Carmen Molina Acosta is ICIJ's digital producer.
Prior to ICIJ, Carmen worked at NPR's Morning Edition program as a production assistant, where she helped produce the network's first bilingual special coverage of the State of the Union. She also worked at Connecticut Public as a Dow Jones News Fund intern, and interned previously at ICIJ as an Emma Bowen Foundation Fellow in the summer of 2020.
Her work has been published in The Washington Post, the Associated Press and The Intercept, among other outlets.
Carmen studied journalism and international development as a Banneker/Key scholar at the University of Maryland, where she also reported and edited stories for the university's student newspaper and investigative journalism center.
- Investigations

China Targets
2025

Caspian Cabals
2024

Swazi Secrets
2024

Cyprus Confidential
2023

Trafficking Inc.
2022

FinCEN Files
2020

Solitary Voices
2019
- Stories by Carmen Molina Acosta
ARTICLE 19, a freedom of expression advocacy organization, documented heightened transnational repression during state visits, echoing the findings of ICIJ’s China Targets investigation.
Jun 13, 2025

In country after country, local authorities detained and silenced activists to shield the Chinese leader from dissent.
Apr 29, 2025

The sanctions comes after an ICIJ investigation linked Garantex to actors in the Russian government and criminal organizations.
Mar 04, 2025

ICIJ’s Trafficking Inc. investigation identified “Christy Gold” as a ringleader in a criminal network that forced Nigerian women into sex work in Dubai.
Jan 03, 2025

An overview of ICIJ's latest global investigation.
Nov 22, 2024

Former employees of the group said that the Tanotos — who own a “sustainable” pulp and paper giant — were allegedly secretly undermining the conglomerate’s environmental commitments.
Oct 30, 2024

Eight properties, including villas on the French Riviera, and two luxury cars were seized as part of a money laundering probe into suspect offshore lending companies.
Oct 23, 2024

An analysis by CIPER Chile and LaBot found the bulk of the unpaid taxes the treasury intends to claw back are likely linked to an ongoing Paradise Papers-related case against Swiss mining giant Glencore.
Oct 11, 2024
