Over several months ICIJ analyzed information from tax and judicial authorities to calculate the impact of past investigations, such as the #PanamaPapers. ICIJ and media partners worldwide sent dozens of FOIAs to authorities. Check out the latest tally:

Reuters wins Pulitzer for fentanyl trade investigation; New York Times wins four prizes reut.rs/4mgVtrs

Irish man @declanwalsh.bsky.social 🇮🇪 won the Pulitzer for International Reporting for his coverage of the war in Sudan

NEW @citizenlab.ca report "Weaponized Words: Uyghur Language Software Hijacked to Deliver Malware" citizenlab.ca/2025/04/uygh...

Inside China’s machinery of repression — and how it crushes dissent around the world www.icij.org/investigatio...

Hello #Bluesky crowd - Posting here for the first time to share that @icij.org ’s new investigation #ChinaTargets will be with you soon, shedding new light on the mechanics of China’s transnational repression and more...

Keep an eye out for ICIJ’s upcoming investigation #ChinaTargets. Get the stories as soon as we publish! - In your email inbox: bit.ly/3SCsH8c - Or straight to your WhatsApp: bit.ly/ICIJWhatsApp

The ICIJ-led #ChinaTargets investigation reveals how China wields power inside international institutions, turning them into tools for its transnational repression under Xi Jinping’s regime. Don’t miss our latest international collaboration: bit.ly/3SCsH8c

Behind closed doors, Kazakhstan challenges decades-old deal with $160 billion claim against Big Oil www.icij.org/investigatio...

on.ft.com/4bonAQw The Bangladeshi politician who built a shadowy global property empire

My graphic showing cumulative change in the mass of reference glaciers around the world has now been updated with 2024's data. We are losing ice. Graphic available at: zacklabe.com/climate-chan.... More info: wgms.ch/global-glaci...

The Associated Press has sued Trump officials after being barred from some White House events.

An apt moment for a remarkable piece of journalism, documenting Russia’s seemingly systematic murder of Ukrainian PoWs. (By @christopherjm.ft.com @joesinft.ft.com & the visual investigations team) on.ft.com/4gLNn61

Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface experienced record heat in 2024. See where and by how much – visualised

Elon Musk is to government reform what Elizabeth Holmes is to medicine www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

"The first 22 organizations to partner with the American Journalism Project have doubled in size by diversifying revenue and added over 200 journalists to their staffs.”

167 journalists have been killed since the start of this particular assault cpj.org/2025/01/jour...

Tested whether DeepSeek avoids referring to "Tiananmen Square", as per Reddit, and it does!

Britain’s anti-corruption minister resigned Tuesday following media scrutiny over whether she benefited financially from her aunt, former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and reporting about how London properties she lived in were paid for.

By the time ICIJ reporter Nicole Sadek arrived in northwestern Kazakhstan, three of her interviews had been canceled, one of her interpreters had quit, and she had run out of cash. Read how Sadek turned her #CaspianCabals reporting trip around:

PSNI and Met police unlawfully spied on two journalists, tribunal finds. Congrats to Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey on this win for press freedom in Northern Ireland www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

ICIJ's #OffshoreLeaks Database is a compilation from several international document leaks. Check out how @taxnotes.bsky.social recently reported a series of articles on private placement life insurance working with @karriekehoe.bsky.social and the database’s help:

News for all! Get your starter pack of the UK and Ireland's best independent, public interest news right here: go.bsky.app/J6iwyzz, thanks to @thebristolcable.bsky.social!

Russia is leaving Syria after 10 years. A reminder of the destruction they wrought - our series of investigations, some based on Russian cockpit recordings. www.nytimes.com/spotlight/vi...

This is Osama Othman, civil engineer, otherwise known as Caesar, the brave man who photographed bodies of Syrian detainees who had been tortured to death & brought to the Military Hospital in Mezzeh, Damascus. Clips in this piece.

I highly recommend a @dublininquirer.com subscription for Christmas 🎄 I've had one for years now and my kids love reading the paper each month and looking at the pictures Sam, Lois and their team publish fantastic stories about local communities and issues in Dublin

The European Union expects to vote Monday for new sanctions on Russia's "shadow fleet,” a group of older tankers — often with murky ownership structures — that transport billions of dollars’ worth of illicit Russian oil and circumvent existing international sanctions. www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...

