Kirsi Cheas @kirsicheas.bsky.social Finnish postdoctoral researcher focusing on collaborative investigative journalism across the U.S.-Mexico border & border between the D.R. and Haiti. Interdisciplinary activist. Website: https://journalismbeyondthewall.org
Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com Journalist interested in #surveillance | Contributor: @wired.com | @ftm.eu | Covers 🇬🇷 for @rsf.org | Researcher: @deakinuniversity.bsky.social | 2026 Fellow @techpolicypress.bsky.social
☏ Signal: vas.99
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Matteo de Bellis @matteodebellis.eurosky.social Human rights, migration & public policy in Europe and beyond. Advisor to the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights - but views here are mine and mine only. Formerly at Amnesty International. Usually on a train between Brussels and Strasbourg.
European Ombudsman @ombudsman.europa.eu The EU Ombudsman promotes good EU administration by investigating complaints and systemic issues. Account managed by the comms team. europa.eu/!bc33kQ
Website: ombudsman.europa.eu/en/home
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) challenges the influence of Big Business and corporate lobby groups in EU policy-making.
🐘 @corporateeurope@mstdn.social
🔗 https://corporateeurope.org/en
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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social Borders, osint, & digital investigations / investigations @lighthousereports.com , sometimes more
Jamie Mann @jamiermann.bsky.social Investigative Journalist at The Ferret (@theferret.scot) – Scotland's investigative journalism platform.
Mostly digging into finance (especially illicit & political), land use and ownership, and extremism.
https://theferret.scot/writer/jamiemann/
Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social Exec. Director, Jordan Center for Journalism Advocacy & Innovation/Asst. Professor of Practice, @OleMiss.bsky.social;
Board: @npcinstitute.bsky.social; @juristnews.bsky.social; Ex VOA White House bureau chief; 2022 Kiplinger Fellow; W7DQ on ham radio
Sebastian Tanti Burlò @tantiburlo.bsky.social Political cartoonist for the Times of Malta
Artist.
Flutters are my own
Fréderike Geerdink @fgeerdink.bsky.social Independent journalist writing about power structures and those who want to tear them down. Journalism critic. Kurdistan and beyond. Based in the Netherlands. Active for PEN Netherlands and Dutch journalism union NVJ.
www.frederikegeerdink.com
Direkt36 @direkt36.bsky.social A Direkt36 egy tényfeltáró újságíró központ.
Direkt36 is a center for investigative journalism.
IrpiMedia @irpimedia.eu IrpiMedia is the newsroom of Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI)
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty [Unofficial] @rferl.org.web.brid.gy Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is an international media organization headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, and Washington, D.C. RFE/RL’s mission is to promote […]
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Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com Radically collaborative journalism. Working with the world’s leading media on deeply reported, public interest investigations. http://bit.ly/LHR-newsletter
The Poynter Institute @poynterinstitute.bsky.social Journalism. Truth. Democracy.
We’ve been a school for journalists for 50 years. Home to the Poynter newsroom, PolitiFact, MediaWise and the International Fact-Checking Network.
Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social Public Citizen has been standing up to corporate power and holding government accountable for 50 years. We're people-powered and accept no corporate money.
Investigative Reporters & Editors @ire.org Providing training, resources and a community of support to journalists around the world. Join us at #IRE26 June 18-21 in National Harbor, MD! 🔍 ire.org
Jui Sarwate @juisarwate.bsky.social Prev. investigative data journalist @cbsnews.com Columbia Data J ('22) | (she/her)
Tine Hollevoet @tinehollevoet.bsky.social Head of Communication at the EPPO - Belgian in Luxembourg - Will post about life above and under water 🤿
Megha Rajagopalan @meghara.bsky.social international investigations, The New York Times
please email to get in touch:
megha.rajagopalan@nytimes.com
Ruth Michaelson @ruthmichaelson.com Observer Middle East correspondent based in Turkey.
Bylines @theobserveruk.bsky.social & seen in @theguardian.com, sometimes others.
ruth.michaelson@observer.co.uk
ruth.michaelson@guardian.co.uk
ruth@ruthmichaelson.com
www.ruthmichaelson.com
Banu Güven @banuguven.bsky.social Journalist based in Turkey / Germany
Kristina Jovanovski @kjovanov.bsky.social Canadian. Journalist. On-Air/Video/ Print/Radio. Berlin-based, covering EMEA, esp. Germany & Turkey. Previously based in #Turkey, #Ukraine, Hungary, London and Toronto. Past newsrooms: CBC, CTV, Sky kjovanov@gmail.com
nurayucesoy @nurayucesoy.bsky.social Mathematician|Tech for Anti-Money Laundering/Terrorism Financing|Trilingual Cats, art, books—served with a side of sarcasm.
