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Welcome to the Insubornável Link Glossary
This page is an encyclopaedic library of world journalism. It is not a list of links: it is a deliberate invitation into the unknown.
Each entry has an annotation — a paragraph that does not merely describe, but provokes. The intention is not to tell you the site exists, but to make you want to click because something there is unusual, rare, or unsettling enough to deserve attention.
Organised in alphabetical order by journalism type. Use the menu on the left.
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| 33 journalism types |
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7 continents |
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| Investigative networks |
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100+ countries |
| Whistleblower platforms |
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A News Agencies
The factories where most of the news you have ever read was born — without you knowing it. They supply newspapers, broadcasters, and portals across the entire world.
EUAOA
AP — Associated Press
Founded in 1846 by New York newspapers that refused to pay for separate telegrams. Today it supplies 15,000 media outlets in 112 countries. The text you read in your local paper this morning probably started here.
UKGLOBAL
Reuters
The agency that invented the concept of journalistic neutrality — and is therefore accused by every side at once. Present in 200 countries, it covers financial markets and wars with the same clinical detachment that simultaneously unsettles and fascinates.
FRANCEPT available
AFP — Agence France-Presse
The oldest continuously operating news agency — born in 1835 as Havas, when news traveled by carrier pigeon. Today it transmits 5,000 stories a day in 6 languages. Available in Portuguese.
RÚSSIASTATE
TASS — Agência Telegráfica da Rússia
The official voice of the USSR for decades. Today it is a Russian state agency — treat it as you would any official source: with critical distance. But it has exclusive coverage of regions no Western agency can access.
CHINASTATE
Xinhua News Agency
The world's largest news agency by staff count: 10,000 journalists in 180 countries. It is the official megaphone of the Chinese Communist Party — and, paradoxically, the only news source for some regions of Central Asia and Africa.
ALEMANHA
dpa — Deutsche Presse-Agentur
The German agency founded after World War II with the explicit mission of preventing the concentration of information in state hands. A model that became a benchmark for independent agencies in new democracies.
BRASIL
Agência Brasil — EBC
The public news agency with content under a Creative Commons license. Produced with taxpayer money and available for any outlet to republish at no cost.
GLOBALOA
IPS — Inter Press Service
Agency created in 1964 to cover what the major agencies ignored: the Global South, developing countries, the voices that never reached Northern newspapers. Covers 100 countries with a focus on human rights and development.
A Agribusiness / The Land
The journalism that covers what you eat, the soil that sustains cities, and the invisible conflicts over land, water, and seeds.
GLOBALOA
IATP — Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Monitors the backroom deals of international food negotiations — the treaties that decide whether a farmer in Mato Grosso can sell soy to Europe. What gets decided in Geneva, and how it lands on Brazil's table.
BRASIL
Repórter Brasil
Journalism-NGO specializing in slave labor, deforestation, and violations in the agribusiness supply chain. Its investigations have resulted in cancellations of billion-dollar contracts with brands that unknowingly used forced labor.
GLOBAL
GRAIN — Controle Corporativo sobre Alimentos
Documents the purchase of agricultural land by investment funds and foreign governments — the phenomenon of "land grabbing." The map of who actually owns the fields of this planet is more disturbing than any financial thriller.
EUA
Civil Eats
Independent journalism about the American food system: pesticides, lobbying, rights of rural workers, and the politics behind what ends up on your plate.
UNOA
FAO — Arquivo de Notícias em Português
Data on hunger, agricultural production, and food security from 195 countries. The primary source for any food journalism that wants to go beyond industry narratives.
BRASIL
Brasil de Fato — Agrário
Coverage of Brazil's land conflict from the perspective of landless movements. News from settlements, evictions, and rural violence that conventional reporting never reaches.
GLOBAL
ETC Group — Concentração Corporativa
Monitors corporate concentration in agriculture: how four companies control 60% of the seeds sold worldwide. The power map of what can be planted — and by whom.
A Audiovisual / Documentaries
The journalism that demands images because some stories do not fit into words — and some truths are only understood when you see the face of the person who lived them.
EUAOA
PBS Frontline
Long-form investigative documentaries produced since 1983. Free to watch online. Covered Abu Ghraib, the opioid crisis, and Big Tech's power — before any major newspaper made it front page.
QATAR
Al Jazeera Documentaries
The broadcaster that reshaped Arab journalism. Documentaries on Africa, Asia, and the Middle East ignored by Western networks — with a Global South perspective that challenges the default frame.
GLOBALOA
Internet Archive — Documentários
Digital archive of thousands of public-domain and open-license historical documentaries — including records of wars, social movements, and 20th-century events that exist nowhere else.
BRASIL
TV Brasil — Canal Público
Brazil's federal public broadcaster. Documentaries, debates, and cultural coverage that commercial television has no interest in producing. Available online under a public content license.
GLOBAL
IDFA — Amsterdam Documentary Festival
The world's largest documentary festival. The online archive holds hundreds of films of documentary journalism from every continent — including productions that never made it onto commercial streaming.
UK
BBC iPlayer — Documentários
The BBC's archive of decades of journalistic documentaries — some of the finest ever made on politics, science, conflict, and society. Part of the collection is accessible internationally.
ALEMANHAOA PT
DW Documentários — Deutsche Welle PT
Germany's public broadcaster produces documentaries in Portuguese about Africa and Latin America. Free content. One of the few European outlets with systematic video coverage of Brazil.
GLOBALOA
Documentary.net
Archive of public-domain and open-license journalistic documentaries. Decades of records on wars, social movements, and political transformations that shaped the contemporary world.
C Science / Health
The journalism that translates what laboratories discover — and that exists because most scientific papers are written for other scientists, not for you.
OAGLOBAL
SciDev.Net
Science journalism focused on the Global South — research on tropical diseases, climate change in poor countries, and agricultural technology for regions that major journals ignore. Free, multilingual.
EUA
STAT News
Specialized in health and biomedicine. Covered the COVID-19 pandemic with scientific rigor before any major newspaper caught up. Investigates the pharmaceutical industry with the same depth others apply to Wall Street.
OAGLOBAL
OPAS/PAHO — Organização Pan-Americana de Saúde
Epidemiological data for the Americas, health alerts, and reports on emerging diseases. The mandatory primary source for any public-health journalism in the Western Hemisphere.
OAGLOBAL
OMS — Sala de Imprensa
Official communications from the World Health Organization: outbreak alerts, emergency declarations, and global reports. The source to consult before any speculation begins.
BRASILOA
Agência Fiocruz de Notícias
The news agency of Fundação Oswaldo Cruz — the most important public health institution in Latin America. Scientific content in Portuguese with an open license.
