45 Best Investigative Journalism Blogs and Websites in 2026

1. ProPublica

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Description ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force. We dig deep into important issues, shining a light on abuses of power and betrayals of public trust - and we stick with those issues as long as it takes to hold power to account.MORE Email ****@propublica.org
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2. Bellingcat

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Description Bellingcat is an independent international collective of researchers, investigators, and citizen journalists using open source and social media investigation to probe a variety of subjects. Get to read the Latest investigations and news articles on wars, satellites, and more on the blog.MORE Email ****@bellingcat.com
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3. International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

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Description The ICIJ is a global network of more than 290 investigative journalists in 105 countries who collaborate on in-depth investigative stories.
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4. OCCRP

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Description The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is a nonprofit investigative news reporting platform for independent media outlets around the world, publishing more than 100 investigations a year.MORE Email ****@occrp.org
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5. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

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Description The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is the UK's largest non-profit newsroom. Through fact-based, unbiased reporting we expose systemic wrongs, counter misinformation and spark change.
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6. Reveal

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Description Reveal's investigations will inspire, infuriate and inform you. Host Al Letson and an award-winning team of reporters deliver gripping stories about caregivers, advocates for the unhoused, immigrant families, warehouse workers and formerly incarcerated people, fighting to hold the powerful accountable. The New Yorker described Reveal as 'a knockout … a pleasure to listen to, even as we seethe.' A winner of multiple Peabody, duPont, Emmy and Murrow awards, Reveal is produced by the nation's first investigative journalism nonprofit, The Center for Investigative Reporting, and PRX...MORE Email ****@revealnews.org
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7. OpenSecrets

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Description OpenSecrets is the nation's premier research and government transparency group tracking money in politics and its effect on elections and policy.
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8. Center for Public Integrity

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Description The Center for Public Integrity is an investigative newsroom that gives voice to the public and sparks change by going behind closed doors to reveal abuses of power in Washington. We cover politics, national security, the environment, labor, immigration, tech and finance.MORE Email ****@publicintegrity.org
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9. Forbidden Stories

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Description Forbidden Stories fosters collaboration among journalists to make visible and impactful the work of reporters who can no longer investigate. Our goal is to keep stories alive and to make sure that a maximum number of people have access to uncensored news on such crucial topics as the environment, health, human rights, and corruption.MORE Email ****@freedomvoicesnetwork.org
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10. Investigative Reporters and Editors News

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Description Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc., is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of investigative reporting. IRE was formed in 1975 to create a forum in which journalists throughout the world could help each other by sharing story ideas, newsgathering techniques, and news sources.MORE Email ****@ire.org
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11. Rappler

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Description Rappler is the Philippines leading digital media company that's driven by uncompromising journalism, enabled by technology, and enriched by communities of action. Find the latest news on politics, technology, business, and sports. Also here are the daily Rappler Newscast, and weekly sit-down interviews with key personalities. You will also find here Rappler's latest documentaries, commentaries, entertainment features, special coverages and animation.MORE Email ****@rappler.com
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12. Type Investigations

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Description Type Investigations is a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to transforming the field of independent investigative journalism. We produce high-impact reporting that amplifies new voices and offers reporters unparalleled opportunities to take risks, break news, and effect change. Type Investigations covers the most urgent issues of our time, including racial and economic justice, climate and environmental health, and civil and human rights.MORE Email ****@typeinvestigations.org
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13. American Oversight

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Description American Oversight is a nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog that uses public records requests backed by litigation to fight corruption, drive accountability, and defend democracy. We believe transparency is a critical tool to promote integrity in government and to protect justice, truth, and the rule of law.MORE Email ****@americanoversight.org
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14. Unearthed

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Description Unearthed started out as a small team of journalists dedicated to open and accurate reporting on energy and climate change. We publish accurate, honest, change-making stories that illuminate parts of our changing world no one else is looking at.MORE Email ****@greenpeace.org
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15. Investigate Europe

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Description Investigating a changing Europe. We, experienced journalists from eleven European countries, are 'Investigate Europe'. We research as a multinational team. We share, merge and crosscheck facts - tackling the usual national bias. We point out responsible transnational structures and actors in issues of European-wide relevance to make it possible to hold them accountable.MORE Email ****@investigate-europe.eu
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16. Centre for Investigative Journalism

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Description The CIJ is an experimental laboratory that teaches reporters new tools alongside the traditional craft of investigative journalism. We incubate promising new investigative projects and open out investigative journalism into fertile new territory.MORE Email ****@tcij.org
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17. Sludge

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Description Sludge is an independent, nonprofit news outlet that produces investigative journalism on lobbying and money in politics. We look beyond public records and disclosures to reveal the hidden networks and conflicts of interest that drive systemic corruption.MORE Email ****@readsludge.com
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18. Injustice Watch

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Description Injustice Watch is a nonpartisan, nonprofit journalism organization that conducts in-depth research exposing institutional failures that obstruct justice and equality.
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19. Coda Story

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Description Coda Story reports on major currents shaping our world from disinformation to authoritarian technologies to the war on science. Coda stays on these stories to reveal why they matter, how they are connected and where they are heading next.MORE Email ****@codastory.com
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20. Wisconsin Watch

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Description Wisconsin Watch is a nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative news outlet. They increase the quality and quantity of investigative reporting in Wisconsin while training current and future investigative journalists. Its work fosters an informed citizenry and strengthens democracy.MORE Email ****@wisconsinwatch.org
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21. inewsource

