The crime-fighting power of cross-border investigative journalism | Bektour Iskender

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🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Organized crime operates across national borders -- to keep up, investigative journalists need to do the same. TED Fellow Bektour Iskender gives the inside scoop on his efforts to unveil secret, insidious operations in his home country of Kyrgyzstan, and how he worked with a team of journalists to uncover corruption and spark a national movement. He shares three key insights on how global networks of investigative journalists protect the world not just from smugglers and thieves but from dictators and warmongers.

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:07.5	International crime or corruption isn't confined to a country's borders.
0:12.7	Because there is cross-border wrongdoing, journalism that holds power accountable needs cross-border
0:18.0	networks.
0:19.5	In his talk from Ted 2022, Independent News publisher and Ted Fellow Bechtor Iskender
0:24.8	talks about how joining and investigative network revealed major stories that changed
0:29.9	the game in Central Asia.
0:59.9	This could be earning at arabianbe.co.uk slash host.
1:07.3	What makes organized crimes strong?
1:09.8	It is very well connected across borders.
1:13.4	Criminal leaders can cooperate over long distances, build efficient logistics, and hide their
1:18.5	wealth across many jurisdictions.
1:21.8	How do we know about this?
1:23.8	One of the reason is journalists.
1:25.7	We are often the first ones to reveal the enormous schemes of organized crime networks.
1:31.2	At some point, journalists started connecting across borders too.
1:35.8	During the last decade, there was a number of groundbreaking cross-border investigations
1:39.7	that had dozens of media organizations working together.
1:44.5	Panama Papers is probably one of the most famous of such cross-border journalism collaborations.
1:49.6	It had more than 100 media working on it.
1:52.5	It affected countries on every continent.
1:55.1	More importantly, it led to more than $1 billion to be recovered to the economies of the
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