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Thursday, May 16
 

09:30 BST

Check-in and Coffee
Thursday May 16, 2019 09:30 - 10:00 BST
Front hall
  Organisational

10:00 BST

Seminar: Get started with data journalism
Data journalism has been the posterchild of progressive investigations for the past decade in Europe and Dataharvest has been its herald. In 2019, we offer a one-day data journalism masterclass for seasoned reporters and editors, who have yet to integrate data discovery, negotiation, analysis and transparency in their storytelling and reporting toolkit. In a step-by-step workshop, we’ll piece together how data can take your reporting far and above anecdotal evidence; how to source information and data from various jurisdictions; and how to analyse and summarise it for original and versatile reporting.
Speakers
avatar for Crina Boros

Crina Boros

Investigative Reporter | Data Journalism Visiting Lecturer
A data-driven watchdog reporter based in London, I've also been training data journalism across the map. An IRE member and offspring of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ), I've published with Reuters, the BBC, ICIJ, openDemocracy, Greenpeace Unearthed, Euobserver, The Black... Read More →
avatar for Brant Houston

Brant Houston

Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting, University of Illinois
Brant Houston is the Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting at the University of Illinois where he teaches and works on projects and research involving the use of data analysis in journalism. He is co-founder of the Global Investigative Journalism Network and the Institute for Nonprofit... Read More →

Thursday May 16, 2019 10:00 - 12:00 BST
C3.14
  Data journalism, Workshop

10:00 BST

Master class: Tactics of FOI in Europe
Do you want to get access to documents from local, national and European public bodies? Do you know the strength of laws securing access to environmental information? Have you ever thought about tactics when using freedom of information legislation? This whole day master class will introduce you to understand the structure of freedom of information legislation. You will learn from the most experienced when applying the freedom of information legislation on all levels in the EU. Detailed program https://dataharvest.eu/eijc19/program/thursday-may-16/master-class-the-tactics-of-foi/
Moderators
avatar for Staffan Dahllöf

Staffan Dahllöf

Freelance reporter, freelance, Denmarken
Eager to discuss any matter related to EU-reporting, especially FOI/Wobbing-issues. Have taken part in crossborder project Farmsubsidy.org, the Facebook arrests the MEP's Project, Chlorpyrifos (the most dangerous pesticide you've never heared of), Illegal pesticide + ongoing Covid... Read More →

Speakers
EO
avatar for Tarjei Leer-Salvesen

Tarjei Leer-Salvesen

Investigative reporter, Fædrelandsvennen
Tarjei Leer-Salvesen is an investigative journalist working for the regional newspaper Fædrelandsvennen in Norway. He has specialised in research method, sharing his time between newspapers and documentary film projects the past years. His particular interest is archive research... Read More →
avatar for Nataša Pirc Musar

Nataša Pirc Musar

Director and partner, Law Firm Pirc Musar & Lemut Strle
Ex Information Commissioner of the Republic of Slovenia, data protection and FOI expert
avatar for Luisa Izuzquiza

Luisa Izuzquiza

Fraag den Staat
Luisa Izuzquiza is a freedom of information activist based in Brussels, Belgium.Luisa does research, gives advice on, and litigates for access to information with a special focus on EU migration, asylum and border control policies.Luisa currently works at FragdenStaat.de, and prior... Read More →
avatar for Daniel Simons

Daniel Simons

Senior Legal Counsel Strategic Defence, Greenpeace International Legal Unit
I'm a senior legal counsel at Greenpeace International, responsible for risks arising from campaigns (publications, investigations and protests).In practice, much of my work resembles that of a lawyer working with a media outlet. I assist investigations and communications staff by... Read More →

Thursday May 16, 2019 10:00 - 12:00 BST
C3.06
  FOI, Workshop

10:00 BST

HackDay
Coders and journalists get together to find and clean data. Health & Medicines Data Challenge: There is a lot to look into when it comes to medicines and pharmaceutical industry: money to doctors, public spending on medicines, medical journals, ... Experts on the topic Hristio Boytchev and Ángela Bernardo Álvarez will help you find stories in the data for your own country. Interested? Join us on Dataharvest Arena!
Housing Data Challenge: Home, sweet home… Or rather these days: home, sweet expensive and unaffordable home! All over Europe, the contexts and reasons are different but the outcome is the same: access to decent and affordable housing is becoming increasingly difficult except for the wealthiest. We will dive into rental and property prices, big landlords, evictions, Airbnb and tourist apartment, social housing, empty homes, homelessness and other issues regarding housing; and also into data that relates to housing (like income and health indicators).
Do you have already a story idea? Do you know of a particular data source you want to share? Would you like to team up with other people to then work together during HackDay? Please tell us about it on Dataharvest Arena
Speakers
avatar for Adriana Homolová

Adriana Homolová

Proud coordinator of the data skills training 📊, ARENA, Follow The Money, Lost in Europe
Adriana is a freelance data journalist, trainer and public spending nerd. At Dataharvest, she coordinates the data skills training. At other times, she writes scrapers and investigates European Union for Follow The Money's Bureau Brussel and collects data on missing children in migration... Read More →
avatar for Friedrich Lindenberg

Friedrich Lindenberg

Data Librarian, OpenSanctions
Friedrich Lindenberg is a coder and data journalist working on web technology for new narrative and investigative techniques. He's currently building OpenSanctions, a global database of persons of journalistic interest.
avatar for Victor Nițu

Victor Nițu

Software Developer, tenders.exposed
Victor is one of the developers of Elvis, a public tenders visualization platform that aims to visually expose patterns of corruption in the EU and beyond. A while ago he was one of the developers behind OpenTrials, an aggregator of all clinical trials around the world with advanced... Read More →
avatar for Stefan Wehrmeyer

Stefan Wehrmeyer

FragDenStaat.de / OKFN De
Stefan is an investigative technologist and works for the German FOI platform FragDenStaat.de. He also tries to keep the farmsubsidy.org scrapers and website running.

Thursday May 16, 2019 10:00 - 12:00 BST
C3.05
  Investigative, Workshop

10:00 BST

Master class: Follow the money
How do you find fortunes hidden in tax havens? Where do you track assets, that a local business tycoon has in other countries? How can you use public records and online business databases to get closer to the answers? How do you get leads for your stories in company accounts? Miranda Patrucic knows the answers – or some of them. And in this whole-day masterclass, she shares them with you.(Registered participants only)
Speakers
avatar for Miranda Patrucic

Miranda Patrucic

Regional Editor, OCCRP Sarajevo
Miranda Patrucic is an investigative reporter based in Sarajevo. She is regional editor for Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP ), focusing on Central Asia, the Balkans and the Caucasus. Highlights of her work include exposing billions in telecom bribes in Uzbekistan... Read More →

Thursday May 16, 2019 10:00 - 12:00 BST
C3.03
  Investigative, Workshop

12:00 BST

Lunch
Thursday May 16, 2019 12:00 - 13:00 BST
Front hall
  Organisational

13:00 BST

Seminar: Get started with data journalism
Data journalism has been the posterchild of progressive investigations for the past decade in Europe and Dataharvest has been its herald. In 2019, we offer a one-day data journalism masterclass for seasoned reporters and editors, who have yet to integrate data discovery, negotiation, analysis and transparency in their storytelling and reporting toolkit. In a step-by-step workshop, we’ll piece together how data can take your reporting far and above anecdotal evidence; how to source information and data from various jurisdictions; and how to analyse and summarise it for original and versatile reporting.
Speakers
avatar for Crina Boros

Crina Boros

Investigative Reporter | Data Journalism Visiting Lecturer
A data-driven watchdog reporter based in London, I've also been training data journalism across the map. An IRE member and offspring of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ), I've published with Reuters, the BBC, ICIJ, openDemocracy, Greenpeace Unearthed, Euobserver, The Black... Read More →
avatar for Brant Houston

Brant Houston

Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting, University of Illinois
Brant Houston is the Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting at the University of Illinois where he teaches and works on projects and research involving the use of data analysis in journalism. He is co-founder of the Global Investigative Journalism Network and the Institute for Nonprofit... Read More →

Thursday May 16, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
C3.14
  Data journalism, Workshop

13:00 BST

Master class: Tactics of FOI in Europe
Do you want to get access to documents from local, national and European public bodies? Do you know the strength of laws securing access to environmental information? Have you ever thought about tactics when using freedom of information legislation? This whole day master class will introduce you to understand the structure of freedom of information legislation. You will learn from the most experienced when applying the freedom of information legislation on all levels in the EU. Detailed program https://dataharvest.eu/eijc19/program/thursday-may-16/master-class-the-tactics-of-foi/
Moderators
avatar for Staffan Dahllöf

Staffan Dahllöf

Freelance reporter, freelance, Denmarken
Eager to discuss any matter related to EU-reporting, especially FOI/Wobbing-issues. Have taken part in crossborder project Farmsubsidy.org, the Facebook arrests the MEP's Project, Chlorpyrifos (the most dangerous pesticide you've never heared of), Illegal pesticide + ongoing Covid... Read More →

Speakers
EO
avatar for Tarjei Leer-Salvesen

Tarjei Leer-Salvesen

Investigative reporter, Fædrelandsvennen
Tarjei Leer-Salvesen is an investigative journalist working for the regional newspaper Fædrelandsvennen in Norway. He has specialised in research method, sharing his time between newspapers and documentary film projects the past years. His particular interest is archive research... Read More →
avatar for Nataša Pirc Musar

Nataša Pirc Musar

Director and partner, Law Firm Pirc Musar & Lemut Strle
Ex Information Commissioner of the Republic of Slovenia, data protection and FOI expert
avatar for Luisa Izuzquiza

Luisa Izuzquiza

Fraag den Staat
Luisa Izuzquiza is a freedom of information activist based in Brussels, Belgium.Luisa does research, gives advice on, and litigates for access to information with a special focus on EU migration, asylum and border control policies.Luisa currently works at FragdenStaat.de, and prior... Read More →
avatar for Daniel Simons

Daniel Simons

Senior Legal Counsel Strategic Defence, Greenpeace International Legal Unit
I'm a senior legal counsel at Greenpeace International, responsible for risks arising from campaigns (publications, investigations and protests).In practice, much of my work resembles that of a lawyer working with a media outlet. I assist investigations and communications staff by... Read More →

Thursday May 16, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
C3.06
  FOI, Workshop

13:00 BST

HackDay
Health & Medicines Data Challenge: There is a lot to look into when it comes to medicines and pharmaceutical industry: money to doctors, public spending on medicines, medical journals, ... Experts on the topic Hristio Boytchev and Ángela Bernardo Álvarez will help you find stories in the data for your own country. Interested? Join us on Dataharvest Arena!

Housing Data Challenge: Home, sweet home… Or rather these days: home, sweet expensive and unaffordable home! All over Europe, the contexts and reasons are different but the outcome is the same: access to decent and affordable housing is becoming increasingly difficult except for the wealthiest. We will dive into rental and property prices, big landlords, evictions, Airbnb and tourist apartment, social housing, empty homes, homelessness and other issues regarding housing; and also into data that relates to housing (like income and health indicators). Interested? Join us on Dataharvest Arena!
Do you have already a story idea? Do you know of a particular data source you want to share? Would you like to team up with other people to then work together during HackDay? Please tell us about it on Dataharvest Arena, and see you all very soon!
Speakers
avatar for Adriana Homolová

Adriana Homolová

Proud coordinator of the data skills training 📊, ARENA, Follow The Money, Lost in Europe
Adriana is a freelance data journalist, trainer and public spending nerd. At Dataharvest, she coordinates the data skills training. At other times, she writes scrapers and investigates European Union for Follow The Money's Bureau Brussel and collects data on missing children in migration... Read More →
avatar for Friedrich Lindenberg

Friedrich Lindenberg

Data Librarian, OpenSanctions
Friedrich Lindenberg is a coder and data journalist working on web technology for new narrative and investigative techniques. He's currently building OpenSanctions, a global database of persons of journalistic interest.
avatar for Victor Nițu

Victor Nițu

Software Developer, tenders.exposed
Victor is one of the developers of Elvis, a public tenders visualization platform that aims to visually expose patterns of corruption in the EU and beyond. A while ago he was one of the developers behind OpenTrials, an aggregator of all clinical trials around the world with advanced... Read More →
avatar for Stefan Wehrmeyer

Stefan Wehrmeyer

FragDenStaat.de / OKFN De
Stefan is an investigative technologist and works for the German FOI platform FragDenStaat.de. He also tries to keep the farmsubsidy.org scrapers and website running.

Thursday May 16, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
C3.05
  Investigative, Workshop

13:00 BST

Master class: Follow the money
How do you find fortunes hidden in tax havens? Where do you track assets, that a local business tycoon has in other countries? How can you use public records and online business databases to get closer to the answers? How do you get leads for your stories in company accounts? Miranda Patrucic knows the answers – or some of them. And in this whole-day masterclass, she shares them with you.(Registered participants only)
Speakers
avatar for Miranda Patrucic

Miranda Patrucic

Regional Editor, OCCRP Sarajevo
Miranda Patrucic is an investigative reporter based in Sarajevo. She is regional editor for Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP ), focusing on Central Asia, the Balkans and the Caucasus. Highlights of her work include exposing billions in telecom bribes in Uzbekistan... Read More →

Thursday May 16, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
C3.03
  Investigative, Workshop

14:15 BST

Coffee break
Thursday May 16, 2019 14:15 - 14:45 BST
Front hall
  Organisational

14:45 BST

Seminar: Get started with data journalism
Data journalism has been the posterchild of progressive investigations for the past decade in Europe and Dataharvest has been its herald. In 2019, we offer a one-day data journalism masterclass for seasoned reporters and editors, who have yet to integrate data discovery, negotiation, analysis and transparency in their storytelling and reporting toolkit. In a step-by-step workshop, we’ll piece together how data can take your reporting far and above anecdotal evidence; how to source information and data from various jurisdictions; and how to analyse and summarise it for original and versatile reporting.
Speakers
avatar for Crina Boros

Crina Boros

Investigative Reporter | Data Journalism Visiting Lecturer
A data-driven watchdog reporter based in London, I've also been training data journalism across the map. An IRE member and offspring of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ), I've published with Reuters, the BBC, ICIJ, openDemocracy, Greenpeace Unearthed, Euobserver, The Black... Read More →
avatar for Brant Houston

Brant Houston

Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting, University of Illinois
Brant Houston is the Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting at the University of Illinois where he teaches and works on projects and research involving the use of data analysis in journalism. He is co-founder of the Global Investigative Journalism Network and the Institute for Nonprofit... Read More →

Thursday May 16, 2019 14:45 - 16:30 BST
C3.14
  Data journalism

14:45 BST

Masterclass: Tactics of FOI in Europe
Do you want to get access to documents from local, national and European public bodies? Do you know the strength of laws securing access to environmental information? Have you ever thought about tactics when using freedom of information legislation? This whole day master class will introduce you to understand the structure of freedom of information legislation. You will learn from the most experienced when applying the freedom of information legislation on all levels in the EU. Detailed program https://dataharvest.eu/eijc19/program/thursday-may-16/master-class-the-tactics-of-foi/
Moderators
avatar for Staffan Dahllöf

Staffan Dahllöf

Freelance reporter, freelance, Denmarken
Eager to discuss any matter related to EU-reporting, especially FOI/Wobbing-issues. Have taken part in crossborder project Farmsubsidy.org, the Facebook arrests the MEP's Project, Chlorpyrifos (the most dangerous pesticide you've never heared of), Illegal pesticide + ongoing Covid... Read More →

Speakers
EO
avatar for Tarjei Leer-Salvesen

Tarjei Leer-Salvesen

Investigative reporter, Fædrelandsvennen
Tarjei Leer-Salvesen is an investigative journalist working for the regional newspaper Fædrelandsvennen in Norway. He has specialised in research method, sharing his time between newspapers and documentary film projects the past years. His particular interest is archive research... Read More →
avatar for Nataša Pirc Musar

Nataša Pirc Musar

Director and partner, Law Firm Pirc Musar & Lemut Strle
Ex Information Commissioner of the Republic of Slovenia, data protection and FOI expert
avatar for Luisa Izuzquiza

Luisa Izuzquiza

Fraag den Staat
Luisa Izuzquiza is a freedom of information activist based in Brussels, Belgium.Luisa does research, gives advice on, and litigates for access to information with a special focus on EU migration, asylum and border control policies.Luisa currently works at FragdenStaat.de, and prior... Read More →
avatar for Daniel Simons

Daniel Simons

Senior Legal Counsel Strategic Defence, Greenpeace International Legal Unit
I'm a senior legal counsel at Greenpeace International, responsible for risks arising from campaigns (publications, investigations and protests).In practice, much of my work resembles that of a lawyer working with a media outlet. I assist investigations and communications staff by... Read More →

Thursday May 16, 2019 14:45 - 16:30 BST
C3.06
  FOI

14:45 BST

HackDay
Health & Medicines Data Challenge: There is a lot to look into when it comes to medicines and pharmaceutical industry: money to doctors, public spending on medicines, medical journals, ... Experts on the topic Hristio Boytchev and Ángela Bernardo Álvarez will help you find stories in the data for your own country. Interested? Join us on Dataharvest Arena!

Housing Data Challenge: Home, sweet home… Or rather these days: home, sweet expensive and unaffordable home! All over Europe, the contexts and reasons are different but the outcome is the same: access to decent and affordable housing is becoming increasingly difficult except for the wealthiest. We will dive into rental and property prices, big landlords, evictions, Airbnb and tourist apartment, social housing, empty homes, homelessness and other issues regarding housing; and also into data that relates to housing (like income and health indicators). Interested? Join us on Dataharvest Arena!
Do you have already a story idea? Do you know of a particular data source you want to share? Would you like to team up with other people to then work together during HackDay? Please tell us about it on Dataharvest Arena, and see you all very soon!
Speakers
avatar for Adriana Homolová

Adriana Homolová

Proud coordinator of the data skills training 📊, ARENA, Follow The Money, Lost in Europe
Adriana is a freelance data journalist, trainer and public spending nerd. At Dataharvest, she coordinates the data skills training. At other times, she writes scrapers and investigates European Union for Follow The Money's Bureau Brussel and collects data on missing children in migration... Read More →
avatar for Friedrich Lindenberg

Friedrich Lindenberg

Data Librarian, OpenSanctions
Friedrich Lindenberg is a coder and data journalist working on web technology for new narrative and investigative techniques. He's currently building OpenSanctions, a global database of persons of journalistic interest.
avatar for Victor Nițu

Victor Nițu

Software Developer, tenders.exposed
Victor is one of the developers of Elvis, a public tenders visualization platform that aims to visually expose patterns of corruption in the EU and beyond. A while ago he was one of the developers behind OpenTrials, an aggregator of all clinical trials around the world with advanced... Read More →
avatar for Stefan Wehrmeyer

Stefan Wehrmeyer

FragDenStaat.de / OKFN De
Stefan is an investigative technologist and works for the German FOI platform FragDenStaat.de. He also tries to keep the farmsubsidy.org scrapers and website running.

