B. C. Story. After 411 days behind bars, bail for al jazeeras Mohamed Fadel fahmy and Baher Mohamed in cairo. And news that takes its time. We look at the Journalism Movement, including a writer taking seven years to tell a story at 9 00pm g. M. T. Sunday, february 8th, a news story broke on multiple news outlets, going online at that moment because that was the deal. The time that journalists from 45 countries agreed to simultaneously publish their reports on what have come to be known as the swiss leaks. The story about tax evasion, and the journalistic effort that exposed it occurred on a global scale. The process got a start six years ago in january 2009. When an employee turned whistleblower at hs b. C. Handed obvious a trove of Financial Data to the authorities in france. It showed that hs b. C. , the Second Biggest Bank helped thousands of client hide money in secret acts held by banks in switzerland. The french newspaper got its hand on the data, along with a second leak. Editors brought in the icij. International consortium of journalists. News organization dont like to share their scoops. But it wanted the consortium to assemble a team. Given the scale, the numbers affected, and the political implications, the logic was that they were covering it with vantage point, the better. This is a story involving news organizations, most of which are shrinking, teaming up to take on a behemoth. Our starting point this week is geneva. [ ] we have seen journalistic collaborations before. In 2010 it was wikileaks working with the the guardian, New York Times and another. Then came edward snowden. The guardian was at the heart of it. The collaboration over the hs b. C. Stories, news outlets and journalists is unprecedented. Its an extraordinary moment. From a journalistic perspective. Most is the substance of what they were able to obtain. The explosive nature of what they were able to public and the scope and extent that they could sort through. The document dumped, putting them into india. It is phenomenal among the information that they have got. We built a virtual newsroom of all the reporters, and encrypted systems to allow them to look at the documents from the lap toms, from the home or offices. Together. This is a complicated story that took years to break. In 2007, an it specialist at hs b. C. s swiss bank hacked into customer files and fled the countries with swiss authorities giving chase. He was arrested in france and faced a possible extradition until the french authorities realised what he had. Evidence that could identify thousands of tax evaders. He was put under police protection, part of the story came out when france and the government in greece, spain released tax dodgers names. The reporting was limited. It changed last year when according to the director of lamond, a second source came forward handing data on more than 100,000 hs b. C. Account holders, and lamond called in the journalist at the icij, the international consortium. Translation this was a large journalistic endeavour at the icij taking five months. There was no way we could have done the Investigative Journalism at the time we did. We needed to provide readers with the rite information, which required verifying the data and sorting it into those that held the accounts legally, those who were the focus of legal proceedings. We were agent told by the bank that we had no rite to the material, and it asked us to destroy the material, which we didnt. Once we presented the bank with the report, they issued a 4page statement saying that these problems happened in the past. In terms of rehabilitation, what surprised me is its not just britain and the u. S. Where its resonating, but its resonating strongly in asia, particularly in india, where the issue of black money is a big issue. 40odd countries were involved. Including lamond, the guardian, bbc and london. This was an exchange of mail about this, in each of these gooeographies, figuring out how to translate such. Most was in french. Thousands of documents exchanged to a secure network. To ensure information is not leaked outside. This is part of a brave now world of journalism. When i was Getting Started in the 80s, and 90s, they were independent and wanted credit for the story themselves. Here it was a conceptual where icij pi job eared an idea to create an infrastructure of International News organizations and that expands a capacity to do great work. Another way to look at collaborations is not as an expansion of journalistic capacity, but the reestablished of capacity that is lost. News organizations are shrinking with fewer resources to devote. An irony is the same Digital Technology that demolished the economic model of mainstream news outlets struggling to monetize platforms allowed them to build virtual news rooms they share with others. Picking the diminishing resources toot to do the work they used to do alone. And strength in numbers is paramount when investigating Financial Institutions the likes and scale of which the world has never seen before. Once data used, it was eye opening to me when i saw it. It was back in the mid 90s, Morgan Stanley the Investment Bank was the same size in terms of market capitalisation as dow jones, the publisher of the wall street journal. Fastforward to today, and you take organizations, say, for instance, goldman sachs, is 50 times bigger than the New York Times. Theres a dramatic shift and power imbalance between the media and the institutions. It has an impact on the power relationship between the two sectors. And those two sectors can intersect at the highest levels. One of lamonds owners heads the les ard Investment Bank in paris, and criticized the newspaper for fiscal mccarthyism. Another coowner who made money through fashion accused the bank of informing on the banks clients. As Roy Greenslade put it, one of the papers that partnered with lamond, the reason people own lossmaking newspapers is about having influence over editorial content. A key part is to ensure that their mates, the