Nov 06, 2024
ICIJ announces new alumni members to honor former reporters’ contributions
A special "honorary alumnus" category of ICIJ membership has been created for ICIJ founder Charles Lewis, who becomes an alumni alongside four of his peers.
Behind the scenes
Sep 23, 2024
In Eswatini, Africa’s last absolute monarchy, bucolic landscapes belie a darker underbelly
Behind the scenes of ICIJ’s Swazi Secrets investigation, reporters encountered smiling citizens, gun-toting security, and a simmering undercurrent of fear and mystery.
Apr 15, 2024
Frequently asked questions about the Swazi Secrets investigation
Where is Eswatini? Where did the Swazi Secrets leak come from? Who are the journalists behind the investigation? These questions and more, answered.
Dec 14, 2023
How reporting on the medical device industry has changed, five years after Implant Files
ICIJ member Jet Schouten kicked off the 2018 project with her reporting on lax regulation in the Netherlands. Since then, reporting on medical devices has only become more difficult.
Oct 24, 2023
Behind the scenes of the PwC tax leak scandal with Neil Chenoweth
The crisis has snowballed into an international embarrassment for the Big Four firm. ICIJ member Neil Chenoweth walks us through how he broke the story — and what comes next.
Oct 03, 2023
‘We wouldn’t have been able to do Pandora Papers without it’: The powerful platform behind ICIJ’s biggest investigations
Technology is the engine that powers the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, but our reporters aren’t the only ones using the innovative data tools the organization created.
Aug 29, 2023
Inside the Uber Files, one year later
The investigation unearthed the ride-share company's ruthless business practices, sparking protests and inquiries worldwide. One year later, The Guardian's Paul Lewis takes us behind the scenes.
Aug 03, 2023
ICIJ joins global initiative to set AI guidelines for journalists
ICIJ executive director Gerard Ryle, journalist Maria Ressa and other industry leaders have pledged to work together to develop a set of principles, rights and obligations regarding the use of AI-based systems.
Jul 05, 2023
From US pellet mills to jungles in India, behind the scenes of Deforestation Inc. reporting
Journalists trekked through forests, tracked timber trucks, sifted through dense paper trails and more as part of their work for the global investigation.
Jun 23, 2023
How to report on human trafficking: Inside Trafficking Inc.
In this month’s Meet the Investigators, journalists from our Trafficking Inc. project share what it was like to report on modern day slavery across the globe.
May 31, 2023
Shining a light on corruption in Comoros
In this month’s Meet the Investigators, Hayatte Abdou shares stories from her courageous accountability reporting, defying government threats and intimidation in the island country of less than a million people
May 11, 2023
In 2022, ICIJ exposed new faultlines in the global political landscape
ICIJ spent the last year doing what it does best: mining datasets, sifting through documents and shining a light on systems previously shrouded in secrecy.
May 09, 2023
Reporting from a storm and defying the odds to hold a government accountable
How does a reporter do their job from a disaster zone, with utter destruction all around? Omaya Sosa Pascual takes us behind the scenes of her Hurricane Maria reporting, and shares how their fight for transparency continues in Puerto Rico.
Apr 19, 2023
How we used data to expose flaws in hundreds of green claims by forest products companies
As part of Deforestation Inc., ICIJ reviewed thousands of pages, including reports by environmental organizations, human rights groups and local authorities, court records, green certificates databases, trade data and audit reports.
Apr 03, 2023
Ten years of exposing the financial secrets of some of the world’s most powerful people
On the 10th anniversary of ICIJ's Offshore Leaks investigation, director Gerard Ryle traces a path from the original tax haven exposé through to the Panama Papers, Pandora Papers and beyond.
Mar 29, 2023
Reporters share behind-the-scenes stories from Deforestation Inc.
For this month’s episode of Meet the Investigators, we recorded a special live panel featuring reporters whose investigation has exposed how a system designed to protect the environment, consumers and investors is failing with concerning frequency.
Feb 21, 2023
From crime fighting cop to corruption-busting reporter
Reporter Boyoung Lim originally started her career as an officer on the Korean police force, before realizing there were other ways to help people pursue justice and hold the powerful to account.
Feb 02, 2023
Meet the Investigators podcast: Exposing the Shadow Diplomats
Reporters Will Fitzgibbon, Debbie Cenziper and Diana Moukalled take us behind the scenes of the Shadow Diplomats investigation and reveal how ICIJ and its partners uncovered hundreds of part-time diplomats embroiled in controversy.
Jan 11, 2023
From court records to military archives, document dive revealed the world’s Shadow Diplomats
Nine documents illustrate how journalists obtained records to build the first comprehensive account of global wrongdoing by volunteer diplomats known as honorary consuls.
Jan 08, 2023
How investigating political fanatics became one of the most dangerous jobs in Brazil
ICIJ member Guilherme Amado, a seasoned investigative journalist, was uniquely placed to cover Brazil's recent election. But reporting on the contest still came with significant challenges and risks.
Dec 21, 2022
How a global data dive uncovered hundreds of honorary consuls linked to crimes or scandals
ICIJ spent months requesting, collating and analyzing data on honorary consuls from all around the world, reviewing hundreds who were mired in controversy.
Nov 09, 2022
The team behind the world’s biggest journalism collaborations meets in person for the first time
From learning top security tips to reinvigorating a passion for ICIJ’s model for investigating global stories, some of the staff’s newest faces reflect on our news organization’s first face-to-face gathering in three years.
Oct 11, 2022
Boeing whistleblower’s journey from pre-crash warnings, to going public in their wake
Ed Pierson joins ICIJ for a Q&A on blowing the whistle and airplane safety advocacy ahead of a panel event at this week’s Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival and Symposium.
Oct 11, 2022
‘Even one hour after we published we started to receive threats’
One year after the Pandora Papers, we revisit one of the biggest stories of the investigation with our Czech member Pavla Holcová, and hear more about her extraordinary career in journalism.
Sep 27, 2022
On a journalism journey from neighborhood news to presidential impeachment
ICIJ member Alberto Arellano started out as a kid with a typewriter before eventually becoming one of Chile's most respected investigative reporters.