Our annual best-of list features stories on Pakistan’s sanitary workers, links between politicians and sugar mills, and the endless construction of a Balochistan road.
Also featuring a look at algorithmic bias in dispensing food aid, corruption in the country’s largest civil service exam, and a tragic construction accident.
In 2024, new and innovative digital tools provided leads and evidence for accountability stories on every continent.
Featuring a showcase of game-changing reporting methods based on insider tips from real-world investigations and conference presentations.
Reporters in Ukraine face constant physical danger, but the war hasn’t prevented them from uncovering corruption and other misdeeds.
Journalists in Russia and elsewhere in the region continue to expose wrongdoing via innovative investigative tools and traditional reporting methods.
Tenacious journalists in the MENA region press on, collaborating across borders and reporting on environmental pollution, corruption, and human rights abuses.
Journalists and media organizations from sub-Saharan Africa produced globally recognized, award-winning work in 2023.
The level of information censorship and manipulation by the Chinese authorities made the selection for this year’s editor’s picks particularly difficult.
Featuring stories on the risks of online propaganda and political disinformation to social media-based blackmail attacks against women.
Also featuring stories exposing political disinformation, human rights violations by police, online abuse of women, and exploitation of agriculture workers.
Featuring stories covering natural resources theft, forever pollution, corrupt business practices, and child sexual exploitation.
Ranging from the toxic legacy of asbestos after the earthquake to exploring meth addiction.
Featuring stories on climate change, pollution, algorithms, war and conflict, the Turkey-Syria earthquake, and a deadly migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean.
Featuring stories on the destruction of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, sexual abuse in the healthcare sector, and a sampling of the investigations into the Bolsonaro clan.
Featuring undercover reporting in prestige manufacturing projects, reconstructing a deadly Mediterranean shipwreck, and a look at the lucrative cancer treatment market.
Featuring investigations on China’s inroads into Indian territory, the true cost of New Delhi hosting the G20, predatory online loans, and toxic cough syrup.
This year’s round-up of the top investigative stories in Spanish explores a wide range, from deforestation in the Mexican Caribbean to drug trafficking on Spain’s Costa del Sol.
Despite challenging circumstances, international news outlets still broke major political stories and local journalists continued to push boundaries.
