Hear from the reporters behind the most expansive leak of tax haven files in history. In October, their investigation revealed the secret deals and hidden assets of more than 330 politicians and high-level public officials in more than 90 countries and territories, including 35 country leaders.

Fisayo Soyombo is a Nigerian investigative journalist and founder of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism. He joins us to discuss his government's attempts to block Twitter and crack down on unflattering reporting.

Ann M. Simmons is Moscow bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal. She has spent over 25 years reporting from Europe, Africa, the Middle East and North America. Prior to WSJ, Ann covered global development for the LA Times, worked as bureau chief in Nairobi and Johannesburg and served in Moscow for Time magazine.

With COP26 in its final stretch we are joined by decorated environmental journalist Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson, who founded Pacific Environment Weekly to record the effects of climate change on Pacific Islanders.

Journalist and director of 'Confidencial' and 'Esta Semana', Carlos F Chamorro, joins us from exile in Costa Rica to speak about the state of media freedom in Nicaragua.

Jacqueline Charles has reported on Haiti and the English-speaking Caribbean for the Miami Herald for over a decade. She is a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her coverage of the 2010 Haiti earthquake and winner of the 2018 Maria Moors Cabot Prize.

Award-winning Chilean editor Francisca Skoknic is one of the creators of LaBot, a journalism platform featuring a news chatbot, a newsletter and investigative reporting. She is the former director of the Diego Portales University's journalism school and prior to that was the deputy director of CIPER, a Chilean center for investigative journalism. She explains the fascinating role of the media in Chile's constitutional reform

Biography:

Dr. Hussam Hussein’s research focuses on the role of discourses in shaping water policies in the Middle East, on transboundary water governance, and on issues related to the political economy of water resources in arid and semi-arid regions. Hussam has also worked on issues of sustainable development and environmental governance for the Italian Embassy in Jordan, the European Parliament, the World Bank and UNICEF. He obtained his PhD from the University of East Anglia with a thesis on hydropolitics and discourses of water scarcity in the case of Jordan.

On what would have been Jamal Khashoggi's 63rd birthday, three years after the Saudi journalist was executed in his homeland's Istanbul embassy, we are joined by Oscar-winning documentarian Bryan Fogel who directed The Dissident.

Part of our Global Journalism Seminars series.