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
    • Fernando Rodrigues, Brazil, has been a senior reporter for the São Paulo daily Folha de S.Paulo since 1993 and served as the newspaper's correspondent in New York, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C.

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  • Denmark
    • Mikkel Hertz, Denmark, is assistant managing editor of Denmark's largest daily newspaper, Jyllands-Posten.

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  • Mexico
  • 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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  • Canada
    • Heather Abbott, Canada, is a producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), first in its radio division, and most recently as a Senior News and Documentary producer for CBC Television in London.

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  • United States
    • Michael Montgomery, United States, is an award-winning correspondent for American Radio Works, the largest investigative/documentary unit in U.S. public radio and a division of Minnesota Public Radio.

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  • South Africa
    • Jacques Pauw, South Africa, was a founding member and assistant editor of Vrye Weekblad, the first Afrikaans language anti-apartheid newspaper that became one of the most persecuted and prosecuted newspapers in South African history.

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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.