Summer Conference Events

Learn from a corporate intelligence analyst how to investigate a person's digital footprint through interactive demonstrations and case studies. Journalists can reveal valuable insights into a person's identity by examining digital footprints.

This session explores how advanced research tools and methods can transform everyday information into compelling investigative leads and evidence. By focusing on publicly available sources of information (search engines, social media, satellite imagery and more), attendees will learn how to uncover powerful evidence, hidden in plain sight.

Hands-on. Beginner [B]-Intermediate [I]. 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. Maybe your questions are becoming too complex for Excel’s built-in analytics tools to handle.

Hands-on. Beginner-Intermediate. This three-part hands-on express data journalism course will introduce you to the basics of data analysis in Google Sheets. Suitable for beginners (part I) and intermediates (parts II and III).

Hands-on. Beginner [B]-Intermediate [I]. See each session for the details. This three-part series introduces participants to the power of Python, by journalists, for journalists. We'll help you take your first steps on the road to code, from the very basics, to working with giant spreadsheets, to extracting structured data from the web.

In times of growing denialism and misinformation against the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development, it has become essential to cover events like the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP).

This course sets out the Story-Based Inquiry (SBI) method, which has been successfully used by thousands of journalists, academics and NGO researchers since its publication by UNESCO in 2009. The method can be used for feature writing or documentary filmmaking as well as reportage.

This mini course taught by a journalist-friendly forensic accountant will show you how to understand company accounts and get beyond the corporate PR spin. The emphasis will be on teaching practical skills rather than a series of lectures.

This two-part practical course will guide you through the basics of freedom of information legislation and equip you with the skills necessary to make successful information requests and appeals.