50 Best Investigative Journalism Blogs and Websites

1. Rappler

Pasig, National Capital Region, Philippines
Rappler is the Philippines leading digital media company that's driven by uncompromising journalism, enabled by technology, and enriched by communities of action. Find the latest news on politics, technology, business, and sports. Also here are the daily Rappler Newscast, and weekly sit-down interviews with key personalities. You will also find here Rappler's latest documentaries, commentaries, entertainment features, special coverages and animation.
Also in Philippines News Websites
rappler.com
5.3M⋅ 3.7M ⋅30 posts / day Get Email Contact More

2. ProPublica

New York City, New York, US
ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force. We dig deep into important issues, shining a light on abuses of power and betrayals of public trust - and we stick with those issues as long as it takes to hold power to account.
Also in Political News Websites
propublica.org
462.6K⋅ 911.3K ⋅1 post / day Get Email Contact More

3. ICIJ

Washington, District of Columbia, US
ICIJ is a unique organization. A U.S.-based nonprofit, we are both a small, resourceful newsroom with our own reporting team, as well as a global network of reporters and media organizations who work together to investigate the most important stories in the world.
icij.org
146.5K⋅ 300.4K ⋅4 posts / day Get Email Contact More

4. OpenSecrets

Washington, District of Columbia, US
OpenSecrets is the nation's premier research and government transparency group tracking money in politics and its effect on elections and policy.
opensecrets.org
137.8K⋅ 165.8K ⋅10 posts / month Get Email Contact More

5. Center for Public Integrity

Washington, District of Columbia, US
The Center for Public Integrity is an investigative newsroom that gives voice to the public and sparks change by going behind closed doors to reveal abuses of power in Washington. We cover politics, national security, the environment, labor, immigration, tech and finance.
publicintegrity.org
102.2K⋅ 127.4K ⋅3 posts / week Get Email Contact More

6. OCCRP

Washington, District of Columbia, US
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is a nonprofit investigative news reporting platform for independent media outlets around the world, publishing more than 100 investigations a year.
occrp.org/en
70.7K⋅ 155.4K ⋅2 posts / week Get Email Contact More

7. Reveal

Emeryville, California, US
At Reveal, we pour the necessary time and resources into unearthing original stories that hold people and institutions accountable for the problems they've caused or benefited from. Our investigative reporting consistently contributes to real-world impact, from civil and criminal investigations to new laws and policies, better-informed conversations and community-driven solutions.
revealnews.org
165K⋅ 84.6K ⋅4 posts / quarter Get Email Contact More

8. American Oversight

Washington, District of Columbia, US
American Oversight is a nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog that uses public records requests backed by litigation to fight corruption, drive accountability, and defend democracy. We believe transparency is a critical tool to promote integrity in government and to protect justice, truth, and the rule of law.
americanoversight.org
16.4K⋅ 112.8K ⋅1 post / week Get Email Contact More

9. Global Investigative Journalism Network

Silver Spring, Maryland, US
GIJN is an international association of nonprofit organizations that support, promote, and produce investigative journalism. GIJN hosts conferences and provides training, resources, and consulting.
gijn.org
86.7K⋅ 97.6K ⋅1 post / day Get Email Contact More

10. Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting

Louisville, Kentucky, US
The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom based in Louisville, Ky. Our mission is to protect society's most vulnerable citizens, expose wrongdoing in the public and private sectors, increase transparency in government and hold leaders accountable.
kycir.org
5.6K⋅ 6.1K ⋅1 post / week Get Email Contact More

11. Coda Story

New York, US
Coda Story reports on major currents shaping our world from disinformation to authoritarian technologies to the war on science. Coda stays on these stories to reveal why they matter, how they are connected and where they are heading next.
codastory.com
12.9K⋅ 23.9K ⋅3 posts / week Get Email Contact More

12. Wisconsin Watch

Madison, Wisconsin, US
The nonpartisan, nonprofit Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism increases the quality and quantity of investigative reporting in Wisconsin, while training current and future investigative journalists. Its work fosters an informed citizenry and strengthens democracy.
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wisconsinwatch.org
8K⋅ 10.3K⋅ 594 ⋅2 posts / day ⋅ Apr 2009 Get Email Contact More

