One of the best things about learning German has been the access to German news media. I find Suedeutsch Zeitung and a few others hold themselves to a higher quality than almost any english newspaper I've read. It's good to see english media take note!
Really glad Sueddeutsche Zeitung is getting international attention. They traditionally were vastly important for the intellectual life in Munich (e.g. many families had a subscription for the printed version and get it delivered to their doors in the morning). They do do excellent jorunalism, including on the local area around Munich. So, even though I have lived abroad, I am still a paying subscriber.<p>Quality journalism is useful and great, as are the investigative projects they have been engaged in. Moral? Do support quality journalism in your area if you can.
So what is the answer to the question how a German Newspaper became the go-to place for leaks like the Paradise Papers? The article doesn't explain anything. It just states what happened as a list of totally unrelated things.
All great, but one thing to question is who influences the "International Consortium of Investigative Journalists".<p>ICIJ was launched as a project of the Center for Public Integrity, which is funded by i.a. The Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation and a host of globalist foundations.<p><a href="https://www.publicintegrity.org/about/our-work/supporters" rel="nofollow">https://www.publicintegrity.org/about/our-work/supporters</a>
I think this is more a decision for a country rather than a newspaper. A raid on a newspaper like in England with the Guardian is pretty much unthinkable here.<p>German newspapers are just as biased as those in other countries. Süddeutsche is no exception.
If they weren't so far lost they would stop to applaud the German peoples' disdain for state surveillance. It makes Germany a safer base of operations than the US or UK.
Did anyone else notice the claim that “The computers had never been connected to the Internet,” followed in the next paragraph by “On another screen, Obermayer opened iHub, the encrypted Facebook-like forum that the ICIJ created to make collaboration easier across borders”? Something doesn’t add up here...