{{short description|Investigative journalism organization}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox website | name = Lighthouse Reports | logo = Lighthouse_Reports_logo.svg | logo_size = 120px | logo_alt = | logo_caption = Lighthouse Reports logo | company_type = | type = Nonprofit | language = English | language_count = | language_footnote = | traded_as = | founded = {{Start date and age|2019}} | dissolved = | predecessor = | successor = | headquarters = <!-- or: | location = --> | location_city = | location_country = <!-- or: | country = --> | country_of_origin = | locations = | area_served = | owner = <!-- or: | owners = --> | author = <!-- or: | authors / creator / creators --> | founder = Ludo Hekman, Klaas van Dijken<ref>{{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=}}</ref> | editor = <!-- or: | editors = --> | MD = Daniel Howden | GM = | key_people = | industry = journalism | products = | services = | employees = <!-- or: | num_employees = --> | parent = | divisions = | url = {{URL|https://www.lighthousereports.com}} }}
'''Lighthouse Reports''' is a not-for-profit collaborative newsroom organization.<ref name="Guardian">{{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}}</ref> Lighthouse Reports was established in the Netherlands in 2019.<ref>{{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}}</ref> The organization builds newsroom around specific topics and investigations in collaboration with media partners.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ludohekman.com/about|title=Ludo Hekman|last= |first= |date= |website= |publisher= |access-date=23 December 2023|quote=}}</ref> Lighthouse collaborates with many media outlets. Media partners from past investigations include ''The Guardian'', EU Scream,<ref name="thin">{{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=}}</ref> ''Wired'',<ref name="AI">{{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}}</ref> ''Der Spiegel'', ARD Monitor and ''Libération''.<ref name="Frontex">{{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=}}</ref>
==Investigations== Investigations by Lighthouse Reports covered migration,<ref>{{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}}</ref> Frontex,<ref name="Frontex"/> algorithm fraud,<ref name="AI"/> live stock industry,<ref name="thin"/> plastic waste<ref>{{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}}</ref> and others.<ref name="Guardian"/>
==Awards== Lighthouse Reports won the IJ4EU Impact Award in 2023 for work on illegal paramilitary operatives responsible for pushbacks of migrants in EU countries.<ref>{{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=}}</ref> It also won the One World Media Reporting Award in 2025 for a series of articles on the propaganda of agrochemical and biotech companies in defense of pesticides and GMOs in Africa and Europe.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Winners 2025 |url=https://oneworldmedia.org.uk/awards/winners-2025/ |access-date=2025-07-10 |website=One World Media |language=en-US}}</ref>
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