13. The Grayzone

US
The Grayzone is an independent news website dedicated to original investigative journalism and analysis on politics and empire.
thegrayzone.com
29.2K⋅ 203.7K ⋅2 posts / month Get Email Contact More

14. The Investigative Project

Washington, District of Columbia, US
The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) is a non-profit research group founded by Steven Emerson in 1995. It is recognized as the world's most comprehensive data center on radical Islamic terrorist groups. For more than two decades, the IPT has investigated the operations, funding, activities and front groups of Islamic terrorist and extremist groups in the United States and around the world.
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investigativeproje..
331.1K⋅ 6.1K ⋅6 posts / month Get Email Contact More

15. Centre for Investigative Journalism

London, England, UK
The CIJ is an experimental laboratory that teaches reporters new tools alongside the traditional craft of investigative journalism. We incubate promising new investigative projects and open out investigative journalism into fertile new territory.
tcij.org
27.6K⋅ 29.9K ⋅3 posts / month Get Email Contact More

16. Unearthed

London, England, UK
Unearthed started out as a small team of journalists dedicated to open and accurate reporting on energy and climate change. We publish accurate, honest, change-making stories that illuminate parts of our changing world no one else is looking at.
unearthed.greenpea..
26.7K⋅ 39K ⋅1 post / month Get Email Contact More

17. inewsource

San Diego, CA
inewsource is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom dedicated to improving lives in the San Diego region and beyond through impactful, data-based investigative and accountability journalism.
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inewsource.org
7.4K⋅ 7.3K⋅ 857 ⋅1 post / week Get Email Contact More

18. Exposed by CMD

Madison, Wisconsin, US
The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) is a nationally recognized watchdog that leads in-depth, award-winning investigations into the corruption that undermines our democracy, environment, and economic prosperity.
exposedbycmd.org
62.6K⋅ 18.3K ⋅2 posts / week Get Email Contact More

19. Investigate Europe

Investigating a changing Europe. We, experienced journalists from eleven European countries, are 'Investigate Europe'. We research as a multinational team. We share, merge and crosscheck facts - tackling the usual national bias. We point out responsible transnational structures and actors in issues of European-wide relevance to make it possible to hold them accountable.
investigate-europe..
5.5K⋅ 10.9K ⋅23 posts / month Get Email Contact More

20. Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism

Philippines
The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) is an independent, nonprofit media agency that specializes in investigative reporting. It was founded in 1989 by nine Filipino journalists who realized, from their years in the beat and at the news desk, the need for newspapers and broadcast agencies to go beyond day-to-day reportage.
pcij.org/blog-archive
47K⋅ 127.3K ⋅10 posts / quarter Get Email Contact More

21. Investigate Midwest

Champaign, Illinois, US
Investigate Midwest is an independent, nonprofit newsroom. Our mission is to serve the public interest by exposing dangerous and costly practices of influential agricultural corporations and institutions through in-depth and data-driven investigative journalism.
investigatemidwest..
1.6K⋅ 2.7K ⋅3 posts / week Get Email Contact More

22. Belling Cat

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Bellingcat is an independent international collective of researchers, investigators, and citizen journalists using open source and social media investigation to probe a variety of subjects - from Mexican drug lords and crimes against humanity to tracking the use of chemical weapons and conflicts worldwide.
bellingcat.com
1 post / week Get Email Contact More

23. Injustice Watch

Chicago, Illinois, US
Injustice Watch is a nonpartisan, nonprofit journalism organization that conducts in-depth research exposing institutional failures that obstruct justice and equality.
injusticewatch.org
7K⋅ 12.3K ⋅2 posts / week Get Email Contact More

24. IRE

Missouri, US
Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc., is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of investigative reporting. IRE was formed in 1975 to create a forum in which journalists throughout the world could help each other by sharing story ideas, newsgathering techniques, and news sources.
ire.org/news/ire-news
21.9K⋅ 40.7K ⋅4 posts / month Get Email Contact More