📍Paris
Instagram.com/nurayucesoy
Hector Oseguera, Esq. @hectoroseguera.com hudson bluesky progressive 🇭🇳 & 🇩🇴 | anti-money laundering | 🚫 political corruption
iGB @igamingbusiness.bsky.social iGaming Business is the most respected and established source of information for the regulated global gaming industry.
🔗 igamingbusiness.com
Lea Hogg @leahogg.bsky.social Journalist, TV Producer Business News, Finance News, Culture News, Technology News, Gambling industry news, Geopolitics, EU Elections 2024
Casino Reports @casinoreports.bsky.social http://CasinoReports.com -- news, analysis, and features on the U.S. online casino/iGaming and sweepstakes industries
International Journalism Festival @journalismfestival.com International Journalism Festival #ijf26 | 20th edition | 15-18 April
journalismfestival.com
Sophie Wilmès @sophiewilmes.bsky.social Vice-President of the European Parliament 🇪🇺 Served in 5 governments in different positions, including Prime minister 🇧🇪 Liberal
Sander Rietveld @rietvelds.bsky.social Investigative journalist Dutch Public TV @ZEMBLA | far right, ultraconservatism, autocracy, financial crime | writer ‘Nieuwe Kruisvaarders’ (New Crusaders)
Australian Steve @australianmafia.bsky.social Criminology student and mob-watcher. Focused on the Australian arm of ‘ndrangheta, but also covering organised crime in Australia in a broader sense.
Check out my blog:
mafiainaustralia.wordpress.com
Kieron Freeburn - Crime Fiction Writer @kieronf2.bsky.social Former Scotland Yard, International and Organised Crime Detective. Crime writer. Any questions about policing - just ask. #amwriting, #amquerying -
Zora Hauser @zorahauser.bsky.social Leverhulme Fellow, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge. DPhil in Sociology. Organised crime, mafias & more 🇨🇭🇮🇹
Rebecca Tidy @drrebeccatidy.bsky.social Journalist covering organised crime, criminal justice, personal finance + public health.
Vegan | plant + cat lover | solo mum 🌿
Based in Cornwall, U.K.
Eleni Stamatoukou @aheleni.bsky.social (Data)Journalist | Greece Correspondent at Balkan Insight| Lede Programme alumni | Main Interests: Balkans, Cultural Heritage, Organised Crime, Human Rights, Corruption, Environment, Health, Media + Music | Posts in English & Greek | Posts are my own |
Prof | Dr Anna Sergi @annasergi.bsky.social Criminology & Organised Crime Professor | from Calabria to Bologna via 🇬🇧 | love 🇦🇺 & podcasts | critical scholar |'ndrangheta/mafia, transnational migration & crime, transculturation & crime, power & crime, ports & crime, cocaine trade |English | Italian
Margherita Bettoni @marghebettoni.bsky.social Journalistin | Investigative Recherchen: Mafia, sexualisierte Gewalt | Vorstandsmitglied Netzwerk Recherche | Co-Autorin: “Die Mafia in Deutschland”, “Alle drei Tage”
Zack Kopplin @zackkopplin.bsky.social Investigative journalist @OCCRP.org
ZackKopplin@Protonmail.com, Zachary.Kopplin@occrp.org Signal: +1-225-715-5946 (Opinions my own)
Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social Investigative journalist @tbij.bsky.social. garethdavies@tbij.com. Supporter of local journalism and Tottenham Hotspur. Runner. PC & board gamer
Alexandra Gillies @agillies.bsky.social Impact team @OCCRP.bsky.social
Anti-corruption; Pro-democracy, transparency & women's basketball.
Author of Crude Intentions: How Oil Corruption Contaminates the World.
Eric Robert Reguly @ereguly.bsky.social European bureau chief, The Globe and Mail. Rome and beyond. Author of Ghosts of War: Chasing My Father's Legend Through Vietnam ericreguly.com
Sharad Vyas @sharadvyas.bsky.social Consultant | Investigator |
Certified Expert in Financial Crime & Anti Money Laundering (CFCS, CAMS). Driven by a deep interest in AML/CFT and financial systems.
Fabiano Angélico @fangelico.bsky.social Researcher & consultant. Ex-jovem, ex-jornalista, ex-servidor público. Open data, anti-(grand)corruption, anti-money laundering. Ciudades. Mídia, política, artes, fútbol. SKY breath meditation. PTbr, ENG, ESP, ITA. Conta pessoal. Lugano, TI/CH
Winnie O'Kelley @winnieokelley.bsky.social Journalist, Professor, Columbia University, Business and Economics.
Former Bloomberg News, Former New York Times (interests: taxes, money laundering, fraud, econ policy)
Anti-Corruption Action Centre NGO @antac-ua.bsky.social We're curbing grand political corruption in Ukraine. Public finance monitoring, anti-money laundering, assets recovery.
