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At 25, Stephen Glass was the most sought-after young reporter in the nation's capital, producing knockout articles for magazines ranging from iThe New Republic/i to iRolling Stone./i Trouble was, he made things up—sources, quotes, whole stories—in a breathtaking web of deception that emerged as the most sustained fraud in modern journalism.
In the 1970s, a small group of Greenpeace activists had a unique idea for how they could put an end to commercial whaling.
The artist and audio investigator, who calls himself a “private ear,” investigates crimes that are heard but not seen.
Why one tiny newspaper in Whitesburg, Kentucky still screams for press freedom despite arson, abuse from the public and financial challenges.
Bellingcat is the world’s biggest citizen-run intelligence agency, investigating everything from the 2014 shoot-down of MH17 to the various plots to kill Russian dissident Alexei Navalny. The person behind it all? Eliot Higgins.
At a recent panel at the 2024 NICAR conference, Karrie Kehoe, deputy head of data and research at ICIJ, offered a series of tips for investigating the true owners of shell companies.
This resource was last updated in 2023 by GIJN’s Toby McIntosh and Emily O’Sullivan. Investigative journalists play a crucial role in holding corporations to account, and have revealed labor abuses, environmental violations, corporate impunity and other instances of malpractice through deep-dives into companies and their owners. However, government records on corporations often reveal only the […]
Inside the notorious “catch and kill” campaign that now stands at the heart of the former president’s legal trial.
In 2024, it’s harder than ever to get a tough story out in the United States of America.
One of the news industry’s longest-standing problems is that have failed to properly value the work they create. They should take a cue from the music industry.
Forbidden Stories nomine Gaza Project Samer Abu Daqqa’s final reporting trip, amid the ruins of Khan Younis On December 15, 2023, journalist Samer Abu Daqqa was killed by an Israeli strike in Khan Younis. Through testimonies and an open-source investigation, we pieced together the events of his last day. nomine Gaza Project Wild Grass in […]
Leaked documents reveal the inner world of Eliminalia, a Spanish reputation management company.
Hyperlinks are a powerful tool for journalists and their readers. Diving deep into the context of an article is just a click away. But hyperlinks are a double-edged sword; for all of the internet’s boundlessness, what’s found on the Web can also be modified, moved, or entirely vanished. The fragility of the Web poses an […]
From Sergei Skripal to Alexei Navalny, Russia’s attempts to silence its enemies have been forensically exposed. At the centre of these revelations has been investigative unit Bellingcat
Multinationals, billionaires, artists, sportsmen, criminals : an investigation by Le Monde reveals for the first time exhaustively what the Grand Duchy’s financial centre conceals, thanks to its tax advantages.
The Charleston Gazette-Mail, known for its dogged accountability journalism, survived a merger and bankruptcy. Will it survive a new owner with ties to the very industries its reporters have been watchdogging?