Eighty-six journalists in 46 countries joined in a revolutionary enterprise to investigate the workings of offshore tax havens and finances of people in 170 countries. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)initiated the project after receiving 260 leaked gigabytes of data. The Washington Post will begin their report on April 7. (Nieman Journalism Lab, April 3, 2013, by Caroline O’Donovan)
In conjunction with British publications, the ICIJ published advance notice of the investigation results last November. (The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, November 25, 2012, by David Leigh, Harold Frayman and James Ball)