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Feb 12, 2020 • 20 tweets • 25 min read • Read on X
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🚨Today we added 18 new members to our ICIJ family! 😀

Our network now spans 100 countries, with reporters from The Gambia, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, and more added today.

Here is a quick intro to these investigative reporters! (Thread) bit.ly/2vv0EyN
🇲🇦 First up: Ali Amar, @MarocAmar, from @LeDesk in Morocco joins our family. He’s worked with us on #ImplantFiles, #PanamaPapers and #ParadisePapers.

Here's his work on the #PanamaPapers: ledesk.ma/2016/04/03/pan…

Welcome to the team!!
@MarocAmar @LeDesk 🇨🇱 @aarellanoj joins us from #Chile – where he’s been working for @ciper as a reporter/editor, now contributor, for six years.

He also worked on #PanamaPapers and #ParadisePapers with us!
🇦🇲From Armenia, we welcome veteran reporter Edik Baghdasaryan (@hetqArmenia) who has worked in TV for 30 years.

He helped found the Investigative Journalists NGO, which publishes Hetq online. Here’s his #PanamaPapers story: hetq.am/en/article/982…
🇱🇺Luxembourg journalist @LucCaregari started working with us on #PanamaPapers and has become the go-to reporter for the country’s finance sector and beyond.

Check out his work here: woxx.lu/tag/panama-pap…

Welcome, Luc!
@LucCaregari 🇲🇺How could we do #MauritiusLeaks without an investigative reporter like local @AxcelChenney?

Axcel is an audiovisual journalist with @lexpressmaurice. Read his work: lexpress.mu/article/279008…

We spoke with him about the #LuandaLeaks collaboration: bit.ly/2voCUfU
@LucCaregari @AxcelChenney @lexpressmaurice 🇧🇷@revistapiaui magazine’s executive editor José Roberto de Toledo (@zerotoledo) joins us from Brazil.

A veteran of investigative reporting, he also helped co-found @abraji! Welcome to the fam!
🇨🇺 We are adding two Cubans to our team today!

The first is @elainediaz2003 who is the editor-in-chief at @periodibarrio - an investigative reporting project dedicated to covering issues in Cuban society!
🇨🇺Also from Cuba we have @barbaramaseda, who is the director and founder of @invntario which helps reporters find data and documents to support our reporting! #ddj
@barbaramaseda @invntario 🇨🇿 Investigative reporter @pafak from has been leading the reporting into the murder of Jan Kuciak (investigace.eu/jan-kuciak-and…)

She is also the founder of @investigace_cz, based in Prague, and is an editor for @OCCRP!
@barbaramaseda @invntario @pafak @investigace_cz @OCCRP 🇱🇧 Our new Lebanon member is @aliaibrahim74, who co-founded @Daraj_media.

Alia wrote about the power of #collaboration after working on our #ParadisePapers investigation. Check it out here: bit.ly/31S6N4y
@barbaramaseda @invntario @pafak @investigace_cz @OCCRP @aliaibrahim74 @Daraj_media 🇬🇲 Another new country represented for us with @LmnJahateh joining the team from The Gambia.

He’s a freelance journalist with 10+ years of reporting experience - including our #WestAfricaLeaks. He recently wrote about the country’s prison system: cenozo.org/fr/articles/20…
🇩🇰 Danish investigative reporter @EvaJung_ from @berlingske also joins our network.

Eva and her colleagues revealed the #Danske Bank scandal – often in collaboration with other ICIJ partners including @guardian and @SZ!

Welcome Eva!
🇦🇹Austrian investigative reporter @StefanMelichar has worked on many ICIJ investigations, including #SwissLeaks, #ParadisePapers and #PanamaPapers.

He currently works for @profilonline with a focus on corruption, crime, offshore and tax issues
@StefanMelichar @profilonline 🇨🇾 @stylian65 from Cyprus is also joining our team!

Stelios is an investigative reporter with @OCCRP and was central to breaking a huge money-laundering scandal in Cyprus. He also helped break the ‘golden visa’ scheme: theguardian.com/world/2017/sep…
🇲🇾 Our new Malaysian member is @aidilarazak! She’s a multimedia journalist with @malaysiakini whose career started at just 14!

Welcome to the team Aidila!😃
🇵🇭 @rapplerdotcom CEO and executive editor @mariaressa joins us from the Philippines.

Maria helped found the news organization and has been honored globally for her work fighting #disinformation.
She was also named @TIME’s 2018 ‘Person of the Year.’
@rapplerdotcom @mariaressa @TIME 🇧🇬Atanas Tchobanov from Bulgaria is the editor-in-chief of @BivolBg.

Atanas worked on #Apartmentgate, a huge corruption scandal in the country. bivol.bg/en?s=Apartment…

Welcome!!
@rapplerdotcom @mariaressa @TIME @BivolBg 🇺🇲🇦🇷 ICIJ’s former deputy director @MarinaWalkerG is now a member!

An Argentine living in the U.S, Marina is now @pulitzercenter’s executive editor.

“She helped pioneer a collaborative methodology that sparked dozens of official inquiries around the world,” @minnaknus said.
@rapplerdotcom @mariaressa @TIME @BivolBg @MarinaWalkerG @pulitzercenter @minnaknus Read more on all our wonderful new members here: bit.ly/2vv0EyN

Welcome to the team – everyone!!

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