25. Sludge

Brooklyn, New York, US
Sludge is an independent, nonprofit news outlet that produces investigative journalism on lobbying and money in politics. We look beyond public records and disclosures to reveal the hidden networks and conflicts of interest that drive systemic corruption.
Also in Money In Politics Blogs
readsludge.com
6.1K⋅ 22.2K ⋅5 posts / month Get Email Contact More

26. Type Investigations

New York City, New York, US
Type Investigations is a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to transforming the field of independent investigative journalism. We produce high-impact reporting that amplifies new voices and offers reporters unparalleled opportunities to take risks, break news, and effect change. Type Investigations covers the most urgent issues of our time, including racial and economic justice, climate and environmental health, and civil and human rights.
typeinvestigations..
4.1K⋅ 14.7K ⋅16 posts / year Get Email Contact More

27. The Fund for Investigative Journalism

Washington, District of Columbia, US
The Fund for Investigative Journalism provides grants and other support to independent journalists and news organizations to produce high-quality, unbiased, nonpartisan investigative stories that have an impact.
fij.org
3.4K⋅ 3.4K ⋅26 posts / quarter Get Email Contact More

28. InDepthNH

New Hampshire, US
InDepthNH publishes investigative and statehouse news that informs citizens and holds government accountable. Our goal is to foster civil debate and spur citizens to action in a way that will make government more responsive to its citizens.
indepthnh.org
3.3K⋅ 3.2K ⋅2 posts / day Get Email Contact More

29. Pursuit Magazine

Nashville, Tennessee, US
Pursuit is the leading educational media publisher for professional investigators, with editorial emphasis on creative and proven investigative techniques, smart use of technology, ethics, and business leadership.
pursuitmag.com
5.8K⋅ 4.3K ⋅9 posts / quarter Get Email Contact More

30. CovertAction Magazine

New York, US
CovertAction Magazine began publishing in 1978 as a newsletter called Covert Action Information Bulletin (CAIB) and later as CovertAction Quarterly (CAQ). The magazine developed a following not as a conspiracy-theory-related publication, but as a source for reliable, consistent, and accurate investigative reporting.
covertactionmagazi..
1.5K⋅ 14.5K ⋅5 posts / week Get Email Contact More

31. Shepard Mullin | Government Contracts Law Blog

Los Angeles, California, US
Government Contracts Law blog is designed to provide a full range of legal services to clients that do business with governmental entities. Sheppard Mullin's Government Contracts Practice Group provides a full range of legal services to clients that do business with governmental entities. We advise clients on complying with complex government regulations and defending them in the event of litigation.
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governmentcontract..
1.2K⋅ 3.6K ⋅5 posts / month Get Email Contact More

32. Searchlight New Mexico

Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Searchlight New Mexico is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization dedicated to investigative and public service journalism in the interest of the people of New Mexico. Searchlight New Mexico delivers high-impact investigative reporting to inspire New Mexicans to demand action on systemic problems that plague New Mexico.
Also in New Mexico News Websites
searchlightnm.org
3.2K⋅ 3.2K ⋅3 posts / month Get Email Contact More

33. Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting

Phoenix, Arizona, US
The Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting is the state's only independent, nonpartisan and collaborative nonprofit newsroom dedicated to statewide, data-driven investigative reporting. AZCIR holds powerful people and institutions accountable by exposing injustice and systemic inequities through investigative journalism.
azcir.org
1.2K⋅ 2.9K ⋅3 posts / week Get Email Contact More

34. Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting-News

Mississippi, US
Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting is a nonprofit news organization that seeks to empower citizens in their communities by informing and educating the public. Whether reporting on the criminal justice system, public education funding, prisons, public corruption, political cronyism, generational poverty, health woes, racial disparities or a host of other issues, this nonprofit center is making a difference in Mississippi's future.
mississippicir.org..
2.1K ⋅1 post / day Get Email Contact More

35. Type Media Center

New York, US
Type Media Center is home to a half-dozen programs and a community of hundreds of journalists, authors, and writing fellows. Our dynamic range of programs includes a bestselling book publishing imprint, Bold Type Books; our award-winning Type Investigations (formerly known as the Investigative Fund), which supports groundbreaking investigative journalism.
typemediacenter.org
5.8K⋅ 10.5K ⋅3 posts / quarter Get Email Contact More

