Often, when journalists are silenced, they work on topics related to severe human rights violations, environmental crimes, or corruption cases that affect us all. One way to face up to these global cr...
Bastian Obermayer
Bastian Obermayer is co-founder and director of paper trail media and a Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative reporter. With his colleague Frederik Obermaier he received the ground breaking Panama Papers leak from an anonymous source. ICIJ-member Obermayer is on the board of Forbidden Stories since its founding in 2017 and won many awards, e.g. the German Reporter Award and the George Polk Award. He wrote several books, including the best selling accounts of the Panama Papers and of the so called Ibiza Affair, which led to snap elections in Austria and was turned into a fiction TV mini series by SKY. Before founding paper trail media, Obermayer worked for Süddeutsche Zeitung.
As more and more reporting partnerships take hold across the globe, it’s almost hard to imagine a time when journalists were not working together. But it wasn’t always so. Industry pioneers talk a...
Two to tango: a closer look at the relationship between independent investigative teams and legacy media
In the past years more and more independent investigative teams are forming across Europe focussing on in-depth (often cross-border) investigations outside of the dynamics and hierarchies of legacy ne...
Suisse Secrets: how lifting the veil of banking secrecy uncovered a threat to press freedom in one of the oldest democracies. In February 2022, a team of more than 160 journalists from 48 media outle...
How the investigation of a secretly-taped video lead to the resignation of the right-wing populist vice-chancellor in Austria.
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