Training in South Africa: September 2009

Sessions in the practice of investigative reporting and hands-on training in computer-assisted reporting will be offered at The African Investigative Journalism Conference  which is held with the Witwatersrand University's Power Reporting Conference Oct. 24-26 in Johannesburg.

The Forum for African Investigative Reporters and 'Wits' have now come together in a joint endeavour to establish the AIJC as the African 'leg' of the Global Investigative Journalism Conference, held biannually by the Global Investigative Journalism Network, of which FAIR is a founder member.

The AIJC will feature internationally renowned African investigative journalists such as Sorious Samura, Anas Aremeyaw Anas and Frank Nyakairu. Keynote speakers will include Brant Houston, Knight Chair of investigative journalism at the University of Illinois and former executive director of IRE (Investigative Reporters and Editors) in the US and David Kaplan of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).

The Conference will shine an investigative spotlight on three main themes: sports, business and justice. The business theme will deal with investigating the African consequences of the global economic meltdown and announce the first results of FAIR's Transnational Investigation of this year into the subject. The justice theme will see journalists presenting their investigations into the imprisonment of innocent people in African (and other) jails, whilst the sports theme has invited investigators and denouncers of corruption in the sports industry to present their work.