Tax evasion & ICIJ reporting: governments recoup millions Nine years after the Panama Papers helped turbocharge authorities’ pursuit of hidden wealth, the global impacts of ICIJ’s offshore investigations are still being felt.

Over several months ICIJ analyzed information from tax and judicial authorities to calculate the impact of past investigations, such as the #PanamaPapers. ICIJ and media partners worldwide sent dozens of FOIAs to authorities.

Check out the latest tally:

Reuters wins Pulitzer for fentanyl trade investigation; New York Times wins four prizes The series of stories penetrate the international trade in the chemicals used to make fentanyl, the drug at the heart of a crisis that has killed some 450,000 Americans and counting.

Reuters wins Pulitzer for fentanyl trade investigation; New York Times wins four prizes reut.rs/4mgVtrs

Irish man @declanwalsh.bsky.social 🇮🇪 won the Pulitzer for International Reporting for his coverage of the war in Sudan

Weaponized Words: Uyghur Language Software Hijacked to Deliver Malware - The Citizen Lab Our investigation of a spearphishing campaign that targeted senior members of the World Uyghur Congress in March 2025 reveals a highly-customized attack delivery method. The ruse used by attackers rep...

NEW @citizenlab.ca report

"Weaponized Words: Uyghur Language Software Hijacked to Deliver Malware"

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Inside China’s machinery of repression — and how it crushes dissent around the world - ICIJ Interviews with more than 100 victims in 23 countries, along with internal government documents, reveal the sinister tactics China uses to silence critics beyond its borders.

Inside China’s machinery of repression — and how it crushes dissent around the world www.icij.org/investigatio...

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The ICIJ-led #ChinaTargets investigation reveals how China wields power inside international institutions, turning them into tools for its transnational repression under Xi Jinping’s regime.

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Behind closed doors, Kazakhstan challenges decades-old deal with $160 billion claim against Big Oil - ICIJ A secret ruling hints at the huge stakes in the arbitration case, which is expected to stretch until 2028.

Behind closed doors, Kazakhstan challenges decades-old deal with $160 billion claim against Big Oil

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The Bangladeshi politician who built a shadowy global property empire [FREE TO READ] FT investigation: Saifuzzaman Chowdhury and his family bought 482 properties overseas costing $295mn. The new government wants some of that money back

on.ft.com/4bonAQw The Bangladeshi politician who built a shadowy global property empire

Line graph time series of cumulative glacier mass balance relative to 1970 for the period of 1950 to 2024. There is a long-term decreasing trend through the entire time series.

My graphic showing cumulative change in the mass of reference glaciers around the world has now been updated with 2024's data. We are losing ice.

Graphic available at: zacklabe.com/climate-chan.... More info: wgms.ch/global-glaci...

AP sues Trump officials after being barred from some White House events The lawsuit says First and Fifth Amendment rights were violated.

The Associated Press has sued Trump officials after being barred from some White House events.

Russia’s executions of Ukrainian prisoners point to systematic policy FT documentary investigates rise in cases of Russian soldiers executing Ukrainian POWs

An apt moment for a remarkable piece of journalism, documenting Russia’s seemingly systematic murder of Ukrainian PoWs. (By @christopherjm.ft.com @joesinft.ft.com & the visual investigations team) on.ft.com/4gLNn61

Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface experienced record heat in 2024. See where and by how much – visualised In oceans and on land, from the north to the south pole, records were smashed for the monthly average temperature

Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface experienced record heat in 2024. See where and by how much – visualised

Liz Carolan: Elon Musk and his force of ‘super-geniuses’ believe democracy itself is ripe for disruption In the Silicon Valley world view, this is the notion that outsiders and naive geniuses can deliver transformative change; but applied to democracy, it is dangerous

Elon Musk is to government reform what Elizabeth Holmes is to medicine

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

The American Journalism Project receives $25 million to fund more nonprofit newsrooms and launch the “Knight Resiliency Lab” When the American Journalism Project launched in 2019, the Knight Foundation was among its earliest supporters. Right off the bat, the longtime journalism funder invested $20 million in the new…

"The first 22 organizations to partner with the American Journalism Project have doubled in size by diversifying revenue and added over 200 journalists to their staffs.”

Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war - Committee to Protect Journalists The Israel-Gaza war has taken an unprecedented toll on Gazan journalists since Israel declared war on Hamas following its attack against Israel on October 7, 2023. As of January 27, 2025, CPJ’s prelim...

167 journalists have been killed since the start of this particular assault

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Tested whether DeepSeek avoids referring to "Tiananmen Square", as per Reddit, and it does!

UK anti-corruption minister resigns amid Bangladeshi corruption probe into her family - ICIJ Tulip Siddiq, whose aunt is Bangladesh’s recently ousted leader, also faced questions over her family’s London properties.

Britain’s anti-corruption minister resigned Tuesday following media scrutiny over whether she benefited financially from her aunt, former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and reporting about how London properties she lived in were paid for.

Going with the flow: How scrapping our itinerary helped us land the story - ICIJ An ICIJ reporter traveled to Kazakhstan, where she found sources eager to share stories of environmental ruin.

By the time ICIJ reporter Nicole Sadek arrived in northwestern Kazakhstan, three of her interviews had been canceled, one of her interpreters had quit, and she had run out of cash.

Read how Sadek turned her #CaspianCabals reporting trip around:

PSNI and Met police unlawfully spied on two journalists, tribunal finds PSNI must pay £4,000 each in damages to Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey

PSNI and Met police unlawfully spied on two journalists, tribunal finds.

Congrats to Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey on this win for press freedom in Northern Ireland

www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

Investigating High-End Life Insurance In this episode of Tax Notes Talk, a Tax Notes investigation unveiled how money sheltered in offshore insurance investment vehicles has eluded IRS auditors hampered by poor training and silos within…

ICIJ's #OffshoreLeaks Database is a compilation from several international document leaks.

Check out how @taxnotes.bsky.social recently reported a series of articles on private placement life insurance working with @karriekehoe.bsky.social and the database’s help:

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Russia Tapes: Healthcare and Civilians Under Attack in Syria In 2019, the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/visual-investigations" target="_blank">Visual Investigations</a> team proved that Russian pilots had bombed four hospitals in Syria, a busy comm...

Russia is leaving Syria after 10 years. A reminder of the destruction they wrought - our series of investigations, some based on Russian cockpit recordings. www.nytimes.com/spotlight/vi...

«مهرّب» أرشيف التعذيب السوري يكشف هويته لـ«الشرق الأوسط» «سامي» الذي ارتبط اسمه كالتوأم مع قريبه «قيصر» في تهريب عشرات آلاف صور ضحايا التعذيب في سجون الأسد، يكشف هويته لـ«الشرق الأوسط»، ويوجه رسالة إلى السلطة الجديدة.

This is Osama Othman, civil engineer, otherwise known as Caesar, the brave man who photographed bodies of Syrian detainees who had been tortured to death & brought to the Military Hospital in Mezzeh, Damascus. Clips in this piece.

I highly recommend a @dublininquirer.com subscription for Christmas 🎄

I've had one for years now and my kids love reading the paper each month and looking at the pictures

Sam, Lois and their team publish fantastic stories about local communities and issues in Dublin

EU approves new sanctions on Russian ‘shadow fleet’ The penalties will bar dozens of additional ships from EU ports.

The European Union expects to vote Monday for new sanctions on Russia's "shadow fleet,” a group of older tankers — often with murky ownership structures — that transport billions of dollars’ worth of illicit Russian oil and circumvent existing international sanctions. www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...

Syrian activist whose suffering became symbol of Assad brutality found dead in Sednaya prison Mazen al-Hamada had escaped to tell the world about regime’s torture before returning to Damascus

The body of Mazen al-Hamada, the brave activist who told the world of the torture and rape he suffered at the hands of the Assad regime, was found in Sednaya prison this week

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Russian spies ‘plotted to kidnap opposition journalists’ Spy ring run from Norfolk town is accused of ensnaring reporter in honeytrap

Russian spies discussed abducting @christogrozev.bsky.social of @bellingcat.com and transporting him to Russia

www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

Excited my kids convinced me to launch M4Studio - a YouTube channel to share the behind the scenes of some of my team's most insane investigations over the years - how we burned hundreds of spies, exposed implausible government plots and conspiracies, and leveraged new open-source methods to do it.