EUA
Undark
Independent science journalism that is not afraid to challenge consensus when evidence supports it. Investigates the relationship between science, power, and money — who funds the research and what that changes about the results.
OAGLOBAL
IHME — Institute for Health Metrics
Produces the Global Burden of Disease — the world's largest mapping of causes of death and illness. Open data that shows what actually kills humans in every country and what healthcare systems choose to ignore.
UK
The BMJ — British Medical Journal
One of the world's oldest medical journals that also practices journalism: it investigates conflicts of interest in medicine, exposes fraudulent research, and questions official protocols with hard evidence.
BRASIL
ICICT Fiocruz — Informação Científica
A Fiocruz institute that monitors health disinformation in Brazil. Produces analyses of the medical fake-news ecosystem — including mapping of WhatsApp groups that spread vaccine misinformation.
C Conflicts / War Zones
The journalism that covers where bombs fall and cameras rarely reach — because conflicts have parties that do not want to be filmed.
EUAOA
ACLED — Armed Conflict Location & Event Data
Real-time armed conflict database: every incident, every location, every faction involved — in every country on earth. Used by journalists, researchers, and diplomats. Free and open.
UK
Bureau of Investigative Journalism — Conflitos
Investigations into the human cost of modern warfare — including the database of civilian drone-strike victims from the early years of the American program, when no government would admit the numbers.
GLOBALOA
The New Humanitarian
Independent journalism on humanitarian crises — the wars that lack sufficient geopolitical interest to appear on Western front pages: Sudan, Myanmar, the Sahel, Venezuela.
GLOBALOA
International Crisis Group
Monitors conflicts before they explode — with a field presence in more than 50 countries. Free reports on the political logic of civil wars and ethnic tensions that no daily newspaper has the depth to cover.
SUÉCIA
SIPRI — Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Publishes the annual ranking of military spending by every country. Data that reveals who is really preparing for war — and who is selling the weapons.
GLOBALOA
CICV — Cruz Vermelha Internacional
The only body with legal access to prisoners of war in recognized conflicts. Press releases and humanitarian alerts from zones that journalists cannot enter.
GLOBALOA
Airwars — Ataques Aéreos e Vítimas Civis
Monitors military airstrikes around the world and cross-references them with reports of civilian casualties. One of the few projects that documents what governments call "collateral damage" — with names, dates, and coordinates.
C War Correspondent
The journalism practiced by people who go where no one else will — and who pay prices the reader rarely imagines when seeing the byline.
UKOA
Rory Peck Trust
Foundation created in memory of the correspondent assassinated in Russia in 1993. Supports freelance journalists in conflict zones — the ones who cover wars without the life insurance that large newsrooms provide their own staff.
EUAOA
CPJ — Jornalistas Mortos e Presos
The most comprehensive database of journalists killed, imprisoned, or disappeared since 1992. A list that grows every year — and that reveals which countries are the most dangerous for the press.
UK
BBC Academy — Segurança em Campo
BBC guides and training for journalists in hostile environments: how to behave during a kidnapping, identify explosives, and cope with post-conflict trauma. What no journalism school teaches.
EUA
Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma
Columbia University center dedicated to trauma in journalists — especially war correspondents. Studies and treats PTSD in those who cover atrocities. A field that has already saved careers and lives.
GLOBALOA
Frontline Freelance Register
Network of freelance correspondents covering conflicts without the support of major newsrooms. Fights for fair contracts, protective equipment, and recognition that war journalism is not the exclusive domain of wealthy outlets.
GLOBAL
World Press Photo — Histórias de Cobertura
Behind the award-winning photographs: the photographers' accounts of how they got the images. Stories of access, risk, and ethical choices that never appear in captions — but that defined what the world saw of the wars.
GLOBAL
PEN America — Proteção de Jornalistas
Defends persecuted and imprisoned journalists worldwide. Publishes reports on the erosion of press freedom in democracies that still call themselves open.
EUA
Dart Center — Guia de Campo
The practical guide for journalists in conflict zones: digital security, mental health, negotiating with sources in high-risk situations, and what to do when the plan falls apart.
C Crime / Public Safety
The journalism that enters where police do not want cameras and where organized crime does not want the light turned on.
OAGLOBAL
Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
Global network mapping transnational organized crime: human trafficking, money laundering, drug trade, and corruption that crosses borders. What every country prefers to frame as a neighbor's problem.
BRASIL
Fórum Brasileiro de Segurança Pública
Produces the Brazilian Public Security Yearbook — the only independent source of violence data in Brazil that does not rely on police reports. The numbers governments have every interest in suppressing are here.
MÉXICO
Animal Político — Segurança México
Independent Mexican journalism on cartels, state violence, and the disappeared. Covers what local journalists often cannot cover on pain of death.
GLOBALOA
UNODC — Escritório da ONU sobre Drogas e Crime
Global reports on drug trafficking, corruption, and organized crime with country-level data. The primary source for any coverage that wants to go beyond official statements.
EUA
The Marshall Project
Investigative journalism about the American criminal justice system — prisons, the death penalty, and the private detention industry. A project that exists because no major newspaper wanted to cover what happens after sentencing.
GLOBAL
OCCRP — Organized Crime and Corruption
The largest investigative journalism network focused on organized crime: more than 150 journalists in 45 countries. Exposed the Panama Papers and dozens of schemes that ended in arrests and the fall of governments.
BRASIL
Agência Pública
Brazil's first non-profit investigative journalism outlet. Investigations with all source documents published so readers can verify every claim themselves.
C Culture / Art / Heritage
The journalism that records what a society creates, preserves, and destroys — because what a people do with their culture says more about them than any election.
EUAOA
Hyperallergic
Critical art journalism that is not afraid to make museums and galleries uncomfortable. Investigates money-laundering through auctions, the repatriation of looted works, and what major museums do with pieces acquired illegally.
GLOBALOA
Artsy — Notícias de Arte
The art market explained: prices, trends, and the mechanisms that transform an unknown artist into an investment — or a famous artist into a collector's liability. Capitalism at work in canvases and sculptures.
BRASIL
Cult — Revista Brasileira de Cultura
The Brazilian cultural publication that connects arts, philosophy, and politics without any intellectual inferiority complex. Profiles, essays, and interviews with thinkers the mainstream press ignores until they become mandatory references.
GLOBALOA
ICOM — International Council of Museums
The world's museum council, publishing alerts on the trafficking of cultural heritage — objects and archaeological finds stolen from countries in conflict. What the art market calls "unclear provenance."
BRASILOA
Funarte — Acervo de Fotografia
The public collection of Brazil's National Arts Foundation, with historical records of the country — including documentation of social movements and demonstrations that private photographic memory never preserved.
