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Over the past few months, a scandal of international proportions has rocked the Australian consulting arm of PwC. ICIJ member Neil Chenoweth first broke the story in The Australian Financial Review: While the accounting giant profited off a lucrative contract advising the Australian government on new tax laws, some of its senior partners used that confidential information to court multinational co...

A year ago, ICIJ's Uber Files sparked protests and government inquiries across the globe, after a cache of company documents revealed the company's ruthless approach to expansion. This month, The Guardian's investigations editor Paul Lewis walks us through the early days of the project: from covert meetings with a whistleblower on Lake Geneva, to what became a global collaboration of partners from...

For more than a year, ICIJ's Trafficking Inc. collaboration has worked to unravel the webs of human trafficking across the globe. In this month’s Meet the Investigators, we’ve invited a panel of three journalists to share the unique challenges of exposing these networks, and what it takes to coordinate dozens of journalists and over three hundred interviews with workers across Africa, Asia and the...

Just a few tiny tweaks! For this month’s Meet the Investigators, we hear from one of ICIJ's newest members: Hayatte Abdou. The first and only member from Comoros, a small island state off the coast of East Africa, Hayatte has spearheaded courageous stories — from investigating a colleague’s death, to revealing widespread corruption in the country's tax authority. At their core, her stories are abo...

For this month’s Meet the Investigators, ICIJ member Omaya Sosa Pascual shares what it was like to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Maria on her home island of Puerto Rico — and how, against the odds, her team was able to hold their government accountable by accurately sharing the true scale of death and devastation wrought by the storm. Omaya also shares more stories from her incredible career, f...

This special edition of ICIJ's Meet the Investigators podcast is a recording of a live panel event, taking you behind the scenes of the Deforestation Inc. investigation. Listen in as the reporters who tramped through ravaged forests, tracked timber shipments around the world, and pored over leaked files share their stories on a broken system that's failing to protect the planet's valuable forestla...

For our first Meet the Investigators episode of the year, we spoke with Boyoung Lim, a police officer-turned-reporter who worked on some of the biggest investigations for KCIJ - Newstapa, an investigative news outlet in South Korea. Today, Lim is a senior editor at the Pulitzer Center, where she coordinates the Artificial Intelligence Accountability Network.

In our final episode of 2022, ICIJ senior reporter Will Fitzgibbon, ProPublica investigative reporter Debbie Cenziper and Daraj Media managing editor and co-founder Diana Moukalled break down their latest project, Shadow Diplomats, an investigation into an underreported group of diplomats known as honorary consuls. Their investigation reveals more than 500 honorary consuls who engaged in criminal...

On the heels of Brazil’s major election, ICIJ member Guilherme Amado joins us to discuss how outgoing president Jair Bolsonaro’s government put democracy in the balance, the struggles that President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will face beginning in January and how he’s coping with news overload. Amado is a news columnist for the website Metropoles and a director of Abraji, the Brazilian Assoc...

October marks the one-year anniversary of the largest journalism collaboration in history: the Pandora Papers. In the last 12 months, the Pandora Papers has contributed to the downfall of governments, renewed calls for corporate transparency and official investigations into the offshore wealth of world leaders. This month we spoke to Pavla Holcová, a Czech reporter whose work in the Pandora Papers...

In this episode of Meet the Investigators, we speak with Alberto Arellano, the investigations director at Diego Portales University in Chile, about his early foray into journalism, the story that prompted the impeachment of Chile’s former president, his upcoming book and more. Arellano worked as a reporter and editor for CIPER, a center for investigative journalism in Chile, and partnered with ICI...

For the August edition of ICIJ's Meet the Investigators podcast, we speak with Golden Matonga, a Malawian reporter who is the investigations director at the Platform for Investigative Journalism in Malawi, and who’s written for various outlets, including Nation Publications Limited, the Telegraph and the Financial Times. Matonga has covered everything from an international criminal to a botched pr...

