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The investigative journalist Gavin MacFadyen set up the CIJ in 2003 to address what he saw as a worsening media climate for serious, in-depth and critical reporting. Gavin intended the CIJ as a refuge for critically minded journalists who want to do adversarial, public interest journalism. He thought that journalists had become accessories to the powerful, rather than acting as a check upon them – in his view, journalism’s role in a democratic society should be to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

He wanted to stretch the definition of what an investigative journalist is, to include artists, historians and even architects who use society as their raw material and try to filter information to reveal truth. The CIJ was and remains an open shop.

He produced and directed more than 50 documentaries, many for Granada Television’s World in Action, in countries as diverse as Ecuador, Guyana, South Africa, Mexico, Hong Kong, Thailand, the USSR, the US, Sweden, India and Turkey. His investigations covered topics including industrial accidents, neo-Nazi violence in the UK, Chinese criminal societies, the history of the CIA, Watergate, election fraud in Guyana, the Iraq arms trade, child labour, nuclear proliferation, and Frank Sinatra’s connection to organised crime.

He died from lung cancer on 22nd October 2016.

 

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## Scheduled 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.

Knowing what you can find, where to look for it and how to make sense of it, both for yourself and for your readers, will allow you to explore and understand financial details so you can draw conclusions and drive your projects forward.

This training provides tools for deep financial research and guides participants through investigations that lead to offshore accounts in secrecy jurisdictions.

### Climate Investigations Course: Data-Driven Climate Investigations

With so much climate data across many different countries and regions, it's essential to know where to find the relevant information and how to dig deeper when you're in the midst of a big climate project. This module will guide participants from hypothesis to story, including sections on finding and cleaning data, interrogating spreadsheets, and keeping on top of your evidence and the project as a whole, all using the latest tools and techniques. Participants will come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for climate change reporting projects, as well as methodologies to manage data-driven research for impactful journalism.

The central aim of the module is for participants to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own data-driven story at an advanced stage of research.

This module is a stripped down version of our Data-Driven Investigations course, specifically tailored for climate change investigations. Participants will be expected to know their way around Excel/Google Sheets, and more specifically its PivotTable tool. If you are completely new to working with data then we strongly recommend that you attend our Finding Stories with Data course before attending this module.

 

There is an urgent need for greater public understanding of the looming climate crisis, and journalism has an integral role to play in this.

However, while environmental and climate reporting is crucial, there is an equally critical need for investigative journalism around these topics. While the public needs to know what is happening to our planet, they also need to understand why it is happening.

Why, despite decades of warnings and research into mitigation and solutions, is the situation worsening?

Where are promises and commitments being broken?

What is hindering the process of building new systems to avert the worst of the coming crisis?

And who, ultimately, is profiting from this situation?

This course will help you dig into the people, organisations, governments and companies that can provide you and your audience answers to these questions.

### Climate Investigations Course: Investigating Climate Finance

Billions are committed every year as part of the global reaction to the climate crisis. Whether invested in renewable energy, traded as carbon credits or assigned to mitigation or loss and damage funds, huge sums are involved. The potential for corruption and fraud are equally huge. This module provides tools for deep financial research and guides participants through investigations that follow the climate money trail.

Sometimes this means identifying who is profiting from environmentally harmful practices, highlighting motives for spreading disinformation or undermining legislation; at other times it might require looking into political donations and lobbying. Still other stories may need to map out and explain the supply chains behind industries to show where regulation is being circumvented or public promises are not being kept.

The modules of this course provide the skills and techniques to follow the money wherever it leads.

 

There is an urgent need for greater public understanding of the looming climate crisis, and journalism has an integral role to play in this.

However, while environmental and climate reporting is crucial, there is an equally critical need for investigative journalism around these topics. While the public needs to know what is happening to our planet, they also need to understand why it is happening.

Why, despite decades of warnings and research into mitigation and solutions, is the situation worsening?

Where are promises and commitments being broken?

What is hindering the process of building new systems to avert the worst of the coming crisis?

And who, ultimately, is profiting from this situation?

This course will help you dig into the people, organisations, governments and companies that can provide you and your audience answers to these questions.

### Climate Investigations Course: ECOSINT

ECOSINT: Environmental and Climate Open-Source Intelligence

Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) is now a fixture in many newsrooms and can be applied to a wide range of investigative objectives. However, in many ways it is particularly useful when researching climate and environmental stories.

Searching social media and other online sources for connections between companies, politicians, and business figures is useful in almost any investigative research, but satellite imagery analysis and mapping can be especially useful in understanding land use, deforestation and the impact of extractive industries. It is also hugely important for identifying the impacts of climate-influenced natural disasters. Similarly, shipping and logistics tracking have clear applications when digging into fossil fuel and other industries. OSINT is also an important tool for verification and fact-checking. In a subject area like climate change - which is awash with mis- and dis-information - this practice is crucial.

Through best practice guidance, demonstrations and hands-on exercises, this module introduces participants to a wide range of digital tools and methods that can take environmental and climate investigations to the next level.

 

There is an urgent need for greater public understanding of the looming climate crisis, and journalism has an integral role to play in this.

However, while environmental and climate reporting is crucial, there is an equally critical need for investigative journalism around these topics. While the public needs to know what is happening to our planet, they also need to understand why it is happening.

Why, despite decades of warnings and research into mitigation and solutions, is the situation worsening?

Where are promises and commitments being broken?

What is hindering the process of building new systems to avert the worst of the coming crisis?

And who, ultimately, is profiting from this situation?

This course will help you dig into the people, organisations, governments and companies that can provide you and your audience answers to these questions.

### Climate Investigations Course: Climate Investigation Fundamentals

This introductory module provides participants with a holistic background about climate change as one of the major issues confronting the world. Participants will access specialist knowledge to better understand the context from a science, policy, and politics perspective.

The module looks at best practice from experienced climate journalists, using successful examples of news reporting that has effectively addressed climate-related problems, and giving guidance and tips on how to approach the subject from an investigative point of view.

Following the module, participants will be well-equipped to begin learning and applying the investigative techniques covered in the following modules in their work to produce the important and impactful reporting that is so critically needed.

 

There is an urgent need for greater public understanding of the looming climate crisis, and journalism has an integral role to play in this.

However, while environmental and climate reporting is crucial, there is an equally critical need for investigative journalism around these topics. While the public needs to know what is happening to our planet, they also need to understand why it is happening.

Why, despite decades of warnings and research into mitigation and solutions, is the situation worsening?

Where are promises and commitments being broken?

What is hindering the process of building new systems to avert the worst of the coming crisis?

And who, ultimately, is profiting from this situation?

This course will help you dig into the people, organisations, governments and companies that can provide you and your audience answers to these questions.

### Climate Investigations Course: All Modules

A comprehensive programme of training, providing all the expertise, skills and tools required to conduct thorough investigative research into the climate crisis. Book here for a 20% discount on all modules.

There is an urgent need for greater public understanding of the looming climate crisis, and journalism has an integral role to play in this.

However, while environmental and climate reporting is crucial, there is an equally critical need for investigative journalism around these topics. While the public needs to know what is happening to our planet, they also need to understand why it is happening.

Why, despite decades of warnings and research into mitigation and solutions, is the situation worsening?

Where are promises and commitments being broken?

What is hindering the process of building new systems to avert the worst of the coming crisis?

And who, ultimately, is profiting from this situation?

Over the past three years, through developing and delivering the Open Climate Reporting Initiative, the Centre for Investigative Journalism has built a comprehensive curriculum to provide all the skills required to dig into the people, organisations, governments and companies that will uncover answers to these questions for you and your audience. Our experience of providing training in more than 50 countries across the Global South, means we have been able to ensure that both the content and the training team for this new curriculum has a broad international perspective.

The programme brings together a truly stellar line-up of expert trainers from a wide range of disciplines and specialisms, to empower participants with access to everything they need to find, pursue and publish impactful climate investigations of their own. The course is deliberately structured to ensure participants come away with new projects and stories that they have already begun to apply their new skillsets to, and that are ready for follow-up and pitching.

Through curating 23 hours of hands-on online teaching, we have built something unique - there is no equivalent at this level of expertise that is so accessible or affordable in terms of either fees or time commitment, nor as rigidly focused on practical investigative skills.
The Climate Investigations Course represents an ambitious, in-depth programme of work, bringing together a wealth of rigorous, industry-leading training - a proportionate, urgent response to the scale of the crisis we currently face.
Signing up here gives access to the full course with a 20% discount applied to the fees. 

This covers:

 	Climate Investigation Fundamentals - 5 hours of training
 	Investigating Climate Finance - 6 hours of training 
 	Data-Driven Climate Investigations - 6 hours of training 
 	ECOSINT: Environmental and Climate Open Source Intelligence  - 6 hours of training

If you have a specific interest in only one or two of the modules, you can book them individually, through the links above.

Complete all four modules and earn a CIJ Climate Investigations Certificate for your CV.

### Open-Source Intelligence

Advanced internet research has become a key part of the investigative journalist’s toolkit. Our training in Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) gives participants an understanding of how to access open-source information that is freely available online but is often hidden, providing powerful tools for verification, fact-checking and deep investigative research.

This course covers a wide range of techniques and objectives that are included in the broad area of OSINT. We'll look at the best practices for setting up a new OSINT project; techniques for analysing different social media platforms; using digital tools for efficient fact-checking and verification; and leveraging satellite imagery and other techniques for geolocating incidents, footage or images.

These skills can speed up research on a subject, group, company or person significantly, helping to identify leads, sources, links and evidence, while freeing up time to craft a compelling story.

### 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.

Dates: 13, 15, 20, 22 October 2025
Times (for each day): 7pm till 8:30pm (London, UK time).
Group size: 35 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 2 days a week x 2 weeks
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections.

The 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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

Developed by Dr Mark Lee Hunter and Luuk Sengers, this is one of our most popular courses at #CIJSummer Conference.

We are delighted to welcome our loyal trainer and speaker Leila Haddou to the team of Story-Based Inquiry trainers.

“This method is a must for any investigative journalist. It will give you the tools to organise your material for the better. The manual equips with you a number of skills, but most importantly it structures your investigation. So when it comes to filing your story you are fully prepared and not looking for that quote in the cloud” #CIJSummer 2020 feedback

“It was great. I'd do it again and I'd recommend it to people. I wanted to learn how to organize my reporting process and the course gave me just that. I'm already using some of the techniques in my work.” Feedback 2021

"I really enjoyed it and learned a lot - I will try and do more courses with the CIJ in the future. " Feedback 2023

“The course was excellent and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to others.” Feedback 2024

The course fee includes not only the lectures, but also the electronic versions of two of our CIJ handbooks - The Hidden Scenario and The Story Tells the Facts - that dive deep into the techniques covered in the lectures. If you prefer to receive hard copies of the books, you will need to purchase them from our website.

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (PM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 17-21 November 2025) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 24-28 November 2025).

"I would like to thank the team for putting together the two-week program. It was an eye opener and I’m certainly going to be using pivot tables a lot more." Feedback 2021
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 5 days (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (optional), Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

During the workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of five sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 5 days, with an additional 1.5 hours of self-directed learning guided by recorded tutorials and online materials. Signed-up participants must attend all sessions, except for Wednesday's session on scraping, which is optional.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (PM)

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.


Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (PM)

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

Class size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 5 days (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (optional), Thursday and Friday) + 1.5 hrs self-directed learning.
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

During the workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of five sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 5 days, with an additional 1.5 hours of self-directed learning guided by recorded tutorials and online materials. Signed-up participants must attend all sessions, except for Wednesday's session on scraping, which is optional.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 29 September-3 October 2025) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 6-10 October 2025).

"I would like to thank the team for putting together the two-week program. It was an eye opener and I’m certainly going to be using pivot tables a lot more." Feedback 2021
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 5 days (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (optional), Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

During the workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of five sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 5 days, with an additional 1.5 hours of self-directed learning guided by recorded tutorials and online materials. Signed-up participants must attend all sessions, except for Wednesday's session on scraping, which is optional.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.
We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.
Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### 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.


Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Class size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 5 days (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (optional), Thursday and Friday) + 1.5 hrs self-directed learning.
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

During the workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of five sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 5 days, with an additional 1.5 hours of self-directed learning guided by recorded tutorials and online materials. Signed-up participants must attend all sessions, except for Wednesday's session on scraping, which is optional.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### 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.

Knowing what you can find, where to look for it and how to make sense of it, both for yourself and for your readers, will allow you to explore and understand financial details so you can draw conclusions and drive your projects forward.

This training provides tools for deep financial research and guides participants through investigations that lead to offshore accounts in secrecy jurisdictions.

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Supply Chain Investigations

This session will cover practicalities of supply-chain investigations, using case studies to guide participants through the process of tracking commodity flows through data and shipping records.  It will look at verifying claims of unsafe or inhumane conditions through analysis of social media and interviewing unions and workers’ groups, as well as using platforms such as Panjiva to identify links between factories and larger corporations and brands that profit from them.
The training is designed to help researchers and journalists be as global as the corporate supply chains they are tracking – if necessary without leaving their desks. Using published investigations as examples, this session takes participants step-by-step through how to run a supply chain investigation. It covers training in how to find stories, gather evidence and carefully use multiple databases to locate hidden information and prove wrongdoing. It also covers questions around legal issues, worker safety, and cross border collaboration.

 

Group size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day

### Supply Chain Investigations

This session will cover practicalities of supply-chain investigations, using case studies to guide participants through the process of tracking commodity flows through data and shipping records.  It will look at verifying claims of unsafe or inhumane conditions through analysis of social media and interviewing unions and workers’ groups, as well as using platforms such as Panjiva to identify links between factories and larger corporations and brands that profit from them.
The training is designed to help researchers and journalists be as global as the corporate supply chains they are tracking – if necessary without leaving their desks. Using published investigations as examples, this session takes participants step-by-step through how to run a supply chain investigation. It covers training in how to find stories, gather evidence and carefully use multiple databases to locate hidden information and prove wrongdoing. It also covers questions around legal issues, worker safety, and cross border collaboration.

 

Group size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day

### Intro to Information Security for Journalists

Worried about digital threats to journalists? Ever been trolled or harassed online? Ever thought you’d love to work with a whistleblower or sensitive information but wouldn’t know where to start?

With this two hour course you can go from muddling along online, to implementing a solid introductory foundation in information security to protect yourself and your sources.

Learn how to improve your personal security and the security of people you communicate with by understanding threat assessments, safer web browsing, end to end encrypted communications and passphrase management.

Group size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: High. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

This two hour class is designed as a comprehensive introduction to information security and source protection. The class will help you to understand what InfoSec is, why it matters and the risks of using digital technologies. It introduces basic strategies and tools to improve personal security and the security of people you communicate with.

It includes:

 	threat assessment training
 	safer web browsing
 	end to end encrypted communications
 	an introduction to metadata
 	passphrase management

### Intro to Information Security for Journalists

Worried about digital threats to journalists? Ever been trolled or harassed online? Ever thought you’d love to work with a whistleblower or sensitive information but wouldn’t know where to start?

With this two hour course you can go from muddling along online, to implementing a solid introductory foundation in information security to protect yourself and your sources.

Learn how to improve your personal security and the security of people you communicate with by understanding threat assessments, safer web browsing, end to end encrypted communications and passphrase management.

Group size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: High. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

This two hour class is designed as a comprehensive introduction to information security and source protection. The class will help you to understand what InfoSec is, why it matters and the risks of using digital technologies. It introduces basic strategies and tools to improve personal security and the security of people you communicate with.

It includes:

 	threat assessment training
 	safer web browsing
 	end to end encrypted communications
 	an introduction to metadata
 	passphrase management

### Intro to Information Security for Journalists

Worried about digital threats to journalists? Ever been trolled or harassed online? Ever thought you’d love to work with a whistleblower or sensitive information but wouldn’t know where to start?

With this two hour course you can go from muddling along online, to implementing a solid introductory foundation in information security to protect yourself and your sources.

Learn how to improve your personal security and the security of people you communicate with by understanding threat assessments, safer web browsing, end to end encrypted communications and passphrase management.

Group size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: High. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

This two hour class is designed as a comprehensive introduction to information security and source protection. The class will help you to understand what InfoSec is, why it matters and the risks of using digital technologies. It introduces basic strategies and tools to improve personal security and the security of people you communicate with.

It includes:

 	threat assessment training
 	safer web browsing
 	end to end encrypted communications
 	an introduction to metadata
 	passphrase management

### Open-Source Intelligence

Advanced internet research has become a key part of the investigative journalist’s toolkit. Our training in Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) gives participants an understanding of how to access open-source information that is freely available online but is often hidden, providing powerful tools for verification, fact-checking and deep investigative research.

This course covers a wide range of techniques and objectives that are included in the broad area of OSINT. We'll look at the best practices for setting up a new OSINT project; techniques for analysing different social media platforms; using digital tools for efficient fact-checking and verification; and leveraging satellite imagery and other techniques for geolocating incidents, footage or images.

These skills can speed up research on a subject, group, company or person significantly, helping to identify leads, sources, links and evidence, while freeing up time to craft a compelling story.

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Climate Investigations Course: All Modules

A comprehensive programme of training, providing all the expertise, skills and tools required to conduct thorough investigative research into the climate crisis. Book here for a 20% discount on all modules.

There is an urgent need for greater public understanding of the looming climate crisis, and journalism has an integral role to play in this.

However, while environmental and climate reporting is crucial, there is an equally critical need for investigative journalism around these topics. While the public needs to know what is happening to our planet, they also need to understand why it is happening.

Why, despite decades of warnings and research into mitigation and solutions, is the situation worsening?

Where are promises and commitments being broken?

What is hindering the process of building new systems to avert the worst of the coming crisis?

And who, ultimately, is profiting from this situation?

Over the past three years, through developing and delivering the Open Climate Reporting Initiative, the Centre for Investigative Journalism has built a comprehensive curriculum to provide all the skills required to dig into the people, organisations, governments and companies that will uncover answers to these questions for you and your audience. Our experience of providing training in more than 50 countries across the Global South, means we have been able to ensure that both the content and the training team for this new curriculum has a broad international perspective.

The programme brings together a truly stellar line-up of expert trainers from a wide range of disciplines and specialisms, to empower participants with access to everything they need to find, pursue and publish impactful climate investigations of their own. The course is deliberately structured to ensure participants come away with new projects and stories that they have already begun to apply their new skillsets to, and that are ready for follow-up and pitching.

Through curating 23 hours of hands-on online teaching, we have built something unique - there is no equivalent at this level of expertise that is so accessible or affordable in terms of either fees or time commitment, nor as rigidly focused on practical investigative skills.
The Climate Investigations Course represents an ambitious, in-depth programme of work, bringing together a wealth of rigorous, industry-leading training - a proportionate, urgent response to the scale of the crisis we currently face.
Signing up here gives access to the full course with a 20% discount applied to the fees. 

This covers:

 	Climate Investigation Fundamentals - 5 hours of training
 	Investigating Climate Finance - 6 hours of training 
 	Data-Driven Climate Investigations - 6 hours of training 
 	ECOSINT: Environmental and Climate Open Source Intelligence  - 6 hours of training

If you have a specific interest in only one or two of the modules, you can book them individually, through the links above.

Complete all four modules and earn a CIJ Climate Investigations Certificate for your CV.

### Climate Investigations Course: ECOSINT

ECOSINT: Environmental and Climate Open-Source Intelligence

Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) is now a fixture in many newsrooms and can be applied to a wide range of investigative objectives. However, in many ways it is particularly useful when researching climate and environmental stories.

Searching social media and other online sources for connections between companies, politicians, and business figures is useful in almost any investigative research, but satellite imagery analysis and mapping can be especially useful in understanding land use, deforestation and the impact of extractive industries. It is also hugely important for identifying the impacts of climate-influenced natural disasters. Similarly, shipping and logistics tracking have clear applications when digging into fossil fuel and other industries. OSINT is also an important tool for verification and fact-checking. In a subject area like climate change - which is awash with mis- and dis-information - this practice is crucial.

