Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Panama Papers investigation wins Pulitzer prize...

The Panama Papers investigation into the offshore secrets of the rich and famous has been awarded a prestigious Pulitzer prize.

The prize was given to the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), together with two US titles, McClatchy and the Miami Herald.

The judges cited a series of stories from the Panama Papers and the “collaboration of more than 300 reporters on six continents to expose the hidden infrastructure and global scale of offshore tax havens”.

The consortium included Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung – which received 11.5m documents from a whistleblower – the Guardian, the BBC and about 100 other international media organisations. The project is believed to have been the largest journalistic cooperation ever.

The investigation was originally entered into the international reporting category where it was a shortlisted finalist. It was moved to the 2016 explanatory reporting category, which it won. Full story...

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