Summer Conference Events

Data journalism has been key to uncovering patterns for investigations for decades. The availability of open-source tools has made data journalism accessible to all newsrooms. This session will give you a bit of history about data journalism through some groundbreaking work.

Tristan Kirk has spent the last six years digging into the Single Justice Procedure, a secretive court process where hundreds of thousands of people are convicted each year in private hearings. The process was invented to cut costs and fast-track justice, but with few safeguards on the quality of the justice administered or the transparency of decision-making.

How do you add a new skill as a local journalist? From two different perspectives, Helena Bengtsson and Claire Miller will talk about how they educate and inspire regional reporters to work with data journalism methods.

From the potential to erode trust through deep fakes and AI-powered misinformation, to dangers around undermining job security and creative innovation, there are genuine threats and challenges that this technology poses to both journalism and wider society.

Cara McGoogan spent five years following the Infected Blood Inquiry, and conducting her own investigation into how a 'miracle' treatment for haemophilia called Factor VIII came to infect tens of thousands of people with HIV and hepatitis.

Megapastor TB Joshua once commanded one of the largest Christian audiences in the world – with 600 million social media followers and nine heads of state as members of his church. Journalists Charlie Northcott and Helen Spooner give the inside track of how they exposed decades of atrocities inside the pastor’s secretive compound in Nigeria, […]

As her biography of Paul Foot is launched, Margaret Renn discusses his legacy as an investigative journalist. His notable columns appeared in Private Eye, Socialist Worker, the Guardian, and the London Review of Books.

Police corruption, unsolved murders, organised crime and miscarriages of justice are all the rage across media platforms. But it is a hostile environment full of thugs, liars, fantasists, hidden agendas and libel.

Discover a variety of innovative investigative methods put to good use uncovering environmental harms and greenwashing. From mapping fossil fuel projects in conservation sites, to cross-border collaborations digging through hidden harms buried within 'green' hydrogen investments, to using drones to expose the deliberate burning of the UK's largest natural carbon store, you'll hear from a range of the best environmental investigations around the world.

Opus Dei, a conservative group of Da Vinci Code fame, is one of the most powerful organisations in the Catholic Church. Its influence extends beyond religious circles. High-profile Opus Dei members include the late Luis Valls, former president of Banco Popular, Patrick Njoroge, former governor of the Central Bank of Kenya, and Guillermo Lasso, the president of Ecuador until last year.