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The offshore exposé: bigger than Wikileaks’‘cablegate’
It’s possibly the biggest single leak of documents in the history of investigative reporting. This week, the Washington, DC-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists released a series...
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Muckraking in Putin’s Russia
Putin aims a tranquilizer gun at a tiger at a nature reserve. Photo from premiere.gov.ru. (Creative Commons license) Can the worst of times for media and political freedoms in post-Soviet Russia also...
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Are wealth disclosures dangerous?
On April 15, French ministers posted their asset disclosures online for the first time ever. On the same day, Obama reversed a 2012 law that required officials to post their disclosures online. About a...
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The nonprofit news model is fragile
Nonprofits have been touted as a possible alternative to the collapsing business models of for-profit news. But a study released this week by the the Pew Research Center points to the fragility of that...
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What kind of reporting makes an impact? Some answers from Pakistan
The website of the Federal Bureau of Revenue in Pakistan released on Saturday the tax payments made by Members of Parliament. On February 15, Pakistan became one of only four countries in the world...
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Investigating with drones, stone tablets and the web (yes, LinkedIn, too)
This video was taken by a drone and then posted on a popular web portal in China. It provides an aerial view of the luxurious home of the son of Zhou Yongkang, the country’s security chief. There’s...
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Leak investigations and the right to report
Last night, I moderated a discussion that followed the screening of Silenced, a new documentary that tells the stories of three whistleblowers who exposed torture, mass surveillance and government...
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Satellite images as proof
In the past week, three stories on three very different issues showed once again how satellite images, until recently confined to the weather report, are now the stuff of front-page news. All three...
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Is it really investigative reporting’s golden age?
Child workers at glass factory in Indiana, 1908. American muckrakers in early 20th Century helped bring about labor reforms. (Photo by Louis Hines/Library of Congress) There’s been much talk lately...
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Speaking truth to power is an Asian value
(Adapted from keynote address at Uncovering Asia: The First Asian Investigative Journalism Conference, November 24, 2014, Manila) Liang Qichao founded the newspaper Shibao in Shanghai in 1904...
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