Thursday May 16, 2019 14:45 - 16:30 BST
C3.05
  Investigative

14:45 BST

Masterclass: Follow the money
How do you find fortunes hidden in tax havens? Where do you track assets, that a local business tycoon has in other countries? How can you use public records and online business databases to get closer to the answers? How do you get leads for your stories in company accounts? Miranda Patrucic knows the answers – or some of them. And in this whole-day masterclass, she shares them with you.(Registered participants only)
Speakers
avatar for Miranda Patrucic

Miranda Patrucic

Regional Editor, OCCRP Sarajevo
Miranda Patrucic is an investigative reporter based in Sarajevo. She is regional editor for Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP ), focusing on Central Asia, the Balkans and the Caucasus. Highlights of her work include exposing billions in telecom bribes in Uzbekistan... Read More →

Thursday May 16, 2019 14:45 - 16:30 BST
C3.03
  Investigative
 
Friday, May 17
 

09:00 BST

Check-in and Coffee
Friday May 17, 2019 09:00 - 10:00 BST
Front hall
  Organisational

10:00 BST

Welcome to the EIJC 19
Welcome to the 9th edition of the European Investigative Journalism Conference & Dataharvest
Speakers
avatar for Brigitte Alfter

Brigitte Alfter

director, Arena for Journalism
Brigitte Alfter ist eine deutsch-dänische Journalistin, Geschäftsführerin für Redaktionelles bei Arena for Journalism in Europe und Dozentin Journalismus an der Universität Göteborg. Nach Jahren als Journalistin auf fallen Niveaus vom Lokaljournalismus bis zur EU-Korrespondentin... Read More →
avatar for Trine Smistrup

Trine Smistrup

Program director, ARENA for Journalism in Europe
avatar for Jose Miguel Calatayud

Jose Miguel Calatayud

Freelance journalist, project director at Arena for Journalism in Europe
Jose is a freelance journalist based in Berlin since January 2020, and a project pirector at Arena, where he's been managing the Arena Housing Project, an open collaborative network for housing reporters and researchers. He launched and was the coordinator of Cities for Rent, a cross-border investigation into corporate landlords, which is currently nominated to the European Press Prize, was recognised with an honourable mention at the IJ4EU Impact Award 2022 and was nominated to the Sigma Awards for Data Journalism. Before moving to Berlin, Jose was successively based... Read More →
avatar for Crina Boros

Crina Boros

Investigative Reporter | Data Journalism Visiting Lecturer
A data-driven watchdog reporter based in London, I've also been training data journalism across the map. An IRE member and offspring of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ), I've published with Reuters, the BBC, ICIJ, openDemocracy, Greenpeace Unearthed, Euobserver, The Black... Read More →
avatar for Ruben Brugnera

Ruben Brugnera

Freelance investigative journalist
Freelance investigative reporter, based in Brussels, Belgium. Expertise in lobbying, regulation of technologies, health, environment, EU, injustice, social exclusion. Has participated in several crossborder investigations. Lecturer in journalistic research at Thomas More Hogeschool... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2019 10:00 - 10:15 BST
Aula II
  Networking, Presentation

10:15 BST

Networking welcome
Friday May 17, 2019 10:15 - 11:00 BST
Aula II
  Networking

11:00 BST

Keynote: Billions from Russia whitewashed through Danish bank
Journalist Eva Jung from Danish newspaper Berlingske opens this year’s EIJC & Dataharvest with a keynote on how she and two colleagues at Berlingske uncovered one of history’s biggest money laundering cases that ended costing top management their jobs, had the shares of the bank dwindling 13 billion euros downwards and sending Danish and European authorities on a tightening-up mission. The Danish team cooperated closely with the Organized Crime and Corruption reporting Project (OCCRP) and other media on leaks and big scale data analysis. The €200 bn case of Denmark’s biggest lender Danske Bank showed how cash from Russia and former Soviet states flushed effortlessly through the bank’s Estonian branch with no one acting on the close ties to the dictatorship of Azerbaijan and allegedly the FSB and members of the Putin family. Meanwhile the banks top management ignored warning after warning showcasing the problems. The story is part of a larger picture of big Nordic banks involved in suspected large scale money laundering activities, such as the recent Nordea and Swedbank revelations. Eva will share her experiences – from the inception of the story and the research and all the way to the extensive follow up that ensued. The project is nominated for the European Press Prize.
Moderators
avatar for Brigitte Alfter

Brigitte Alfter

director, Arena for Journalism
Brigitte Alfter ist eine deutsch-dänische Journalistin, Geschäftsführerin für Redaktionelles bei Arena for Journalism in Europe und Dozentin Journalismus an der Universität Göteborg. Nach Jahren als Journalistin auf fallen Niveaus vom Lokaljournalismus bis zur EU-Korrespondentin... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Eva Jung

Eva Jung

Journalist and EU correspondent, Berlingske
Eva Jung has worked as an investigative journalist since 2011 with daily Berlingske, Denmark. Since 2017 also based in Brussels as EU correspondent.Through 2017 and 2018 investigated the 200 bn euro money laundering scandal at Danske Bank. Jung and colleagues were awarded best investigation... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2019 11:00 - 12:00 BST
Aula II
  Cross-border, Presentation

11:00 BST

Exploring Networks with Graph Databases 1
Graph databases are incredibly useful to find connections or patterns within our data. This session will provide a hands-on introduction to the most popular graph database, Neo4j, showing examples of its use for investigative stories including the Panama and Paradise Papers. You will learn how to build a graph database of noteworthy individuals and match them with corporate data to see, at a glance, the relationships involved.
Speakers
avatar for Leila Haddou

Leila Haddou

Data Journalism Editor, The Times and the Sunday Times
Leila Haddou is the data journalism editor for The Times and the Sunday Times in London. She has previously worked on investigations for the Financial Times and The Guardian. She has an avid interest in how technology can be used by journalists to assist with data-led reporting.@... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2019 11:00 - 12:00 BST
C3.15
  Training/Car, Workshop

11:00 BST

How to approach data for stories - panel
The first in an essential data journalism skills strand, this panel will focus on how to think about stories with a data element and about finding stories in data. If you’re new to the world of data journalism, or have to work with data journalists and wish to understand data’s added value and inform your expectations, this session is for you.
Moderators
avatar for Crina Boros

Crina Boros

Investigative Reporter | Data Journalism Visiting Lecturer
A data-driven watchdog reporter based in London, I've also been training data journalism across the map. An IRE member and offspring of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ), I've published with Reuters, the BBC, ICIJ, openDemocracy, Greenpeace Unearthed, Euobserver, The Black... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Nils Mulvad

Nils Mulvad

Investigative Reporting Denmark
Nils Mulvad is a co-founder of the Global Network for  Investigative Journalism and other international networks such as  Farmsubsidy.org. He was CEO for the Danish International Center for  Analytical Reporting 2001-2006, European journalist of the year in 2006,  and he also... Read More →
avatar for Carmen Aguilar García

Carmen Aguilar García

Senior Data Journalist, Sky News
Data journalist at Sky News. Scraping, cleaning, data analysis, visual storytelling but above all JOURNALISM!
avatar for Brant Houston

Brant Houston

Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting, University of Illinois
Brant Houston is the Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting at the University of Illinois where he teaches and works on projects and research involving the use of data analysis in journalism. He is co-founder of the Global Investigative Journalism Network and the Institute for Nonprofit... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2019 11:00 - 12:00 BST
C3.11
  Training/CAR, Workshop

11:00 BST

Python 1
Speakers
avatar for Winny de Jong

Winny de Jong

Datajournalist, NOS
Winny de Jong works as a data journalist at the Dutch national broadcast, NOS. Her weekly data journalism newsletter has been called "the data highlight of the week" and "exceptionally helpful". You can subscribe through http://bit.ly/ddjnews. She speaks about creativity and how to... Read More →
avatar for Karrie Kehoe

Karrie Kehoe

Data Journalist, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Karrie Kehoe wrangles data at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) . She has worked at the Irish broadcaster RTE, The Times, The Sunday Times, and the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Karrie has used data analysis to investigate compensation payments in Afg... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2019 11:00 - 12:00 BST
C3.04
  Training/Car, Workshop

12:00 BST

Lunch
Friday May 17, 2019 12:00 - 13:00 BST
Front hall
  Organisational

13:00 BST

Crossborder Collaborative Journalism - step-by-step
Crossborder collaborative journalism has proven to be a powerful method: Panama Papers, Football Leaks or Implant Files have set the political agenda and lead to significant societal change. Brigitte Alfter has documented the work process and will describe a step-by-step approach on how to get started with crossborder collaborations and what to consider while working with it.
Speakers
avatar for Brigitte Alfter

Brigitte Alfter

director, Arena for Journalism
Brigitte Alfter ist eine deutsch-dänische Journalistin, Geschäftsführerin für Redaktionelles bei Arena for Journalism in Europe und Dozentin Journalismus an der Universität Göteborg. Nach Jahren als Journalistin auf fallen Niveaus vom Lokaljournalismus bis zur EU-Korrespondentin... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
C3.05
  Cross-border, Presentation

13:00 BST

The Implant Files - how we did it
Health authorities across the globe have failed to protect millions of patients from poorly tested implants, the first-ever global examination of the medical device industry reveals. 6 months after the publication of the Implant Files, ICIJ and its partners discuss the unfolding of this story, its impacts and how it helped to bring more accountability to this industry.
Speakers
avatar for Simon Bowers

Simon Bowers

ICIJ
I have worked as European Coordinator and Senior Reporter for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists for the past four years. Before that I worked as a financial and investigative reporter for The Guardian in the UK. In November 2020, I am excited to be starting... Read More →
avatar for Stéphane Horel

Stéphane Horel

Journalist, Le Monde
Stéphane Horel works as an investigative journalist for Le Monde. She specializes in corporate lobbying and harm, conflict of interest and scientific disinformation. Her in-depth work on the EU regulation of endocrine disrupting chemicals was short-listed for the Albert Londres... Read More →
avatar for Delphine Reuter

Delphine Reuter

Data journalist and researcher, ICIJ
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Kristof Clerix

Journalist, Knack
Kristof Clerix (°1978) works as a reporter for the Belgian weekly news magazine Knack . He is specialized in security reporting and long term investigative projects.As member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), he collaborated on LuxLeaks, SwissLeaks, Evicted&Abandoned, the Panama Papers, Bahamas Leaks, the Paradise Papers, the Implant Files... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
Aula II
  Cross-Border, Presentation

13:00 BST

Membership funding and the interaction with readers
When your readers are your peers, when the readers are your owners, when the readers are your community: How cooperative ownership models can be used for journalism close to the citizens: Four examples on local, national and European level: Bristol Cable (UK), De Correspondent (NL), Republik (CH), Investigate Europe (EU)
Speakers
avatar for Lucas Batt

Lucas Batt

Membership Lead, The Bristol Cable
Membership Lead at the Bristol Cable, a local newspaper owned and supported by 2,700 people in Bristol, UK.
DT
avatar for Oliver Moldenhauer

Oliver Moldenhauer

I am a political activist and campaigner. A trained Physicist, I also am a  political activist who likes to build up things. I founded and led for 4 years the EU-wide online campaigning organisation WeMove.EU (2014-2018) and co-founded Attac in Germany (member of the national coordination... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
C3.18
  Entrepreneurial, Panel discussion

13:00 BST

What you and I keep doing wrong when searching the web
Learning from your own mistakes is a good idea and vital if you want to improve. The workshop will give an overview on common mistakes when searching information online. Marcus Lindemann will draw from his own experience and from typical mistakes of colleagues during his trainings. Once you have found what you searched for, it is important not only to analyse your method (usually you are not simply "lucky" to find something) but also to check - given the results - what other methods would have been helpful. The session will cover common (mis)use of Google search but also show searches that were solved with a lot of effort that could have been avoided.
Speakers
avatar for Marcus Lindemann

Marcus Lindemann

managing editor, autoren(werk) GmbH & Co.KG
Marcus Lindemann ist geschäftsführender Autor von autoren(werk) und produziert seit dem Jahr 2000 mit seiner eigenen Firma Magazinstücke und Dokumentationen für ARD und ZDF, hauptsächlich zu Verbraucherthemen, gerne mit versteckter Kamera. Nach der Reihe "WISO ermittelt" ist... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
C3.37
  Investigative, presentation

13:00 BST

Making bottom-up work: From local reporting to EU decision-makers
Local journalism reports on the realities on the ground - while often those having the decision-making power are far 'above' at the national and increasingly at the European level. How to report on local issues so that decision-makers at the national and European centres of power are alerted? How can a local media outlet reach out to a media editor addressing EU or other international officials? What's the experience of local journalists bringing such topics forward? We'll discuss how to improve methods, ideas and networks to give local reporting greater visibility and impact - including at the European level.
Moderators
avatar for Sigrid Melchior

Sigrid Melchior

freelance journalist
Swedish journalist based in Brussels since forever it feels like. Reports on EU and European affairs, teaches EU journalism, does investigations with the European network http://investigate-europe.eu and has a gossipy bi-weekly podcast: https://brysselbubblan.libsyn.com... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Cat McShane

Cat McShane

Documentary Filmmaker and Journalist
Documentary filmmaker and journalist, making work for British broadcasters including the BBC and Channel 4. Enjoy creating alliances with e.g activists, social scientists, trade unions when developing stories, which ideally have a campaign or social impact element. Recently directed... Read More →
avatar for Ruth Owen

Ruth Owen

Policy Coordinator, FEANTSA
Ruth Owen is Policy Coordinator at FEANTSA (European Federation of National Associations Working with the Homeless), where she has worked on housing and homelessness policy for ten years.
avatar for Lisbeth Kirk

Lisbeth Kirk

Founder and editor-in-chief, EUobserver
Lisbeth Kirk is the founder and editor-in-chief of EUobserver, an independent online newspaper covering EU affairs. She commutes between Brussels and Copenhagen, where she is a frequent guest commentator on Danish radio. Lisbeth holds a degree in journalism from the Danish School of Media and Journalism... Read More →
avatar for Besar Likmeta

Besar Likmeta

BIRN Albania Editor, BIRN Albania
Besar has extensive experience in journalism, having worked in print, television and electronic media in both the US and Albania since 2003.Besar has been the editor for BIRN Albania since 2007, and serves as the country correspondent for Balkan Insight.Besar started his career reporting... Read More →
avatar for Michalis Goudis

Michalis Goudis

Communications Director, Housing Europe
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece.Journalism and Mass Communication studies at Aristotle University. Radio & Data Journalism training at LfM in Düsseldorf and at DJS in Munich. Currently concluding his Master's on Human Geography & Spatial Planning.Reporting, posting and broadcasting... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
C3.06
  Local & Housing, Panel

13:00 BST

Your neighbour’s grandma or an offshore landlord? Who owns our homes?
More and more people are realising, sometimes with a shock, that their landlords are big investment funds and wealthy individuals, which are increasingly investing in -and sometimes speculating with - housing and also commercial property. In this session, we'll hear about the German non-profit newsroom CORRECTIV's ongoing investigative project “Who owns Hamburg / Berlin / Düsseldorf?”, in which they collaborated with OpenCorporates. To their surprise, they found out many landlords were business people and companies registered in offshore tax havens. The project has now extended to Berlin and Düsseldorf.
Moderators
avatar for Jose Miguel Calatayud

Jose Miguel Calatayud

Freelance journalist, project director at Arena for Journalism in Europe
Jose is a freelance journalist based in Berlin since January 2020, and a project pirector at Arena, where he's been managing the Arena Housing Project, an open collaborative network for housing reporters and researchers. He launched and was the coordinator of Cities for Rent, a cross-border investigation into corporate landlords, which is currently nominated to the European Press Prize, was recognised with an honourable mention at the IJ4EU Impact Award 2022 and was nominated to the Sigma Awards for Data Journalism. Before moving to Berlin, Jose was successively based... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Simon Wörpel

Simon Wörpel

data journalist, Correctiv
Simon works as data journalist and newsroom developer at CORRECTIV, an investigative not for profit newsroom. he is specialized in data wrangling and documents processing and works on tools that empower computer assisted investigative reporting like the https://cumex-files.com & https://grand-theft-europe.com... Read More →
avatar for Mollie Hanley

Mollie Hanley

Community Organizer, Open Corporates
Mollie Hanley is community organiser at OpenCorporates, the worlds largest open database of companies in the world. With a background in community organising, her role is to support the journalists and investigators who use their data, to ensure they are able to make as much of a... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
Aula I
  Local & Housing, Presentation

13:00 BST

Digital security in cross-border investigation
Collaboration between journalists implies sharing sensitive data, documents and insights. But which tools and process can be implemented to keep this collaboration simple and efficient without making any compromise on digital security? From the Panama Papers & Implant Files to the Cum-Ex Files, the tech teams from ICIJ, OCCRP and CORRECTIV are sharing their experience and learnings.
Speakers
avatar for Anne-Lise Bouyer

Anne-Lise Bouyer

Tech & data team lead, CORRECTIV
Anne-Lise heads the technical & data team at the nonprofit investigative newsroom CORRECTIV . Prior to that, she co-founded Journalism++, an agency for data-driven storytelling where she where she worked for 4 years as a project manager and coordinated the Migrants' Files project... Read More →
avatar for Pierre Romera

Pierre Romera

Chief Technology Officer, ICIJ
Pierre Romera has been Chief Technology Officer at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) since 2017. He manages a team working on the platforms that enabled more than hundreds journalists to collaborate on the Pandora Papers, the Uber Files, the FinCEN Files... Read More →
avatar for Friedrich Lindenberg

Friedrich Lindenberg

Data Librarian, OpenSanctions
Friedrich Lindenberg is a coder and data journalist working on web technology for new narrative and investigative techniques. He's currently building OpenSanctions, a global database of persons of journalistic interest.