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Description inewsource is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom dedicated to improving lives in the San Diego region and beyond through impactful, data-based investigative and accountability journalism.
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22. Investigate Midwest

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Description Investigate Midwest is an independent, nonprofit newsroom. Our mission is to serve the public interest by exposing dangerous and costly practices of influential agricultural corporations and institutions through in-depth and data-driven investigative journalism.MORE Email ****@investigatemidwest.org
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23. Searchlight New Mexico

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Description Searchlight New Mexico is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization dedicated to investigative and public service journalism in the interest of the people of New Mexico. Searchlight New Mexico delivers high-impact investigative reporting to inspire New Mexicans to demand action on systemic problems that plague New Mexico.MORE Email ****@searchlightnm.org
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24. Investigative Post

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Description Investigative Post is the only news organization in WNY dedicated exclusively to watchdog journalism. We produce fact-based, nonpartisan investigative stories and analyses on issues that matter to the citizens and taxpayers of Buffalo and WNY.MORE Email ****@investigativepost.org
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25. Exposed by CMD

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Description The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) is a nationally recognized watchdog that leads in-depth, award-winning investigations into the corruption that undermines our democracy, environment, and economic prosperity.MORE Email ****@prwatch.org
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26. LPM » Investigations

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Description The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom based in Louisville, Ky. Our mission is to protect society's most vulnerable citizens, expose wrongdoing in the public and private sectors, increase transparency in government and hold leaders accountable.MORE Email ****@louisvillepublicmedia.org
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27. First Draft

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Description At First Draft, our mission is to protect communities from harmful misinformation. We work to empower society with the knowledge, understanding, and tools needed to outsmart false and misleading information.MORE Email ****@firstdraftnews.com
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28. The Fund for Investigative Journalism

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Description The Fund for Investigative Journalism provides grants and other support to independent journalists and news organizations to produce high-quality, unbiased, nonpartisan investigative stories that have an impact.MORE Email ****@fij.org
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29. InDepthNH.org

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Description InDepthNH publishes investigative and statehouse news that informs citizens and holds the government accountable. The goal is to foster civil debate and spur citizens to action in a way that will make the government more responsive to its citizens.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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30. Eye on Ohio

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Description Eye on Ohio is non-profit, public service news organization producing in-depth, enterprise and investigative journalism. Our mission is to promote the public good by pursuing in-depth, underreported and high-impact journalism which exposes injustice and explores its consequences. Our reporting investigates the truth, holds those in power accountable, and seeks solutions.MORE Email ****@eyeonohio.com
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31. The Utah Investigative Journalism Project

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Description The Utah Investigative Journalism Project was founded in 2016 as a non-profit, public service journalism and educational resource for the state and region. By partnering with newspapers and broadcast media on difficult in-depth stories, our mission is to help these institutions continue their historic role as government watchdogs and defenders of the poor and oppressed.MORE Email ****@utahinvestigative.org
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32. CCIJ Blog

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Description CCIJ is a nonprofit media organization that convenes and leads global investigations that are grounded in strategic mentorship. We focus on producing work for and about underserved communities through deep reporting on vital global issues.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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33. Pursuit Magazine

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Description As an online community of professional sleuths, Pursuit offers a platform for sharing innovative ideas and business models, ways to integrate new technology with old-school gumshoe know-how, and hard-won lessons from the field. And for the curious outsider, Pursuit is a front door to a world of mystery and intrigue, a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the lives of real spies and PIs.MORE Email ****@storyboardemp.com
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34. The Investigative Project

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Description The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) is a non-profit research group founded by Steven Emerson in 1995. It is recognized as the world's most comprehensive data center on radical Islamic terrorist groups. For more than two decades, the IPT has investigated the operations, funding, activities and front groups of Islamic terrorist and extremist groups in the United States and around the world.MORE Email ****@aol.com
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35. Type Media Center

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Description Type Media Center is home to a half-dozen programs and a community of hundreds of journalists, authors, and writing fellows. Our dynamic range of programs includes a bestselling book publishing imprint, Bold Type Books; our award-winning Type Investigations (formerly known as the Investigative Fund), which supports groundbreaking investigative journalism.MORE Email ****@boldtypebooks.org
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36. CovertAction Magazine

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Description CovertAction Magazine began publishing in 1978 as a newsletter called Covert Action Information Bulletin (CAIB) and later as CovertAction Quarterly (CAQ). The magazine developed a following not as a conspiracy-theory-related publication, but as a source for reliable, consistent, and accurate investigative reporting.MORE Email ****@covertactionmagazine.com
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37. Charles Griffin Intelligence » Ethical Investigator

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Description The Ethical Investigator by Charles Griffin Intelligence covers asset search, due diligence, and other private corporate investigation matters. Charles Griffin Intelligence is a New York-based consulting firm that assists lawyers, corporations, and individuals with fact-finding for global litigation and due diligence.MORE Email ****@charlesgriffinllc.com
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38. Investigative Journalism Education Consortium

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Description The Investigative Journalism Education Consortium brings together the experience and knowledge of university educators who teach investigative and data journalism throughout the world.
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39. Investigative Journalism Reportika

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Description The Investigative Journalism Reportika or IJ-reportika is a go-to website for factual and authentic investigative journalism. We publish exhaustive reports revealing all the facets of truth.
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40. Unlimited Hangout

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Description Uncensored and independent investigative journalism by Whitney Webb and contributors.
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41. The Grayzone

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Description The Grayzone is an independent news website dedicated to original investigative journalism and analysis on politics and empire.
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