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Technology & Power
The Contracts Behind a City’s Smart-City Ambition
Following technology procurement, data agreements, maintenance obligations, and vendor relationships across a connected urban program.
Public Accountability
The Long Shadow of a Failed Public Project
Tracing what happens after a high-profile project is cancelled: outstanding contracts, maintenance costs, legal disputes, and lessons recorded in official reviews.
Corporate Investigations
The Supply Chain Behind a Household Essential
Following an everyday product from raw material to warehouse to retailer to understand how disruptions, concentration, and contracts shape consumer prices.
Investigative Journalism
Inside the Modern Fact-Checking Workflow
Examining how reporters verify documents, images, datasets, claims, and sources before publishing a high-stakes investigation.
Economy & Public Finance
How Data Errors Become Official Statistics
Investigating the path from raw administrative records to published statistics, with attention to revisions, missing data, and classification choices.
Science & Evidence
Inside a Public University’s Commercial Partnerships
Examining agreements between universities and private companies, the questions of disclosure they raise, and how research independence is protected.
Public Accountability
The Overlooked Records in a Planning Dispute
Exploring how meeting minutes, email trails, technical reports, and consultation submissions can change the understanding of a contested development.
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Corporate Investigations
What a Company’s Supplier List Can Reveal
Using supplier disclosures, filings, shipping information, and procurement patterns to investigate how corporate dependencies become visible.
Investigative Journalism
How News Organizations Protect Sources Under Pressure
Examining newsroom practices around source handling, document security, verification, legal review, and the ethical limits of confidentiality.
AI & Algorithms
The Accountability Gap in Automated Decision Systems
A detailed look at documentation, auditability, human review, and appeals when software participates in consequential decisions.
Climate Accountability
The Environmental Cost Hidden in Construction Materials
Following materials from extraction to construction site to understand how procurement choices affect emissions, waste, and local ecosystems.
Sports Investigations
The Records Behind a Major Sports Venue Deal
Tracing land agreements, public financing, operating commitments, and projected economic benefits surrounding large sports developments.
Corporate Investigations
When a Safety Recall Meets a Fragmented Supply Chain
Investigating how warnings travel through manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and regulators when a product problem crosses multiple jurisdictions.
Culture & Media
How Streaming Changed the Economics of Local Culture
Examining contracts, platform visibility, audience data, and revenue models that affect independent creators in a platform-dominated media economy.
Global Investigations
The Paper Trail of a Cross-Border Investigation
A practical reconstruction of how journalists coordinate documents, sources, translations, verification, and legal review across jurisdictions.