Friday May 17, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
C3.19
  Security, Panel

13:00 BST

Exploring Networks with Graph Databases 2
You will learn how to analyse your newly built graph database using Cypher, Neo4j's query language. It is advisable to have completed part one (or to have some familiarity with Neo4j) to get the most out of this session.
Speakers
avatar for Max Harlow

Max Harlow

Financial Times
Max Harlow works on the visual and data journalism team at the Financial Times in London, where he focuses on using data to find and tell investigative stories. @maxharlow

Friday May 17, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
C3.15
  Training/Car, Workshop

13:00 BST

Python 2
Speakers
avatar for Winny de Jong

Winny de Jong

Datajournalist, NOS
Winny de Jong works as a data journalist at the Dutch national broadcast, NOS. Her weekly data journalism newsletter has been called "the data highlight of the week" and "exceptionally helpful". You can subscribe through http://bit.ly/ddjnews. She speaks about creativity and how to... Read More →
avatar for Karrie Kehoe

Karrie Kehoe

Data Journalist, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Karrie Kehoe wrangles data at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) . She has worked at the Irish broadcaster RTE, The Times, The Sunday Times, and the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Karrie has used data analysis to investigate compensation payments in Afg... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
C3.04
  Training/Car, Workshop

13:00 BST

Spreadsheet analysis - Excel 1
This is an introductory session to spreadsheet skills. You will tackle essential calculations in Excel for everyday use, like sum, median and average. You’ll also play with percentages and get insight into a dataset by sorting it. This will prepare you for the following two sessions on Excel.
Speakers
avatar for Anuška Delić

Anuška Delić

founder & editor-in-chief, Oštro
An investigative and data journalist from Slovenia with more work titles than she wants to count. In 2018 she left the country's main daily newspaper to establish Oštro, Center for investigative journalism in the Adriatic region. In 2021, just in time for the publication of Pandora... Read More →
avatar for John Bones

John Bones

Managing Director, SKUP
John Bones is Managing Director at SKUP, the Norwegian Foundation for Investigative Reporting. For many years, Bones was the datajournalism specialist at VG, the most read daily newspaper in Norway, and previously was editor and politics editor. Started his career at Adresseavisen... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
C3.11
  Training/CAR, Workshop

13:00 BST

#Europe1DegreeWarmer: making global warming data local
Launched in September 2018, the first collaborative investigation by the European Data Journalism Network (EDJNet) analysed over 100 million meteorological data points from 117 years of weatherdata for 558 entities in Europe. Several challenges were faced: how to make a global issue local? How to find common entities to assign data to across borders? How to produce content on this scale? Nicolas Kayser Bril and Leonard Wallentin, data analysts and curators of the investigation, will tell how they made it and will show how to use the database created. The impact of making data local was indeed relevant: over 100 outlets across Europe have republished or have adapted the story in 11 languages to date.
Speakers
avatar for Nicolas Kayser-Bril

Nicolas Kayser-Bril

Data-driven journalist, trainer & author.Interested in pandas, D3, scraping, climate and the history of cooking.
avatar for Leonard Wallentin

Leonard Wallentin

Data journalist / CEO, J++

Friday May 17, 2019 13:00 - 14:45 BST
C3.03
  Data Buffet, Workshop

14:15 BST

Coffee break
Friday May 17, 2019 14:15 - 14:45 BST
Front hall
  Organisational

14:45 BST

Networking the networks
Getting started with networking - which networks work for you? Several groups assist journalists with networking: Meet some of the people behind these tools and infrastructures here and find out about the characteristics of each of them. All provide useful features with focus on investigative, data, crossborder collaborative journalism.
Moderators
avatar for Anne Koch

Anne Koch

Program director, GIJN
Anne Koch is the Program Director at the Global Investigative Journalism Network, an international association of journalism organizations that support the training and sharing of information among investigative and data journalists. Previously Anne worked as a broadcast journalist... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Brant Houston

Brant Houston

Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting, University of Illinois
Brant Houston is the Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting at the University of Illinois where he teaches and works on projects and research involving the use of data analysis in journalism. He is co-founder of the Global Investigative Journalism Network and the Institute for Nonprofit... Read More →
avatar for Letizia Gambini

Letizia Gambini

Project Manager, European Journalism Centre
At the European Journalism Centre, I take care of the data journalism programmes. We curate online courses, resources and a interactive community for data journalism enthusiasts on DataJournalism.com.
avatar for Tabea Grzeszyk

Tabea Grzeszyk

Journalist and Founder, Hostwriter
Tabea Grzeszyk is a freelance journalist (German National Radio) and co-founder & CEO of Hostwriter.org, an open-source network that helps journalists to easily collaborate across borders. The platform connects more than 5,400 colleagues from 150+ countries for mutual support and... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2019 14:45 - 16:00 BST
C3.18
  Cross-border, Presentation

14:45 BST

Unveiling fraud in care for the elderly
“You might never see your child again… if you call the labour inspection”. What goes on behind the neat façade of a Belgian-Bulgarian elderly care business? A group of young Belgian and Dutch reporters started digging into Seniorcare24, a firm that flies in cash-strapped Bulgarian women to take care of Belgian elderly around the clock. They joined up with senior Bulgarian journalist Stanimir Vaglenov - an expert on crime and corruption – and soon find themselves uncovering a fraudulent scheme of labour exploitation. Their work showed how vulnerable Bulgarian women pay the price for a failing labour law enforcement across Europe.
Speakers
avatar for Ruben Brugnera

Ruben Brugnera

Freelance investigative journalist
Freelance investigative reporter, based in Brussels, Belgium. Expertise in lobbying, regulation of technologies, health, environment, EU, injustice, social exclusion. Has participated in several crossborder investigations. Lecturer in journalistic research at Thomas More Hogeschool... Read More →
avatar for Stanimir Vaglenov

Stanimir Vaglenov

Online Projects Manager, Media Group Bulgaria
Everithing connected with online and data journalism.
avatar for Michaël Merrigan

Michaël Merrigan

Michael is a human rights specialist currently working at the Belgian Federal Institute for the protection and promotion of Human Rights in Brussels (FIRM-IFDH). There, he focuses on SLAPP, protection of civic space, whistleblower legislation and issues relating to business & human... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2019 14:45 - 16:00 BST
C3.06
  Cross-border, Presentation

14:45 BST

Discover Datashare
EXTRA SESSION BECAUSE OF POPULARITY! - Discover and use Datashare: a free open-source software which helps you explore your documents. Datashare allows to search many types of documents (PDFs, spreadsheets, emails, etc.). It also automatically highlights names of people, organizations and locations - in a secure way. Beginners welcome! Bring your laptop! Register here! - max 12 participants!
Speakers
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avatar for Soline Ledésert

Soline Ledésert

Datashare product owner, ICIJ
As the product owner of Datashare at ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists), I design and lead the development of Datashare, a free open-source desktop application which helps you safely and efficiently analyze documents. I am also a video journalist for French-German... Read More →
BT

Friday May 17, 2019 14:45 - 16:00 BST
C3.14
  Data journalism, Workshop

14:45 BST

How to set up a data unit in the newsroom
How do you organise a data unit in the newsroom? Which competencies and tools do you need? How do you make sure that you have resources for both lang term and short term projects?
Moderators
avatar for Ana Lutzky

Ana Lutzky

Journalist, AEF Info
A former specialised journalist on corporate responsibility and environment during 6 years at AEF Info news agency in Paris, I decided to take one year to learn the basics on how to code (mainly PHP and Javascript) in July 2017, before shifting to a full-time data journalist job in... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Marie-José Kolly

Marie-José Kolly

Datajournalist, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Geboren 1984 in Fribourg und zweisprachig aufgewachsen. Studium der Germanistik und Mathematik. Zwischen 2011 und 2014 Doktorandin und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Phonetischen Labor der Universität Zürich, danach Stipendiatin in Paris. Abschluss einer Dissertation über akzent... Read More →
avatar for Anne-Lise Bouyer

Anne-Lise Bouyer

Tech & data team lead, CORRECTIV
Anne-Lise heads the technical & data team at the nonprofit investigative newsroom CORRECTIV . Prior to that, she co-founded Journalism++, an agency for data-driven storytelling where she where she worked for 4 years as a project manager and coordinated the Migrants' Files project... Read More →
avatar for Steffen Kühne

Steffen Kühne

Tech Lead, Bayerischer Rundfunk
Tech Lead AI + Automation Lab and BR Recherche / BR Data at Bayerischer Rundfunk. Data journalist and interactive developer, specialized in data analysis, visualization and storytelling.

Friday May 17, 2019 14:45 - 16:00 BST
C3.05
  Data journalism, panel

14:45 BST

Ghost offices, expense secrecy and the right to know
In September last year a large group of journalists lost a case in the European Court of Justice. They had asked for access to documented expenses by members of the European Parliament (MEPs), who each receive 4000+ Euros per month to keep an office in their home country. The journalists had documented that many of these offices do not exist. The Court ruled, that the MEPs’ right to privacy trumped the right to access to documents, although the costs are carried by the European taxpayers. So what now?
As the EU-court has ruled that privacy overrules transparency in the EU-institutions, how do we move forward? Accept and adapt? Challenge the ruling? Turn reporting into activism? Find new strategies to make legislators accountable? Join the discussion an let’s shape the strategies for tomorrow today.
Moderators
avatar for Margo Smit

Margo Smit

ombudsman, GIJN/ICIJ
Margo Smit is news ombudsman since August 1, 2015, overseeing the journalistic output of the Dutch public broadcasters at NPO since january 1, 2017.Smit has been working in journalism since 1989. She was successively a desk editor at commercial and public broadcasters, parliamentary... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Staffan Dahllöf

Staffan Dahllöf

Freelance reporter, freelance, Denmarken
Eager to discuss any matter related to EU-reporting, especially FOI/Wobbing-issues. Have taken part in crossborder project Farmsubsidy.org, the Facebook arrests the MEP's Project, Chlorpyrifos (the most dangerous pesticide you've never heared of), Illegal pesticide + ongoing Covid... Read More →
avatar for Delphine Reuter

Delphine Reuter

Data journalist and researcher, ICIJ
avatar for Kristof Clerix

Kristof Clerix

Journalist, Knack
Kristof Clerix (°1978) works as a reporter for the Belgian weekly news magazine Knack . He is specialized in security reporting and long term investigative projects.As member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), he collaborated on LuxLeaks, SwissLeaks, Evicted&Abandoned, the Panama Papers, Bahamas Leaks, the Paradise Papers, the Implant Files... Read More →
avatar for Nils Mulvad

Nils Mulvad

Investigative Reporting Denmark
Nils Mulvad is a co-founder of the Global Network for  Investigative Journalism and other international networks such as  Farmsubsidy.org. He was CEO for the Danish International Center for  Analytical Reporting 2001-2006, European journalist of the year in 2006,  and he also... Read More →
avatar for Nataša Pirc Musar

Nataša Pirc Musar

Director and partner, Law Firm Pirc Musar & Lemut Strle
Ex Information Commissioner of the Republic of Slovenia, data protection and FOI expert
avatar for Hans-Martin Tillack

Hans-Martin Tillack

Investigative reporter, Welt
Hans-Martin Tillack works as an investigative reporter for the newspapers "Welt", "Welt am Sonntag" and the TV magazine "Report München" (public broadcaster ARD). Until 2021 he was an investigative reporter for the weekly magazine "Stern". From 1999 to 2004 he was the EU correspondent... Read More →
avatar for Anuška Delić

Anuška Delić

founder & editor-in-chief, Oštro
An investigative and data journalist from Slovenia with more work titles than she wants to count. In 2018 she left the country's main daily newspaper to establish Oštro, Center for investigative journalism in the Adriatic region. In 2021, just in time for the publication of Pandora... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2019 14:45 - 16:00 BST
Aula I
  FOI, Panel discussion

14:45 BST

Every breath you take: reporting on air quality and pollution
While air pollution in European cities and towns continues to exceed EU and WHO limits and guidelines and keeps posing a danger to human health and the environment (according to the European Environment Agency), the issue doesn't feature too prominently in most mainstream media. Reporting on air quality may be challenging a challenge for some media given the complexities of the issue and the lack of hyperlocal data. But local journalism and crowdsourcing of local data are well suited to reporting on air quality and pollution. In this session we'll hear about a project carried out by Flemish newspaper De Standaard, in which the journalists teamed up with Antwerp University, the Flemish government and research organisation VITO to crowdsource data from 20,000 citizens and then presented it a visual and very informative way.
Moderators
avatar for Lisbeth Kirk

Lisbeth Kirk

Founder and editor-in-chief, EUobserver
Lisbeth Kirk is the founder and editor-in-chief of EUobserver, an independent online newspaper covering EU affairs. She commutes between Brussels and Copenhagen, where she is a frequent guest commentator on Danish radio. Lisbeth holds a degree in journalism from the Danish School of Media and Journalism... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Ine Renson

Friday May 17, 2019 14:45 - 16:00 BST
C3.03
  Investigative, Presentation

14:45 BST

How to track persons online
You need to find a person - and the right one, even if he or she has with a common name. You can google, but what about the umpteen other tools to find and verify the identity of someone. Get the tips from BBC research guru Paul Myers.
Speakers
avatar for Paul Myers

Paul Myers

Research Specialist, BBC
Paul has a career in computing and internet research and development that dates back to 1978. He joined the BBC in 1995 as an information researcher. As the internet grew in significance, Paul was able to blend his technical knowledge with the realities of his work in journalism... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2019 14:45 - 16:00 BST
Aula II
  Investigative, Presentation

14:45 BST

Strength in numbers: setting up an investigative network of local journalists
How do you establish a large network of local investigative reporters, working together across media and across a country in the public interest and using common datasets? The London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism set out to do so in 2017, when it established the Bureau Local, which today has around 1,000 members spread all over the UK and has published more than 350 stories. Last year, with the help of the Bureau Local, the German non-profit newsroom CORRECTIV followed suit and set up its own network for collaborative local journalism: Correctiv.Lokal. How did they do it? In this session, Megan Lucero, director of the Bureau Local, will share their blueprint to help other newsrooms and organisations set up their own investigative networks. And Justus von Daniels, head of Correctiv.Lokal, will share their own experience. Come and be inspired!
Moderators
avatar for Jose Miguel Calatayud

Jose Miguel Calatayud

Freelance journalist, project director at Arena for Journalism in Europe
Jose is a freelance journalist based in Berlin since January 2020, and a project pirector at Arena, where he's been managing the Arena Housing Project, an open collaborative network for housing reporters and researchers. He launched and was the coordinator of Cities for Rent, a cross-border investigation into corporate landlords, which is currently nominated to the European Press Prize, was recognised with an honourable mention at the IJ4EU Impact Award 2022 and was nominated to the Sigma Awards for Data Journalism. Before moving to Berlin, Jose was successively based... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Megan Lucero

Megan Lucero

Director of The Bureau Local, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Hi there - I head up the Bureau Local, a people-powered network setting the news agenda and sparking change from the ground up, in the UK. We're reimagining investigative journalism by making it open, accessible and collaborative from start to finish. I also deeply care about the... Read More →
avatar for Justus von Daniels

Justus von Daniels

Chefredakteur, Correctiv
Justus von Daniels ist Chefredakteur von CORRECTIV. Von 2015-2018 arbeitete er als Investigativreporter bei Correctiv, Schwerpunkte dort waren Lobbyismus und Geldwäsche sowie das Projekt „Wem gehört die Stadt“, eine Bürgerrecherche zum Immobilienmarkt. 2018 baute er als Leiter... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2019 14:45 - 16:00 BST
C3.37
  Local & Housing, presentation

14:45 BST

Digital security: Safe password management
In this hands-on workshop, you will learn a fundamental security practice: using a software program to manage your passwords. Password managers are indispensable for using long, unique passwords, which is best practice in general and for journalists in particular. We will focus on the open-source, cross-platform tool KeePassXC but the learnings will apply across other similar tools. We will also introduce and discuss the merits of different types of multi-factor authentication.
Speakers
avatar for Aslak Ransby

Aslak Ransby

Programmer and security trainer.
I'm @aslakransby on twitter.
HC

Henrik Chulu

Independent researcher, writer, speaker, and trainer on digital literacy and safety. I focus on infrastructural literacy as a core skill set and will help you make sense of your digital environment in order for you to make better decisions about the safety and effectiveness of you... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2019 14:45 - 16:00 BST
C3.19
  Security, Workshop

14:45 BST

Mapping with QGis 1
Learn how to uncover interesting patterns in your data with mapping software. This session will introduce QGIS, the free mapping app used in newsrooms throughout the world. Level: Beginners
Speakers
avatar for Robert Gebeloff

Robert Gebeloff

Robert Gebeloff is a New Yorks Times reporter specializing in data analysis. He works on in-depth stories where numbers help augment traditional reporting.

Friday May 17, 2019 14:45 - 16:00 BST
C3.15
  Training/CAR, Workshop

14:45 BST

Python 3
Speakers
avatar for Friedrich Lindenberg

Friedrich Lindenberg

Data Librarian, OpenSanctions
Friedrich Lindenberg is a coder and data journalist working on web technology for new narrative and investigative techniques. He's currently building OpenSanctions, a global database of persons of journalistic interest.

Friday May 17, 2019 14:45 - 16:00 BST
C3.04
  Training/CAR, Workshop

14:45 BST

Spreadsheets analysis - Excel 2
If you are thinking about taking up spreadsheet skills, this is for you. An essential toolkit for data journalism, these three Excel classes will introduce you to how functions, formulas and pivot tables can aid your reporting.
Speakers
avatar for Crina Boros

Crina Boros

Investigative Reporter | Data Journalism Visiting Lecturer
A data-driven watchdog reporter based in London, I've also been training data journalism across the map. An IRE member and offspring of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ), I've published with Reuters, the BBC, ICIJ, openDemocracy, Greenpeace Unearthed, Euobserver, The Black... Read More →
avatar for John Bones

John Bones

Managing Director, SKUP
John Bones is Managing Director at SKUP, the Norwegian Foundation for Investigative Reporting. For many years, Bones was the datajournalism specialist at VG, the most read daily newspaper in Norway, and previously was editor and politics editor. Started his career at Adresseavisen... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2019 14:45 - 16:00 BST
C3.11
  Training/CAR, Workshop

16:00 BST

Coffee break
Friday May 17, 2019 16:00 - 16:30 BST
Front hall
  Organisational

16:30 BST

Cross border collaborations to cover Europe's far right
Journalists all over Europe follow the funding and networks of the new far right political groups in Europe. They point out political tactics, they unveil money flows, and they document networks between political groups across borders – expected connections as well as surprising ones. Meet several of the journalists behind this reporting and hear about how three different crossborder collaborations including both a publicistic and an investigative focus.
Moderators
avatar for Margo Smit

Margo Smit

ombudsman, GIJN/ICIJ
Margo Smit is news ombudsman since August 1, 2015, overseeing the journalistic output of the Dutch public broadcasters at NPO since january 1, 2017.Smit has been working in journalism since 1989. She was successively a desk editor at commercial and public broadcasters, parliamentary... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Malene Gürgen

Malene Gürgen

Journalist/Editor, taz
Malene Gürgen, geboren 1990 in Berlin, ist seit 2014 Redakteurin der taz und koordiniert dort Rechercheprojekte zur AfD (taz.de/netzwerkafd) und zu rechten Netzwerken in Europa (taz.de/efr).
avatar for Nico Schmidt

Nico Schmidt

Reporter, Investigate Europe
Since 2019 working from Berlin as a reporter in the cross-border journalist team "Investigate Europ"e. Most recently, research on disinformation campaigns prior to the European Parliamentary elections, China's influence in Europe and the EU's Climate Hipocrisy. Before that he worked... Read More →
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Stefano Vergine

Journalist, Freelance
As an Italian journalist focused on economics and foreign affairs, I've recently published - along with Giovanni Tizian - "The Black Book of the League", a 2 years investigation over the current Italian ruling party and its leader Matteo Salvini. The book investigates a multimillionaire... Read More →
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Jörg Schmitt

Investigativ-Team, SPIEGEL
Born 1967 in Marburg. Studied Journalism, Economics and Law in München an is working as an investigativ Journalist since more then 20 years. First for the german weekly STERN later for "manager magazin", since 2003 for DER SPIEGEL. In there Coordinator for Investigativ Reporting... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2019 16:30 - 17:45 BST
Aula II
  Cross-border, panel

16:30 BST

Tracking European weapons to conflict zones
European weapons are used in conflicts, civil wars and human rights violations. Which are the routes they take, and how does this trade circumvent international law? Many journalists research weapon exports and find that war material from their countries ends up in warring zones. Some work with satellite images, others with video material, data in spreadsheets or tips from informants. A group got together on the #EUArms project at last year's Dataharvest conference and share their experiences together with new tools from Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
Speakers
avatar for Hans-Martin Tillack

Hans-Martin Tillack

Investigative reporter, Welt
Hans-Martin Tillack works as an investigative reporter for the newspapers "Welt", "Welt am Sonntag" and the TV magazine "Report München" (public broadcaster ARD). Until 2021 he was an investigative reporter for the weekly magazine "Stern". From 1999 to 2004 he was the EU correspondent... Read More →
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Ludo Hekman

