism around the world—with special attention to those from repressive regimes and marginalized communities.

At the heart of GIJN is an international association of nonprofit journalism organizations. From its founding in 2003, GIJN has grown to include 263 member groups in 97 countries.

Today, with a staff based in over 20 countries, GIJN works in a dozen languages to link together the world’s most enterprising journalists, giving them the tools, technology, and training to go after abuses of power and lack of accountability.

Attending the Μedia Village will be:

Nikolia Apostolou is GIJN’s Resource Center director. She's in charge of commissioning and editing GIJN's reporting guides and tipsheets. Nikolia also oversees trainings and other programs for GIJN.

Prior to joining the network, Nikolia was a freelance correspondent for media outlets, like the BBC, The Associated Press, AJ+, The New York Times, The New Humanitarian, PBS, USA Today, Deutsche Welle, and Al-Jazeera.

Olga Simanovych is a GIJN Regional Editor. A native of Ukraine, has more than 13 years of television experience as a journalist, screenwriter, and managing editor. Seven of those years were spent as a TV news reporter for the Vikna-Novyny program on STB, where she specialized in politics, environment, human rights, and medicine.

From 2011 to 2016, she was a media trainer with different nonprofit organizations and participated in SCOOP‘s international investigations.

A graduate of Taras Shevchenko National University, Ukraine, she is bilingual in Ukrainian and Russian, and fluent in English and Greek.

Sandrine Rigaud is an investigative journalist, author, documentary filmmaker, and producer.

From 2019 to 2024, she was editor-in-chief of Forbidden Stories, leading major cross-border investigations such as the Pegasus Project, Storykillers, and The Cartel Project. Her work has been recognized with awards including the George Polk Award, the European Press Prize, and the Emmys.

She co-authored Pegasus (2023), published in the United States and translated internationally. A 2024/2025 Nieman Fellow at Harvard, she explored AI, collaborative journalism, and data leak management. She teaches investigative journalism at Sciences Po.