Kyiv, antac.org.ua/en/
Stelios Orphanides @stylian65.bsky.social Journalist, reporting on corruption and money laundering. Anti-fascist, anti-authoritarian.
stylian65 (at) gmail (dot) com
Linda van der Pol @lindapolski.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Investigating Russia, money laundering and greenwashing @investico.bluesky.social 🕵️♀️
Chris Kronow Rasmussen @chriskronow.bsky.social Financial Crime Prevention, Advisense DK (Former FCG), we fight Financial Crime for Financial institutions and related. External Lecturer in Money Laundering, Transaction Monitoring, Match-Fixing, Governance
Søren Vester Haldrup @sorenvh.bsky.social Work on Financial Integrity + Transnational Illicit Finance & Corruption + Systems Change @UNDP l Views are my own
Jodi Vittori @jodi1994.bsky.social Professor/scholar of nexus of corruption, illicit finance, conflict, and national security. Military Veteran. Views are my own; likes are not endorsements.
Roberta Metsola @president.europarl.europa.eu President of the European Parliament 🇪🇺
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala @noiweala.bsky.social WTO Director-General official page on Bluesky.
Follow also: @wto.org
Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social Drugs and organised crime journalist. Orwell Prize winner. Author, Narcomania. Former Global Drugs Editor, Vice. maxdaly.com
Niels Fastrup 🇩🇰🇪🇺 @nielsfastrup.bsky.social Investigative journalist at DR, the Danish Broadcasting Corp.
National security / intelligence / hybrid war / organised crime / new world disorder
dr.dk
nfas@dr.dk
nielsfastrupdr@proton.me
Threema ID: 7PYFAE2J
Mark Galeotti @markgaleotti.bsky.social Analyst of murky topics from Russian politics to organised crime.
John Hooper @jhooper.bsky.social Economist correspondent for Italy and the Vatican. Also writes on international organised crime. Author of The Italians and The New Spaniards. Honorary fellow, St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Former Stanford lecturer.
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Alex Beatty @alexbeatty.bsky.social Semi-retired comms professional. Interests: #History #Communications #Speechwriting #Strategy.
Daniel Bruce @danieljbruce.bsky.social Chief Executive @TransparencyUK.BSky.social the UK chapter of @anticorruption.BSky.social the global coalition against corruption. Magnitsky Awards committee member. Former Europe CEO at Internews.
www.transparency.org.uk
Martin Coyle @coylester10.bsky.social Correspondent covering bribery, corruption and financial crime at @MLexclusive
Email me at coyle@mlex.com. Might be the odd watford tweet.
Financial Transparency Coalition @fintrco.bsky.social Financial Transparency Coalition is a global CSO coalition working for a more transparent financial system, that reduces Illicit Financial Flows that harm human rights, the environment and sustainable development.
https://financialtransparency.org/
Nicolas Lagos @nicolaslagos.bsky.social Ph.D. student at RutgersSPAA learning about the intersection between technology and anti-corruption in governments
Susan Coughtrie @skcoughtrie.bsky.social Executive Director @fpcthinktank.bsky.social + Co-founder and co-chair of the UK Anti- #SLAPP Coalition. Views my own etc.
Eternally between Scotland and somewhere else.- J Jeff kaye @jakdaw09.bsky.social Writer, anti-corruption, PR, LibDem. Former trustee TI-UK, Spotlight on Corruption, TJN. 5 yrs at Global Witness after career in hi-tech.
Margot Mollat @margotmollat.bsky.social Senior Research & Policy Manager at Transparency International UK. Previously APPG on Anti-Corruption & Responsible Tax, and investigator at Global Witness. All things corruption and dirty money. Views my own
James Bolton-Jones @jamesbj.bsky.social Advocacy & Policy at Spotlight on Corruption, a UK based charity shining a light on the UK’s role in corruption at home and abroad. Views own.
Irene Tello Arista @irtelar.bsky.social PhD at CEU | Co-chair Action4Justice | Columnist El Universal | UNAM, NYU and Fulbright alumna | research on anticorruption, beneficial ownership, complexity, gender
James Glück 🇺🇦 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺🏴🇬🇱🇩🇰🇭🇺 @jameslglueck.bsky.social FinRisk practitioner, Researcher, Deutsch als Fremdsprache, meine Mutter wurde 1945 von amerikanischen Antifaschisten befreit Interests incl #antiracism #antifascism #oligarchy & #extremism w/research in #climaterisk #finrisk #regulation & #anticorruption
Tim Law @timwlaw.bsky.social Expert in transparency, governance, EITI, beneficial ownership, AML, anti-corruption
www.engaged-consulting.com
Susana Coroado @susanacoroado.bsky.social Political Scientist at Dublin City University researching corruption, regulation, lobbying and alike.
