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The ICIJ newsroom
est. 1997 · The Panama Papers (2016) and successors
Not one person but a method: the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists coordinated 370+ reporters across 100 countries to analyse 11.5 million leaked offshore documents — then kept the model running for the Paradise Papers, FinCEN Files, and Pandora Papers. Proof that the antidote to globalised secrecy is globalised journalism. Reporters in this network have faced lawsuits, surveillance, and worse.
The pursuit
- Built the secure collaborative infrastructure that makes hundred-newsroom investigations possible.
- Verified every Panama Papers finding across partner outlets before simultaneous publication.
- Maintains the Offshore Leaks Database — the public, searchable fraction of the records.
The impact
- Pulitzer Prize (2017) and resignations, prosecutions, and recovered billions across dozens of countries.
- Created the permanent template for cross-border leak investigations still in use today.
- Showed that verification at scale is possible — no shortcuts, all outlets publish together.
Where their work lives
- The Panama Papers investigation (primary source) ↗
- About the ICIJ ↗
- What the Panama Papers actually showed →
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