Investigative journalist / Director Lighthouse Reports, Lighthouse Reports
Ludo Hekman is investigative journalist and a founder / director of Lighthouse Reports.Lighthouse Reports pioneers collaborative journalism. We are working with Europe's leading media on deeply reported, public interest investigations.
avatar for Marie-José Kolly

Marie-José Kolly

Datajournalist, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Geboren 1984 in Fribourg und zweisprachig aufgewachsen. Studium der Germanistik und Mathematik. Zwischen 2011 und 2014 Doktorandin und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Phonetischen Labor der Universität Zürich, danach Stipendiatin in Paris. Abschluss einer Dissertation über akzent... Read More →
avatar for Jeroen Zuallaert

Jeroen Zuallaert

Journo, Knack

Friday May 17, 2019 16:30 - 17:45 BST
Aula I
  Cross-border, panel

16:30 BST

How to apply for work grants - meet the right funder
A mere ten years ago, very few work grants for journalists and journalism projects were available. Today grants for journalistic research, for journalism entrepreneurs, for cross-border journalism on European and on global level are available as well as work grants by topic to stimulate crossborder collaboration among journalists with specialisations or micro-grants supporting particular tasks such as the protection of sources and whistleblowers. But how to find the right work grant? Meet here representatives from EJC, Journalismfund.eu, Hostwriter.org, Netzwerk Recherche, ECPMF, N-Ost, GRIDA and Whistleblowingfund.org. The Global Investigative Journalism Network maintains an updated list of such grants.
Moderators
avatar for Serena Tinari

Serena Tinari

Founder, Re-Check
I’m an investigative journalist interested in health, human rights and cyber security. Along with fellow Catherine Riva I founded www.re-check.ch.We are two experienced Swiss muckrakers that like to scoop in the backstage of public health: Re-Check specializes in investigating and... Read More →

Speakers
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Tabea Grzeszyk

Journalist and Founder, Hostwriter
Tabea Grzeszyk is a freelance journalist (German National Radio) and co-founder & CEO of Hostwriter.org, an open-source network that helps journalists to easily collaborate across borders. The platform connects more than 5,400 colleagues from 150+ countries for mutual support and... Read More →
avatar for Dóra Diseri

Dóra Diseri

Project Lead “Reporters in the Field”, Network for Reporting on Eastern Europe (n-ost)
Dóra joined the n-ost team as a project manager of "Reporters in the Field" in 2017. She is a Berlin-based Hungarian freelance journalist since 2012. Before moving to Berlin Dóra worked as a multi-media journalist and reporter in the news department of the Hungarian Public Television... Read More →
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Rima Sghaier

Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights
Rima Sghaier is an international citizen born in Tunisia and currently based in Milan, where she leads outreach and localization efforts at the Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights, managing and contributing to projects to support NGOs, media, and investigative... Read More →
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Anne Koch

Program director, GIJN
Anne Koch is the Program Director at the Global Investigative Journalism Network, an international association of journalism organizations that support the training and sharing of information among investigative and data journalists. Previously Anne worked as a broadcast journalist... Read More →
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Adam Thomas

Director, European Journalism Centre
Adam Thomas is the Director of the European Journalism Centre, an independent European non-profit connecting journalists with new ideas.In his previous role as Chief Product Officer at Storyful, he led five teams of developers and designers, creating products for world’s biggest... Read More →
avatar for Thomas Schnedler

Thomas Schnedler

Projektleiter, Netzwerk Recherche
Thomas Schnedler arbeitet als Projektleiter für gemeinnützigen Journalismus bei Netzwerk Recherche in Berlin. Nach seinem Studium der Diplom-Journalistik an der Universität Dortmund und einem Volontariat bei der Hessischen/Niedersächsischen Allgemeinen in Kassel hat er u.a. als... Read More →
avatar for Ides Debruyne

Ides Debruyne

managing director, Journalismfund.eu
Ides Debruyne is co-founder and managing director of Journalismfund.eu and chair of Scimingo.eu.
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Dr Lutz Kinkel

Managing Director, European Centre for Press and Media Freedom
Lutz Kinkel represents and manages the ECPMF. Lutz worked in German press for more than 20 years, giving special focus to the areas of politics and media. He was an editor at Spiegel-Online and tagesschau.de and more recently head of the stern-online office in Berlin. He did his Masters... Read More →
avatar for Valentin Yemelin

Valentin Yemelin

Programme Leader, Environmental Crime Programme, GRID-Arendal
I hold the PhD degree in chemistry (specializing in the technology of polymenrs) from the Leningrad Institute of Technology (USSR) and a Master of Public Administration (specializing in management of non-profit organizations and international development) from Harvard University (USA). I... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2019 16:30 - 17:45 BST
C3.37
  Entrepreneurial, Workshop

16:30 BST

Coordinating Global FOI Work - The Implant Files
The Implant Files documented huge flaws in the approval procedures for medical implants and other devices, using FOI. The journalists involved collected more than 8 million health records, related to these devices - recall notices, safety warnings, legal documents and corporate financial filings. ICIJ and its media partners submitted more than 1,500 requests for information to governments around the world. How do you use FOI tactically in an investigation like this? How do you keep track of the results and share between the countries?
Speakers
avatar for Stéphane Horel

Stéphane Horel

Journalist, Le Monde
Stéphane Horel works as an investigative journalist for Le Monde. She specializes in corporate lobbying and harm, conflict of interest and scientific disinformation. Her in-depth work on the EU regulation of endocrine disrupting chemicals was short-listed for the Albert Londres... Read More →
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Delphine Reuter

Data journalist and researcher, ICIJ
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Karrie Kehoe

Data Journalist, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Karrie Kehoe wrangles data at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) . She has worked at the Irish broadcaster RTE, The Times, The Sunday Times, and the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Karrie has used data analysis to investigate compensation payments in Afg... Read More →
PS

Friday May 17, 2019 16:30 - 17:45 BST
C3.03
  FOI, Presentation

16:30 BST

Investigating corporate lobbying in the EU
How can you investigate corporate lobbying and the impact it has on decision-making in the EU? Join Corporate Europe Observatory and learn methods from civil society in a practical workshop. What simple research tools can you use in your campaigns? Which are the different data tools you can use to find out about corporate lobbying and how can you use them in your work?
Speakers
MD

Friday May 17, 2019 16:30 - 17:45 BST
C3.18
  Investigative, Presentation

16:30 BST

The void after publication of a big investigation
When a crossborder team finally publishes after a long and often exhausting research with typically long working hours ahead of publication, comes the day after. On that day the individual journalist is suddenly ripped off his or her close international team colleagues of the past weeks and months. Marcos Garcia Rey, investigative editor at El Confidencial in Madrid, Spain, and active member of the ICIJ for years, points out three considerations for “the day after”: journalistic, psychological and legal/defensive. Marcos would like to address this aspect of crossborder collaborative journalism further and develop the tool box for journalists in crossborder teams.
Speakers
avatar for Marcos García Rey

Marcos García Rey

Investigative Journalist, Grupo Merca2
Marcos García Rey, Spain, is an investigative reporter at Grupo Merca2 and university professor.To date, he has participated in 11 major investigations with the ICIJ, including the Pulitzer Prize awarded project 'Panama Papers', and has been part of more than 20 cross-border reporting... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2019 16:30 - 17:45 BST
C3.06
  Investigative, Workshop

16:30 BST

From local stories to big impact: the case of Housing
German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung managed to collect data from 57,000 people and around 3,000 stories for a project to report on the rental market. Long, in-deep stories featuring rich data visualisations showed how broken the rental market has become, and contributed to change the conversation about housing in Germany.
Last year in the UK, the Bureau Local learned that no official body counted the number of homeless people who die and t that the number was around 450 deaths per year. The bureau set out to tell the human stories behind that number. The result was 94 local stories published all over the UK that paint an amazing and terrifying picture about access to housing in Britain. The findings sparked outrage amongst homeless charities and prompted the Office for National Statistics to start producing its own figure on homeless deaths.
Marseille has also become known for his crumbling housing infrastructure. Last November eight people were killed when two buildings collapsed near the old port. How could a city that attracts so many tourists allow its own residents to live in such poor conditions? That's what local investigative media outlet Marsactu set out to find out. Dozens of articles later, last month the French prime minister, Marseille municipality and the national agency of urban renovation signed a protocol of 117 million euros to invest in social housing.
In this session, we'll hear from the people behind those three reporting projects.
Moderators
avatar for Jose Miguel Calatayud

Jose Miguel Calatayud

Freelance journalist, project director at Arena for Journalism in Europe
Jose is a freelance journalist based in Berlin since January 2020, and a project pirector at Arena, where he's been managing the Arena Housing Project, an open collaborative network for housing reporters and researchers. He launched and was the coordinator of Cities for Rent, a cross-border investigation into corporate landlords, which is currently nominated to the European Press Prize, was recognised with an honourable mention at the IJ4EU Impact Award 2022 and was nominated to the Sigma Awards for Data Journalism. Before moving to Berlin, Jose was successively based... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Megan Lucero

Megan Lucero

Director of The Bureau Local, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Hi there - I head up the Bureau Local, a people-powered network setting the news agenda and sparking change from the ground up, in the UK. We're reimagining investigative journalism by making it open, accessible and collaborative from start to finish. I also deeply care about the... Read More →
avatar for Christian Endt

Christian Endt

Redakteur, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Redakteur bei der Süddeutschen Zeitung in München, Schwerpunkt Datenjournalismus und Infografik. Zuvor Studium der Mathematik und Physik in Augsburg, freier Journalist, Volontariat bei der SZ. Mag Radfahren, Literatur und laute Musik.
avatar for Julien Vinzent

Julien Vinzent

Journalist and president, Marsactu

Friday May 17, 2019 16:30 - 17:45 BST
C3.05
  Local & Housing, Presentation

16:30 BST

Digital security: File encryption
Hands-on workshop: Learn how to easily and effectively encrypt files on your computer or an external drive. Encrypting files is a dependable way of protecting sensitive data without creating barriers to effectively work on it. File encryption protects against data breaches in the case of device theft. Encrypting files also makes it less risky to use cloud services to transfer large amounts of sensitive data. We will work with the open-source, cross-platform tool VeraCrypt. Participants should bring a usb stick to practice on during the workshop.
Speakers
avatar for Aslak Ransby

Aslak Ransby

Programmer and security trainer.
I'm @aslakransby on twitter.
HC

Henrik Chulu

Independent researcher, writer, speaker, and trainer on digital literacy and safety. I focus on infrastructural literacy as a core skill set and will help you make sense of your digital environment in order for you to make better decisions about the safety and effectiveness of you... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2019 16:30 - 17:45 BST
C3.19
  Security, Workshop

16:30 BST

Mapping with QGis 2
We often join data tables together to gain new insights for an analysis. With maps, we can join data together based not on a common ID field, but based on common geography. In this class, you'll learn an important reporting technique that can only be performed with mapping software. Level: intermediate. Attending the Intro to GIS session is strongly recommended.
Speakers
avatar for Robert Gebeloff

Robert Gebeloff

Robert Gebeloff is a New Yorks Times reporter specializing in data analysis. He works on in-depth stories where numbers help augment traditional reporting.

Friday May 17, 2019 16:30 - 17:45 BST
C3.15
  Training/CAR, Workshop

16:30 BST

Python 4
Speakers
avatar for Friedrich Lindenberg

Friedrich Lindenberg

Data Librarian, OpenSanctions
Friedrich Lindenberg is a coder and data journalist working on web technology for new narrative and investigative techniques. He's currently building OpenSanctions, a global database of persons of journalistic interest.

Friday May 17, 2019 16:30 - 17:45 BST
C3.04
  Training/CAR, Workshop

16:30 BST

Spreadsheets analysis - Excel 3
If you are thinking about taking up spreadsheet skills, this is for you. An essential toolkit for data journalism, these three Excel classes will introduce you to how functions, formulas and pivot tables can aid your reporting.
Speakers
avatar for Brant Houston

Brant Houston

Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting, University of Illinois
Brant Houston is the Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting at the University of Illinois where he teaches and works on projects and research involving the use of data analysis in journalism. He is co-founder of the Global Investigative Journalism Network and the Institute for Nonprofit... Read More →
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John Bones

Managing Director, SKUP
John Bones is Managing Director at SKUP, the Norwegian Foundation for Investigative Reporting. For many years, Bones was the datajournalism specialist at VG, the most read daily newspaper in Norway, and previously was editor and politics editor. Started his career at Adresseavisen... Read More →

Friday May 17, 2019 16:30 - 17:45 BST
C3.11
  Training/CAR, Workshop

19:00 BST

The city of Mechelen invites us to a reception!
Grote Markt 21, 2800 Mechelen https://www.google.com/maps/dir/51.0234998,4.4881313/51.0281593,4.4810073/@51.0274745,4.4736795,15z/data=!4m9!4m8!1m5!3m4!1m2!1d4.4837145!2d51.0239489!3s0x47c3e5ccf6ee4a33:0x803647c6b28dc79e!1m0!3e2


Friday May 17, 2019 19:00 - 20:30 BST
Mechelen Town Hall
  Organisational
 
Saturday, May 18
 

08:30 BST

Coffee
Saturday May 18, 2019 08:30 - 09:00 BST
Front hall
  Organisational

09:00 BST

How to turn everything into a database
As it becomes increasingly tough to shake databases loose from government minders, journalists are increasingly discovering the power of building their own databases out of court documents, e-mails and other paper records. This talk will review some of the great stories reported this way and go through everything you need to know before starting such a project.
Speakers
avatar for Robert Gebeloff

Robert Gebeloff

Robert Gebeloff is a New Yorks Times reporter specializing in data analysis. He works on in-depth stories where numbers help augment traditional reporting.

Saturday May 18, 2019 09:00 - 10:15 BST
C3.37
  Data journalism, Presentation

09:00 BST

Land-grabbing in Mozambique - looking for partners
CALL TO COLLABORATE: Help us to publish this story and hold investors from your country accountable for what they do in Mozambique. We are a crossborder European-African team and have documented land-grabbing in Mozambique. The result was "Land of plenty, land of but a few" - http://terradealguns.divergente.pt/en - , a web documentary published on the independent newsmagazine Divergente - www.divergente.pt/en We could document severe food insecurity among the small farmers losing their lands, and we could document the foreign investors and organisations involved. Read more about our project here http://terradealguns.divergente.pt/en/stories/numbers/. Are you from Norway, Germany, Italy, UK, Netherlands, Estonia, Spain, Portugal as well as US, India, South Africa, we would like to hear from you for future collaboration.
Speakers
SP

Saturday May 18, 2019 09:00 - 10:15 BST
C3.18
  Entrepreneurial, networking

09:00 BST

Advanced social media and information research
How do you structure your search on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram? Where are the shortcuts to the valuable pieces of information? BBC research specialist Paul Myers shows you some of the tools.
Speakers
avatar for Paul Myers

Paul Myers

Research Specialist, BBC
Paul has a career in computing and internet research and development that dates back to 1978. He joined the BBC in 1995 as an information researcher. As the internet grew in significance, Paul was able to blend his technical knowledge with the realities of his work in journalism... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 09:00 - 10:15 BST
Aula II
  Investigative, Presentation

09:00 BST

Data engineers taking over the newsroom? New techniques, new roles, new considerations
Within a few years we see generation changes of what data journalism is and how it is integrated in journalism production. For this session we asked data journalists, data developers, data engineers, data project coordinators to sit down and openly discuss the current developments. This session will give you an insight into the most recent developments in data journalism and a look into the next steps. // We asked these expert practitioners to answer three questions: ==> Give us the top 5 new data journalism job descriptions existing in journalism/media groups today - and describe a case with each of them. ==> Give us the top 5 new data journalism job descriptions you believe will exist in 5 years. ==> Give us the competences, we need to nurture to make this work - and why: Do we need to teach journalism as a subject to young engineers at technical universities? Do we need to teach project management (as used for software development) in journalism schools? Do we need data librarians for media and journalismnetworks? Do we…

Moderators
avatar for Stephan Heffner

Stephan Heffner

IT Specialist Investigative Journalism, DER SPIEGEL
Coordination of IT-related topics in the editorial environment - investigative journalism, data journalism, information security, IT development and operations.

Speakers
avatar for Pierre Romera

Pierre Romera

Chief Technology Officer, ICIJ
Pierre Romera has been Chief Technology Officer at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) since 2017. He manages a team working on the platforms that enabled more than hundreds journalists to collaborate on the Pandora Papers, the Uber Files, the FinCEN Files... Read More →
avatar for Friedrich Lindenberg

Friedrich Lindenberg

Data Librarian, OpenSanctions
Friedrich Lindenberg is a coder and data journalist working on web technology for new narrative and investigative techniques. He's currently building OpenSanctions, a global database of persons of journalistic interest.
avatar for Ștefan Cândea

Ștefan Cândea

co-founder, coordinator, European Investigative Collaborations
Currently I am the coordinator of the EIC network.My work started with covering organized crime across borders in România at the end of the 90’s. Mid 2015 I co-founded EIC as a network_by_agreement between media organisations and currently I coordinate the editorial and technological projects between @derspiegel @destandaard... Read More →
avatar for Anne-Lise Bouyer

Anne-Lise Bouyer

Tech & data team lead, CORRECTIV
Anne-Lise heads the technical & data team at the nonprofit investigative newsroom CORRECTIV . Prior to that, she co-founded Journalism++, an agency for data-driven storytelling where she where she worked for 4 years as a project manager and coordinated the Migrants' Files project... Read More →
avatar for Adriana Homolová

Adriana Homolová

Proud coordinator of the data skills training 📊, ARENA, Follow The Money, Lost in Europe
Adriana is a freelance data journalist, trainer and public spending nerd. At Dataharvest, she coordinates the data skills training. At other times, she writes scrapers and investigates European Union for Follow The Money's Bureau Brussel and collects data on missing children in migration... Read More →
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Victor Nițu

Software Developer, tenders.exposed
Victor is one of the developers of Elvis, a public tenders visualization platform that aims to visually expose patterns of corruption in the EU and beyond. A while ago he was one of the developers behind OpenTrials, an aggregator of all clinical trials around the world with advanced... Read More →
avatar for Alex Morega

Alex Morega

Developer, CRJI
Alex Morega is a freelance web developer based in Bucharest, Romania, and a member of ROSEdu, an organisation that promotes open-source in education.
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Winny de Jong

Datajournalist, NOS
Winny de Jong works as a data journalist at the Dutch national broadcast, NOS. Her weekly data journalism newsletter has been called "the data highlight of the week" and "exceptionally helpful". You can subscribe through http://bit.ly/ddjnews. She speaks about creativity and how to... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 09:00 - 10:15 BST
C3.10
  Investigative, Panel

09:00 BST

Selecting the big cross-border story
Before embarking on months of research, how do you know that it is the right story? At Investigate Europe Juliet Ferguson has developed a checklist for team members to go through when preparing the pitch of a new topic for the team. In the EIC network a model has evolved, where EIC journalists have become "network editors" in their own newsroom, so a 2-way pitching system was developed to constantly bring stories from the newsroom to the network, or from the network to the newsroom. Nils Hanson has decades of experience of pitching and selecting topics for investigative stories and has a systematic approach to story selection. How much do you need to convince partner media? What is a good theme for at big cross-border investigation, and how do you pitch it?
Moderators
avatar for Miranda Patrucic

Miranda Patrucic

Regional Editor, OCCRP Sarajevo
Miranda Patrucic is an investigative reporter based in Sarajevo. She is regional editor for Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP ), focusing on Central Asia, the Balkans and the Caucasus. Highlights of her work include exposing billions in telecom bribes in Uzbekistan... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Juliet Ferguson

Juliet Ferguson

Journalist, Investigate Europe
Juliet Ferguson has worked in the UK for the Telegraph and the BBC, starting out with BBC World Service radio and ending up on the BBC's investigative programme, Panorama. She's sharing her days between Investigate Europe and the British Centre for Investigative Journalism. She is... Read More →
avatar for Nils Hanson

Nils Hanson

SVT
Nils Hanson is a freelancing investigative editor and reporter. For 14 years, until 2018, Nils was an executive producer for Mission Investigate, Swedish Television (SVT). He has over 30 years of experience and has covered around 500 investigations. During the last two years of his... Read More →
YP

Yann Philippin

Journalist, Mediapart
Journaliste à Mediapart. J'aime le soleil et les paradis fiscaux. Membre de l'équipe #FootballLeaks. Co-auteur du livre Dassault Système.
avatar for Simon Bowers

Simon Bowers

ICIJ
I have worked as European Coordinator and Senior Reporter for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists for the past four years. Before that I worked as a financial and investigative reporter for The Guardian in the UK. In November 2020, I am excited to be starting... Read More →
avatar for Zeynep Sentek

Zeynep Sentek

Journalist
Zeynep is a Turkish investigative journalist specialised in corruption, offshore structures, workers' rights and environmental investigations. She currently works as the Network Coordinator for the London-based news organisation openDemocracy. She is also the managing editor of the... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 09:00 - 10:15 BST
Aula I
  Investigative, Panel

09:00 BST

Data journalism: a local revolution
Data journalism might seem still a fancy, laborious and expensive business, that only big international media outlets like The New York Times or The Economist can afford. But very often data at local level is widely available and more reliable. So what are the challenges of data journalism done at local level? How can we promote more local data journalism? What are the opportunities for data journalism at local level? How can editorial groups and newsrooms put resources together to work better? What are examples of local and small newsrooms making excellent data journalism?
Moderators
avatar for Letizia Gambini

Letizia Gambini

Project Manager, European Journalism Centre
At the European Journalism Centre, I take care of the data journalism programmes. We curate online courses, resources and a interactive community for data journalism enthusiasts on DataJournalism.com.