Through best practice guidance, demonstrations and hands-on exercises, this module introduces participants to a wide range of digital tools and methods that can take environmental and climate investigations to the next level.

 

There is an urgent need for greater public understanding of the looming climate crisis, and journalism has an integral role to play in this.

However, while environmental and climate reporting is crucial, there is an equally critical need for investigative journalism around these topics. While the public needs to know what is happening to our planet, they also need to understand why it is happening.

Why, despite decades of warnings and research into mitigation and solutions, is the situation worsening?

Where are promises and commitments being broken?

What is hindering the process of building new systems to avert the worst of the coming crisis?

And who, ultimately, is profiting from this situation?

This course will help you dig into the people, organisations, governments and companies that can provide you and your audience answers to these questions.

### Climate Investigations Course: Data-Driven Climate Investigations

With so much climate data across many different countries and regions, it's essential to know where to find the relevant information and how to dig deeper when you're in the midst of a big climate project. This module will guide participants from hypothesis to story, including sections on finding and cleaning data, interrogating spreadsheets, and keeping on top of your evidence and the project as a whole, all using the latest tools and techniques. Participants will come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for climate change reporting projects, as well as methodologies to manage data-driven research for impactful journalism.

The central aim of the module is for participants to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own data-driven story at an advanced stage of research.

This module is a stripped down version of our Data-Driven Investigations course, specifically tailored for climate change investigations. Participants will be expected to know their way around Excel/Google Sheets, and more specifically its PivotTable tool. If you are completely new to working with data then we strongly recommend that you attend our Finding Stories with Data course before attending this module.

 

There is an urgent need for greater public understanding of the looming climate crisis, and journalism has an integral role to play in this.

However, while environmental and climate reporting is crucial, there is an equally critical need for investigative journalism around these topics. While the public needs to know what is happening to our planet, they also need to understand why it is happening.

Why, despite decades of warnings and research into mitigation and solutions, is the situation worsening?

Where are promises and commitments being broken?

What is hindering the process of building new systems to avert the worst of the coming crisis?

And who, ultimately, is profiting from this situation?

This course will help you dig into the people, organisations, governments and companies that can provide you and your audience answers to these questions.

### Climate Investigations Course: Investigating Climate Finance

Billions are committed every year as part of the global reaction to the climate crisis. Whether invested in renewable energy, traded as carbon credits or assigned to mitigation or loss and damage funds, huge sums are involved. The potential for corruption and fraud are equally huge. This module provides tools for deep financial research and guides participants through investigations that follow the climate money trail.

Sometimes this means identifying who is profiting from environmentally harmful practices, highlighting motives for spreading disinformation or undermining legislation; at other times it might require looking into political donations and lobbying. Still other stories may need to map out and explain the supply chains behind industries to show where regulation is being circumvented or public promises are not being kept.

The modules of this course provide the skills and techniques to follow the money wherever it leads.

 

There is an urgent need for greater public understanding of the looming climate crisis, and journalism has an integral role to play in this.

However, while environmental and climate reporting is crucial, there is an equally critical need for investigative journalism around these topics. While the public needs to know what is happening to our planet, they also need to understand why it is happening.

Why, despite decades of warnings and research into mitigation and solutions, is the situation worsening?

Where are promises and commitments being broken?

What is hindering the process of building new systems to avert the worst of the coming crisis?

And who, ultimately, is profiting from this situation?

This course will help you dig into the people, organisations, governments and companies that can provide you and your audience answers to these questions.

### Climate Investigations Course: Climate Investigation Fundamentals

This introductory module provides participants with a holistic background about climate change as one of the major issues confronting the world. Participants will access specialist knowledge to better understand the context from a science, policy, and politics perspective.

The module looks at best practice from experienced climate journalists, using successful examples of news reporting that has effectively addressed climate-related problems, and giving guidance and tips on how to approach the subject from an investigative point of view.

Following the module, participants will be well-equipped to begin learning and applying the investigative techniques covered in the following modules in their work to produce the important and impactful reporting that is so critically needed.

 

There is an urgent need for greater public understanding of the looming climate crisis, and journalism has an integral role to play in this.

However, while environmental and climate reporting is crucial, there is an equally critical need for investigative journalism around these topics. While the public needs to know what is happening to our planet, they also need to understand why it is happening.

Why, despite decades of warnings and research into mitigation and solutions, is the situation worsening?

Where are promises and commitments being broken?

What is hindering the process of building new systems to avert the worst of the coming crisis?

And who, ultimately, is profiting from this situation?

This course will help you dig into the people, organisations, governments and companies that can provide you and your audience answers to these questions.

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 28 April-2 May 2025) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 12-16 May 2025).

"I would like to thank the team for putting together the two-week program. It was an eye opener and I’m certainly going to be using pivot tables a lot more." Feedback 2021
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 5 days (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (optional), Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

During the workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of five sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 5 days, with an additional 1.5 hours of self-directed learning guided by recorded tutorials and online materials. Signed-up participants must attend all sessions, except for Wednesday's session on scraping, which is optional.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.
We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.
Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### 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.


Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Class size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 5 days (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (optional), Thursday and Friday) + 1.5 hrs self-directed learning.
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

During the workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of five sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 5 days, with an additional 1.5 hours of self-directed learning guided by recorded tutorials and online materials. Signed-up participants must attend all sessions, except for Wednesday's session on scraping, which is optional.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### Supply Chain Investigations

This session will cover practicalities of supply-chain investigations, using case studies to guide participants through the process of tracking commodity flows through data and shipping records.  It will look at verifying claims of unsafe or inhumane conditions through analysis of social media and interviewing unions and workers’ groups, as well as using platforms such as Panjiva to identify links between factories and larger corporations and brands that profit from them.
The training is designed to help researchers and journalists be as global as the corporate supply chains they are tracking – if necessary without leaving their desks. Using published investigations as examples, this session takes participants step-by-step through how to run a supply chain investigation. It covers training in how to find stories, gather evidence and carefully use multiple databases to locate hidden information and prove wrongdoing. It also covers questions around legal issues, worker safety, and cross border collaboration.

 

Group size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day

### Climate Investigations Course: Investigating Climate Finance

Billions are committed every year as part of the global reaction to the climate crisis. Whether invested in renewable energy, traded as carbon credits or assigned to mitigation or loss and damage funds, huge sums are involved. The potential for corruption and fraud are equally huge. This module provides tools for deep financial research and guides participants through investigations that follow the climate money trail.

Sometimes this means identifying who is profiting from environmentally harmful practices, highlighting motives for spreading disinformation or undermining legislation; at other times it might require looking into political donations and lobbying. Still other stories may need to map out and explain the supply chains behind industries to show where regulation is being circumvented or public promises are not being kept.

The modules of this course provide the skills and techniques to follow the money wherever it leads.

 

There is an urgent need for greater public understanding of the looming climate crisis, and journalism has an integral role to play in this.

However, while environmental and climate reporting is crucial, there is an equally critical need for investigative journalism around these topics. While the public needs to know what is happening to our planet, they also need to understand why it is happening.

Why, despite decades of warnings and research into mitigation and solutions, is the situation worsening?

Where are promises and commitments being broken?

What is hindering the process of building new systems to avert the worst of the coming crisis?

And who, ultimately, is profiting from this situation?

This course will help you dig into the people, organisations, governments and companies that can provide you and your audience answers to these questions.

### Climate Investigations Course: ECOSINT

ECOSINT: Environmental and Climate Open-Source Intelligence

Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) is now a fixture in many newsrooms and can be applied to a wide range of investigative objectives. However, in many ways it is particularly useful when researching climate and environmental stories.

Searching social media and other online sources for connections between companies, politicians, and business figures is useful in almost any investigative research, but satellite imagery analysis and mapping can be especially useful in understanding land use, deforestation and the impact of extractive industries. It is also hugely important for identifying the impacts of climate-influenced natural disasters. Similarly, shipping and logistics tracking have clear applications when digging into fossil fuel and other industries. OSINT is also an important tool for verification and fact-checking. In a subject area like climate change - which is awash with mis- and dis-information - this practice is crucial.

Through best practice guidance, demonstrations and hands-on exercises, this module introduces participants to a wide range of digital tools and methods that can take environmental and climate investigations to the next level.

 

There is an urgent need for greater public understanding of the looming climate crisis, and journalism has an integral role to play in this.

However, while environmental and climate reporting is crucial, there is an equally critical need for investigative journalism around these topics. While the public needs to know what is happening to our planet, they also need to understand why it is happening.

Why, despite decades of warnings and research into mitigation and solutions, is the situation worsening?

Where are promises and commitments being broken?

What is hindering the process of building new systems to avert the worst of the coming crisis?

And who, ultimately, is profiting from this situation?

This course will help you dig into the people, organisations, governments and companies that can provide you and your audience answers to these questions.

### Climate Investigations Course: Data-Driven Climate Investigations

With so much climate data across many different countries and regions, it's essential to know where to find the relevant information and how to dig deeper when you're in the midst of a big climate project. This module will guide participants from hypothesis to story, including sections on finding and cleaning data, interrogating spreadsheets, and keeping on top of your evidence and the project as a whole, all using the latest tools and techniques. Participants will come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for climate change reporting projects, as well as methodologies to manage data-driven research for impactful journalism.

The central aim of the module is for participants to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own data-driven story at an advanced stage of research.

This module is a stripped down version of our Data-Driven Investigations course, specifically tailored for climate change investigations. Participants will be expected to know their way around Excel/Google Sheets, and more specifically its PivotTable tool. If you are completely new to working with data then we strongly recommend that you attend our Finding Stories with Data course before attending this module.

 

There is an urgent need for greater public understanding of the looming climate crisis, and journalism has an integral role to play in this.

However, while environmental and climate reporting is crucial, there is an equally critical need for investigative journalism around these topics. While the public needs to know what is happening to our planet, they also need to understand why it is happening.

Why, despite decades of warnings and research into mitigation and solutions, is the situation worsening?

Where are promises and commitments being broken?

What is hindering the process of building new systems to avert the worst of the coming crisis?

And who, ultimately, is profiting from this situation?

This course will help you dig into the people, organisations, governments and companies that can provide you and your audience answers to these questions.

### Climate Investigations Course: Climate Investigation Fundamentals

This introductory module provides participants with a holistic background about climate change as one of the major issues confronting the world. Participants will access specialist knowledge to better understand the context from a science, policy, and politics perspective.

The module looks at best practice from experienced climate journalists, using successful examples of news reporting that has effectively addressed climate-related problems, and giving guidance and tips on how to approach the subject from an investigative point of view.

Following the module, participants will be well-equipped to begin learning and applying the investigative techniques covered in the following modules in their work to produce the important and impactful reporting that is so critically needed.

 

There is an urgent need for greater public understanding of the looming climate crisis, and journalism has an integral role to play in this.

However, while environmental and climate reporting is crucial, there is an equally critical need for investigative journalism around these topics. While the public needs to know what is happening to our planet, they also need to understand why it is happening.

Why, despite decades of warnings and research into mitigation and solutions, is the situation worsening?

Where are promises and commitments being broken?

What is hindering the process of building new systems to avert the worst of the coming crisis?

And who, ultimately, is profiting from this situation?

This course will help you dig into the people, organisations, governments and companies that can provide you and your audience answers to these questions.

### Climate Investigations Course: All Modules

A comprehensive programme of training, providing all the expertise, skills and tools required to conduct thorough investigative research into the climate crisis. Book here for a 20% discount on all modules.

There is an urgent need for greater public understanding of the looming climate crisis, and journalism has an integral role to play in this.

However, while environmental and climate reporting is crucial, there is an equally critical need for investigative journalism around these topics. While the public needs to know what is happening to our planet, they also need to understand why it is happening.

Why, despite decades of warnings and research into mitigation and solutions, is the situation worsening?

Where are promises and commitments being broken?

What is hindering the process of building new systems to avert the worst of the coming crisis?

And who, ultimately, is profiting from this situation?

Over the past three years, through developing and delivering the Open Climate Reporting Initiative, the Centre for Investigative Journalism has built a comprehensive curriculum to provide all the skills required to dig into the people, organisations, governments and companies that will uncover answers to these questions for you and your audience. Our experience of providing training in more than 50 countries across the Global South, means we have been able to ensure that both the content and the training team for this new curriculum has a broad international perspective.

The programme brings together a truly stellar line-up of expert trainers from a wide range of disciplines and specialisms, to empower participants with access to everything they need to find, pursue and publish impactful climate investigations of their own. The course is deliberately structured to ensure participants come away with new projects and stories that they have already begun to apply their new skillsets to, and that are ready for follow-up and pitching.

Through curating 23 hours of hands-on online teaching, we have built something unique - there is no equivalent at this level of expertise that is so accessible or affordable in terms of either fees or time commitment, nor as rigidly focused on practical investigative skills.
The Climate Investigations Course represents an ambitious, in-depth programme of work, bringing together a wealth of rigorous, industry-leading training - a proportionate, urgent response to the scale of the crisis we currently face.
Signing up here gives access to the full course with a 20% discount applied to the fees. 

This covers:

 	Climate Investigation Fundamentals - 5 hours of training
 	Data-Driven Climate Investigations - 6 hours of training 
 	Investigating Climate Finance - 6 hours of training 
 	ECOSINT: Environmental and Climate Open Source Intelligence  - 6 hours of training

If you have a specific interest in only one or two of the modules, you can book them individually, through the links above.

Complete all four modules and earn a CIJ Climate Investigations Certificate for your CV.

### 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.

Dates: 17, 19, 24, 26 March 2025
Times (for each day): 7pm till 8:30pm (London, UK time).
Group size: 35 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 2 days a week x 2 weeks
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections.

The 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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

Developed by Dr Mark Lee Hunter and Luuk Sengers, this is one of our most popular courses at #CIJSummer Conference.

We are delighted to welcome our loyal trainer and speaker Leila Haddou to the team of Story-Based Inquiry trainers.

“This method is a must for any investigative journalist. It will give you the tools to organise your material for the better. The manual equips with you a number of skills, but most importantly it structures your investigation. So when it comes to filing your story you are fully prepared and not looking for that quote in the cloud” #CIJSummer 2020 feedback

“It was great. I'd do it again and I'd recommend it to people. I wanted to learn how to organize my reporting process and the course gave me just that. I'm already using some of the techniques in my work.” Feedback 2021

"I really enjoyed it and learned a lot - I will try and do more courses with the CIJ in the future. " Feedback 2023

“The course was excellent and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to others.” Feedback 2024

The course fee includes not only the lectures, but also the electronic versions of two of our CIJ handbooks - The Hidden Scenario and The Story Tells the Facts - that dive deep into the techniques covered in the lectures. If you prefer to receive hard copies of the books, you will need to purchase them from our website.

### Supply Chain Investigations

This session will cover practicalities of supply-chain investigations, using case studies to guide participants through the process of tracking commodity flows through data and shipping records.  It will look at verifying claims of unsafe or inhumane conditions through analysis of social media and interviewing unions and workers’ groups, as well as using platforms such as Panjiva to identify links between factories and larger corporations and brands that profit from them.
The training is designed to help researchers and journalists be as global as the corporate supply chains they are tracking – if necessary without leaving their desks. Using published investigations as examples, this session takes participants step-by-step through how to run a supply chain investigation. It covers training in how to find stories, gather evidence and carefully use multiple databases to locate hidden information and prove wrongdoing. It also covers questions around legal issues, worker safety, and cross border collaboration.

 

Group size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day

### Supply Chain Investigations

This session will cover practicalities of supply-chain investigations, using case studies to guide participants through the process of tracking commodity flows through data and shipping records.  It will look at verifying claims of unsafe or inhumane conditions through analysis of social media and interviewing unions and workers’ groups, as well as using platforms such as Panjiva to identify links between factories and larger corporations and brands that profit from them.
The training is designed to help researchers and journalists be as global as the corporate supply chains they are tracking – if necessary without leaving their desks. Using published investigations as examples, this session takes participants step-by-step through how to run a supply chain investigation. It covers training in how to find stories, gather evidence and carefully use multiple databases to locate hidden information and prove wrongdoing. It also covers questions around legal issues, worker safety, and cross border collaboration.

 

Group size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day

### 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.

Knowing what you can find, where to look for it and how to make sense of it, both for yourself and for your readers, will allow you to explore and understand financial details so you can draw conclusions and drive your projects forward.

This training provides tools for deep financial research and guides participants through investigations that lead to offshore accounts in secrecy jurisdictions.

### 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.

Knowing what you can find, where to look for it and how to make sense of it, both for yourself and for your readers, will allow you to explore and understand financial details so you can draw conclusions and drive your projects forward.

This training provides tools for deep financial research and guides participants through investigations that lead to offshore accounts in secrecy jurisdictions.

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Class size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 5 days (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (optional), Thursday and Friday) + 1.5 hrs self-directed learning.
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

During the workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of five sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 5 days, with an additional 1.5 hours of self-directed learning guided by recorded tutorials and online materials. Signed-up participants must attend all sessions, except for Wednesday's session on scraping, which is optional.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### 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.


Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 24-28 February 2025) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 10-14 March 2025).

"I would like to thank the team for putting together the two-week program. It was an eye opener and I’m certainly going to be using pivot tables a lot more." Feedback 2021
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 5 days (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (optional), Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

During the workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of five sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 5 days, with an additional 1.5 hours of self-directed learning guided by recorded tutorials and online materials. Signed-up participants must attend all sessions, except for Wednesday's session on scraping, which is optional.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.
We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.
Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Supply Chain Investigations

This session will cover practicalities of supply-chain investigations, using case studies to guide participants through the process of tracking commodity flows through data and shipping records.  It will look at verifying claims of unsafe or inhumane conditions through analysis of social media and interviewing unions and workers’ groups, as well as using platforms such as Panjiva to identify links between factories and larger corporations and brands that profit from them.
The training is designed to help researchers and journalists be as global as the corporate supply chains they are tracking – if necessary without leaving their desks. Using published investigations as examples, this session takes participants step-by-step through how to run a supply chain investigation. It covers training in how to find stories, gather evidence and carefully use multiple databases to locate hidden information and prove wrongdoing. It also covers questions around legal issues, worker safety, and cross border collaboration.

 

Group size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day

### 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.

Dates: 2, 5, 9, 12 December 2024
Times (for each day): 3pm till 4:30pm (London, UK time).
Group size: 35 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 2 days a week x 2 weeks
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections.

The 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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

This is one of our most popular courses at #CIJSummer Conference.

“This method is a must for any investigative journalist. It will give you the tools to organise your material for the better. The manual equips with you a number of skills, but most importantly it structures your investigation. So when it comes to filing your story you are fully prepared and not looking for that quote in the cloud” #CIJSummer 2020 feedback

“It was great. I'd do it again and I'd recommend it to people. I wanted to learn how to organize my reporting process and the course gave me just that. I'm already using some of the techniques in my work.” Feedback 2021

"I really appreciate Luuk Sengers and Mark Hunter for their great guidance and generosity." Feedback 2023

“Excellent course leaders and content.” Feedback 2024

The course fee includes not only the lectures, but also the electronic versions of two of our CIJ handbooks - The Hidden Scenario and The Story Tells the Facts - that dive deep into the techniques covered in the lectures. If you prefer to receive hard copies of the books, you will need to purchase them from our website.

### Open-Source Intelligence

Advanced internet research has become a key part of the investigative journalist’s toolkit. Our training in Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) gives participants an understanding of how to access open-source information that is freely available online but is often hidden, providing powerful tools for verification, fact-checking and deep investigative research.

This course covers a wide range of techniques and objectives that are included in the broad area of OSINT. We'll look at the best practices for setting up a new OSINT project; techniques for analysing different social media platforms; using digital tools for efficient fact-checking and verification; and leveraging satellite imagery and other techniques for geolocating incidents, footage or images.

