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.@Wikileaks is a publisher. Charges now brought in connection with its material, or any attempt to extradite #Assange to the United States for prosecution under the deeply flawed cudgel of the Espionage Act 1917, is an attack on all of us. CIJ Statement tcij.org/news/a-statement-fr…
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Fascinating leaks from the Car Wash investigation in Brazil @intercept, and the allegedly prejudicial, anti-Lula attitude of the prosecutors: theintercept.com/2019/06/09/…
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Julian Assange spends his 50th birthday today in a British prison, for services to investigative journalism.
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Any minute now, @pritipatel will decide on the Assange extradition case. Like the vast majority of investigative journalists in the UK and around the world, we hope that the Home Secretary will do the honourable thing and set him free.
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Priti Patel approves Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States for publishing information about war crimes in the public interest. An era-defining, disastrous decision for press freedom in the UK and a dark day for journalists everywhere. The fight must go on!
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Donate to @StellaMoris1's legal fund for her partner Julian Assange's ongoing fight against extradition to the U.S here: crowdjustice.com/case/assang…
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We are extremely sad to announce the death of Gavin MacFadyen, the CIJ’s Founder, Director and its leading light. tcij.org/gavin-macfadyen
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#GavinRemembered Today we remember our founding director Gavin MacFadyen tcij.org/about-cij/news/gavi…
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A shocking judgement, in a never-ending legal noose around investigative journalism: Assange can be extradited, the UK High Court now decides. theguardian.com/media/2021/d…
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Follow #GavinRemebered for the updated from Gavin MacFadyen's Memorial today. tcij.org/events/2016-12-08/t…
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"@wikileaks is unique because it's the only media org whose founder & publisher is arbitrarily detained. You may agree, you may disagree, but that's the opinion of the UN body in charge of deciding this." @SMaurizi during #LOGANCIJ @cijlogan vimeo.com/303524320
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The UK ruling on Julian Assange seriously damages journalism; the CPJ. cpj.org/2021/12/uk-ruling-wi…
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Delighted to announce the launch of the #LyraMcKee Investigative Journalism Training Bursary. Inspired by Lyra's determination and struggle to become a journalist, we want to help more people like her. We knew Lara well. She trained with us too #diversity tcij.org/tradecraft/lyra-mck…
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The CIJ notes with grave concern Julian Assange’s arrest at the Embassy of Ecuador in London today. Statement from the CIJ - tcij.org/news/a-statement-fr…
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The UK Government's plans to reform the Official Secrets Act, treating journalists like spies, shows that an over-arching public interest defence for investigative journalism in British law is long overdue. @NUJofficial @NUJ_LFB @RSF_en @IndexCensorship @OpenRightsGroup
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"The biggest threat journalism faces is collective failure of our society to understand and value journalism." @RonanFarrow at #IRE2020 #ire20
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Chelsea Manning jailed for refusing to testify against @Wikileaks; a constitutional disaster for journalism. mobile.reuters.com/video/201…
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Interesting new film about the Assange case, Ithaka, reviewed by our friend and Summer Conference speaker Duncan Campbell. theguardian.com/film/2022/ju…
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Extradition would set a disastrous precedent: our friend Duncan Campbell (who appears at this year's Summer Conference) on why Priti Patel shouldn't deliver Julian Assange to the U.S. theguardian.com/profile/dunc…
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A huge sigh of relief from investigative journalists worldwide, and a great day for the independence of the British legal system; a UK court has just ruled against the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States.
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Re the DCMS’s call for suggestions about how to make media workers “feel safe” – stop arresting them and looking over their shoulders for their reporting material. The continued detention of Assange, too, is an unsightly scar on the UK's rebranding as a beacon of media freedom.
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#LOGANCIJ talks: Spies Like Us. As TV channels and NGOs are asked to register as “foreign agents” and @Wikileaks is identified as a “hostile intelligence service”, we ask questions about the relationship between journalism and #espionage. Fri 19 Oct. tcij.org/wp-content/uploads/…
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Civil liberties groups in the U.S. ask Biden to drop the Assange case @nytimes nytimes.com/2021/02/08/us/po…
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A great event at @frontlineclub on Wed 10 Nov:
What next for Julian #Assange?
