Fergus Shiel is ICIJ's managing editor, based in Washington, D.C.
Shiel has overseen many recent ICIJ projects, among them the Pandora Papers and the FinCEN Files - the biggest and second biggest global investigative journalism collaborations of their kind ever, Luanda Leaks, Implant Files, China Cables, Mauritius Leaks, Solitary Voices and Bribery Division. The projects have garnered numerous national and international awards for ICIJ.
Before joining ICIJ, Shiel was editor of The Age newspaper’s internationally-acclaimed tablet edition in Melbourne, Australia.
During more than 20 years with The Age, he was national editor, state editor, and chief-of-staff. He was tasked with overseeing the publication’s world coverage and he was editor of the National Times political website.
Shiel led The Age team that covered Australia’s all-time worst bushfire disaster, the Black Saturday bushfires. One hundred and seventy-three people died as a result of the fires and hundreds more were injured.
Shiel commenced his journalism career with several rural titles in his native Ireland before moving to Australia.
He is a fan of the Liverpool Football Club who does journalism, in that order.
- Investigations
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Deforestation Inc.
2023
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Shadow Diplomats
2022
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Trafficking Inc.
2022
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The Uber Files
2022
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The Ericsson List
2022
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Pandora Papers
2021
![FinCEN Files](https://media.icij.org/uploads/2020/09/FinCEN_Files_ICIJ_1920px-360x200.jpg)
FinCEN Files
2020
![Luanda Leaks - investigation by ICIJ](https://media.icij.org/uploads/2020/01/Luanda-leaks-main-360x200.jpg)
Luanda Leaks
2020
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China Cables
2019
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Mauritius Leaks
2019
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Bribery Division
2019
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Solitary Voices
2019
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Implant Files
2018
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West Africa Leaks
2018
- Stories by Fergus Shiel
Sarajevo-native Edin “Tito” Gacanin registered the companies in the secrecy havens as he continued to ship cocaine globally, despite being convicted by Dutch courts for narcotics trafficking.
Aug 20, 2024
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Two years before his arrest in Miami, Andrew Alturo Fahie pledged to pull back the curtain on the islands' notoriously secretive financial services industry.
Aug 14, 2024
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An ICIJ-led investigation exposes how Cyprus firms provided services to help key backers of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime shelter their wealth and then, as Russia invaded Ukraine, hide billions of dollars in assets from the threat of sanctions.
Nov 14, 2023
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The French star is accused of concealing a hefty donation from a Senegalese businessman and using an offshore company to funnel more than 100,000 euros to an unknown beneficiary.
Jul 24, 2023
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The daughter of Angola’s former authoritarian president siphoned 52.6 million euros from Angola’s state oil company into a business she controlled.
Jun 19, 2023
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Bestselling crime-fiction author David Baldacci explains how he was inspired by ICIJ’s Panama and Pandora Papers to write one of his latest hit novels, “The 6:20 Man.”
Apr 03, 2023
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Florida company Stimwave and its CEO duped doctors into implanting useless pieces of plastic into chronic pain patients.
Mar 14, 2023
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The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the public interest in leaking the data showing how multinationals spirited profits to the tiny nation outweighed the detrimental effect.
Feb 15, 2023
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