These skills can speed up research on a subject, group, company or person significantly, helping to identify leads, sources, links and evidence, while freeing up time to craft a compelling story.

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 18-22 November 2024) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 25-29 November 2024).

"I would like to thank the team for putting together the two-week program. It was an eye opener and I’m certainly going to be using pivot tables a lot more." Feedback 2021
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 5 days (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (optional), Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

During the workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of five sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 5 days, with an additional 1.5 hours of self-directed learning guided by recorded tutorials and online materials. Signed-up participants must attend all sessions, except for Wednesday's session on scraping, which is optional.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### 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.


Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Class size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 5 days (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (optional), Thursday and Friday) + 1.5 hrs self-directed learning.
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

During the workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of five sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 5 days, with an additional 1.5 hours of self-directed learning guided by recorded tutorials and online materials. Signed-up participants must attend all sessions, except for Wednesday's session on scraping, which is optional.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (PM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 16-20 September 2024) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 23-27 September 2024).

"I would like to thank the team for putting together the two-week program. It was an eye opener and I’m certainly going to be using pivot tables a lot more." Feedback 2021
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 5 days (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (optional), Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

During the workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of five sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 5 days, with an additional 1.5 hours of self-directed learning guided by recorded tutorials and online materials. Signed-up participants must attend all sessions, except for Wednesday's session on scraping, which is optional.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (PM)

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.


Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (PM)

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

Class size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 5 days (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (optional), Thursday and Friday) + 1.5 hrs self-directed learning.
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

During the workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of five sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 5 days, with an additional 1.5 hours of self-directed learning guided by recorded tutorials and online materials. Signed-up participants must attend all sessions, except for Wednesday's session on scraping, which is optional.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 15-16, 18-19 July 2024) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 29 July-2 August 2024).

"I would like to thank the team for putting together the two-week program. It was an eye opener and I’m certainly going to be using pivot tables a lot more." Feedback 2021
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with an additional 1.5 hours of self-directed learning guided by recorded tutorials and online materials. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### 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.


Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Class size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday) + 1.5 hrs self-directed learning on Wednesday.
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with an additional 1.5 hours of self-directed learning guided by recorded tutorials and online materials. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### Supply Chain Investigations

This session will cover practicalities of supply-chain investigations, using case studies to guide participants through the process of tracking commodity flows through data and shipping records.  It will look at verifying claims of unsafe or inhumane conditions through analysis of social media and interviewing unions and workers’ groups, as well as using platforms such as Panjiva to identify links between factories and larger corporations and brands that profit from them.
The training is designed to help researchers and journalists be as global as the corporate supply chains they are tracking – if necessary without leaving their desks. Using published investigations as examples, this session takes participants step-by-step through how to run a supply chain investigation. It covers training in how to find stories, gather evidence and carefully use multiple databases to locate hidden information and prove wrongdoing. It also covers questions around legal issues, worker safety, and cross border collaboration.

 

Group size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day

### 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.

Knowing what you can find, where to look for it and how to make sense of it, both for yourself and for your readers, will allow you to explore and understand financial details so you can draw conclusions and drive your projects forward.

This training provides tools for deep financial research and guides participants through investigations that lead to offshore accounts in secrecy jurisdictions.

### 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.

Knowing what you can find, where to look for it and how to make sense of it, both for yourself and for your readers, will allow you to explore and understand financial details so you can draw conclusions and drive your projects forward.

This training provides tools for deep financial research and guides participants through investigations that lead to offshore accounts in secrecy jurisdictions.

### Data Investigations with Python

Harness the power of Python and the versatile data analysis library Pandas to supercharge your journalism and work with large data sources in an efficient and reproducible way. This course will be hands-on using Google Colab to write, run and manage the code you write as part of the course.

Participants will be introduced to the many uses of Python for investigative data-driven research, with a range of opportunities to put the techniques into practice using examples and exercises from real-life data and investigations.

The final session will guide participants through planning and setting up their own Python projects on which to begin implementing the techniques learned throughout the course. It is strongly recommended that participants have identified analytical projects they would like to apply Python to prior to joining the course.

Participants will also have the opportunity to submit their projects for review and feedback one month after the final session. During this month, it is expected that participants will put aside between 4 and 10 hours to work on their projects before submitting them for feedback.

 

N.B. Python is a great language for writing web scrapers, however, this course will focus on Python’s application to data analysis. If your main objective in learning Python is for scraping, then our specific Web Scraping for Journalists courses would be more suitable.

### Supply Chain Investigations

This session will cover practicalities of supply-chain investigations, using case studies to guide participants through the process of tracking commodity flows through data and shipping records.  It will look at verifying claims of unsafe or inhumane conditions through analysis of social media and interviewing unions and workers’ groups, as well as using platforms such as Panjiva to identify links between factories and larger corporations and brands that profit from them.
The training is designed to help researchers and journalists be as global as the corporate supply chains they are tracking – if necessary without leaving their desks. Using published investigations as examples, this session takes participants step-by-step through how to run a supply chain investigation. It covers training in how to find stories, gather evidence and carefully use multiple databases to locate hidden information and prove wrongdoing. It also covers questions around legal issues, worker safety, and cross border collaboration.

 

Group size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day

### 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. Or your questions are becoming too complex for Excel's built-in analytics tools to handle. Maybe you find yourself frequently updating a dataset or running the same calculations for your reporting. Or you just want to automate some of the collection or visualisation of a dataset you keep having to do.

Then R is your friend! And this is your opportunity to get to know it better.

Learn how to leverage the potential of the R programming language and it will repay you many times over. As well as reclaiming precious research time from repetitive tasks, you’ll make the first steps into using code for journalism and give yourself an edge, whether in the job market or in nailing the evidence you need to stand up that impactful story.

What’s more, this is an investment you can cash in on straight away, taking back skills you can apply to your work straight away.

Our expert trainers will take you through how to simplify the tasks you're familiar with, automate the tasks you're bored with and open up new areas for investigation you weren't aware of.

Want to know more about how R can help with data-driven journalism? This piece by Carmen Aguilar-Garcia, Data Journalist with Sky News and alumna of CIJ Training Courses explains why and how coding has helped her to keep on top of a huge and quickly developing story like the Covid19 pandemic.

 

Group size: max 10 people
Class duration: 2hrs x 3 days
Level of participation: high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As, required self-directed study

The course is taught online to get you started, but you receive a workbook to take you through the concepts and coding steps you need to learn. After the first three online sessions, you will use the workbook at your own pace. It includes advice on getting further tuition and practice, for free, online. As with our data courses, you can stay in touch with the trainer after the course when you get stuck and need help.

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 20-21, 23-24 May 2024) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 10-14 June 2024).

"I would like to thank the team for putting together the two-week program. It was an eye opener and I’m certainly going to be using pivot tables a lot more." Feedback 2021
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with an additional 1.5 hours of self-directed learning guided by recorded tutorials and online materials. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### 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.


Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Class size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday) + 1.5 hrs self-directed learning on Wednesday.
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with an additional 1.5 hours of self-directed learning guided by recorded tutorials and online materials. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Web Scraping for Journalists - Online (PM)

This three-part workshop in web scraping is designed for reporters with no knowledge of scraping or programming and provides foundational skills for getting original stories by compiling data across a range of online sources. By the end of the workshop, you will be able to begin to write your own basic scrapers and identify potential targets for scraping. You will also be able to communicate with programmers on relevant projects.

Scraping is the process of automatically collating information from the web. It might be grabbing entries across hundreds of webpages, fetching and combining dozens of spreadsheets, or thousands of PDFs.

The results have led to exclusive stories for organisations ranging from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Trinity Mirror, to DC Thomson, Channel 4 and the BBC.

### 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.

Knowing what you can find, where to look for it and how to make sense of it, both for yourself and for your readers, will allow you to explore and understand financial details so you can draw conclusions and drive your projects forward.

This training provides tools for deep financial research and guides participants through investigations that lead to offshore accounts in secrecy jurisdictions.

### 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. You’ll learn how to write with and for tape, how to use your voice as a tool and about the importance of the host intro. You’ll be introduced to audio interviewing essentials by trying out the real thing as well as strategies to employ with dry experts and best practices for sensitive sources. You’ll learn the basics of editing audio tape using Hindenburg: cut, copy, paste and fade and ethics will also be discussed. When is it ok to make internal edits to tape or not to identify a source by name?

This class is hands-on. You’ll do exercises, learn mistakes to avoid and finally put your new skills to the test with a short homework assignment. During the second day you’ll share your work and receive feedback as part of a group critique. Whether you want to report long-form or short, news or narrative, report for The Daily, The Missing Cryptoqueen or In the Dark, this workshop will give you the skills you need to get started.
This course is now sold out.

### 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.

Dates: 26, 28 February, 4, 6 March 2024
Times (for each day): 7pm till 8:30pm (London, UK time).
Group size: 35 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 2 days a week x 2 weeks
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections.

The 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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

This is one of our most popular courses at #CIJSummer Conference.

“This method is a must for any investigative journalist. It will give you the tools to organise your material for the better. The manual equips with you a number of skills, but most importantly it structures your investigation. So when it comes to filing your story you are fully prepared and not looking for that quote in the cloud” #CIJSummer 2020 feedback

“It was great. I'd do it again and I'd recommend it to people. I wanted to learn how to organize my reporting process and the course gave me just that. I'm already using some of the techniques in my work.” Feedback 2021

“Luuk and Mark are so engaging, with a clear passion for the method and a genuine interest in those attending the course and their development.” Feedback 2022

"I really appreciate Luuk Sengers and Mark Hunter for their great guidance and generosity." Feedback 2023

The course fee includes not only the lectures, but also the electronic versions of two of our CIJ handbooks - The Hidden Scenario and The Story Tells the Facts - that dive deep into the techniques covered in the lectures. If you prefer to receive hard copies of the books, you will need to purchase them from our website.

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (PM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 11-12, 14-15 March 2024) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 18-22 March 2024).

"I would like to thank the team for putting together the two-week program. It was an eye opener and I’m certainly going to be using pivot tables a lot more." Feedback 2021
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell. There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online. Although there is no formal assignment or “homework” during the course, participants who can devote 30-60 mins of practice between sessions tend to get more out of the course.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (PM)

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.


Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (PM)

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

Class size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday) + 1.5 hrs self-directed learning on Wednesday.
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with an additional 1.5 hours of self-directed learning guided by recorded tutorials and online materials. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Class size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday) + 1.5 hrs self-directed learning on Wednesday.
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with an additional 1.5 hours of self-directed learning guided by recorded tutorials and online materials. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### 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.


Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 22-23, 25-26 January 2024) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 29-31 January, 1-2 February 2024).

"I would like to thank the team for putting together the two-week program. It was an eye opener and I’m certainly going to be using pivot tables a lot more." Feedback 2021
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online. Although there is no formal assignment or “homework” during the course, participants who can devote 30-60 mins of practice between sessions tend to get more out of the course.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### 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. Or your questions are becoming too complex for Excel's built-in analytics tools to handle. Maybe you find yourself frequently updating a dataset or running the same calculations for your reporting. Or you just want to automate some of the collection or visualisation of a dataset you keep having to do.

Then R is your friend! And this is your opportunity to get to know it better.

Learn how to leverage the potential of the R programming language and it will repay you many times over. As well as reclaiming precious research time from repetitive tasks, you’ll make the first steps into using code for journalism and give yourself an edge, whether in the job market or in nailing the evidence you need to stand up that impactful story.

What’s more, this is an investment you can cash in on straight away, taking back skills you can apply to your work straight away.

Our expert trainers will take you through how to simplify the tasks you're familiar with, automate the tasks you're bored with and open up new areas for investigation you weren't aware of.

Want to know more about how R can help with data-driven journalism? This piece by Carmen Aguilar-Garcia, Data Journalist with Sky News and alumna of CIJ Training Courses explains why and how coding has helped her to keep on top of a huge and quickly developing story like the Covid19 pandemic.

 

Group size: max 10 people
Class duration: 2hrs x 3 days
Level of participation: high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As, required self-directed study

The course is taught online to get you started, but you receive a workbook to take you through the concepts and coding steps you need to learn. After the first three online sessions, you will use the workbook at your own pace. It includes advice on getting further tuition and practice, for free, online. As with our data courses, you can stay in touch with the trainer after the course when you get stuck and need help.

### Data Investigations with Python

Harness the power of Python and the powerful data analysis library Pandas to supercharge your journalism and work with large data sources in an efficient and reproducible way. This course will be hands-on using Google Colab to write, run and manage the code you build as part of the course.

Participants will be introduced to the many uses of Python for investigative data-driven research, with a range of opportunities to put the techniques into practice using examples and exercises from real-life data and investigations.

The final session will guide participants through planning and setting up their own Python projects on which to begin implementing the techniques learned throughout the course. It is strongly recommended that participants have identified analytical projects they would like to apply Python to prior to joining the course.

Participants will also have the opportunity to submit their projects for review and feedback one month after the final session. During this month, it is expected that participants will put aside between 4 and 10 hours to work on their projects before submitting them for feedback.

 

N.B. Python is a great language for writing web scrapers, however, this course will focus on Python’s application to data analysis. If your main objective in learning Python is for scraping, then our specific Web Scraping for Journalists courses would be more suitable.

### Data for the Educator

These days data and journalism seem to be mentioned in the same breath all the time. You may have decided, or had it decided for you, that your institution’s courses for journalists should include data. But where to begin? What to include? What to leave out?

This course is intended to help you to cut through confusion to focus on the essential practical elements which students will need in their future careers. This includes (but with a lot of flexibility according to your needs):

 

 	What data journalism is & what people are doing with it
 	The difference between data & statistics
 	“Interviewing” data & using it as a source
 	Cleaning data
 	Sources of data, including simple scraping
 	What is a reasonable expectation of basic data journalists & how does one assess knowledge and skills
 	The NCTJ data journalism module - what it is and what skills students need in order to pass it
 	What employers are looking for
 	Next steps - staying in touch & embedding what we’ve done in the timetable

 

The course is composed of four sessions of around 2 hours each, scheduled over four days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.

 

 

### 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.

Knowing what you can find, where to look for it and how to make sense of it, both for yourself and for your readers, will allow you to explore and understand financial details so you can draw conclusions and drive your projects forward.

This training provides tools for deep financial research and guides participants through investigations that lead to offshore accounts in secrecy jurisdictions.

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Class size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online. Although there is no formal assignment or “homework” during the course, participants who can devote 30-60 mins of practice between sessions tend to get more out of the course.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### 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.


Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 11-12, 14-15 September 2023) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 2-6 October 2023).

"I would like to thank the team for putting together the two-week program. It was an eye opener and I’m certainly going to be using pivot tables a lot more." Feedback 2021
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online. Although there is no formal assignment or “homework” during the course, participants who can devote 30-60 mins of practice between sessions tend to get more out of the course.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (PM)

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

Class size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online. Although there is no formal assignment or “homework” during the course, participants who can devote 30-60 mins of practice between sessions tend to get more out of the course.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (PM)

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.


Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (PM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 13-14, 16-17 November 2023) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 27 November-1 December 2023).

"I would like to thank the team for putting together the two-week program. It was an eye opener and I’m certainly going to be using pivot tables a lot more." Feedback 2021
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell. There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online. Although there is no formal assignment or “homework” during the course, participants who can devote 30-60 mins of practice between sessions tend to get more out of the course.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Web Scraping for Journalists

This three-part workshop in web scraping is designed for reporters with no knowledge of scraping or programming and provides foundational skills for getting original stories by compiling data across a range of online sources. By the end of the workshop, you will be able to begin to write your own basic scrapers and identify potential targets for scraping. You will also be able to communicate with programmers on relevant projects.

Scraping is the process of automatically collating information from the web. It might be grabbing entries across hundreds of webpages, fetching and combining dozens of spreadsheets, or thousands of PDFs.

The results have led to exclusive stories for organisations ranging from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Trinity Mirror, to DC Thomson, Channel 4 and the BBC.

### 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.

Dates: 13, 15, 20, 22 November 2023
Times (for each day): 7pm till 8:30pm (London, UK time).
Group size: 35 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 2 days a week x 2 weeks
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections.

The 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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

This is one of our most popular courses at #CIJSummer Conference.

“This method is a must for any investigative journalist. It will give you the tools to organise your material for the better. The manual equips with you a number of skills, but most importantly it structures your investigation. So when it comes to filing your story you are fully prepared and not looking for that quote in the cloud” #CIJSummer 2020 feedback

"This was the most useful course I have ever attended. Clear, hands-on, and superbly delivered." Feedback 2021

“It was great. I'd do it again and I'd recommend it to people. I wanted to learn how to organize my reporting process and the course gave me just that. I'm already using some of the techniques in my work.” Feedback 2021

“Luuk and Mark are so engaging, with a clear passion for the method and a genuine interest in those attending the course and their development.” Feedback 2022

The course fee includes not only the lectures, but also the electronic versions of two of our CIJ handbooks - The Hidden Scenario and The Story Tells the Facts - that dive deep into the techniques covered in the lectures. If you prefer to receive hard copies of the books, you will need to purchase them from our website.

### 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. Or your questions are becoming too complex for Excel's built-in analytics tools to handle. Maybe you find yourself frequently updating a dataset or running the same calculations for your reporting. Or you just want to automate some of the collection or visualisation of a dataset you keep having to do.

Then R is your friend! And this is your opportunity to get to know it better.

Learn how to leverage the potential of the R programming language and it will repay you many times over. As well as reclaiming precious research time from repetitive tasks, you’ll make the first steps into using code for journalism and give yourself an edge, whether in the job market or in nailing the evidence you need to stand up that impactful story.

What’s more, this is an investment you can cash in on straight away, taking back skills you can apply to your work straight away.

Our expert trainers will take you through how to simplify the tasks you're familiar with, automate the tasks you're bored with and open up new areas for investigation you weren't aware of.

Want to know more about how R can help with data-driven journalism? This piece by Carmen Aguilar-Garcia, Data Journalist with Sky News and alumna of CIJ Training Courses explains why and how coding has helped her to keep on top of a huge and quickly developing story like the Covid19 pandemic.

 

Group size: max 10 people
Class duration: 2hrs x 3 days
Level of participation: high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As, required self-directed study

The course is taught online to get you started, but you receive a workbook to take you through the concepts and coding steps you need to learn. After the first three online sessions, you will use the workbook at your own pace. It includes advice on getting further tuition and practice, for free, online. As with our data courses, you can stay in touch with the trainer after the course when you get stuck and need help.

### Financial Investigations

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.

Knowing what you can find, where to look for it and how to make sense of it, both for yourself and for your readers, will allow you to explore and understand financial details so you can draw conclusions and drive your projects forward.

This training provides tools for deep financial research and guides participants through investigations that lead to offshore accounts in secrecy jurisdictions.

### Financial Investigations

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.

Knowing what you can find, where to look for it and how to make sense of it, both for yourself and for your readers, will allow you to explore and understand financial details so you can draw conclusions and drive your projects forward.

This training provides tools for deep financial research and guides participants through investigations that lead to offshore accounts in secrecy jurisdictions.

Class size: max 12 people.

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (PM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 10-11, 13-14 July 2023) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 24-28 July 2023).

"I would like to thank the team for putting together the two-week program. It was an eye opener and I’m certainly going to be using pivot tables a lot more." Feedback 2021
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell. There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online. Although there is no formal assignment or “homework” during the course, participants who can devote 30-60 mins of practice between sessions tend to get more out of the course.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (PM)

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.


Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (PM)

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

Class size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online. Although there is no formal assignment or “homework” during the course, participants who can devote 30-60 mins of practice between sessions tend to get more out of the course.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 15-16, 18-19 May 2023) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 22-26 May 2023).

"I would like to thank the team for putting together the two-week program. It was an eye opener and I’m certainly going to be using pivot tables a lot more." Feedback 2021
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online. Although there is no formal assignment or “homework” during the course, participants who can devote 30-60 mins of practice between sessions tend to get more out of the course.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### 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.


Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Class size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online. Although there is no formal assignment or “homework” during the course, participants who can devote 30-60 mins of practice between sessions tend to get more out of the course.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### Audio Skills Bootcamp

This short, five-session course will be an introduction to audio journalism basics. In it you will learn the basic concepts and tools of writing and production that you need for all forms of audio storytelling. We will use phones as recorders, though participants with professional gear are welcome to use their own equipment, though they must know how to operate it.

Class size: max 12 people.

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### 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.

Dates: 27 February, 1, 6, 8 March 2023
Times (for each day): 7pm till 8:30pm (London, UK time).
Group size: 35 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 2 days a week x 2 weeks
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections.

The 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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

This is one of our most popular courses at #CIJSummer Conference.

“This method is a must for any investigative journalist. It will give you the tools to organise your material for the better. The manual equips with you a number of skills, but most importantly it structures your investigation. So when it comes to filing your story you are fully prepared and not looking for that quote in the cloud” #CIJSummer 2020 feedback

"This was the most useful course I have ever attended. Clear, hands-on, and superbly delivered." Feedback 2021

“It was great. I'd do it again and I'd recommend it to people. I wanted to learn how to organize my reporting process and the course gave me just that. I'm already using some of the techniques in my work.” Feedback 2021

“Luuk and Mark are so engaging, with a clear passion for the method and a genuine interest in those attending the course and their development.” Feedback 2022

The course fee includes not only the lectures, but also the electronic versions of two of our CIJ handbooks - The Hidden Scenario and The Story Tells the Facts - that dive deep into the techniques covered in the lectures. If you prefer to receive hard copies of the books, you will need to purchase them from our website.

### Financial Investigations

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.

Knowing what you can find, where to look for it and how to make sense of it, both for yourself and for your readers, will allow you to explore and understand financial details so you can draw conclusions and drive your projects forward.

This training provides tools for deep financial research and guides participants through investigations that lead to offshore accounts in secrecy jurisdictions.

Class size: max 12 people.

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 13, 15, 16, 17 March 2023) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 27-31 March 2023).

"I would like to thank the team for putting together the two-week program. It was an eye opener and I’m certainly going to be using pivot tables a lot more." Feedback 2021
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online. Although there is no formal assignment or “homework” during the course, participants who can devote 30-60 mins of practice between sessions tend to get more out of the course.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### 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.


Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Class size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online. Although there is no formal assignment or “homework” during the course, participants who can devote 30-60 mins of practice between sessions tend to get more out of the course.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (PM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 6, 8, 9, 10 Feburary 2023) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 20-24 February 2023).

"I would like to thank the team for putting together the two-week program. It was an eye opener and I’m certainly going to be using pivot tables a lot more." Feedback 2021
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell. There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online. Although there is no formal assignment or “homework” during the course, participants who can devote 30-60 mins of practice between sessions tend to get more out of the course.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (PM)

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.


Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (PM)

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

Class size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online. Although there is no formal assignment or “homework” during the course, participants who can devote 30-60 mins of practice between sessions tend to get more out of the course.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 9, 11, 12, 13 January 2023) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 23-27 January 2023).

"I would like to thank the team for putting together the two-week program. It was an eye opener and I’m certainly going to be using pivot tables a lot more." Feedback 2021
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell. There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online. Although there is no formal assignment or “homework” during the course, participants who can devote 30-60 mins of practice between sessions tend to get more out of the course.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### 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.


Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research, so we strongly recommend that you approach the course with an idea already in mind for a data-driven story.

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Class size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell. There is of course a limit to how much practical knowledge can be exchanged in each 90 minute session, so supporting material is supplied online. Although there is no formal assignment or “homework” during the course, participants who can devote 30-60 mins of practice between sessions tend to get more out of the course.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### Audio Skills Bootcamp

This short, five-session course will be an introduction to audio journalism basics. In it you will learn the basic concepts and tools of writing and production that you need for all forms of audio storytelling. We will use phones as recorders, though participants with professional gear are welcome to use their own equipment, though they must know how to operate it.

Class size: max 12 people.

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Financial Investigations

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.

Knowing what you can find, where to look for it and how to make sense of it, both for yourself and for your readers, will allow you to explore and understand financial details so you can draw conclusions and drive your projects forward.

This training provides tools for deep financial research and guides participants through investigations that lead to offshore accounts in secrecy jurisdictions.

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### 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.

Dates: 31 October, 2, 7, 9 November 2022
Times (for each day): 7pm till 8:30pm (London, UK time).
Group size: 35 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 2 days a week x 2 weeks
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections.

The 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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

This is one of our most popular courses at #CIJSummer Conference.

“This method is a must for any investigative journalist. It will give you the tools to organise your material for the better. The manual equips with you a number of skills, but most importantly it structures your investigation. So when it comes to filing your story you are fully prepared and not looking for that quote in the cloud” #CIJSummer 2020 feedback

"This was the most useful course I have ever attended. Clear, hands-on, and superbly delivered." Feedback 2021

“It was great. I'd do it again and I'd recommend it to people. I wanted to learn how to organize my reporting process and the course gave me just that. I'm already using some of the techniques in my work.” Feedback 2021

“Luuk and Mark are so engaging, with a clear passion for the method and a genuine interest in those attending the course and their development.” Feedback 2022

The course fee includes not only the lectures, but also the electronic versions of two of our CIJ handbooks - The Hidden Scenario and The Story Tells the Facts - that dive deep into the techniques covered in the lectures. If you prefer to receive hard copies of the books, you will need to purchase them from our website.

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 14, 16, 17 & 18 November 2022) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 28-30 November, 1-2 December 2022).

"I would like to thank the team for putting together the two-week program. It was an eye opener and I’m certainly going to be using pivot tables a lot more." Feedback 2021
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### 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.


Group size: max 9 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research. 

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Class size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (PM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 10, 12, 13 & 14 October 2022 ) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 24-28 October 2022).

"I would like to thank the team for putting together the two-week program. It was an eye opener and I’m certainly going to be using pivot tables a lot more." Feedback 2021
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (PM)

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.


Group size: max 9 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research. 

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (PM)

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

Class size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 5, 6, 8 & 9 September 2022) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 26-30 September 2022).

"I would like to thank the team for putting together the two-week program. It was an eye opener and I’m certainly going to be using pivot tables a lot more." Feedback 2021
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### 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.


Group size: max 9 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research. 

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Class size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 25, 26, 28 and 29 April 2022) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 9-13 May 2022).

"I would like to thank the team for putting together the two-week program. It was an eye opener and I’m certainly going to be using pivot tables a lot more." Feedback 2021
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### 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.


Group size: max 9 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research. 

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Class size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### 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.

Dates: 3, 4, 10, 11 May 2022
Times (for each day): 7pm till 8:30pm (London, UK time).
Group size: 35 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 2 days a week x 2 weeks
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections.

The 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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

This is one of our most popular courses at #CIJSummer Conference.

“This method is a must for any investigative journalist. It will give you the tools to organise your material for the better. The manual equips with you a number of skills, but most importantly it structures your investigation. So when it comes to filing your story you are fully prepared and not looking for that quote in the cloud” #CIJSummer 2020 feedback

"This was the most useful course I have ever attended. Clear, hands-on, and superbly delivered." Feedback 2021

“It was great. I'd do it again and I'd recommend it to people. I wanted to learn how to organize my reporting process and the course gave me just that. I'm already using some of the techniques in my work.” Feedback 2021

The course fee includes not only the lectures, but also the electronic versions of two of our CIJ handbooks - The Hidden Scenario and The Story Tells the Facts - that dive deep into the techniques covered in the lectures. If you prefer to receive hard copies of the books, you will need to purchase them from our website.

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### 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. Or your questions are becoming too complex for Excel's built-in analytics tools to handle. Maybe you find yourself frequently updating a dataset or running the same calculations for your reporting. Or you just want to automate some of the collection or visualisation of a dataset you keep having to do.

Then R is your friend! And this is your opportunity to get to know it better.

Invest in learning how to leverage the potential of the R programming language and it will repay you many times over. As well as reclaiming precious research time from repetitive tasks, you'll make the first steps into using code for journalism and give yourself an edge, whether in the job market or in nailing the evidence you need to stand up that impactful story. What's more, this is an investment you can cash in on straight away, taking back skills you can apply to your work instantly.

Our expert trainers will take you through how to simplify the tasks you're familiar with, automate the tasks you're bored with and open up new areas for investigation you weren't aware of.

Want to know more about how R can help with data-driven journalism? This piece by Carmen Aguilar-Garcia, Data Journalist with Sky News and alumna of CIJ Training Courses explains why and how coding has helped her to keep on top of a huge and quickly developing story like the Covid19 pandemic.

 

Group size: max 10 people
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 3 days
Level of participation: high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As, required self-directed study

The course is taught online to get you started, but you receive a workbook to take you through the concepts and coding steps you need to learn. After the first three online sessions, you will use the workbook at your own pace. It includes advice on getting further tuition and practice, for free, online. As with our data courses, you can stay in touch with the trainer after the course when you get stuck and need help.

### 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.

Dates: 22, 23 February and 1, 2 March 2022
Times (for each day): 7pm till 8:30pm (London, UK time).
Group size: max 35 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 2 days a week x 2 weeks
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections.

The 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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

This is one of our most popular courses at #CIJSummer Conference.

“This method is a must for any investigative journalist. It will give you the tools to organise your material for the better. The manual equips with you a number of skills, but most importantly it structures your investigation. So when it comes to filing your story you are fully prepared and not looking for that quote in the cloud” #CIJSummer 2020 feedback

"This was the most useful course I have ever attended. Clear, hands-on, and superbly delivered." Feedback 2021

“It was great. I'd do it again and I'd recommend it to people. I wanted to learn how to organize my reporting process and the course gave me just that. I'm already using some of the techniques in my work.” Feedback 2021

The course fee includes not only the lectures, but also the electronic versions of two of our CIJ handbooks - The Hidden Scenario and The Story Tells the Facts - that dive deep into the techniques covered in the lectures. If you prefer to receive hard copies of the books, you will need to purchase them from our website.

### 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.


Group size: max 9 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research. 

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (PM)

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.


Group size: max 9 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research. 

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Class size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (PM)

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

Class size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 24-25, 27-28 January 2022) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 31 January - 4 February 2022).

"I would like to thank the team for putting together the two-week program. It was an eye opener and I’m certainly going to be using pivot tables a lot more." Feedback 2021
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (PM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 28 February - 01 March, 03-04 March 2022 ) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 07-11 March 2022).

"I would like to thank the team for putting together the two-week program. It was an eye opener and I’m certainly going to be using pivot tables a lot more." Feedback 2021
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days (Monday to Friday)
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop covering a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.


This is a short course for those new to open-source intelligence. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: high. Hands-on exercises, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### 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. Or your questions are becoming too complex for Excel's built-in analytics tools to handle. Maybe you find yourself frequently updating a dataset or running the same calculations for your reporting. Or you just want to automate some of the collection or visualisation of a dataset you keep having to do.

Then R is your friend! And this is your opportunity to get to know it better.

Invest in learning how to leverage the potential of the R programming language and it will repay you many times over. As well as reclaiming precious research time from repetitive tasks, you'll make the first steps into using code for journalism and give yourself an edge, whether in the job market or in nailing the evidence you need to stand up that impactful story. What's more, this is an investment you can cash in on straight away, taking back skills you can apply to your work instantly.

Our expert trainers will take you through how to simplify the tasks you're familiar with, automate the tasks you're bored with and open up new areas for investigation you weren't aware of.

Want to know more about how R can help with data-driven journalism? This piece by Carmen Aguilar-Garcia, Data Journalist with Sky News and alumna of CIJ Training Courses explains why and how coding has helped her to keep on top of a huge and quickly developing story like the Covid19 pandemic.

 

Group size: max 10 people
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 3 days
Level of participation: high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As, required self-directed study

The course is taught online to get you started, but you receive a workbook to take you through the concepts and coding steps you need to learn. After the first three online sessions, you will use the workbook at your own pace. It includes advice on getting further tuition and practice, for free, online. As with our data courses, you can stay in touch with the trainer after the course when you get stuck and need help.

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Class size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 consecutive days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### 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.


Group size: max 9 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research. 

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### 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).
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 consecutive days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 consecutive days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (PM)

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

Class size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 consecutive days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive (PM)

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.


Group size: max 9 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research. 

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (PM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 25-28 October 2021) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 01-05 November 2021).
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 consecutive days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 consecutive days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### Story-Based Inquiry Method - Online, Intensive

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

Dates: 8 - 9 November 2021
Times (for each day): 10:00 till 11:30 AND 12:00 till 13:30 (GMT London, UK time).
Group size: max 40 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 2 times a day x 2 days
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections.

The 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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

This is one of our most popular courses at #CIJSummer Conference.

“This method is a must for any investigative journalist. It will give you the tools to organise your material for the better. The manual equips with you a number of skills, but most importantly it structures your investigation. So when it comes to filing your story you are fully prepared and not looking for that quote in the cloud” #CIJSummer 2020 feedback

"This was the most useful course I have ever attended. Clear, hands-on, and superbly delivered." Feedback 2021

“It was great. I'd do it again and I'd recommend it to people. I wanted to learn how to organize my reporting process and the course gave me just that. I'm already using some of the techniques in my work.” Feedback 2021

The course fee includes not only the lectures, but also the electronic versions of two of our CIJ handbooks - The Hidden Scenario and The Story Tells the Facts - that dive deep into the techniques covered in the lectures. If you prefer to receive hard copies of the books, you will need to purchase them from our website.

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigation is a two-hour workshop looking specifically at tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations with digital sources.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

You will be taught a range of investigative tools, shortcuts and tips/hacks to enhance your research skills and help you develop a methodology for building your stories.

As a practical hands-on training, you will learn how to:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Digital Tools for Investigation

Digital Tools for Investigations is a two-hour workshop looking specifically at tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations with digital sources.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 1 day
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

Newsrooms of any size, universities and other communities can greatly benefit from this introductory workshop to open-source intelligence, public record searches and a range of other digital tools that will make your investigations both quicker and more effective.

You will be taught a range of investigative tools, shortcuts and tips/hacks to enhance your research skills and help you develop a methodology for building your stories.

As a practical hands-on training, you will learn how to:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online (AM)

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 20-23 September 2021) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 27 September-01 October 2021).
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 consecutive days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 consecutive days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### 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.


Group size: max 9 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research. 

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (AM)

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

Class size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 consecutive days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### Web Scraping for Journalists

This three-part workshop in web scraping is designed for reporters with no knowledge of scraping or programming and provides foundational skills for getting original stories by compiling data across a range of online sources. By the end of the workshop, you will be able to begin to write your own basic scrapers and identify potential targets for scraping. You will also be able to communicate with programmers on relevant projects.

Scraping is the process of automatically collating information from the web. It might be grabbing entries across hundreds of webpages, fetching and combining dozens of spreadsheets, or thousands of PDFs.

The results have led to exclusive stories for organisations ranging from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Trinity Mirror, to DC Thomson, Channel 4 and the BBC.

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 26-29 July 2021) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 09-13 August 2021).
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 consecutive days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 consecutive days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive

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.


Group size: max 9 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participant contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research. 

"Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers."Feedback 2021

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies, all using the latest tools and techniques.

The mixture of own projects, group exercises and teaching slides was perfect. Astonishing, how well this worked online.Feedback 2021
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### 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.

Class size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 consecutive days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module 'Data-Driven Investigations' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### #CIJSummer: Financial OSINT. Deep Diving.

Open-Source Intelligence (frequently referred to as OSINT) has become crucial to many investigators’ ability to cross-examine allegations and reports of serious financial crimes.

This practical course will take you through real-life cases to teach you the core techniques to conduct deep-dive investigations to uncover opaque global company structures used to facilitate money laundering, corruption, bribery, tax fraud schemes, and more.

This course is part of the #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2021.



Date: Thursday, 8 July 2021
Time: 10:00 till 11:30 (BST London, UK time).
Group size: max 40 people.
Class duration: 1hr 30min x 1 times a day x 1 day
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections

This session will focus on the following important areas of financial OSINT research:

– Understanding and profiling UK shell company factory structures

– Local to Global approach to identifying international connections

– Linking shell company structures to websites and fintech

OSINT is an ever evolving field - especially in the fast-developing world of digital finance, so up-to-date skills are essential. If you are a beginner, this course will help you get started in the field, for those who already practice some of the skills, the training will provide guidance on using the best and most current techniques available.

### #CIJSummer: Understanding Company Accounts

A two-part session aimed at those who want to understand how to dig into financial statements and identify relevant information for investigations.



This course is part of the #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2021.

Date: 6 July 2021
Time: 10:00 till 11:30 AND 12:00 till 13:30 (BST London, UK time).
Group size: max 40 people.
Class duration: 1hr 30min x 2 times a day x 1 day
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections

This course will show you how to understand company accounts and get beyond the corporate PR spin. The emphasis will be on teaching practical skills. The objective of the course is to ensure that all participants feel comfortable with a set of accounts and know where and how to look for relevant information.

The only prerequisites for this course are numeracy and an interest in financial matters.

### #CIJSummer: Using Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

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

This course is part of the #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2021.


Date: 8 July
Times: 10:00 - 11:00 AND 11:15 - 12:15
Group size: max 40 people.
Class duration: 1h x 2 times a day x 1 day
Level of participation: very high. Regular Q&As.

“I’ve never submitted an FOI request so I liked how the course showed me from start to finish how it works. It was also incredibly useful to hear about the potential pitfalls and what to do to appeal.” Feedback 2020

“Jenna is very knowledgeable about FOI requests and I really appreciated her sharing her expertise.” Feedback 2020

 

Please note that this course has a specific focus on UK FOI law and is unable to address the legislation in other national contexts in any great detail.

### #CIJSummer: Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)

Open-Source Intelligence (frequently referred to as OSINT) has been adopted into many investigators' practice over the past decade and now covers a wide range of skills, tools and techniques.

This practical course will teach you the basics of some key areas of OSINT that will help you not only save time in your research, but also to dig deeper into issues, organisations and people.

This course is part of the #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2021.



Date: 7 July 2021
Time: 10:00 till 11:30 AND 12:00 till 13:30 (BST London, UK time).
Group size: max 40 people.
Class duration: 1hr 30min x 2 times a day x 1 day
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections

This two-part course will focus on two important areas of open source information gathering:

- sourcing leads and evidence through social media
- verification and fact-checking tools

OSINT is an ever evolving field, so up-to-date skills are essential. If you are a beginner, this course will help you get started in the field, for those who already practice some of the skills, the training will provide guidance on using the best and most current tools available.

### 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.

Class size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 consecutive days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.

“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### #CIJSummer: 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. This course is part of the #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2021. 

Class size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 consecutive days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.

“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### #CIJSummer: 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. This course is part of the #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2021.  

Dates: 5-6 July 2021
Time: 10:00 till 11:30 AND 12:00 till 13:30 (BST London, UK time).
Group size: max 40 people.
Class duration: 1hr 30min x 2 times a day x 2 days
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections.

The 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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

This is one of our most popular courses at #CIJSummer Conference.

“This method is a must for any investigative journalist. It will give you the tools to organise your material for the better. The manual equips with you a number of skills, but most importantly it structures your investigation. So when it comes to filing your story you are fully prepared and not looking for that quote in the cloud” #CIJSummer 2020 feedback

"This was the most useful course I have ever attended. Clear, hands-on, and superbly delivered." Feedback 2021

“It was great. I'd do it again and I'd recommend it to people. I wanted to learn how to organize my reporting process and the course gave me just that. I'm already using some of the techniques in my work.” Feedback 2021

The course fee includes not only the lectures, but also two Logan/CIJ handbooks that dive deep into the techniques covered in the lectures.

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 17-20 May 2021) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 24-28 May 2021).
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 consecutive days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 consecutive days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive

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.