36. Investigative Reporting Workshop

Washington, District of Columbia, US
The Investigative Reporting Workshop publishes in-depth stories about government and corporate accountability, ranging widely from the environment and health to national security and the economy.
investigativerepor..
5.5K⋅ 3.7K ⋅4 posts / month Get Email Contact More

37. The Utah Investigative Journalism Project

Salt Lake City, Utah, US
The Utah Investigative Journalism Project was founded in 2016 as a non-profit, public service journalism and educational resource for the state and region. By partnering with newspapers and broadcast media on difficult in-depth stories, our mission is to help these institutions continue their historic role as government watchdogs and defenders of the poor and oppressed.
utahinvestigative.org
1 post / week Get Email Contact More

38. Ethical Investigator

New York City, New York, US
The Ethical Investigator by Charles Griffin Intelligence covers asset search, due diligence, and other private corporate investigation matters. Charles Griffin Intelligence is a New York-based consulting firm that assists lawyers, corporations, and individuals with fact-finding for global litigation and due diligence.
Also in Legal Blogs, Legal Ethics Blogs
ethicalinvestigato..
6⋅ 645 ⋅2 posts / quarter ⋅ Mar 2011 Get Email Contact More

39. Eye on Ohio

Ohio, US
Eye on Ohio is non-profit, public service news organization producing in-depth, enterprise and investigative journalism. Our mission is to promote the public good by pursuing in-depth, underreported and high-impact journalism which exposes injustice and explores its consequences. Our reporting investigates the truth, holds those in power accountable, and seeks solutions.
eyeonohio.com
436⋅ 2.3K ⋅3 posts / month Get Email Contact More

40. Investigative Journalism Education Consortium

Champaign, Illinois, US
The Investigative Journalism Education Consortium brings together the experience and knowledge of university educators who teach investigative and data journalism throughout the world.
ijec.org
581⋅ 329 ⋅1 post / quarter Get Email Contact More

41. Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism

CCIJ is a nonprofit media organization that convenes and leads global investigations that are grounded in strategic mentorship. We focus on producing work for and about underserved communities through deep reporting on vital global issues.
ccij.io/blog
99⋅ 969 ⋅1 post / month Get Email Contact More

42. Investigative Journalism Reportika

US
The Investigative Journalism Reportika or IJ-reportika is a go-to website for factual and authentic investigative journalism. We publish exhaustive reports revealing all the facets of truth.
ij-reportika.com
7⋅ 383 ⋅3 posts / day Get Email Contact More

43. Unlimited Hangout

Uncensored and independent investigative journalism by Whitney Webb and contributors.
unlimitedhangout.com
9 posts / month Get Email Contact More

44. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

London, England, UK
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is the UK's largest non-profit newsroom. Through fact-based, unbiased reporting we expose systemic wrongs, counter misinformation and spark change.
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thebureauinvestiga..
59.2K⋅ 57.7K ⋅9 posts / quarter Get Email Contact More

45. Forbidden Stories

Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Forbidden Stories fosters collaboration among journalists to make visible and impactful the work of reporters who can no longer investigate. Our goal is to keep stories alive and to make sure that a maximum number of people have access to uncensored news on such crucial topics as the environment, health, human rights, and corruption.
forbiddenstories.org
20.4K⋅ 59.2K ⋅4 posts / year Get Email Contact More

46. First Draft News

London, England, UK
At First Draft, our mission is to protect communities from harmful misinformation. We work to empower society with the knowledge, understanding, and tools needed to outsmart false and misleading information.
firstdraftnews.org..
49K⋅ 46.3K ⋅12 posts / year Get Email Contact More

47. Investigative Post

Buffalo, New York, US
Investigative Post is the only news organization in WNY dedicated exclusively to watchdog journalism. We produce fact-based, nonpartisan investigative stories and analyses on issues that matter to the citizens and taxpayers of Buffalo and WNY.
investigativepost.org
10.8K⋅ 6.2K ⋅16 posts / quarter Get Email Contact More

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