Centre for Investigative Journalism

CIJ Christmas 2020 Reading and Listening List

It’s this time of year again, when no doubt you will have lots of time to spare and will use it to enhance your intellect by listening to cool journalism podcasts and reading books. We definitely will be doing that (what else is there to do?), so here is our list.

Story-Based Inquiry Method – New Course Dates

This is one of our longest-running courses. Following on from the success of its online iteration over the past few months, we've just confirmed three new opportunities for you to study the Story-Based Inquiry method and apply it to your investigative research.

Training

Fully booked:

18–21 January 2021

Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive

You’ve heard people talking about data journalism, but don’t know where to start? Then this course is for you.

Fully booked:

1–22 February 2021

Finding Stories with Data – Online

You’ve heard people talking about data journalism, but don’t know where to start? Then this course is for you.

Fully booked:

8–11 February 2021

Story-Based Inquiry Method – Online – Intensive

This four-part online course, which takes place over four consecutive days, gives you the basics for starting, deepening, organising and writing an investigative report.

Upcoming:

3–24 March 2021

Story-Based Inquiry Method – Online

This four-part online course, which takes place over four days, gives you the basics for starting, deepening, organising and writing an investigative report.

Events

Upcoming: Cine Club:

20 January 2021

COLLECTIVE: Screening + Q&A

About COLLECTIVE (COLECTIV): Director Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent citizens.

16 November 2020

Ai Weiwei in Conversation with Edward Snowden: Dissidence, Exile and how to Fight for Truth from afar.

Initiatives

Lyra McKee Bursary

The aim of this bursary scheme is to train people from underprivileged backgrounds, who aspire to become journalists or who are journalists at the very early stages of their career. We knew Lyra personally at the CIJ.

Masterclasses

Too often in the media opportunities and internships go to well-connected, well-heeled young people. As a result the higher echelons of the national media risk being made up largely of those who lack sources within and any common experience with wider society.

Videos

CIJ Logan Symposium 2020 Roundtable: Building Databases for Transparency
17 November 2020
Rebecca Lee CIJ Logan Symposium 2020 CIJ Logan Symposium Financial Investigation Georg Neumann Katherine Eban Jack Poulson Lieke Ploeger Jeremy Merrill Friedrich Lindenberg Jacinta Gonzalez Delphine Reuter Steve Day Naoise Boyle Data Journalism

CIJ Logan Symposium 2020 Masterclass: Investigating Procurement
19 November 2020
CIJ Logan Symposium CIJ Logan Symposium 2020 Georg Neumann Financial Investigation

CIJ Logan Symposium 2020 Masterclass: FOIA Terrorism
18 November 2020
Jason Leopold CIJ Logan Symposium 2020 CIJ Logan Symposium Freedom of Information Act

CIJ Logan Symposium 2020 Masterclass: Using OpenCorporates for Investigations
18 November 2020
Rebecca Lee CIJ Logan Symposium 2020 CIJ Logan Symposium Financial Investigation

Handbooks

The Investigative Journalist’s Guide to Company Accounts

by Raj Bairoliya

An introduction from the author, Raj Bairoliya A little history is in order. A dozen or so years ago, I was complaining to my friend Michael Gillard about the standard of financial investigative journalism in the UK – it was a matter of serious concern to me as I make my living from investigating wrongdoing.

£11 Buy Handbook

The Hidden Scenario

by Luuk Sengers and Mark Lee Hunter

The Hidden Scenario focuses on how making a scenario can help you investigate. Part One details the basic principles of constructing a chronology. In Part Two, we move on to the construction of powerful scenes.

£7 Buy Handbook

The Story Tells the Facts

by Luuk Sengers and Mark Lee Hunter

This book will help you to make your investigative writing better by focusing on writing skills, because they transpose very well into other media. To order, please complete the order form. If you can tell a story in words and capture information in a narrative, the odds of telling a good story in film or radio go up, too.

£7 Buy Handbook