wealthy elite are protected from scrutiny. However, scrutiny is what is happening. Not only for those that hide their money, often illegally in hs b. C. s swiss bank, but on the bank itself, and the shadowy world in which it operates. The product sold by the offshore world is secrecy. That sells. System allows off doing. Its the secrecy that allows some of is to be wrong. Its difficult for a journalist to take on this world of we have taken on the world by creating our own world, a world of reporters. That share information in a way that media organizations have not done. On the download viewers weigh leaks. Its a great deal to admire about the collaboration in the hs b. C. Case. I think its a potential way forward for the entry. Its becoming scarce. Perhaps publications theres a way forward, in time to change journal system stoouds, and for owners to make sure they are willing to share with their rivals. When you look at the high level, what happens in many cases, it is highly complex and difficult. Information on Financial Information of companies, in many cases they have to rely on the extent of leaks. Abducted. Imprisoned. Tortured. We talked to a cia insider. What is our definition of torture, and what are we allowed to do . And a former prisoner who was never charged. He was beaten, he was denied sleep. Find out what really happens in a cia black site. You will do whatever it takes to get this man to talk. An america tonight indepth report. Tomorrow, 10 00 eastern. Only on Al Jazeera America. Writer taiye selasi shares her impactful point of view certain people have to explain there presence. When youre part of many worlds, where is home . In ghana, i was not going to be able to become the person i wanted to be. Every monday, join us for exclusive. Revealing. And surprising talks with the most interesting people of our time. Talk to al jazeera part of our special black History Month coverage on Al Jazeera America other media stories after 411 days in a cairo prison, two al jazeera journalists are no longer behind bars for the moment. Baher mohamed and Mohamed Fadel fahmy attended a retrial past thursday which did not start promisingly. The judge called on peter greste, the one aje journalist released and deported two weeks ago. Mohamed fadel fahmy asked the judge why peter greste alone had been freed, and he unfurled a flag saying he was forced by Security Officials to give up his egyptian citizenship. Their retrial reconvenes, they were released on bail. The Al Jazeera Network called the bail ruling a small step in the right direction, but does not consider the case closed until the men are acquitted in the world of news, where the anchor person is king, a person has fallen over a lie that caught up with him. Brian williams, host of nightly news has been telling a story about his time in iraq. Tell us about what you got yourself into initially he reported on an incident in 2003, in which a u. S. Military helicopter firing ahead of his was hit by ground fire. Changed. Two of four helicopter were hit by ground fire, including the one i was in. In retellings, he said the aircraft hit was his own. It was called out by soldiers that had been with williams during the mission in 2003, and grew into a scandal that dammed his credibility and the damaged his credibility and the net wok. He said he misremembered and took himself off the air and following an investigation he was suspended for six months without pay for inexcusable actions. It is sign as number of b. C. s n. B. C. s attempt to save the career of their wellknown figure. Social media was allied with commentators saying if all the lies told, prospects of mushroom clouds, williamses does not compare theres a player in the war against i. S. I. L. Or i. S. I. S. We dont know the names of those involved or that of the organization anonymous. The group put a video online claiming it targeted and took down numerous twitter accounts of i. S. I. L. Operatives who use fighters. I. S. I. S. , well hunted you, take down your site acts, emails. From now on, no safe place for you on loin. Youll be treated like the virus, and we are the cure. Anonymous linked to 12 others with close ties to the movement. Its the first foray into the war on i. S. I. L. It has gone after government websites, in israel and turkey, and targeted the ku klux klan over their position on racial strife in ferguson, missouri in the News Business speed is essential. Journalists are under pressure to get the story quickly, better yet, get it first. Its not just newspaper reports, theyve been under the gun to break news before the competition does. These days, with all kinds of news complexes, live event, the chances of getting something wrong is high. Theres a journalistic movement under way, or to give news junkies something. Its called slow journalism. The idea is to give rompers time to vet news event, Untold Stories and angles. This movement values movements over information. A grow number embraces the concept. Lengthy articles that take months to public. Like some that grow into a phenomenon, by taking a news storey, that had been reported but needed further examination. Journalist is called covering the history on the run. Its a movement slowing things down to a crawl. So far i some outside. Early january, after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, the media was scrambling for informs, and some of what was hearsay. While speculation. In july 2014 when flight mh370 was shot out of the sky, news outlets helped to break the news about who shot it out of the sky. Coverage of the boston marathon, there was little more than speculation. News outlets put out unconfirmed information about the bombers, at a time when they werent sure how they work. And they gave wrong names and information spread on wildfire. People were tapping into police radio, tweeting too fast, using social media and getting it wrong. Then the journalists were following the tweets and getting it wrong. We see the affect speed is having on journalism. I feel we have