Abstract: Investigative journalism holds the powerful to account by revealing wrongdoing, abuses of power and inequalities in society. As part of this work, investigative journalists routinely interrogate complex systems, including global financial markets, commodity supply chains, and networks of business entities and personal relationships. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) is an independent, non-profit newsroom based in London – a kind of smaller, British ProPublica. TBIJ publishes investigations in the public interest on topics such as global health, environment, big tech, financial corruption and workers' rights. In this talk, Chrissie Giles – Deputy Editor at TBIJ and one of this year's CSSS Journalism Fellows – hopes to find ideas for new ways we might understand the relationship between complex systems analysis and investigative journalism. She'll present recent examples of investigations from TBIJ, including findings that vital, common chemotherapy drugs have failed quality tests, leaving cancer patients in more than 100 countries – including the U.S. – at risk, and that more than 100 global brands are using Uyghur workers moved under 'forced labour' schemes of the Chinese state, a collaboration with the New York Times.
Speaker
Chrissie Giles