50 Best Investigative Journalism Blogs and Websites

1. Rappler

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.
rappler.com
Facebook Followers 5.5MTwitter Followers 3.7MInstagram Followers 497.8K Frequency 30 posts / day Domain Authority 88 Get Email Contact

2. ProPublica

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.
propublica.org
Facebook Followers 462.6KTwitter Followers 919.1KInstagram Followers 166.1K Frequency 1 post / day Domain Authority 89 Get Email Contact

3. ICIJ

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
Facebook Followers 146.2KTwitter Followers 298.3KInstagram Followers 19.7K Frequency 2 posts / week Domain Authority 76 Get Email Contact

4. OpenSecrets

OpenSecrets is the nation's premier research and government transparency group tracking money in politics and its effect on elections and policy.
opensecrets.org
Facebook Followers 137.8KTwitter Followers 165.7K Frequency 5 posts / month Domain Authority 85 Get Email Contact

5. Center for Public Integrity

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
Facebook Followers 104.1KTwitter Followers 126.8KInstagram Followers 5.1K Frequency 1 post / day Domain Authority 73 Get Email Contact

6. OCCRP

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
Facebook Followers 77.2KTwitter Followers 158.9K Frequency 1 post / day Domain Authority 83 Get Email Contact

7. Reveal

Reveal dedicates extensive time and resources to uncovering original stories, and holding individuals and institutions accountable. Their investigative reporting drives real-world impact, influencing investigations, laws, and community solutions. Through groundbreaking storytelling, they empower the public, spur action, and safeguard democracy.
revealnews.org
Facebook Followers 164.9KTwitter Followers 83.4KInstagram Followers 14.7K Frequency 1 post / week Domain Authority 79 Get Email Contact

8. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

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.
thebureauinvestigates.com
Facebook Followers 60.8KTwitter Followers 59K Frequency 10 posts / month Domain Authority 76 Get Email Contact

9. Global Investigative Journalism Network

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
Facebook Followers 87.7KTwitter Followers 101.4K Frequency 1 post / day Domain Authority 59 Get Email Contact

10. American Oversight

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
Facebook Followers 16.6KTwitter Followers 112.9K Frequency 1 post / week Domain Authority 60 Get Email Contact

11. The Grayzone

The Grayzone is an independent news website dedicated to original investigative journalism and analysis on politics and empire.
thegrayzone.com
Facebook Followers 37.6KTwitter Followers 227.1KInstagram Followers 42.4K Frequency 2 posts / quarter Domain Authority 59 Get Email Contact

12. Wisconsin Watch

Wisconsin Watch is a nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative news outlet. They increase 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.
wisconsinwatch.org
Facebook Followers 9.8KTwitter Followers 10.6KInstagram Followers 3.8K Frequency 1 post / day Since Apr 2009 Domain Authority 57 Get Email Contact

13. Centre for Investigative Journalism

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
Facebook Followers 28.8KTwitter Followers 30.6K Frequency 4 posts / month Domain Authority 54 Get Email Contact

14. The Investigative Project

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.
investigativeproject.org
Facebook Followers 331.1KTwitter Followers 6.2K Frequency 1 post / week Domain Authority 64 Get Email Contact

15. Unearthed

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.greenpeace.org
Facebook Followers 27.6KTwitter Followers 39K Frequency 1 post / month Domain Authority 92 Get Email Contact

16. inewsource

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.
inewsource.org
Facebook Followers 7.4KTwitter Followers 7.3KInstagram Followers 8.7K Frequency 4 posts / week Domain Authority 52 Get Email Contact

17. Coda Story

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
Facebook Followers 14.1KTwitter Followers 24.4KInstagram Followers 3.2K Frequency 6 posts / month Domain Authority 59 Get Email Contact

18. Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting

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
Facebook Followers 5.7KTwitter Followers 6.1KInstagram Followers 983 Frequency 5 posts / day Domain Authority 56 Get Email Contact

19. Exposed by CMD

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
Facebook Followers 60.8KTwitter Followers 18.1K Frequency 2 posts / month Domain Authority 53 Get Email Contact

20. Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism

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
Facebook Followers 48.7KTwitter Followers 125.5KInstagram Followers 2.7K Frequency 1 post / quarter Domain Authority 58 Get Email Contact

21. Bellingcat

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. Get to read the Latest investigations and news articles on wars, satellites, and more on the blog.
bellingcat.com
Frequency 1 post / week Domain Authority 73 Get Email Contact

22. Investigate Midwest

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.org
Facebook Followers 1.6KTwitter Followers 2.8KInstagram Followers 391 Frequency 5 posts / week Domain Authority 49 Get Email Contact

