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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is an independent not-for-profit organisation established in April 2010. We pursue research, investigations, reporting and analysis which is of public benefit by undertaking in depth research into the governance of public, private and third sector organisations and their influence. Our aim is to help educate the public about the realities of power in today's world. We are particularly concerned with the undermining of democratic processes and failures to accord with fair, legal and transparent practices. We believe that the public needs to be provided with the knowledge and facts about the way in which important institutions in our society operate, so that they can be fully informed citizens, and that this is indispensable to democracy. Based at City University London, the Bureau works in collaboration with other groups to get its investigations published and distributed. Since its foundation the Bureau has worked with BBC File On Four, BBC Panorama, BBC Newsnight, Channel 4 Dispatches, Channel 4 News, al Jazeera English, the Independent, the Financial Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Times, Le Monde, mediapart, the Guardian, the Independent, the Observer and the Daily Mirror. We make our work freely available under a Creative Commons licence.