Her stories have been published in the BBC, The Washington Post, the Miami Herald, Le Monde and other media worldwide. Her story Children of Lead, about lead poisoning in a Peruvian town by an American-owned lead smelting company, revealed a public health crisis that soon attracted international attention. Before becoming an editor, Walker Guevara investigated issues including environmental degradation by mining companies, cigarette smuggling by leading tobacco firms, and the shadowy world of offshore finance. Walker Guevara has been instrumental in developing ICIJ’s model of large-scale media collaboration, persuading reporters who used to compete with one another instead to work together, share resources and amplify their reach and impact. She has managed the two largest collaborations of reporters in journalism’s history: the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers, which involved hundreds of journalists and media partners using technology to unravel stories of public interest from terabytes of leaked financial data. Marina Walker Guevara is the deputy director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a network of reporters in 80 countries who collaborate on stories of global concern. They emphasized the importance of journalism as a measure of accountability and the necessity for more work like this to be done. They also discussed the political ramifications that the Panama Papers had on power structures everywhere, including Iceland where massive protests broke out resulting in the resignation of their Prime Minister. The panelists discussed the process of uncovering and decodifying something as sensitive as the Panama Papers and the impact that they had all around the world. Panelists Deputy Director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Maria Walker Guevara, Investigative Reporter for the Süddeutsche Zeitung Frederik Obermaier, Reporter with the Indian Express and Edward Mason Fellow P Vaidyanathan Iyer joined Samantha Henry for a conversation on their investigative journalism work that led to the exposure of the Panama Papers.
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Deputy Director, The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
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