# Investigative Journalism URL: https://www.transparency.org/en/advocacy/investigative-journalism Type: Advocacy Published: 2020-03-05 Updated: 2020-04-02 --- ![](https://images.transparencycdn.org/images/priscilla-du-preez-I79wWVFyhEQ-unsplash_200401_234716.jpg?auto=compress&fit=crop&fm=webp&w=1200) Photo: Priscilla du Preez / unsplash.com ## Collaboration with investigative Journalists Investigative journalists and civil society groups both have a critical role to play in documenting and proving corruption. Yet while tycoons, corrupt officials and criminal networks are highly organised and coordinated, journalists and civil society have often worked in silos. Stories of high-level corruption have broken on front pages the world over, with follow-up action to ensure accountability and push for lasting change often lagging behind. In a fast changing media landscape with intense competition for resources and attention, costly and time-intensive investigations into corruption are at risk of being lost, along with the skills and expertise needed to complete them. ## How does our work with investigative journalists affect you? If the corrupt aren’t punished for wrongdoing revealed in the media, and if lasting change isn’t achieved, fatalism and hopelessness can set in, destroying the public’s trust in government and creating support for populist or authoritarian solutions. By working to seek justice for the victims of corruption, we can help build fairer and more accountable societies for everyone. ## What needs to be done? - Expose the systems that allow hundreds of billions of dollars to be siphoned off from natural resources and state funds - Expose the perpetrators, professional enablers and loopholes that facilitate flows of illicit money - Fight for the key changes needed in countries that are held back by corruption - Push for justice to ensure accountability, good governance and sustainable development. ## What we're doing about it ![](https://images.transparencycdn.org/images/joel-de-vriend-B4coIKuk55I-unsplash.jpg?auto=compress&fit=crop&fm=webp&w=1200) ### [Working in partnerships](https://www.transparency.org/en/projects/global-anti-corruption-consortium) Through the Global Anti-Corruption Consortium, Transparency International, the Organised Crime and Reporting Project (OCCRP) and other partners share information and collaborate so that TI can seek justice and achieve lasting change. [Find out more the Global Anti-Corruption Consortium](https://www.transparency.org/en/projects/global-anti-corruption-consortium) ![](https://images.transparencycdn.org/images/mike-palmowski-q7lbJF9XJ9o-unsplash.jpg?auto=compress&fit=crop&fm=webp&w=1200) ### [Supporting young journalists](https://j4t.org/) The [Journalists for Transparency (J4T)](http://www.j4t.org/) initiative from the International Anti-Corruption Conference supports young journalists working on corruption investigations, developing the next generation of extraordinary investigative storytellers to expose and raise awareness of corruption. [Read the latest from J4T](https://j4t.org/) ![](https://images.transparencycdn.org/images/wonderlane-w1s5H_3Zn48-unsplash.jpg?auto=compress&fit=crop&fm=webp&w=1200) ### [Contributing to investigations](https://www.transparency.org/en/press) Several Transparency International [chapters around the world](https://www.transparency.org/en/our-national-chapters) have their own in-house investigative teams, who collaborate directly with journalists to expose corruption or publish their own investigations. Transparency International regularly contributes our expertise to journalists and filmmakers working on corruption stories. [Contact TI’s press office](https://www.transparency.org/en/press) ## Find out more about our work ### News [+ More](https://www.transparency.org/en/search/filter?advocacy=investigative-journalism&type=newsPost) ## [Pandora Papers: 10 countries that urgently need to act](https://www.transparency.org/en/news/pandora-papers-10-countries-investigations-policy-reforms) News • 08 October 2021 Investigations implicate high-level public officials and private sector intermediaries around the world. ## [Not so open Lux: Authorities in the dark over Luxembourg private investment fund beneficiaries](https://www.transparency.org/en/news/open-lux-authorities-in-the-dark-over-luxembourg-private-investment-fund-beneficial-owners) News • 08 February 2021 Despite Luxembourg’s steps to shine