How They Did It
Going Undercover to Reveal a Secret Meeting of Germany’s Far-Right
Behind the scenes of the blockbuster CORRECTIV investigation that revealed a disturbing far right ‘master plan’ to expel millions of people from Germany.
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threats to safety
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News & Analysis Press Freedom
Forced Out: Latin America’s Investigative Reporters Pushed into Exile
A press freedom crisis is rippling across Latin America and in some places the technological, legal, and physical threats have grown so severe that investigative journalists feel compelled to flee their home countries to keep reporting.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Digital Attacks Become Key Weapon to Silence Independent Media
Independent media now have to deal with an increasing number of digital attacks on press freedom, from brute-force attacks on their servers to more sophisticated assaults on their social media presence and digitally-based legal challenges.
News & Analysis Safety & Security
After the Taliban Takeover, Will an All-Female Afghan News Site Survive?
Afghan journalist Zahra Joya, 28, is not hopeful of a bright future for women journalists in her country. In November 2020, she used her personal savings to recruit five women journalists and start Rukhshana Media. They wanted to go around the country and tell the stories of maternal mortality, domestic violence and women’s reproductive health. Since then, they have published stories on the taboo of menstruation, child marriage, street harassment, gender discrimination and what it means to live as a survivor of rape.
News & Analysis
Document of the Day: Iranian Agents Charged in Plot to Kidnap US Journalist
The US Justice Department indicted five Iranian intelligence officials last week, alleging they were part of a plot to surveil and eventually abduct an Iranian-American investigative journalist living in the US. Read the indictment.
News & Analysis
Mafia and the Media: Italian Journalists Face Threats
While precarious employment, low pay and trumped up defamation lawsuits means Italian journalists are under increasing financial pressure, it’s the constant threat from mafia and organized crime that is putting reporters at risk and making in-depth reporting that much more difficult.