icij.org
ICIJ
Who runs ICIJ, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest investigative journalism alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- ProPublica
Measured from ICIJ’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit ICIJ01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs ICIJ
ICIJ icij.org
The ICIJ is a global network of more than 290 investigative journalists in 105 countries who collaborate on in-depth investigative stories.
Wikidata: international network of investigative reporters
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What ICIJ tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
6 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 7 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to ICIJ
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to ICIJ, thumbs down if it isn’t.
17 of the 60 sites closest to ICIJ match.
- 01
The Intercept
Fearless, adversarial journalism that holds the powerful accountable.
Very close - 02
Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com
American nonprofit newspaper (1908-)
Very close - 03
BBC Home | Breaking News, World News, US News, Sports, Business, Innovation, Climate, Culture, Travel, Video & Audio
Visit BBC for trusted reporting on the latest world and US news, sports, business, climate, innovation, culture and much more
Very close - 04
Semafor - An intelligent, transparent global news platform for breaking stories, analysis and video
Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.
Close - 05
Seeking Alpha | Stock Market Analysis & Tools for Investors
Join Seeking Alpha, the largest investing community in the world. Get stock market news and analysis, investing ideas, earnings calls, charts and portfolio analysis tools.
Close - 06
Krebs on Security – In-depth security news and investigation
American journalist specializing in cybersecurity
Close - 07
The Lens - Patent and Scholarly Search and Analysis
The Lens serves all the patents and scholarly work in the world as an open and secure digital public good, with user privacy a paramount focus.
Very close - 08
Stereogum: Music News, Reviews, Interviews, & More
The world's best music blog.
Close - 09
NBC News - Breaking Headlines and Video Reports on World, U.S. and Local Angles | NBC News
Go to NBCNews.com for breaking news, videos, and the latest top stories in world news, business, politics, health and pop culture.
Close - 10
RFI - All the news from France, Europe, Africa and the rest of the world.
Follow any political information, cultural, sporting and live streaming on RFI. The latest information, news and events around the world.
Close - 11
Welcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]
computing webzine with an emphasis on Unix-like operating systems
Close - 12
The Spinoff
New Zealand's home for independent journalism, illuminating perspectives and good times.
Close - 13
ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Follow the latest headlines from ABC News, Australia's most trusted media source, with live events, audio and on-demand video from the national broadcaster.
Close - 14
TheWrap - Your trusted source for entertainment breaking news
Your trusted source for breaking entertainment news, film reviews, TV updates and Hollywood insights. Stay informed with the latest entertainment news and analysis.
Close - 15
Bored Panda - The Only Magazine For Pandas
Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.
Close - 16
Switzerland - News and perspectives - SWI swissinfo.ch
SWI swissinfo.ch, your link to Switzerland. Providing independent reporting in 10 languages, focusing on democracy, foreign policy, and more.
Close - 17
GameRant - Breaking News, Reviews & Everything Else in the World of Video Games
GameRant delivers content written by gamers for gamers with an emphasis on news, reviews, unique features, and interviews.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles ICIJ’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones ICIJ uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what ICIJ adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 14 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 31 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to ICIJ’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4
- JavaScript libraries
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:outboundmail.blackbaud.net inc…
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: U1uuJ__N9hBCRse9i14NTBD2hJEN1T8G7o7IlTnSmi8ZtfJ-QEZzKw==
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache/2.4.69 (Debian)
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 7.1.4)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms91195501
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-419.awsdns-52.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=tkMAFLlHJt_ad9BQL_lG1b3fAymmr81HkVNiBf…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=hfjEyeuprakPpwJGSZxx1Y1AlORONO3LVf-fl6TQYvY
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=k1scc3fquxajb7yysjhdwyhqpqe4r4
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Meta Business Suite 14/20
- Microsoft 365 14/20
- Atlassian · not on icij.org 9/20
- Google Tag Manager 9/20
- Google Workspace 9/20
- PHP 9/20
- WordPress 9/20
- Apple Business · not on icij.org 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 7/20
- jQuery 7/20
- Salesforce · not on icij.org 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on icij.org 6/20
- Mailchimp 6/20
- nginx · not on icij.org 6/20
- Parse.ly · not on icij.org 5/20