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PARADISE PAPERS: Media organisations’ co-operation vital to public accountability
The recent publication of the Paradise Papers is another strong indication of the rising importance of global collaboration for investigative journalism. In April 2016, a consortium of news organisations published the Panama Papers — the first major leak revealing the scale of tax avoidance by companies and high-profile individuals. It was a huge logistical operation, co-ordinated by the International Consortium for Investigative Journalism, which played the same role with the Paradise Papers, revealing further offshore dealings, although from a different source and involving different locations. The Paradise Papers was co-ordinated by the consortium with 95 international partners comprising more than 380 journalists working on six continents in 30 languages. The team scoured more than 13.4-million files obtained by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung over more than a year using online platforms to communicate and to share documents. The Consortium for Investigative Journalism ...
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