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A thought-provoking read from our #CIJSummer Gavin MacFadyen memorial lecturer from 2018 @RanaAyyub.
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In India #BlackLivesMattters exposes a brazen hypocrisy of our celebrities and public figures who stay silent over the arrest of a pregnant student activist and the attack on Indian minorities. I write here for the @washingtonpost
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#CIJsummer Conference starts with a keynote by @poonamjourno.
She started investigating the Indian electoral bonds story in 2018 and it took her 6 years for the story to really hit the headlines.
Her advice to journalists is to have three Ps:
Patience
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Delighted to welcome new speakers to #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2023:
Patricia Delvin @trishdevlin will be our keynote speaker and will talk about her investigations into crime and paramilitarism in post-troubles Northern Ireland.
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#CIJLyraMcKee Investigative Journalism Bursary and Mentoring Scheme 2021
Includes: #CIJSummer, #CIJCourses, guest speakers + story pitching.
"The experience blew my mind!" Recipient feedback 2019.
Application deadline: 4 April 2021 at 23:59
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New British investigative outlet @declassifiedUK "blacklisted" by flacks at the British Ministry of Defence, which is no way to treat investigative journalists. Read the IPI statement: ipi.media/investigative-news…
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The Indian state is putting pressure on our #CIJSummer speaker @RanaAyyub.
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@StellaMoris1 on the Assange case and Britain's global standing in today's Guardian: theguardian.com/media/2021/a…
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UK drops to 35th in the RSF World Press Freedom index (beneath South Africa and Trinidad), after the killing of Lyra McKee, threats to other NI journalists, and the detention of Assange. rsf.org/en/news/rsf-index-20… @rebecca_vincent @RSF @AmalClooneyBlog @mariaressa
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Our friend and Summer Conference speaker @RanaAyyub features in a great long-read @newyorker about the perils of Modi's India.
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Some great advice from @bellingcat on how not to do OSINT badly.
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Our Symposium ally Patrick Cockburn on Assange, silence over the Yahoo News investigation, and the UK government's worrying plans to update the Official Secrets Act. independent.co.uk/voices/jul…
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#CIJLyraMcKee Investigative Journalism Bursary 2021
Includes: #CIJSummer, #CIJCourses, guest speakers + story pitching.
"The experience blew my mind!" Recipient feedback 2019.
🔴Deadline: 4 April 2021
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#CIJLyraMcKee Investigative Journalism Bursary 2021
2021 Mentors: @emmayoule of @HuffPostUK & @JennaCorderoy of @openDemocracy.
Includes: #CIJSummer, #CIJCourses, guest speakers + story pitching.
🔴Deadline: 4 April 2021
@TheVoiceNews @weblackjournos
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Trenchant Andrew Cockburn essay @harpers on the silence of some media organisations re the detention of Julian Assange: harpers.org/archive/2023/03/… Discuss! @cjr @Freedomofpress @RSF_en @gijn
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Great news for our friends @edwyplenel and @mediapart - the case by Sarkozy against them just thrown out! lepoint.fr/tiny/1-2290196 via @LePoint
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When you don't need the Cayman Islands, or to wait for some shady leaks; a great piece in The American Prospect on kleptocracy in Iraqi Kurdistan, and where the Barzanis keep their money: the US. prospect.org/power/cowboy-dr…
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Former Symposium speaker and excellent investigative reporter @tamhussein has just been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for journalism. orwellfoundation.com/journal… Congrats!
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The level of aggression towards our #CIJSummer Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecturer, Indian journalist and author '@RanaAyyub is shocking. We stand with you Rana!
