2020 is a year many people around the world will be glad to see the back of. Here @TBIJ we can’t deny it’s been tough - but we’ve also felt the urgent need for public interest journalism on global, systemic issues. Over coming days we'll be looking back at a very busy 12 months…
We launched a global health investigative team in March - they sure had their work cut out. We've investigated systemic issues that #coronavirus threw into sharp relief, starting with the world's opaque and fragile drug supply chains: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2043… 
Our investigation into Europe’s chaotic response to the early days of the pandemic led to a strong response from the EU Health Commissioner, and helped prompt an official inquiry
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And our revelations that children across Africa are dying due to the high prices charged by multinational oxygen companies got attention from corporate investors. Advocacy groups and health institutions are now using our evidence to make progress: thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2020-0…
After a year reporting on the devastating Amazon #deforestation being driven by the global meat trade, and the role played by UK and European retailers and banks, in 2020 we started to see real progress thebureauinvestigates.com/blog/2020-08-2…
In July we showed the world’s biggest meat company JBS was directly linked to illegal deforestation. In September we turned our eyes onto the huge problem of soya for animal feed, showing how British chicken is helping to destroy Brazil’s “second Amazon”: crowdcast.io/e/british-chic…
Sticking on the issue, and highlighting the role of finance as well as supermarkets, is paying off. Investment houses are pulling out, retailers are taking action, the meat corporations are making new pledges and governments are preparing new laws: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2043…
In 2020 we launched a new team investigating the UK’s enablers: the lawyers, PR advisers, estate agents, accountants and bankers that facilitate global corruption and wrongdoing. You can watch a panel event we hosted here, with @DominicGrieve1 and others: crowdcast.io/e/is-london-th…
Our investigation in October opened up the secretive world of finance companies in Jersey, which incredibly is the third-biggest source of foreign investment in the UK - that’s more than China or Germany: thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2020-1…
Over 2020 our Decision Machines project has been investigating how big data, algorithms and other technologies are affecting our lives. As the pandemic threw government’s relationship with tech into the spotlight, it proved a good area to be digging into...assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2043…
In May our reporter @KatHall42 revealed some tech firms could gain unprecedented access to confidential UK patient data after winning deals with the NHS. She later went behind the scenes of the contract tracing app shambles: thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2020-0…
In December our reporter @cr0ft0n revealed how spy companies are using mobile phone networks in the Channel Islands to conduct surveillance operations on people around the world. Politicians in the UK, EU & USA called for tougher restrictions as a result: thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2020-1…
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