ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the archives of five transnational investigative journalism initiatives and the Transnational Investigative Journalism social media space, with references in parentheses where they were part of the project. These are International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Global Investigative Journalism Network, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, and African Network of Centers for Investigative Journalism. Transnational investigative journalism displays origins, therefore, in the liberal democracies of the global North. Individual scandals publicised as a result of journalistic investigation may have piqued a wider, global interest, but that a number did so largely reflected the global importance of the USA and, to a lesser extent, other countries in the global North. Transnational collaboration also serves to protect both freedom of speech and journalists and the media from retribution in the forms of censorship, prosecution and intimidation.