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Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out; the CIA's secret war against Wikileaks. uk.news.yahoo.com/kidnapping…
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Urgent. CIJ's statement on the arrest of Julian #Assange tcij.org/news/a-statement-fr…
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Patrick Cockburn, always interesting, on the case of Julian Assange in the new @LRB lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n12/…
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Trial begins this morning. Follow it, and read @OborneTweets on why it matters. pressgazette.co.uk/peter-obo…
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Our trainer and #FOIA expert @JennaCorderoy along with another CIJ speaker, journalist @PeterKGeoghegan's hard work paid off. The public will soon know a bit more about the ERG. #ReesMogg #journalismmatters #CIJSummer @openDemocracy opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mo…
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Very excited to have @poonamjourno at #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference tomorrow.
She will deliver our annual Gavin MacFadyen memorial lecture.
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💫 NEW! Investigative journalist @poonamjourno explains how her reporting six years ago ultimately led to one of the biggest political fundraising scandals in a decade, which played out during India’s elections earlier this year.
Find out more. ⬇️
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This month CIJ turns 15. So we are celebrating the CIJ Family: our loyal friends, supporters, teachers and speakers. @JulianAssange spoke at many CIJ events and counted @GavinMacfadyen as his closest mentor and friend. #LoveCIJ @couragefound @susanbenntweet
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It's #JournalismMatters week and we are delighted to announce the launch of the #LyraMcKee Investigative Journalism Training Bursary. Inspired by Lyra's determination and struggle to become a journalist, we want to help more people like her. #diversity tcij.org/tradecraft/lyra-mck…
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From @declassifiedUK - how MI5 and it's IRD conspired against Gavin MacFadyen, our former Director, and his colleagues at World In Action. declassifieduk.org/home-desk…. Happy new year!
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The MoD apologises for refusing to engage with journalists from @declassifiedUK. pressgazette.co.uk/mod-apolo…
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We have some treats for you all at the #CIJSummer 2018! Meet some of our speakers: Omar Mohammed, better known as @MosulEye, @RanaAyyub award-winning investigative journalist from India, @mcaruanagalizia son of Daphne Caruana Galizia and @MirandaOCCRP!
#journalism #ISIS #Mosul
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Delighted to welcome @natashaloder, @RanaAyyub and @shadabnazmi to our #CIJSummer panel:
No Country Left Behind? The Indian Covid-19 catastrophe
🔴Mon 5 July at 2pm BST
Online. #Free to attend. Bookings open in mid June.
See the whole programme.
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15 years of the CIJ this month! Join us in celebrating our birthday. Here are some of our friends share what the CIJ means to them. What does it mean to you? #LoveCIJ #ddj @caelainnbarr @JennaCorderoy @CrinaBoros @stonepeople @Margaretrenn piped.video/watch?v=2bmehKww…
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Want to be an investigative journalist? Can't afford the training?
Apply for the #CIJLyraMcKee Investigative Journalism Training and Mentoring Scheme.
✔️Investigative journalism training
✔️Mentoring
✔️Pitch your story to the UK editors
Deadline: 9 Apr.
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Have you seem @cijlogan Symposium programme? Conspiracy! Returning to London on 19-20 October. Don't miss! Tickets £20-£40. +#Art +#Films tcij.org/logan-symposium-201… @jane__bradley @laurentrichard0 @NationalBirdDoc @weizman_eyal @Nour_Samaha @CrimePunishDoc @LionHeart817 @mainmaing
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Deeply troubling to see the Greek government issuing legal threats to our friends @reporters_gr for their fearless reporting into the developing surveillance scandal there. Solidarity!
Η 🇪🇺 Ομοσπονδία Δημοσιογράφων (@EFJEUROPE) απαιτεί πλήρη εξιχνίαση των παρακολουθήσεων δημοσιογράφων & καταδικάζει τις καταχρηστικές αγωγές #Δημητριάδη κατά του #ReportersUnited, της #ΕφΣυν και των ρεπόρτερ @nasoskook, @boublis & @Chondrogiannos.
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One of our #CIJSummer speaker's home has been raided today by the Russian authorities. Roman Badanin, editor-in-chief of @wwwproektmedia and at least two of his colleagues have been targeted.
