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by pudo 7y ago
I follow this a bit in the news industry: it's a business that's been deeply changed by the internet and there are no easy answers for how to fund good news reporting in the future. Yet media executives have demonstrated an unlike
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by pudo 7y ago
So to be clear: "Kleptocrats gonna klepto" is the deep "understanding of the mechanisms of finance" and the cure to "lazy propaganda" that you advertise for? Beyond that, thanks for going full ad hominem.
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by pudo 7y ago
You're mixing a few things up here. The set of countries that are affected by the resource curse, and those dealing in financial secrecy (what else would you call it?), are disjoint. The phenomena are linked through money laundering: w
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by pudo 7y ago
To say that the current system works (its current form is a few decades old at best) is to ignore the massive impact that secrecy jurisdictions have on virtually all developing countries. Offshores are used there to facilitate the extractio
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by pudo 7y ago
This usually exists. In the UK, there's a registry of persons with significant control over companies and individuals in it can be marked "super secure" if there is a sufficient reason to do it. https://developer.c
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The Bitcoin Scam(tribunemag.co.uk)
29 points by pudo 7y ago|20 comments
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by pudo 8y ago
Hi. I work at OCCRP. I understand and appreciate your concerns. Our organisation has a simple goal: uncovering what happened in places where that does not happen much. That can only ever be done partially (which opens any news media up to a
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by pudo 8y ago
[OCCRP tech] We're working on it. There's a whole back log of reporting that people have invested months into doing, we'll successively push out parts of the data once those stories are getting published.
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by pudo 8y ago
Love it: you have to scroll down four sections before they get honest and talk about the fact its just another blockchain thing. Then again, the "based in Switzerland" thing sort of gave us a hint.
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by pudo 8y ago
I've got to recommend PyICU here. unidecode is good, but has some holes (I noticed the Azeri letter schwa, for example). PyICU is a binding for IBMs International Components for Unicode, and basically has a coding language for unicode
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by pudo 8y ago
Where did you find it? I’ve read some of the associated writing and didn’t find it convincing. But I would like to see the film.
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by pudo 8y ago
I’d describe it the opposite way. The lesson learned from Wikileaks was two-fold: use digital tools well, but be aware there’s always a physical pressure point. Wikileaks became more whacky after JA was tethered to an embassy. Similarly, in
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by pudo 8y ago
Well, I'd say investigative journalists saw this coming :) Here's a panel in May: https://eijc18dataharvest.sched.com/event/ETCN/gdpr-the-new-...
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by pudo 8y ago
OCCRP tech here. The data exists in at least four different legal regimes. This is a legal issue, and whatever supporting technical work can be done has been done.
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by pudo 8y ago
WSJ is a pretty renowned newspaper. Coincidentally, they published the Theranos investigation which probably cost Murdoch $100mn. I'm somewhat entertained by the posters in this thread shitting on media organisations. You need to under
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by pudo 8y ago
You can buy an online subscription.
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by pudo 8y ago
Can't emphasise this enough. Any system that lets (rich) people vote on what the truth is cannot be called journalism. It is simply not how facts work. This is also why Elon Musks recent initiative ("Pravduh"?) has all the po
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by pudo 8y ago
I think the bit about not wanting to interrupt the class may also have to do with the lecturer. She's an amazing bad-ass herself: "Her investigations have led to more than 50 criminal cases against politicians, businessmen and pub
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Journalism’s Deep Web: data analysis tool for investigative reporting(gijn.org)
7 points by pudo 9y ago|0 comments
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by pudo 9y ago
The removal of mapping types really kicks the bottom out of the app we're making; it's some serious docker-style "break all the things" behaviour. Seriously losing trust on this one. Are there any good alternatives to ES
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by pudo 9y ago
We're about to announce a new Python scraping toolkit, memorious: https://github.com/alephdata/memorious - it's a pretty lightweight toolkit, using YAML config files to glue together pre-built and custom-made
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by pudo 9y ago
> Reporting isn't a high-tech job I disagree. Sitting on a phone and sweet-talking sources isn't high-tech, and neither is bundling up five tweets to make a clickbait. But as soon as you're talking about doing public recor
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by pudo 9y ago
That list is pure genius. I'm working with reporters mostly in non-OECD countries, 80% of the stuff on that list are real, largely unmet needs. Signal isn't perfect, but it works fine, thanks. A special place in hell should also b
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by pudo 9y ago
This, so much. Plus, call me clumsy, but the number of times I have accidentally triggered one of the magic bar buttons is beyond count. In everyday use, it often feels like my computer just randomly mutes system audio or locks the display
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by pudo 9y ago
Her son works for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), and is sure to continue her work. You can donate to them here: https://www.icij.org/donate/
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by pudo 9y ago
OCCRP | Investigative Reporting - Front-end developer, back-end developer | Sarajevo (Bosnia) | Remote or Onsite | https://occrp.org We're an international network of non-profit investigative reporting centers that track an
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by pudo 9y ago
This sounds very cool, but also a lot like ElasticSearch. Is there a comparison somewhere? (There a little matrix at the bottom of their page, but it's ... marketing-y).
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by pudo 9y ago
I work for one of the investigative reporting teams that initially uncovered the bribe. https://www.occrp.org/en/corruptistan/uzbekistan/gulnarakari... Doing this type of journalism requires access to large a
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by pudo 9y ago
Would love this if it also checked 404 assets and links.
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by pudo 9y ago
I work as a software developer for an NGO and we sometimes get coders who want to volunteer their time to us. Quite frequently, this turns into a lot of overhead for us with little to show for. Given the choice, I'd prefer this model.

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