Panama Papers Wins Pulitzer Prize

[tenorly]

Source: ICIJ

Columbia University announced today that the Panama Papers investigation has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.

The Pulitzer Prize Board lauded year-long investigation for “using a collaboration of more than 300 reporters on six continents to expose the hidden infrastructure and global scale of offshore tax havens.”

The award is the latest in a series of accolades for the globe-spanning reporting effort by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), McClatchy, the Miami Herald, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and other media partners.

“This honor is a testament to the enterprise and teamwork of our staff and our partners here in the United States and around the world,” Gerard Ryle, ICIJ’s director, said. “We’re honored that the Pulitzer Board recognized the groundbreaking revelations and worldwide impact that the Panama Papers collaboration produced.”

The Panama Papers investigation exposed offshore companies linked to more than 140 politicians in more than 50 countries – including 14 current or former world leaders. It also uncovered offshore hideaways tied to mega-banks, corporate bribery scandals, drug kingpins, Syria’s air war on its own citizens and a network of people close to Russian President Vladimir Putin that shuffled as much as $2 billion around the world.

Five sitting heads of state or government - the Prime Minister of Iceland, Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson; the King of Saudi Arabia, Salman Al-Saud; the President of the United Arab Emirates, Khalifa Al-Nahyan; the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko; and the President of Argentina, Mauricio Macri - were also among those listed.

Read more: https://panamapapers.icij.org/20170410-pulitzer-prize.html

[PoliticAverse]

1. Good to see journalists publishing leaked info getting rewarded. n/t

[tenorly]

2. True. Bu if you think Panama papers was revealing.

Just wait until someone hacks this little bastard's Caymans laundrette:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10027587144

[inanna]

3. K & R!

[tenorly]

4. Thanks!

A lot of well-deserved Pulitzers this year, as Cheeto himself must have noticed.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-pulitzer-prizes-20170410-story.html

[Judi Lynn]

5. A series which was so badly needed. All the investigative journalists deserve real respect

for their hard work.

They worked to uncover the truth which others were all too happy to overlook, or to whitewash.

Five heads of state revealed already.

I hope the future will produce even more.

Thank you, tenorly.

It's beautiful seeing there are journalists living still who are determined to do their job, isn't it?

[tenorly]

6. Hear, hear.

Would that the same could be done with all the other Caribbean laundromats, Judi - especially this old buzzard's:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10027587144

Enough there for five Pulitzers, I bet.

[Judi Lynn]

7. That guy appears to have a lot of friends in powerful places, doesn't he?

If only this work done on the Panama Papers will inspire someone to go after this package of Sarin gas in a skin covering, the world will start looking so much cleaner.

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He will have zero positive legacy. What a waste.

The world will be so much better for his having left it.