The body of Mazen al-Hamada, the brave activist who told the world of the torture and rape he suffered at the hands of the Assad regime, was found in Sednaya prison this week www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Russian spies discussed abducting @christogrozev.bsky.social of @bellingcat.com and transporting him to Russia www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

Excited my kids convinced me to launch M4Studio - a YouTube channel to share the behind the scenes of some of my team's most insane investigations over the years - how we burned hundreds of spies, exposed implausible government plots and conspiracies, and leveraged new open-source methods to do it.

Want to meet up and mingle with fellow journalists? We’re organizing a *virtual* meetup next week! All are welcome — you don’t have to be an IRE member. 🗓️ Tuesday, Dec. 17 ⏰ 6:00 p.m. ET Register here: journalism-cuny.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Reuters used lsynthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites to identify and count the graves in a Sudanese camp for displaced persons. Really fascinating work. www.reuters.com/investigates...

The grad trainee programme at the FT is extraordinary. We train you for THREE years you get decent money and an overseas placement. I've seen other news trainee schemes and this one is exceptional. It's open now. Pls share with anyone you know who would benefit d/l 14/1/25 www.ft.com/content/314f...

A harrowing account of families pouring through the rooms of the infamous Sednaya prison looking for loved ones

SIPO asked not to be in charge of enforcing lobbying standards for former public servants www.thejournal.ie/sipo-lobbyin... via @thejournal.ie @kenfoxe.bsky.social

Five years since ICIJ’s #ChinaCables investigation, Uyghurs in exile and advocates say the ethnic minority group’s conditions haven’t improved. Read the investigation's anniversary piece:

Russian authorities searched the home and interrogated the parents of IStories Editor Alesya Marokhovskaya, today in a clear act of intimidation istories.media/en/news/2024...

NEW: A year-long BBC Eye investigation has uncovered that tomato paste produced using forced labour in Xinjiang, western China, is likely being sold in major UK and German supermarkets. Watch the documentary here: youtu.be/dtv_1eafJn4?...

Some new additions to my 'nerdy journalist' starterpack. A list full off international datajournalists. Welcome to @leonyin.org @brausechristina.bsky.social @jorisveerb.bsky.social @brechtcastel.bsky.social @marcelpauly.bsky.social @annadowell.bsky.social and @techjoe.bsky.social go.bsky.app/KKnngCM

A beautiful winter afternoon in Amsterdam

Here's my latest (free!) Digital Investigations newsletter. It's got: 📍 Useful Bluesky tools & tips 📍 New tools for YouTube, AI prompts, username search & more! 📍 Webinars and articles to help with research and reporting Read/subscribe: digitalinvestigation...

IRE members, join us for this free webinar on Tuesday, Dec. 10! Speakers from Bright Data will share techniques you can use to map social media, and comb accounts to keep those with influence and power accountable. www.ire.org/event/free-w...

Some great digital security tips and tricks for people who are new to investigative reporting from our Source Protection Programme Senior Trainer @runasand.bsky.social over at @gijn.org gijn.org/resource/int...

Investigative journalism is needed now more than ever. So, to encourage budding reporters and independent watchdogs around the world, we at @gijn.org & the Greek media incubator iMEdD commissioned some of the best media minds to create a 10-chapter Introduction to Investigative Journalism Guide.

Global Witness have - yet-a-bloody-gain - found that TikTok approved electoral disinformation ads www.rte.ie/news/busines...

I’ve a round up of the digital campaign for #GE24 in the Irish Times; some nuggets > FF have an attack ad on SF housing they don’t want Dubs to see > Harris uploaded 60 TikToks in 2.5 wks, plus 45 to LinkedIn, yet viral moment dominate > IFP go big on YT ads www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...

Elon Musk's legal filing in the InfoWars bankruptcy case is both batshit crazy and also what you'd expect. It asserts that X owns every account, can do whatever it wants with them, and can inject itself into legal proceedings that have nothing to do with Twitter www.404media.co/xs-objection...

New from 404 Media: Bluesky may have said it won't use user data to train generative AI, but someone else just published a dataset of million Bluesky posts for "machine learning research". Already very popular dataset, your data may be scraped www.404media.co/someone-made...

JOB: NYT is hiring for an early-career fellow on A.I. Initiatives! We're a small, interdisciplinary group experimenting to help reporters, facilitate newsroom processes and reimagine reader-facing experiences. Apply by Dec. 2. DM with any questions! boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti... #JobSky

RSVPs are now open for our December meetup! We'll be learning how to make maps and use geographical data with R! 🗺️ www.meetup.com/journocoders...