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Summer school 2008 - Timetable

Friday 18 July [0]

  • Saturday 19 July [0]
  • Sunday 20 July [0]

  • Friday 18 July

    8.30 Registration, tea and coffee
    9.00 – 9.15 Welcome
    Gavin MacFadyen, Director CIJ
    Adrian Monck, Head of Journalism, City University
    Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre
    9.15 – 10.10 The Conventions of Churnalism:
    objectivity, balance and bad journalism

    Nick Davies
    Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre
    Talk 1
    Room C350
    Talk 2
    Room C348
    CAR 1
    PC Lab EG07
    CAR 2
    PC Lab Level 3A
    CAR A-Z
    CAR 3
    PC Lab EG12
    10.20 – 11.30 The Serious Fraud Office Robert Wardle No session An introduction to CAR (demo) David Donald, Aron Pilhofer Excel 1: formulas, calculations (B hands-on) Heather Brooke No session
    11.40 – 12.50 Understanding company accounts 1. Company documents Robert Miller Libel and privacy law update Philip Conway, Justin Walford Excel 1: formulas; calculations (B hands-on) David Donald Excel 2: sorting, filtering, other tools (B hands-on) Elena Egawhary Access 1: understanding databases (B hands-on) Aron Pilhofer
    Lunch
    2.00 – 3.10 Power and Responsibility
    John Pilger in conversation with Gavin MacFadyen
    Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre
    Room C350 Room C348 PC Lab EG07 PC Lab Level 3A PC Lab EG12
    3.20 – 4.30 Understanding company accounts 2. A company balance sheet 3. Profit and loss statements
    Raj Bairoliya
    MPs' expenses, ministerial scalps and the FOIA Heather Brooke, David Gordon Excel 2: sorting, filtering, other tools (B hands-on) David Donald Excel 3: summarizing data; pivot tables (B hands-on) Elena Egawhary Access 2: needle in the haystack; summarizing (B hands-on) Aron Pilhofer
    4.40 – 5.50 Understanding company accounts 4. The small print
    Raj Bairoliya
    Spinning climate change: oil, nuclear poer and PR Andy Rowell Excel 3: summarizing data; pivot tables (B hands-on) David Donald Internet searching: Google and beyond (B hands-on) Tommy Kaas Access 3: joining tables for investigations (B hands-on) Aron Pilhofer


    Saturday 19 July

    8.30 Tea and coffee
    Talk 1
    Room C350
    Talk 2
    Room C348
    CAR 1
    PC Lab EG07
    CAR 2
    PC Lab Level 3A
    CAR A-Z
    CAR 3
    PC Lab EG12
    9.00 – 10.10 No session
    You and your computer: protect your privacy Dmitri Vitaliev Investigating a website (B demo) Paul Myers Access 1: understanding databases (B hands-on) Aron Pilhofer Excel 1: formulas; calculations (B hands-on) Elena Egawhary
    10.20 – 11.30 Investigating organised crime Drew Sullivan Investigating eco-crime – how to find your story Julian Newman (EIA) You and your computer 2: protect your privacy (B hands-on) Dmitri Vitaliev Access 2: needle in the haystack; summarizing (B hands-on) Aron Pilhofer Excel 2: sorting, filtering other tools (B hands-on) Heather Brooke
    11.40 – 12.50 Hypothesis-based investigation: managing your project Mark Hunter How the news gets it wrong - getting statistics right
    Sheila Bird
    Importing data into Excel (B-hands-on) Tommy Kaas Access 3: joining tables for investigations (B hands-on) Aron Pilhofer Excel 3: summarizing data; pivot tables (B hands-on) Elena Egawhary
    Lunch
    2.00 – 3.10 Hijacking the global food supply
    Vandana Shiva
    Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre
    Room C350 Room C348 PC Lab EG07 PC Lab Level 3A PC Lab EG012
    3.20 – 4.30 FOIA Workshop: UK and Europe David Banisar, Heather Brooke The politics of science: the toxic chemistry of everyday products Mark Schapiro Going undercover online - risks and solutions (B demo) Paul Myers Web detective (B hands-on) Tommy Kaas Excel 4: statistics (A hands-on) David Donald
    4.40 – 5.50 The Gas Trade - who controls, who benefits Tom Mayne (Global Witness) Policing terrorism vs. freedom of expression Heather Rogers, Gavin Millar GIS: power of statistical maps (A demo) David Donald Importing data into Excel (B hands-on) Elena Egawhary Data mining: web scraping for beginners (B demo) Tommy Kaas
    6.00 - 8.00 Party


    Sunday 20 July

    8.30 Tea and coffee
    Talk 1
    Room C350
    Talk 2
    Room C348
    CAR 1
    PC Lab EG07
    CAR 2
    PC Lab 3A
    CAR A-Z
    9.00 – 10.10 Following the international business trail and the world of corporate investigators Paul Radu, Jeff Katz Oil: Stories from Iraq and West Africa Irene Gerlach, Greg Muttitt Nonlinear journalism: graphics, data and visuals online (A hands-on) Aron Pilhofer, Francis Irving Using freedom of information (B hands-on) Heather Brooke
    10.20 – 11.30 Writing an investigation: the last (and first) hurdle Mark Hunter Town Hall finance: how to investigate contracts and deals Richard Orange Google Maps: visualizing data (A hands-on) Tommy Kaas CAR A-Z Q&A (final session CAR A-Z) (B-hands-on) David Donald and Elena Egawhary
    11.40 – 12.50 Miscarriages of justice Jim Nichol, Raphael Rowe Anglo American - mining and the environment James Sanders Social network analysis (A hands-on) Tommy Kaas Training the trainers 1 (A hands-on) David Donald
    Lunch
    Room C350 Room C348 PC Lab EG07 PC Lab 3A
    2.00 – 3.10 War on Terror, Inc Solomon Hughes How to do covert filming Allan Harraden, Roddy Mansfield Monitoring websites: RSS and other tools(A hands-on) Tommy Kaas Training the trainers 2 (A hands-on) David Donald
    3.20 – 4.30 Global environmental power in the 21st century
    - the EU flexes its muscles

    Mark Schapiro, Michael Warhurst
    Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre
    4.40 – 5.00 Final announcements and thanks
    Gavin MacFadyen

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