Another interesting post on this - this one from Le Monde (in French)
http://data.blog.lemonde.fr/2016/04/08/panama-papers-un-defi-technique-pour-le-journalisme-de-donnees/ <http://data.blog.lemonde.fr/2016/04/08/panama-papers-un-defi-technique-pour-le-journalisme-de-donnees/>

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> On 12 Apr 2016, at 16:05, Tom Cramer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> The IJNet article is particularly interesting—thanks for posting this. Excerpts like the one below make me wonder if there is a “Code4News” community, and if so, how do we find and connect with them. It seems we have a lot in common, and maybe a lot to offer each other.
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> MC: What we’ve achieved is pretty remarkable. Newsrooms are in an economic crisis. No newsroom right now--except for maybe The New York Times and a few others--have the capability to do something major like this at a global scale. But we’re showing it’s possible. We share data, we produce tools for communication, we share our stories and our interactives, to make it happen.
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> - Tom
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> On Apr 7, 2016, at 7:24 AM, Gregory Markus <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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> Hey Sebastian,
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> They go into a lot of detail in this article
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> https://ijnet.org/en/blog/how-icij-pulled-large-scale-cross-border-investigative-collaboration
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> Indeed this is pretty interesting stuff and a good shout out for Blacklight
> and other OS tools!
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> -greg
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> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Sebastian Karcher <
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> Hi everyone,
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> from one of the New York Times stories on the Panama Papers:
> "The ICIJ made a number of powerful research tools available to the
> consortium that the group had developed for previous leak investigations.
> Those included a secure, Facebook-type forum where reporters could post the
> fruits of their research, as well as database search program called
> “Blacklight” that allowed the teams to hunt for specific names, countries
> or sources."
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/business/media/how-a-cryptic-message-interested-in-data-led-to-the-panama-papers.html
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> I assume this is http://projectblacklight.org/, which is pretty cool to
> see
> used that way. Does anyone know or have read anything about the other tools
> they used? What did they use for OCR? Did they use qualitative data
> analysis software? Some type of annotation tools? It seems like there's a
> lot to learn from this effort.
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> Thanks,
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> --
> Sebastian Karcher, PhD
> Qualitative Data Repository, Syracuse University
> qdr.syr.edu
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