After the car exploded, Caruana Galizia’s son Matthew heard the blast, ran out from the family home and discovered his mother’s body. He has been campaigning for justice for his mother ever since.

Caruana Galizia’s reporting exposed corruption in the highest reaches of Malta’s society and politics. With her death, many of those ongoing investigations were left unfinished.

Daphne Caruana Galizia, who investigated corruption in Malta, was killed by a car bomb in 2017. Residents joined her relatives at a march and vigil. It coincides with a trial of the alleged hitmen.

Caruana Galizia's unrelenting blog resulted in several legal battles including one in 2010 by Magistrate Consuela Scerri Herrera, who abstained from taking over Caruana Galizia’s murder ...

Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese investigative journalist who exposed her island nation’s links with the so-called Panama Papers, died when a bomb destroyed her car. (Malta Independent via AP) ...

Caruana Galizia, who revealed the secrets of the wealthy, powerful and corrupt on her widely read blog, died Monday after her car exploded. She had recently been digging into the Panama Papers.

Writing was a compulsion for investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Known for her candid and witty prose, she earned a loyal following in Malta, a small archipelago nation fifty miles south ...

Caruana Galizia's reporting meant that she was repeatedly the target of physical and legal threats. Her death came after she used the Panama Papers leak to investigate senior government figures.

In February 2017, Caruana Galizia spoke to the International Press Institute about the abuse of libel laws by Malta’s powerful: “The criminal defamation laws have to be repealed,” she said. “You ...

More Galizia, stage a protest on November 29, 2019, outside the office of the prime minister in Valletta, Malta. AFP via Getty Images ...