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ICIJ

4 verified, source-linked AI implementations documented between 2016–2019.

GlobalGlobalGlobal / Multinational
Cases
4
Active since
2016
Peak stage
3
Controversies
0

Where the AI sits

Editorial Production4

AI implementations

2019

We used AI to Identify the sex of 340,000 people harmed by medical devices

Research & Investigation2 – Adoption3 – Collaborative Human–AI
Tool: CustomSource ↗
2019

We cracked the Panama Papers with 400 human brains. Can AI help us next time'

Research & Investigation2 – Adoption3 – Collaborative Human–AI
Tool: CustomSource ↗
2019

Datashare

Open-source self-hosted document search and analysis platform for investigative reporting: ingests PDFs, emails, spreadsheets, images and archives, then applies OCR, metadata extraction and named-entity extraction (people, organisations, locations) to surface connections across large leaks. Released for any newsroom to install.

Research & Investigation3 – Proficiency3 – Collaborative Human–AI
Tool: Datashare (open-source; github.com/ICIJ/datashare); OCR + spaCy named-entity recognitionSource ↗
2016

Extract

Open-source distributed content-extraction tool built on Apache Tika with OCR support; parses text and metadata from large, heterogeneous leak and document collections to feed search and analysis pipelines.

Research & Investigation3 – Proficiency3 – Collaborative Human–AI
Tool: Extract (open-source CLI/library; github.com/ICIJ/extract); Apache Tika + OCRSource ↗

Context

ICIJ is one of 6 organizations in Global documented in the index, which holds 0 cases from the country. Its work spans 1 function type, including Research & Investigation, documented across 131 organizations worldwide.

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