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The Outlaw Ocean Project

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Food for Feed

The Price Paid Beyond the Plate

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28 stories

Every story we produce is distributed globally, free of charge.

  • 417outlets
  • 74countries
  • 26languages
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Bait to Plate from its homepage: the findings, the plants directory searched for Pacific Seafood's Eureka plant, its profile and supply chain, and the chatbot explaining the chain

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Bait to Plate

Tracing seafood & other at-sea products from ships & processing plants to downstream brands & consumers, including what is known about possible crimes or other types of concerns within these supply chains.

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From the archive

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  1. Robbing a Bank When No One’s Looking

    The most important place on earth that virtually no one has ever heard of.

  2. Subsidizing China’s Fishing Fleet

    No other country comes close in the size of China's fishing armada, but the dominance and reach of this fleet raises broader questions about how, why and at what cost China has put so many boats on the water.

  3. Purgatory at Sea

    Off the coast of Italy, cruise ships are being repurposed as holding pens for migrants rescued from the Mediterranean.

Series

  1. Podcast

    The Outlaw Ocean Podcast

    An anthology of the most lawless place on earth, made with CBC and the LA Times.

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  2. Short film

    Dispatches From The Outlaw Ocean

    Ten films. Traffickers, mercenaries, shackled slaves, vigilante conservationists.

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Beyond traditional journalism

To reach younger, more international audiences, we work with artists to turn our reporting into music, animation, murals, and stage performances.

  1. Animated film

    Rhapsody on the Outlaw Ocean

    An animated rap documentary, voiced by cast members of Broadway's Hamilton.

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  2. Murals

    The Mural Project

    Muralists worldwide put the reporting on walls, at scale.

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  3. Music

    The Music Project

    Hundreds of artists turning investigations into records.

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Recognition

  • Digital Media Awards Global
  • Dan Rather Medal for News and Guts
  • 24th Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment
  • Podcast & Radio Award
  • Book and Journalism Award
  • Digital Media Awards Americas
  • Digiday Media Awards
  • 2025 duPont-Columbia Silver Baton Awards
  • National Edward R. Murrow Award
  • Online Journalism Awards
  • James Beard Journalism Award
  • 46th Edition Award of Excellence in Page Design
  • Best in Business
  • EPPY
  • Signal Awards
  • Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards
  • IAPA Excellence in Journalism
  • Sigma Delta Chi Award
  • Overseas Press Club Award
  • Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia
  • Gold Radio Award
  • Grand Radio Award
  • North American Digital Media Award
  • Emmy
  • Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award
  • The Michael Kelly Award
  • James Foley Medill Medal
  • Tom Renner Award
  • Best of Photojournalism
  • Picture of the Year Award
  • Scripps Howard Award
  • The Christopher Dickey Award
  • George Polk Award
  • Sigma Award
All 45 awards