Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia's Panama Revelations (Malta) Writing on her own blog, Running Commentary, Caruana Galizia reported in February 2016 that minister Konrad Mizzi and the prime minister's chief of staff, Keith Schembri, had set up offshore structures involving New Zealand trusts and Panama companies. She did it weeks before the Panama Papers leak confirmed the companies existed. That timing is the point: a single independent writer, facing a hostile government and a stream of libel suits, beat a global data leak to the story at the centre of Maltese politics. Her later murder in 2017 is well known, but the reporting itself is what earns her place here, and much of it was continued by other journalists after her death.