It’s not recently published, but the topic is still very urgent. When I heard about this project, I realised for the first time how powerful data can be. It’s a very sad story, but one that we should keep telling. The Migrant Files collected data from casualties of migrants on their way to Europe. They just collected data from newspaper articles and other open sources, and found out that the number of people who died on the way to Europe was way higher than previously estimated: at least 23.000 people in the period from 2000 - 2014 (they stopped counting due to a lack of funding). Different European media outlets build stories upon these data, mostly in German, Dutch and French. I found one story in English that I’ll share here: https://euobserver.com/investigations/123682. And here’s a link to the project https://www.themigrantsfiles.com/
And yes, I think by providing these data the journalist can hold Europe accountable for not having more effective policies of prevention.