Jun 11, 2020
China Cables wins top SPJ prize
ICIJ's China Cables investigation was awarded top honors at the Society of Professional Journalists’ Dateline Awards in Washington, D.C.
Investigative journalism
Practical tips on and latest trends in investigative journalism.
May 13, 2020
Reporting from the eye of Ecuador’s misinformation storm
Stories by investigative journalist Arturo Torres and his team at Código Vidrio have inspired a national campaign against misinformation in Ecuador.
Apr 16, 2020
‘I knocked at the door of the minister and he confessed’ — recollections of a veteran investigator
Micael Pereira is a senior staff writer at the leading Portuguese newspaper who worked on Luanda Leaks and many other ICIJ projects.
Mar 30, 2020
‘Navigating underwater’: Data journalism and press freedom in Bolivia
Nelfi Fernandez Reyes talks about reporting while democracy is under assault.
Mar 24, 2020
Investigating the coronavirus: Who is cashing in?
There’s never been a major crisis that someone hasn’t seen as an opportunity to make a lot of money.
Mar 17, 2020
‘Involved and powerless’: Reporting from Italy on COVID-19
Italian journalists living in a high-risk zone adapt to quarantine and keep reporting on the outbreak.
Mar 17, 2020
Investigating COVID-19: Virus testing in the US
Are you a government or health official, medical worker or someone else with a Coronavirus story to tell? Share your story with us.
Feb 18, 2020
Luanda Leaks: How collaboration helped connect the dots
Project manager Fergus Shiel reveals how ICIJ came to possess the 700,000 Luanda Leaks files – and how the collaboration of 36 media partners came together.
Feb 05, 2020
‘It was personal’ – Covering the murder of a fellow reporter
ICIJ member and Guardian reporter Juliette Garside talks about reporting on the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia and working on investigations like China Cables.
Feb 04, 2020
Reporting beyond the Luanda Leaks documents
A cross-border reporting "army" knocked on doors in Europe, visited hidden retailers in Sardinia, traveled to the Brazilian Amazon, and the French Riviera.
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 27, 2020
Luanda Leaks reveals thousands forced at gunpoint from fishing community at site of dos Santos project
Residents driven from urban beach now live in wretched conditions by open sewers.
Jan 19, 2020
How Africa’s richest woman exploited family ties, shell companies and inside deals to build an empire
Isabel dos Santos made a fortune at the expense of the Angolan people, Luanda Leaks reveals.
Jan 19, 2020
Western advisers helped an autocrat’s daughter amass and shield a fortune
Isabel dos Santos created a shell empire to move tainted billions — lawyers, accountants and consultants made it possible.
Jan 19, 2020
Read the Luanda Leaks documents
We’ve published emails, contracts, organizational charts, meeting videos, loan agreements and more from our investigation into Isabel dos Santos.
Jan 19, 2020
‘I couldn’t do it alone’: Collaborating on Luanda Leaks
We speak with three investigative reporters who worked on Luanda Leaks about the importance of collaboration on this global story.
Jan 16, 2020
From Colonization to Kleptocracy: A history of Angola
Our visual explainer shows you how Africa’s richest woman rose amid a country divided by war and rich in natural resources.
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 15, 2020
About the Luanda Leaks Investigation
As Isabel dos Santos tells it, she made her massive fortune through business acumen, grit and entrepreneurial spirit. Luanda Leaks reveals a dramatically different story about how she became Africa’s richest woman.
Jan 15, 2020
What is the Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa?
ICIJ received the Luanda Leaks documents from the Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa (PPLAAF).
Dec 12, 2019
How the world learned of China’s mass internment camps
We've learned a lot about China's mass internment camps since the first English reports were published in 2017. But there are still plenty of unanswered questions.
Nov 23, 2019
About the China Cables Investigation
China Cables is an investigation into the surveillance and mass internment without charge or trial of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in China’s Xinjiang province, based on leaked classified Chinese government documents.
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 15, 2019
Investigate the enablers, understand the science and more reporting tips from GIJC
The ICIJ team went to Hamburg to take part in a gathering of 1,700 investigative reporters. Here are some tips we picked up.
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