For months, as they worked in secrecy to pull together a huge trove of leaked data from a Panamanian law firm, the investigative team at Süddeutsche Zeitung knew they had an explosive scoop.
Even so, the international reaction has been “far above what we expected,” Frederik Obermaier, one of the German newspaper’s investigative reporters, said.
As the revelations from the massive document dump continued to ripple around the world, POLITICO caught up with Obermaier in a phone conversation in which he discussed how Süddeutsche Zeitung handled the leak, why the source may have come forward, and why these investigative projects are vital …read more
Source: European Voice