Speakers
avatar for Marianna Bruschi

Marianna Bruschi

Gedi Digital
avatar for Kira Schacht

Kira Schacht

Datenjournalistin, Deutsche Welle // Journocode
Kira Schacht ist freie Datenjournalistin bei der Deutschen Welle. Dort berichtet sie über globale Themen von Klimawandel über Migration bis hin zu Kultur. Sie ist außerdem Mitgründerin und Trainerin bei der Datenjournalismus-Initiative Journocode.
TP

Saturday May 18, 2019 09:00 - 10:15 BST
C3.06
  Local & Housing, Panel

09:00 BST

Housing across Europe: what are the rules of the game?
Housing law and regulations are spread across the local, national and European levels, and differ from city to city and from country to country. And access to decent and affordable housing is recognised as a human right in the Universal Declaration, in other international conventions and in many national constitutions – yet rulings about housing at European courts are often based on consumer law. In this session, we will hear from Sergio Nasarre, director of the UNESCO Housing Chair at the University Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, about housing law, institutions and regulations at the European level, and also comparatively between jurisdictions. We will talk about the housing market is regulated and which other institutions concern housing in Europe. And we will discuss examples of potential housing stories that journalists may have missed – maybe because of all that normative and bureaucratic complexity. Interested in reporting about housing? Then this session is a must for you!
Moderators
avatar for Jose Miguel Calatayud

Jose Miguel Calatayud

Freelance journalist, project director at Arena for Journalism in Europe
Jose is a freelance journalist based in Berlin since January 2020, and a project pirector at Arena, where he's been managing the Arena Housing Project, an open collaborative network for housing reporters and researchers. He launched and was the coordinator of Cities for Rent, a cross-border investigation into corporate landlords, which is currently nominated to the European Press Prize, was recognised with an honourable mention at the IJ4EU Impact Award 2022 and was nominated to the Sigma Awards for Data Journalism. Before moving to Berlin, Jose was successively based... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Sergio Nasarre-Aznar

Sergio Nasarre-Aznar

Civil law Professor, UNESCO Housing Chair - University Rovira i Virgili
Sergio Nasarre-Aznar (Tarragona, 1974) is Full Professor of Civil Law and Director of the UNESCO Housing Chair at the University Rovira i Virgili (Spain). He is European Doctor in Law and holds an M.Phil. in Land Economy of the University of Cambridge. Since 2008 he is a Corresponding... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 09:00 - 10:15 BST
C3.03
  Local & Housing, Presentation

09:00 BST

To each their own: Different local media models and their audiences
Local journalism and reporting on issues affecting people at the local level are key for the public to regain trust in the media. However, online news, the explosion of social media and the crisis of the advertising-based traditional news business model meant many local media outlets went bust.
Still, this new media environment also allowed for new kinds of local media to emerge. In this session, we'll be hearing from several such new local media in Europe about their different business models and relationships with their audiences.
Do you want to know more about local media co-ops and local media owned by their audiences? Is multi-city-based reporting the way to go forward? What's the potential of street papers for journalists to connect to their audience?
Moderators
MA

Speakers
avatar for Lucas Batt

Lucas Batt

Membership Lead, The Bristol Cable
Membership Lead at the Bristol Cable, a local newspaper owned and supported by 2,700 people in Bristol, UK.
avatar for Alice Facchini

Alice Facchini

Freelance journalist
I am a freelance journalist based in Bologna, Italy, since September 2018. I write features for web magazines Internazionale, Osservatorio Diritti and Q Code Magazine, covering social and environmental issues and human rights violations.Between 2016 and 2017 I lived in South America... Read More →
avatar for Pierre Leibovici

Pierre Leibovici

Engagement Lead, Mediacités
Pierre manages engagement projects at Mediacités, a local investigative news organization based in Lille, Lyon, Nantes, and Toulouse. He works along with readers to get story tips, questions, and feedback to better serve their needs and improve the impact of Mediacités’ stories... Read More →
avatar for Julien Vinzent

Julien Vinzent

Journalist and president, Marsactu

Saturday May 18, 2019 09:00 - 10:15 BST
C3.19
  Local & Housing, Presentation

09:00 BST

Safety when crossing borders
Digital Security: How do I prevent authorities from searching my equipment when crossing borders, and should I use the hotel wifi? This workshop covers the essential digital security considerations you need as a travelling journalist or photographer. Participants learn how to make a security plan before, during and after travelling.
Speakers
avatar for Serena Tinari

Serena Tinari

Founder, Re-Check
I’m an investigative journalist interested in health, human rights and cyber security. Along with fellow Catherine Riva I founded www.re-check.ch.We are two experienced Swiss muckrakers that like to scoop in the backstage of public health: Re-Check specializes in investigating and... Read More →
avatar for Freja Wedenborg

Freja Wedenborg

Journalist
Danish journalist and author of Cryptoguide for journalists. Teaching journalism and digital self defence atVallekilde Folk High School and the Danish School of Media and Journalism and freelancing investigative journalism. Also a board member in The Danish Union of Journalists. @FrejaWedenborg... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 09:00 - 10:15 BST
C3.05
  Security, Presentation

09:00 BST

Intro to R 1
We'll walk you through the basics and get familiar with R and RStudio, import data and learn some functions for getting to grips with your dataset including sorting and filtering. This class assumes no prior experience with R.
Speakers
avatar for Caelainn Barr

Caelainn Barr

Data Projects Editor, The Guardian
Caelainn Barr is the data projects editor at the Guardian. When working for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, she used data analysis to uncover the misuse of expenses by the European Commission and human rights abuses in Ethiopia. She has also worked at the Wall Street Journal... Read More →
avatar for Carmen Aguilar García

Carmen Aguilar García

Senior Data Journalist, Sky News
Data journalist at Sky News. Scraping, cleaning, data analysis, visual storytelling but above all JOURNALISM!

Saturday May 18, 2019 09:00 - 10:15 BST
C3.15
  Training/CAR, Workshop

09:00 BST

Investigating with Python and OSINT 1/2
Learn easy Python tricks to automatise some searches and save time. We'll be explaining the bases of Python & command lines, and show you how it helped Le Monde to quickly investigate large donations supporting Emmanuel Macron's campaign. Prerequisites: no Python knowledge needed. If you prefer to work with with your own laptop, you must have already installed Python 3.
Speakers
avatar for Laura Motet

Laura Motet

(Data-)Journalist, Le Monde
I'm a (data-)journalist working at the French newspaper Le Monde. When investigating topics, I like to use osint methods and Python scraping.
avatar for Hervé Letoqueux

Hervé Letoqueux

OpenFacto
Co-Founder of OpenFacto with Lou (@CapteursOuverts) and Aliaume (@yaolri), a french NGO dedicated to online investigation for journalists and activists, I love OpenSource researches, Python, OpenRefine, Gephi and R. I used to deal with money laundering, financial frauds and terrorism... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 09:00 - 10:15 BST
C3.11
  Training/CAR, Workshop

09:00 BST

Using Code to Report on Cyber Crime 1/2
In this talk, Barnaby Skinner, head of the data journalism unit at Tamedia, will discuss how coding skills can complement investigative reporting, especially when journalists are reporting on cyber crime. The talk will involve a look into publicly available data, e.g, the leaked collection I-V, a data dump consisting of billions of compromised user accounts, and provide examples of investigative stories driven by analysing such huge data sets.
Speakers
avatar for Barnaby Skinner

Barnaby Skinner

Head of Data Journalism, Tamedia
Studying History in Basel, I focused on the Industrial Revolution and its various social and economic impacts. As a journalist, I have shifted my attention to the Digital Revolution. I think and write in both German and English and I manage the datajournalistic endeavours at the leading... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 09:00 - 10:15 BST
C3.04
  Training/CAR, Workshop

10:15 BST

Coffee break
Saturday May 18, 2019 10:15 - 10:45 BST
Front hall
  Organisational

10:45 BST

How journalism can have an impact in the networked society
Journalists go to a lot of trouble to make the world a better place. In analogue times we were confident that once knowledge was published, this would change the world. Do we have to revisit this belief in a more internationalised and networked era? And if so, what does this mean for the way investigative journalists work? How do we react to the demand to measure impact - be that in clicks on our articles or in directly measurable change in society? What about sharing knowledge and working with groups usually considered as sources - academia, civil society, activists and campaigning organisations, citizen groups - while maintaining editorial independence? Christopher Hird is a British journalist, filmmaker and former managing editor of the London Bureau of Investigative Journalism, on whose board he still serves. He has studied the mechanism by which investigative journalism has lead to actual change in society, and as a filmmaker brings a fresh view on collaborations with various partners in the public interest.
Moderators
avatar for Brigitte Alfter

Brigitte Alfter

director, Arena for Journalism
Brigitte Alfter ist eine deutsch-dänische Journalistin, Geschäftsführerin für Redaktionelles bei Arena for Journalism in Europe und Dozentin Journalismus an der Universität Göteborg. Nach Jahren als Journalistin auf fallen Niveaus vom Lokaljournalismus bis zur EU-Korrespondentin... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Christo Hird

Christo Hird

Christopher Hird is a leading figure in UK independent documentary making. He is the founder and managing director of Dartmouth Films, which has pioneered new ways of funding, producing and distributing documentaries in the UK.  A former stockbroker, he worked as a journalist on... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 10:45 - 12:00 BST
Aula II
  Investigative, Key-note

10:45 BST

Intro to R 2
In this class you’ll learn how to join datasets and carry out calculations in R that will allow you to identify trends in the data for storytelling. You’ll also learn statistical functions in R and how to import data from the web.
Speakers
avatar for Caelainn Barr

Caelainn Barr

Data Projects Editor, The Guardian
Caelainn Barr is the data projects editor at the Guardian. When working for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, she used data analysis to uncover the misuse of expenses by the European Commission and human rights abuses in Ethiopia. She has also worked at the Wall Street Journal... Read More →
avatar for Carmen Aguilar García

Carmen Aguilar García

Senior Data Journalist, Sky News
Data journalist at Sky News. Scraping, cleaning, data analysis, visual storytelling but above all JOURNALISM!

Saturday May 18, 2019 10:45 - 12:00 BST
C3.15
  Training/CAR, Workshop

10:45 BST

Investigating with Python and OSINT 2/2
Builds on Session 1. Using Python, you will learn how to quickly analyze an email leak and determine its reliability. We'll be explaining how to write Python scripts using several open sources librairies and demonstrate how you can use it. We'll be working with an email leak involving Vitaly Kovalchuk, campaign director for President Poroshenko in Ukraine, published in March 2019.
Speakers
avatar for Laura Motet

Laura Motet

(Data-)Journalist, Le Monde
I'm a (data-)journalist working at the French newspaper Le Monde. When investigating topics, I like to use osint methods and Python scraping.
avatar for Hervé Letoqueux

Hervé Letoqueux

OpenFacto
Co-Founder of OpenFacto with Lou (@CapteursOuverts) and Aliaume (@yaolri), a french NGO dedicated to online investigation for journalists and activists, I love OpenSource researches, Python, OpenRefine, Gephi and R. I used to deal with money laundering, financial frauds and terrorism... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 10:45 - 12:00 BST
C3.11
  Training/CAR, Workshop

10:45 BST

Using code to Report on Cyber Crime 2/2
In this hands-on workshop, participants will get an overview of an array of scraping techniques, from simple html imports in Google sheets to complex scrapers built to interact with web forms. The workshop will also provide a row of stories where various scraping techniques were employed, e.g. in cyber crime investigations. 60" hands-on, Barnaby Skinner.
Saturday May 18, 2019 10:45 - 12:00 BST
C3.04
  Training/CAR, Workshop

12:00 BST

Lunch
Saturday May 18, 2019 12:00 - 13:00 BST
Front hall
  Organisational

12:00 BST

Digital Safety Café - bring your lunch and your questions
Do you have questions about digital security? Do you need help to set up your secure mail? Do you wonder about the best tools to secure your documents? Or maybe wonder about digital safety while travelling? Bring your lunch and your equipment, and we'll help! A number of specialists on digital safety will be at your disposal!
Speakers
avatar for Freja Wedenborg

Freja Wedenborg

Journalist
Danish journalist and author of Cryptoguide for journalists. Teaching journalism and digital self defence atVallekilde Folk High School and the Danish School of Media and Journalism and freelancing investigative journalism. Also a board member in The Danish Union of Journalists. @FrejaWedenborg... Read More →
avatar for Aslak Ransby

Aslak Ransby

Programmer and security trainer.
I'm @aslakransby on twitter.
HC

Henrik Chulu

Independent researcher, writer, speaker, and trainer on digital literacy and safety. I focus on infrastructural literacy as a core skill set and will help you make sense of your digital environment in order for you to make better decisions about the safety and effectiveness of you... Read More →
avatar for Miranda Patrucic

Miranda Patrucic

Regional Editor, OCCRP Sarajevo
Miranda Patrucic is an investigative reporter based in Sarajevo. She is regional editor for Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP ), focusing on Central Asia, the Balkans and the Caucasus. Highlights of her work include exposing billions in telecom bribes in Uzbekistan... Read More →
avatar for Albrecht Ude

Albrecht Ude

Recherche-Trainer, Netzwerk Recherche
Albrecht Ude is based in Berlin (Germany) and Friesland, works as freelancing journalist, researcher and research-trainer (online-researches, source checking, fact checking and security issues).writes for several newspapers and magazines, print and online. focusses on structured internet... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 12:00 - 13:00 BST
Aula II
  Security

13:00 BST

Following Airbus business across borders
Over the last two years, German news magazine Der Spiegel and French online Magazine Mediapart used the EIC network to follow aeronautics company Airbus' dealings around the world. Suspicions of bribery, leaked documents and close cross-border collaboration were elements of the research.
Speakers
YP

Yann Philippin

Journalist, Mediapart
Journaliste à Mediapart. J'aime le soleil et les paradis fiscaux. Membre de l'équipe #FootballLeaks. Co-auteur du livre Dassault Système.
avatar for Jörg Schmitt

Jörg Schmitt

Investigativ-Team, SPIEGEL
Born 1967 in Marburg. Studied Journalism, Economics and Law in München an is working as an investigativ Journalist since more then 20 years. First for the german weekly STERN later for "manager magazin", since 2003 for DER SPIEGEL. In there Coordinator for Investigativ Reporting... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
C3.19
  Cross-border, Presentation

13:00 BST

Exposing networks of climate change deniers
With the uprise of right-wing parties around the world, climate change deniers have gained powerful political partners such as Trump and Bolsonaro. Last year we have investigated how climate change deniers form international networks and collaborate with right-wing populists parties in Europe. In this session we will explore a freely available database that we used during the investigation, containing organizations and individuals around the world that are denying human made climate change and are actively weakening environmental protection policies.
Speakers
MN

Saturday May 18, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
C3.18
  Data buffet, Workshop

13:00 BST

The International Medical Devices Database and How to Use it
The International Medical Devices Database empowers patients, doctors and regulators with unprecedented knowledge. With 13 different data sources and 75,000 records, we will explain how you can use this unique database to bring more transparency to an opaque industry.
Speakers
avatar for Karrie Kehoe

Karrie Kehoe

Data Journalist, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Karrie Kehoe wrangles data at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) . She has worked at the Irish broadcaster RTE, The Times, The Sunday Times, and the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Karrie has used data analysis to investigate compensation payments in Afg... Read More →
avatar for Delphine Reuter

Delphine Reuter

Data journalist and researcher, ICIJ
avatar for Pierre Romera

Pierre Romera

Chief Technology Officer, ICIJ
Pierre Romera has been Chief Technology Officer at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) since 2017. He manages a team working on the platforms that enabled more than hundreds journalists to collaborate on the Pandora Papers, the Uber Files, the FinCEN Files... Read More →
PS

Saturday May 18, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
C3.06
  Data buffet, Workshop

13:00 BST

This is how you can research radicalization on YouTube
YouTube is one of the most important social media for young people in the US and in Europe. Due to the lax moderation policy of the video behemoth, there is a lot of extremist content and disinformation on the platform. Also the technical infrastructure, especially the recommendation algorithm, favors extremist content and pulls viewers into a rabbit hole of right wing extremism, conspiracy theories and fake news. This session shows methods and results from a 7 months investigation into this rabbithole and show how you can find radicalized users. Dutch De Correspondent has developed a python library with which you can emulate our research in your own country, or use it to explore other topics, niches and communities on YouTube. As a bonus, iyou will be guided through the weird community of right wing extremist YouTube stars and alt-right vernacular and memes that will help you to understand the rise of extremists all over the world.
Speakers
DT

Saturday May 18, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
C3.10
  Data Buffet, Workshop

13:00 BST

Journalism with a cause - about journalism versus advocacy
Data journalism outlet Civio in Spain does not lobby on every issue it reports on. But if its reporting shows that the government is standing in the way of transparency or accountability, it’s not afraid to follow up on a story and take an advocacy role. Taxwatch in the UK is a think tank on tax avoidance and fraud run by an investigative journalist. Oliver Moldenhauer founded the EU-wide online campaigning organisation WeMove.EU and co-founded Attac in Germany. Can the experience from campaigning be useful for journalists? And do we have different views on the limits of journalism and advocacy in different parts of Europe?
Moderators
avatar for Serena Tinari

