#Investigative Journalism

Articles (21)

• 🇺🇸 ‘Trust Me: The False Prophet’: Netflix’s New Docuseries Goes Undercover in FLDS Cult — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  After leader Warren Jeffs went to prison for abusing minors, a man stepped in to fill his place. But a couple of filmmakers brought him down

  Related: #Documentary, #Religious Cults
• 🇺🇸 How a New York Times Reporter Covers the Illegal Drug Trade — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  A new series on dangerous synthetic drugs called for sources on the other side of the law.

  Related: #Drug Trade, #Media Ethics
• 🇺🇸 The U.S.-Iran Cease-Fire Is Being Tested — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  Also, a Times investigation seeks to unmask Bitcoin’s creator. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.

  Related: #Geopolitics, #Cryptocurrency
• 🇺🇸 Latest investigation of Bitcoin founder ties identity to Blockstream CEO Adam Back — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  A report by the New York Times claims it has discovered the identity of the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin known as Satoshi Nakamoto.

  Related: #Cryptocurrency, #Digital Identity
• 🇬🇧 Monday briefing: What a new Guardian podcast reveals about the US justice system — 23/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>In today’s newsletter: Off Duty revisits the conviction of Alexander Villa, raising troubling questions about how it was built</p><p></p><p>Good morning. On the evening of 29 December 2011, Clifton...

  Related: #Justice System
• 🇺🇸 Turning the Ship Around | Sunday on 60 Minutes — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Shipbuilding in the United States has been in shambles due to decades of shortsighted policies and neglect. Today, the U.S. rolls out about three large cargo ships a year while China does around 1,000...

  Related: #Transformation
• 🇺🇸 Elemental Crisis | Sunday on 60 Minutes — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  In the U.S. trade war with China, rare earths are a critical battleground. Jon Wertheim reports from the only active rare earth mine in the US that is challenging China's near-monopoly over the strate...

  Related: #Environment
• 🇺🇸 He Built the Definitive Epstein Database—and It Consumed His Life — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  The data engineer started as a casual reader of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Then he became obsessed, and built the most extensive network graph of the sexual predator’s shadowy world.

  Related: #Epstein Case
• 🇬🇧 Louis Theroux’s 20 best documentaries: from Savile and Scientology to prisons and painkillers — 10/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>He’s wrestled until he vomits, posed naked for adult photos and now he’s about to take on the manosphere for Netflix. We look back at the interviewer’s most jaw-dropping shows</p><p>It has been alm...

  Related: #Subcultures
• 🇺🇸 In ‘Hell’s Army,’ Intrepid Journalists Investigate Brutal Wagner Group, Russia’s Merciless Mercenary Army – CPH:DOX — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: At the height of its power, the Russian mercenary outfit known as the Wagner Group numbered tens of thousands of soldiers who were dispatched to Ukraine, Syria, and several African countrie...

  Related: #War Crimes
• 🇬🇧 ‘The cover-up is brazen’: one journalist’s tenacious, traumatic fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell — 09/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Lucia Osborne-Crowley has endured threats and sexual harassment to report on Jeffrey Epstein’s chief enabler. Maxwell’s conviction was only the start of the quest for justice, she says</p><p>On 9 S...

  Related: #Legal Accountability
• 🇺🇸 Targeting Americans (2022) | 60 Minutes Archive — 08/03/2026 [USA]

  In 2022, 60 Minutes continued reporting on Havana Syndrome and whether an invisible weapon was involved in the attacks. Scott Pelley spoke with U.S. officials who reported experiencing very specific n...

  Related: #National Security, #Medical Mystery
• 🇺🇸 How The Times Tracks Down the Connections Behind Trump’s Pardons — 06/03/2026 [USA]

  Reporters tapped sources, combed through public records and scrutinized social media to penetrate the web of influence and money underlying the president’s clemency grants.

  Related: #Political Accountability
• 🇺🇸 Sarah Turney, Kourtney Nichole Launch ‘The Final Hours’ True-Crime Podcast From PAVE Studios to ‘Shine a Light on the Cases That Deserve a Second Look’ — 23/02/2026 [USA]

  Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole have teamed for “The Final Hours,” a new true-crime podcast that closely examines clues from the last few hours before someone goes missing — an effort, they say, to ...

  Related: #True Crime, #Podcast Production, #Unsolved Cases
• 🇺🇸 ‘Salisbury Poisonings’ & ‘Blue Lights’ Creators Making Investigative Journalism Thriller For BBC — 23/02/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: The in-demand creators of The Salisbury Poisonings and Blue Lights have landed on their next project, a political thriller about investigative journalism for the BBC. Declan Lawn and Adam P...

  Related: #Political Thriller, #Media-Government Relations
• 🇬🇧 Sky News Explains YouTube series relaunches - How Trump reinvented ICE — 18/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Sky News is relaunching its YouTube series Explains.

  Related: #Media, #Immigration, #Politics
• 🇺🇸 "48 Hours" show schedule — 15/02/2026 [USA]

  True crime. Real justice. To miss it would be a crime.

  Related: #True Crime, #Television Programming
• 🇺🇸 How The Times Is Digging Into Millions of Pages of Epstein Files — 13/02/2026 [USA]

  Two dozen journalists. A pile of pages that would reach the top of the Empire State Building. And an effort to find the next revelation in a sprawling case.

  Related: #Legal Accountability, #Transparency, #Freedom of the Press, #Clandestine Networks
• 🇺🇸 Videos in Epstein files reveal disturbing look into Jeffrey Epstein's private life — 11/02/2026 [USA]

  The videos released in the latest batch of Epstein files provide a disturbing look into the convicted sex offender's life. The Free Press video journalist Tanya Lukyanova joins CBS News to discuss.

  Related: #Justice, #Legal Transparency
• 🇺🇸 5/19: The Takeout: Reporter Craig Whitlock on his new book about the "Fat Leonard" scandal — 09/02/2026 [USA]

  For this edition of "The Takeout," Major Garrett sits down with author and Washington Post reporter Craig Whitlock. His new book details the rise and fall of former contractor "Fat Leonard," and his r...

  Related: #Military Corruption, #National Security
• 🇺🇸 Two Chinese Journalists Are Detained for Reporting on Corruption — 04/02/2026 [USA]

  The move against the men, who wrote an article that was critical of a local official, demonstrates how the space for independent voices has shrunk in China.

  Related: #Press Freedom, #Government Control, #Corruption