TSN impact in 2024, SXSW 2025 & a podcast!
2024 Year in Review
As we reflect on 2024, we are deeply grateful for everyone who made this year impactful. Whether you’ve been a dedicated donor, offered support when needed or helped as a friend, advocate, volunteer or partner, your contribution has made a difference.
Whistleblowing is essential for justice but comes with significant personal sacrifice. With your support, TSN has helped whistleblowers navigate these challenges. Here’s a look at some highlights from 2024:
- Responded to 151 requests for support, a 48% increase from 2023.
- Supported 40 individuals across more than 10 countries with comprehensive services (legal, psychosocial, security, media, and employment support).
- Secured pro bono support for over 70% of clients through our strong network of partners.
- Facilitated 15+ major investigations published in global media outlets.
- Protected whistleblowers primarily from tech (35%) and healthcare (14%) sectors, highlighting growing needs in these industries.
- Participated in 10 international events to educate journalists, partners, and the public about whistleblower protection.
Read the full report here.
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TSN will be at SXSW 2025!
Our Executive Director, Delphine Halgand-Mishra, along with Tyler Shultz, Sophie Zhang and Billy Perrigo, will discuss “Are Whistleblowers Going to Save Us From the Harms of Tech?”
On March 7, 2025, the panel will explore how whistleblowers and journalists are crucial to holding Big Tech and AI companies accountable, highlighting stories like the Facebook Files and Theranos revelations. An important conversation on tech accountability and the role of whistleblowers in shaping our future at a time when the topic has never been more relevant!
Moi, désobéir?
The Signals Network is proud to be part of the podcast Moi, désobéir?, which explores why some individuals choose to blow the whistle, defying taboos and pressures for the sake of justice and the public interest, while others choose silence.
Produced by Louie Media in partnership with The Signals Network, along with investigative media outlets Disclose and Rembobine, this fascinating series features whistleblowers Stéphanie Gibaud, Philippe Pichon and Houria Aouimeur, as well as insights from philosopher Frédéric Gros, legal expert Manon Yzermans and psychologist Juliette Krzesnska.
Listen to the podcast in French here.
Whistleblower News Roundup
— Oversight Democrats push for stronger protections for whistleblowers and inspector general independence, writes Rebecca Beitsch for The Hill
— “The 2025 journalist’s digital security checklist” outlines practical steps for journalists to enhance their digital security, written by Davis Erin Anderson and Dr. Martin Shelton for the Freedom of the Press Foundation
— Media outlets prepare for legal and political challenges under Trump administration, write David Enrich and Katie Robertson for The New York Times.
— Cyber Whistleblowers: How to Safely Expose Fraud outlines the protections under the False Claims Act for reporting cyber fraud, written by the Tycko & Zavareei Whistleblower Practice Group of Tycko & Zavareei LLP for the National Law Review.
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