stopped noticing. In todays climate being first with the story is more important tan being right. The internet and social media accelerated the pace of news, and part of the problem is news consumers. We are addicted to surfing. Eliptic call rather than longterm report. Reducing the space and time for journalism that thinks. This made for information to quickly. I think a lot of us are questioning whether this is really important. You know, how early do we need our news . Theres an alternative school of journalism. A Breakaway Group of reporters, writers and editors who hit the break and slowed it rite down. The exercise is what many journalists call a maddening race for stories in many cases, rehashing press releases, no originality in the reporting, and dipping in on one source. They cannot happen in journalism. It gives more time for everything, for reporting, editing, fact checking. All those things. Its like a Counter Movement for all the, you know, click this, look at the pictures journalism. Which people are really fed up with. The Journalism Movement is growing. In 2013, the respondent in the netherlands launched, planning to tell stories that do not conform to what is considered news. The magazine paid 1. 7 million to crowd. For some, the clue is in the name. Three months before reporting on an event, waiting up to five months before reporting on the downing of flight mh17. The model, come back to the journalist, and ask them to investigate that. In the u. S. Syria told the backstory of a murder committed in baltimore sf years ago. 16 years ago. A report, whose content is distributed by the New York Times looks back history to report previously unknown details about events, and in finland, it publishes one per month, calling them esingles. We can spend years on a story. You can look into stories that were perhaps in the news for quite a while at some point. But then after that they were neglected, and there mite have been angles that no one looked into, because the attention of the news media moved elsewhere. We returned to the scene of the mining disaster in turkey, this was a story that was a huge, huge for a couple of days, but fell off the agenda. Pretty much worldwide. Sending journalists back to the up to. She found a lot more stories behind the stories. Its about the politics, the funding, the disinvestment of safety in the mining industry. We think you need to bring more to your diet than fast food. The biggest challenge is to offer something more, that means we have to do the homework better, we have to be slow where we can afford to be slow. And offer more in terms of analysis, context. Back to an industry where news outlets are trying to do more with next. Journalism can be expensive and challenging. The dutch relies on readers paying 60 million euro a year, with 30,000 subscribers. They touch nearly five euros per article, and survives with a grand from a foundation. And slow journalism is abducting heavy weights. Former New York Times editor is launching a new outlet, and says he will pay reporters an average of 100,000 for journalists. We are excited by what people like jill abraham son bring to the movement. We welcome it. Its calling out for it, crying out for it. We need that investment. What she is bringing to the table is really, really. Ent and powerful. Shes sending out a messing that journalism is important and needs to be funded. Every journalists dream is to spend months or years on a story to make that money. It will make us question what journalism is, it will help us to extend the definition of journalism so its not just about breaking news, its not just about the new, it mite actually be about the old. It might be a new interpretation on the old which will help us become better citizens by getting understanding and wisdom rather than a lot of new stuff that may not be right. Sometimes we, the media digest what we are fed. The slow Journalism Movement wants to give you that time. What you do with it. Whether you use it to achust and reflect thats up to you. More voices on the download now, with their thoughts on slowing journalism down. People love to dismiss magazines as dumping ground, but the fact that they revel in this slow journalism affords the right as pressure, novel edge. Ultimately they are able to do what one in journalism cant or drugles to do, which is to make news stick, give it longevity. You are more likely to remember a story written about Migrant Workers than you are immigration from a daily newspaper. Journalists are finding more ways to get updates out there. Some do it through social media, others using mobile platforms like snap chat to create a temporary news story. In the rush to get the latest updates, an element is missed out. That is context. Start with one issue. Education, gun control, the gap between rich and poor, job creation, climate change, tax policies, the economy, iran, health care. It goes on and on. Add guests from all sides of the debate and a host willing to ask the tough questions and youll get the inside story. These are straight forward conversations. No agenda, just hard hitting debate on the issues that matter to you. Ray suarez hosts inside story. Weeknights at 11 30 eastern. Only on Al Jazeera America. Now available, the new al jazeea america mobile news app. Get our exclusive in depth, reporting when you want it. A global perspective wherever you are. The major headlines in context. Mashable says. Youll never miss the latest news they will continue looking for survivors. The potential for Energy Production is huge. No noise, no clutter, just real reporting. The new Al Jazeera America mobile app available for your apple and android mobile device. Download it now timely, its time to slow things down more with the help of paul salopek, possibly the slowest journalist of them all. His project is to walk around the world and chronicle the people and the landscape. Its difficult to capture in a sound byte. It will take him seven years, hes tied in with national geographic, hes been walking