Investigative journalists Stefan Candea and Brigitte Alfter both have extensive experience with and expertise in the sorts of cross-border journalism collaborations that have become common in the past 20 years.
In order to understand and report on the transnational flows of money and power, journalists have broken out of their national and linguistic silos to work together to break big stories like Offshore Leaks and the Panama Papers.
But today, a few decades in, what are the problems and challenges that face cross-border journalism collaborations? What is the influence of money on what topics get investigated, who gets to investigate them, and how the stories get told? How do borders still impede collaboration, and what sorts of borders are created within collaborative investigations?
Alfter and Candea took the opportunity provided by the MONEY MOVES track of Berliner Gazette’s 2016 TACIT FUTURES gathering to draft an interdisciplinary call for papers (to be publicly released soon) asking academics, journalists and others to respond to these and other questions.
Here you can hear some of the topics and concerns that have animated their collaboration.