Group size: max 9 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research. 

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.
“Honestly one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever attended. Brilliant content, brilliant trainers.” Feedback 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.



Class size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 consecutive days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.

“I really enjoyed it and would recommend it to anybody interested in getting started with data.” Feedback 2020

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module Data-Driven Investigations course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (4 sessions: 29 March - 1 April 2021) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (5 sessions: 12-16 April 2021).

[You can find other schedule options HERE]
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 consecutive days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 consecutive days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (22-25 February 2021) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (12-16 April 2021).

[You can find other schedule options HERE]
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 consecutive days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 consecutive days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### Deep Dive into Data Journalism – Online

Take a deep dive into data journalism by combining “Finding Stories With Data  – Online, Intensive” (22-25 February 2021) with “Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive” (8-12 March 2021).

[You can find other schedule options HERE]
Finding Stories with Data
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 consecutive days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 consecutive days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions.
Data-Driven Investigations
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 consecutive days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research.

This course will be divided into 5 workshops designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.

We offer a 10% discount for those who choose to book both courses as a package. To benefit from this offer, book your place for this two-course package by completing the booking form at the bottom of this page.

Signed-up participants must attend all nine sessions.

### Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive

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.


Group size: max 9 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research. 

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### Data-Driven Investigations – Online, Intensive

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.


Group size: max 9 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 5 days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

The data is rarely the story in itself. This course will help you find the human face to add impact and relevance.

It is highly recommended that you approach the course with ideas already in mind for data-driven stories. The central aim of the course is for attendees to work on live projects throughout the sessions and leave with their own stories at an advanced stage of research. 

This course will be divided into 5 modules designed to take you through the steps to build a lead into a full investigative story. Drawing from real life examples and scenarios, we will guide attendees from hypothesis to story, including sections on working with spreadsheets, scraping and importing data, investigating people and companies and the latest tools and techniques.
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 4-module 'Finding Stories with Data' course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### 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.



Dates: 17, 19, 24, 26 May
Time: 10:00 till 12:00 (London, UK time).
Group size: max 30 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 4 days
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections.

The 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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

This is one of our most popular courses at #CIJSummer Conference.

“This method is a must for any investigative journalist. It will give you the tools to organise your material for the better. The manual equips with you a number of skills, but most importantly it structures your investigation. So when it comes to filing your story you are fully prepared and not looking for that quote in the cloud” Delegate feedback 2020

"From theorising, to organisation, to writing the story, the trainers gave a lot of helpful tips and tricks that will help me immensely going forward." Delegate feedback 2020

“Inspirational and provided a background of journalistic greats and their methodology. The tutors were filled with brilliant examples and anecdotes which were stimulating inspiring and entertaining.” Delegate feedback 2019

The course fee includes not only the lectures, but also two Logan/CIJ handbooks that dive deep into the techniques covered in the lectures.

### 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.



Class size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 consecutive days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.

“I really enjoyed it and would recommend it to anybody interested in getting started with data.” Feedback 2020

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module Data-Driven Investigations course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### 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.



Class size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 consecutive days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.

“I really enjoyed it and would recommend it to anybody interested in getting started with data.” Feedback 2020

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020
You can also claim a 10% discount if you combine this course with our 5-module Data-Driven Investigations course. For more information about this two-course package please click HERE.

### 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. Or your questions are becoming too complex for Excel's built-in analytics tools to handle. Maybe you find yourself frequently updating a dataset or running the same calculations for your reporting. Or you just want to automate some of the collection or visualisation of a dataset you keep having to do.

Then R is your friend! And this is your opportunity to get to know it better.

Invest in learning how to leverage the potential of the R programming language and it will repay you many times over. As well as reclaiming precious research time from repetitive tasks, you'll make the first steps into using code for journalism and give yourself an edge, whether in the job market or in nailing the evidence you need to stand up that impactful story. What's more, this is an investment you can cash in on straight away, taking back skills you can apply to your work instantly.

Our expert trainers will take you through how to simplify the tasks you're familiar with, automate the tasks you're bored with and open up new areas for investigation you weren't aware of.

Want to know more about how R can help with data-driven journalism? This piece by Carmen Aguilar-Garcia, Data Journalist with Sky News and regular at CIJ Training Courses explains why and how coding has helped her to keep on top of a huge and quickly developing story like the Covid19 pandemic.

 

Group size: max 10 people
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 3 days
Level of participation: high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As, required self-directed study

The course is taught online to get you started, but you receive a workbook to take you through the concepts and coding steps you need to learn. After the first three online sessions, you will use the workbook at your own pace. It includes advice on getting further tuition and practice, for free, online. As with our data courses, you can stay in touch with the trainer after the course when you get stuck and need help.

### 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.


Dates: 3, 10, 17, 24 March 2021.
Time: 10:00 till 12:00 (London, UK time).
Group size: max 30 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 4 days
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections.

The 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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

This is one of our most popular courses at #CIJSummer Conference.

“This method is a must for any investigative journalist. It will give you the tools to organise your material for the better. The manual equips with you a number of skills, but most importantly it structures your investigation. So when it comes to filing your story you are fully prepared and not looking for that quote in the cloud” Delegate feedback 2020

"From theorising, to organisation, to writing the story, the trainers gave a lot of helpful tips and tricks that will help me immensely going forward." Delegate feedback 2020

“Most useful. Very concrete and practical.” Delegate feedback 2019

The course fee includes not only the lectures, but also two Logan/CIJ handbooks that dive deep into the techniques covered in the lectures.

### 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.


Dates: 8-11 February 2020.
Time: 10:00 till 12:00 (London, UK time).
Group size: max 30 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 4 days
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections.

The 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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

This is one of our most popular courses at #CIJSummer Conference.

“This method is a must for any investigative journalist. It will give you the tools to organise your material for the better. The manual equips with you a number of skills, but most importantly it structures your investigation. So when it comes to filing your story you are fully prepared and not looking for that quote in the cloud” Delegate feedback 2020

"From theorising, to organisation, to writing the story, the trainers gave a lot of helpful tips and tricks that will help me immensely going forward." Delegate feedback 2020

“Most useful. Very concrete and practical.” Delegate feedback 2019

The course fee includes not only the lectures, but also two Logan/CIJ handbooks that dive deep into the techniques covered in the lectures.

### 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.

Week 1: Mon 4, Wed 6 January 2021.
Week 2: Mon 11, Wed 13 January 2021.
Time: 10:00am till 12:00pm (London, UK time).
Group size: max 30 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 4 days
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections.

The 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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

This is one of our most popular courses at #CIJSummer Conference.

“This method is a must for any investigative journalist. It will give you the tools to organise your material for the better. The manual equips with you a number of skills, but most importantly it structures your investigation. So when it comes to filing your story you are fully prepared and not looking for that quote in the cloud” Delegate feedback 2020

"From theorising, to organisation, to writing the story, the trainers gave a lot of helpful tips and tricks that will help me immensely going forward." Delegate feedback 2020

“Most useful. Very concrete and practical.” Delegate feedback 2019

The course fee includes not only the lectures, but also two Logan/CIJ handbooks that dive deep into the techniques covered in the lectures.

### 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.



Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days across 4 weeks
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled weekly across a month, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Groups for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.

“I really enjoyed it and would recommend it to anybody interested in getting started with data.” Feedback 2020

“If you come from a non-tech background, but interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### 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. Or your questions are becoming too complex for Excel's built-in analytics tools to handle. Maybe you find yourself frequently updating a dataset or running the same calculations for your reporting. Or you just want to automate some of the collection or visualisation of a dataset you keep having to do.

Then R is your friend! And this is your opportunity to get to know it better.

Invest in learning how to leverage the potential of the R programming language and it will repay you many times over. As well as reclaiming precious research time from repetitive tasks, you'll make the first steps into using code for journalism and give yourself an edge, whether in the job market or in nailing the evidence you need to stand up that impactful story. What's more, this is an investment you can cash in on straight away, taking back skills you can apply to your work instantly.

Our expert trainers will take you through how to simplify the tasks you're familiar with, automate the tasks you're bored with and open up new areas for investigation you weren't aware of.

Want to know more about how R can help with data-driven journalism? This piece by Carmen Aguilar-Garcia, Data Journalist with Sky News and regular at CIJ Training Courses explains why and how coding has helped her to keep on top of a huge and quickly developing story like the Covid19 pandemic.

 

Group size: max 10 people
Class duration: 2hrs x 3 days
Level of participation: high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As, self-directed study

The course is taught online to get you started, but you receive a workbook to take you through the concepts and coding steps you need to learn. After the first three online sessions, you will use the workbook at your own pace. It includes advice on getting further tuition and practice, for free, online. As with our data courses, you can stay in touch with the trainer after the course when you get stuck and need help.

### 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. Or your questions are becoming too complex for Excel's built-in analytics tools to handle. Maybe you find yourself frequently updating a dataset or running the same calculations for your reporting. Or you just want to automate some of the collection or visualisation of a dataset you keep having to do.

Then R is your friend! And this is your opportunity to get to know it better.

Invest in learning how to leverage the potential of the R programming language and it will repay you many times over. As well as reclaiming precious research time from repetitive tasks, you'll make the first steps into using code for journalism and give yourself an edge, whether in the job market or in nailing the evidence you need to stand up that impactful story. What's more, this is an investment you can cash in on straight away, taking back skills you can apply to your work instantly.

Our expert trainers will take you through how to simplify the tasks you're familiar with, automate the tasks you're bored with and open up new areas for investigation you weren't aware of.

Want to know more about how R can help with data-driven journalism? This piece by Carmen Aguilar-Garcia, Data Journalist with Sky News and regular at CIJ Training Courses explains why and how coding has helped her to keep on top of a huge and quickly developing story like the Covid19 pandemic.

 

Group size: max 10 people
Class duration: 2hrs x 3 days
Level of participation: high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As, self-directed study

The course is taught online to get you started, but you receive a workbook to take you through the concepts and coding steps you need to learn. After the first three online sessions, you will use the workbook at your own pace. It includes advice on getting further tuition and practice, for free, online. As with our data courses, you can stay in touch with the trainer after the course when you get stuck and need help.

### 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.



Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over four consecutive days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Groups for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.

“I really enjoyed it and would recommend it to anybody interested in getting started with data.” Feedback 2020

“If you come from a non-tech background, but interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### 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.



Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled weekly across a month, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Groups for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.

“I really enjoyed it and would recommend it to anybody interested in getting started with data.” Feedback 2020

“If you come from a non-tech background, but interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### 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.



Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days across 4 weeks
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around two hours each, scheduled weekly across a month, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Groups for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.

“I really enjoyed it and would recommend it to anybody interested in getting started with data.” Feedback 2020

“If you come from a non-tech background, but interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### 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.



7, 14, 21, 28 October 2020. 6pm till 8pm (London, UK time).
Group size: max 30 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 4 days, over 4 weeks
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections.

The 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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

This is one of our most popular courses at #CIJSummer Conference.

“This method is a must for any investigative journalist. It will give you the tools to organise your material for the better. The manual equips with you a number of skills, but most importantly it structures your investigation. So when it comes to filing your story you are fully prepared and not looking for that quote in the cloud” Delegate feedback 2020

"From theorising, to organisation, to writing the story, the trainers gave a lot of helpful tips and tricks that will help me immensely going forward." Delegate feedback 2020

“Most useful. Very concrete and practical.” Delegate feedback 2019

The course fee includes not only the lectures, but also two Logan/CIJ handbooks that dive deep into the techniques covered in the lectures.

### Story-Based Inquiry Method - Online, Intensive

This four-part online course, which takes place over four days, gives you the basics for starting, deepening, organising and writing an investigative report.
7-10 December 2020. 10:00 till 12:00 (London, UK time).
Group size: max 30 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 4 days
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections.

The 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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

This is one of our most popular courses at #CIJSummer Conference.

“This method is a must for any investigative journalist. It will give you the tools to organise your material for the better. The manual equips with you a number of skills, but most importantly it structures your investigation. So when it comes to filing your story you are fully prepared and not looking for that quote in the cloud” Delegate feedback 2020

"From theorising, to organisation, to writing the story, the trainers gave a lot of helpful tips and tricks that will help me immensely going forward." Delegate feedback 2020

“Most useful. Very concrete and practical.” Delegate feedback 2019

The course fee includes not only the lectures, but also two Logan/CIJ handbooks that dive deep into the techniques covered in the lectures.

### 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.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days across 4 weeks
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around two hours each, scheduled weekly across a month, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Groups for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.

### 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.



Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around two hours each, scheduled daily across a week, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Groups for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.

### 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.



Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around two hours each, scheduled daily across a week, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Groups for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.

### 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.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days across 4 weeks
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around two hours each, scheduled weekly across a month, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Groups for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (Excel)

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

Group size: max 8 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 4 days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around two hours each, scheduled daily across a week, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Groups for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.

### Finding Stories with Data - Online, Intensive (Google Sheets)

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



Group size: max 8 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 4 days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around two hours each, scheduled daily across a week, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Groups for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.

### Story-Based Inquiry Method

This four-part online course, which takes place over four days, gives you the basics for starting, deepening, organising and writing an investigative report.
This course is now SOLD OUT.  --> Register your interest here and we'll inform you as soon as places become available.



Price: £45 for the entire course, including two handbooks and a PDF workbook.
Group size: max 30 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 4 days
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections.

The 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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

This is one of our most popular courses at #CIJSummer Conference.

“Most useful. Very concrete and practical and I feel that most definitely the knowledge obtained [during the classes] will be used.” Delegate feedback 2019

“A complete walkthrough on investigative story writing, further reading tips and lots of invaluable info.” Delegate feedback 2017

### 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.

Group size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days across 4 weeks
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around two hours each, scheduled weekly across a month, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Groups for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.

### Web Scraping for Journalists

This two-day workshop in scraping is designed for reporters with no knowledge of scraping or programming and provides essential skills for getting original stories by compiling data across a range of online sources. By the end of the workshop, you will be able to use specialist scraping tools (without programming) and begin to write your own, more advanced, scrapers. You will also be able to communicate with programmers on relevant projects.
Scraping is the process of automatically collating information from the web. It might be grabbing entries across hundreds of webpages, fetching and combining dozens of spreadsheets, or thousands of PDFs.

The results have led to exclusive stories for organisations ranging from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Trinity Mirror, to DC Thomson, Channel 4 and the BBC.

### Introduction to Coding for Journalists

This weekend workshop is designed as an introductory primer to learning to code, showing recent story examples, explaining the fundamental concepts in programming and demystifying the jargon.

Through a series of practical exercises, you will learn how code is used by reporters to find stories and aid investigations, how to write and run scripts and gain a basic understanding of how computer programs are structured. Exercises will include a “my first program”, building and scraping basic web pages and automating tedious and repetitive tasks.

We will also provide a guide to the most common programming languages to help you identify which would suit your needs and how to continue your learning.

### Data Visualisations



### Covert Filming

Sometimes, the only way to get to the story is to go undercover.

Learn how from our trainers, all experienced experts in the field.

This one day course will give you an insight into the many aspects for preparation of an undercover investigation.

From technical advice on covert filming equipment and techniques, to the ethical and legal points that must be considered before embarking on this kind of investigative project.

Our trainers are experienced professionals, who've worked on dozens of covert filming projects and have seen it all!

### Using the Freedom Of Information Act Effectively

One of the most important skills for journalists today is knowing how to use the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Most journalists have come across FOIA and many will have submitted a request or two.

However, few reporters use it as effectively as they could, or realise its full journalistic potential.

It can be difficult to know what to do or how to take the next steps when you’re hit with an exemption, but our expert trainers can help. With years of experience (and many FOI battles) behind them, they’ll teach you how to carefully craft your requests to give yourself the best chance of avoiding common FOI obstacles, as well as arm you to argue your case in the public interest when you need to.

Other aspects covered will be how to plan and execute a full FOI project which seeks to get information from public bodies across the country, tips and tricks to save you time, and how to argue against FOI exemptions. We’ll look at making requests under the lesser-known Environmental Information Regulations and cover the possibilities for sending freedom of information requests around the world. We will also look at another powerful journalistic tool – Subject Access Requests – where the Data Protection Act enshrines our right to access our personal information from public bodies and private companies.

There’ll be time towards the end of the day to get expert guidance and troubleshooting on your previous requests or FOI projects you’re planning, in which we’ll also demonstrate the functions of WhatDoTheyKnowPro, a journalism-focused version of the popular FOI request platform which allows you to keep your requests private until you’re ready to publish and has specific tools to make batch requests to many authorities much simpler.

### Investigating Data with R

R is a free open-source statistical computing language that will save you time whether you’re scraping, querying, analysing or presenting your data.

How to use R & RStudio for your investigations

To begin we’ll take a tour around RStudio, import some data and learn some basic functions for getting to grips with our datasets.

We’ll then start using R for some data wrangling and learn how to sort, filter, join and carry out other functions in R that will allow you to identify trends in the data for storytelling.

Why R?

Timo Grossenbacher, Programmer / Reporter for SRF Data, the data journalism unit of Swiss Radio & TV, based in Zurich, discusses Why Journalists Should Start Using R


## Bespoke Training

### Financial Investigations

Taught by forensic accountants and veteran finance journalists, this course is designed to show you how to understand company accounts and get beyond the corporate PR spin.




This training offers specialised knowledge of business and financial documents and analysis. It is designed to take reporters, financial analysts, corporate investigators and business students into the complex world of corporate accounts to locate tell-tale signs of financial tricks from misrepresentation to fraud.



The course has been one of the CIJ’s most popular and is updated every year to reflect developments in the corporate world. It has been hugely influential in shaping the practice of financial and investigative reporters from almost all the mainstream press and broadcasters.



You can also purchase our Investigative Journalist's Guide to Company Accounts, a comprehensive guide to understanding corporate documents and financial secrecy.

All our bespoke training is led by experienced journalists and specialists and is always centred around real life application to ensure that participants leave with new skills that can be put to use immediately and with confidence. We aim to tailor our sessions around current investigations, so that while participants are learning skills they are also making progress on live research projects, returning with new leads and information as well as new tools and techniques.
The flexibility of our coordination team and our training network allows us to build a specific curriculum that will fit your needs and provide the most effective staff development for your investigative research. If you would like to discuss this process and get a quote, please contact us at tom [at] tcij.org.

### Data Journalism

The techniques of data journalism have evolved since the days of Computer-Assisted-Reporting, but the principles of Philip Meyer's Precision Journalism still apply. From the Migrant Files to the Panama Papers, data has been providing leads, analysis, evidence and explainers for some of the best, hardest hitting journalism of recent times.

As Freedom of Information legislation and Open Data movements allow access to previously unavailable data, and new methods of gathering data become ever more feasible, journalists need the skills to be able to penetrate and make sense of vast datasets. Whether it's to save time in generating leads, or evidencing an existing investigative hypothesis, or leveraging data analysis to open up areas that would otherwise be impossible to fully investigate, these have become essential skills.





All our data training is taught by some of the top data journalists in the industry, with years of collective newsroom experience at the Guardian, FT, The Times, the BBC, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, ICIJ, Bloomberg, among others.



We teach beginner, intermediate and advanced use of software to help journalists sort through data sets and find stories. You can choose any combination of:




Dataset analysis (beginners, intermediate and advanced levels, including stats)
Data cleaning
Data visualisation
Web scraping
Coding for journalists
SQL
R
Python




Courses are taught using real datasets from British, EU and US sources, and our trainers are employed by well-known broadcasters or newspapers and have used data journalism extensively throughout their careers. They are able to show participants examples of stories they have found through datasets and support them to do the same.

All our bespoke training is led by experienced journalists and specialists and is always centred around real life application to ensure that participants leave with new skills that can be put to use immediately and with confidence. We aim to tailor our sessions around current investigations, so that while participants are learning skills they are also making progress on live research projects, returning with new leads and information as well as new tools and techniques.
The flexibility of our coordination team and our training network allows us to build a specific curriculum that will fit your needs and provide the most effective staff development for your investigative research. If you would like to discuss this process and get a quote, please contact us at tom [at] tcij.org.

