The Paradise and Panama Papers revelations are globally meaningful: but is data journalism on this scale too big for the news cycle to handle?From Panama to Paradise to Perdition. Global issues like tax avoidance need global awareness and global answers. Here comes a network of 135 investigative reporters around the world toiling over seven long months. And here’s a bumper bundle of 13.4 million documents from Bermuda,Singapore and 19 assorted havens, unleashed via participating newspapers and broadcasters. This is data journalism on a grand scale.“You think approximately investigative journalism and you think approximately Woodward and Bernstein and you think approximately assembly Deep Throat in the car park at two in the morning. We’ve gone from Woodward and Bernstein to geeks looking at vast datasets ... It’s the age of the leak, and ” the Guardian’s Luke Harding told admirers from the Poynter Institute. It’s a triumph – with headaches attached.
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Source: guardian.co.uk