GLOBAL
e-flux Journal — Arte Contemporânea
Theoretical and critical publication on contemporary art, politics, and visual culture. Where artists, theorists, and curators think through the role of art in the world — without the commercial gloss of gallery magazines.
D Data / Visualization
The journalism that turns spreadsheets into stories — because raw data does not lie, but it can mislead, and only those who know how to read it can tell the right story.
OAGLOBAL
Data Journalism.com
The largest repository of data journalism: examples, tutorials, tools, and the complete handbook produced by 70 specialists from 30 countries — free and continuously updated.
OAGLOBAL
Our World in Data — Oxford
Turns global data into visualizations that anyone can understand. Coverage of health, poverty, inequality, and energy — with primary sources cited in every chart. Creative Commons license.
EUAOA
FiveThirtyEight
Journalism grounded in statistics and probability. Famous for predicting elections with mathematical precision — and for explaining to readers why every political certainty is a probability, not a truth.
BRASILOA
Nexo Jornal
Brazilian data-driven, context-first journalism — founded in 2015 with the mission of explaining, not just reporting. Visualizations on politics, economics, and society that turn the complex into the comprehensible.
OAGLOBAL
Gapminder
Created the animated Bubble Chart that Hans Rosling used to show the world has improved more than we believe — and that our intuitions about global poverty are almost always wrong.
OAGLOBAL
GIJN — Repositório de Dados para Jornalistas
Public, verified databases for journalistic use: public finances, corporate registries, electoral and health data from 200 countries. The starting point for any data-driven investigation.
OAGLOBAL
Banco Mundial — Open Data
The world's largest repository of development data: 14,000 indicators from 263 economies since 1960. The source for any journalism on inequality and poverty that wants to go beyond ministerial statements.
BRASILOA
Base dos Dados — Brasil
Repository of treated, standardized Brazilian public data — IBGE, Federal Revenue, TSE, INEP, and dozens of others in one place. The project that turned inaccessible public data into journalistic tools.
GLOBALOA
J++ — Journalism++ (open-source tools)
European agency that releases its tools as free software: Datawrapper and other projects that equip small independent newsrooms with the same analytical capabilities as large ones.
D Copyright / Open Licenses
The journalism about who controls knowledge — and the movements fighting for it to belong to everyone.
OAGLOBAL
Creative Commons
The organization that created the licenses enabling legal sharing of intellectual content. More than 2 billion works under CC licenses. The legal answer to a copyright regime that treats every act of sharing as piracy.
OAGLOBAL
EFF — Propriedade Intelectual
The organization that sues companies and governments that use copyright to censor. Defends the public domain, fair use, and the right of researchers to build on existing works without asking corporate permission.
OAGLOBAL
Internet Archive
The digital library that preserves what the internet forgets: deleted pages, out-of-print books, music and films the market no longer sells but that humanity should not lose. A constant target of lawsuits — and surviving them all.
OAGLOBAL
Public Knowledge
Monitors intellectual property laws and advocates for expanding the public domain. When Disney lobbies to keep Mickey Mouse out of the public domain, Public Knowledge steps into the fight.
OAGLOBAL
Question Copyright
Challenges the standard narrative about copyright: who actually benefits from intellectual protection laws — the creators, or the corporations that buy their rights? A documented counter-argument to the lobbying of major publishers and studios.
D Human Rights
The journalism that documents what states do to people when they believe no one is watching — and that turns testimony into evidence for international tribunals.
OAGLOBAL
Human Rights Watch
Investigates violations with a documented-evidence methodology: interviews, forensic reports, and open data. Its reports have resulted in diplomatic sanctions, ICC prosecutions, and policy changes in dozens of countries.
OAGLOBAL
Anistia Internacional
The organization with the most individual members in the human rights field. Since 1961 it has documented political imprisonment, torture, and the death penalty. Its work frees prisoners through letters — and through decades of pressure on governments.
GLOBALOA
ONU — Alto Comissariado de Direitos Humanos
The UN agency that issues reports on state violations — and that is therefore regularly attacked by the states it scrutinizes. The primary source for coverage of conflict and torture at the international level.
BRASIL
Conectas Direitos Humanos
Brazilian NGO that operates before international courts. Documents police violations and prison conditions in Brazil — using journalistic reports as evidence in proceedings before the Inter-American Commission.
GLOBALOA
FIDH — Federação Internacional de Direitos Humanos
Federation of 192 organizations in 117 countries. Publishes field reports from zones journalists cannot enter — with testimony from local defenders who risk their lives to document violations.
GLOBALOA
ICJ — Comissão Internacional de Juristas
Documents the use of legal systems as tools of oppression — lawfare as a method of political persecution. Monitors cases where governments deploy judicial proceedings to silence journalists and opponents.
GLOBAL
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
The only global database on corporate accountability in human rights. What major corporations do in countries where labor laws are weakest.
BRASILOA
CIMI — Conselho Indigenista Missionário
Publishes annual reports on violence against indigenous peoples in Brazil with data the State does not systematically collect. The primary journalistic source on what happens at Brazil's invisible frontiers.
GLOBALOA
Front Line Defenders
Dedicated to protecting human rights defenders at immediate risk. Publishes the annual report of killed activists — a growing list that includes environmentalists, journalists, and community leaders.
E Economy / Finance
The journalism about money — who has it, how it moves, who decides where it goes, and what happens to those without access to it.
EUA
Bloomberg
Founded to sell financial terminals to banks — and journalism came as a byproduct. Paradoxically, it produced some of the best investigations into corporate corruption. The information the market pays to have before everyone else.
UK
Financial Times
The salmon-colored paper that covers global capitalism better than any other — and sometimes criticizes it more sharply than publications that call themselves left-wing. Its tax-evasion investigations are a global benchmark.
OAGLOBAL
FMI — Sala de Imprensa
Official communications from the International Monetary Fund. The institution that imposes conditions on countries in crisis — beloved by creditors and despised by debtors. The primary source for coverage of sovereign debt.
OAGLOBAL
Tax Justice Network
Invented the Financial Secrecy Index — the ranking of jurisdictions that most facilitate tax evasion worldwide. How much money leaves poor countries through tax havens — and who profits.
EUAOA
Inequality.org — Institute for Policy Studies
Monitors wealth concentration in the US and globally with data updated weekly. The figure that never appears in stock-market indexes: how much inequality grew since yesterday.
BRASIL
Valor Econômico
Brazil's leading economic newspaper. Coverage of the central bank, fiscal policy, and markets with access to sources few outlets can match. Part of the Globo group — which, depending on the story, is worth bearing in mind.
