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Adeolu Adekola joins the CIJ

22–26 November 2021

Investigating Data with R

So you’ve got the fundamentals of data journalism down. You’re interrogating spreadsheets like a pro and able to use pivot tables like the data Swiss-army-knives they are. But sooner or later you know you’ll come up against a dataset so big it’s going to crash Excel if you even try to open it.

Upcoming:
13–17 December 2021

Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (AM)

This course will give participants an opportunity to take their core data skills to the next level and combine them with advanced internet research for rich, in-depth investigations.

Training

Upcoming:
6–17 December 2021

Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 06-09 December 2021) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 13-17 December 2021).

22–26 November 2021

Investigating Data with R

So you’ve got the fundamentals of data journalism down. You’re interrogating spreadsheets like a pro and able to use pivot tables like the data Swiss-army-knives they are. But sooner or later you know you’ll come up against a dataset so big it’s going to crash Excel if you even try to open it.

Upcoming:
13–17 December 2021

Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (AM)

This course will give participants an opportunity to take their core data skills to the next level and combine them with advanced internet research for rich, in-depth investigations.

Events

6 July 2021

#CIJSummer Keynotes: Associated Press’s Global Investigations Editor Ron Nixon

We are delighted to welcome Ron Nixon, Global Investigations Editor at the Associated Press, as this year's #CIJSummer Keynote speaker. An award winning investigative journalist, editor and data journalist, Ron talks about his investigative career, moving from press to news agency, and about a year on the job conducting global investigations.

7 July 2021

Reporting Russia: Independent Journalism Under Putin

Doing investigative journalism in Russia has never been an easy task, but now it is harder than ever. Following the arrest of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the crackdown on media critical of the Kremlin and of President Putin himself has started in earnest.

7 July 2021

Reporting Poverty: Narratives Around Need

Poverty and inequality sit at the heart of a huge range of issues in both the US and UK and yet so much of journalism features at best a superficial view, at worst exploitation and condemnation of people experiencing poverty.

8 July 2021

Investigating Africa

What’s it like trying to do in-depth reportage on a government deeply intolerant of criticism? British author Michela Wrong, who has published a controversial new book on Rwanda, and Tanzanian journalist Erick Kabendera, jailed under the presidency of John Magufuli, discuss the challenges of working in sub-Saharan Africa with fellow writer Rosalind Russell.

Initiatives

#CIJ Masterclasses 2021

For those working in the journalism industry, the era of Covid-19 has has been rocky, to say the least. In such a precarious climate, the danger is that the jobs go to the well-heeled and well-connected rather than those who are necessarily best at doing the job.

Lyra McKee Bursary Scheme 2021

We are pleased to announce that the CIJ Lyra McKee Investigative Journalism Training Bursary Scheme is back and we are expanding it to include mentoring! Fully online, it is open to applicants over 18 from the UK and the Republic of Ireland only.

International Investigative Practice

International Investigative Practice is a new initiative from the CIJ focused on training journalists from across the world in a wide range of investigative skills. Initially these training programmes are being delivered in Latin America, Francophone Africa and South Asia.

Videos

  • #CIJSummer Keynotes: Associated Press’s Global Investigations Editor Ron Nixon
  • 6 July 2021
  • CIJ Summer Conference #CIJSummer 2021 Ron Nixon Sheila Coronel
  • #CIJSummer: No Country Left Behind? The Indian Covid-19 catastrophe
  • 5 July 2021
  • #CIJSummer 2021 CIJ Summer Conference Covid-19 India Health Journalism Supriya Sharma Shadab Nazmi Natasha Loder Lou Del Bello
  • #CIJSummer: Reporting Russia: Independent Journalism Under Putin
  • 7 July 2021
  • #CIJSummer 2021 CIJ Summer Conference Russia Roman Badanin Roman Dobrokhotov Roman Shleynov Jane Lytvynenko Press Freedom

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.

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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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