Reuters Institute: “Over 3.5 million documents, 180,000 images and 2,000 videos. The Jeffrey Epstein files, released by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in several tranches, constituted a disclosure of rare magnitude. This trove of documents opened a window into the ecosystem surrounding a powerful, well-connected convicted child sex offender.  The release offered journalists an opportunity to interrogate a sprawling evidentiary record and trace networks of access and influence stretching across politics, academia, finance and royalty. So far, journalists have broken stories on Epstein’s connections to powerful figures such as Peter Mandelson, Noam Chomsky, Steve Bannon, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, and many others. Yet those revelations account for only a small fraction of what the files contain. As reporting teams continue to excavate the archive, more disclosures are almost certainly to come. But how are journalists identifying patterns of power and proximity in such a huge trove? What, precisely, are they looking for? And how do they search for it?  To answer those questions, I spoke with five editors and newsroom leaders from the BBC, the New York Times, the Guardian, the Miami Herald and Bellingcat, who are coordinating coverage of the Epstein files in their newsrooms across multiple beats…”

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