### Freedom of Information

Freedom of Information legislation can be an incredibly powerful tool for journalists. This workshop explains how to make effective use of the UK Freedom of Information Act.

There really is no description of stupidity, no matter how vivid, that is adequate. I quake at the imbecility of it.Tony Blair, A Journey, 2010These are the words Blair chose to berate himself in his memoirs for introducing the FOI Act in 2004. This legislation opened up the decisions, discussions and dealings of government to public scrutiny. Why was he quite so hard on this particular decision, amongst all the others he took while in office? Because it made his job, and the job of government open to greater scrutiny.







As it should be.



The course covers what information to ask for, the format, what you should expect to receive and the timeframes for getting a response to your request, as well as your options if the request is refused. It explains the pitfalls and when there is no point using the Act. Examples of stories that have drawn on information obtained under the Act are used to illustrate the course.



The CIJ’s expert trainers have years of experience in using FOI for journalism, and will show you how to prepare, execute and meaningfully use FOI requests to get your story.

All our bespoke training is led by experienced journalists and specialists and is always centred around real life application to ensure that participants leave with new skills that can be put to use immediately and with confidence. We aim to tailor our sessions around current investigations, so that while participants are learning skills they are also making progress on live research projects, returning with new leads and information as well as new tools and techniques.
The flexibility of our coordination team and our training network allows us to build a specific curriculum that will fit your needs and provide the most effective staff development for your investigative research. If you would like to discuss this process and get a quote, please contact us at tom [at] tcij.org.

### Source Protection

The task of source protection is arguably the most important responsibility for a serious investigative journalist.



A crucial question for investigative journalists is how to marry information and communication technology with the need for security and privacy? Drawing on guides and programmes from the ‘security in a box’ toolkit, this course gives practical advice on how to protect your computer’s anonymity online and ensure security and privacy for your communications. Various tools for encryption and circumvention are demonstrated and analysed.



If you want to hear from whistleblowers with tip-offs, then making sure they can trust you to keep their communications confidential is essential.

All our bespoke training is led by experienced journalists and specialists and is always centred around real life application to ensure that participants leave with new skills that can be put to use immediately and with confidence. We aim to tailor our sessions around current investigations, so that while participants are learning skills they are also making progress on live research projects, returning with new leads and information as well as new tools and techniques.
The flexibility of our coordination team and our training network allows us to build a specific curriculum that will fit your needs and provide the most effective staff development for your investigative research. If you would like to discuss this process and get a quote, please contact us at tom [at] tcij.org.

### Investigative Methodology

Story-Based Inquiry treats investigative journalism as an integrated process focused on producing an original story.



Based on a process developed by Mark Lee Hunter, a leading investigator and academic, and Luuk Sengers, a journalist and lecturer, this is a well-established methodology that offers practical training in producing an evidence-based narrative.



The course will lead participants through the Story-Based Inquiry method via interactive lectures focused on key techniques. Participants will be guided through the basics of conceiving, structuring, researching, composing and publishing an investigation.



Divided into four parts, the course shows how to use hypotheses to develop and sell a story, how to manage information in such a way that will help build the story structure, finding sources and mapping them to your story, and finally writing up the investigation into a strong and solid piece of work.

All our bespoke training is led by experienced journalists and specialists and is always centred around real life application to ensure that participants leave with new skills that can be put to use immediately and with confidence. We aim to tailor our sessions around current investigations, so that while participants are learning skills they are also making progress on live research projects, returning with new leads and information as well as new tools and techniques.
The flexibility of our coordination team and our training network allows us to build a specific curriculum that will fit your needs and provide the most effective staff development for your investigative research. If you would like to discuss this process and get a quote, please contact us at tom [at] tcij.org.

### Open-Source Intelligence

From early conflict and munitions monitoring to high-profile investigations such as Anatomy of a Killing, using advanced internet research techniques has quickly developed to become a crucial practice for journalists in both breaking news and long-form investigations. Our courses give reporters and researchers access and understanding of how to use tools and information online for verification, fact-checking and deep investigative research.



Our training in advanced online investigation teaches participants an understanding of the way information is structured on the internet and the methods and tools used by law enforcement and security services to uncover evidence that would never otherwise be available. The course equips delegates with the skills to go beyond Google and access information and open source intelligence that is freely available online but is often hidden.



These skills can speed up your research on a subject, group, company or person significantly, identifying leads, sources, links and evidence and freeing up your time to craft a compelling story.



All our bespoke training is led by experienced journalists and specialists and is always centred around real life application to ensure that participants leave with new skills that can be put to use immediately and with confidence. We aim to tailor our sessions around current investigations, so that while participants are learning skills they are also making progress on live research projects, returning with new leads and information as well as new tools and techniques.
The flexibility of our coordination team and our training network allows us to build a specific curriculum that will fit your needs and provide the most effective staff development for your investigative research. If you would like to discuss this process and get a quote, please contact us at tom [at] tcij.org.


## Talks and Screenings

### 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.

Watch the trailer of the film HERE
The documentary film is available to watch on Dogwoof's streaming platform for a rental/purchase fee.
Q&A conversation of 20 Jan 2021

 	Alexander Nanau - Director of COLLECTIVE
 	Cătălin Tolontan - Journalist featured in COLLECTIVE
 	Daniel Gorman - Director of English PEN
 	Chaired by Crina Boros, investigative journalist and CIJ Trainer.

Organised together with Dogwoof and English PEN. 


Film reviews
"[It] digs deeper through the morass of power, corruption and lies. You keep waiting for someone to say, 'Forget it, Jake, it's Bucharest."David Fear – Rolling Stone [Full review]

"For all the horror, Nanau is an exhilarating film-maker, trusting us to keep pace without talking heads."Danny Leigh – Financial Times [Full review]

"It is so disturbing, but also very rewarding in the sense of how journalism ought to function."Claudia Puig – FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles) [Full review]

 

### Reporting and The Surveillance State

Richard Norton-Taylor, veteran, much-garlanded national security reporter and author of The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain, came (virtually) to the CIJ for an informal conversation with CIJ Director James Harkin about his experience as a reporter for the Guardian and the challenges faced by investigative journalists, the development of the national security state and the pace of its surveillance apparatus, and, after his pioneering work on verbatim theatre, the crucial importance of new kinds of documentary storytelling.

This talk was hosted online as part of the #LOGANCIJ Talks Series.

We do not make money on our events. All money received is invested into journalism education and more events and trainings. Please help us keep these events free for all.

### Dame Frances Cairncross: Can government rescue journalism?

In February 2019, The Cairncross Review published its long-awaited recommendations to protect high-quality, public interest news: tax relief to support local news and investigative journalism, a new Institute for Public Interest News overseeing an innovation fund, fresh obligations on Google and Facebook to promote trust in the information they disseminate. Its author Dame Frances Cairncross came to the CIJ to discuss those recommendations.

Chair: James Harkin, CIJ Director.

This talk was hosted at Goldsmiths, University of London, as part of the #LOGANCIJ Talks Series.

We do not make money on our events. All money received is invested into journalism education and more events and trainings. Please help us keep these events free for all.

### Srećko Horvat: What should subversives do?

Amid the rise of populism and surveillance apparatuses and the fragility of liberal democracies, what does it mean to be subversive in the contemporary era? Srećko Horvat, one of the most exciting new radical philosophers, came to the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) to argue for the value of a genuinely subversive journalism and a fresh kind of radical internationalism.

Srećko Horvat, from Croatia, is the author of Poetry from the Future and What Does Europe Want (co-authored with Slavoj Žižek). He was a 2019 European election candidate for the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25).

Chair: James Harkin, Director, CIJ

This talk was hosted at Goldsmiths, University of London, as part of the #LOGANCIJ Talks Series.

We do not make money on our events. All money received is invested into journalism education and more events and trainings. Please help us keep these events free for all.

### Bhaskar Sunkara: The future of radical journalism

Amid the closure of some traditional outlets and the fracturing of traditional boundaries between left and right, what is the future of radical journalism? How much can it borrow from the outrage-fuelled world of new media, and how far is it in danger of taking refuge in echo chambers of its own making? Bhaskar Sunkara, editor of Jacobin in New York, publisher of Tribune in London and author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality, came to the CIJ to discuss the opportunities and challenges for radical journalism.

Chair: Professor Angela Phillips, Goldsmiths, University of London.

This talk was hosted at Goldsmiths, University of London, as part of the #LOGANCIJ Talks Series.

We do not make money on our events. All money received is invested into journalism education and more events and trainings. Please help us keep these events free for all.

### Closed Circuit: True Information

The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) and the ICA present Closed Circuit, a series of broadcast discussions on the status of information in the age of digital media.
For the second episode, writer Simon Akam, journalist and editor Joseph Farrell, lawyer Mary Inman, New York Times-bestselling author Tom Mueller, and former assistant to Harvey Weinstein Zelda Perkins discuss the controversial publication of protected information.

"We shouldn't be heroes [for whistleblowing]. This shouldn't be brave. This should be normal."Zelda Perkins

Amid crackdowns on whistleblowers, the increasingly controversial use of NDA’s to control information and the role of radical publishers like Wikileaks in making private information available to the public, where do we draw the line when it comes to the publication of true, but sensitive or potentially damaging information? With a plethora of new tools to make information visible, what are the responsibilities of whistleblowers, artists and investigators?

 






 

"Secrecy, by and large, is toxic to democracy."Tom Mueller

"What whistleblowers do is hold up a mirror to an organisation. To say: you're not doing this right. You can do this better."Mary Inman

### Closed Circuit: Disinformation

The CIJ and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) present Closed Circuit, a series of broadcast discussions on the status of information in the age of digital media.
Bringing together figures from the worlds of journalism, politics, media theory and the arts, the series spans state-sponsored propaganda, ‘fake news’, revised histories, and the role of non-disclosure agreements and whistle-blowers in the shaping of public perceptions. It also looks at ways in which narratives are formed within the digital sphere through aesthetic and linguistic registers.

Filmed in front of a studio audience and available to stream live, the first episode, ‘Disinformation’, addresses the subject of false information spread deliberately to deceive. From Russian bots to recent controversies over the British government’s counter-propaganda efforts, what does disinformation really mean and who are its practitioners? How does disinformation function across both language and image? Participants include artist Sophia Al Maria, writer Hossein Derakhshan, and journalists Sophia Ignatidou and Matt Kennard.

Moderated by CIJ Director James Harkin.

 

### Karoline Kan: Chinese millennials, new media and the surveillance effect

How do Chinese young people use new media like WeChat and Baidu and how has it changed their lives and relationships? Amid censorship, blocking and the advanced Chinese surveillance state, how much can they trust it and how does surveillance change their behaviour?

Karoline Kan author of Under Red Skies and an editor for China Dialogue, in conversation with Malcolm Moore, technology news editor, The Financial Times.

This talk was hosted at Goldsmiths, University of London, as part of the #LOGANCIJ Talks Series.

We do not make money on our events. All money received is invested into journalism education and more events and trainings. Please help us keep these events free for all.

### Pussy Riot: Russia's official media and how to subvert it

Maria Alyokhina, a political activist, artist and founding member of the punk collective Pussy Riot, was convicted in 2012 of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” and sentenced to two years in prison. Upon her release she helped found Media Zona, an independent media outlet which aims to hold Russia’s justice system to account.

Maria Alyokhina is the author of Riot Days, a hallucinatory account of her experiences of the Russian justice system.

In the first of our daring new #LOGANCIJ series of talks and performances, she comes to the CIJ to talk about the reach of Russia’s official media in the age of Putin - and how to get around it.

Chair: James Harkin, CIJ Director.

This talk was hosted at Goldsmiths, University of London, as part of the #LOGANCIJ Talks Series.

We do not make money on our events. All money received is invested into journalism education and more events and trainings. Please help us keep these events free for all.

### Lowell Bergman: Russia versus US, and the role of investigative journalism

In the wake of President Trump, there’s been a welcome resurgence of interest in investigative journalism in the United States. But what should its role be? Lowell Bergman, one of the world’s most famous and respected investigative journalists alive whose investigation into the tobacco industry inspired the film The Insider, came to London to discuss the state of investigative journalism and the dilemmas which confront the profession, including the growing information war between the US and Russia over leaks, hacks and new media propaganda. As the world lurches towards another superpower confrontation, Bergman asks: what are the tasks which face investigative journalists today, and where do the real stories lie?
Chair: James Harkin, CIJ Director.
This talk was hosted at Goldsmiths, University of London, as part of the #LOGANCIJ Talks Series.
We do not make money on our events. All money received is invested into journalism education and more events and trainings. Please help us keep these events free for all.

### Theo Padnos: Reporting Islamism and Syria, and how to survive torture

An American freelance journalist who’s lived for many years in Syria and the Middle East, Theo Padnos’s unorthodox style of undercover reporting from Yemeni Madrassas had already made him enemies before he was kidnapped by Al-Qaeda in Northern Syria in Autumn 2012. After two years of horrific torture at the hands of his captors, and five days after the execution of another American freelance journalist Jim Foley by Islamic State, Padnos was freed. He came to the CIJ to talk about how to report Islamism and Syria, what he sees as the gulf between mainstream media coverage of Syria and his experience of life on the ground, and how to survive two years of gruesome torture to tell the journalistic tale.
Chair: James Harkin, CIJ Director.
This talk was hosted at Goldsmiths, University of London, as part of the #LOGANCIJ Talks Series.
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### Misha Glenny: How investigative journalism can be turned into story and serial television

Misha Glenny’s critically acclaimed book McMafia tells the story of how brutal networks of criminals have morphed into powerful international crime syndicates. As the book had been adapted for a major BBC1 series, he came to the CIJ to talk about how investigative journalism can be turned into story and serial television.

Chair: James Harkin, CIJ Director.
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### Film screening: The Post + Q&A

To coincide with The Post, a thriller about The Washington Post’s publication of the Pentagon Papers about the war in Vietnam, the CIJ, in collaboration with Curzon Goldsmiths cinema, presented a showing of the film and a critical discussion of its themes with veteran national security journalist and The Washington Post reporter Ted Gup.

Chair: James Harkin, CIJ Director.
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### Alex Perry: How to turn investigative journalism into television story

In the second of our series of talks looking at how investigative journalism can be turned into a story, veteran foreign correspondent Alex Perry comes to the CIJ to talk about how he and journalists like him are increasingly working with film and production companies to fund their investigations, and about the writing and selling of his latest book The Good Mothers, the true story about of a group of women who took on the world’s most powerful mafia. The Good Mothers had just been published by HarperCollins, and was being developed for film and television.
Chair: James Harkin, CIJ Director.
This talk was hosted at Goldsmiths, University of London, as part of the #LOGANCIJ Talks Series.
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### Zelda Perkins: We need to talk about NDAs

Nearly 20 ago, Zelda Perkins reluctantly signed a non-disclosure agreement with Miramax that prevented her from speaking out about Harvey Weinstein’s alleged harassment and sexual assault of her and a colleague. At the end of 2017, she publicly broke that agreement to talk about her experience and shine a light on the improper use of NDAs. She came exclusively to the CIJ to talk about the dangers both for victims and for journalists, which flow from the egregious use of non-disclosure agreements in financial settlements, and what can be done about it.
Chair: James Harkin, CIJ Director.
This talk was hosted at Goldsmiths, University of London, as part of the #LOGANCIJ Talks Series.
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### Alexis Okeowo: Women resisting religious extremism

To coincide with International Women’s Day, Alexis Okeowo, staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of A Moonless, Starless Sky, came to the CIJ to talk about the untold, incredible stories of how ordinary women in Africa are against fundamentalism and extremism, from the Lord’s Resistance Army to Boko Haram.
Chair: Marina Calland, CIJ.
This talk was hosted at Goldsmiths, University of London, as part of the #LOGANCIJ Talks Series.
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### Åsne Seierstad: Into the Syrian Jihad

Based on her experience of writing Two Sisters, her latest book about two Norwegian sisters who leave their home near Oslo for jihad Syria, Åsne Seierstad came to the CIJ to talk about how to report the conflict in Syria, domestic Islamic extremism and the rise of the Islamic State group.
Chair: James Harkin, CIJ Director.
This talk was hosted at Goldsmiths, University of London, as part of the #LOGANCIJ Talks Series.
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### Film screening: Disaster Capitalism + Q&A

This years OXFAM scandal brought to light some serious questions for the international development community. At a time when aid agencies and charities are prone to seemingly widespread sexual abuse and impropriety, best-selling author and journalist Antony Loewenstein’s latest film Disaster Capitalism investigates whether the industry is exploiting development and aid funds to profiteer from growing inequality and poverty.
The screening was followed by a Q&A with Anthony Lowenstein, Ala’a Shehabi and Jason Hickel.
Chair: Jake Charles Rees, Logan Curator, CIJ.
This talk was hosted at Goldsmiths, University of London, as part of the #LOGANCIJ Talks Series.
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### Richard Brooks: How accountants got away with murder

Often perceived as dull, the secretive world of international accountancy has grown, cockroach-like, in stature even as the financial world crashed in 2008. Safe from real censure, the world’s biggest accountancy firms have evolved into behemoths – there to encourage tax avoidance, to prop up anti-democratic movements, to push sometimes damaging deregulation, even to infiltrate the machinery of the state. Richard Brooks came to the CIJ to talk about how bean counters lurched from the professional watchdogs of capitalism into its cheerleaders and the architects of its biggest crises, and what that means for everyone else.

Chair: Tom Sanderson, CIJ.
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### Marty Baron: Investigative journalism in the age of Trump

Since taking over as executive editor of The Washington Post since 2013, Martin “Marty” Baron has led something of a resurgence at the paper. Before that he was editor of The Boston Globe for a decade, during which time he led its investigation into the cover-up of clerical sexual abuse in the city which became the film Spotlight. Arguably the most important editor currently working in America, he came to the CIJ to talk about his career and about the challenges and opportunities of doing investigative journalism, and of speaking truth to power, in the age of President Trump.
Chair: James Harkin, CIJ Director.
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### Lawrence Wright: Reporting as craft

Pulitzer-prize winner Lawrence Wright’s career as a staff writer for The New Yorker has taken him from in-depth, narrative reporting of Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State to developments within America’s neglected heartlands. Lawrence Wright is the author of Going Clear and The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda’s Road to 9/11. To coincide with the 15th anniversary of the Centre of Investigative Journalism, he came to talk about reporting as craft, his career as a writer and his new book God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Future of America.
Chair: James Harkin, Director, CIJ
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### Seymour Hersh: A Life in investigative journalism

Seymour Hersh is a long-time staff writer at The New Yorker, and author of Reporter: A Memoir. From his reports on the massacre at My Lai, to his exposure of the horrors of Abu Ghraib, to his attempts to get to the bottom of the circumstances of Osama Bin Laden’s death and the conflict in Syria, Seymour Hersh has over five decades made a reputation as one of the world’s most acclaimed investigative journalists. To launch #CIJSummer Conference 2018, he came to London to talk about his life and work, the threats to investigative journalism and the future of the profession. 

Chair: James Harkin, CIJ Director.
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### Jimmy Wales: Is our news making us ill?

Is our news diet making us ill? As the mainstream print media retrenches and new kinds of partisan,“activist”, corporate and fact-free “alternative” media fill the vacuum, the media we consume is full ofmore hidden additives than ever. What can be done about it? Is it enough to check facts, or is theincreasing overpopulation of factoids, and think tanks and activist groups or fact-checking theirenemies, part of the problem?
Jimmy Wales came to the CIJ to think about how to fix our broken news industry.
Chair: James Harkin, CIJ Director.
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### The death of Khashoggi and the reach of surveillance regimes

What can the death of Jamal Khashoggi tell us about the sophisticated machinery of surveillance in the Gulf, Turkey and beyond? David Kirkpatrick, who investigated the Khashoggi case for The New York Times, in conversation with Matthew Hedges.
Chaired by James Harkin, Director of the CIJ.