Serena Tinari

Founder, Re-Check
I’m an investigative journalist interested in health, human rights and cyber security. Along with fellow Catherine Riva I founded www.re-check.ch.We are two experienced Swiss muckrakers that like to scoop in the backstage of public health: Re-Check specializes in investigating and... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Eva Belmonte

Eva Belmonte

Director, Civio
Eva Belmonte (Spain, 1982) is a journalist specialised in public data treatment and analysis. She gained journalistic experience writing and editing for major Spanish media organisations like El Mundo, where she worked from 2005 to 2012. She is currently Director at Fundación Civio... Read More →
avatar for Oliver Moldenhauer

Oliver Moldenhauer

I am a political activist and campaigner. A trained Physicist, I also am a  political activist who likes to build up things. I founded and led for 4 years the EU-wide online campaigning organisation WeMove.EU (2014-2018) and co-founded Attac in Germany (member of the national coordination... Read More →
avatar for George Turner

George Turner

Finance Uncovered
George is an investigative journalist and one of the founders of Finance Uncovered. George has a wide variety of interests. Before entering the world of journalism he worked for a senior politician in the UK, and wrote a paper on how the murky world of offshore finance in the UK water... Read More →
avatar for Elisabetta Tola

Elisabetta Tola

founder - science&data journalist, facta.eu

Saturday May 18, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
C3.05
  Investigative, Panel

13:00 BST

Quality control - bullet-proofing your investigation
To make top-notch investigative journalism the newsroom need a system for quality control. It´s up to the editor to create the structure the reporters need, from the beginning to the end of the investigative project. Nils Hanson, long-time editor for the weekly investigative program "Mission Investigate" on Swedish national TV tells how reporters and editors scrutinized every piece of information, line by line.
Speakers
avatar for Nils Hanson

Nils Hanson

SVT
Nils Hanson is a freelancing investigative editor and reporter. For 14 years, until 2018, Nils was an executive producer for Mission Investigate, Swedish Television (SVT). He has over 30 years of experience and has covered around 500 investigations. During the last two years of his... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
Aula I
  Investigative, Presentation

13:00 BST

Storytelling with big data
Our work often results in piles of data, mind-numbing statistics and a cast of unlikeable main characters. How do we turn it into a text that is understandable and a good read? By remembering the story during the investigation. Miranda Patrucic, regional editor from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project gives her best tips.
Speakers
avatar for Miranda Patrucic

Miranda Patrucic

Regional Editor, OCCRP Sarajevo
Miranda Patrucic is an investigative reporter based in Sarajevo. She is regional editor for Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP ), focusing on Central Asia, the Balkans and the Caucasus. Highlights of her work include exposing billions in telecom bribes in Uzbekistan... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
Aula II
  Investigative, Presentation

13:00 BST

Local is the new cool: Showcasing local, independent media outlets
Local journalism and reporting on issues affecting people at the local level are key for the public to regain trust in the media. In this session, at a time when many local media have been struggling to adapt to the spread of online news and social media, we'll be hearing from different types of local media outlets successfully carrying out independent and investigative journalism in Europe: the Bristol Cable, Mediacités, Marsactu and Piazza Grande. How are these local media's newsrooms? How do they work in today's complicated communicative environment? What kind of stories do their journalists report on?

Moderators
avatar for Jose Miguel Calatayud

Jose Miguel Calatayud

Freelance journalist, project director at Arena for Journalism in Europe
Jose is a freelance journalist based in Berlin since January 2020, and a project pirector at Arena, where he's been managing the Arena Housing Project, an open collaborative network for housing reporters and researchers. He launched and was the coordinator of Cities for Rent, a cross-border investigation into corporate landlords, which is currently nominated to the European Press Prize, was recognised with an honourable mention at the IJ4EU Impact Award 2022 and was nominated to the Sigma Awards for Data Journalism. Before moving to Berlin, Jose was successively based... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Lucas Batt

Lucas Batt

Membership Lead, The Bristol Cable
Membership Lead at the Bristol Cable, a local newspaper owned and supported by 2,700 people in Bristol, UK.
avatar for Alice Facchini

Alice Facchini

Freelance journalist
I am a freelance journalist based in Bologna, Italy, since September 2018. I write features for web magazines Internazionale, Osservatorio Diritti and Q Code Magazine, covering social and environmental issues and human rights violations.Between 2016 and 2017 I lived in South America... Read More →
avatar for Pierre Leibovici

Pierre Leibovici

Engagement Lead, Mediacités
Pierre manages engagement projects at Mediacités, a local investigative news organization based in Lille, Lyon, Nantes, and Toulouse. He works along with readers to get story tips, questions, and feedback to better serve their needs and improve the impact of Mediacités’ stories... Read More →
avatar for Julien Vinzent

Julien Vinzent

Journalist and president, Marsactu

Saturday May 18, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
C3.03
  Local & Housing, Presentation

13:00 BST

“Book unique homes and experiences”. How Airbnb distorts rental markets
Many of us like indeed to "book unique homes and experiences", as Airbnb's tag line says, and there's no denying that Airbnb has made life easier and cheaper for many travellers and for those willing to rent out their spare room. Yet, it has also created incentives for landlords to only rent out their property to tourists – and sometimes without having the needed licence or paying the required taxes. Airbnb also creates incentives for big landlords (investment funds, other companies, wealthy individuals...) to amass apartments to serve the tourist market. All that is limiting the housing options for residents and distorting rental markets across many European cities, where people are suffering the effects of 'airification' and 'touristification. In this session, we will hear from journalists who've been reporting on the impact of Airbnb in cities Greece and Portugal.
Moderators
avatar for Cat McShane

Cat McShane

Documentary Filmmaker and Journalist
Documentary filmmaker and journalist, making work for British broadcasters including the BBC and Channel 4. Enjoy creating alliances with e.g activists, social scientists, trade unions when developing stories, which ideally have a campaign or social impact element. Recently directed... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou

Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou

Journalist, The Manifold
Journalist from Greece and a member of The Manifold, a team of investigative journalists based in Athens, Nicosia and London whose work has been featured in Al Jazeera English, Deutsche Welle and the Columbia Journalism Review, among others. Co-creator of The Manifold Files, a digital... Read More →
avatar for Marina Demertzian

Marina Demertzian

journalist, ERT
Journalist at ERT (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation- Greek Public TV). During the last 3 years I' ve been co-producing a 60 Minutes investigative documentary programme (ERT Report), dealing with social issues, such as the impact of short term rentals in Athens and Crete, harm reduction... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
C3.37
  Local & Housing, Presentation

13:00 BST

Command Line - CSV Kit
Ever struggled with large datasets? Or needed to quickly merge or join datasets without the use of a database? This session will provide an introduction to csvkit, showing how to explore and wrangle datasets on the command line. It's easy to use, fast and powerful.
Speakers
avatar for Leila Haddou

Leila Haddou

Data Journalism Editor, The Times and the Sunday Times
Leila Haddou is the data journalism editor for The Times and the Sunday Times in London. She has previously worked on investigations for the Financial Times and The Guardian. She has an avid interest in how technology can be used by journalists to assist with data-led reporting.@... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
C3.11
  Training/Car, Workshop

13:00 BST

R3 - Working with Tidyverse in R 1/3
R is a top programming language used by journalists. Whether you’re new to data or have been analysing spreadsheets for a while, we’ll familiarise you with its Tidyverse package. In session one, you will learn why R is important, how to get started, how to install and use it and its companion, RStudio. We use a session workbook called “the Tidyverse for Journalists”, handed out in class.
Speakers
avatar for Jonathan_Stoneman

Jonathan_Stoneman

Data journalism trainer, Freelance (UK)
avatar for Luuk Sengers

Luuk Sengers

Investigative journalist and university lecturer, Story-Based Inquiry, Groene Amsterdammer
Luuk is an independent investigative journalist, lecturer and media trainer. For the leading Dutch magazine De Groene Amsterdammer he writes about the effects of corporate power on our environment and climate, based on data-analysis. He also teaches research skills, data journalism and interview techniques to professionals and students and helps media and NGOs organise and carry out investigative projects. He... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
C3.15
  Training/CAR, Workshop

13:00 BST

Watchdog reporting with SQL 1
When spreadsheets are not enough, use code! SQL is the lingua franca of programming. The first in three sessions will introduce journalists to what it is and its main commands, including a parallel with Excel.
Speakers
avatar for Brant Houston

Brant Houston

Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting, University of Illinois
Brant Houston is the Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting at the University of Illinois where he teaches and works on projects and research involving the use of data analysis in journalism. He is co-founder of the Global Investigative Journalism Network and the Institute for Nonprofit... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 13:00 - 14:15 BST
C3.04
  Training/CAR, Workshop

14:15 BST

Coffee break
Saturday May 18, 2019 14:15 - 14:45 BST
Front hall
  Organisational

14:45 BST

Grand Theft Europe - unveiling massive VAT fraud
It is the largest ongoing tax fraud in Europe: criminal gangs are stealing €50 billion every year from EU members states, according to the EU Commission.The losses are made worse by a lack of cooperation between EU members. Fraudsters are now eyeing the market for green power certificates. Islamist networks have used the fraud to finance terror. the German non-profit newsroom CORRECTIV has followed in the footsteps of one fraudster who played a major role in a high profile VAT fraud carousel. The investigation reveals how this type of organized crime works and how governments in Europe struggle to combat it. Meet Oliver Schröm of Correctiv who coordinated the research which was published just ten days before the conference, and some team members of the network.
Speakers
avatar for Oliver Schröm

Oliver Schröm

Chefredakteur, correctiv.org
Nach einem Volontariat bei der „Heidenheimer Zeitung“ arbeitete Schröm unter anderem für „Die Zeit“, die „Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung“ sowie für das ZDF-Magazin „Kennzeichen D“. 2010 gründete er das Investigativ-Team des „Stern“ und leitete es bis... Read More →
MO

Saturday May 18, 2019 14:45 - 16:00 BST
Aula II
  Cross-border, Presentation

14:45 BST

HackDay on housing: Home, sweet expensive home
What did we dig out during the Hackday? During the "Home, sweet expensive home" hackday, coders and data journalists worked with a number of datasets for everybody to use. The final results are yet to be known, but possible themes are * the increase in rental prices in towns and cities across Europe (maybe also about property prices?) * reliable and comparable data at the local, national and European levels * number of Airbnb and touristic apartments *number of empty homes * number of social housing and rent-controlled housing * number of homeless people.
Speakers
avatar for Jose Miguel Calatayud

Jose Miguel Calatayud

Freelance journalist, project director at Arena for Journalism in Europe
Jose is a freelance journalist based in Berlin since January 2020, and a project pirector at Arena, where he's been managing the Arena Housing Project, an open collaborative network for housing reporters and researchers. He launched and was the coordinator of Cities for Rent, a cross-border investigation into corporate landlords, which is currently nominated to the European Press Prize, was recognised with an honourable mention at the IJ4EU Impact Award 2022 and was nominated to the Sigma Awards for Data Journalism. Before moving to Berlin, Jose was successively based... Read More →
avatar for Adriana Homolová

Adriana Homolová

Proud coordinator of the data skills training 📊, ARENA, Follow The Money, Lost in Europe
Adriana is a freelance data journalist, trainer and public spending nerd. At Dataharvest, she coordinates the data skills training. At other times, she writes scrapers and investigates European Union for Follow The Money's Bureau Brussel and collects data on missing children in migration... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 14:45 - 16:00 BST
C3.03
  Data buffet, Workshop

14:45 BST

Discover Datashare
THE SESSION IS CLOSED FOR REGISTRATION - SEE NEW SESSION Friday 14:45 - Discover and use Datashare: a free open-source software which helps you explore your documents. Datashare allows to search many types of documents (PDFs, spreadsheets, emails, etc.). It also automatically highlights names of people, organizations and locations - in a secure way. Beginners welcome! Bring your laptop! Register here! - max 12 participants!
Speakers
AL
avatar for Soline Ledésert

Soline Ledésert

Datashare product owner, ICIJ
As the product owner of Datashare at ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists), I design and lead the development of Datashare, a free open-source desktop application which helps you safely and efficiently analyze documents. I am also a video journalist for French-German... Read More →
BT

Saturday May 18, 2019 14:45 - 16:00 BST
C3.06
  Data journalism, Workshop

14:45 BST

FACTA: taking science into journalism - a collaborative approach to more transparent journalism
Facta is a newly founded nonprofit center that applies the scientific method to fact and data-driven journalism, innovating both the process and the final output. The methodology is based on five steps from the definition of clear hypotheses to research for data and publications from various sources, on-field interviews, assessment and feedback by scientists and other selected stakeholders up to the final publication. Each Facta story will published with the complete package of data, relevant documents and full interviews. All data are reusable, the entire process will be replicable. Facta focuses on the Mediterranean region where significant environmental, social and political problems have become real emergencies, media tend to be controlled by politics and there is a very scarce culture regarding digital innovation and transparency. Facta can help restoring trust in media involving stakeholders in different steps and not considering them only as final readers. Our project won’t develop a new set of tools or a platform but it will test and select the technologies appropriate to the process. We are currently working on few pilot cases, including the further steps development of a long term data investigative project on the agricultural market and the solutions small farmers are experimenting to maintain control of their seeds (sequel of seedversity.org and especially seedcontrol.eu), a project that has seen the involvement of farmers networks, agronomists and activists.
Speakers
avatar for Elisabetta Tola

Elisabetta Tola

founder - science&data journalist, facta.eu

Saturday May 18, 2019 14:45 - 16:00 BST
C3.10
  Entrepreneurial, Presentation

14:45 BST

Pesticides? Air pollution? Learn how to get access to environmental information
Need information held by public bodies about the environment? Use the powerful freedom of information laws concerning the government, where public interest gets a lot of weight. Meet a specialised lawyer in the field to give you advice on how to get going. All EU member states and institutions have strong access to document legislation in the field.
Speakers
avatar for Daniel Simons

Daniel Simons

Senior Legal Counsel Strategic Defence, Greenpeace International Legal Unit
I'm a senior legal counsel at Greenpeace International, responsible for risks arising from campaigns (publications, investigations and protests).In practice, much of my work resembles that of a lawyer working with a media outlet. I assist investigations and communications staff by... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 14:45 - 16:00 BST
C3.37
  FOI, Workshop

14:45 BST

Be a better health and medicines reporter
It is easy to take to much at face value in health reporting. In this workshop you will learn who the “bad guys” are, and why reality is more complicated than you think; why a study is not just a study, and how to critically appraise its significance; how to assess the quality of the best available evidence; and tools and tricks to identify the stakeholders and their agendas.
Speakers
avatar for Serena Tinari

Serena Tinari

Founder, Re-Check
I’m an investigative journalist interested in health, human rights and cyber security. Along with fellow Catherine Riva I founded www.re-check.ch.We are two experienced Swiss muckrakers that like to scoop in the backstage of public health: Re-Check specializes in investigating and... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 14:45 - 16:00 BST
C3.05
  Health & Care, Presentation

14:45 BST

Analysing diversity in the newsroom
We have a lack of diversity in newsrooms leading to a lack of diversity in reporting. We are even lacking reliable data on diversity. One reason is that newsrooms do not track the ethnic background of their employees. Here we want to discuss why newsroom diversity is beneficial for journalism and ways to measure and strengthen it. In Germany there is an ongoing pilot project to collect data on newsroom diversity in Germany. We will look at similar journalistic and scientific projects in Europe and elsewhere. The session aims to enable an exchange of experience on newsroom diversity in Europe and discuss possible projects and collaborations on the topic.
Speakers
avatar for Hristio Boytchev

Hristio Boytchev

Investigative health and science journalist, Follow the Grant
Hristio Boytchev is a German investigative health and science journalist. He has worked as reporter for the non-profit newsroom Correctiv and as a freelance medical and science journalist for "Stern", "Der Spiegel" and "Nature". Hristio has masters degrees in biology from the TU Dresden... Read More →
avatar for Urban Larssen

Urban Larssen

lecturer, Södertörn university
Lecturer in journalism, former journalist, PhD in media anthropology on a study of journalism in post-1989 Romania and its connection to a global media development discourse. Current research interests: cross-border collaborative journalism, fake news and fact-checking, diversity... Read More →
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avatar for Tabea Grzeszyk

Tabea Grzeszyk

Journalist and Founder, Hostwriter
Tabea Grzeszyk is a freelance journalist (German National Radio) and co-founder & CEO of Hostwriter.org, an open-source network that helps journalists to easily collaborate across borders. The platform connects more than 5,400 colleagues from 150+ countries for mutual support and... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 14:45 - 16:00 BST
C3.18
  Investigative, Presentation

14:45 BST

Let’s see the evidence! Where algorithmic decisions are used in real life
Can't get a loan at your bank even though you always paid your bills but because an algorithm says, you're not credible? Your family profiled in detail on parameters like mental health issues, phases of unemployment or a forgotten agreement at the school dentist? Systems for automated decision-making (ADM) are already widely used around Europe. But how algorithms are used and controlled differs widely. The recently launched report “Automating Society – Taking Stock of Automated Decision-Making in the EU” by AlgorithmWatch and Bertelsmann Stiftung assesses a wide variety of uses, pointing to regulatory gaps and suggesting better European coordination on the issue. We will outline how we framed the issue, convened the EU-wide network of contributors, and researched the state of play in 12 countries; in addition, we will assess the impact and discuss where we want to go from here.
Speakers
avatar for Matthias Spielkamp

Matthias Spielkamp

Founder and Executive Director, AlgorithmWatch
Matthias Spielkamp is co-founder and executive director of AlgorithmWatch. He is co-founder and publisher of the online magazine iRights.info (Grimme Online Award 2006). He testified before several committees of the German Bundestag, i.e. on AI and robotics. Matthias serves on the governing board of the German section of Reporters Without Borders and the... Read More →
avatar for Nicolas Kayser-Bril

Nicolas Kayser-Bril

Data-driven journalist, trainer & author.Interested in pandas, D3, scraping, climate and the history of cooking.
avatar for Brigitte Alfter

Brigitte Alfter

director, Arena for Journalism
Brigitte Alfter ist eine deutsch-dänische Journalistin, Geschäftsführerin für Redaktionelles bei Arena for Journalism in Europe und Dozentin Journalismus an der Universität Göteborg. Nach Jahren als Journalistin auf fallen Niveaus vom Lokaljournalismus bis zur EU-Korrespondentin... Read More →
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Saturday May 18, 2019 14:45 - 16:00 BST
Aula I
  Investigative, Panel

14:45 BST

All under one roof? Should journalists work with other groups?
It's one of those questions in which it seems we just can't agree: should journalists work along with academic researchers? And what about advocates? And activists? We all produce content in different 'languages' and aimed at different audiences (or do we?), and we also work in different time cycles. Plus journalists are supposed to be independent and impartial, as supposedly should be academic researchers, right? But then, and thinking of housing, there's for instance a lot of interesting and highly relevant academic research being done in Europe that goes unnoticed by most media and then by the general public, and that could have helped to increase the issue's visibility and put more pressure on decision-makers to address it. Or maybe that's not the role of academic research? Advocacy organisations produce a lot of interesting research that goes unnoticed by mainstream audiences. Maybe they could partner up with media outlets across Europe – or maybe actually that's not a good idea. Then, the same data sets can be used in different ways by journalists, scholars, advocates and other researchers; so it might be worth it to join forces at the data-gathering stage. Or maybe not? In this session, we will have a conversation about those issues and will explore the different pros and cons.

