About this portfolio
Each piece here is a working file, not a clipping.
Every story in this portfolio is shown with the research behind it: who the sources were, which calls the editors made, and what changed afterwards. The work runs from neighbourhood accountability reporting to cross-border money trails and dispatches from four continents. How a story was reported is part of the story, so the method stays on display.
Case studies — click any card to open the full story
Quiet Demolitions: The Rezoning Plan That Cleared 4,200 Families Without One Public Hearing
Fourteen months of records requests show how a city land-use plan handed $340M of property to one developer, with every approval kept off the public calendar.
The Last Decoder: Portrait of the Cryptographer Who Cracked Three Governments’ Surveillance Systems
A long portrait of a Nairobi-trained mathematician who became the most hunted privacy campaigner alive, then disappeared.
First Light from Varenka: Filing From the Last Open Road Into a Besieged Town
Seventy-two hours of frontline reporting while the town’s last supply road was shelled, and the editing calls made under fire.
The Vanishing Payout: How a Federal Flood Agency’s Adjusters Underpaid 23,000 Louisiana Claims
A data investigation of how the national flood-cover programme settled claims, built on 23,000 individual files won after a two-year records fight.
The Hands Behind Last Weekend’s Dress: Inside a Dhaka Garment Factory
A dispatch from a Dhaka factory sewing for three large overseas retailers, following one garment from loom to loading dock.
The Apology Machine: Inside the Crisis Team That Writes Corporate Remorse
Three weeks embedded with the consultancy every disgraced executive phones first, and the script it runs before cameras arrive.
The Firm Behind a Decade of Public Apologies
A profile of the crisis-communications firm whose client list doubles as a record of institutional failure, and the founder who built it by studying remorse.
Complete record
The Full Case Index
A 48-page PDF covering every investigation from 2018 to 2026, with methods notes, source breakdowns, ethics logs and impact records. Three fellowship selection panels used it in their 2024-25 reviews.
PDF · 48 pages · Methodology included
Shell Architecture: How $2.3 Billion Slipped Away From Three Sanctioned Entities in 48 Hours Through One Offshore Intermediary
A cross-border investigation with three partner newsrooms in four countries into a sanctions-evasion structure that routed money through an offshore entity registered to a London law firm.
The Neutrality Trap: How “Both Sides” Reporting Becomes Cowardice in the Costume of Objectivity
A reported opinion essay on how false balance in climate, health and election coverage has given editors cover to defer to power.
“I owe the story less than I owe the person who trusted me with it, and every reader who deserves to know what was done in their name.”— On sourcing ethics, Northfield Journalism Review, 2023
Documented impact across the body of work
11
Major investigations
spanning several countries or jurisdictions
$180M+
In public money and assets affected
with a documented paper trail
47
Course syllabi
adopted by journalism programmes, 2022-2025
6
Awards & nominations
Longview Prize, Investigative Desk Award, Foreign Reporting Circle, Press Freedom Fund
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