#BetsyMunnell: This piece by #MarkLeeHunter is essential reading -- especially in a country where the sitting president once called the press the “enemy of the people” and has now helped dismantle #USAID, one of its last global defenders.
the-investigative-mind.ghost.io/mediapart-ai...

"There’s something especially grotesque about watching a celebrated investigative outlet like Mediapart lash out - not at the powerful and corrupt - but at one of the pillars of global investigative journalism."--#ChrisDalby, #WorldofCrime. the-investigative-mind.ghost.io/mediapart-ai...

The @coveringclimatenow.org #89PercentProject is a new global media collaboration aimed at highlighting that the vast majority of people in the world care about climate change and want their governments to do something about it.

Learn more: https://twp.ai/9PSH89

⚡️Trump official who shut down counter-disinformation agency has Kremlin ties, Telegraph reports.

A Trump State Department official who shut down a U.S. government office tasked with countering Russian disinformation has ties to the Kremlin, the Telegraph reported on June 3.

In December, a report used cherry-picked numbers and out of context claims to cast suspicion over the @occrp.org . It became an argument for Trumpworld to dismantle humanitarian funding around the world. From the ace @markleehunter.bsky.social :

"Journalism legend Mark Lee Hunter has launched the blog "The Investigative Mind" - and he begins with a powerful, deeply researched critique of the mediapart.fr-exposé on The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project." -- Frederik Obermaierthe-investigative-mind.ghost.io/mediapart-ai.../

#FrederikObermaier, who co-initiated the historic #PanamaPapers investigation, weighs in the debate about the #Mediapart vs #OCCRP controversy. My thanks for his kind review of my work on the matter. www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

If you care about #investigativejournalism, #occrp, #usaid and #independentmedia, take a look: the-investigative-mind.ghost.io/mediapart-ai...

Please send your stories in English -- a decent AI, DeepL, or Word translation (the software has a good one) will do -- to me via PM. I'll pay a small honorarium for contributions that I use, and you get a credit. #investigativejournalism #unesco

I've been asked by Unesco to revise Story-Based Inquiry: A manual for Investigative Journalists (2009). If you're an investigative reporter, you can be part of it. Send me a story that you researched and composed around a timeline, a map of actors and scenes, or both. More in next post.