Over the past 18 months, the murders of journalists in EU Member States have underscored just how dangerous a time it is for investigative journalists in Europe. Daphne Caruana Galizia, Jan Kuciak and...
Cecilia Anesi
Cecilia Anesi is a freelance reporter and co-founder of the Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI). IRPI is a centre for investigative journalism based in Italy and member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network and the OCCRP Network. A graduate in Journalism with Sociology from City University, London, Cecilia co-authored the investigative documentary on illicit waste trafficking in Europe, ‘Toxic Europe’, which won the Best International Organised Crime Report Award in 2011 and was nominated in the 2012 Data Journalism Awards by the Global Editors Network. Cecilia works in team that focuses its investigations mainly on Italian organised crime gangs and their transnational ties. As IRPI, she has published about doomed finance, frauds, corruption, environmental crimes and money laundering - exposing criminals through a glocal approach.
She has published investigative work on the Italian mafias in Africa, in Germany, in the UK, in Northern Europe and Latin America on regional, national and international media outlets.
Events IJF 2019
The new tactics used by criminals to stop independent investigative journalism, and how we can react by working in a team. From the recent murders of two journalists in Europe, to the isolation and ja...
How big is the presence of Cosa Nostra and Stidda 'Ndrangheta in Germany? And how important is Germany for the business of the Italian mafias? An update from the latest investigations of Grandango...
How do you investigate from the journalistic point of view the most powerful mafia organisation in the world? The center of investigative journalism IRPI found out that the only way is via a glocal st...
Italian organised crime is a global problem, yet all syndicates maintain strongholds in their local area. Three newsrooms - Grandangolo in Agrigento (Sicily), Il Dispaccio in Reggio Calabria, CORRE...
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...
The hidden fleet: investigation on the smuggling of weapons and refugees across the Med
In its investigation entitled The Hidden Fleet (Deecember 2015), the CORRECT!V team uncovered a network of Syrian traffickers who smuggle migrants, hashish and weapons around the Mediterranean Sea u...
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 ...
Italian organised crime is a global problem, yet all syndicates maintain strongholds in their local area. Three newsrooms - Grandangolo in Agrigento (Sicily), Il Dispaccio in Reggio Calabria, Correc...
Transnational investigative journalism: 3 examples Three investigations, the IRPI-Correctiv-El Confidencial-Tages Anzeiger joint work The Wolves of Europe which uncovered a fraud of fake bonds perp...
A joint investigation by the journalism centers IRPI in Italy and ANCIR in South Africa together with quattrogatti.info looking at how Italian mafias have permeated Africa's economies. From money l...
How can crime be investigated cross-border by investigative reporters? OCCRP and IRPI provide some practical examples. Organised in association with IRPI - Investigative Reporting Project Italy ...
Offshoreleaks is an ICIJ-produced story that unveiled a financial scandal, unmasking details of 130,000 offshore accounts in April 2013. Its follow-up Chinaleaks is an exposé of the Chinese elite'...
To what extent has the Sicilian mafia infiltrated the German economy? An ambitious project, possibly the first extensive German research into the matter, has with an innovative format unveiled how G...
TACOD Project Promoting Open Data as a Tool to Prevent and Detect Corruption The TACOD project seeks to measure the impact of laws and policies about open data on corruption. In this project we co...
Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI) is a new centre of investigative journalism based in Italy. It was set up along the lines of the best centres of investigative journalism worldwide. It h...
Environmental investigative journalism: from waste trafficking to food frauds
Investigative journalism case studies - a set of four events (one per day from Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 April) Environmental crime and how to investigate it; the tools to follow pollution, corru...
Transnational investigative journalism The panel will show how cross-border investigations done by international teams of journalists can expose corruption and crime. Three examples have been chosen....
