Activities by the whistleblowers. As long as we are passive recipients, we are fine with it. Throughcase, it was deutsche the laws are lacking everywhere to protect whistleblowers. That i talkedion about before that exposed and multinational tax avoidance scheme, participation in that investigation the main whistleblower the alleged whistleblowers in the main reporter working on that story are standing trial right now in luxembourg in the face jail. Ourraine is facing charges. It is happening in a country that is a Founding Member of the European Union and they can go to jail. About scary thing american journalists taking for granted the freedoms we have but you face a lot of that. The press freedom issues created , especially in countries like africa but the journalists you are working with; can you talk to me with the challenges that you face there with the press freedom issues and journalists who cannot get electricity and are worried about going to jail e . Wors these are the thing
Terabytes of data, the newspaper needed help and called in the journalism troops. With such a large number of people going to the database, they needed to agree on a common strategy for collaboration and for parsing out the research, as well as the joint process of holding off until everyone was ready. This is something foreign to american media. We are not used to co honoring editors. We will talk about some of the work and the findings. It is sponsored by the journalism institute, the nonprofit arm of the National Press club. Left elcome, from i im sorry. From my right, will fitzgibbon, a reporter from the National Consortium. To my last, ms. Walker, the Deputy Director of the National Consortium of journalists. And kevin hall, the chief economics correspondent for mcclatchy. Thank you so much tom and the press club for this invitation. What an honor to be here. So, yes, were going to talk about collaboration across borders. When we think about investigative journalism, sometimes thi
Journalists, investigating what we now call the Panama Papers. Last year, 11. 5 million financial records for the to a german newspaper. Possibly the biggest leak in journalism history. Fonseca, oneffett of the worlds top shell companies, with 2. 6 terabytes of data. The newspaper needed help and called in the journalism troops. With such a large number of people trolling through the database, the partners needed to agree on a common strategy for collaboration, and for parsing out the research, as well as a joint promise on holding off on publishing until everyone was ready. This is something a bit foreign to the american media. We are not used to collaborating on investigations with competitors. Today, i am honored to welcome some of the participants in the Panama Papers, to talk about their work and findings. Our forum is sponsored by the npc journalism institute, the nonprofit arm of the National Press club. Please welcome, these reporters. Thank you for this invitation. Yes, we are
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