The
work of more than 370 journalists, including those from PREMIUM TIMES,
who collaborated on the Panama Papers project was honoured with the
Investigation of the Year prize at the Data Journalism Awards in Vienna,
Austria on Thursday.
The Panama Papers investigation was based
on a 2.6 terabyte trove of data obtained by German newspaper Süddeutsche
Zeitung and shared with ICIJ and a network of more than 100 media
organizations, including Nigeria’s PREMIUM TIMES.
The leaked
dataset of 11.5 million files from Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca,
exposed the inner workings of the secretive offshore financial system,
and revealed hidden companies linked to politicians, criminals, sports
stars and more.
Accepting the Investigation of the Year award on
behalf of ICIJ, data journalist Cécile Schilis-Gallego, paid tribute to
the global team of reporters and the source of the information.
“I
want to take a second to highlight the brilliant work of journalists
who partner with us – especially Süddeutsche Zeitung – but also the
courage of whistleblowers who take incredible risks to help us tell
stories that participate to the democratic debate on offshore finance.
Without the data, we would not be able to produce those stories,” she
said.
It is the second year in a row that an ICIJ project has won
top honours at the Global Editors Network-hosted event, after Swiss
Leaks took home the Investigation of the Year award in 2015.
The
Swiss Leaks investigation, which published in early 2015 in
collaboration with French newspaper Le Monde and dozens of global media
outlets, was also awarded the prize for business reporting at the
Society of Professional Journalists’ Washington D.C. branch Dateline
Awards at a ceremony at the National Press Club earlier this week. It
was one of seven awards won by the Centre for Public Integrity at the
event.
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