Whos Daughter Molly took her own life when her world turned dark online. He is with us this morning. Morning, morning. With me at the desk, journalistjane moore, author and storyteller irvine welsh, and nimco ali, activist and former conservative adviser. Good morning to all of you. Lets have a look at some of the front pages. Almost all the papers today lead with the allegations of rape and sexual abuse made against Russell Brand. Its been painstaking work by The Sunday Times and channel for over a long period of time. Their headline is Russell Brand, the sex predator who hid in plain sight. The observer has labour wants new eu links in a reset of policy. The Sunday Express says almost a million ditch crisis hit nhs and go private. Lets start with the biggest story of the day, these allegations against Russell Brand, which he has denied butjane, you have worked with him. What kind of person is he . It depends, i worked with him years ago in what i think he would freely admit where his
We also found that nearly 33 companies and people have been blacklisted in the u. S. For various serious crimes. Also we were able to do business offshore with Mossack Fonseca, they were clients for a long time. We look at the role of big banks, and how more than 500 banks, specifically in this leak, how they had helped 15,000 offshore companies through Mossack Fonseca, in many cases helping clients around the orld avoid paying taxes. One of most surprising findings, the politicians. You imagine that billionaires and maybe celebrities, they had these offshore companies for rivacy issues or tax issues, but to find nearly 200 oliticians, and 16 World Leaders, in this data, using the tax havens, including some World Leaders who have been at the forefront against tax havens. That was really interesting. We created a whole application to look at this important issue. Reaction and impact, you remember the viral media. In iceland, where the Prime Minister testified a few days after publicatio
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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