Kevin Christmann

Using FOIA to Track Trans Rights in Trump’s Crazy America

To track how US President Donald Trump's executive orders affecting transgender people are being enforced across the country, the Trans Journalists Association and the...

Informative Guide to Investigating Land Conflicts in South Asia

The South Asian region, which includes India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, the Maldives, and Pakistan only contains about 3% of the world’s landmass,...

What’s Lost if Voice of America Disappears: Watchdog Spirit, Intrepid Reporters, and Focus on the Global South

A reporting network that reaches hundreds of millions of people around the world, established with the aim of promoting democracy, and often providing the...

The Threat And Possible Effective Solutions to Latin America’s Foreign Donor Funded Journalism

In a region plagued by poverty, inequality, and attacks on press freedom, Latin American journalists have ventured into nonprofit journalism to uphold democracy. Research...

Tracking Organized Crime’s Dirty Money and Illicit Operations: Tips From Latin American Journalists

Illicit drug money is only a fraction of what Latin America's multibillion-dollar crime conglomerates deposit in tax havens around the world. Illegal gold mining,...

Terrible Child Labor Abuses in the American South and How a Team from Reuters Investigated This

In this story, Clark Merrefield interviews the Reuters team that exposed the use of migrant child labor by companies in the US South --...

Migrant Abuses on Cargo Truck Smuggling Routes and How They Did It Lethally

Last year, a seven-month-long collaborative investigation about migrant abuses on cargo truck smuggling routes exposed systemic and lethal abuses involved with the growing use...

Middle East Ceasefires That Don’t Last, Europe’s Deadly Heatwave, And Trump’s Massive Budget Bill

US President Donald Trump marked the Fourth of July by signing into law a federal budget bill with far-reaching implications for redistributing wealth in...

2025 Digital News Report By Reuters Institute: Eroding Public Trust, Growing Misinformation Threats, and Investigative Journalism’s Appeal

The Reuters Institute recently released is annual deep dive into the state of global digital media, and its findings capture a landscape undergoing rapid...

The Invisible Women: How Domestic Workers In India Are Exploited And Abused without rights

Image: A child domestic worker washing dishes in India. Millions of women and girls toil as home helpers – often unseen and unprotected by...

Digital Welfare Divide: Aadhaar-based Exclusion Killing India’s Poorest

India’s Aadhaar digital ID was sold as a tool to deliver faster, cleaner social welfare and yet it resulted in a digital welfare divide. By 2021,...

The Cost of Honour: Inside India’s Deadly Honour Killing Belt in Haryana, Rajasthan, and Western UP

India’s honour killing belt – spanning Haryana, Rajasthan and western Uttar Pradesh – has been the site of a horrifying surge in murders justified as protecting...

Investigating Inside Syria, Six Months After Assad’s Deadly Fall

When 54 years of Assad dynasty rule in Syria came to a somewhat abrupt end, after a series of armed rebel offensives culminated in...

Empowering Transformation: Exciting Innovation in Education for Future Generations

Education is universally recognized as transformative. As UNESCO notes, education “transforms lives” and is at the heart of efforts to eradicate poverty and advance...

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