How We Did It
Notes From a Long-Distance Investigation
Lessons from the learning curve involved in big journalistic collaborations and data projects like ICIJ's Offshore Leaks. Inside ICIJ
Lessons from the learning curve involved in big journalistic collaborations and data projects like ICIJ's Offshore Leaks. ICIJ en espanol
¿Cómo sobrevivimos a la colaboración periodística más grande de la Historia?
de las preguntas más recurrentes que recibimos estos días es la siguiente: ¿Cómo habéis logrado que 86 periodistas de todo el mundo trabajaran juntos? Awards
ICIJ, Center win 3 Sigma Delta Chi Awards
The ICIJ won 1st Place honors in the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Awards for the "Skin and Bone" investigation into the global trade in human body parts. Reporter's notebook
Onshore and Offshore Realms Equally Secretive in Greece
For one Offshore Leaks reporter the data was daunting, but reporting at home was even more challenging. Inside ICIJ
How We All Survived Likely the Largest Collaboration in Journalism History
One of the most frequent questions people ask us these days is “How in the world did you get 86 journalists to work together?” Inside ICIJ
How ICIJ Chose Our Offshore Reporting Partners
At ICIJ we collaborate on “deep dive” stories that cross borders, then release our findings to media partners without cost. Here's how we choose which reporters to work with, and the organizations to publish the finished work. Inside ICIJ
Why We Are Not Turning Over the Offshore Files to Government Agencies
One of the many reactions from our series on offshore tax havens has been government agencies from Germany, Greece, South Korea, Canada and the U.S. asking for access to the 2.5 million files that form the basis of our reporting. Our latest work
Likely Largest Journalism Collaboration In History
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has just launched the next part of our multi-year project aimed at stripping away the biggest mystery associated with tax havens: the owners of anonymous companies. Inside ICIJ
Penetrating A World Built On Secrecy
Investigative reporting is expensive, time-consuming, and risky. We should know -- we're revealing a world that’s dominated by the rich and powerful. Impact
How Investigative Journalism Produces Results
There were several important developments in recent days linked to our exposure of the international trade in human tissues. Here's how investigative reporters can work together to produce better journalism and effect change. Tags:
What is investigative journalism?
The Essential Elements of Powerful Global Investigative Reporting
What makes a good investigation? How should an investigative reporter select stories? Here are the three criteria we apply to every investigation. Tags:
We're expanding
ICIJ Welcomes Four New Members
They are four independent investigative journalists in three continents, all women, doing the painstaking, unglamorous and often dangerous work of following the paper trails, finding the patterns and asking the questions others ignore. Tags:
What We're Working On
Help Us Uncover the World’s Illicit Tax Networks
Offshore tax havens enable arms dealing, child pornography, insider trading, embezzlement, political bribery and money laundering. Help ICIJ shine a light on these illicit global networks. Impact
Skin & Bone probe wins August Sidney Award
The Sidney Hillman Foundation has announced that a 13-journalist team led by the ICIJ has won the August Sidney Award for "Skin and Bone," a sweeping investigation of the global trade in human tissues.
How We Did It
Analyzing the Data behind Skin and Bone
How we identified relationships between data on tissue imports, inspections, adverse events, and accident reports filed with the Food and Drug Administration. The unglamorous work we do
Investigative Reporting: Expensive, Risky, and Under Threat
Why do our investigative reports take so long to compile? Quite simply, very few organizations do this kind of deep, labor-intensive, and expensive journalism any longer. Tags:
Working across borders
How We Collaborated to Produce Skin and Bone
When working in cross-border investigative reporting teams, what's even more important than the work itself? Tags:
New investigation
Recycling Corpses is Big Business
The U.S. is the world's biggest trader of products from human tissue. ICIJ’s eight-month, 11-country investigation probes how the industry sources the corpses it requires for its merchandise. Tags:
Impact
Fishing Quotas Expected After ICIJ Exposé
The UN estimates that 85 percent of the world's fish stocks are beyond sustainable levels. We looked into why nobody was taking action; here's how we did it. Tags:
About our journalists
Who are ICIJ’s Members?
A look at the data on ICIJ's 158 member journalists: which part of world they work in, where they work, and the gender ratio of our membership. Read more about Who are ICIJ’s Members?
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Banking secrecy
Tax Havens: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The layers of secrecy linked to offshore tax havens is helping corruption "on a massive scale". We're taking a hard look.
Reporter's notebook
Why I care about a bony fish with oddly shaped fins
Looting the Seas III project manager Mort Rosenblum talks about his experience reporting the story for ICIJ and BBC World News with a multi-country team.
We're expanding
International Consortium Adds 41 Investigative Journalists
The Center's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has added 41 new members to its roster, expanding the network’s reach to 158 news professionals working on an array of media platforms in 61 countries. ICIJ is a global network of reporters who collaborate on in-depth, cross-border stories and is a project of the Center for Public Integrity. Read more about International Consortium Adds 41 Investigative Journalists
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