OAGLOBAL
Peterson Institute for International Economics
The Washington think tank that influences global economic policy: analyses on trade, exchange rates, and growth that reach ministers' desks before they reach the newspapers.
OAGLOBAL
BIS — Bank for International Settlements
The central bank of central banks — where the heads of the Fed, ECB, and Bank of Japan meet. Publishes reports on global financial stability. Required reading for understanding crises before they happen.
GLOBAL
The Banker
The world's oldest financial publication — founded in 1926. Publishes the annual ranking of the world's largest banks and analyses of banking systems in emerging countries that the FT rarely covers with the same depth.
E Education / Universities / Journalism Schools
The centers where journalism is taught, researched, and criticized — and where the standards that define what journalism is get challenged before they reach the newsrooms.
EUA
Columbia Journalism School — Nova York
The school that has administered the Pulitzer Prize since 1917. Trained the journalists who broke Watergate and exposed Abu Ghraib. Its investigative journalism program is the most influential in the Western world.
EUAOA
Poynter Institute
Publishes free courses, guides, and analyses on ethics, verification, and the future of media. A global reference for discussions about professional standards — and for criticism when those standards fail.
UK
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism — Oxford
Publishes the annual Digital News Report — the largest news consumption survey: 93,000 respondents in 46 countries. The data that shows how audiences actually read (or stop reading) journalism.
BRASIL
ECA-USP — Escola de Comunicações e Artes
The largest communications school in Latin America. Publishes research on the Brazilian media ecosystem that feeds the debate on press concentration and independence.
GLOBALOA
Northwestern Knight Lab — Ferramentas
Creates free digital journalism tools: TimelineJS, StoryMapJS, Juxtapose. Open-source technology that allows any independent outlet to produce professional visualizations at zero cost.
OAGLOBAL
Digital First — Cursos de Jornalismo Gratuitos
More than 30 free courses in digital journalism, fact-checking, and data — developed by American and European universities. Certification recognized by newsrooms in 60 countries.
GLOBAL
WAN-IFRA — World Association of News Publishers
The news publishers' association representing 18,000 publications in 120 countries. Research on sustainability models and what works — and what does not — to fund independent journalism.
BRASILOA
Observatório da Imprensa
Brazilian media criticism publication active since 1996 — the country's longest-running. Analyzes coverage, omissions, and press behavior in major events. The critical memory of national journalism.
OAGLOBAL
IJNet — International Journalists Network (PT)
Global resource network for journalists: grants, fellowships, training, and job listings. Maintained by ICFJ — one of the leading funders of independent journalism in developing countries. Available in Portuguese.
GLOBAL
Online Journalism Review — USC Annenberg
Academic publication from USC that analyzes the transformation of digital journalism — business models, distribution algorithms, and the impact of platforms on journalistic production. Free archive since 1998.
E Sports
The journalism that exists beyond the scoreboards — because sport is politics, money, and power in uniform.
OAGLOBAL
Play the Game — Governança Esportiva
The conference and publication on international sports governance: corruption at FIFA, the IOC, and the federations that manage billions without transparency. The journalism that exists because sport can no longer pretend it is just sport.
EUA
The Athletic
The outlet that proved quality sports journalism has a market: no advertising, subscribers only. Investigations into team backrooms, athlete health, and league corruption that results-oriented sites never pursue.
GLOBAL
Sportradar — Integridade Esportiva
Monitors sports match-fixing in real time. Database of match-fixing incidents across 60 sports in 90 countries. The gambler who won at impossible odds may be the tip of an international corruption scheme.
GLOBALOA
Inside the Games
Investigative coverage of the Olympic movement: the IOC's backrooms, debt-laden Olympic host cities, doping, and what the Games leave behind — or fail to — for the cities that host them.
BRASIL
Lance — Esportes Brasil
Brazil's leading independent sports outlet. National football coverage with the depth that club portals have no interest in practicing when the story involves mismanagement.
F Fact-Checking / Verification
The journalism that exists because lies became faster than news — and because disinformation is now an industry with a larger budget than most newsrooms.
BRASILOA
Aos Fatos
Brazil's first professional fact-checker. Verifies politicians' statements and WhatsApp viral content with a transparent methodology and published sources. Independent, with no ties to political parties or major media groups.
BRASIL
Lupa — Agência de Checagem
Brazil's largest fact-checking agency by volume of verifications. Partner of Facebook in identifying disinformation — and critic of the very mechanisms Facebook uses to amplify what it claims to combat.
EUAOA
PolitiFact
The American fact-checker that created the Truth-O-Meter scale. Pulitzer Prize winner in 2009. Open, archived methodology: you can see exactly how each verification was done, step by step.
GLOBALOA
IFCN — International Fact-Checking Network
Certifies fact-checkers against criteria of independence and methodology. The map of accredited verifiers in every country — and the code of principles that defines what constitutes a serious fact-check.
GLOBAL
First Draft
Research and training on disinformation for journalists. Created the taxonomy of 7 categories of false content — from misinterpreted satire to deliberate fabrication. The theoretical glossary for those who study lies as a phenomenon.
GLOBALOA
Snopes
The internet's oldest fact-checker — verifying rumors since 1994, when disinformation still traveled by email. A 25-year archive of urban legends and falsehoods that reveals how societies process fear.
EUROPA
EUvsDisinfo
EU project that monitors disinformation campaigns originating in Russia. Database of thousands of identified false narratives — with the original source and the documented refutation.
GLOBALOA
EU DisinfoLab
Investigated the most complex disinformation network ever documented: 750 fake sites in 116 countries, operating for decades to influence the UN and the European Parliament. A report that redefined what is meant by information warfare.
BRASIL
Boatos.org
Brazilian rumor-checker focused on viral content circulating via WhatsApp — health, public safety, politics, and conspiracy theories. A thermometer of what Brazil believes at the moment of reading.
GLOBAL
Media Bias/Fact Check
Classifies more than 5,000 media outlets by political bias and factual rigor. An essential tool for understanding where a story comes from before deciding whether to trust it. Controversial — but the only one of its kind at global scale.
F Feminism / Gender / LGBTQ+
The journalism that documents inequalities hidden inside national statistics — and the violence the state prefers to classify as a \"domestic dispute\".
OAGLOBAL
GMMP — Global Media Monitoring Project
Research conducted every 5 years in 116 countries measuring the representation of women in global news. The numbers reveal that journalism remains an incomplete mirror of the world.
BRASILOA
Agência Patrícia Galvão
Brazilian news agency specializing in gender, violence against women, and reproductive rights. Produces data and investigations that fuel the debate on femicide, harassment, and women's political representation.
