The Outlaw Ocean Music Project was featured on the Shack15 Conversations podcast with musician Christopher Willits.

China accounts for nearly half of the world’s fishing activity…The country’s fleet accounts for 50 to 70 percent of the squid caught in international waters. Ian Urbina explains how the fleet works….and why this raises thorny questions about the consequences of China’s ever-expanding role at sea and how it is connected to the nation’s geopolitical aspirations…It’s a fascinating conversation.”

The Outlaw Ocean Project’s investigation was featured in a column in Oceanographic Magazine written by Joseph Sullivan.

The Outlaw Ocean Project’s reporting on the Chinese distant-water fishing fleet was presented before the U.S. Senate Oceans Caucus.

The Pulitzer Center profiled The Outlaw Ocean Music Project.

The Outlaw Ocean Music Project was featured in Argentina’s largest newspaper, Clarín

The Outlaw Ocean Project was highlighted at the 2020 Charles and Marie Fish Lecture, hosted by the University of Rhode Island.

The Outlaw Ocean Project and musician Zachary Gray were featured on CBC’s London Morning radio show to discuss The Outlaw Ocean Music Project.

Ian Urbina discusses The Outlaw Ocean Projects latest reporting on the lawless seas. Ian has uncovered and documented a stunning story of criminality: illegal shipping, sanctions violations, devastated squid stocks and the 500 “ghost boats” that have washed up on Japanese shores with the crew dead or missing.

Intelligence Squared Podcast featured The Outlaw Ocean Project’s recent reporting on battered North Korean fishing boats washing ashore in Japan.

The Outlaw Ocean was featured on Moisés Naím’s show, Efecto Naím, to discuss the troubling illegalities faced on the Sea of Japan (East Sea) in a recent NBC investigation.

The National Geographic Society announced that Ian Urbina of The Outlaw Ocean Project has been selected for the 2020-2021 National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship.

The Outlaw Ocean Music Project was featured on WKNY’s Green Radio Hour.

Ian Urbina wrote an introduction to Reporters Without Borders RSF Albums for Press Freedom collection for 2020, which focuses this year on ocean photographer Laurent Ballesta.

Ian Urbina of The Outlaw Ocean Project was featured on the Citizen Chef Podcast with Tom Colicchio discussing supply chains associated with the fishing industry.

Ian Urbina of The Outlaw Ocean Project was featured on a panel for the 2020 Media Impact Funders Forum.

The Foreign Desk interviewed Ian Urbina of The Outlaw Ocean Project about sea slavery and the legal loopholes that enable such practices to flourish.

Ian Urbina was interviewed for Australia’s Radio Northern Beaches show “Innovation Talk,” to discuss the reporting and The Outlaw Ocean Music Project.

Ian Urbina was interviewed for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation to discuss The Outlaw Ocean Music Project.

Ian Urbina was interviewed for Germany's P.M. Magainze.

The Outlaw Ocean Project was featured at the 2020 Chatham House Forum on IUU fishing.

The Outlaw Ocean is arguably the most thorough account to date of the seedy side of ocean life.

The Outlaw Ocean Project was featured at EarthX Films Virtual 2020 conference, discussing music, journalism and ocean lawlessness.

Ian sat down with Moisés Naím, one of the world’s leading thinkers, founder of Foreign Policy magazine and former executive director of the World Bank to discuss The Outlaw Ocean. Moisés’ hour-long weekly television show is called Efecto Naím, and the show dedicated two episodes to the book. In part two, Ian further discusses his experiences at sea, including his visits to Sealand and his embed aboard the Adelaide. (Note: the interview is dubbed into Spanish because the show is primarily for a Spanish audience).

Ian sat down with Moisés Naím, one of the world’s leading thinkers, founder of Foreign Policy magazine and former executive director of the World Bank to discuss The Outlaw Ocean. Moisés’ hour-long weekly television show is called Efecto Naím, and the show dedicated two episodes to the book. In part one, Ian discusses his experiences at sea, including his encounters with pirates, mercenaries and traffickers. (Note: the interview is dubbed into Spanish because the show is primarily for a Spanish audience).

The Rising Tide podcast hosts Ian to discuss issues the oceans are facing and ways to tackle them.

Stanford Law School and its Center for Oceans Solutions is hosting a graduate degree course based off of The Outlaw Ocean.

Ian Urbina sits down with National Geographic’s Chief Storytelling Officer, Kaitlin Yarnall, to share stories from his book “The Outlaw Ocean” at The National Geographic Storytellers Summit 2020.

Ian Urbina was featured on France’s Konbini News to discuss The Outlaw Ocean.

Ian Urbina was interviewed for the French publication Le Devoir.

Ian Urbina testified before Congress about The Outlaw Ocean.

Ian Urbina was featured on CBC Radio’s The Current to discuss The Outlaw Ocean.

About seventy percent of our planet is covered by the oceans, but the high seas are among the least-explored frontiers on Earth.

Ian Urbina was featured on the Libreria Podcast discussing The Outlaw Ocean.

Ian Urbina was featured on Town Hall Seattle’s Science Series podcast to discuss The Outlaw Ocean.

Ian Urbina was featured on the Intelligence Squared podcast. In a conversation with the BBC’s Razia Iqbal, he explored a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever encountered – on international waters.

Most people don’t know that once they’re outside their country’s Exclusive Economic Zone (the band of ocean extending up to 200 nautical miles from a country’s coastline) that there are very few laws that protect them.