Netzwerk Recherche Conference - June 13th and June 14 in Hamburg
Meet some of the best journalists in Germany for a two-day conference in Hamburg organised by German organisation Netzwerk Recherche - Network Research www.netzwerkrecherche.de on June 13th and 14th.
This year the conference is co-organised with http://www.reporter-forum.de/, an organisation funded by the foundation of former Spiegel editor, Rudolf Augstein. The idea is to combine share experiences and thoughts about how to do good research and how to present it.
The conference will mainly be held in German language.
Global Investigative Journalism Conference
The fifth Global Investigative Journalism Conference will take place Sept. 11 through Sept. 14 in Lillehammer, Norway and will be packed with 80 inspiring and learning seminars and panels, where the conference will focus on investigative journalism methods and networking between jounalists from around the world. Please see details at http://www.gijc2008.no/
Grants for investigative reporters
Investigative journalists from Russia (and the former U.S.S.R), Eastern Europe, The Balkans, Caucasus, Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America are now welcome to apply for grants that will cover their travel and stay at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference 2008 at Lillehammer, Norway.
The conference especially invites journalists who are willing to show and share their experiences and work, through presentations at the conference. If you are able to demonstrate how you worked with your life's best investigative story, you might pick up free tickets and stay at the conference in the Olympic city of Lillehammer, Norway.
Our goal is to gather some of the world's best examples of investigative journalism in recent years. Between 400 and 500 investigative reporters are expected to participate at the conference. The main focus during seminars will be journalistic work methods, how journalists are using their skills, patience, eagerness to dig up dirt and neat techniques to get in touch with sources, better research material and in the end, good stories that makes a difference.
Global conference set for Toronto
The 4th Global Investigative Journalism Conference will be held in Toronto, May 24 to 27, 2007.Hundreds of investigative reporters from all over the world will gather to discuss the stories behind their stories.
Journalists from Canada and more than 30 countries will gather to work with award winning investigative documentary makers like Lowell Bergman, Neil Docherty, Julian Sher, Martin Smith, and Peter Klein as well as investigative writers such as Carol Off, Stephen Grey, Kim Bolen and Terry Gould, who have investigated topics as diverse as the true human costs of the War on Terror, the current state of the Taliban, child labour in the chocolate industry, the CIA involvement in US renditions, the Air India bombing and why journalists risk their lives to do this kind of work.
Brazilian Journalists Choose Themes for National Congress in May
The Brazilian Association for Investigative Journalism (Abraji) will hold its Second International Congress from May 17-19, 2007, in São Paulo. The event will cover a broad range of topics, including principles of investigative reporting, access to public information, reporter safety, and workshops in Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR).
More information is available at Abraji's web site.
Argentine Journalism Forum (FOPEA) Unveils Code of Ethics at its First National Congress
BUENOS AIRES — More than 300 journalists attended the First National Congress on Journalistic Ethics, conducted by the Argentine Journalism Forum (FOPEA) in Buenos Aires, Nov. 24-25, 2006. At the congress, which was supported by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas and other organizations, FOPEA presented its first Code of Ethics for journalistic practice.
2006 Summer School and Regional Conference for Investigative Journalism
The 2006 Summer School and Regional Conference for Investigative Journalism
successfully concluded on the 23rd July at the Cass Business School in Central London, July 21-23, 2006.
Hosted by the Centre for Investigative Journalism, the conference attracted about 130 participants from 25 countries. Participants listened and engaged with 27 speakers and panelists who discussed major issues of investigative journalism:
Those issues included the security services and how journalists should relate to them; Reporting social hysteria - Investigating Crimes that Don't Exist; Evaluating Experts in Torture cases, in Medicine; Monitoring charities; Historical investigations: Methods &
Problems; Pharmaceutical company frauds; How the Extraordinary Rendition story was broken, Corruption in Civil Engineering; Illegal organ transplants, doing business investigations, archive work and FOIA across Europe.
Instructors from IRE and NICAR in the U.S. and from DICAR in Denmark led many well-attended how-to sessions in computer-assisted reporting.
Charles Lewis, founder of the Center for Public Integrity and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, reminded European journalists of the difficulties of our vocation and the failure of the US press in failing to confront the lies and distortions that lead to the Iraq war; Anna Politkovskaia described the harrowing and dangerous conditions in investigating Russian and Chechnyan atrocities.
Gavin MacFadyen, director of the Centre,
said the center was really pleased that the response to the Conference was overwhelmingly positive.
More than 800 attend IRE Conference
More than 800 journalists from 15 countries attended IRE's 30th Annual Conference with more than 100 panels and workshops to choose from over four days. Among the conference highlights was a keynote address at the IRE Awards Luncheon by Bill Marimow, vice president of news for National Public Radio and a longtime IRE member, and a showcase panel on legal assaults on the investigative press that featured top lawyers and journalists.
Korean journalists win IRE Award
Kim Myung Seop, Han Seung Bok, Lee Seung Ik and Yoon Hee Jin of the Korean Broadcasting System won an IRE Certificate of Excellence for their special report: "17 Years of Ocean Dumping." The KBS went undercover and underwater to prove that ships were routinely dumping highly toxic sewage sludge and industrial waste into the sea around their peninsula nation. The IRE Awards judges say "This remarkable story traced how South Korea is only one of two countries that still allow deep-sea dumping of hazardous chemicals, waste and heavy metals in vital fishing areas. The KBS video of tainted crabs covered in animal hair is stomach-turning." See a clip from the story.
Data on farm subsidy payments available in EU
Farmsubsidy.org is a project coordinated by the Danish International Center for Analytical Reporting (DICAR) and EU Transparency, a nonprofit organiaation in the UK. The Web site contains detailed data about payments and recipients of farm subsidies in every EU member state and makes this data available in a way that is useful to European citizens. Coordinated from Denmark and the UK, the Web site is the product of intensive collaborative working across more than 10 countries.
Global Investigative Journalism Network
The Global Investigative Journalism Network
is a group of independent journalism organizations that support
the training and sharing of information among journalists in
investigative and computer-assisted reporting. Read
more about its mission and formation. See a full
list of members and information about how to join.
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