23. Injustice Watch

Injustice Watch is a nonpartisan, nonprofit journalism organization that conducts in-depth research exposing institutional failures that obstruct justice and equality.
injusticewatch.org
Facebook Followers 7.1KTwitter Followers 12.4KInstagram Followers 5.4K Frequency 1 post / week Domain Authority 47 Get Email Contact

24. Sludge

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.
readsludge.com
Facebook Followers 6.2KTwitter Followers 21.9K Frequency 2 posts / week Domain Authority 55 Get Email Contact

25. IRE

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
Facebook Followers 22.7KTwitter Followers 41.1KInstagram Followers 2.1K Frequency 1 post / week Domain Authority 69 Get Email Contact

26. Type Investigations

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.org
Facebook Followers 4.1KTwitter Followers 14.7K Frequency 1 post / day Domain Authority 58 Get Email Contact

27. The Fund for Investigative Journalism

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
Facebook Followers 3.6KTwitter Followers 3.5K Frequency 1 post / month Domain Authority 46 Get Email Contact

28. InDepthNH

InDepthNH publishes investigative and statehouse news that informs citizens and holds the government accountable. The goal is to foster civil debate and spur citizens to action in a way that will make the government more responsive to its citizens.
indepthnh.org
Facebook Followers 3.9KTwitter Followers 3.3K Frequency 6 posts / day Domain Authority 41 Get Email Contact

29. Pursuit Magazine

As an online community of professional sleuths, Pursuit offers a platform for sharing innovative ideas and business models, ways to integrate new technology with old-school gumshoe know-how, and hard-won lessons from the field. And for the curious outsider, Pursuit is a front door to a world of mystery and intrigue, a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the lives of real spies and PIs.
pursuitmag.com
Facebook Followers 6KTwitter Followers 4.4K Frequency 1 post / week Domain Authority 43 Get Email Contact

30. Sheppard, Mullin | Government Contracts & Investigations Blog

Sheppard Mullin handles a full range of corporate and technology matters, high-stakes litigation and complex financial transactions. The government Contracts Law blog is designed to provide a full range of legal services to clients that do business with governmental entities.
governmentcontractslawblog.com
Facebook Followers 1.2KTwitter Followers 3.6K Frequency 3 posts / week Domain Authority 32 Get Email Contact

31. CovertAction Magazine

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.
covertactionmagazine.com
Facebook Followers 2.2KTwitter Followers 15.3K Frequency 1 post / day Domain Authority 32 Get Email Contact

32. Type Media Center

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
Facebook Followers 5.9KTwitter Followers 10.5KInstagram Followers 238 Frequency 1 post / day Domain Authority 57 Get Email Contact

33. Searchlight New Mexico

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.
searchlightnm.org
Facebook Followers 4.5KTwitter Followers 3.3KInstagram Followers 1.2K Frequency 1 post / week Domain Authority 45 Get Email Contact

34. Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting

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
Facebook Followers 1.3KTwitter Followers 2.9KInstagram Followers 187 Frequency 1 post / month Domain Authority 39 Get Email Contact

35. The Utah Investigative Journalism Project

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
Frequency 6 posts / quarter Domain Authority 26 Get Email Contact

36. Ethical Investigator

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.
ethicalinvestigator.com
Facebook Followers 8Twitter Followers 641 Frequency 1 post / quarter Since Mar 2011 Domain Authority 20 Get Email Contact

37. 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
Facebook Followers 422Twitter Followers 1.3KInstagram Followers 351 Frequency 6 posts / year Domain Authority 31 Get Email Contact

38. Investigative Journalism Reportika

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
Facebook Followers 21Twitter Followers 419 Frequency 1 post / day Domain Authority 2 Get Email Contact

39. Unlimited Hangout

Uncensored and independent investigative journalism by Whitney Webb and contributors.
unlimitedhangout.com
Frequency 1 post / week Domain Authority 8 Get Email Contact

40. Forbidden Stories

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
Facebook Followers 21.3KTwitter Followers 63.3KInstagram Followers 9.2K Frequency 1 post / year Domain Authority 53 Get Email Contact

41. First Draft News

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
Facebook Followers 48.9KTwitter Followers 45.8KInstagram Followers 4.6K Domain Authority 66 Get Email Contact

42. Investigative Post

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
Facebook Followers 10.8KTwitter Followers 6.3K Domain Authority 47 Get Email Contact

43. 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.eu
Facebook Followers 6.1KTwitter Followers 12.9KInstagram Followers 3.4K Frequency 30 posts / year Domain Authority 53 Get Email Contact

44. Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting-News

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
Twitter Followers 2.2K Domain Authority 47 Get Email Contact

45. Investigative Journalism Education Consortium

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
Facebook Followers 675Twitter Followers 331 Frequency 2 posts / year Domain Authority 29 Get Email Contact

46. Eye on Ohio

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
Facebook Followers 456Twitter Followers 2.3K Frequency 3 posts / year Domain Authority 40 Get Email Contact

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