International network of investigative journalists
The International Network of Investigative Journalists ( International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ; abbreviated ICIJ ) was founded in 1997 as a project of the Center for Public Integrity (CPI), which was created as a non-profit organization in the USA . The tasks of the ICIJ include exposing abuse of power, corruption and breach of duty by powerful public and private institutions.
The ICIJ evaluated millions of documents about tax havens and letterbox companies as well as secret financial transactions of well-known personalities in tax havens, including the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers . In November 2018, the ICIJ and its partners published research on medical devices known as Implant Files . The latter was the first research that was not based on leaks from whistleblowers . In November 2019, the ICIJ published its research on China Cables in cooperation with partners .
More than 200 journalists in 70 countries belong to the network .
Hans Leyendecker , Head of Investigative Research at the Süddeutsche Zeitung , belongs to the network of investigative journalists from Germany, as do Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier .
From Austria, the journalist Kurt Kuch, who died at the beginning of 2015, was a member of the ICIJ, and in 2018 Michael Nikbakhsh became a full member of the network.
The ICIJ is supported by the Open Society Foundations founded by George Soros .
Web links
- ICIJ website (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The Implant Files: a global investigation into medical devices anthology = ICIJ . ( icij.org [accessed November 29, 2018]).
- ↑ tagesschau.de : Implant Files Dossier. Retrieved November 29, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Katrin Langhans , Frederik Obermaier : This is how the research went . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . November 25, 2018, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed December 2, 2018]).
- ↑ China Cables | China's Operating Manuals for Mass Internment. In: ICIJ. Retrieved December 14, 2019 (American English).
- ^ ICIJ Journalists . In: ICIJ . ( icij.org [accessed November 11, 2017]).
- ^ Süddeutsche de GmbH, Munich Germany: ICIJ - International network of investigative journalists. Retrieved November 14, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Bastian Obermayer , Frederik Obermaier : The Ibiza affair. Inside views of a scandal . With a foreword by Armin Wolf . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-462-05407-1 , pp. 44 .
- ^ Profile: Michael Nikbakhsh becomes a member of the ICIJ . Article dated June 5, 2018, accessed June 11, 2018.
- ^ ICIJ member Michael Nikbakhsh . Retrieved June 11, 2018.