Proekt is one of Russia's leading investigative outlets. 1/n
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In less than two weeks this fantastic new book comes out. It charts our friend @SMaurizi dogged use of Freedom of Information tools to expose the state campaign against Wikileaks. You can pre-order it below.
plutobooks.com/9780745347615…
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Yesterday we were delighted to welcome 11 young journalists who received the #LyraMcKee Investigative Journalism Training Bursary. Here r most of them with Lyra's sister Nichola Corner & our director @James__Harkin. Thank you to the Lorana Sullivan Foundation & Lyra McKee family.
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#DaphneCaruanaGalizia must have touched the nerve as even after her murder she continues being persecuted. #DaphneProject keep up the good work and put more pressure on the corrupt. private-eye.co.uk/issue-1469…
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Dear #IndonesiaLeaks colleagues! Sending you our support. Keep on fighting injustice and crime! @inaleaks @gijn gijn.org/2018/10/25/indonesi…
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"Disinformation is not a product of digital age." Gustavo Gorriti at #GIJC19. "But with [modern] digital possibilities [disinformation] can do much more. The only way to fight it is to fight intelligently."
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Gavin MacFadyen memorial. 5pm, 8th December 2016. Great Hall, Goldsmiths University. Help us celebrate this inspirational human. All welcome
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Applications for the #CIJLyraMcKee Investigative Training Bursary Scheme are now open!
The aim is to train people who want to be journalists or are journalists at the early stages of their career, but who can't afford to pay for training conferences.
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What can journalists do, from inside the system?
@aiww - Those inside, cannot do much, because there are too many levels of control discouraging them from writing anything deeper that might challenge that system.
Speaking with @Snowden at #CIJLogan2020
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Duncan Campbell (x2) describe disturbing new moves by the government and argue why the proposed secrecy law is a bad thing. For everyone.
Both Duncan’s spoke and taught at our events #CIJSummer and #logancij
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We are at the #GIJC23 in Gothenberg.
@RonDeibert of @citizenlab opens this year's conference.
There are 2000+ delegates here!
@gijn
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#Whistleblowers are not 'attention seekers', they simply cannot live with the knowledge of wrongdoing, crime or abuse. Stress, alienation, loss of jobs and financial security are just a few examples of the price they pay. theguardian.com/world/2018/o…
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Everyone has a cat: from @EmbassyCat to @Number10cat! Meet the #CIJCat Byela! She is a brave soul and belongs to one of the team members!
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Next week. #CIJSummer Conference. #Free talks.
Gavin McFadyen Memorial Lecture.
Can Dündar: Arrest, Escape and Exile.
Mon 6 July at 6pm (London).
@candundaradasi in conversation w/ @James__Harkin.
#Turkey @gijn @NUJofficial @pen_int @englishpen @RSF_inter
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"The premise of facial recognition operates on the same basis as mass surveillance and it shouldn't be left to under-resourced NGOs to bring legal scrutiny to the decisions to implement these." @silkiecarlo of @bbw1984 at this fascinating discussion @OpenRightsGroup #ORGCon19
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We're looking for early-career investigative journalists for part-time paid research placements. You'll work with a local newspaper to dig into issues affecting local London communities. Interested? Click here: tcij.org/initiative/communit…
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We are honoured to welcome to the #CIJSummer @mcaruanagalizia, journalist and software engineers and the son of #DaphneCaruanaGalizia, a Maltese investigative journalist assassinated last October. tcij.org/summer-conference
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Come to Goldsmiths on Wednesday to hear @kennardmatt and @claireprovost talking about their excellent new book Silent Coup, a course of investigation which had its origins at the CIJ under Gavin MacFadyen. gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=1437…
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Who Should Own the Internet? Julian Assange on Living in a #Surveillance Society buff.ly/1AdOql6
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Greek crime journalist George Karaivaz assassinated in Athens and the home of Roman Anin, an @istories_media and @occrp journalist, raided in Moscow. A bad day for journalism!
