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Investigations Around the World
By Simona Raetz | September 28, 2011, 5:33 pm
In this week’s round-up: In Chile, telephone surveillance by police is invading the privacy of ordinary citizens; In Iraq, recruiters for extremist organizations increasingly target poor women to carry out suicide missions; and in the U.S. , Florida school officials redirected millions of federal stimulus dollars – meant to improve poor-performing schools -- to delaying layoffs and budget cuts. Read More
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Investigations Around the World
By Simona Raetz | August 25, 2011, 4:46 pm
In this week’s round-up: One of the world’s largest diamond mines, in Zimbabwe, is also a torture camp; in Colombia, people close the National Narcotics Agency are found in possession of confiscated goods from drug lords and the mafia; and western-made computer spy equipment is legally exported to authoritarian countries who use it to monitor human rights activists. Read More
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New ICIJ Members
By Simona Raetz | August 15, 2011, 2:32 pm
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has added 15 new reporters to its roster of more than 100 journalists in 50 countries. Read More
Hans Leyendecker, Germany, has been a political editor and columnist at the Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung since 1997.
Hans Leyendecker, Germany
Leyendecker established himself as one of Germany’s premier investigative journalists in an 18-year career with the influential weekly newsmagazine Der Spiegel, breaking stories on illegal campaign finances, political connections to weapons deals, and plutonium smuggling. For his probe into the tax evasion of the father of German tennis star Steffi Graf, Leyendecker received death threats from adoring Graf fans. Leyendecker has written books on the Graf tax evasion affair, German weapons exports to Iraq before the Gulf War, and euthanasia in Germany. Before leaving Der Spiegel, Leyendecker had been special projects editor. At the mass circulation Süddeutsche Zeitung, Leyendecker has sought to bring more in-depth, “weekly style” investigations to the daily newspaper. In 2000, Leyendecker co-authored a 600-page investigation the illicit financial dealings of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, titled Helmut Kohl, die Macht und das Geld (Helmut Kohl: The Power and the Money).
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