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## Handbooks

### Investigative Practice

Investigative Practice was a series of experimental seminars developed by The Centre for Investigative Journalism especially for the 2018 Logan Symposium: Conspiracy. Over the course of the series invited guests and attendees were given the opportunity to learn the tools, tactics and strategies of traditional and emergent investigations; from some of the world’s foremost journalists, thinkers and doers.

Each session included an expert Chair and Panel, but the discussion was open, informal and participatory, with the intention that everyone present had a chance to contribute their own perspectives and ask questions.

Each seminar lasted 60 mins and aimed to:

 	Address hurdles and contradictory elements between emerging techniques and traditional practice.
 	Foster interdisciplinary collaboration between journalists, hackers, academics, artists and activists in order to challenge power and investigate abuses and injustice.
 	Create a network made up of people with a wide range of perspectives on the issues, from academia to professional practitioners.
 	Initiate a working legacy for the Logan Symposium that records and disseminates some of the expertise brought together for the event.

The discussions were recorded and collated and you can download a free copy of the full summary document below.

### The Hidden Scenario

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. In particular, we alert the reader to the kinds of dramatic details that must be collected, and why. Part Three shows how scenes lead to sources: people, documents and data that might be available to prove your hypothesis and enrich your narrative. Part Four helps you apply your scenario in the field as a research tool.

"The Hunter-Sengers method codifies for the first time the strategy, structure and techniques necessary to deliver complex and challenging investigations. It is brilliantly intelligent and useably simple. It has completely revolutionised the way I work."
Brendan Montague, Request Initiative
The Hidden Scenario: Interview with the Authors
Dan Hind speaks to Luuk Sengers and Mark Lee Hunter, authors of The Hidden Scenario about how their hypothesis theory came about.

 

### The Story Tells the Facts

This book will help you to make your investigative writing better by focusing on writing skills, because they transpose very well into other media.

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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.

Investigative hypotheses and scenarios are very handy tools in documentary work, as in print. Likewise, documentation remains a fundamental concern for investigative filmmakers, and that raises issues of organisation and quality control. Rhythm, or pacing, must be mastered whatever the media you work in. All of these issues, as well as tools for structuring and composing narratives, are treated in this book.

Forty years after Watergate, one still hears people – including professors, who should know better – say that ‘all journalism is investigative journalism.’ That is nonsense, and it is plain dangerous where composing an investigative story is concerned. You can waste a lot of time doing this work, and you also run risks (like being sued, or in some places, assassinated) to a much greater extent than in other kinds of journalism. Most people reading this book have been trained in news writing or ‘narrative’ journalism, another name for contemporary feature writing. Others are accustomed to making short spots for TV. These are valuable skills, but they often get in the way when composing an investigation.

News product is front-loaded. The key details of the story are included in the first paragraph or introductory voiceover, generally so that if an editor has to cut the story, he or she can start at the back and leave the ‘essentials’ untouched. Another advantage of front-loading is that distracted, hurried readers or viewers can grasp the essence of the story in a glance. Unfortunately, that is not always the best way to recount an investigation. In a longer format, this technique usually kills the story. At the least, it complicates the task of creating a sustained rhythm, and rhythm is what keeps people watching and reading. It also makes it very, very difficult to compose an ending, even allowing for the fact that the news is never really final.

This handbook will show you how to turn your investigation into a compelling story that will keep both your editor and your audience engaged.

 

### The Investigative Journalist’s Guide to Company Accounts

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. If journalists aren’t exposing wrongdoing, I can’t be investigating it. Michael suggested that rather than complaining, I should do something. This developed into a course specially designed for journalists and researchers provided by the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ). We have now been presenting it for 11 years, together with a number of intensive weekend courses. I am often asked if there is a suitable book aimed at investigative journalists – I am not aware of one. So this is the result.

This guide is definitely not for anyone who knows anything about accounting and the world of finance. It is aimed at complete beginners. If you are an experienced financial journalist, or worse still, an accountant, you are unlikely to derive any benefit. By necessity I shall present many complex ideas in a simple and non-technical manner. Like any profession, accountancy has its fair share of jargon and unnecessarily complex terminology. However, unlike medicine, it uses many common sounding words that often have a very technical meaning.

So who is this guide for? It is primarily for investigative journalists, but also those who need to make sense of a set of company accounts or to obtain an overview of a business in order to ask “on-the-money” questions. To do this at an expert level is difficult, if not impossible, without years of specialist training and experience. However, I want to persuade you that it is relatively straightforward to obtain enough of a working knowledge to know what questions to ask about a company and its accounts, and to know when the wool is being pulled over your eyes by the answers.

What are those questions? It depends on why you are looking at the company and its accounts. Nobody, not even accountants, pick up a set of accounts other than for a very good reason. Is the company in the news? Is it an important local employer? Has it won a big contract? Do the directors have political connections? Are there questions being raised about its activities? Is the company making claims that raise questions as to its credibility? Are there a number of related companies forming part of a complex web? Despite being wildly successful, does it pay little or no tax?

In all of these cases the questions include whether the company is making a profit or loss, has more assets than liabilities and is generating cash. What is revealed by the small print in the accounts, what is hiding behind the numbers, and who is in charge?

This book will seek to demystify company accounts so that you should be able to answer all of these questions and find out where the real story is in a set of company accounts, even if they run into hundreds of pages, without drowning in the detail. Swimming in it, but hopefully not drowning!

I will deal essentially with company accounts as produced by UK registered companies or those quoted on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) – companies that play by the rules set down by the Companies Act 2006, the LSE listing requirements and UK accountancy regulator’s UKGAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles). Company accounts around the world are produced in a similar fashion, so once you understand a set of UK company accounts you can apply that understanding to foreign company accounts. Many accounting concepts and presentations are universal. Only the amount of disclosure may differ.

I will also concentrate on trading companies rather than banks, insurance or investment companies and mining or oil companies. The accounts of these types of companies are in many ways similar to those of trading companies that make or sell goods or services. But there are certain essential differences and complexities for which a journalist would need to seek specialist advice from those knowledgeable about that particular industry, such as investment analysts or commentators.

So what skills do you need?

You will need some appreciation for commerce – how simple businesses such as a corner shop or a market trader work.

You certainly don’t need to be a mathematician or statistician. As you will see later, accounting is mainly about words and often a little sleight of hand– something most journalists are good at! But you will need to be comfortable with numbers and not glaze over when they appear. Numbers are like a foreign language. It is difficult to start but the more conversant you become, the easier they become.

This is not “company accounts for dummies”. Journalists should be better than that. It is not simple. There is no easy way. However, it can be done.

I hope this guide is indeed helpful in demystifying company accounts. If you have any comments or suggestions you are welcome to email me at the address below.

A number of people have contributed extensively to this guide becoming a reality rather than just remaining an unanswered request from journalists attending my courses. I am particularly indebted to Michael Gillard for helping to make it happen. Many thanks to Minal Da Gama Rose for ensuring that everything was on track and ready in time for the CIJ Summer School. Finally, thanks too to friends and family who have read drafts and offered corrections and suggestions.

Was it foolish for a man of numbers to offer words of wisdom to masters of words? Time will tell.

 

### Investigative Photography

This manual has been written for journalists, NGO workers and other individuals for whom photography could be useful to support their work. It is not a guide to taking better pictures, but how to use the camera for evidence gathering.

It gives an overview of how photography can be used as part of an investigation or to support a story.

Photographs can add weight to your story by supporting other material or capturing information from written documents. Many of the techniques outlined below have been borrowed from crime scene photography and there is particular reference to photographing arms and ammunitions.

Foreign correspondents in conflict or post-conflict areas are often confronted with all kinds of weapons, ammunition, remnants and ordnance that may constitute essential pieces of evidence. Section two of this guide intends to brief journalists with little or no experience with weapons on how to best take pictures of them. It will focus on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW), and on their ammunition, because those might be the type most likely to be encountered by journalists in conflict areas. Nevertheless, it will also talk briefly about explosive ordnance. As for the equipment, a point-and-shoot camera with flash will do it.

Most importantly however, whatever your situation, it's about keeping yourself, and those around you, safe.

More information: a review by the Global Investigative Journalism Network. Investigative Photography: Supporting a story with images.
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### FOIA without the Lawyer

The Freedom of Information Act is an excellent journalistic tool that offers access to information held by more than 100,000 public bodies in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

In FOIA without the Lawyer, the authors share the methodology they have developed while running The Request Initiative and making requests on behalf of charities, NGOs and campaigning groups. The handbook outlines good practice, which is informed by the authors’ own experience as well as advice it has obtained from its network of lawyers, information officers and public servants.

"FOIA has helped to shed light on the MPs' expenses scandal and the Iraq War. It’s no coincidence that Tony Blair said the Act is one of his greatest mistakes. Journalists pursuing public interest stories would be well advised to become first-rate requesters and this guide is a great place to start."
– David Leigh, Investigations Editor, the Guardian

"FOIA without the Lawyer is an excellent resource in any investigator’s toolkit in the fight for greater transparency and holding authorities to account. Packed with practical tips and case studies on how to use FOIA, this handbook provides guidance on how to write persuasive cases both as initial requests as well during the appeals process"
– Cynthia O'Murchu, Investigative Reporter at the Financial Times

"This is an excellent manual on clever and efficient use of the Freedom of Information Act, an essential tool for every serious journalist. I will highly recommend it to my students and it features on my recommended reading list."
– Rosie Waterhouse, Director, MA in Investigative Journalism, City University London

FOIA without the Lawyer: Interview with Brendan Montague
Dan Hind speaks to Brendan Montague one of the authors of FOIA without the Lawyer about his experience of using the Freedom of Information Act.

### DPA without the Lawyer

The Journalists' Guide to making Subject Access Requests under the Data Protection Act 1988

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This handbook is the third in the series on access to information instruments, and follows on from the Freedom of Information Act and Environmental Information Regulations (EIRs) that were completed by Request Initiative for CIJ in previous years.

The right to access your personal information, enshrined in the Data Protection Act (DPA) 1998, is a powerful tool in investigative journalism. Through a Subject Access Request (SAR), journalists can encourage their sources to access their personal information held by public authorities and private companies. This is especially helpful when verifying the claims of whistleblowers and exposing miscarriages of justice.

The Request Initiative and Centre for Investigative Journalism DPA handbook will provide clear and accurate guidance to journalists on how to make use of SARs, from making a request to the appeals process. The guide will provide a methodology and supporting resources to help produce SARs that will lead to extensive disclosures of information.

This handbook had particular resonance for the work we were doing for and with whistleblowers. Whistleblowers have been at the centre of the biggest journalistic stories in history. Daniel Ellsberg, Deep Throat, Clive Ponting, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden. But journalists have difficulty in verifying whistleblowers’ claims. They need hard evidence – signed and dated documentation. Imagine how many whistleblowers have had their stories all too easily dismissed due to lack of evidence?

Another of journalism’s fine traditions is exposing miscarriages of justice and the persecution of individuals by governments, law enforcement agencies and corporations. But once again, journalists are up against the difficulty of verifying claims by victims and they need access to documents in order to do so.

There is a law that provides a solution to these problems. Under the DPA, a whistleblower, a victim of miscarriages of justice or a member of the public can obtain a copy of the information held on them by a public or private organisation. All they need to do is submit a SAR, and the subsequent disclosures of official documentation can support the verification of their allegations. This is a very cheap and simple way for journalists to decide whether to pursue stories centered on claims of discrimination against sources.

Journalists can facilitate the submission of SARs by their sources if they know how the law works. And if the requesters grant permission, journalists can use this exclusive information in their stories. However, obtaining copies of personal information under DPA is not straightforward. There are exemptions where public authorities and private companies do not have to disclose the personal information they hold on an individual. If disclosing information would compromise, for example, national security, ongoing legal proceedings or matters relating to crime and taxation then disclosure is not permitted. These exemptions are often incorrectly applied but the lack of knowledge outside specialist organisations prevents requesters mounting successful appeals.
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### EIRs without the Lawyer

Human beings depend on the environment for their survival. Industrialisation and development, for all their benefits, have led to the neglect, damage and destruction of the environment all over the world.

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The extraction of oil and minerals contaminates water supplies and threatens public health, intensive farming leaves land unusable for decades and unsustainable fishing is permanently depleting the oceans. The problem of climate change now looms ominously over the globe.

Journalism has played a vital role in raising public awareness and political acknowledgment of environmental problems. In 1962 Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was a catalyst for the birth of modern environmentalism, 36 years later the European Union signed the Aarhus convention to promote good environmental governance and this led to the implementation of the EIRs, which give the public a statutory right of access to environmental information held by public bodies.

The regulations apply to more than 100,000 authorities in the UK alone and hundreds of thousands, if not millions, more across the European Union and its member states. Recently, information disclosed through the EIR showed there has been more than 4,000 oil spills in the North Sea since 2000, for which companies have been fined just seven times. The EIR was also used to expose the giant subsidies received by the monarchy, aristocracy and agribusiness under the Common Agricultural Policy. Tate and Lyle received £227m in just two years while the Queen and Prince Charles took more than £1m between them. In June this year Request Initiative proved that the UK is fighting to water down EU green energy targets, a revelation that appeared on the front page of the Guardian.

The Environmental Information Regulations (EIRs) are a powerful suite of information access rules that can give journalists access to environmental data held by local, national and European governments and agencies. This handbook provides clear and precise guidance to journalists on how to make effective use of the regulations, from making a request to using the appeals process. The guide will provide a methodology and supporting resources to build a persuasive case for disclosure.

“This guide shows clearly why EIRs are a superior tool to FOI, and explains how to use them for maximum disclosure. And it's not just journalists that can benefit. Every citizen has the right to use EIRs to hold government to account; armed with the knowledge in here, it has just become a little easier to do.”
Richard Black, former Environment Correspondent for BBC News; Director of Communications with the Global Ocean Commission.

“A helpful and thorough explanation of the complex regulations around accessing environmental information and how to make sure you get your hands on it."
Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent, Daily Telegraph

“This excellent book prescribes easy to follow advice on how to write requests and get disclosures. It teaches the method behind a sound appeal and contains concise notes on how you can try to overturn decisions that go against you. Highly recommended."
Damian Kahya, Editor of Energydesk, Greenpeace

 
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## Summer Conferences

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### Climate Investigations Masterclass

Climate Investigations Masterclass
25 June Goldsmiths, University of London
This pre-conference Masterclass will be bringing together some key elements of our Climate Investigations Course (CIC) training. The CIC provides all the expertise, skills and tools required to conduct thorough investigative research into the climate crisis. The programme for the day will include a selection of our speakers covering this new curriculum along with a chance to network with speakers and fellow journalists.
Venue
Room PSH314, 3rd floor
Professor Stuart Hall Building
Goldsmiths, University of London
8 Lewisham Way, New Cross
SE14 6NW

 
Programme
9.45 - 10.00: Registration and coffee

10.00 - 10.10: OCRI/CIC Introduction, Tom Sanderson and Adeolu Adekola, CIJ

10.10 - 11.10: Reporting with a climate justice lens, Tais Gadea Lara

11.10 - 11.30: Coffee break

11.30 - 12.30: Introduction to Climate Reporting and Investigations, Akintunde Babatunde

12.30 - 13.30: Fighting Climate Dis and Misinformation, Aditi Tandon

13.30 - 14.30: Networking buffet lunch

14.30 - 15.30: Investigating Corporations, Nimra Shahid

15.30 - 16.30: Climate Reporting Tools and Case Studies, Sam Leon and Leigh Baldwin

16.30: Close

18:00 - 19.30: Networking Drinks Reception

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### CIJ Summer Conference 2025

The event is now over but you can watch the recorded sessions on the CIJ YouTube Channel.

26-27 June 2025
Goldsmiths, University of London
#CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference is the UK's only training conference with an emphasis on investigative skills. We offer a mixture of talks, demos and hands-on classes which are designed to equip journalists and anyone interested in investigations with up-to-date investigative methods and tools.
#CIJSummer Conference 2025 in the News
Tips on Running a Successful Local Investigative Outlet by Emily O'Sullivan for the GIJN. 24 July 2025. A video of this talks will be posted on the CIJ YouTube Channel shortly.
#CIJSummer Conference 2025 Videos
CIJ Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture 2025. Cathy Newman: Follow the Abuser. John Smyth and the Church of England - Cathy Newman. Chaired by Jane Bradley.

 
Why attend #CIJSummer Conference?

 	Learn from some of the best investigative journalists
 	Enjoy our friendly and collaborative atmosphere
 	Upgrade your investigative skills with hands-on training
 	Be inspired by great investigations

"Learned loads. Wonderful atmosphere. Inspiring speakers."Feedback 2024

"Wonderful - an encouraging and inspiring conference as always"Feedback 2024
Topics Covered

 	Financial journalism
 	Data journalism (hands-on)
 	Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests
 	Climate investigations
 	Investigative methodology
 	Open-Source Intelligence Gathering (OSINT)
 	And much more

The #CIJSummer Conference 2025 Draft Timetable is now online. It will be updated regularly.

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### Venue

Goldsmiths, University of London Campus. Photo from Goldsmiths UOL website.

Goldsmiths, University of London Campus. Photo from Goldsmiths UOL website.

 

Professor Stuart Hall Building
Goldsmiths, University of London
8 Lewisham Way
New Cross
SE14 6NW

Nearest stations: New Cross and New Cross Gate.
London Overground (Orange Line)

Please use the main entrance - through Richard Hoggart Building and follow the signs to Professor Stuart Hall Building - across the main lawn.

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### Summer Conference 2024

3-4 July 2024
Goldsmiths, University of London
#CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference is the UK's only training conference with an emphasis on investigative skills. We offer a mixture of talks, demos and hands-on classes which are designed to equip journalists and anyone interested in investigations with up-to-date investigative methods and tools.
#CIJSummer Conference 2024 is now over.
#CIJSummer Conference 2025 will take place on 26-27 June at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Why attend #CIJSummer Conference?

 	Learn from some of the best investigative journalists
 	Enjoy our friendly and collaborative atmosphere
 	Upgrade your investigative skills with hands-on training
 	Be inspired by great investigations

Topics Covered

 	Financial journalism
 	Data journalism (hands-on)
 	Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests
 	Environmental investigations
 	Crime investigations
 	Investigative methodology
 	Open-Source Intelligence Gathering (OSINT)
 	And much more

### Handouts

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### Venue

Goldsmiths, University of London Campus. Photo from Goldsmiths UOL website.

 

Professor Stuart Hall Building
Goldsmiths, University of London
8 Lewisham Way
New Cross
SE14 6NW

Nearest stations: New Cross and New Cross Gate.
London Overground (Orange Line)

Please use the main entrance - through Richard Hoggart Building and follow the signs to Professor Stuart Hall Building - across the main lawn.

Goldsmiths Campus Map

Goldsmiths Directions

Goldsmiths Mobility Guide

### Summer Conference 2023

#CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2023 took place on 28-29 June 2023 at
Goldsmiths, University of London.
The conference is now over. 

Read about Olga Rudenko's keynote talk: How to Run a Successful Media Start-Up in a Time of War. Published on 12 July 2023 on the GIJN website.

Also by GIJN: 7 Key Takeaways from the 2023 CIJ Conference in London. By Laura Dixon & Maxime Domegni. Published on 24 July 2023.

All #CIJSummer Conference 2023 videos are available on our YouTube channel.

#CIJSummer Conference is UK's only event with an emphasis on investigative skills. We offer a mixture of talks, demos and hands-on classes which are designed to equip journalists and anyone interested in investigations with up-to-date investigative methods and tools.

