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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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Independent journalism finds a way

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Journalism Essentials: A Limited Series on Media Literacy

Our first bite-size teachings on fundamentals from The School of The New York Times look at journalism’s role in society.

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...

ProPublica Selects 11 Journalists for Investigative Editor Training

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

Behind the veil of secrecy: Ten years of the Panama Papers, part 2

On the 10-year anniversary of the Panama Papers, journalists recall how it all happened, and how the investigation took the world by storm.

Inside Wisconsin Watch’s story pitch process

5 big ideas shaping journalism’s next chapter

This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. The recent International Journalism Festival ...

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...

Phony whistleblowers, fake journalists and cyber spies: ICIJ network targeted after China Targets probe 

Shortly after publication, a slew of fake ICIJ reporters approached journalists, Taiwanese officials, and human rights advocates seeking sensitive data. With Citizen Lab, we invest...

Kash Patel’s War Against the Atlantic Intensifies

The FBI is reportedly probing a journalist who published a Patel exposé, marking a “new frontier” for the agency.