Previously at Universiteit Antwerpen, Instituto de Ciências Sociais Universidade de Lisboa and Transparency International Portugal.
Trust, Accountability and Inclusion Collaborative @taicollab.bsky.social Empowering citizens to hold their governing institutions to account.
We are just a click away: https://linktr.ee/thetainitiative
Jonas Mueller-Töwe @jmuellertoewe.bsky.social Senior Investigative Editor @t-online.de, Berlin / Reporting on Foreign influence operations, National security, Lobbying and Crime (Threema: 4E6EXA2Y)
Daniel Eriksson @erikssonphd.bsky.social Executive Director of the Oversight Board Administration
Julian Schmidli @julianschmidli.com 🕵️ Investigative Reporter at Swiss Public Broadcast SRF.
🔍 Data, OSINT, Privacy, Big Tech, Cyber, Surveillance Capitalism, Climate.
✉️ jnsmd@proton.me | signal: jnsmd.02 | Threema: MAW8N8JD
🌐 https://srf.ch/data
🌍 https://julianschmidli.com/en/ddj
Arena for Journalism in Europe @journalismarena.eu Arena is a non-profit promoting cross-border collaborative journalism.
We organise Dataharvest - the European Investigative Journalism Conference, the Climate Arena Conference, and develop cross-border networks.
journalismarena.eu
C4ADS @c4ads.org We're a nonprofit organization with a mission to defeat the illicit networks that threaten global peace and security. RT ≠ endorsement. Learn more at https://c4ads.org/.
Jan Gunnar Furuly @jfuruly.bsky.social Investigative journalist, Aftenposten, Oslo, Norway. Data journalism. Defense & security. OSINT / IMINT / satellite imagery analysis. Worked with Skup / Faktisk Verifiserbar.
Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social Award-winning investigative/data journalist. Senior editor @MiddleEastEye, former MENA editor @AlJazeera, Global Authentication Project member @Bellingcat, meganotoole.ca
Peter Barth @oldpete45.bsky.social covering organized crime @Bellingcat.com. texan up north. views my own.
Bastian Obermayer @bastianobermayer.bsky.social journalist / received #panamapapers & #strachevideo with @frederikobermaier.com / #pulitzer prize / @derspiegel / @ZDF / @derstandardat / board @FbdnStories/ member of @icij.bsky.social / & @papertrailmedia.bsky.social (www.papertrailmedia.de)
Trond J. Strøm @trondjs.eurosky.social Journalist / news researcher at @aftenposten.no, Oslo, Norge / Norway
Signal: trondjs.01
https://www.aftenposten.no/av/trond-j-stroem
António Costa @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu President of the European Council
Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social Political science professor at McGill 🇨🇦⚜️Hiram Mills Chair; Co-Director, Jean Monnet Centre Montreal;
Russo-Ukrainian war; Rule of law, (anti)corruption; European politics 🇺🇦 🇧🇬 🇪🇺. Opinions mine.
https://linktr.ee/popovaprof
Idrees Ahmad @idreesahmad.bsky.social Director of Journalism, University of Essex; Associate Editor, New Lines Magazine; Contributing Editor, LA Review of Books; Bylines: New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Policy, The Observer, Washington Post.
Katie Shoshiashvili @kshoshiashvili.bsky.social
Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social BBC Russia Editor, Moscow
Al Jazeera Investigates @ajiunit.com Award-winning journalism from Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit. Got a story or tip for our team? Start here: http://aljazeera.com/tips
News Eye @newseye.bsky.social A career spent in government affairs & media. Now an interested eye on the news. Not always balanced; there aren’t two sides to fascism.
Now on TikTok 👉 https://www.tiktok.com/@news_eye?_t=ZN-8zwNc7WZeII&_r=1
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ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
Send us tips: propublica.org/tips
Paul Radu @paulradu.wsocial.eu co-founder @occrp.org/investigative reporter/innovator/social entrepreneur/Ashoka fellow
World Editors Forum @worldeditorsforum.bsky.social We connect and support editors globally to understand and overcome common challenges. From press freedom to newsroom transformation: Together, we stand up for journalism.
Ros Atkins @rosatkins.bsky.social BBC News Analysis Editor, The Media Show, 'The Art of Explanation', 'Communicating...' podcast, squash enthusiast, DJ. Agent:
Sophieclaire@miradorgroup.co.uk
Nieman Reports @niemanreports.org A publication of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Nieman Reports covers thought leadership in journalism—winner of the Bart Richards Media Criticism Award and Mirror Awards.
https://niemanreports.org/
paper trail media @papertrailmedia.de investigative newsroom :: partner of @spiegel.de : @zdfde.bsky.social : @derstandard.at : @tagesanzeiger.bsky.social :: www.papertrailmedia.de