NEW! 💰 Who are the new oligarchs — and how do they hide their wealth?

This GIJN tipsheet shares tips and tools, based on a @ire.org #IRE25 panel, to investigate novel corruption schemes, from fake loans to luxury proxies.

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The Global Shining Light Awards honor the best investigative reporting done under threat. I've chaired the awards jury for many years, but was particularly impressed with the quality & ambition of this year's finalists, especially when watchdog journalism is under siege. gijn.org/stories/2025...

“It’s the artists of the world, the feelers and thinkers, who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.”

CPJ’s new report, “Alarm bells: Trump's first 100 days ramp up fear for the press, democracy” identifies three main challenges for #PressFreedom in the US:

❌Limiting access for some news organizations
❌Regulatory and legal attacks on media
❌Targeting journalists and newsrooms

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"Digital Authoritarianism and the Fight for Democracy"--May 7 at Columbia Journalism School, with @rondeibert.bsky.social @sheilacoronel.bsky.social and me. knightcolumbia.org/events/digit...

On the Arrest of an Autocrat:
Journalists, lawyers, clergy, and human rights activists persisted in the Philippines, even when hope for accountability seemed nonexistent. By Sheila Coronel. www.cjr.org/world/dutert...

My take on the Duterte arrest: “It takes a nation to hold a president to account.”

“All who believe in these freedoms should steadfastly oppose the intimidation, harassment, and detention of individuals on the basis of their speech or their journalism.” — statement from @columjournreview.bsky.social

The vigilante president was arrested in Manila today. He didn’t believe in due process but he’ll want it now. www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/a...

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A new piece by Filipino journalist @jaemark.co explains how he used generative AI to turn a powerful long-form story by @sheilacoronel.bsky.social into an illustrated video
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-i-u...

Fighting the great federal website purge. www.cjr.org/the_media_to... via @cjr

Helpful.

Trump Dreams of a New American Empire www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/o...

I interviewed death squad assassin Edgardo Matobato in 2016. This is the story of how Catholic clergy, military mutineers and a former president helped keep him alive so he could tell his truth. pcij.org/2025/01/17/t...

In the broader picture, this is a decision that's a substantial blow to reporters and researchers who have been working to keep platforms accountable for what they host.

Some of the best, most innovative research has been shut down over the last few years:

🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/t...

So thrilled books by two Stabile alumnae @columbiajournalism.bsky.social — Emily Witt's memoir, Health and Safety: A Breakdown, and @atossaaraxia.bsky.social 's The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World—are on @nytimes.com list of the 100 Notable Books of 2024. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Heart-breaking story on the hunger crisis in Afghanistan by Charlotte Greenfield, #cjsStabile @columbiajournalism.bsky.social. As a social worker there said, “Imagine Afghanistan as a body with no part unscathed, a body completely covered in wounds. We can only bandage some parts of it.”

What do you call a country where 8 of 10 legislators belong to political families, as do 71 of 82 provincial governors? An oligarchy. pcij.org/2024/12/08/g...