GLOBALOA
OutRight Action International
Documents LGBTQ+ rights violations in countries where gender identity and sexual orientation are crimes. Maps where people are imprisoned, tortured, or executed for who they are — and brings those cases to the UN.
OAGLOBAL
Women's eNews
Portal dedicated to journalism about women around the world — with emphasis on countries where gender coverage is nonexistent in local media. A 25-year archive of reporting on women's rights.
BRASIL
Geledés — Instituto da Mulher Negra
Brazil's largest Black women's organization produces analysis, investigative content, and journalism on the intersection of race and gender. Where mainstream feminism and conventional journalism refuse to enter together.
F Photojournalism
The journalism that cannot be denied when it bears witness — and that is the first to be attacked when power wants to control the narrative.
GLOBAL
World Press Photo
The most important photojournalism prize since 1955. The archive of winning photographs is a visual document of history: each image accompanied by the story of how it was made, including the ones that almost were not.
EUA
Pulitzer Center — Fotojornalismo
Funds photojournalism projects in regions with no visual coverage. The portfolio shows stories from conflicts and humanitarian crises that no commercial agency would have the budget to cover.
OAGLOBAL
Nieman Foundation — Fotojornalismo
Analysis of photojournalism's role in the era of digital manipulation and algorithmic curation. When a photograph can be fake, what does a real photograph mean?
GLOBAL
Magnum Photos — Newsroom
The photojournalism cooperative founded in 1947 by Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa. Each photographer owns their work — an ownership model that no other 20th-century outlet replicated.
EUA
TIME Lightbox
Time magazine's photographic archive since 1923. Decades of photojournalism covering wars and political transformations. The image bank that documents how the 20th century was seen — and edited — through American eyes.
OAGLOBAL
ICP — International Center of Photography
The New York museum and school dedicated to documentary photography. Founded by Cornell Capa — Robert's brother — to preserve the legacy of humanist photojournalism. Publishes analyses of visual ethics in news coverage.
BRASIL
Funarte — Acervo de Fotografia
The public collection of Brazil's National Arts Foundation, with historical records of the country — including documentation of social movements and demonstrations that private photographic memory never preserved.
OAGLOBAL
Visual Journalism.com
Resources and analyses on visual journalism: infographics, documentary photography, and video in the journalistic context. The frontier between information design and journalistic narrative.
I Immigration / Refugees
The journalism about people on the move — those whom borders were built to exclude, and whom political discourse turns into a problem before treating them as human beings.
OAGLOBAL
ACNUR — Alto Comissariado da ONU para Refugiados
Hard numbers on forced displacement: 108 million people uprooted in 2023. The source that dismantles "invasion" narratives with statistics on who is actually fleeing and where they go.
OAGLOBAL
IOM — Missing Migrants Project
A database of migrants killed or missing on border crossings. Each dot on the map is a documented death: in the Mediterranean, the Sahara Desert, the English Channel. The figures governments prefer kept invisible.
GLOBAL
The Refugee Brief — ACNUR
A weekly newsletter on the world's most urgent displacement crises. Field updates that arrive before the headlines of mass-market newspapers.
OAGLOBAL
InfoMigrants em Português
A multilingual information portal for migrants, produced by AFP, Deutsche Welle, and France Médias Monde. Where journalism about migration is made for those who migrate, not just for those who observe.
BRASIL
MigraMundo
Brazil's journalism portal on migration and refuge. Covers migrant communities in Brazil — Haitians, Venezuelans, Syrians — from the perspective that mainstream journalism rarely adopts: that of the migrants themselves.
I Independent / Alternative
The journalism that exists outside large corporations — funded by readers, foundations, or journalists who decided independence was worth more than a paycheck.
BRASIL
The Intercept Brasil
The Brazilian edition of the outlet founded on Snowden's documents. It published the Lava Jato conversations that revealed judge Sérgio Moro's bias — altering the course of Brazil's recent political history.
GLOBALOA
openDemocracy
An independent journalism platform covering democracy, power, and globalization. It published investigations into foreign financing of political campaigns in the United Kingdom and the United States.
EUAOA
The Real News Network
Non-profit, no advertising. Covers social movements, labor, and environmental justice from a perspective that major outlets consider "too biased." Too biased toward what — that is the question they want you to ask.
BRASIL
Brasil de Fato
A popular communications outlet with the perspective of social movements. Covers what mainstream media calls "land conflict" by showing the side that helicopters never reach. Twenty years publishing the Brazil that never appears in middle-class magazines.
GLOBAL
DeSmog
Specializes in climate disinformation and the groups that fund it. Maintains a database of think tanks and scientists paid to sow doubt about global warming — with funding sources documented.
BRASIL
piauí — Revista
Brazil's independent literary journalism magazine — no media group, no government advertising. Where major profiles and long-form texts find a home when the newspapers no longer have space for them.
OAGLOBAL
Longreads
A curated collection of the world's best long-form reporting — free. An archive of the finest narrative journalism published in the last decade. For when a five-minute news cycle stops being enough.
OAGLOBAL
Nieman Lab — Harvard
Analyzes the future of media: business models, platforms, newsletters, podcasts, and what works to fund independent journalism in the digital ecosystem. Free archive since 2009.
GLOBAL
The Guardian — Modelo de Financiamento
The only major British newspaper that publishes all content free — funded by readers, not a paywall. A model that proved viable, and that other newspapers copy without admitting where they learned it.
I Indigenous / First Peoples
The journalism that exists to cover those who were here before the borders — and that faces information systems built by those who came later and never included them.
BRASILOA
APIB — Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil
Represents Brazil's 300 indigenous peoples. Publishes news, denunciations, and reports on land invasions and violence — from the perspective of those living what is reported, not those observing from outside.
OAGLOBAL
Cultural Survival Quarterly
Documents the resistance of indigenous peoples worldwide since 1972. Stories of mobilization, protection of endangered languages, and struggles for recognition that mainstream media rarely deems relevant.
GLOBALOA
IWGIA — International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Publishes "The Indigenous World" annually — the state of indigenous rights in 60 countries. A report that documents what international treaties promise and what States actually deliver.
BRASIL
CIMI — Conselho Indigenista Missionário
Publishes annual reports on violence against indigenous peoples in Brazil with data the State does not systematically collect. The primary journalistic source on what happens at Brazil's invisible frontiers.
OAGLOBAL
Indian Country Today
The largest indigenous press outlet in the United States — owned and run by indigenous journalists. What happens when journalism about native peoples is made by the native peoples themselves.
I Investigative
The journalism that takes months — sometimes years — to publish. The kind that demands sources, documents, threats, and the decision to publish anyway.
