Loved this blog by @hatr and Jan Strozyk reflecting 10 years on from the Panama Papers, and how nerds in the newsroom who knew (or learned!) how to script, scrape, and build tools helped to transform modern journalism. Nowadays, handling and parsing data is an indispensable skill.

https://buttondown.com/readwrite/archive/edition-12-on-the-panama-papers-ten-years-later/

Edition 12 - On the Panama Papers, ten years later

In this edition, Jan reflects on the Panama Papers: How they changed his work and what counts as investigative reporting.

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Sadly, would probably never happen, today. At least, it wouldn't happen at billionaire-owned news organizations. It'd have to come almost exclusively from reporters at organizations like
@404mediaco, today.