Disasters

Earthquake Preparedness: The Building Code Violations

The debate over seismic retrofitting frequently collapses into financial arguments, yet the geological math remains absolute. We are not dealing with abstract possibilities. We are facing calculated certainties. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) released its National Seismic Hazard Model…

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Discrimination

The AI Hiring Bias: Systemic Discrimination in Tech

The digitization of recruitment was sold as a solution to human fallibility, a mathematical sieve that would strip bias from…

By Ekalavya Hansaj

Defence

The Naval Shipyard Delays: Contractor Incompetence And The 40 Percent Readiness Gap in Attack Submarines

The United States Navy faces a readiness emergency that renders nearly half of its attack submarine fleet operationally useless. Official…

By Ekalavya Hansaj

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Wildlife Trafficking Networks In Africa – The Criminal Empire Destroying Africa’s Wilderness for Asian Markets

The numbers are staggering and the methods barbaric. Every year, criminal syndicates operating across Africa slaughter more than 30,000 elephants, 400 rhinos, and millions of pangolins to feed an insatiable…

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Stolen Lives: The Shocking Cost of Healthcare Procurement Corruption in Africa

The whistleblower’s hands trembled as she held the damning documents. Babita Deokaran, a financial manager at South Africa’s Tembisa Hospital, had uncovered what would become one of Africa’s most staggering…

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Foreign Aid Corruption Exposed: How Billions Vanish Into African Officials’ Pockets

The numbers are staggering and the evidence overwhelming: across Africa, billions of dollars in foreign aid intended to lift populations out of poverty are systematically diverted into the pockets of…

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Digital Shadows: How Cryptocurrency Bypasses Africa’s Financial Guardians

In a cramped internet café in Lagos, Nigeria, twenty-three-year-old Emmanuel Adebayo scrolls through his smartphone, executing what appears to be a routine peer-to-peer trade. While we research and investigate about…

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Shell Games: The Hidden Empire Controlling Africa’s Mining Fortune

Mining trucks navigate the scarred terrain of a massive copper pit in the Democratic Republic of Congo as we investigate and research about Africa Shell Companies Mining, their mechanical thunders…

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Hindi Imposition Controversy: India’s Fierce Struggle for Language Supremacy

78 years of Indian independence and Hindi Imposition Controversy still lingers. India’s 1950 Constitution named Hindi (in Devanagari script) as the official language of the Union, with English assured as…

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Data-Driven Reporting for Investigating the Cultural Sector

While it’s become commonplace to use data and AI tools for investigations into financial or government wrongdoing or the environment, it’s perhaps less common for investigating the arts and culture…

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Press Freedom in West Africa and a fight for its accountability

When Ghanaian journalist Noah Dameh was relentlessly harassed — targeted by police, dragged to court, and driven to failing health — for exposing a business magnate’s exploitative monopoly over the…

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Denmark Welfare System Algorithms: How Amnesty International Dug Deep Into Its Investigation

For more than two years, Amnesty International’s Algorithmic Accountability Lab (AAL) has led a sweeping probe into Udbetaling Danmark (UDK), Denmark’s welfare agency. The findings reveal troubling patterns that echo…

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Best Investigative Stories in French In 2024: Switzerland’s Hidden Slave Trade, Migrants ‘Dumped’ in the Desert, and a Religious Sex Scandal

The investigations that caught our eye this year display the diversity that exists in the world of Francophone watchdog reporting. We have seen stories in a wide variety of formats,…

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Goldsmith Prize Finalist: How One Collaboration Revealed Alleged Sex Abuse, Torture by Sheriff’s Deputies

It was no surprise to Jerry Mitchell to learn high-ranking law enforcement officials had been accused of behaving badly in parts of Mississippi where journalists had not kept a watchful eye. Data…

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National Human Rights Records: How Journalists Can Use a UN Process To Safely Evaluate

The United Nations process for evaluating national human rights records is long and a little complex, but nevertheless offers valuable material for journalists to use when exploring human rights violations.…

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Investigating Cold Cases: How Two Journalists Dug Deep Into Decades-Old Civil Rights Era Killings

In July 1965, police officer Edward Nugent shot and killed John Wesley Wilder, a Black man outside a cafe in Ruston, Louisiana. The officer — who fired five times and…

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Building Memory, Documenting the Truth: The Case of Nicaragua Confidencial

Is reporting possible while living under persecution? When you don’t know from where you’ll be attacked, or if you will be discredited, threatened, intimidated, or forced into exile? Where the…

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Terrible Foreign Agent Law in Bosnia Threatens Independent Media

When Republika Srpska’s National Assembly passed its controversial “foreign agent law” earlier this year, it did not just target civil society, it drew a direct line under the independence of…

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RSS Hindutva and the “Bharat First” Ideology: An Investigative Profile

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is India’s largest Hindu nationalist volunteer organization, founded in 1925. It claims to be a cultural body, but its Hindutva ideology and disciplined paramilitary-style structure…

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2025 Digital News Report By Reuters Institute: Eroding Public Trust, Growing Misinformation Threats, and Investigative Journalism’s Appeal

The Reuters Institute recently released is annual deep dive into the state of global digital media, and its findings capture a landscape undergoing rapid shifts among the public’s news consumption…

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Earthquake Preparedness: The Building Code Violations

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Wildlife Trafficking Networks In Africa – The Criminal Empire Destroying Africa’s Wilderness for Asian Markets

Stolen Lives: The Shocking Cost of Healthcare Procurement Corruption in Africa

Foreign Aid Corruption Exposed: How Billions Vanish Into African Officials’ Pockets

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Hindi Imposition Controversy: India’s Fierce Struggle for Language Supremacy

Data-Driven Reporting for Investigating the Cultural Sector

Press Freedom in West Africa and a fight for its accountability

Denmark Welfare System Algorithms: How Amnesty International Dug Deep Into Its Investigation

Best Investigative Stories in French In 2024: Switzerland’s Hidden Slave Trade, Migrants ‘Dumped’ in the Desert, and a Religious Sex Scandal

Goldsmith Prize Finalist: How One Collaboration Revealed Alleged Sex Abuse, Torture by Sheriff’s Deputies

National Human Rights Records: How Journalists Can Use a UN Process To Safely Evaluate

Investigating Cold Cases: How Two Journalists Dug Deep Into Decades-Old Civil Rights Era Killings

Building Memory, Documenting the Truth: The Case of Nicaragua Confidencial

Terrible Foreign Agent Law in Bosnia Threatens Independent Media

RSS Hindutva and the “Bharat First” Ideology: An Investigative Profile

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