In the last few months, a group of Dutch investigative reporters have been doing a great

job publishing various stories on what Shell knew and when.

They have a project called the Shell Papers.

It is on the platform for authentic journalism in the Netherlands, which is a collaborative

formed by four investigative journalists for the purposes of digging into things exactly

like this.

I'm joined today by two of those journalists.

I'm going to let them introduce themselves.

So my name is Alex van der Berner.

I'm an investigative journalist for a platform authentic journalist from the Netherlands.

My name is Jelis Must.

I'm also an investigative reporter at the platform for authentic journalism.

And what is the platform for authentic journalism?

Yeah, the platform we are collective of four investigative reporters.

We started out about five years ago because we wanted to contribute to certain undervalued

topics within the Dutch media world.

So most of all, we focused in the beginning on complex issues like trade agreements and

their impacts on new environments and society in general.

And then we moved on bit by bit towards lobbying because lobbying was also like the big part

of the whole TTIP and free trade negotiations.

And from lobbying, we sort of moved on naturally almost to climate change, seeing that this

was the most lobby topic probably at this moment.

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