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KXAN Investigates joins ProPublica partnership to expand Texas accountability reporting

KXAN Investigates has been selected as one of five Texas news organizations to participate in the second year of a local investigative initiative led by ProPublica and The Texas Tr...

FBI reportedly investigates journalist who wrote about Kash Patel's heavy drinking

The FBI has reportedly launched a criminal investigation into whether information was leaked to a reporter for The Atlantic, who wrote that FBI Director Kash Patel's quote "excessi...

The FBI's Alleged Probe of a Reporter for 'Stalking' Breaks New Ground in Criminalizing Journalism

The bureau reportedly investigated the author of a New York Times story that made FBI Director Kash Patel look bad.

ICIJ’s investigations into systemic failures highlighted in 2025 annual report

ICIJ's reporting in 2025 showed how ordinary systems that citizens rely on for protection were manipulated and exploited to help the powerful and malfeasant avoid accountability.

From the Vault: KXAN revisits Texas Rangers investigation ‘Justice for Some’

This week, on a special, on-location edition of our weekly “Inside the Investigation” program, KXAN Director of Investigations & Innovation Josh Hinkle and Senior Investigative...

A Midnight Phone Call. A Missing Movie. Decades of Questions.

Here at the Center for Investigative Reporting, we excel at finding things: government documents, paper trails, the misdeeds people have tried to hide. It’s serious work. But that...

Journalism Essentials: How to Gather and Verify Facts

In the second installment of our media literacy newsletter from The School of The New York Times, we explain how journalists track down facts.

Of All The Things...

You would think that there are more important stuff to investigate!FBI Launched Investigation Into New York Times Reporter Over Story on Kash Patel’s GirlfriendThe Justice Departme...

From the Vault: KXAN revisits ‘Mental Competency Consequences’ investigation

This week, on a special, on-location edition of our weekly “Inside the Investigation” program, KXAN Director of Investigations & Innovation Josh Hinkle and Senior Investigative...

Citizen Sleuths Track Government Fraud With Walter Curt

On this week's episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with Walter Curt - a podcaster and investigative...

When reporters explore National Parks, stories and trails abound

A hiker on the Pacific Crest Trail, which runs from California through Oregon to Washington state. (Photo by Bob Wick, Bureau of Land Management, Flickr Creative Commons via SEJ)F...

All the President’s Men at 50: One of the finest films about investigative journalism ever made

NIGHTTIME. A dim and dingy car park. Woefully inadequate fluorescent lights flicker and buzz overhead. Two men stand in half-shadow. One is barely visible, his face almost entirely...

ProPublica Selects 11 Journalists for Investigative Editor Training

The post ProPublica Selects 11 Journalists for Investigative Editor Training appeared first on ProPublica.

Watchdog without a leash: How Queenstown’s Crux Media became a ‘one-man crusade’

The strange saga of New Zealand’s most controversial local news startup.  In April, RNZ confirmed something that Central Otago local news startup Crux Media had been reporting for...

FBI Reportedly Investigating Leaks To Atlantic Over Damning Kash Patel Story

The alleged probe targets journalist Sarah Fitzpatrick's detailed, well-sourced story on concerns over the bureau chief's drinking and erratic behavior.

Inside Wisconsin Watch’s story pitch process

How RealClearInvestigations Exposed a Crisis in Portland

I hope your week is going well. I wanted to tell you about something our newsroom did recently that I'm incredibly proud of. I think shows exactly why your support of RealClear mat...

Journalists Demand Whistleblower Protections as Corruption Fights Back With Lawsuits and Deepfakes

Media stakeholders are demanding urgent legal reforms to safeguard whistleblowers and investigative journalists, cautioning that a surge in threats, intimidation, and strategic law...

CJID trains journalists on investigative, ethical health reporting

The workshop, themed “Investigative Skills for Covering Nigeria’s Priority Health Challenges,” held from 19 to 20 May in Abuja, and brought together early-career journalists, mid-l...

Peter Murrell embezzlement inquiry would be a waste of time. Here's how the truth will out – John McLellan

Good old-fashioned investigative journalists, like Russell Findlay, will seek out slighted, ignored and ripped off people who want revenge and witnesses keen to protect their reput...

FBI investigated New York Times reporter after Patel story, source says

The FBI began investigating a New York Times reporter last month after she wrote about the bureau’s director, Kash Patel, using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with gove...

Holding the powerful to account: Lessons from an LA fire

“Torched” offers a reporter’s keen take on an evolving story, analyzing breakdowns in public safety systems and placing the Pacific Palisades blaze into larger context.

FBI reportedly probing leaks behind article on bureau chief Kash Patel’s drinking

The FBI has opened a criminal leak investigation focusing on a journalist who wrote a critical article about Kash Patel, the head of the US law enforcement agency, the cable news c...

Is Independent Journalism in Jeopardy?

by Robert Crux  |  7 April 2025  |   When have people in powerful positions liked being held to account?  Yet accountability is basic to any organization. It implies a clear statem...