For years, ultra-wealthy Canadians have been setting up offshore shell companies in the Isle of Man so they can dodge taxes back home. Now, MPs on the House of Commons finance committee appear ready to try to dismantle the shield of secrecy surrounding those companies.
Secrecy, intimidation, and cracking the ‘iron wall’ around Cuba
In this month’s Meet the Investigators, Barbara Maseda tells of the challenges of finding data and documents in Cuba, a country where journalists are threatened and harassed and where information is kept hidden away. May 18, 2021
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists collaborates with hundreds of members across the world. Each of these journalists is among the best in his or her country and many have won national and global awards. Our monthly series, Meet the Investigators, highlights the work of these tireless journalists.
This month we speak with reporter Barbara Maseda, who is the director and founder of
Copy It was good news for Scarlett Johansson on Sunday night as she accepted the 2021 MTV Generation Award. Phillip Faraone / Getty Images Appearing at the event virtually, Scarlett thanked the cast and crew members she has worked with over her three-decade-long career, as well as the fans who d made it all possible. MTV Thank you so much for this honor! she began her acceptance speech. Watching that reel reminds me of all of the incredibly inspiring collaborators that I ve been fortunate enough to work with for over three decades. MTV I never would ve been able to continue to evolve as an actor for the last 30 years without the support and dedication of so many cast and crew members that make up the nomadic traveling circus family that are movie sets, the
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Luxembourg’s treatment of whistleblower Raphael Halet “struck a fair balance” between protecting his freedom of expression and the rights of PwC, despite objections from two dissenting judges.
A quick note to Ghana s younger generation of media professionals
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The alleged beating up of Citi FM/TV s Caleb Kudah, by rogue National Security personal, must be the watershed moment for all of you. You must not let that metaphorical assault on Ghanaian democracy unchallenged and unpunished. You could be the next victim. We must stop the assault on media professionals in Ghana. Now. Not tomorrow. Enough is enough.
Since international opprobrium is the only Agyemang that will get the cowardly moderates in the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) - who look on helplessly as the assigns of the wealthy criminals who dominate their party, carry out unspeakable and unpardonable crimes, such as the torturing of arrested journalists - to act to stop such egregious-acts-of-impunity, my humble advice to all of you, is to join the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), immediately, if you aren t yet members.