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Following the Money, from Laundromats to Central Banks
How did three reporters investigate complex financial stories featuring Nigerian billionaires, Eurasian oligarchs, and the head of Lebanon’s central bank?
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From Fact-Checker to Editor-in-Chief: How One Woman Rose to the Top at OCCRP
Miranda Patrucic built her career investigating crime and corruption in Central Asia and Azerbaijan. Hear her tips on avoiding burnout, difficult interviews, and in believing in your ability to uncover the truth.
Methodology Reporting Tools & Tips
What’s in a Name? Investigating People Across Borders
It’s increasingly common for criminals to operate across borders. So investigative reporters also need to know how to identify and investigate people whose names use different alphabets, are formed by unfamiliar conventions, or carry unexpected cultural signals. Read these tips from the OCCRP on best practices for investigating names from outside the English-speaking world.
Case Studies Methodology News & Analysis
Q & A with OCCRP’s Czech Reporter Pavla Holcová
Pavla Holcová is an investigative journalist and founder of the Czech Centre for Investigative Journalism, an independent outlet that does cross-border investigations on organized crime and its impact on the Czech Republic (Czechia) and Slovakia.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Reporters Shield: New Program Launches to Help Investigative Reporters Tackle Lawsuits
To confront the ongoing legal threats to independent media around the world, the Vance Center and OCCRP are launching Reporters Shield, a multi-million dollar legal support program and defense fund for investigative journalism and newsrooms.
Resource
Editor’s Pick: 2022’s Best Investigative Stories in India
GIJN’s Hindi editor offers his picks for the best investigative journalism stories from India during 2022.
Methodology Reporting Tools & Tips
Using Telegram Chats to Reveal Life in Bucha Under Russian Occupation
How reporters at OCCRP took a neighborhood Telegram chat from Bucha, Ukraine and turned it into an investigation of life under Russian occupation.
Safety & Security
Why Small Investigative Outlets Lead the Way on Newsroom Digital Safety
Some of the most significant progress in newsroom information security over the past decade has been in smaller, more recently-formed digital startups — many of them investigative outlets. They are proving they can effectively incorporate strong information security strategies into their highly adaptive and responsive workflows.
Reporting Tools & Tips
GIJN Toolbox: Hunting for Secret Money and Financial Conflicts of Interest
In this edition of GIJN Toolbox, we profile three brand new — or newly expanded — tools to dig into financial secrecy and hidden gains from corruption or crime. Our list includes a user-friendly database to search for sanctions and conflict-of-interest red flags, a site that uses an algorithm to detect hidden bank accounts, and a newly expanded database on the true owners of offshore companies.
News & Analysis Sustainability
Retaining Independence and Fighting Lawsuits with a Membership Model
DOSSIER, an Austrian outlet that is a member center of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, has been able to offset the financial challenges experienced by many media outlets in Austria — and combat a series of vexatious lawsuits — thanks to its membership program.