Investigate Europe

About the network

Investigate Europe (IE) started in 2016 as a pilot project led by nine European journalists who came together to try something unheard of—a journalistic collaboration that runs across borders, national discourses, and the rapid news cycle of legacy media. Since then, the team has continued to grow and its research has expanded. IE’s experienced reporters come from countries including Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the UK.

Their working method is to investigate simultaneously, share all information, and report in their respective national media after counter-checking facts and guarding against national bias. At the core of their work are months-long in-depth investigations where a core team agrees on important research questions, shares results, and adapts common core findings to local contexts. Once complete, results are published with media outlets in local languages, accompanied by multi-lingual publications via IE’s own channels. The network draws on specialized skills and strategies:

• Investigative Methods: Conducting simultaneous cross-border research, freedom of information requests, and document analysis.
• Advanced Specialisms: Utilizing open-source reporting, data journalism, digital formats, and interactive storytelling.
• Collaborative Infrastructure: Offering pan-European editorial coordination, shared databases, and multi-lingual distribution.

The network focuses on pan-European topics that carry direct relevance for citizens across several core public-interest subjects:

• Climate & Environment: Investigating ecological threats, green transitions, and continent-wide crises.
• Corruption & Organized Crime: Exposing financial malfeasance, power imbalances, and corporate accountability issues.
• Democracy & Politics: Strengthening European democracy, institutional transparency, and policy influences.
• Health & Social Issues: Examining public health challenges, systemic inequalities, and care sectors.
• Human Rights & Migration: Tracking systemic issues affecting communities across European borders.

Network Projects

• Wasteland: An extensive investigation exposing failures in the EU’s efforts to create a circular economy and detailing how uncontrolled production leads to a plastic waste crisis across the continent.
• #PerencoFiles: An in-depth investigation into the Franco-British oil and gas company Perenco, uncovering cases of environmental pollution and related corruption (conducted in partnership with Disclose and EIF).
• GreyGold: An exposé on the state of nursing homes in Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, revealing how international corporations make huge profits amid severe caregiver shortages.

Contact

Website: https://www.investigate-europe.eu/en/

Contact

Website: https://www.investigate-europe.eu/en/
Name: Peter Matjašič
Email: mail@investigate-europe.eu