Podcasting reached mainstream popularity in 2014, with the success of the investigative show Serial. But podcasters have been around for ten years, producing audio shows on any imaginable topic (inc...
Alessia Cerantola
Alessia Cerantola is a freelance journalist, co-founder and reporter of the Investigative Reporting Project Italy and of the webnews service Radio Bullets. Her work focuses on East Asia and issues related to freedom of the press. In 2013 she was a Transatlantic Media Fellow of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC. Since 2007 her reports and features from Italy, Japan, South Korea and the US have been published and broadcast by a cross-section of media including Internazionale, European Journalism Center, La Repubblica, Il Sole 24 Ore, Il Fatto Quotidiano, ANSA, Sky, NHK, and the BBC World Service. She has been honoured with eight awards and special mentions, including the Freedom of the Press Award 2012 by Reporters Without Borders and UNESCO (Austria). After graduating with a degree in East Asian Studies at the University of Venice with a major in Japanese language and literature, she attended a two-year Masters course in Journalism at the University of Turin and a one year Masters course in Corporate Finance at Venice University.
It is estimated that each year up to 2,000 billion dollars are recycled, much of it through companies that allow the identity of the beneficiaries of the money to be kept secret. Tracking financia...
How IRPI conducted an international investigation working with 15 victims of sexual violence after the story was leaked to reporters. The story, nicknamed "the couchsurfing rapist" was published in ...
Irpileaks, Afrileaks, OCCRPLeaks, Whistleblowing.jp The Hermes Center, author of the GlobaLeaks project, and the investigative journalism centers IRPI (Italian), ANCIR (African), OCCRP (Balkan) wi...
For almost two years Investigative Reporting Project Italy, in brief IRPI, has been experimenting new Italian models for investigative journalism. Among its main challenges are the search of a sustain...