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Make Data Work
21–22 May 2018: Training
22–24 May 2018: Tutorials & Conference
London, UK
Pierre Romera

Pierre Romera
Chief Technology Officer, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)

Website | @pirhoo

Pierre Romera is the chief technology officer at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), where he manages a team of programmers working on the platforms that enabled more than 300 journalists to collaborate on the Paradise Papers and Panama Papers investigations. Previously, he cofounded Journalism++, the Franco-German data journalism agency behind the Migrant Files, a project that won the European Press Prize in 2015 for Innovation. He is one of the pioneers of data journalism in France.

Sessions

9:55–10:10 Wednesday, 23 May 2018
The Paradise Papers: Behind the scenes with the ICIJ
Location: Auditorium
Pierre Romera (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ))
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Last November, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published the Paradise Papers, a yearlong investigation on the offshore dealings of multinational companies and the wealthy. Pierre Romera offers a behind-the-scenes look into the process and explores the challenges in handling 1.4 TB of data and making it available securely to journalists all over the world. Read more.