GLOBALOA
ICIJ — International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
The network that revealed the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers, and the Pandora Papers. More than 280 journalists in 100 countries collaborating in secrecy for months — proving that global investigative journalism is possible.
GLOBAL
OCCRP — Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting
A network of 150 journalists in 45 countries specializing in organized crime and corruption. The most consulted database of offshore companies among journalists worldwide.
EUA
ProPublica
The largest independent investigative newsroom in the United States — founded when newspapers began laying off investigative reporters. All content under a Creative Commons license. Multiple Pulitzers.
UKOA
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
A British NGO specializing in investigations into corporate, political, and military power. It revealed the CIA's drone program before any major newspaper.
GLOBALOA
GIJN — Global Investigative Journalism Network
Connects investigative journalists from 180 countries. Provides training, technique guides, and protection for journalists at risk. The largest public archive of investigative journalism methodology in the world.
GLOBAL
Bellingcat
Open-source investigations using Google Maps, satellite imagery, and metadata. Identified the missile that downed MH17 before any government admitted it. Twenty-first-century investigative journalism starts here.
BRASIL
Agência Pública
Brazil's first non-profit investigative journalism outlet. Investigations with all source documents published so readers can verify every claim themselves.
EUA
The Intercept
Founded on Snowden's documents in 2014. Specializes in surveillance, military power, and corruption. Published more than 200 stories based on NSA documents — reshaping the debate on digital privacy.
OAGLOBAL
OpenSecrets — Dinheiro na Política
A complete database of American campaign finance: who donated how much to whom, and how congressional votes correlate with the donations. The money that buys laws — in open data.
BRASIL
Núcleo Jornalismo
Data-driven investigations into politics, media, and digital platforms in Brazil. Monitors the disinformation ecosystem and maps media funding with scientific methodology.
J Legal / Judicial
The journalism that covers the systems supposed to protect everyone — and that frequently protects those who can pay far better.
OAEUA
SCOTUSblog — Suprema Corte dos EUA
The blog that became the primary source for covering the United States Supreme Court — faster and more accurate than any conventional outlet. Created by lawyers who thought legal journalism was poorly done.
OAGLOBAL
TPI — Tribunal Penal Internacional
The court that prosecutes war crimes and genocide. The only forum where heads of state can be convicted while in office. The list of arrest warrants issued tells you everything about who the system can — and cannot — reach.
BRASILOA
ConJur — Consultor Jurídico
Brazil's legal journalism portal covering the Supreme Court, Superior Courts, and tribunals with a depth generalist outlets cannot match. Essential for understanding the behind-the-scenes of decisions that affect civil rights and the political system.
OAGLOBAL
Open Society Justice Initiative
Documentation and advocacy on the use of the judiciary to persecute dissidents in authoritarian regimes. Includes analyses of cases where criminal proceedings are weaponized to silence journalists.
BRASILOA
JOTA — Jornalismo Judicial
A Brazilian portal specialized in covering the Judiciary. Tracks the Supreme Court, superior courts, and democracy-impacting decisions in real time — with technical rigor rarely found in general coverage.
L Press Freedom
The journalism that exists to protect journalism — because in some countries reporting the truth is a crime, and in others it is simply very dangerous.
GLOBALOA
RSF — Repórteres Sem Fronteiras (PT)
Publishes the annual World Press Freedom Index — a ranking of 180 countries. Also defends imprisoned journalists and monitors threats in real time. The reference for any debate on censorship.
EUAOA
CPJ — Committee to Protect Journalists
Defends journalists who are imprisoned, threatened, and killed. Maintains the most complete database of reporters who died in service — with names, countries, circumstances, and who was held accountable (or not).
GLOBALOA
IPI — International Press Institute
The oldest organization defending press freedom — founded in 1950, shortly after Europe's dictatorships. Monitors threats in democracies that are growing weaker.
GLOBAL
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Funds secure communication technologies for journalists: maintains SecureDrop, the platform that protects whistleblower sources. Led by Edward Snowden between 2014 and 2023.
GLOBALOA
Article 19
An NGO named for Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Defends journalists, bloggers, and activists in cases of judicial censorship around the world.
EUAOA
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Free legal assistance to American journalists. Maintains a database of denied freedom-of-information requests and lawsuits filed against journalists.
BRASIL
ABRAJI — Associação Brasileira de Jornalismo Investigativo
Represents investigative journalists in Brazil and monitors threats to press freedom. Maintains an observatory of attacks on journalists — with records of assaults and murders.
EUROPAOA
Mapping Media Freedom — Europa
An interactive map of press-freedom incidents across Europe in real time. A visualization that dismantles the idea that Europe is a safe zone for reporters.
GLOBAL
PEN International
The writers' organization founded in 1921 to defend freedom of expression. When a journalist is jailed for writing, PEN organizes the international pressure to free them.
L Literary / Narrative / Longform
The journalism that allows itself the time, the space, and the voice to tell stories the way they need to be told — without the 600-word limit that kills depth.
EUA
The Atlantic
Founded in 1857 by Ralph Waldo Emerson. America's longest-running literary journalism publication. Where journalism still allows itself to think out loud and publish what is uncomfortable for the advertising power.
EUA
The New Yorker — Reportagens
The publication that turned the journalistic profile into a literary form. Texts that take months to write, fact-check, and edit — the opposite of the click. Where journalism is treated as literature.
OAGLOBAL
Longreads
A curated collection of the world's best long-form reporting — free. An archive of the finest narrative journalism published in the last decade. For when a five-minute news cycle stops being enough.
OABRASIL
Agência Pública — Grandes Reportagens
Long-form Brazilian reporting with access to the underlying documents. The local model of narrative investigative journalism — where a story does not need to fit in the space of a news brief.
GLOBALOA
Narratively
An independent publication dedicated to human stories outside conventional news. Stories of people who never make headlines — with the depth that headlines do not permit.
M Environment / Climate
The journalism that covers the crisis with no expiration date — and that, if not covered with rigor, will leave no place for any other kind of journalism to happen.
GLOBALOA
Carbon Brief
Scientific journalism specialized in climate and energy. It dismantles denialist claims with peer-reviewed science. The reference for understanding the difference between what climate models actually say and what energy lobbyists want you to believe.
BRASIL
ClimaInfo
Brazil's climate journalism portal that translates IPCC reports into the Brazilian context. The global climate crisis explained for those who will suffer it first.
BRASIL
InfoAmazônia
Data journalism and maps about the Amazon: real-time deforestation, illegal mining, wildfires. Visualizations showing what satellites record and governments prefer not to discuss.
GLOBALOA
Climate.gov — NOAA
The science communication portal of the American oceanic agency. Temperature data, extreme events, and climate trends. The source to consult before any statement about "climate has always changed."