Moderators
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Speakers
avatar for Cat McShane

Cat McShane

Documentary Filmmaker and Journalist
Documentary filmmaker and journalist, making work for British broadcasters including the BBC and Channel 4. Enjoy creating alliances with e.g activists, social scientists, trade unions when developing stories, which ideally have a campaign or social impact element. Recently directed... Read More →
avatar for João França

João França

Freelance Journalist
Freelance journalist based in Barcelona. Until January 2017, editor for the non-profit Fundació Periodisme Plural, which publishes four media outlets devoted to the promotion of social justice. Specialised in social movements and housing. Author of two books: 'Habitar la trinxera... Read More →
avatar for Sergio Nasarre-Aznar

Sergio Nasarre-Aznar

Civil law Professor, UNESCO Housing Chair - University Rovira i Virgili
Sergio Nasarre-Aznar (Tarragona, 1974) is Full Professor of Civil Law and Director of the UNESCO Housing Chair at the University Rovira i Virgili (Spain). He is European Doctor in Law and holds an M.Phil. in Land Economy of the University of Cambridge. Since 2008 he is a Corresponding... Read More →
avatar for Besar Likmeta

Besar Likmeta

BIRN Albania Editor, BIRN Albania
Besar has extensive experience in journalism, having worked in print, television and electronic media in both the US and Albania since 2003.Besar has been the editor for BIRN Albania since 2007, and serves as the country correspondent for Balkan Insight.Besar started his career reporting... Read More →
avatar for Michalis Goudis

Michalis Goudis

Communications Director, Housing Europe
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece.Journalism and Mass Communication studies at Aristotle University. Radio & Data Journalism training at LfM in Düsseldorf and at DJS in Munich. Currently concluding his Master's on Human Geography & Spatial Planning.Reporting, posting and broadcasting... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 14:45 - 16:00 BST
C3.19
  Local & Housing, Panel

14:45 BST

Developing code for robot journalism 1/2
Tobi is a text robot that generates automated texts for 2222 Swiss municipalities on the evening of every Swiss national vote, which happen 3 to 4 times a year. The texts are generated by taking the the voting results provided by the national statistics office, analysed using pandas, combined with other data sets and fed into a text generation software. The whole project show cases how important collaboration in journalism ist today: Tobi required coding skills, writing skills, design skills and a lot of coordination. Mathias Born, a member of the data journalism unit at Tamedia, will discuss his coding work.
Speakers
avatar for Mathias Born

Mathias Born

Data Journalist, Tamedia
Data Journalist working for Tamedia in Switzerland.

Saturday May 18, 2019 14:45 - 16:00 BST
C3.11
  Training/CAR, Panel

14:45 BST

R4 - Working with Tidyverse in R 2/3
In this session, you will learn how to interrogate your data and get to grips with Tidyverse’s packages - using filters and data-exploring tools, and starting to find key patterns and hidden gems in it.
Speakers
avatar for Jonathan_Stoneman

Jonathan_Stoneman

Data journalism trainer, Freelance (UK)
avatar for Luuk Sengers

Luuk Sengers

Investigative journalist and university lecturer, Story-Based Inquiry, Groene Amsterdammer
Luuk is an independent investigative journalist, lecturer and media trainer. For the leading Dutch magazine De Groene Amsterdammer he writes about the effects of corporate power on our environment and climate, based on data-analysis. He also teaches research skills, data journalism and interview techniques to professionals and students and helps media and NGOs organise and carry out investigative projects. He... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 14:45 - 16:00 BST
C3.15
  Training/CAR, Workshop

14:45 BST

Watchdog reporting with SQL 2
Building on session 1, we add functions to SQL commands and build a sophisticated code-base interview.
Speakers
avatar for Crina Boros

Crina Boros

Investigative Reporter | Data Journalism Visiting Lecturer
A data-driven watchdog reporter based in London, I've also been training data journalism across the map. An IRE member and offspring of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ), I've published with Reuters, the BBC, ICIJ, openDemocracy, Greenpeace Unearthed, Euobserver, The Black... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 14:45 - 16:00 BST
C3.04
  Training/CAR, Workshop

16:00 BST

Coffee break
Saturday May 18, 2019 16:00 - 16:30 BST
Front hall
  Organisational

16:30 BST

Football Leaks - the story that keeps on giving
Three years after Football Leaks started, this EIC.network project is still producing new stories based on new data and is shaping a new European network of journalists. The latest published stories have brought new angles on the football business, exposing the business of minors, the immense power of big clubs as well as those who should keep it a fair sport. This panel would describe the complicated mechanics involved in researching, publishing and resisting spins and legal attacks after publication in the context of a network investigation.
Moderators
avatar for Ștefan Cândea

Ștefan Cândea

co-founder, coordinator, European Investigative Collaborations
Currently I am the coordinator of the EIC network.My work started with covering organized crime across borders in România at the end of the 90’s. Mid 2015 I co-founded EIC as a network_by_agreement between media organisations and currently I coordinate the editorial and technological projects between @derspiegel @destandaard... Read More →

Speakers
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Yann Philippin

Journalist, Mediapart
Journaliste à Mediapart. J'aime le soleil et les paradis fiscaux. Membre de l'équipe #FootballLeaks. Co-auteur du livre Dassault Système.
avatar for Nicola Naber

Nicola Naber

Investigative Reporter, DER SPIEGEL
Works for DER SPIEGEL in Hamburg since 2006. Focused on white collar crime. Board member of European Investigative Collaborations.
avatar for Maxie Eckert

Saturday May 18, 2019 16:30 - 17:45 BST
Aula II
  Cross-border, presentation

16:30 BST

Hackday: Health & Medicines
Health, medicines and care is one of two topics of the EIJC19 Hackday. It brings together specialised journalists and coders who join forces to make accessible a diverse range of data in the field. From public tender data over science funding analysis to medical testing and side effects. Come meet the specialists and take home access to relevant data and document collections in the field.
Speakers
avatar for Adriana Homolová

Adriana Homolová

Proud coordinator of the data skills training 📊, ARENA, Follow The Money, Lost in Europe
Adriana is a freelance data journalist, trainer and public spending nerd. At Dataharvest, she coordinates the data skills training. At other times, she writes scrapers and investigates European Union for Follow The Money's Bureau Brussel and collects data on missing children in migration... Read More →
avatar for Serena Tinari

Serena Tinari

Founder, Re-Check
I’m an investigative journalist interested in health, human rights and cyber security. Along with fellow Catherine Riva I founded www.re-check.ch.We are two experienced Swiss muckrakers that like to scoop in the backstage of public health: Re-Check specializes in investigating and... Read More →
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avatar for Victor Nițu

Victor Nițu

Software Developer, tenders.exposed
Victor is one of the developers of Elvis, a public tenders visualization platform that aims to visually expose patterns of corruption in the EU and beyond. A while ago he was one of the developers behind OpenTrials, an aggregator of all clinical trials around the world with advanced... Read More →
avatar for Hristio Boytchev

Hristio Boytchev

Investigative health and science journalist, Follow the Grant
Hristio Boytchev is a German investigative health and science journalist. He has worked as reporter for the non-profit newsroom Correctiv and as a freelance medical and science journalist for "Stern", "Der Spiegel" and "Nature". Hristio has masters degrees in biology from the TU Dresden... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 16:30 - 17:45 BST
C3.06
  Data buffet, Workshop

16:30 BST

The best thing I did to become a data journalist
Is it better to learn R or Python? What’s the “right” path to take to become a data journalist? What does it actually mean? Meet some eminent data journalists from very different backgrounds share their personal way up the data journalism ladder.
Moderators
avatar for Letizia Gambini

Letizia Gambini

Project Manager, European Journalism Centre
At the European Journalism Centre, I take care of the data journalism programmes. We curate online courses, resources and a interactive community for data journalism enthusiasts on DataJournalism.com.

Speakers
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avatar for Attila Bátorfy

Attila Bátorfy

head of data and visualization, Átlátszó.hu
Data journalist at Átlátszó.hu, head of visual journalism team of Átló. Master teacher of journalism and information graphics at Institute of Art Theory and Media Research of Eötvös Loránd Science University. 
avatar for Carmen Aguilar García

Carmen Aguilar García

Senior Data Journalist, Sky News
Data journalist at Sky News. Scraping, cleaning, data analysis, visual storytelling but above all JOURNALISM!

Saturday May 18, 2019 16:30 - 17:45 BST
Aula I
  Data journalism, panel

16:30 BST

Build a community to support your journalism - how to start
A community of readers who pay for the journalism they really want - an ideal funding model. While some new media hit the right moment with the right model and just take off, it is also possible to build a community from scratch, slowly but steadily. Oliver Moldenhauer has extensive experience in the field, amongst other things he was the founding director of the campaigning website WeMove.EU. In this workshop he will share his experiences and give advice on how to build a community to support journalism.
Speakers
avatar for Oliver Moldenhauer

Oliver Moldenhauer

I am a political activist and campaigner. A trained Physicist, I also am a  political activist who likes to build up things. I founded and led for 4 years the EU-wide online campaigning organisation WeMove.EU (2014-2018) and co-founded Attac in Germany (member of the national coordination... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 16:30 - 17:45 BST
C3.05
  Entrepreneurial, Workshop

16:30 BST

Freedom of Information requests with the EU - institution by institution
To get access to documents and data in the European institutions you need to address the institution holding the information. Three experienced practitioners will share their experience in filing access to documents requests in the Parliament, the Commission and the Council.
Speakers
avatar for Anuška Delić

Anuška Delić

founder & editor-in-chief, Oštro
An investigative and data journalist from Slovenia with more work titles than she wants to count. In 2018 she left the country's main daily newspaper to establish Oštro, Center for investigative journalism in the Adriatic region. In 2021, just in time for the publication of Pandora... Read More →
avatar for Staffan Dahllöf

Staffan Dahllöf

Freelance reporter, freelance, Denmarken
Eager to discuss any matter related to EU-reporting, especially FOI/Wobbing-issues. Have taken part in crossborder project Farmsubsidy.org, the Facebook arrests the MEP's Project, Chlorpyrifos (the most dangerous pesticide you've never heared of), Illegal pesticide + ongoing Covid... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 16:30 - 17:45 BST
C3.19
  FOI, Workshop

16:30 BST

Covering religious sects - using GDPR as a FOI tool
The regional newspaper Fædrelandsvennen in Norway uncovered the religious courtsystem of Jehovah's Witnesses, based on leaked documents and the testimonies of a number of women. In this session you will also learn about Faithleaks and how to use GDPR as a FOI-tool.
Speakers
avatar for Tarjei Leer-Salvesen

Tarjei Leer-Salvesen

Investigative reporter, Fædrelandsvennen
Tarjei Leer-Salvesen is an investigative journalist working for the regional newspaper Fædrelandsvennen in Norway. He has specialised in research method, sharing his time between newspapers and documentary film projects the past years. His particular interest is archive research... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 16:30 - 17:45 BST
C3.03
  Investigative, Presentation

16:30 BST

Uncovering the Bankruptcy Repeaters
Who files for bankryptcy over and over again? Who are the business people earning money from repeated bankruptcies, while ordinary people and the government lose money? Who are the people in quarantine from running any business, who do it anyway? Journalism about bankruptcies is often fragmented and covers individual cases. Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet’s investigative team developed new methods to map individuals’ abuse of the bankruptcy institution using big data and data drive analysis. Analyzing a spreadsheet of 163 000 rows and 33 columns, through queries and FOIA, they documented how business people circumvent the quarantines, and how the state is cheated for billions. Come and learn how you can do the same documentation in your country.
Speakers
avatar for Eiliv Frich Flydal

Eiliv Frich Flydal

Journalist, VG
Eiliv Frich Flydal jobber med undersøkende journalistikk i VG og er tilknyttet politisk avdeling.Eiliv Frich Flydal works as an investigative journalist at VG in Norway.

Saturday May 18, 2019 16:30 - 17:45 BST
C3.10
  Investigative, Presentation

16:30 BST

Housing reporters and researchers of Europe, unite!
Let’s follow this conference by creating a European Housing Reporting Hub! There are many people doing a lot of work on housing, from journalists and academic researchers to advocates and activists. As they work within different frames, in different fields and languages and with different outcomes in mind, possibilities for all those resources and work to have greater visibiliy and impact may be missed. After discussing those issues for two days, let’s brainstorm ways about how to set up a Europoean Housing Reporting Hub to easily access information, data, visualisations, contacts and other resources about housing; and to encourage collaborations across borders and maybe also across disciplines.
Moderators
avatar for Brigitte Alfter

Brigitte Alfter

director, Arena for Journalism
Brigitte Alfter ist eine deutsch-dänische Journalistin, Geschäftsführerin für Redaktionelles bei Arena for Journalism in Europe und Dozentin Journalismus an der Universität Göteborg. Nach Jahren als Journalistin auf fallen Niveaus vom Lokaljournalismus bis zur EU-Korrespondentin... Read More →
avatar for Jose Miguel Calatayud

Jose Miguel Calatayud

Freelance journalist, project director at Arena for Journalism in Europe
Jose is a freelance journalist based in Berlin since January 2020, and a project pirector at Arena, where he's been managing the Arena Housing Project, an open collaborative network for housing reporters and researchers. He launched and was the coordinator of Cities for Rent, a cross-border investigation into corporate landlords, which is currently nominated to the European Press Prize, was recognised with an honourable mention at the IJ4EU Impact Award 2022 and was nominated to the Sigma Awards for Data Journalism. Before moving to Berlin, Jose was successively based... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Megan Lucero

Megan Lucero

Director of The Bureau Local, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Hi there - I head up the Bureau Local, a people-powered network setting the news agenda and sparking change from the ground up, in the UK. We're reimagining investigative journalism by making it open, accessible and collaborative from start to finish. I also deeply care about the... Read More →
avatar for Mollie Hanley

Mollie Hanley

Community Organizer, Open Corporates
Mollie Hanley is community organiser at OpenCorporates, the worlds largest open database of companies in the world. With a background in community organising, her role is to support the journalists and investigators who use their data, to ensure they are able to make as much of a... Read More →
avatar for Cat McShane

Cat McShane

Documentary Filmmaker and Journalist
Documentary filmmaker and journalist, making work for British broadcasters including the BBC and Channel 4. Enjoy creating alliances with e.g activists, social scientists, trade unions when developing stories, which ideally have a campaign or social impact element. Recently directed... Read More →
avatar for Sabrina Ebitsch

Sabrina Ebitsch

Projects Editor, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Sabrina Ebitsch manages data, storytelling and crowdsourcing projects at Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich. Previously she worked in the online newsroom and as a freelancer for Die Zeit, SZ and others. Did her PhD in literature and went to journalism school in Munich.
avatar for Sergio Nasarre-Aznar

Sergio Nasarre-Aznar

Civil law Professor, UNESCO Housing Chair - University Rovira i Virgili
Sergio Nasarre-Aznar (Tarragona, 1974) is Full Professor of Civil Law and Director of the UNESCO Housing Chair at the University Rovira i Virgili (Spain). He is European Doctor in Law and holds an M.Phil. in Land Economy of the University of Cambridge. Since 2008 he is a Corresponding... Read More →
avatar for Christian Endt

Christian Endt

Redakteur, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Redakteur bei der Süddeutschen Zeitung in München, Schwerpunkt Datenjournalismus und Infografik. Zuvor Studium der Mathematik und Physik in Augsburg, freier Journalist, Volontariat bei der SZ. Mag Radfahren, Literatur und laute Musik.
avatar for João França

João França

Freelance Journalist
Freelance journalist based in Barcelona. Until January 2017, editor for the non-profit Fundació Periodisme Plural, which publishes four media outlets devoted to the promotion of social justice. Specialised in social movements and housing. Author of two books: 'Habitar la trinxera... Read More →
avatar for Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou

Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou

Journalist, The Manifold
Journalist from Greece and a member of The Manifold, a team of investigative journalists based in Athens, Nicosia and London whose work has been featured in Al Jazeera English, Deutsche Welle and the Columbia Journalism Review, among others. Co-creator of The Manifold Files, a digital... Read More →
avatar for Marina Demertzian

Marina Demertzian

journalist, ERT
Journalist at ERT (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation- Greek Public TV). During the last 3 years I' ve been co-producing a 60 Minutes investigative documentary programme (ERT Report), dealing with social issues, such as the impact of short term rentals in Athens and Crete, harm reduction... Read More →
avatar for Simon Wörpel

Simon Wörpel

data journalist, Correctiv
Simon works as data journalist and newsroom developer at CORRECTIV, an investigative not for profit newsroom. he is specialized in data wrangling and documents processing and works on tools that empower computer assisted investigative reporting like the https://cumex-files.com & https://grand-theft-europe.com... Read More →
avatar for Alice Facchini

Alice Facchini

Freelance journalist
I am a freelance journalist based in Bologna, Italy, since September 2018. I write features for web magazines Internazionale, Osservatorio Diritti and Q Code Magazine, covering social and environmental issues and human rights violations.Between 2016 and 2017 I lived in South America... Read More →
avatar for Justus von Daniels

Justus von Daniels

Chefredakteur, Correctiv
Justus von Daniels ist Chefredakteur von CORRECTIV. Von 2015-2018 arbeitete er als Investigativreporter bei Correctiv, Schwerpunkte dort waren Lobbyismus und Geldwäsche sowie das Projekt „Wem gehört die Stadt“, eine Bürgerrecherche zum Immobilienmarkt. 2018 baute er als Leiter... Read More →
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Saturday May 18, 2019 16:30 - 17:45 BST
C3.37
  Local & Housing, Round table

16:30 BST

We are in this together: Making your local audience give you a hand
Sometimes, the data is out there, somewhere. Sometimes it is not. In such occasions, wouldn't it be great if you could ask thousands of people from your audience (and outside of it) for information regarding a story for which you need individual data points? There are quite a few free and open source platforms and tools that can help when it comes to crowdsourcing data and information. In this session, we will hear about some of those platforms and tools: CrowdNewsroom (developed by German investigative non-profit Correctiv), Taskforce (developed by the Journalism++ network) and OpenSchufa (developed by Berlin-based research and advocacy organisation AlgorithmWatch). Come and learn how to conduct your own crowdsourced investigation!
Speakers
avatar for Anne-Lise Bouyer

Anne-Lise Bouyer

Tech & data team lead, CORRECTIV
Anne-Lise heads the technical & data team at the nonprofit investigative newsroom CORRECTIV . Prior to that, she co-founded Journalism++, an agency for data-driven storytelling where she where she worked for 4 years as a project manager and coordinated the Migrants' Files project... Read More →
avatar for Ricardo Lafuente

Ricardo Lafuente

Editor & Data Architect, J++
Designer with a passion for code, data, civic tech and free/open source software.Interested in information design, crowdsourcing tools, novel uses of messaging and Python everything.
avatar for Lorenz Matzat

Lorenz Matzat

Co-Founder, AlgorithmWatch
Lorenz Matzat is a journalist and software entrepeneur in Berlin with a focus on local journalism, maps, algorithmic accountability and interactive applications.

