Lighthouse Reports

{{short description|Investigative journalism organization}}

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| founder = Ludo Hekman, Klaas van Dijken{{cite web |url=https://www.journalismfestival.com/speaker/klaas-van-dijken|title=Klaas van Dijken|last= |first= |date=20 April 2023|website= |publisher= International Journalism Festival| access-date=23 December 2023|quote=}}

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Lighthouse Reports is a not-for-profit collaborative newsroom organization.{{cite news |last= |first= |date= |title= Lighthouse Reports|url= https://www.theguardian.com/profile/daniel-howden|work= The Guardian|location= |access-date=23 December 2023}}

Lighthouse Reports was established in the Netherlands in 2019.{{cite news |last= |first= |date= 22 December 2021|title= Lighthouse Reports|url= https://gijn.org/member/lighthouse-reports/ |work= Global Investigative Journalism Network|location= |access-date=23 December 2023}}

The organization builds newsroom around specific topics and investigations in collaboration with media partners.{{cite web |url=https://www.ludohekman.com/about|title=Ludo Hekman|last= |first= |date= |website= |publisher= |access-date=23 December 2023|quote=}}

Lighthouse collaborates with many media outlets. Media partners from past investigations include The Guardian, EU Scream,{{cite web |url= https://news.thin-ink.net/p/citizens-vs-industry|title=Citizens vs. Industry|last=Thin |first= |date=27 October 2023|website= Thin Ink|publisher= |access-date=23 December 2023|quote=}} Wired,{{cite news |last= Geiger|first=Gabriel|date=17 July 2023|title= How We Did It: Unlocking Europe's Welfare Fraud Algorithms|url=https://pulitzercenter.org/how-we-did-it-unlocking-europes-welfare-fraud-algorithms|work=Pulitzer Center |location= |access-date=23 December 2023}} Der Spiegel, ARD Monitor and Libération.{{cite web |url= https://www.europeanpressprize.com/article/back-channel-cooperation-how-frontex-helps-haul-migrants-back-to-libyan-torture-camps/|title= Back Channel Cooperation: How Frontex Helps Haul Migrants Back To Libyan Torture Camps |last= |first= |date= |website= |publisher=European Press Prize | access-date=23 December 2023|quote=}}

Investigations

Investigations by Lighthouse Reports covered migration,{{cite news |last= |first= |date= 6 April 2023|title=Report: Croatian officials shared information on migrants|url=https://apnews.com/article/croatia-migrants-clandestine-pushbacks-report-7a93c651588f2c48014d07d1ef61fe27|work=AP|location=Zagreb|access-date=23 December 2023}} Frontex, algorithm fraud, live stock industry, plastic waste{{cite news |last= |first= |date= 20 October 2023|title='License to hide': Western plastic waste dumped in Myanmar|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2023/10/20/sustainability/plastic-waste-myanmar/|work=The Japan Times|location= Yangon|access-date=23 December 2023}} and others.

Awards

Lighthouse Reports won the IJ4EU Impact Award in 2023 for work on illegal paramilitary operatives responsible for pushbacks of migrants in EU countries.{{cite web |url=https://www.ecpmf.eu/2023-ij4eu-impact-award-winner-unmasking-europes-shadow-armies/|title= 2023 IJ4EU Impact Award Winner: Unmasking Europe's Shadow Armies|last= |first= |date=7 April 2023|website= ECPMF|publisher= European Center for Press & Media Freedom|access-date=23 December 2023|quote=}}

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