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Gerard Ryle

Gerard Ryle

Reporter

Oct 16, 2026

4:41
What do the offices and the war rooms really look like? How are people working with each other, your team and this network of journalists? Give us a little bit of a view of tools you're using, the communication that you're having, and the engagement patterns that you have.
4:56
Yeah, look, for me, this all began, I mean, I took the job at ICIJ in 2011.
5:01
I'd been an editor and a reporter in Australia for many years.
5:06
And being a great investigative reporter, I didn't do very much research on this job offer.
5:12
I basically got to Washington, D.C. and realized that ICIJ had a fantastic name.
5:17
but it really had no resources.
5:18
We had literally four people.

20 MINS LATER

25:18
What do you think the impact has been when you see the industry moving today? You guys have done a lot of cryptocurrency stories, a lot of money movement stories in general, but how do you think this impact has lasted and the change it has made?
5:33
Why did they resign and why did others like David Cameron manage to hold on?
5:39
Well, it was the hypocrisy, I think, that really came through.
5:41
I mean, the first prime minister to go was the prime minister of Iceland.
5:46
He resigned, I think, within 24 hours of publication.
5:49
And again, it was because we had discovered that he had a secret offshore company that was a creditor to the banks in Iceland that at the time had collapsed.
5:58
And he'd been elected as the prime minister to start out that collapse without telling anybody that he had a actually had a secret financial interest in sorting it out himself.
6:07
So he had to go.

8 MINS LATER

13:57
How did you actually organize breaking the story? How was the game plan worked out?
39:11
Why did they resign and why did others like David Cameron manage to hold on?
39:17
Well, it was the hypocrisy, I think, that really came through.
39:21
I mean, the first prime minister to go was the prime minister of Iceland.
39:25
He resigned, I think, within 24 hours of publication.
39:28
And again, it was because we had discovered that he had a secret offshore company that was a creditor to the banks in Iceland that at the time had collapsed.
39:37
And he'd been elected as the prime minister to sort out that collapse without telling anybody that he had a actually had a secret financial interest in sorting it out himself.
39:46
So he had to go.

7 MINS LATER

46:52
How did you actually organize breaking the story? How was the game plan worked out?

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