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.

  • Brazil
  • Peru
    • Angel Paez, Peru, is the founder of Peru's first investigative reporting team and has been working as its director at La Republica since 1990, exposing government corruption, international drug trafficking, and clandestine warfare.

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  • Philippines
    • Sheila Coronel, Philippines, is executive director of the Manila-based Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, an independent, nonprofit agency specializing in investigative reporting.

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  • United States
    • David Kaplan, United States, was named ICIJ director in April 2008. Over a 30-year career, he has investigated organized crime, terrorist groups, corporate polluters, corrupt law enforcement officials, neo-Nazis, the banking industry, and the intelligence community.

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  • Norway
    • André Verløy, Norway, is currently an investigative researcher in Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's news and documentary divisions.

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  • Sri Lanka
    • Iqbal Athas, Sri Lanka, a journalist for more than 30 years, is a consultant editor and defense correspondent for The Sunday Times in Colombo, where he writes about the ongoing separatist war between government troops and Tamil Tiger guerrillas.

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  • Jordan
    • Mahassen al-Emam, Jordan, is the director and founder of the Arab Women Media Center (AWMC), a nongovernmental organization in Jordan that trains women journalists and helps promote the role of media in democracy.

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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.