EUA
InsideClimate News
Pulitzer winner for revealing that ExxonMobil knew about climate change since the 1970s and funded denial campaigns for decades. The biggest corporate environmental scandal of the last 50 years — reported by twelve people.
GLOBALOA
Global Witness
Investigates the intersection of natural resources, conflict, and corruption. Documented how mining and oil companies finance civil wars and corrupt governments in African and Asian countries.
GLOBALOA
IPCC — Painel Climático da ONU
The definitive scientific source on climate change. The documents governments use (or ignore) to set policy. Free and open.
BRASIL
O Eco
Brazil's environmental journalism portal founded in 2003. Covers the Amazon, Cerrado, Atlantic Forest, and Pantanal — the biomes Brazil has an economic interest in exploiting and a political interest in not reporting when the subject is destruction.
GLOBAL
Earth.Org
Environmental journalism with maximum visual impact: satellite before-and-after photos of deforestation, floods, and glacier melt. What abstract climate data means when you see the image.
M Market / Consumer
The journalism that follows money from production to consumption — and the information asymmetries that make the system work against the buyer.
OAEUA
Consumer Reports
The organization that tests products without accepting advertising since 1936. A model of editorial independence that consumer journalism around the world claims to want — and rarely manages to maintain.
BRASILOA
IDEC — Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do Consumidor
Files lawsuits, runs tests, and publishes investigations into abusive consumer practices in Brazil. One of the few organizations that does consumer journalism with real independence from advertisers.
OAGLOBAL
BEUC — European Consumer Organisation
The European federation of consumer organizations. Publishes alerts, tests, and investigations into products sold in the European market — which frequently reach Brazil before local regulations do.
BRASIL
Procon-SP — Notícias e Alertas
São Paulo's consumer protection authority publishes alerts on scams, fraud, and seized irregular products. The primary local source before any coverage of consumer rights.
M Global Media / Major Outlets
The outlets that define what the world calls "the media" — with their virtues, their flaws, and the interests they carry alongside their reporting.
UK
The Guardian
The only major British newspaper that publishes all content free — funded by readers. It published Snowden's documents and investigations that cost people their jobs elsewhere.
EUA
The New York Times
The newspaper with the most Pulitzer Prizes: 132. It published the Pentagon Papers against a court order. An archive of how American power behaved when it believed no one was watching.
EUA
The Washington Post
The newspaper that brought down Nixon. Bought by Jeff Bezos in 2013 — which raised questions about independence that the paper itself investigated. The reference for American political journalism.
UKOA
BBC News
The British public broadcaster in 28 languages. Funded by a fee paid by the British public — legally required to be impartial. Constantly attacked from every side: a sign it is working.
QATAR
Al Jazeera
Founded in 1996 to transform Arab journalism. Banned in several countries. Its coverage of the Arab world exists nowhere in any Western outlet.
ALEMANHAOA PT
Deutsche Welle — em Português
The German public broadcaster transmitting in 32 languages. In Portuguese it covers Africa and Latin America. One of the few European outlets with a real journalistic presence outside capital cities.
JAPÃO
NHK World
The Japanese public broadcaster in English. The only regular source on Japan that does not depend on Western correspondents interpreting a society that is not theirs.
ÍNDIA
The Wire — Índia
Independent Indian journalism founded by journalists who left major outlets due to editorial pressure. Covers the rise of Hindu nationalism and the minorities that other Indian outlets prefer to ignore.
BRASIL
Agência Brasil — EBC
The public news agency with content under a Creative Commons license. Produced with taxpayer money and available for any outlet to republish at no cost.
GLOBAL
Le Monde
France's newspaper of record, majority-owned by its own journalists — an ownership structure few outlets in the world possess. Participates in major investigative networks.
O NGOs / Activism / Civil Society
The ecosystem of organizations that exists between the State and the market — and that frequently does the journalism neither has any interest in funding.
OAGLOBAL
CIVICUS — World Alliance for Citizen Participation
Monitors "civic space" — the degree of freedom that citizens and civil organizations have to act in each country. The index that measures how much the State actually tolerates organized dissent.
OAGLOBAL
Transparency International
Publishes the Corruption Perceptions Index annually — a ranking of 180 countries. Politicians are elected and lose power on the basis of this index.
BRASILOA
Imazon — Amazônia
Monitors Amazon deforestation with satellite data independent of the government. Imazon's SAD published figures that contradicted official data and forced revisions of environmental policy.
OAGLOBAL
Global Witness
Investigates the intersection of natural resources, conflict, and corruption. Documented how mining and oil companies finance civil wars and corrupt governments in African and Asian countries.
BRASIL
INESC — Instituto de Estudos Socioeconômicos
Monitors the Brazilian Federal Budget and publishes analyses of where taxpayer money actually goes. The gap between political rhetoric and the approved budget — in numbers.
P Political / International
The journalism that covers power — where it concentrates, how it is exercised, and what it does when it believes no one is watching.
EUA
Politico
Transformed American political coverage into real time. Congressional and White House reporting with inside sources that few other outlets have. Expanded to Europe — covering Brussels with the same depth.
GLOBALOA
Foreign Policy
The reference for international politics since 1970. Geopolitical analyses with diplomatic sources and the Failed States Index — the annual ranking of countries on the verge of collapse.
UK
The Economist
The British publication read by presidents and central bankers. Anonymous — no article carries a byline. The thesis: the idea must be stronger than the name of who writes it.
BRASIL
Correio Braziliense — Política
The newspaper of Brasília — the city where politics is made. Coverage of the day-to-day workings of power with proximity access that papers in Rio and São Paulo cannot replicate from a distance.
GLOBALOA
Freedom House — Freedom in the World
Assesses the degree of political and civil freedom in 195 countries since 1972. An archive of how democracies grow, weaken, and collapse.
SUÉCIAOA
V-Dem Institute — Democracy Reports
The most sophisticated academic democracy index. Measures 71 indicators in 200 countries since 1789 — more rigorous and less geopolitically biased than American indices.
GLOBALOA
ICIJ — Offshore Leaks Database
The public database created with the Panama Papers. Search any name and find out if it appears in tax havens. Democratized the investigation of elite tax evasion.
BRASILOA
Câmara Federal — Portal de Transparência
Spending, votes, and declared assets of every federal deputy. The full voting record of every mandate — the source before any claim that "the legislator voted that way under pressure."
GLOBAL
Chatham House — Geopolítica
The most influential British think tank on international relations. Analyses of great powers and regional crises — and the Chatham House Rule: the protocol that lets diplomats tell the truth.
