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"It was March 2016 and Paul Farrell, then a reporter at
Guardian Australia,
had agreed to meet an anonymous source.
He had been reporting on immigration for several years but still, when he was
slipped a USB stick across the table and told, “I think it might be of interest
to you,” he had no idea what to expect.
“I booted it up and what flashed on to the screen was most comprehensive
archive I’d ever seen of what was happening at the Nauru [immigration
detention] facility at the time,” he says.
“Accounts from guards, caseworkers and teachers of horrific incidents they’d
observed: self-harm, violence, hunger strikes. There was just this overwhelming
sense of despair.”
Farrell walked into the office of the then deputy editor of
Guardian
Australia, Will Woodward, who immediately understood the importance of the
story.
The question then became how to publish the 8,000 pages of leaked documents.
At its peak, up to 20 journalists were working on the Nauru files at any given
time. It remains the largest collaborative project
Guardian Australia has
undertaken."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
