Editing Center for Public Integrity (section)

==International Consortium of Investigative Journalists==
{{Main|International Consortium of Investigative Journalists}}
[[File:ICIJ logo.svg|thumb|International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) logo]]

In 1997, CPI launched the '''International Consortium of Investigative Journalists''' ('''ICIJ'''), based in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{cite news |title=News Group Claims Huge Trove of Data on Offshore Accounts |url=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/04/03/world/europe/ap-panama-papers.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=April 3, 2016 |access-date=April 4, 2016 |first1=Natalya |last1=Vasilyeva |first2=Mae |last2=Anderson}}</ref> In 2016, the ICIJ spun off from CPI and became its own nonprofit due to financial difficulties with CPI.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fandos |first1=Nicholas |title=Watchdog That Shepherded Panama Papers Now Constrained by Finances (Published 2016) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/06/business/media/watchdog-that-shepherded-panama-papers-now-constrained-by-finances.html?_r=0 |access-date=25 March 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=5 June 2016 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Berry |first1=Anna |title=ICIJ to Separate from Center for Public Integrity |url=https://nonprofitquarterly.org/icij-separate-center-public-integrity/ |access-date=25 March 2025 |work=Non Profit News {{!}} Nonprofit Quarterly |date=24 October 2016}}</ref>

===Panama Papers===
{{Main|Panama Papers}}
In April 2016, the ICIJ made headlines worldwide with the announcement that it and the German newspaper {{lang|de|[[Süddeutsche Zeitung]]}} had received a leaked set of 11.5&nbsp;million confidential documents from a secret source, created by the Panamanian corporate service provider [[Mossack Fonseca]]. The Panama Papers provided detailed information on more than 214,000 [[offshore tax haven|offshore]] companies, including the identities of shareholders and directors.<ref>{{cite news |title=News Group Claims Huge Trove of Data on Offshore Accounts |url=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/04/03/world/europe/ap-panama-papers.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=April 3, 2016 |access-date=April 4, 2016 |first1=Natalya |last1= Vasilyeva |first2=Mae |last2=Anderson}}</ref> The documents named the leaders of five countries — Argentina, Iceland, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates — as well as government officials, close relatives and close associates of various heads of government of more than 40 other countries, including Brazil, China, France, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Malta, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Syria and the United Kingdom.<ref name="Power Players">{{cite web |title=Panama Papers: The Power Players |url= https://panamapapers.icij.org/the_power_players/ |publisher=[[International Consortium of Investigative Journalists]] |access-date=April 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404042238/https://panamapapers.icij.org/the_power_players/ |archive-date= April 4, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The ICIJ and {{lang|de|[[Süddeutsche Zeitung]]}} received the Panama Papers in 2015 and distributed them to about 400 journalists at 107 media organizations in more than 80 countries. The first news reports based on the set, along with 149 of the documents themselves,<ref>{{cite web|title=DocumentCloud 149 Results Source: Internal documents from Mossack Fonseca (Panama Papers) – Provider: Amazon Technologies / Owner: Perfect Privacy, LLC USA|url=https://www.documentcloud.org/public/search/Source:%20%22Internal%20documents%20from%20Mossack%20Fonseca%20(Panama%20Papers)%22/p3|publisher=Center for Public Integrity|access-date=April 4, 2016|archive-date=April 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406024901/https://www.documentcloud.org/public/search/Source:%20%22Internal%20documents%20from%20Mossack%20Fonseca%20(Panama%20Papers)%22/p3|url-status=dead}}</ref> were published on April 3, 2016.<ref name="szabout">{{cite web|url=http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/articles/56febff0a1bb8d3c3495adf4/ |access-date=April 3, 2016 |title=About the Panama Papers |last1=Obermaier |first1=Frederik |last2=Obermayer |first2=Bastian |last3=Wormer |first3=Vanessa |last4=Jaschensky |first4=Wolfgang |date=April 3, 2016 |work=[[Süddeutsche Zeitung]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160403182015/http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/articles/56febff0a1bb8d3c3495adf4/ |archive-date=April 3, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> Among other planned disclosures, the full list of companies is to be released in early May 2016.<ref name="ICIJ-data">{{cite web |title=The Panama Papers: Data Methodology |url=https://panamapapers.icij.org/graphs/methodology/ |work=[[Center for Public Integrity#International Consortium of Investigative Journalists|ICIJ]] |date=April 3, 2016 |access-date=April 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405054659/https://panamapapers.icij.org/graphs/methodology/ |archive-date=April 5, 2016 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>