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Wow! What a day for investigation launches! The important work by @bureaulocal & @HuffPostUK on #SoldFromUnderYou, an astonishing piece by @TomBWarren & @katiejmbaker for @BuzzFeedNews on WWF's secret paramilitary funding, & very soon new #laundromat investigation from @OCCRP! =>
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Julian Assange pays tribute to Gavin's guidance & unwavering support. "Not only an adopted father to me, but an adopted father to Wikileaks"
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@suigenerisjen The indictment against Assange can't really distinguish between Wikileaks and the New York Times. They are saying it's a crime to receive and publish that classified information. That would mean the end of national security journalism. "New legal territory."
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Discover how hundreds of journalists worked in secret and at enormous risk to uncover the biggest global corruption scandal in history. Documentary #ThePanamaPapers premieres in the UK on Fri 29 Mar @BerthaDocHouse @f_obermaier @b_obermayer #CIjSummer : bit.ly/PanamaDocHouse
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How to Steal a Trillion. An excellent @BBCRadio4 programme by our #CIJSummer speaker @OliverBullough. Also featuring another #CIJSummer speaker @greybrow53. And @OCCRP's
Laundromat.
#financial #MoneyLaundering
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#GavinRemembered Today we remember our founding director Gavin MacFadyen tcij.org/about-cij/news/gavi…
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Our first #OCRI partners, participants and regional coordinators are arriving in London to attend #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference and a pre-conference #OCRI / Climate Networking, co-organised with @journalismfund.
On this photo L-R: CIJ's Minal Da Gama Rose, #CIJSummer speaker and Oxpeckers #PowerTracker graduate @Mokhethiss, SIDWAYA's Nadège YE and GIJN's @MaxGni.
More about our Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) Project: tcij.org/ocri/
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Eleven days ago @OCCRP source was shot dead in Istanbul cafe. Since then, they have been working day and night to get his story out. #MoneyLaundering #Kyrgyzstan
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Worryingly and away from the headlines, Julian Assange moves one step closer to extradition. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60743322
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"People can change things."
Maybe alone, they can't change a whole system, but one person with a camera or a pen can change other people's minds, & that's how system change has always started.
@Snowden discussing dissent w/@aiww at #CIJLogan2020 on stream.tcij.org
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Romanian journalist @emiliasercan at #CIJSummer: Investigating plagiarism in Romania.
"You must hear of how dangerous it is for journalists to investigate the military or the corruption.
Today I am going to tell you how dangerous it can be if a journalist goes to a library".
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Hard work pays off. Young journalist and #CIJMasterclass alumna @Nadine_Writes spent weeks both working on this huge investigation AND attending our masterclasses. The investigation into financial fraud at SPAC Church was published today. @StephenGrey huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/s…
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#CIJLyraMcKee Investigative Journalism Bursary Scheme 2021
"Anyone who gets picked for this bursary is sure to feel life changing confidence to achieve their journalistic aspirations." Recipient feedback 2019
🔴Application deadline: 4 April 2021.
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"In any #OSINT investigation, an inquiring mindset is the most important tool to have" @N_Waters89 of @bellingcat with @MirandaOCCRP and Tom Trewinnard of @meedan #IFJ19
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Interesting article on Britain's huge anti-Assad aid and propaganda budget in Syria under the CSSF @declassifiedUK, a slush fund for shady British-led cut-out organisations working to combat Russian and Syrian "disinformation". dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
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If you missed the excellent @gijn panel at #IFJ19 full of practical advice and tips on securing funding for your journalism you can catch the whole thing here - piped.video/ZJ2Tp95jO00
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We couldn't have put it better
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The #FinCENFiles:
- took a year to extract data from the leaked documents
- took 7 months to fact-check it
- on top of the original leak, journalists obtained over 17600 reports, FOIA requests replies and other documents to supplement the research.
Thread from #ire20 👇🏿👇🏽👇🏾👇🏻
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Newsflash: Lyra, the fantastic documentary about Lyra McKee by @ericastarling1, has won Human Interest doc of the year at the prestigious @theaibstv awards in London this evening. Accepting the award on behalf of Ali and Lyra’s family, our Director @james__Harkin talked about Lyra’s enduring legacy in the CIJ’s Lyra McKee mentoring scheme.
#aibs2023
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