R Radio / Podcast
The journalism that travels through the ear — the oldest mass-communication format, which survived television and streaming and remains the only one that reaches those who cannot read.
EUAOA
NPR — National Public Radio
The American public radio that invented the podcast before podcasts existed. Investigative, cultural, and scientific journalism that commercial funders would never allow. A free archive of decades of radio journalism.
UKOA
BBC Podcasts — Jornalismo
The BBC archive: investigations and international coverage produced by the same reporters who make the news. The Global News Podcast covers what the next day's newspapers have not yet published.
BRASIL
Rádio Agência Nacional
The audio content producer of Agência Brasil. Content under a Creative Commons license available to any broadcaster. The public service that subsidizes journalism in cities with no resources for their own reporting.
GLOBALOA
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Founded in the Cold War to broadcast independent journalism to Soviet countries. Today it covers Russia, Belarus, and Iran — countries where independent journalism is a crime. The voice that reaches where the regime wants silence.
EUA
Marketplace — Economia em Rádio
Explains economics to people who did not study economics — no jargon, no "market sources." The most listened-to economics program in the United States for decades.
GLOBALOA
RFI — Rádio França Internacional (PT)
The French radio broadcasting in Portuguese aimed at Africa and Brazil. Coverage of Mozambique, Angola, and Cape Verde that no Brazilian broadcaster produces with the same regularity.
BRASIL
Rádio Cultura — São Paulo
São Paulo's public radio, home to the largest archive of Brazilian radio journalism. A sonic memory of the country that faces a permanent risk of privatization.
GLOBAL
Radiolab — WNYC
The American program that turned scientific journalism into radio theater. Each episode is a sonic immersion in science, philosophy, and human curiosity. A world reference for journalistic audio production.
R Religion / Beliefs
The journalism about faith — and about the power, the politics, and the money that frequently accompany the institutions that organize it.
EUA
Religion News Service
The American agency for religious coverage with no confessional agenda. Covers the Vatican, American Islam, political evangelicalism, and African-diaspora religions with the same journalistic standard.
OAGLOBAL
Pew Research — Religião & Vida Pública
The most-cited global data on religion: demographic profiles of every faith and the impact of religious beliefs on political behavior. The figures that show where the world is heading in faith — and where it stood 50 years ago.
BRASIL
IHU — Instituto Humanitas Unisinos
The Jesuit institute that analyzes the role of churches in Brazilian politics. Covers liberation theology, the growth of Pentecostalism, and Afro-Brazilian religions with a critical perspective.
OAGLOBAL
Berkley Center — Georgetown University
A research center on religion, ethics, and world politics. Analyses of the role of religious institutions in conflict, democracy, and human rights in comparative perspective.
BRASIL
Com Religião — Jornalismo sobre Fé no Brasil
A portal specialized in Brazilian religious coverage. Tracks evangelical growth, disputes within Brazilian Catholicism, and the role of churches in elections — with the detachment that confessional publications cannot achieve.
T Technology / AI / Cybersecurity
The journalism about the tools that changed everything — including journalism itself. And about who controls them, who uses them against us, and what comes next.
EUA
The Markup
Investigative technology journalism with scientific methodology: they audit algorithms, trace corporate surveillance, and investigate discrimination in AI systems with replicable data.
EUA
TechCrunch
Has been tracking Silicon Valley since 2005 — and therefore holds the most complete archive of what tech companies promised versus what they delivered. An involuntary document on hype, money, and power.
EUAOA
EFF — Electronic Frontier Foundation
Has defended civil rights in digital space since 1990. Sues governments, defends activists, and publishes analyses on surveillance and online censorship that no commercial outlet has any interest in publishing.
GLOBALOA
Citizen Lab — Universidade de Toronto
Discovered Pegasus — the Israeli spyware used to spy on journalists and heads of state. Researches the intersection of digital espionage and human rights with scientific methodology.
GLOBALOA
Access Now
Monitors deliberate internet disconnections by governments — the "internet shutdowns" used to suppress protests. A global database of internet cutoffs since 2016.
EUA
Wired
Invented technology journalism as culture in 1993. Covers AI, cybersecurity, and digital geopolitics with depth that goes far beyond product launches.
GLOBALOA
Rest of World
Journalism about technology outside Silicon Valley: how AI and platforms work — and fail — in India, Nigeria, Brazil, and Indonesia. Where most users live and where almost no product decisions are made.
GLOBALOA
AlgorithmWatch
Audits decision-making algorithms: what automated systems decide about credit, employment, and policing — and who is harmed when they discriminate without any individual person being held responsible.
BRASIL
InternetLab — Brasil
A research center on internet and society in Brazil: state surveillance, platform regulation, and online freedom of expression. Free publications in Portuguese.
W ★ ★ Whistleblowers / Leakers
The journalism that only exists because someone inside somewhere decided the public needed to know — and accepted paying the price for it.
SECUREOA
SecureDrop
Open-source software created by programmer Aaron Swartz before the US government prosecuted him. Today used by the NYT, the Guardian, and dozens of newsrooms to receive confidential documents with mathematically proven anonymity.
OAEUA
Government Accountability Project
Founded in 1977 to defend government employees who report internal illegalities. It has survived 47 years of political pressure and protected hundreds of whistleblowers — including those whose revelations led to reforms in intelligence agencies.
GLOBALOA
GlobaLeaks
An open-source platform for creating anonymous reporting channels — used by organizations and newspapers in 70 countries. The software that lets any outlet have its own secure whistleblowing channel without depending on third parties.
GLOBAL
WikiLeaks — Arquivo
Regardless of the controversies surrounding Assange, the archive is real: 10 million documents from governments in 46 countries. A primary source for researchers on American diplomacy, the Iraq Wars, and state secrets.
OAGLOBAL
Whistleblowers International Network
Connects whistleblowers with journalists and lawyers. Maps the legal protection frameworks in each country — and the loopholes in those laws that governments use to pursue those who speak out.
BRASIL
CGU — Canal de Denúncias do Governo Federal
The official complaints channel of the Brazilian federal government. Curiously, it receives complaints against the government itself — and the effectiveness of those complaints depends on who holds power at the moment they arrive.
EUAOA
National Whistleblower Center
Legal support and guides on how to blow the whistle with legal protection — and the limits of that protection, which often fails to prevent dismissal even when the law says it should.
GLOBALOA
Transparency International — Whistleblowing
The world's largest anti-corruption organization explains how whistleblower legal protection works in each country. A map of the laws that protect — and those that still expose those who report to institutional retaliation.
GLOBAL
The Intercept — Canal de Fontes
The secure channel of the outlet born from Snowden's documents. A detailed technical guide on how to contact journalists with maximum anonymity — including for those with no background in digital security.