In this special edition of our podcast, ICIJ Chief Reporter Sydney P. Freedberg and ICIJ media partner Damien Leloup from Le Monde talk about the revelations and impact of the Uber Files, ICIJ’s latest investigation into the ride-hailing giant’s massive lobbying campaign during its early international expansion. The Uber Files expose how, between 2013 and 2017, Uber brazenly entered countries in d...

In this month's Meet the Investigators, we spoke with Irish Times reporter Colm Keena, who’s been covering business and political corruption for decades. Keena has been a member of ICIJ since 2014, and most recently worked with ICIJ just last month on a story about one of Ireland’s most notorious crime gangs.

Ahead of Press Freedom Day, ICIJ's Meet the Investigators podcast spoke with Maria Ressa, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Filipino journalist who co-founded Rappler, an online news site in the Philippines. In recent years, Ressa and Rappler have become the targets of numerous legal actions and threats from the Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte and his administration. She has maintained her inno...

In this episode of our Meet the Investigators podcast, we speak with Roman Anin, a Russian reporter who founded and runs IStories — short for “Important Stories” — a nonprofit news outlet focused on publishing investigative journalism. Anin has been labeled a “foreign agent” and the head of an “undesirable organization” by Russian authorities for his dogged reporting critical of President Vladimir...

This month, ICIJ's Meet the Investigators podcast goes behind the scenes of the Ericsson List, an international investigation that revealed how the global telecom giant used questionable contracts and shady deals to continue operating in ISIS-held regions of war-torn Iraq. Journalists Maggie Michael, Amir Musawy and Delphine Reuter talk about the challenges of unpacking the leaked files at the hea...

In this month's episode, we speak with Namini Wijedasa, deputy editor of investigations at The Sunday Times in Sri Lanka. In her nearly 30-year-long career, Namini has covered a wide range of issues, from war to corruption. Sri Lanka routinely ranks low in global press freedom rankings and Namini has faced many threats to expose the truth and hold powerful people to account.

Maria Teresa Ronderos is a Colombian journalist, director and co-founder of the Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (CLIP).

ICIJ member Malek Khadhraoui founded the Tunisian news site Inkyfada in 2013 as an independent investigative outlet with a unique business model. Since then, powered by an in-house design and development studio, Malek and his team have collaborated on seven ICIJ investigations, including the recent Pandora Papers. In this month's Meet the Investigators, Malek shares his story about his start in jo...

The Pandora Papers is ICIJ's biggest investigation to date, working with more journalists than ever to uncover the offshore financial secrets of the world's rich and powerful. In this month's Meet the Investigators, we talk to ICIJ team members Brenda Medina, Asraa Mustufa and Agustin Armendariz about what it was like behind the scenes of the investigation, and how the groundbreaking project came...

One year since Moussa Aksar's FinCEN Files investigation into a military procurement scandal made headlines in Niger, ICIJ's Will Fitzgibbon updates us on the legal intimidation and harassment that has been leveled at Moussa ever since. This month's Meet the Investigators also takes us behind the scenes of Moussa's career as a respected investigative journalist and the regular challenges he faces...

This month we're bringing you a recording of a special live edition of our Meet the Investigators podcast. ICIJ reporter Scilla Alecci interviewed Chilean reporter and journalism innovator Francisca Skoknic in a live, online event open exclusively to ICIJ's donors (who also had a chance to ask Francisca their own questions). In the interview, Francisca shares stories from early in her career, like...

This month, Slovenian reporter Anuška Delic takes us for a wild ride through her investigative career, from exposing a political party’s neo-Nazi connections, to pushing for spending transparency in European parliament, to starting her own media outlet that would live up to her elevated editorial standards. Delic is a firm believer in the value of reporters doing rigorous independent research and...

ICIJ member Marian Wilkinson is a firm believer in investigative journalism as a tool to hold the world's most powerful people accountable - and she has spent four decades in Australia doing just that. In this month's Meet the Investigators, Marian talks with ICIJ about going the extra mile on her stories, the importance of finding structure in documents, and more.