[6][7][8] In 2010–2011, Joseph revealed several crucial aspects of the conspiracy involved in allotting costly 2G cellular spectrum to select businesses at throwaway prices.

[citation needed] Joseph's investigations into misdeeds, including kickbacks, front companies floated by alleged criminals, and compromises in construction and venue qualities, in the lead-up to the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, led to a public outcry.

He exposed senior ruling Congress party leader and chairman of the games organizing committee, Suresh Kalmadi, and many of India's leading sports administrators, who were later arrested and subjected to criminal investigations.

[16] In April 2001, Joseph conducted one of the last known interviews of Abdul Majid Dar, the chief commander of Hizbul Mujahideen, Kashmir's biggest militant group.

[17] In October 2016, Joseph along with Vijaita Singh, exposed the details of Operation Ginger, one of the deadliest cross-border surgical strikes carried out in Pakistan by the Indian Army.

[18] In February 2018, Joseph with Khadija Sharife, in a joint investigation by The Hindu and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), exposed India's state-owned Bank of Baroda's crucial role in the financial machinations of South Africa's politically influential Gupta family, allowing them to move hundreds of millions of dollars originating in alleged dirty deals into offshore accounts [known as Gupta scandal], which resulted in the resignation of South African President Jacob Zuma.

The startup, owned by Confluence Online Ventures, is headquartered in Delhi with offices in Mumbai and London, and aims to create an investigative journalism and real life events based IP (intellectual property) across verticals such as books, feature films, documentaries, web series, and podcasts.

It plans to first establish and create revenue streams for some of the early IPs; and, subsequently, launch a news website for investigative stories.

Confluence Media is currently in the process of negotiating and concluding IP-driven contracts with publishers and production houses in India and overseas.Confluence Media brought the rights of the book Black Warrant and adapted the book into a web series Black Warrant(Series) Co- Created & Co Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Vikramaditya Motwane[22] 2011: The Prem Bhatia Memorial Trust[23] selected Josy Joseph for 'Outstanding Political Reporting of The Year[24]', for a series of investigative reports, including the Adarsh scam, several corrupt decisions in organising the Commonwealth Games, etc.

2015: In December, Joseph was honoured by his alma mater - Sainik School, Kazhakootam - with the Late Fg Offr MP Anil Kumar Memorial Achiever Award for his career accomplishments.

"[29] 2019: Recipient of India Press Club of North America's Madhyamasree Puraskaram In an interview with Rohan Venkataramakrishnan for Scroll.in, Joseph said: "I'm the father of a 13-year-old girl.

"[34] According to an article in the Business Standard, Joseph "opines that the threat of losing democratic ethos has been looming over India for far too long now...he tells multiple tales of how India’s security establishment and intelligence agencies have played an indelible role in weakening the democratic fabric of the country, and how they have become “willing slaves” at the hands of their powerful political masters.

"[35] In October 2018, Joseph wrote in the Mumbai Mirror on the removal of Central Bureau of Investigation chief Alok Verma by the Cabinet Committee on Appointment in an article titled 'This CBI crisis is not 2 officers' egos clashing': "For those who have snarled their way into power, holding onto the protective hallows of it at any cost is important.

They also know that tactical rhetoric served on an hourly basis is opium enough for the larger public to forget the massive assault on democratic institutions being staged in front of them.

The fastest promotions and the fattest salary packages are reserved mostly for middlemen, who masquerade as journalists but primarily fix deals and manage the sundry troublemakers for the media baron—politicians, tax authorities and the police, among others.

"[37] On 4 December 2016, Joseph delivered a TEDx Gateway Talk on 'Investigative Journalism: Silence is an Expensive Commodity', organised at the NCPA Mumbai.

He spoke about how most countries that emerged from colonial rules, exist in a governance blackhole, and that at the highest levels is a grand conspiracy of silence and bewildering collusion between politicians, corporates, powerful middlemen and other players uncovered by investigative journalists like him and.

[38] In December 2016, Jet Airways and its founder-chairman Naresh Goyal filed a civil defamation suit seeking ₹1,000 crore in damages against Josy Joseph, after he wrote about the alleged links between gangster Dawood Ibrahim and the airline company in his book A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India, published by HarperCollins.