Nov 20, 2025
How ICIJ traced hundreds of millions from Huione Group to major crypto exchanges
ICIJ's trailblazing blockchain analysis has uncovered how cryptocurrency giants Binance and OKX are key conduits of illicit transactions.
Behind the scenes
Nov 17, 2025
About The Coin Laundry investigation
The investigation reveals how crypto companies profited from crime while victims were financially ruined.
Aug 07, 2025
Datashare redesign makes research tool more powerful, more accessible for all
Datashare, the document research platform behind the Pandora Papers and other groundbreaking global investigations, has been relaunched with a new streamlined design.
Jun 19, 2025
Inside China Targets: The data footprints of China’s transnational repression
How ICIJ’s data-driven methodology underpins our investigation that exposed China’s global repression campaign.
Jun 10, 2025
WATCH: Inside China Targets — a live panel with ICIJ reporters
ICIJ reporters went behind the scenes of the China Targets investigation and took questions from our readers during a virtual event.
May 14, 2025
How we use machine learning to find passports and unlock one key to offshore secrecy
Passports are often a critical part of the jigsaw for investigative reporters digging into offshore companies, so ICIJ partnered with artificial intelligence experts to build a detection tool.
Apr 28, 2025
关于 “中国箭靶: 跨国镇压如何渗透全球体系”调查报导
国际调查记者同盟（ICIJ）揭露，北京当局如何滥用包括国际刑警组织与联合国在内的国际机构，打压异见人士，并将镇压手段延伸至全球。
Apr 28, 2025
About the China Targets investigation
An ICIJ investigation exposes how Beijing abuses international institutions, including Interpol and the United Nations, to terrorize its critics and extend its repressive tactics worldwide.
Jan 21, 2025
Uncovering a Kazakh oligarch’s Spanish idyll
A reporter and photographers visited Timur Kulibayev’s sprawling Mediterranean coast estate as part of the “Caspian Cabals” project and discovered plush villas, high security and ambivalent neighbors.
Nov 06, 2024
ICIJ announces new alumni members to honor former reporters’ contributions
A special "honorary alumnus" category of ICIJ membership has been created for ICIJ founder Charles Lewis, who becomes an alumni alongside four of his peers.
Sep 23, 2024
In Eswatini, Africa’s last absolute monarchy, bucolic landscapes belie a darker underbelly
Behind the scenes of ICIJ’s Swazi Secrets investigation, reporters encountered smiling citizens, gun-toting security, and a simmering undercurrent of fear and mystery.
Apr 15, 2024
Frequently asked questions about the Swazi Secrets investigation
Where is Eswatini? Where did the Swazi Secrets leak come from? Who are the journalists behind the investigation? These questions and more, answered.
Dec 14, 2023
How reporting on the medical device industry has changed, five years after Implant Files
ICIJ member Jet Schouten kicked off the 2018 project with her reporting on lax regulation in the Netherlands. Since then, reporting on medical devices has only become more difficult.
Oct 24, 2023
Behind the scenes of the PwC tax leak scandal with Neil Chenoweth
The crisis has snowballed into an international embarrassment for the Big Four firm. ICIJ member Neil Chenoweth walks us through how he broke the story — and what comes next.
Oct 03, 2023
‘We wouldn’t have been able to do Pandora Papers without it’: The powerful platform behind ICIJ’s biggest investigations
Technology is the engine that powers the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, but our reporters aren’t the only ones using the innovative data tools the organization created.
Aug 29, 2023
Inside the Uber Files, one year later
The investigation unearthed the ride-share company's ruthless business practices, sparking protests and inquiries worldwide. One year later, The Guardian's Paul Lewis takes us behind the scenes.
Aug 03, 2023
ICIJ joins global initiative to set AI guidelines for journalists
ICIJ executive director Gerard Ryle, journalist Maria Ressa and other industry leaders have pledged to work together to develop a set of principles, rights and obligations regarding the use of AI-based systems.
Jul 05, 2023
From US pellet mills to jungles in India, behind the scenes of Deforestation Inc. reporting
Journalists trekked through forests, tracked timber trucks, sifted through dense paper trails and more as part of their work for the global investigation.
Jun 23, 2023
How to report on human trafficking: Inside Trafficking Inc.
In this month’s Meet the Investigators, journalists from our Trafficking Inc. project share what it was like to report on modern day slavery across the globe.
May 31, 2023
Shining a light on corruption in Comoros
In this month’s Meet the Investigators, Hayatte Abdou shares stories from her courageous accountability reporting, defying government threats and intimidation in the island country of less than a million people
May 11, 2023
In 2022, ICIJ exposed new faultlines in the global political landscape
ICIJ spent the last year doing what it does best: mining datasets, sifting through documents and shining a light on systems previously shrouded in secrecy.
May 09, 2023
Reporting from a storm and defying the odds to hold a government accountable
How does a reporter do their job from a disaster zone, with utter destruction all around? Omaya Sosa Pascual takes us behind the scenes of her Hurricane Maria reporting, and shares how their fight for transparency continues in Puerto Rico.
Apr 19, 2023
How we used data to expose flaws in hundreds of green claims by forest products companies
As part of Deforestation Inc., ICIJ reviewed thousands of pages, including reports by environmental organizations, human rights groups and local authorities, court records, green certificates databases, trade data and audit reports.
Apr 03, 2023
Ten years of exposing the financial secrets of some of the world’s most powerful people
On the 10th anniversary of ICIJ's Offshore Leaks investigation, director Gerard Ryle traces a path from the original tax haven exposé through to the Panama Papers, Pandora Papers and beyond.
Mar 29, 2023
Reporters share behind-the-scenes stories from Deforestation Inc.
For this month’s episode of Meet the Investigators, we recorded a special live panel featuring reporters whose investigation has exposed how a system designed to protect the environment, consumers and investors is failing with concerning frequency.