Global Witness: the media is dependent on NGOs to investigate corruption

Media outlets are becoming more reliant on NGOs to uncover corporate wrongdoing, says Global Witness's new executive director

Delving into the murky world of natural resources and corruption is dangerous work. Two people are killed every week, on average, defending land, forests and waterways against companies and criminals staking their claim on land.

Even those figures are likely to be an underestimate, with publicly available information from most parts of Africa, as well as Central Asia, Burma and China severely lacking.