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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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

CLRI trains 25 journalists in environmental investigative reporting 

By BARNABAS ZULU THE Continental Leadership Research Institute (CLRI) has launched a major initiative aimed at strengthening environmental accountability by training 25 journalists...

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.

68% of threatened journalists say their attackers dread global investigations – survey

Laurent Richard, founder of Forbidden Stories, says, 'When investigations become collective, intimidation loses part of its power'

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...

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...

Independent journalism finds a way

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...

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.

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...

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...

What’s ethical for undercover operatives? Anti-hate group entered gray zones.

The Trump administration’s charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center highlight concerns about how informants operate within extremist groups.

Reporter who investigated s£x offender Jeffrey Epstein is ‘fleeing’ the US amid attack...

A journalist who has reported extensively on late financier and sx offender Jeffrey E

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...

Saša Dobrijević on Journalist Safety, Investigative Reporting, and Global Solidarity

“We need greater unity and a stronger collective voice.” The post Saša Dobrijević on Journalist Safety, Investigative Reporting, and Global Solidarity appeared first on The Good Me...

Canadian state media backs secret plot to trap and humiliate Indian mass-grave skeptics

Canada's Indian mass-graves hoax never stood up to scrutiny, so radicals are now working to denigrate and discredit their most vocal scrutineers — those derisively referred to in r...

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...

ProPublica Selects 11 Journalists for Investigative Editor Training

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

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...