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List Of Investigative Journalists
This is a list of investigative journalists. Only a small proportion of journalism consists of investigative journalism. However, the few who practice it can have a disproportionately large effect when their work brings attention to matters people care about but are unaware of. Practicing investigative journalists This is a partial list. , the Global Investigative Journalism Network currently has 249 members (most or all of which are networks or outlets serving multiple journalists), and Investigative Reporters and Editors has over 4,500 members practicing in the US and around the world. , the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists had almost 300 members. * Hayatte Abdou – Comorian journalist * Maura Ajak (born 1989) – South Sudanese journalist, broadcaster and camerawoman * Yevgenia Albats – Russian journalist * Roman Anin – Russian journalist * Justin Arenstein – South African journalist * Edik Baghdasaryan – Armenian journalist * James Ball (journal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journalism
Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy. The word, a noun, applies to the journalist, occupation (professional or not), the methods of gathering information, and the organizing literary styles. The appropriate role for journalism varies from country to country, as do perceptions of the profession, and the resulting status. In some nations, the news media are controlled by government and are not independent. In others, news media are independent of the government and operate as private industry. In addition, countries may have differing implementations of laws handling the freedom of speech, freedom of the press as well as slander and Libel, libel cases. The proliferation of the Internet and smartphones has brought significant changes to the media landscape since the turn of the 21st century. This has created a shif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uri Blau
Uri Blau (; born 1977) is an Israeli investigative journalist who writes for ''Haaretz'' and other publications. His work focuses on military affairs, corruption and "follow the money" investigations. Blau was convicted of possession of classified IDF documents and sentenced to community service for his role in the Anat Kamm-Uri Blau affair, Kamm-Blau affair. Career Blau attended high school in the Hebrew University Secondary School. Blau began his journalistic career in ''Kol Ha'ir'', a Jerusalem weekly newspaper. He specialized in exposing cases of misconduct by Israel Defense Forces, IDF soldiers. Unlike other military correspondents, he did not join the Military Reporters Section and tended to rely on low-ranking enlisted personnel, rather than high-ranking officers. In 2005 Blau joined the daily ''Haaretz'' and published a articles exposing alleged corruption by Ehud Olmert, then leader of Kadima Party, candidate for Prime Minister and later Prime Minister. This exposé has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignacio Gómez
Ignacio Gómez (born c. 1962; also known as "Nacho") is a Colombian journalist known for his high-risk reporting on organized crime, corruption, and paramilitary groups. In 2000, he received the "Special Award for Human Rights Journalism Under Threat" Amnesty Media Award. In 2002, he was awarded the International Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Background Gómez began working at ''El Espectador'', a daily newspaper in Bogotá, at the age of 24. The paper's editor-in-chief at the time was Guillermo Cano, who was a hero of Gómez. On 17 December 1986, only a few weeks after Gómez's hiring, Cano was assassinated outside the ''El Espectadors office by a man with a submachine gun, apparently in retaliation for his reporting on Pablo Escobar and other drug lords. In the 1980s and 1990s, Colombia had the highest rate of murders of reporters in the world, and over the next fourteen years, ten more ''El Espectador'' reporters would be murdered. Gómez later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Garbely
Frank Garbely (born 10 November 1947) is a Swiss Freelancer, independent journalist, non-fiction writer, author and director of documentary films. He is one of Switzerland's best known Investigative journalism, investigative journalists and has uncovered numerous scandals in his home country as well as abroad. Life and career Early life Garbely spent the first decade of his life in his birth-place of Reckingen, a Catholic-dominated village in Goms District, Goms, the uppermost part of the Rhône, River Rhône valley between its source and Brig-Glis, Brig in the German-speaking part of the Cantons of Switzerland, Swiss canton of Valais. As the child of poor peasant he was used to tending to his parents' cattle and goats.Garbely recollects in a biographical interview from 2018 that already as a primary-school pupil he was fascinated by news and reportages, especially from radio broadcasting. This was in contrast with the preachings of the priest who would regularly denounce t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Gan
Steven Gan (; born 1962) is a Malaysian journalist known for co-founding and editing the political news website ''Malaysiakini'' (English: "Malaysia Today"), Malaysia's "first and only" independent news source. In 2000, he was awarded the International Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Early years Steven Gan was born in 1962 in Ketari, a small new village near Bentong in Pahang. Gan's father was a poor immigrant originating from the Fujian province of China, and worked as a bus conductor. His mother was a primary school teacher at a Chinese school. Unlike her husband, Gan's mother came from a relatively better-off Cantonese family. Speaking on his childhood in a Malaysiakini interview, he described his father as being "quite dictatorial". At the age of 14, Gan ran away from home, living on the streets of Kuala Lumpur before he was coaxed back into his studies by his uncle. He would go on to receive a pre-college degree at a technical coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuel K
Immanuel or Emmanuel (, "God swith us"; Koine Greek: ) is a Hebrew name that appears in the Book of Isaiah (7:14) as a sign that God will protect the House of David. The Gospel of Matthew ( Matthew 1:22 –23) interprets this as a prophecy of the birth of the Messiah and the fulfillment of Scripture in the person of Jesus. ''Immanuel'' "God ( El) with us" is one of the "symbolic names" used by Isaiah, alongside Shearjashub, Maher-shalal-hash-baz, or Pele-joez-el-gibbor-abi-ad-sar-shalom. It has no particular meaning in Jewish messianism. In Christian theology by contrast, based on its use in Isaiah 7:14, the name has come to be read as a prophecy of the Christ, following Matthew 1:23, where ''Immanuel'' () is translated as (KJV: "God with us"), and also Luke 7:14–16 after the raising of the dead man in Nain, where it was rumoured throughout all Judaea that "God has visited his people" (KJV). Isaiah 7–8 Summary The setting is the Syro-Ephraimite War, 735-734 BCE, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Dyfvermark
