List of investigative journalists
This is a list of investigative journalists. Only a small proportion of journalism consists of investigative journalism. However, the few who practice it can have a disproportionately large effect when their work brings attention to matters people care about but are unaware of.
Practicing investigative journalists
This is a partial list. As of 2024[update], the Global Investigative Journalism Network currently has 249 members (most or all of which are networks or outlets serving multiple journalists),[1] and Investigative Reporters and Editors has over 4,500 members practicing in the US and around the world.
- Carl Bernstein (born 1944) – American journalist most famous for reporting on the Watergate scandal at the Washington Post
- Hopewell Chin'ono (born 1971) — Zimbabwean journalist whose reporting on corruption in Zimbabwe became internationally known when he was imprisoned for 45 days for it in 2020.[2]
- Seymour Hersh (born 1937) – American investigative journalist and political writer
- Tessy Igomu – Nigerian journalist and head of Investigation at The Punch newspaper
- Bob Woodward (born 1943) – American journalist most famous for reporting on the Watergate scandal at the Washington Post, (where he is now associate editor)
Deceased or retired investigative journalists
- Ida B. Wells (1862–1931) – investigative journalist and reformer, noted for investigating lynching in the United States
- I.F. Stone (1907–1989) – also the publisher of I.F. Stone's Weekly
- Ida Tarbell
- Paul Y. Anderson (1893–1938) – winner of Pulitzer Prize 1929
- C. P. Connolly (1863–1935) – radical investigative journalist associated for many years with Collier's Weekly
- Julius Chambers (1850–1920) — most famous for getting himself committed to an insane asylum, to be able to report from within, which led to changes both organizational and legal changes
- Nellie Bly
- Upton Sinclair
- Bill Dedman
