Organized crime operates across national borders -- to keep up, investigative journalists need to do the same. TED Fellow Bektour Iskender gives the inside scoop on his efforts to unveil secret, insidious operations in his home country...

An ensemble cast of Guardian reporters and editors reflect on why investigative journalism is so important for a healthy democracy and what it feels like, on a more personal level, to be going up against powerful governments, tax-dodging...

An essential part of any functioning democracy - the press helps to make governments accountable for their actions; but when the first investigative reporters started working in the United States, not everyone saw them as a good thing.

Two murders sat unexplained and unsolved -- until reporter Paul Lewis starting talking to bystanders who had evidence on their mobile phones. Step by step, Lewis pieced together their evidence and their stories to find justice for the...

Phoebe Zerwick is an award-winning investigative journalist, narrative writer, and college professor. Her writing has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine; National Geographic; The Nation; the Winston-Salem Journal; and Glamour, among other...

Pupil outcome: I can explain how the media holds people to account and why those in power should be held accountable. Key learning points: - Holding people to account ensures those in power are responsible for their actions and...

Pupil outcome: I can explain how to tell if a media source is trustworthy and how to find reliable information. Key learning points: - Some media outlets are trustworthy because they verify facts and do investigative journalism, but not...

Iran's Revolutionary Guard are military elite, the defenders of the revolution but hundreds of members are defecting because of what they see as a "betrayal" by the Iranian government. Subscribe to The Guardian ►ttp://bitly.com/UvkFpD'...

A blank spot on a digital map can signal much more than a gap in data -- it can mean something is being intentionally hidden. Sharing the remarkable discovery of massive alleged detention camps in Xinjiang, China, Pulitzer Prize-winning...

Codenamed Deep Throat, FBI chief William Mark Felt, Sr., displayed immense courage to expose abuses of power at the heart of government during the infamous Watergate investigation.

In this De-Natured segment of Nature League, Brit breaks down a recent scientific journal article about the beginnings of life on Earth. Article citation: G. Springsteen, J.R. Yerabolu, J. Nelson, C.J. Rhea, R. Krishnamurthy. Linked...

Susan Campbell is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a widely-read newspaper columnist, and the author of three books. She has worked across the media landscape as an award-winning print journalist, a regular commentator on WNPR, and a...

* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. Undercover journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has broken dozens of stories of corruption and organized crime all over...

Ida B. Wells was an investigative journalist, civil rights leader, and anti-lynching advocate who fought for equality and justice. -- In the late 1800’s, lynchings were happening all over the American South, often without any...

Journalist and National Geographic Fellow Bryan Christy uses investigative journalism to expose illegal wildlife trafficking around the globe. This is the first in a series of interviews with the people fighting wildlife crime on the...

UPDATE from, 1 Sept 2015: Khadija Ismayilova, a prominent and award-winning Azeri journalist known for exposing corruption among the ruling elite, has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years for "embezzlement, illegal business...

To cite an anonymous source, a media outlet must first enjoy a high level of credibility. - It's difficult for media outlets to stop using anonymous sources because identified past sources have been prosecuted for leaking information to...

Multiple U.S. investigations are digging into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. NPR congressional reporter Geoff Bennett sorts through the...

Investigative journalist Ida B. Wells made it her mission to exposing the horrors of racism in the American South, but it wasn't easy.

“In my time, women usually had their life stories written for them. But I didn’t like the story I was given, so I wrote a new one.” That’s Nellie Bly, the pen name of Elizabeth Cochrane. The story she wrote—in a newspaper in 1887, and,...

Drawing on hundreds of videos, photos and satellite images, a team of researchers in London have been trying to piece together the events of 'Black Friday', the bloodiest day of the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict. Read the full article