Program areas at International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Editorial program - our revolutionary collaborative model redefined journalism in the 21st century. Our infrastructure, technology and expertise allow hundreds of Journalists to work together across borders to produce impactful, contextual, insightful pieces that no single newsroom could produce on its own.in 2023, our member network grew to 300 Journalists from more than 100 countries. Their reporting exposed government corruption, money laundering and tax-evasion schemes that involved some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world. Cyprus confidential pulled back the veil on the covert role played by cypriot financial enablers in shielding russian oligarchs from western sanctions. Deforestation Inc. Exposed failures of environmental auditors to uphold responsible forestry practices. Trafficking Inc. Exposed global sex trafficking networks and abusive labor practices on u.s. military bases and within some of the world's largest corporations.icij's work is crucial to the health of democracy and to the wellbeing of people around the world. By exposing corruption, wrongdoing and inequity, we hold power to account and provide information the world needs to right itself.
Technology - our biggest and most impactful investigations would not have been possible without datashare, the research platform we created and now make available to anyone who needs to analyze massive troves of data. The software we developed is now being used by university researchers, government agencies, ngos and other Journalists working on their own investigations around the world.a key feature of datashare is its ability to search many different types of documents (pdfs, spreadsheets, slides, images, text documents, etc.) To sort information, extract email addresses and recognize names of people, organizations and locations based on their context. We use datashare to develop story ideas, to calculate key findings, to structure data, and to recognize patterns and trends that drive their reporting.research and data - icij structures data and identifies patterns and trends that drive reporting, research and investigations. We maintain a growing repository of nearly 70 million documents for use by our Journalists and partners. Additionally, we provide public access to 930,000 records in our offshore leaks and International medical devices databases. Anyone can use them to do their own research on offshore companies or on medical device recalls, safety alerts and field safety notices. More than 2.8 million unique users viewed 11.3 million pages in our offshore leaks database last year. That's an average of 1,290 page views every hour.