Radio Boot Camp: In-Person
Radio Boot Camp is coming to London! Join this in-person class hosted by the The Centre for Investigative Journalism and learn how to produce a podcast or radio story from start to finish. Over the course of two days award-winning audio journalist Sally Herships will introduce you to the basic principles and craft of reporting for the ear.
CIJ Recommends 2023: Good reads, podcasts and documentaries
Each year we select the books, articles, podcasts and documentaries that we liked the most. Here is the 2023 lineup - in case you get bored of playing charades. Books The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion, By investigative journalist and CIJ Trainer Tansy Hoskins An in-depth look at the global garment industry taking in workers’ right, supply chain investigations and the social harms of fashion marketing and media.
Training
Financial Investigations – Online (AM)
Whatever your beat – from politics or conflict, to sport, fashion or travel – pursuing impactful investigations requires journalists to examine the actions of private companies. Despite a world of corporate PR spin and complex financial structures that often work to obscure what’s actually going on, there are a wealth of tools and techniques to help investigators.
Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)
Story-Based Inquiry Method – Online
Events
Olga Rudenko: How to Run a Successful Media Start-up in Times of War
The Kyiv Independent, an English language start-up in Ukraine, was only a few months old when Russia invaded. When - in one of the biggest media scandals of the Zelensky's presidency - the editorial team of an older English language publication, the Kyiv Post, were fired for defending editorial independence, they came together to form the Kyiv Independent in November 2022.
Initiatives
Source Protection Programme
The Source Protection Programme is a unique operational and information security training course, delivered online through hands-on practical training sessions and interactive resources. The programme is developed and delivered by the Centre for Investigative Journalism with the Freedom of The Press Foundation.
Climate Change in News Media
Between December 2022 and July 2023, and in partnership with UNESCO, we executed proposed activities under the Climate Change in News Media project. Collaborating with Adisi-Cameroon for Francophone Africa and the Centre for Journalism, Innovation and Development (CJID) for Anglophone Africa, we directly trained 40 journalists from 14 media organisations from 4 countries, namely Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana and Nigeria.
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.
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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.
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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.
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