Joachim Dyfvermark (born September 17, 1968) is a Swedish investigative reporter/producer working for the current affairs program ''Uppdrag granskning'' broadcast on Sveriges Television. Biography Joachim Dyfvermark has been working as a journalist since 1996. He´s currently working as producer at Sweden’s main investigative program "Uppdrag granskning" at SVT - Swedish Television. During the period 2000-2013 he formed an investigative team with Sven Bergman and Fredrik Laurin. From 2000-2006 the team worked for Swedish TV4:s investigative program "Kalla fakta", and from September 2006 on "Uppdrag granskning" at SVT - Swedish Television. From 2018 Dyfvermark works in team with Axel Gordh Humlesjö and Linda Kakuli Larsson, still at "Uppdrag granskning"/SVT. Joachim Dyfvermark has also been working as a news reporter on Swedish TV4 (1996-1997) and as a show host for TV4's investigative programme "Kalla fakta" (2000). He lectures occasionally on investigative journalism a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexenia Dimitrova
Alexenia Dimitrova ( Bulgarian: Алексения Димитрова) is a Bulgarian journalist and author who started her career in the late 1980s. She works for 24 chasa, the second largest Bulgarian daily. Her favorite topics are secret archives of the Cold War era, shadow affairs and corruption, money laundering, suspicious ownership and property, and secret societies. She profiled finding and reuniting lost people all over the world. For her series of publications about missing persons that started in July 2002, she received ''Chernorizets Hrabar'' (Bulgaria's most prestigious award for investigative journalism) in November 2004. She was nominated for the same award in 2003. Dimitrova has published more than 4,000 stories in 40 media in Bulgaria, the USA, Russia, and Great Britain. Her book ''The Iron Fist - Inside the Bulgarian and American Secret Archives'' was published in March 2005 in London and in English by Artnik Publishing. The same book (under the title ''The War of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Coulthart
Ross Coulthart is an Australian investigative journalist and author who has also worked in public relations. He believes that governments are covering up knowledge of UFOs and alien visitations. Early life Coulthart was born in the UK. He later moved along with his family to New Zealand and enrolled at the Victoria University of Wellington, where he graduated with a law degree. He then moved to Australia, where he started his career as a journalist. Career On a 1994 episode of the Australian TV program ''Four Corners'', Coulthart broadcast an allegation that the Australian Secret Intelligence Service "secretly holds tens of thousands of files on Australian citizens, a database completely outside privacy laws". Coulthart's allegations prompted the Minister for Foreign Affairs Gareth Evans to call a "root and branch" review of the ASIS led by Justice Gordon Samuels and Mike Codd. In their ''Report on the Australian Secret Intelligence Service'' released in 1995, Coulthart's alle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheila Coronel
Sheila S. Coronel is a Philippines-born investigative journalist and journalism professor. She is one of the founders of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ). In 2006, she was named the inaugural director of thStabile Center for Investigative Journalismat Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. In 2014, she was appointed the School's Academic Dean, a position she held until the end of 2020. Biography Coronel, the oldest of six children, was born to Antonio Coronel, a criminal defense attorney, and Dorotea Soto, an English teacher and entrepreneur. She graduated from the College of the Holy Spirit Manila and the University of the Philippines with a degree in political science. She became an activist in college and was nearly arrested during a military roundup in 1982. She earned a Master's degree in political sociology from the London School of Economics. Coronel began her journalism career during the twilight of the dictatorship of Ferdinand Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfredo Corchado
Alfredo Corchado Jiménez is a Mexican-American journalist and author who has covered Mexico for many years, and is currently the Mexico City bureau chief of ''The Dallas Morning News''. He specializes in covering the drug wars and the U.S.-Mexico border, writing stories on topics such as drug cartels and organized crime, corruption among police and government officials, and the spread of drug cartels into U.S. cities. The Nieman Foundation for Journalism has noted that he has “described mass shootouts that no one else writes about, obtained and described videos of revenge executions, and revealed how the few arrested for the mass murder of women in Juárez are often innocent stooges.” Howard Campbell, author of ''Drug War Zone'', has called Corchado “the top American journalist covering Mexico today” whose “knowledge of the Mexican political system, the drug trade, and modern Mexican society is non-pareil.” Corchado currently lives between El Paso and Mexico Cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hopewell Chin'ono
Hopewell Rugoho-Chin'ono is a Zimbabwean journalist. He has won numerous awards in journalism and has worked in both print and broadcasting journalism. He was a fellow at Harvard. Biography Hopewell Rugoho-Chin'ono is a documentary film maker and international journalist. He was the ITV News Africa Field Producer from 2008 to 2015 and The New York Times ZIMBABWE foreign correspondent from 2015 to 2017. Hopewell trained as a journalist at the Zimbabwean Institute of Mass Communications before getting his first post graduate Master of Arts degree in International Journalist from City University's Journalism school in London, England. After graduating from City University, he worked with the BBC World Service as a freelance radio producer. In 2003 he returned to his native Zimbabwe to work for the BBC as a freelance correspondent. The Zimbabwean government refused to give him a practicing license because of his link to the BBC. He won a British Government Chevening scholarship in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
