Jesús Escudero is ICIJ’s data reporter and researcher.
He started working with ICIJ as a partner on the Pulitzer-winning Panama Papers investigation in 2016. At that time, he worked in the first data unit ever created in a Spanish media organization, at El Confidencial. Escudero joined ICIJ as a full-time data journalist in 2023.
ICIJ member since 2017, he has contributed to projects that won the Global Shining Light Award, the Investigative Reporting and Editors (IRE) Tom Renner and Gannett for Innovation awards, the Online Journalism Award for Excellence in Collaboration and Partnerships, the TRACE Price for Investigative Reporting, the George Polk Award and the Best Journalist Award in Spain.