| 2026-04-18 | NYT publishes Kantor/Liptak investigation of leaked 2016 SCOTUS memos documenting the origins of the modern shadow (interim) docket
8 src |
| confirmed |
| 2025-04-01 | Multiple Pulitzer Prizes Awarded for Exposing Systematic Kleptocratic Corruption
3 src Reuters · Wall Street Journal · Boston Globe · Elon Musk · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2023-04-06 | ProPublica Exposes Two Decades of Undisclosed Thomas-Crow Gifts
4 src ProPublica · Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow · U.S. Supreme Court | | confirmed |
| 2023-03-13 | ProPublica Exposes Cigna's Automated PXDX System Denying 300,000 Claims in Two Months at 1.2 Seconds Per Case
2 src Cigna · ProPublica |
| confirmed |
| 2022-09-01 | Pulitzer-Winning Journalists Publish 'When McKinsey Comes to Town' Exposing Authoritarian Consulting
3 src McKinsey & Company · New York Times |
| confirmed |
| 2020-09-20 | FinCEN Files Reveal $2 Trillion in Suspicious Banking Transactions
3 src FinCEN · International Consortium of Investigative Journalists · Deutsche Bank · JPMorgan Chase · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2020-01-18 | New York Times Exposé Reveals Clearview AI's 3 Billion Photo Surveillance Database
3 src Clearview AI · Hoan Ton-That · New York Times |
| confirmed |
| 2019-12-03 | ProPublica Exposes McKinsey's ICE Work Through FOIA Lawsuit: 1,500 Pages Reveal Detention Cost-Cutting Proposals
7 src ProPublica · New York Times · McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) |
| confirmed |
| 2019-10-01 | Anne Nelson Publishes "Shadow Network" - Exposing CNP as Conservative Coordination Hub
2 src Council for National Policy |
| confirmed |
| 2018-12-15 | New York Times Investigation Exposes McKinsey's Work Raising Stature of Authoritarian Governments
6 src McKinsey & Company · New York Times · Saudi Arabia · China · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-09-13 | Washington Post Investigation Reveals Trump Foundation Used for Self-Dealing and Business Settlements
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · Washington Post |
| confirmed |
| 2016-09-12 | Indianapolis Star Investigation Exposes Nassar Abuse After FBI Sat on Allegations for 14 Months
3 src Larry Nassar · USA Gymnastics · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 2016-04-03 | Panama Papers Expose Global Offshore Financial Networks
3 src Vladimir Putin · King Salman · International Consortium of Investigative Journalists |
| confirmed |
| 2015-10-15 | Wall Street Journal Exposes Theranos Blood-Testing Fraud in Landmark Investigation
3 src Elizabeth Holmes · Theranos · Wall Street Journal · Walgreens · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2015-09-16 | InsideClimate News Launches
4 src ExxonMobil |
| confirmed |
| 2008-05-06 | Tim Shorrock Publishes "Spies for Hire," First Comprehensive Account of Intelligence Outsourcing
3 src Booz Allen Hamilton · SAIC · Lockheed Martin · National Security Agency · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2002-11-09 | New York Times Exposes Total Information Awareness Surveillance Program, Sparking Public Outcry
3 src New York Times · DARPA · John Poindexter · Information Awareness Office |
| confirmed |
| 1974-12-22 | Hersh NYT Expose of CIA Domestic Surveillance Triggers Church, Pike, Rockefeller Investigations
3 src Seymour Hersh · New York Times · William Colby · Gerald Ford · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1972-03-30 | Omaha Sun Exposes Boys Town's $209 Million Secret Fortune While Claiming Poverty in Fundraising Appeals
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1969-11-12 | Seymour Hersh Exposes My Lai Massacre Cover-Up After Army Conceals Atrocity for 20 Months - Wins Pulitzer Prize
3 src Lieutenant William Calley · U.S. Army |
| confirmed |
| 1922-04-15 | Senate Initiates Investigation of Teapot Dome Secret Oil Leases
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1906-02-26 | Upton Sinclair Publishes "The Jungle" Exposing Meatpacking Industry Horrors
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1904-01-01 | Lincoln Steffens Publishes "The Shame of the Cities" Exposing Municipal Corruption
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1902-11-01 | Ida Tarbell Begins "The History of the Standard Oil Company" in McClure's Magazine
3 src Standard Oil Company · John D. Rockefeller | | confirmed |