Collaborative journalism

A single collaborative news story, therefore, may encompass multiple authors, varying articles, and ranged perspectives.

[citation needed] Through most of the twentieth century, especially after the advent of the penny papers, competition between outlets was the norm.

It began sometime in 2015[date missing] when Bastian Obermayer, an investigative reporter with the south German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, was contacted by an anonymous source[7] and offered the trove of 11.5 million electronic documents from Mossack Fonseca, the world's fourth biggest offshore law firm detailing a web of secret offshore deals and loans worth billions of dollars, and details of tax avoidance designs in numerous countries.

The European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) working with "over 60 journalists in 14 countries" published a "series of articles called Football Leaks—the "largest leak in sports history".

"[9] EIC was established in the fall of 2015 with founding members that include Der Spiegel, El Mundo, Médiapart, the Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism (CRJI), and Le Soir.

[5] Commenting on the launch of Times Extra, Marc Frons, CTO for Digital Operations at the New York Times, said:[15] “In the past, I think many news organizations were afraid to link to other Web sites out of fear that they might be sending people to an unreliable source or that their readers would never return.

But those fears were largely misplaced and we’ve seen a much more open policy when it comes to pointing readers at useful content elsewhere on the Web."

Due to the increase in collaborative journalism, several organizations have begun to offer grants or awards for these types of projects.

[17] The annual Hostwriter Prize awards money to support pitches and published collaborative projects by journalists.