Collaborative Investigative Journalism Without Borders
Bribe, Swindle or Steal
Alexandra Addison-Wrage of TRACE International
4.9 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
At the TRACE Prize for Investigative Reporting award ceremony last month, former prosecutor and National Observer columnist Sandy Garossino led a conversation with ICIJ's Spencer Woodman, Bellingcat's Aric Toler, and 2022 Prize winners Hans Peterson Hammer of Göteborgs-Posten and Lilia Saúl Rodriguez of the OCCRP. They discuss the evolution, impact and future of cross-border collaborative investigative journalism.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the podcast, by Swindle or Steel. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Alexandra Rogge, and for today's podcast, we're going to listen in on a panel from the recent Trace Prize event held in Vancouver. |
| 0:17.7 | This panel was introduced and moderated by Sandy Garrisino. Sandy is a public affairs |
| 0:22.6 | columnist for Canada's National Observer. She's a former Crown Prosecutor and prominent media |
| 0:28.4 | commentator whose crisp writing is read by millions across North America. She's the winner of the |
| 0:34.1 | best column in Canada in the 2016 Canadian Online Publishing |
| 0:38.5 | Awards and was a finalist for the Jack Webster Award for Best Column in 2019. |
| 0:44.7 | And now, I'll turn this over to Sandy. |
| 0:47.4 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:48.7 | What a humbling thing it is to listen to these experiences. |
| 0:52.6 | What noble and incredibly important work that you and |
| 0:57.1 | Kedija and all of the journalists here, welcome to everybody who is here from out of the country. |
| 1:03.8 | Thank you and out of the city. Thank you so much for coming. Thank you, Alexandra, for having us and |
| 1:09.5 | Gigi and everybody who is helping. |
| 1:11.6 | Let's get started. |
| 1:13.6 | This is an incredibly illustrious panel. |
| 1:16.6 | So grateful to all of you for being here. |
| 1:19.6 | Let me quickly introduce you so that we can really get into the meat of this discussion, |
| 1:24.6 | but it's important for everybody to know exactly who it is that we have on panel. |
| 1:29.4 | Hans Peterson Hammer, who is editor-in-chief of Mission Investigate, which is a program of the |
| 1:37.5 | SVT Swedish public broadcaster. The SVT and Mission Investigate oversaw a collaborative investigation with ZDF, the German public broadcaster, |
| 1:48.1 | and India's Confluence Media, uncovering a pattern of briber and corruption in India by the Swedish truckmaker and bus manufacturer Skanya. |
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