The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is looking for two people to join our ambitious new project aimed at providing data-led stories to regional journalists: the Local Data Lab.

The Bureau has appointed Megan Lucero to run its ambitious new project, the Local Data Lab. Lucero, one of the UK’s leading data journalists, joins the Bureau from The Times and Sunday Times where she is currently Head of Data. The … Continued

Gavin MacFadyen, a strong supporter of investigative journalism. Gavin MacFadyen, director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism and adviser to the Bureau, has died after a short illness. An investigative journalist for many decades, Gavin who died on Saturday October … Continued

One in four samples of chicken from the UK’s largest supermarkets contains antibiotic-resistant E.Coli bacteria, new research has revealed. The bacterium was found in meat from Asda, Aldi, Co-op, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose, Cambridge University researchers found. They tested whole … Continued

A chance to join the Bureau team.

Bureau reporters Abigail Fielding-Smith and Crofton Black. Image: Garlinda Birkbeck The Bureau’s investigation into the use of contractors in the US military’s drone programme has been shortlisted for a Global Editors Network Data Journalism Award. The investigation, by Abigail Fielding-Smith and Crofton Black, … Continued

Concerns over increasing use of private contractors by US Air Force to help monitor and analyse intelligence from Pentagon drone operations

How the US Air Force is using private sector companies to help analyse ‘insatiable demand’ for drone war video intelligence

Labour leader Ed Miliband has been urged to ‘match rhetoric’ on transparency with action (photo: Fabians/Flickr) On Friday a £600,000 donor to the Labour party was unmasked as a hedge fund manager after pressure was brought on him and the … Continued

Jordan chooses retaliation after Islamic State kills pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh, and the violence of the jihadi group becomes even more brutal.

Lord Chancellor says it is not appropriate for current government to make decisions about controversial law.

The Bureau partners with The Rendition Project in major new investigation into CIA torture.

Concerns that too many people might be getting wrongly dragged into murder prosecutions.

Tom Warren scoops top journalism award.

A team of journalists from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism win this year’s Legal Reporting Award.

Apply for the deputy editor position at the Bureau.

Justice Select Committee hears from the director of public prosecutions Alison Saunders.

A winning auction bid for a portrait of Margaret Thatcher is returned to donor.

The Bureau is challenging the UK government over its routine collection of journalists’ communications data.

The Bureau applies to European Court of Human Rights.