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Jared Ryle

Executive Director, ICIJ · 1 appearance on the record.

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Gerard Ryle coordinates cross-border reporting networks exposing global tax evasion, money laundering, and corruption, having led the worldwide Panama Papers investigation. Prior to leading the ICIJ, he worked as an investigative reporter in Ireland and Australia and wrote Firepower: The Most Spectacular Fraud in Australian History.

12statements → 7claims → 6claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 4.17/5average certainty → 1.92/5average debate potential →

4 supported 2 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not yet assessed how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

7 assertions · 1 opinion · 3 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 6 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Jared argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Panama Papers data contained information relevant to the FBI's FIFA corruption probe
“While we were researching the stories, the FBI began to indict officials at FIFA, and of course we were seeing in the Panama Papers all of this information that would have been relevant to the FBI investigation”
Jared Ryle Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:18 a16z Podcast | When Journalism Goes Global

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: speaking style how? →

272 words/min while actually speaking · 1.1 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Jared Ryle: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to 4,475 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Jared Ryle is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →

Everything Jared Ryle said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Partly supported
ICIJ uncovered $20 billion in offshore wealth linked to Vladimir Putin's associate
“Yeah, arguably the biggest story that came out of the Panama Papers was that we found about twenty billion dollars that was being funneled through offshore companies, That was linked to a guy in Russia who was the godfather of Vladimir Putin's child. And here …”
Jared Ryle Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:14 a16z Podcast | When Journalism Goes Global
Disclosure
ICIJ's Russian reporters fled Russia before publishing their Vladimir Putin investigation
“I know our Russian reporters, before we published that story in Putin, had left the country. So when we published, they weren't there. They did go back afterwards. Journalists are putting their lives in danger in some cases.”
Jared Ryle Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:53 a16z Podcast | When Journalism Goes Global
Insight
Synchronized global news drops force rival media outlets to drive story momentum
“I can tell you, when you publish simultaneously in 76 countries on the same day at the same time, it's like an explosion, you know, because then all of their rivals have to catch up, and so they're all jumping in, and you get this Great momentum on a story tha…”
Jared Ryle Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:58 a16z Podcast | When Journalism Goes Global
Insight
Investigative reporting projects should be selected based on potential real-world impact
“And the third question, which is a little bit controversial again for journalists, is can we get a result from publishing the story? So if we publish the story about the potholes, Will the councils or whoever's responsible come along and fix it? Can we actuall…”
Jared Ryle Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 20:46 a16z Podcast | When Journalism Goes Global
Opinion
Mainstream journalists fail to use technology, relying on 50-year-old information-gathering methods
“But also go back to journalists are not making use of technology. They're not gathering information. They're not doing things in a smart way. They're still doing things the way we've been doing them for 40 or 50 years.”
Jared Ryle Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 23:00 a16z Podcast | When Journalism Goes Global
Assertion Supported
Panama Papers data contained information relevant to the FBI's FIFA corruption probe
“While we were researching the stories, the FBI began to indict officials at FIFA, and of course we were seeing in the Panama Papers all of this information that would have been relevant to the FBI investigation”
Jared Ryle Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:18 a16z Podcast | When Journalism Goes Global
Assertion Supported
ICIJ maintained Panama Papers secrecy by building a private online newsroom
“How we kept a secret was we basically built an online newsroom where all the journalists would go every day. And in this online newsroom, they were able to gather around the topics of interest. But that also allowed them a kind of a venting where if they found…”
Jared Ryle Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:42 a16z Podcast | When Journalism Goes Global
Insight
Investigative journalists must assume all digital communications and metadata are actively monitored
“One of the problems we have at the moment, and one of the biggest problems journalism has, is that you have to assume that you're being watched, or that your emails are being read, your phone is potentially being, not necessarily tapped, but at least the infor…”
Jared Ryle Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:29 a16z Podcast | When Journalism Goes Global
Assertion Partly supported
The Sydney Morning Herald slashed its newsroom staff from 450 to 50
“I worked for the Sydney Morning Herald at the time when they had 450 journalists. They've been looking to have 50 now.”
Jared Ryle Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:50 a16z Podcast | When Journalism Goes Global
Assertion Supported
Panama Papers leak included 11.5 million Mossack Fonseca records dating to 1977
“And John Doe had copied every file from this firm, every client sheet, every record since 1977 to the present day. They've represented about 11 and a half million documents, and he gave them to the German newspaper.”
Jared Ryle Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:07 a16z Podcast | When Journalism Goes Global
Assertion Supported
ICIJ's Panama Papers probe used 400 reporters across 76 countries in secret
“In the end, we had about 400 reporters working on the stories, In 76 different countries, and we worked in silence and total secrecy for about a year.”
Jared Ryle Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:39 a16z Podcast | When Journalism Goes Global
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
ICIJ had three staff and an $800,000 budget when Gerard Ryle joined
“We were a little non-profit with about 800,000 dollars to spend, so we had about three staff and maybe Room for every now and again a freelance reporter.”
Jared Ryle Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 0:45 a16z Podcast | When Journalism Goes Global

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | When Journalism Goes Global Jan 2, 2019 19m
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