The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ Network Committee has elected a new slate of leaders who will help guide membership standards and strengthen collaboration across the consortium’s global reporting community.
Édouard Perrin, editor of Forbidden Stories, was elected chair. Hala Nasreddine, head of the investigative unit at Daraj Media in Beirut, and Yasuomi Sawa, journalist and professor of journalism at Waseda University in Japan, were elected co-chairs.
They will lead the full committee, whose newly elected members are:
ICIJ Executive Director Gerard Ryle said the team reflects the strength and breadth of the consortium’s global community.
“Our network is at the heart of everything we do,” Ryle said. “This committee helps ensure we uphold high standards, support one another across borders and keep pushing investigative journalism forward.”
The Network Committee represents ICIJ’s worldwide membership and plays a central role in maintaining reporting standards, shaping best practices and supporting a collaborative approach to cross-border investigations.
ICIJ is a nonprofit newsroom best known for the Pulitzer-winning Panama Papers, which reshaped the global conversation on financial secrecy and triggered reforms and recoveries around the world. Its most recent investigations include The Coin Laundry, which exposed criminal abuses in the crypto and casino industries, and China Targets, which revealed how Beijing uses international systems to surveil and pressure critics abroad.
For more, visit ICIJ.org.
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