Saturday May 18, 2019 16:30 - 17:45 BST
C3.18
  Local & Housing, Presentation

16:30 BST

Developing code for robot journalism 2/2
The nitty gritty work of the text robot Tobi, which creates 40'000 short articles for every Swiss municipality, consists of a lot of Python coding work. Participants of this hands-on will set up Python on their computers and get a first impression of how the powerful Python library Pandas handles huge data sets.
Speakers
avatar for Mathias Born

Mathias Born

Data Journalist, Tamedia
Data Journalist working for Tamedia in Switzerland.

Saturday May 18, 2019 16:30 - 17:45 BST
C3.11
  Training/CAR, Workshop

16:30 BST

R5 - Working with Tidyverse in R 3/3
Visualising your data to find patterns and, ultimately, tell stories is vital. In this session, you will learn how to use Tidyverse’s package “ggplot2” to turn data into stunning visuals. The session includes advice on how to keep your R journey going; where to get help and advice and further training at low or zero cost.
Speakers
avatar for Jonathan_Stoneman

Jonathan_Stoneman

Data journalism trainer, Freelance (UK)
avatar for Luuk Sengers

Luuk Sengers

Investigative journalist and university lecturer, Story-Based Inquiry, Groene Amsterdammer
Luuk is an independent investigative journalist, lecturer and media trainer. For the leading Dutch magazine De Groene Amsterdammer he writes about the effects of corporate power on our environment and climate, based on data-analysis. He also teaches research skills, data journalism and interview techniques to professionals and students and helps media and NGOs organise and carry out investigative projects. He... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 16:30 - 17:45 BST
C3.15
  Training/CAR, Workshop

16:30 BST

Watchdog reporting with SQL 3
Building on session 2, we'll join tables in SQL before writing queries for deeper reporting.
Speakers
avatar for Crina Boros

Crina Boros

Investigative Reporter | Data Journalism Visiting Lecturer
A data-driven watchdog reporter based in London, I've also been training data journalism across the map. An IRE member and offspring of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ), I've published with Reuters, the BBC, ICIJ, openDemocracy, Greenpeace Unearthed, Euobserver, The Black... Read More →

Saturday May 18, 2019 16:30 - 17:45 BST
C3.04
  Training/CAR, Workshop
 
Sunday, May 19
 

09:00 BST

Coffee
Sunday May 19, 2019 09:00 - 09:30 BST
Front hall
  Organisational

09:30 BST

Unbias the News
We all have our cultural and national bias and blind spots – and are not aware of them. We carry them into cross-border collaborations and into our stories – and run the risk of reproducing the same prejudice over and over again. How can we find a constructive approach to embracing such bias in crossborder collaboration and help each other to 'unbias' our journalism by shedding light on each others' blind spots in the editorial discussion? The panel of speakers are journalists from different backgrounds and have seen first-hand how bias, discrimination and cultural misunderstandings can affect journalism, and some of them have addressed it within larger cross-border collaborative teams. Several of them have contributed to the book 'Unbias the news' to be published by Hostwriter at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in September 2019.
Moderators
avatar for Tabea Grzeszyk

Tabea Grzeszyk

Journalist and Founder, Hostwriter
Tabea Grzeszyk is a freelance journalist (German National Radio) and co-founder & CEO of Hostwriter.org, an open-source network that helps journalists to easily collaborate across borders. The platform connects more than 5,400 colleagues from 150+ countries for mutual support and... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Mohammad Bassiki

Mohammad Bassiki

Journalist and Founder, SIRAJ - Syrian Investigative Reporting Unit
Syrian journalist and researcher interested in policy analysis and economics in the Middle East, writer at Al-monitor, founder of the Syrian Investigations Unit - SIRAJ, the first investigative reporting network in Syria. Based in Paris, France. He is an Ambassador for Hostwriter... Read More →
avatar for Jelena Prtoric

Jelena Prtoric

Journalist / Arena Climate Network Coordinator, Arena for Journalism in Europe
avatar for Zeynep Sentek

Zeynep Sentek

Journalist
Zeynep is a Turkish investigative journalist specialised in corruption, offshore structures, workers' rights and environmental investigations. She currently works as the Network Coordinator for the London-based news organisation openDemocracy. She is also the managing editor of the... Read More →
avatar for Ștefan Cândea

Ștefan Cândea

co-founder, coordinator, European Investigative Collaborations
Currently I am the coordinator of the EIC network.My work started with covering organized crime across borders in România at the end of the 90’s. Mid 2015 I co-founded EIC as a network_by_agreement between media organisations and currently I coordinate the editorial and technological projects between @derspiegel @destandaard... Read More →

Sunday May 19, 2019 09:30 - 10:45 BST
Aula II
  Cross-border, Panel

09:30 BST

Best practice when teaching data journalism
ORGANISED BY DATA JOURNALISM LECTURERS: A lot of journalists and journalism students have a skeptical approach to numbers and data, and some of the challenge for data journalism trainers is to let the students come to insight what a powerful tool data journalism is in for example investigative journalism. In this session some experienced trainers shows their best practice on how to make the participants in both higher education and training for journalists overcome their potential fear, and switching it to abilities and knowledge of gathering, verifying, cleaning, analyzing and communicating data.
Speakers
avatar for Jonathan_Stoneman

Jonathan_Stoneman

Data journalism trainer, Freelance (UK)

Sunday May 19, 2019 09:30 - 10:45 BST
C3.18
  Data journalism, Networking

09:30 BST

FOI Tactics - workshop
What can you ask for? Who should you ask? When is a good time? How do you access information in other countries? Norwegian Tarjei Leer-Salvesen has becomne an expert on the tactics of FOI He has asked for letters and datasets, receipts and payment details, foreign court decisions, film and pictures and even the results from x-ray scans on one occasion. He will share some insights on the strategies that often seem to work.
Speakers
avatar for Tarjei Leer-Salvesen

Tarjei Leer-Salvesen

Investigative reporter, Fædrelandsvennen
Tarjei Leer-Salvesen is an investigative journalist working for the regional newspaper Fædrelandsvennen in Norway. He has specialised in research method, sharing his time between newspapers and documentary film projects the past years. His particular interest is archive research... Read More →

Sunday May 19, 2019 09:30 - 10:45 BST
C3.19
  FOI, Workshop

09:30 BST

There’s no place like home: Covering housing
Often treated as an economic, legal or bureaucratic topic, in reality housing is also one of the most intimate issues touching people's lives, as it's about such a basic human right as having a home. We'll hear about the human dimension of housing from people who've been covering or working on the topic of housing. How to deal in a humane manner with those going through dramatic personal situations regarding housing? How to report responsibly about housing?
Moderators
avatar for Jose Miguel Calatayud

Jose Miguel Calatayud

Freelance journalist, project director at Arena for Journalism in Europe
Jose is a freelance journalist based in Berlin since January 2020, and a project pirector at Arena, where he's been managing the Arena Housing Project, an open collaborative network for housing reporters and researchers. He launched and was the coordinator of Cities for Rent, a cross-border investigation into corporate landlords, which is currently nominated to the European Press Prize, was recognised with an honourable mention at the IJ4EU Impact Award 2022 and was nominated to the Sigma Awards for Data Journalism. Before moving to Berlin, Jose was successively based... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Alice Facchini

Alice Facchini

Freelance journalist
I am a freelance journalist based in Bologna, Italy, since September 2018. I write features for web magazines Internazionale, Osservatorio Diritti and Q Code Magazine, covering social and environmental issues and human rights violations.Between 2016 and 2017 I lived in South America... Read More →
avatar for Cat McShane

Cat McShane

Documentary Filmmaker and Journalist
Documentary filmmaker and journalist, making work for British broadcasters including the BBC and Channel 4. Enjoy creating alliances with e.g activists, social scientists, trade unions when developing stories, which ideally have a campaign or social impact element. Recently directed... Read More →
avatar for João França

João França

Freelance Journalist
Freelance journalist based in Barcelona. Until January 2017, editor for the non-profit Fundació Periodisme Plural, which publishes four media outlets devoted to the promotion of social justice. Specialised in social movements and housing. Author of two books: 'Habitar la trinxera... Read More →
avatar for Besar Likmeta

Besar Likmeta

BIRN Albania Editor, BIRN Albania
Besar has extensive experience in journalism, having worked in print, television and electronic media in both the US and Albania since 2003.Besar has been the editor for BIRN Albania since 2007, and serves as the country correspondent for Balkan Insight.Besar started his career reporting... Read More →
avatar for Michalis Goudis

Michalis Goudis

Communications Director, Housing Europe
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece.Journalism and Mass Communication studies at Aristotle University. Radio & Data Journalism training at LfM in Düsseldorf and at DJS in Munich. Currently concluding his Master's on Human Geography & Spatial Planning.Reporting, posting and broadcasting... Read More →

Sunday May 19, 2019 09:30 - 10:45 BST
Aula I
  Local & Housing, Panel

09:30 BST

Digital security: Securing editorial communication
Learn how to use Signal on your laptop and phone to communicate securely with sources and colleagues. The workshop is relevant for both new and experienced users of Signal, as we cover both the basics and features you may not know, such as disappearing messages, safety numbers and Signal for desktop. We will also talk about how to implement Signal in different journalistic work settings, like when travelling, in the newsroom and when you communicate with sources.
Speakers
avatar for Freja Wedenborg

Freja Wedenborg

Journalist
Danish journalist and author of Cryptoguide for journalists. Teaching journalism and digital self defence atVallekilde Folk High School and the Danish School of Media and Journalism and freelancing investigative journalism. Also a board member in The Danish Union of Journalists. @FrejaWedenborg... Read More →
avatar for Aslak Ransby

Aslak Ransby

Programmer and security trainer.
I'm @aslakransby on twitter.

Sunday May 19, 2019 09:30 - 10:45 BST
C3.03
  Security, Workshop

09:30 BST

Scrape without coding: Import.io 1/2
Speakers
avatar for Nils Mulvad

Nils Mulvad

Investigative Reporting Denmark
Nils Mulvad is a co-founder of the Global Network for  Investigative Journalism and other international networks such as  Farmsubsidy.org. He was CEO for the Danish International Center for  Analytical Reporting 2001-2006, European journalist of the year in 2006,  and he also... Read More →

Sunday May 19, 2019 09:30 - 10:45 BST
C3.15
  Training/CAR, Workshop

09:30 BST

Statistics for journalists 1/2: How to improve your nummeracy
Any data-driven story needs statistical knowledge to interrogate and interpret the data properly. But the lack of numeracy in newsrooms leads to poor analyses and it is also a detriment to the development of more robust and innovative models in which base our stories. In this session, we’ll talk about what data journalists need to consider when working with numbers and we’ll go through a list of descriptive and inferential methods useful for journalistic stories.
Speakers
avatar for Carmen Aguilar García

Carmen Aguilar García

Senior Data Journalist, Sky News
Data journalist at Sky News. Scraping, cleaning, data analysis, visual storytelling but above all JOURNALISM!

Sunday May 19, 2019 09:30 - 10:45 BST
C3.11
  Training/Car, Workshop

10:45 BST

Coffee break
Sunday May 19, 2019 10:45 - 11:15 BST
Front hall
  Organisational

11:15 BST

How we disclosed the biggest tax robbery in European history
In October 2018, 39 journalists from 19 media in 12 countries published the CumEx Files and unveiled the biggest tax robbery in European history. Bankers, brokers and rich investors robbed over the years 55 billion euros from the treasuries of EU countries. Oliver Schröm, editor-in-chief of the the German non-profit newsroom CORRECTIV, was one of the initiators and head of European research cooperation. He describes how this team of investigative journalists researched, how they evaluated 180,000 documents, how they got an insider to make a confession in front of their TV camera. Schröm shows how he and his colleague Christian Salewski slipped into the role of billionaires and proved with the help of an offshore company in a spectacular undercover mission that these cheaters are plundering public treasuries not just in Europe but around the world.
Moderators
avatar for Ruben Brugnera

Ruben Brugnera

Freelance investigative journalist
Freelance investigative reporter, based in Brussels, Belgium. Expertise in lobbying, regulation of technologies, health, environment, EU, injustice, social exclusion. Has participated in several crossborder investigations. Lecturer in journalistic research at Thomas More Hogeschool... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Oliver Schröm

Oliver Schröm

Chefredakteur, correctiv.org
Nach einem Volontariat bei der „Heidenheimer Zeitung“ arbeitete Schröm unter anderem für „Die Zeit“, die „Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung“ sowie für das ZDF-Magazin „Kennzeichen D“. 2010 gründete er das Investigativ-Team des „Stern“ und leitete es bis... Read More →

Sunday May 19, 2019 11:15 - 12:30 BST
Aula II
  Cross-border, Presentation

11:15 BST

How to use OpenCorporates as a (data) journalist
OpenCorporates is the largest open database of companies and company data in the world. Its aim is "to make information on companies more usable and more widely available for the public benefit, particularly to tackle the use of companies for criminal or anti-social purposes, for example corruption, money laundering and organised crime". In this session, we'll hear how journalists can use and benefit from the work done by OpenCorporates.
Speakers
avatar for Mollie Hanley

Mollie Hanley

Community Organizer, Open Corporates
Mollie Hanley is community organiser at OpenCorporates, the worlds largest open database of companies in the world. With a background in community organising, her role is to support the journalists and investigators who use their data, to ensure they are able to make as much of a... Read More →

Sunday May 19, 2019 11:15 - 12:30 BST
C3.37
  Data buffet, Presentation, workshop

11:15 BST

Discover Datashare
THE SESSION IS CLOSED FOR REGISTRATION - SEE NEW SESSION Friday 14:45 - Discover and use Datashare: a free open-source software which helps you explore your documents. Datashare allows to search many types of documents (PDFs, spreadsheets, emails, etc.). It also automatically highlights names of people, organizations and locations - in a secure way. Beginners welcome! Bring your laptop! Register here! - max 12 participants!
Speakers
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avatar for Soline Ledésert

Soline Ledésert

Datashare product owner, ICIJ
As the product owner of Datashare at ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists), I design and lead the development of Datashare, a free open-source desktop application which helps you safely and efficiently analyze documents. I am also a video journalist for French-German... Read More →
BT

Sunday May 19, 2019 11:15 - 12:30 BST
C3.03
  Data journalism, Workshop

11:15 BST

Workshop on teaching data journalism
ORGANISED BY DATA JOURNALISM LECTURERS: Come and discuss hands-on strategies for teaching data journalism. Prepare by think about - what is your best experience of a workshop, exercise or assignment in your data journalism training, either as a trainer or as a participant. Why was it so good? What was the learning outcome? We will discuss and inspire each other.
Speakers
avatar for Jonathan_Stoneman

Jonathan_Stoneman

Data journalism trainer, Freelance (UK)

Sunday May 19, 2019 11:15 - 12:30 BST
C3.18
  Data journalism, Workshop

11:15 BST

Structured Internet Research
From a researchers point of view, "there's no such thing as internet". Most people, even journalists, think by using Google they are searching the internet. That's wrong. Google (and the other search engines) only provide a partial copy of a very small part of the world wide web. The deep web, the social networks, the darknet are not covered by search engines. Researching these huge areas of information needs totally different methods und tools. How to find databases? Which kinds of tools can we use to research social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and other? Wide parts of the social web can't be found in search engines. And, of course, same with the "Darknet". The more you know about the structure of the internet, the more effective your searches will be.
Speakers
avatar for Albrecht Ude

Albrecht Ude

Recherche-Trainer, Netzwerk Recherche
Albrecht Ude is based in Berlin (Germany) and Friesland, works as freelancing journalist, researcher and research-trainer (online-researches, source checking, fact checking and security issues).writes for several newspapers and magazines, print and online. focusses on structured internet... Read More →

Sunday May 19, 2019 11:15 - 12:30 BST
Aula I
  Investigative, workshop

11:15 BST

Know your audience: how local media engage with their public
These days, thanks to digital technologies and social media there are many more ways to communicate and engage with our audiences than for instance just a decade ago. And of course journalists may also still meet physically with their audiences, for which local media are specially well suited. And not only for that, as by virtue of being local those media have in all respects a much closer relationship with their public. In this session, we will hear about how different local and regional media are now engaging with their audiences: from asking your readers what topics to investigate, to collaborating with your audience to crowdsource local data, to running a media school for members of the public (who then may become contributors to your media outlet), to organising events and workshops.
Moderators
avatar for Jose Miguel Calatayud

Jose Miguel Calatayud

Freelance journalist, project director at Arena for Journalism in Europe
Jose is a freelance journalist based in Berlin since January 2020, and a project pirector at Arena, where he's been managing the Arena Housing Project, an open collaborative network for housing reporters and researchers. He launched and was the coordinator of Cities for Rent, a cross-border investigation into corporate landlords, which is currently nominated to the European Press Prize, was recognised with an honourable mention at the IJ4EU Impact Award 2022 and was nominated to the Sigma Awards for Data Journalism. Before moving to Berlin, Jose was successively based... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Sabrina Ebitsch

Sabrina Ebitsch

Projects Editor, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Sabrina Ebitsch manages data, storytelling and crowdsourcing projects at Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich. Previously she worked in the online newsroom and as a freelancer for Die Zeit, SZ and others. Did her PhD in literature and went to journalism school in Munich.
avatar for Pierre Leibovici

Pierre Leibovici

Engagement Lead, Mediacités
Pierre manages engagement projects at Mediacités, a local investigative news organization based in Lille, Lyon, Nantes, and Toulouse. He works along with readers to get story tips, questions, and feedback to better serve their needs and improve the impact of Mediacités’ stories... Read More →
avatar for Lucas Batt

Lucas Batt

Membership Lead, The Bristol Cable
Membership Lead at the Bristol Cable, a local newspaper owned and supported by 2,700 people in Bristol, UK.

Sunday May 19, 2019 11:15 - 12:30 BST
C3.19
  Local & Housing, Panel

11:15 BST

How to impress your colleagues with Command Line Magic
Speakers
avatar for Simon Wörpel

Simon Wörpel

data journalist, Correctiv
Simon works as data journalist and newsroom developer at CORRECTIV, an investigative not for profit newsroom. he is specialized in data wrangling and documents processing and works on tools that empower computer assisted investigative reporting like the https://cumex-files.com & https://grand-theft-europe.com... Read More →

Sunday May 19, 2019 11:15 - 12:30 BST
C3.04
  Training/Car, Workshop

11:15 BST

Scrape without coding: Import.io 2/2
Speakers
avatar for Nils Mulvad

Nils Mulvad

Investigative Reporting Denmark
Nils Mulvad is a co-founder of the Global Network for  Investigative Journalism and other international networks such as  Farmsubsidy.org. He was CEO for the Danish International Center for  Analytical Reporting 2001-2006, European journalist of the year in 2006,  and he also... Read More →

Sunday May 19, 2019 11:15 - 12:30 BST
C3.15
  Training/CAR, Workshop

11:15 BST

Statistics for journalists 2/2: Find correlations in data
Speakers
avatar for Crina Boros

Crina Boros

Investigative Reporter | Data Journalism Visiting Lecturer
A data-driven watchdog reporter based in London, I've also been training data journalism across the map. An IRE member and offspring of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ), I've published with Reuters, the BBC, ICIJ, openDemocracy, Greenpeace Unearthed, Euobserver, The Black... Read More →

Sunday May 19, 2019 11:15 - 12:30 BST
C3.11
  Training/Car, Workshop

12:45 BST

Goodbye - see you next year!
Sunday May 19, 2019 12:45 - 13:15 BST
Aula I
  Networking
 
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