Jan 12, 2021
How our smallest FinCEN Files stories captured the biggest data lessons
Each Confidential Client profile amounts to only a few hundred words, but the huge data lift involved was emblematic of the entire FinCEN Files investigation.
Data journalism
Oct 29, 2020
‘Enough is enough’: How FinCEN Files exposes a broken system that keeps dirty cash flowing
Three ICIJ reporters take us behind the scenes of the FinCEN Files investigation in this special edition of our Meet the Investigators series.
Sep 20, 2020
FinCEN Files: Explore billions of dollars in suspicious transactions
Explore the confidential data at the heart of the FinCEN Files.
Sep 20, 2020
Download FinCEN Files transaction data
To extract as much information as possible from the files, dozens of reporters collaborated to manually collate data on thousands of transactions.
Sep 20, 2020
What is the FinCEN Files investigation?
What is a SAR? Is this like the Panama Papers? Why should I care about the FinCEN Files? And more frequently asked questions about this investigation.
Sep 20, 2020
From a jumble of secret reports, damning data on big banks and dirty money
A massive global research effort for FinCEN Files turned secret records into usable information exposing the futility of U.S.-led anti-money laundering efforts.
Aug 17, 2020
‘Trust and technology’ at heart of latest collaborative journalism tool
DatashareNetwork, developed by ICIJ and Swiss university EPFL, will allow reporters around the world to securely search one another's documents.
Jul 27, 2020
Help us improve Datashare, our document analysis tool
Datashare has been helping reporters, citizen sleuths and data nerds analyze documents for more than a year. We'd like your help to make it even better.
May 27, 2020
Juggling skills can open open up journalistic possibilities
Jan Strozyk believes can achieve more if you are good at several disciplines - rather than just one. It’s a philosophy he’s taken into the newsroom
Apr 14, 2020
Incomplete data creates headaches for reporters
I’m a COVID-19 data skeptic. The most widely-used numbers to describe the impact of the pandemic — reported cases and deaths — are flawed.
Mar 30, 2020
‘Navigating underwater’: Data journalism and press freedom in Bolivia
Nelfi Fernandez Reyes talks about reporting while democracy is under assault.
Mar 23, 2020
Explore company secrets in Lux Leaks using Datashare
You can now search our Lux Leaks documents without installing any software. Get a taste for how ICIJ's network of investigative reporters works using Datashare online.
Feb 03, 2020
How we mined more than 715,000 Luanda Leaks records
Luanda Leaks was a trove of more than 175,000 emails – so how do we go about tackling such a massive dataset? And how can we be sure we haven’t missed major stories?
Feb 03, 2020
How we mined more than 715,000 Luanda Leaks records
Luanda Leaks was a trove of more than 175,000 emails – so how do we go about tackling such a massive dataset? And how can we be sure we haven’t missed major stories?
Jan 15, 2020
Explore: How to build a business empire
See the scale and reach of Isabel dos Santos and Sindika Dokolo’s business empire. Watch it grow from 1992 to 2019 – and explore by country or industry.
Jan 06, 2020
How ICIJ will rock its tech in 2020
Technology and data are our never-ending stories at ICIJ. So, at the turn of this new decade, you could well be wondering: what is coming next?
Nov 25, 2019
We Used AI to Identify the Sex of 340,000 People Harmed by Medical Devices
The FDA won’t release data about whether patients were female or male, so ICIJ joined forces with Stanford to find answers.
Nov 25, 2019
Safety data from 20 countries added to Implant Files database
The International Medical Device Database now has more than 120,000 records about faulty or even dangerous medical devices from 46 countries.
Nov 04, 2019
What is Datashare? FAQs about our document analysis software
What makes ICIJ's secure open-source software different from other tools? We answer some of the common questions about Datashare.
Oct 22, 2019
Using the power of machines to complete impossible reporting tasks
Machine learning can help journalists by identifying files more likely to contain stories, for example, finding information-rich tax returns from a massive trove of documents.
Oct 07, 2019
My new friend is a news bot from Chile called LaBot
If news talks more like your friends, it will be harder to ignore. That's the rationale behind LaBot, a digital chat tool created by Chilean journalists.
Sep 17, 2019
Counting the dead: How statistics can find unreported killings
When investigative journalists Sheila Coronel and her team began counting drug-related killings in the Philippines last year they turned to statistician Patrick Ball to reveal the truth.
Aug 30, 2019
Five ways we can seize journalism’s ‘hot mess’ moment
What a dance class at Stanford taught me about destabilization, chaos, and journalism.
Aug 06, 2019
Five Companies That Went Thousands of Miles to Use Mauritius
Here are five companies that illustrate the vast geographic reach of Mauritius as a tax haven.
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