a light on corporate ownership, the country's investment funds largely operate in an opaque manner. ## [Who is opening the gates for kleptocrats?](https://www.transparency.org/en/news/who-is-opening-the-gates-for-kleptocrats) News • 11 June 2020 ## [The United Arab Emirates: A key piece in the global money laundering puzzle](https://www.transparency.org/en/news/the-united-arab-emirates-a-key-piece-in-the-global-money-laundering-puzzle) News • 11 May 2020 ### Publications [+ More](https://www.transparency.org/en/search/filter?advocacy=investigative-journalism&type=publication) ## [Investigating Land and Corruption in Africa: a Training Manual for Journalists](https://www.transparency.org/en/publications/investigating-land-and-corruption-in-africa-training-manual-for-journalists) Publication • 02 March 2018 This training manual supports journalists in Africa to investigate and report stories of land corruption, a subject that remains under-reported and poorly understood. ## [Beneficial Ownership: How to Find the Real Owners of Secret Companies - A Guide for Journalists and Civil Society in Ghana, Kenya & Nigeria](https://www.transparency.org/en/publications/beneficial-ownership-how-to-find-the-real-owners-of-secret-companies) Publication • 19 October 2017 Corruption is often facilitated by complex and obscure company structures involved in transferring large amounts of money from one jurisdiction to another. The identity of the… ### Blog posts [+ More](https://www.transparency.org/en/search/filter?advocacy=investigative-journalism&type=blogPost) [## Luxembourg: Where wealth meets secrecy Transparency Int'l 12 February 2021](https://www.transparency.org/en/blog/openlux-luxembourg-wealth-secrecy-investment-funds "Luxembourg: Where wealth meets secrecy") [## Return to owner Transparency Int'l 20 November 2020](https://www.transparency.org/en/blog/asset-recovery-gambia-angola-portugal-return-to-owner "Return to owner") [## What a US$3 million transaction that travelled half the world tells us about the global financial system Maíra Martini 13 November 2020](https://www.transparency.org/en/blog/3-million-transaction-swiss-bank-global-financial-system "What a US$3 million transaction that travelled half the world tells us about the global financial system") [## Biggest exporters, worst enforcers Transparency Int'l 16 October 2020](https://www.transparency.org/en/blog/semlex-madagascar-belgium-exporting-corruption "Biggest exporters, worst enforcers") ### Press releases [+ More](https://www.transparency.org/en/search/filter?advocacy=investigative-journalism&type=pressRelease) ## [Pandora Papers: Sweeping reforms needed to rein in lawless offshore industry](https://www.transparency.org/en/press/pandora-papers-corporate-secrecy-reforms-needed-lawless-offshore-industry) Press • 04 October 2021 ## [Corruption investigation into German MP Axel Fischer again demonstrates why Council of Europe needs a permanent investigative body](https://www.transparency.org/en/press/azerbaijani-laundromat-germany-axel-fischer-council-of-europe-needs-permanent-investigative-body) Press • 05 March 2021 ## [OpenLux: 80 per cent of Luxembourg private investment funds at risk of laundering dirty money](https://www.transparency.org/en/press/open-lux-80-per-cent-of-luxembourg-private-investment-funds-at-risk-of-laundering-dirty-money) Press • 08 February 2021 ## [FinCEN Files & Luanda Leaks: Suspicious EuroBIC payments further proof of anti-money laundering failures in Portugal](https://www.transparency.org/en/press/fincen-files-luanda-leaks-portugal-eurobic-anti-money-laundering-failures) Press • 23 September 2020 ### Projects [+ More](https://www.transparency.org/en/search/filter?advocacy=investigative-journalism&type=project) ## [Global Anti-Corruption Consortium](https://www.transparency.org/en/projects/global-anti-corruption-consortium) Project The Global Anti-Corruption Consortium is a ground-breaking partnership that brings together investigative reporting from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project… ## Explore all advocacies - [Intergovernmental bodies](https://www.transparency.org/en/advocacy/intergovernmental-bodies) - [Civil Society Organisations](https://www.transparency.org/en/advocacy/civil-society-organisations) - [Investigative Journalism](https://www.transparency.org/en/advocacy/investigative-journalism) Intergovernmental bodies Civil Society Organisations Investigative Journalism