International Consortium of Investigative JournalistsInternational Consortium of Investigative Journalists

A Project By: The Center for Public IntegrityA Project By: The Center for Public Integrity

Cross Border Investigations

  1. Tobacco Underground The illicit trafficking of tobacco is a multibillion-dollar business today, fueling organized crime and corruption, robbing governments of needed tax money, and spurring addiction to a deadly product. Drawn by profits rivaling those of narcotics, smugglers move cigarettes by the billion, making tobacco the world's most widely smuggled legal substance. Go >

  2. Collateral Damage Collateral Damage

    Post-9/11 U.S. foreign policy and military aid and assistance had a huge impact in nations around the world — and at home. This award-winning project includes 20 articles from four continents.

  3. Divine Intervention, U.S. AIDS Policy Abroad Divine Intervention, U.S. AIDS Policy Abroad

    A year-long investigation of President Bush’s initiative to fight AIDS abroad finds that conservative ideology hinders its real benefits by insisting on abstinence-only programs over promoting condom use.

  4. Windfalls of War, U.S. Contractors in Afghanistan & Iraq Windfalls of War, U.S. Contractors in Afghanistan & Iraq

    A comprehensive examination of companies that won contracts for work in Iraq and Afghanistan — and of their campaign contributions, led by General Electric and Vinnell Corporation (the former Northrup Grumman).

  5. More Investigations
  6. Business of War
  7. Latin America
  8. Water Privatization

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) is a collaboration of the world's preeminent investigative reporters. Launched in 1997 as a project of the Center for Public Integrity, ICIJ globally extends the Center's style of watchdog journalism, working with 100 journalists in 50 countries to produce long-term, transnational investigations.

  • United States
    • Charles Lewis, United States, is the president of the Fund for Independence in Journalism in Washington, and co-author of five books, including the bestseller, The Buying of the President 2004.

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  • United States
    • Ana Arana, United States, is an investigative journalist who reports on Latin American criminal organizations.

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  • Denmark
  • India
    • Rakesh Kalshian, India, is a former reporter for the weekly magazine Outlook India where he focused on the environment, a beat he has covered since 1991.

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  • France/Guatemala
    • Julio Godoy, France/Guatemala, was considered Guatemala's top investigative reporter before he was forced to flee the country under government pressure to silence him.

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  • Indonesia
    • Andreas Harsono, Indonesia, currently works for the Pantau media organization in Jakarta and is also writing a book entitled From Sabang to Merauke: Debunking the Myth of Indonesian Nationalism.

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  • Japan
    • Tim Mitsuhiro Yoshida, Japan, won the 1985 Executive Managing Editor's Prize for Reporting for a series of articles that helped block planned construction of a huge tower at the Akiyoshida Plateau Quasi National Park.

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The Network Locate ICIJ members on this interactive map. Our members include newspaper and magazine reporters, TV and radio producers, and freelance journalists worldwide. Investigations From Around the World Find links and tools for cross-border investigative reporting, from networking with other journalists to tracking down documents and filing FOIAs. Investigations From Around the World Read some of the world’s best investigative reporting from ICIJ members, associates and others – on the environment, national security, corruption and more.