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Unlike WikiLeaks' indiscriminate dumps, ICIJ redacts private personal details from its leaks
“When we're looking through these documents, we're not interested in people's bank accounts, their passport details. I don't believe in making that public, and I think that's the difference between ICIJ and, say, an organization like WikiLeaks. That just publis…”
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 …”
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.”
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…”
Panama Papers law firm Mossack Fonseca closed and its principals were jailed
“Mossack Fonseca itself, which was a sprawling empire of companies around the world, has now closed. The principals ended up in jail.”
Panama Papers leaks led to $500 million in global tax recoveries
“At the moment we've got about a 150 inquiries in something like 80 countries around the world. Governments have recovered about half a billion dollars in taxes”
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…”
Paradise Papers leak included 13.4 million documents, exceeding the Panama Papers
“It was actually more documents than the Panama Papers. We had about 13.4 million documents on the end of the Paradise Papers.”