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
Brought to the tasks. They are truly visionaries. It is unfortunately dont have the opportunity of having this conference in the new museum space. But when you look over at the National Museum of African American history and recognize that a few short years ago, there was nothing there, and what lonnie has accomplished is mindboggling. The idea that lonnie and jim have had about making this engagementand an with the past as a central aspect of opening the museum to the American Public is really quite terrific. I must say i feel uneasy standing up here at this moment. This is the last session of a long conference day. And as stimulating as the conference has been thus far, from my own experience, i know what happens at this point [laughter] everyone is sort of flagging. Youre thinking about fresh air. You are thinking about a drink. And are probably exhausted at having all sorts of people appear chattering away. The good news is i think you will find the presentations in this session ve
Paris as he returned to syria. Volkswagen usa now admits a tampered with testing on luxury cars and suvs dating back to 2009. The new disclosure could mean an additional 3 billion in fines. I am sarah kelly, thank you for joining us. We begin with a bloody and dramatic standoff in mali. Initial reports indicate that 18 hostages and sheet of attackers are dead. All all other hostages have been said to be free. Jihadists took an estimated 170 people hostage in the luxury hotel in radisson blu at the city center. A malay and group has claimed responsibility. The situation is developing. Lets bring you uptodate on what we know so far. Reporter the heavily armed at drove into the Radisson Hotel grounds in the morning. They stormed the hotel lobby and opened fire. M at first i thought it was firecrackers. I did not think it was a hostage situation. But the explosions did not stop. We heard them in the entire hotel. I wanted to go into the restaurant but i saw smoke in the corridor. So i went