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.

Corporate Investigations Featured

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.

Investigative Journalism

Inside the Business of Reputation Management

Exploring how companies and institutions respond to difficult reporting through public statements, corrections, legal correspondence, and communications strategy.

Global Investigations

How Border Data Becomes a Policy Tool

Investigating the collection, classification, and use of movement data in border management and the safeguards surrounding it.

Public Accountability

When a Development Promise Meets the Planning Archive

Comparing promotional claims with planning documents, environmental conditions, timelines, and completed work in large development projects.

Economy & Public Finance

The Public Records That Explain a Sudden Price Spike

Tracing procurement, inventories, transportation costs, market concentration, and policy changes to understand how price shocks develop.

Technology & Power Featured

The Hidden Infrastructure of Online Political Influence

Examining recommendation systems, advertising markets, content networks, and measurement tools without attributing hidden motives to individual actors.

Corporate Investigations

The Long Audit of a Failed Procurement

Reconstructing a procurement dispute from tender documents to appeals, contract amendments, delivery problems, and final review.

Investigative Journalism

How Investigators Verify an Anonymous Document

Walking through provenance checks, metadata review, corroborating evidence, source interviews, and the standards required before publication.

Corporate Investigations

What Court Filings Can Reveal About Corporate Risk

Exploring how litigation records, regulatory filings, and financial disclosures can help reporters identify questions that deserve deeper scrutiny.

AI & Algorithms

How Public Algorithms Become Impossible to Question

Examining procurement language, proprietary systems, documentation gaps, and appeal mechanisms that can make automated public decisions difficult to challenge.

Investigative Journalism

The Accountability Challenge in Private Healthcare Contracts

Investigating service agreements, performance measures, complaints, and disclosure practices where private providers deliver publicly funded care.

Climate Accountability

The Records Behind a Changing Coastal Landscape

Following planning files, engineering studies, property records, and climate assessments to understand how coastal communities prepare for long-term change.

Science & Evidence

How a Research Finding Travels Through the Media Cycle

Tracing the transformation of a technical research result into press releases, headlines, commentary, and public understanding.

Technology & Power

Inside the Global Business of Content Moderation

Investigating the labor, contracts, outsourcing arrangements, and performance metrics behind the systems that review online content.

Science & Evidence

The Forgotten Data in a Major Public Inquiry

Examining how datasets, appendices, archived documents, and technical evidence can become crucial long after an inquiry’s headline findings are published.

Public Accountability

What Procurement Records Reveal About Public Priorities

Using contracts and spending patterns as a window into how institutions translate strategic promises into actual purchases.