International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc

ICIJ's mission is to bring accountability on a global scale. As a network of investigative journalists, we believe it is our job to arm citizens with information so that they feel empowered. We believe that truth is society's best weapon against corruption, injustice, and inequality.

Our aim is to produce investigative projects that uncover hidden truths, expose corruption, and spark global changes and public dialogue. We seek to bring a new kind of scrutiny to world events and complex problems - using data and document-supported facts that cannot be easily dismissed.

We also aim to serve the global journalism community by providing resources, data and opportunities for collaboration. Our unique and ground-breaking collaborative model allows us to build critical relationships with journalists in all corners of the world. As a result, we can produce stories on global issues and generate impact that no single outlet could create on its own. Our commitment to training and “learning by doing" provides journalists with opportunities to build their expertise and skills to help them produce great investigative stories.

Collaboration is at the center of everything we do. We have pioneered the kind of collaborative model that has been a game-changer for media outlets across the globe, from both a business and social impact perspective. It works like this: we bring a great story (like the Panama Papers or Pandora Papers) to a global team of reporters and news outlets. In turn, they give us their reporting, their graphic and design teams, and their distributions. ICIJ acts as the central brain of the operation, using specialized technology to securely disperse information and communicate and collaborate with our global team. The partners have access to resources they otherwise would have to pay for (like data, tools, and technology), and ICIJ has access to reporting from all over the world. In the end, we produce stories and achieve impact that no single news outlet could achieve on its own.

ICIJ has a team of about 45 staff members, which includes experienced reporters, editors, researchers, data analysts and developers based around the world. Our staff is multi-lingual and geographically diverse, representative of the journalists we work with and the readers we serve.

ICIJ's network consists of nearly 300 investigative journalists in 100 countries who collaborate on in-depth stories.

ICIJ has developed a suite of tools used to ensure secure communications and information sharing that allow for teams of journalists to work together across continents. We also tend to work with large data sets, both publicly available information as well as leaked data. Our data team can process and analyze data in ways that provide unique insights that enhance our reporting.

Our expertise, our global network and our access to data sets that exist nowhere else make ICIJ uniquely qualified to find hidden information and tell important stories.

Although we are a newly independent nonprofit organization, ICIJ has more than 20-year track record of producing investigations that lead to real-world, long-term impact. Our projects have exposed smuggling by multinational tobacco companies and by organized crime syndicates; investigated private military cartels, asbestos companies, and climate change lobbyists; and broke new ground by publicizing details of Iraq and Afghanistan war contracts.

ICIJ is also well known for its investigations into the global offshore economy, particularly the Panama Papers and Pandora Papers projects. These investigations have sparked resignations, arrests, and policy changes in dozens of countries. Our Offshore Leaks Database, which we make fully available for free on our website, includes more than 785,000 offshore companies, foundations, and trusts.

We have also been internationally recognized and praised for our work. In 2017, ICIJ won the Pulitzer Prize for the Panama Papers project. Our projects have received a host of other journalism awards, including the George Polk Award, Overseas Press Club Award, John Oakes Award, Editor and Publisher Award, Society of Professional Journalists, KC Kulish Award and the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award.

We are a tech-driven organization that focuses on innovation. ICIJ is seen as a leader in data journalism and journalism technology, with a highly sophisticated data team made up of journalists, researchers, developers, and analysts. Our digital innovations, our secure international network, and our access, through whistleblowers, to gigantic data sets that exist nowhere else, allow us to dig out information that would otherwise be hidden from view.