Yes they do and you're welcome.
Sincerely, somebody who worked on this for way too long and practically hasn't left the office this entire weekend.
But I was also wondering why this leak had to be embargoed for a year. Why not release the complete raw data very quickly (with irrelevant, privacy-sensitive areas visibly redacted) and follow up with a detailed analysis later?
Did you see the sheer volume of the data? You cannot redact 11+ million documents quickly.
Nice touch. :)
Sincerely, Thank You!
Good job anyway :)
The journalists need to be more transparent about the data and why these individuals were picked first, and how the data release is going to work.
I hope for your sake you don't have to vectorize everyone mentioned in the data.
Because this is such a huge collaborative effort involving over 300 journalists from god knows how many countries, we barely managed to set an embargo until 8 PM (CEST). An hour before that, there were literally less than 10 tweets using #panamapapers. Now, there's over half a million. And it's been just seven hours since I have started the tweet wall in our office!
From this point on, I believe that every media organization is going to focus on its own region, although I cannot guarantee that. After all, my job was to make the website look pretty. I had the honor of reading some of the stories before anyone else while I was preparing them for the website (and I will have the same honor again in ~5-6 hours), but that's about it.
It went viral very fast, I think it would have been a great idea to say that each "regional' media representative would be disclosing more info within the next couple of weeks.. on the website!
And if some important info was not disclosed regionally there would also be a follow up, because right now you have to admit.. not many Western names are showing up if any ( don't mention Cameron and the others since this was already exposed pre-leak).