Topics covered:

 	Financial journalism
 	Data journalism (hands-on)
 	Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests
 	Environmental investigations
 	Investigative methodology
 	Source Protection Programme
 	And much more

Plus case studies and talks by some of the best investigative journalists from the UK and internationally.

Plenty of time to network and socialise.

The Word Bookshop will be providing a selection of some of the best books to buy.

 

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Cartoons from the #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2022
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### Handouts

[Content is password protected]

### Venue

Goldsmiths, University of London
8 Lewisham Way,
London SE14 6NW

Closest London Overground Stations are: New Cross and New Cross Gate.

See Goldsmiths' Campus map. The event will take place in the Professor Stuart Hall Building.



 

### Summer Conference 2022

#CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2022 took place on 29-30 June at Goldsmiths, University of London.

The conference is now over.

See #CIJSummer Conference 2022 videos here.

See #CIJSummer Conference 2022 photos here.

Topics and skills:

 	Data journalism (hands-on)
 	Financial investigations
 	Open Source Investigations
 	Environmental investigations and tools
 	Investigative methodology
 	Threats to journalism
 	Legal aspects of journalism
 	Source Protection Programme (a separate programme under the umbrella of the conference)
 	And much more

Networking:

Plenty of opportunity to network: long breaks with tea and coffee and a drinks reception on Thu 30 June (included in the price). Please note lunches are not included, but there are plenty of places to eat around Goldsmiths.

See the CIJSummer 2022 Timetable.

### Resources

Welcome to the #CIJSummer 2021 Resources page.

We will be updating it throughout the event with all the links and resources our speakers and trainers provide.

 
Speakers' Books
#CIJSummer Keynotes: Associated Press’s Global Investigations Editor Ron Nixon. 6 July.




Selling Apartheid: South Africa's Global Propaganda War by Ron Nixon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reporting Poverty: Narratives around Need. 7 July. 

 

And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge

Fucked at Birth: Recalibrating the American Dream for the 2020s by Dale Maharidge

 

 

 

 



The Shame Game: Overturning the toxic poverty narrative by Mary O'Hara

Austerity Bites: A Journey to the Sharp End of Cuts in the UK by Mary O'Hara

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investigating Africa. 8 July. 

 

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michela Wrong

Borderlines by Michela Wrong

It’s Our Turn To Eat. “The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower” by Michela Wrong

I Didn’t Do It For You. “How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation” by Michela Wrong

In The Footsteps Of Mr Kurtz. “Living on the Brink of Disaster in the Congo” by Michela Wrong

All Michela Wrong books on bookshop.org*

 

 

 



The End of Where We Begin: A Refugee Story by Rosalind Russell

Burma's Spring: Real Lives in Turbulent Times by Rosalind Russell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CIJ Director

Hunting Season: The Execution of James Foley, Islamic State, and the Real Story of the Kidnapping Campaign that Started a War by James Harkin

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where to Buy

*We try to promote independent book sellers. bookshop.org and hive.co.uk support High Street and independent book shops. These are UK based.

Or why not buy second-hand and help cut waste. See if any of our authors' books are available on WorldOfBooks.com?

 


CIJ Handbooks
We have a selection of paperback handbooks available on subjects ranging from Company Accounts to Freedom or Information Act, from Investigative Methodology to photography.
You can view and order handbooks here.

 

 

 
Resources from Workshops and Courses
5 July

Story-Based Inquiry

CIJ Handbooks: The Hidden Scenario by Luuk Sengers and Mark Lee Hunter
The Story Tells the Facts by Luuk Sengers and Mark Lee Hunter

Story-Based Inquiry: A Manual for Investigative Journalists, edited by Mark Lee Hunter

The Global Investigative Journalism Casebook, edited by Mark Lee Hunter

 

Trase.earth, Supply Chain Investigations

The Trase Platform, for investigating environmental impacts of commodity supply chains
Trase Finance, bringing transparency to the investment behind deforestation

 

6 July

Understanding company accounts
CIJ Handbook: The Investigative Journalist’s Guide to Company Accounts by Raj Bairoliya

How Nike Stays One Step Ahead of the Regulators. When one tax loophole closes, another opens. by Simon Bowers for ICIJ.

The House of Commons Reports. The collapse of Carillion. 14 March 2018. 


 

7 July

Aleph: the Tool that Turns Data into Leads
The Aleph Platform, from OCCRP

 

Investigating Covid Contracts
UK Covid-19 Contracts Explorer, from Open Contracting Partnership

 

8 July

Freedom of Information Act for Journalists

CIJ Handbooks: FOIA Without the Lawyer by Lucas Amin and Brendan Montague
EIRs Without the Lawyer by Lucas Amin and Brendan Montague
DPA Without the Lawyer by Jenna Corderoy and Brendan Montague

FOI Directory is a free resource for researchers, academics, journalists, and anyone involved or wanting to know more about the Freedom of Information Act in the United Kingdom and beyond. Created by Matt Burgess.

Why the Freedom of Information Act matters and why it is in danger. British government slammed by regulator over ‘unacceptable’ FOI failures by Jenna Corderoy and Peter Geoghegan.

Art of Darkness: How the Government is Undermining Freedom off Information, by Lucas Amin, 2020

 

### Summer Conference 2021

Designed for journalists. Open to all.
5-8 July 2021. Online.
The CIJ Summer Conference is the UK’s only journalism training event with an emphasis on teaching investigative skills.
All free talks and discussions are now available on the CIJ YouTube Channel.
The format:
#CIJSummer 2021 took place online.

 	Free talks and lectures
 	Mix and match pay-as-you go training courses
 	Free workshops 

Free Talks - Topics:

- Covid-19: data, science. Focus on India.
- Russia: investigative journalism
- Investigating Africa
- Investigative techniques
- Data journalism
- World's best investigations
- Investigative tools
- Inspirational journalists
How to book:

 	Courses and workshops - book each one individually
 	Talks and discussions - one booking gives you access to all free talks and discussions


 

### #CIJSummer - Feedback

#CIJSummer Conference 2020: socially distanced, but more inclusive and with a wider reach than ever before.


At times, we missed the networking and the hustle and bustle of having nearly 300 people in one space, but our first ever online conference allowed us to reach new audiences all over the world.

Nearly 500 people tuned in to attend #CIJSummer talks and online courses. Around half of the 2020 attendees had never before attended #CIJSummer Conference. For good reasons: they either lived too far away, the conference was taking place at the wrong time or they simply couldn’t afford it. It also allowed us to bring in a wider range of speakers and perspectives than we could have with our usual physical conference spanning several continents without prohibitively expensive airfares.

This year we made a conscious decision to make all the #CIJSummer talks free, with paid-for courses making up the meat in the conference sandwich.

We were delighted that all these courses sold out within days, which showed the demand for quality, participatory investigative journalism training around the world. A lot of people came from many time zones away to attend and learn new skills to help them in their work. The week after Summer Conference is usually a chance to rest, but we felt we needed to provide two further opportunities to access the training for those who missed out on the first bookings. These too sold out in record time.

This incredible demand covered some of the costs of organising seven keynote talks and allowed us to open up access free of charge for everyone to watch.

"I loved the free talks because I was amazed at how much I learned and it never cost a thing."

The Coronavirus pandemic didn't just change the format of the conference, but the content too. Like most sectors, this crisis has left its mark on journalism, so we held several discussions about Covid-19 and how investigative journalism skills help reporters do their job, even under the most trying of circumstances.

Data journalists became some of the most popular people in the business. All of us have been watching numbers, graphs and projections like never before. From the number of Covid-19 infections and deaths to the economic indicators and predictions. Watch our Covid-19: a Data Story. UK and Sweden discussion here.

Another area of journalism which has seen soaring demand recently is health and science reporting. “It is undoubtedly the story of our lifetime” said Clare Wilson, medical reporter at New Scientist and the chair of our Following the Science: Health and Science Reporting From Inside a Crisis talk.

“I would say Following the Science was the more engaging [talk]. I really enjoyed it. But I also [learned a lot] from Covid-19: a Data Story and from Katherine Eban. I found a lot to be grateful for […] - very generous share of experiences and very useful advice.”

An award winning investigative journalist and author Katherine Eban, who specialises in public health and pharmaceuticals, shared useful tips on how to work with sources: “Research people's background. I show that I do my homework, that I am trustworthy. Who is a source going to talk to: someone who's dashed a quick note or someone who is serious?”

Every year, since the death of our founding director Gavin MacFadyen, we honour him by inviting some of the best investigative journalists from around the world to deliver the annual Gavin MacFadyen memorial lecture.

This year - as always - Gavin would’ve been proud to welcome Can Dündar, a distinguished Turkish journalist with over 40 years of experience of writing, editing and making investigative documentaries. He spoke about continuing to hold the powerful to account when not only your journalism, but your freedom and even your life are under threat: "If you put a journalist in jail, it's a message to all others. [This is what happens] if you write things against the government."

We were equally delighted to welcome back our alumna Nadine White. Her first ever investigation netted her and her co-author Emma Youle a nomination for the 2020 Paul Foot Award. Both spoke about the investigation into SPAC Nation Church and the impact their story had, while also discussing the importance of diversity in the media.

A great example of the flexibility an online conference allowed was the opportunity to welcome Annika Smethurst at #CIJSummer to share her experience of having her home raided by the Australian police, looking for information and materials she used to write a story about government plans to increase surveillance of Australian people.

Dealing with the police is something some of our panellists on the US Protests and the Role of the Media discussion knew only too well. Andrea May Sahouri was pepper sprayed and arrested by the police while covering the protests in Iowa, while photojournalist Montinique Monroe from Texas explained how being a black journalist meant she had to take extra care to make sure the police knew she was press and didn’t take her equipment for guns. Craig Silverman - an international verification expert, gave a short masterclass on how to spot fakes and hoaxes.
And here is what you thought of it all:
“It is an excellent programme that is very educative, interesting, useful and entertaining.”

“Given the current crises, it was good to see those journalists' sense of purpose. It made the future look more hopeful.”

So despite the limitations of the Zoom squares format and occasional problems with mics and feedback:

“The topics were timely and massively important. It was a pleasure listening to most of the speakers. I think it’s great to be online as it may attract people who couldn’t attend otherwise and journalists from other countries can come up with interesting questions and raise good points. Thanks for this.”
You can watch all free talks on our YouTube channel.
We have also scheduled more online training courses. See Scheduled Training.

### Book Now

The event is now over. See you next year!
Thank you!

### Summer Conference 2020

Designed for journalists. Open to all.
The CIJ Summer Conference is the UK’s only journalism training event with an emphasis on teaching investigative skills.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 event took place online.
Watch all #CIJSummer 2020 free talks.
New format:
#CIJSummer 2020 Online took place over six days and have two distinct parts:

 	Free talks and lectures, days 1 and 6
 	Mix and match pay-as-you go training courses, days 2–5

Data Journalism, Using the Freedom of Information Act, Story-Based Inquiry Method and Open-Source Intelligence training took place over four days: divided into one to two hour classes each day.

Free Talks were broadcast live and free to "attend" via Zoom and/or CIJ YouTube. The audience was able to ask questions via the comments sections.

### Resources

Special offers for the #CIJSummer delegates
mySociety is proud to introduce WhatDoTheyKnowPro, a powerful new FOI toolkit for journalists. Its features include:

 	Unlimited private requests: break the story when you’re ready
 	A powerful private dashboard: track and manage your FOI projects
 	A super-smart to-do list: follow the progress of your requests
 	Action alerts: know when it’s time to take the next step
 	Batch requests: make a request to multiple authorities at the click of a button
 	Journalists can apply for early access as a beta-tester here
 	#CIJSummer conference delegates will get one year’s free access (details to follow in conference programme).

Great books on sale at discount
We are delighted to partner up with our local independent bookshop: The Word Book Shop, who will be selling lots of fantastic books at special discounted prices during the conference.

There will be The Word Book Shop stall on Thursday 28 and Friday 29 June at the conference venue.
On Saturday 30 June you will be able to buy the books at the shop itself: 314 New Cross Rd, London SE14 6AF.
Please support this independent shop and enjoy a great books selection, including titles by some of our keynote speakers.

You can pay by debit and credit card.
CIJ Handbooks at the conference
The Logan and CIJ Handbook Series is a range of guides for investigative journalists, campaigners and NGOs. They offer and in-depth look at investigative techniques and tools for researchers.

Paperback editions can be purchased at the CIJ Summer Conference. Cash only please for the CIJ books.

The Logan series:
The Hidden Scenario by Luuk Sengers and Mark Lee Hunter
The Story Tells the Facts by Luuk Sengers and Mark Hunter
FOIA Without the Lawyer by Brendan Montague and Lucas Amin
EIRs Without the Lawyer by Lucas Amin and Brendan Montague
DPA Without the Lawyer by Jenna Corderoy and Brendan Montague
Investigative Photography by CJ Clarke, Damien Spleeters and Juliet Ferguson

The Lorana Sullivan Foundation sponsored handbook:
The Investigative Journalist’s Guide to Company Accounts by Raj Bairoliya
Networking opportunities
In the atrium, near the registration desk we will be providing a board, cards and pens for you to leave details of projects you are working on and people you would like to work with.

If you’re looking for someone with experience of a particular subject or region to collaborate with, please leave details here. This is also a place to leave your business card or details of your skills if you are looking for work.

The Investigative Journalism Notice Board has been a great hit in past years; it offers an offline way of networking, so please use it!

We will also put up announcements of any changes to the timetable here.

In addition to our usual drinks reception, we are offering a speakers and delegates lunch on the Saturday. These will give you the opportunity to meet with speakers and trainers as well as other delegates. Many past delegates commented on how easy it was to access the Summer Conference speakers. This is something we pride ourselves on – fantastic networking and friendly atmosphere.

At the back of the Conference brochure we will provide a guide to New Cross and the surrounding area with some recommended places if you want to socialise after the event.

### Venue

Goldsmiths, University of London
Below, you can find a map of the event venue.



 


Professor Stuart Hall Building
Goldsmiths, University of London
8 Lewisham Way
New Cross
SE14 6NW

Nearest stations: New Cross and New Cross Gate.
London Overground (Orange Line)

Please use the main entrance - through Richard Hoggart Building and follow the signs to Professor Stuart Hall Building - across the main lawn.

Goldsmiths Campus Map

Goldsmiths Directions

Goldsmiths Mobility Guide

### Summer Conference 2019

Designed for journalists. Open to all.
The CIJ Summer Conference is UK’s only journalism training event with an emphasis on teaching investigative skills. We offer a mixture of talks, demos and hands-on classes which are designed to equip journalists and anyone interested in investigations with the up-to-date investigative methods and tools.


## Summer Conference Events

### Welcome

A warm welcome from the CIJ Director James Harkin and from the Convenor MA/MSc Digital Journalism programme at Goldsmiths, University of London Miranda McLachlan.

### Story-Based Inquiry Method 3-4

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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

This is one of our most popular courses at #CIJSummer Conference.

“This method is a must for any investigative journalist. It will give you the tools to organise your material for the better. The manual equips with you a number of skills, but most importantly it structures your investigation. So when it comes to filing your story you are fully prepared and not looking for that quote in the cloud” #CIJSummer 2020 feedback

"This was the most useful course I have ever attended. Clear, hands-on, and superbly delivered." Feedback 2021

“A brilliant and very insightful course, which I've already started putting into practice. ” Feedback 2023

 

Parts 1 & 2 will run on Thurs June 26

 

Part 3: Mapping the Stakeholders
A stakeholder map shows you who is involved in your story – as actors, witnesses, and victims. The map leads you to further sources, and enables you to spot relationships among everyone involved. It also indicates the core audience for your story, which is essential to promoting its impact. Not least, it captures an alternative way to structure the story.

Part 4: From Masterfile to Masterpiece
Organisation is a core process for in-depth reporting. A Masterfile is a simple yet effective database that we use to collect and analyse our material. We leverage organisational skills to facilitate the composition of final reports. The time you spend in this session will save you thousands of hours across your career. You will also learn writing techniques that enhance the power of your work.

### Digital Security Fundamentals

This training focuses on the basic digital security practices and tools that all journalists can use to keep themselves safe from digital threats. You will learn about account security, the basics of encryption and secure messaging platforms and a host of tips and tricks that can be widely applied to your work. You'll also hear some updated advice for travelling across borders with your work and devices.

 

Part of the CIJ Source Protection Programme.

### Witnesses to War Crimes: British Special Forces in Afghanistan

A superb Panorama investigation broke its most recent revelations in May. Working with veterans as key sources, investigative journalists uncovered evidence of war crimes by British special forces over a whole decade. At CIJ Summer, two of the journalists involved tell us how they cultivated those sources, what other ways they had of gathering evidence - and what happens next.

This talk takes place under the Chatham House Rule. Also, no photography, video or social media posts, please.

Watch BBC Panorama. Special Forces: I Saw War Crimes. 12 May 2025.

### Paul Foot Award 2025: Carer's Allowance Scandal

It didn't start as an "investigation" but within months a story that began with a relatively straightforward report about tens of thousands of unpaid carers being unfairly forced to repay thousands of pounds in benefits and prosecuted for fraud had snowballed: the injustices exposed by the ongoing reports scandalised the public, led to a government-commissioned independent review, and won the journalists behind the story the prestigious Paul Foot Award for investigative journalism. Patrick Butler explains how luck, timing, and persistence, combined with the most elementary of journalistic skills and habits, allowed he and Guardian colleague Josh Halliday to reveal the carer's allowance scandal.

### Four Rules on How to Survive and Thrive as an Investigative Journalist

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want published; everything else is public relations.” In the same spirit, Martin Tomkinson distils fifty years’ experience as an investigative reporter into four key lessons, and reveals what you really need to succeed in a sometimes perilous profession.

Chaired by CIJ Director James Harkin.

### Rianna Croxford: Fast Fashion and Sex Trafficking

In her BBC Podcast The Abercrombie Guys, Rianna Croxford unearthed a powerful story; that the men in charge of teen retailer Abercrombie & Fitch had been at the centre of a global operation scouting young men for sex; her investigation led to the arrest of its former CEO Mike Jeffries who was charged with running an international sex trafficking and prostitution ring. She talks about the tip which led to her investigation, her shoe-leather approach to building her sources, and how to deal with harassment and hacking when taking on the powerful.

In conversation with Sirin Kale. 

### CIJ Summer Drinks Reception

Our traditional drinks reception for all the participants of the CIJ Summer Investigative Journalism Conference 2025.
Wine, beer, soft drinks. Networking.

### More Than Just a Number: How Do the UK's Data Desks Operate?

Data journalism has been around for a very long time... but the existence of dedicated data desks in UK newsrooms is a relatively new concept. In fact when the CIJ started teaching data journalism - then called Computer Assisted Reporting - in the early 2000s, very few people were interested. Until the 2009 MPs expenses scandal - and then everyone wanted to learn data journalism!

In this panel we hear from some of the key people on data desks from The Guardian, the BBC, and The Times and The Sunday Times about what makes them tick (and ticks them off); what they look for when they are interviewing for data journalists; and how they see the future of data journalism in the UK and elsewhere.

### You Gotta Fight for Your Right… To Information

Freedom of Information laws in the UK are 25 years old—but using them has never been tougher. In this panel discussion, Peter Geoghegan, Lucas Amin and Jenna Corderoy from Democracy for Sale share hard-won lessons from their award-winning investigations into government secrecy. You’ll hear how they’ve used FOI—and the courts—to prise open documents officials didn’t want you to see, and how working with lawyers has been key to forcing disclosure.

If you want to hold power to account and make FOIA work for you, this is your roadmap.

See also our course: Using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 1-2 with Jenna Corderoy - Fri 27 June.

### Digital Investigations: OSINT, Trade Data and AI

Three panellists talk through the innovative methods they used in recent investigations. The new digital methodologies allowed each to chase down important stories from major gaps in flood support funding from the Nigerian government, through sanctions evasion in arms trafficking to Russia, to the exploitation and abuse rife within platforms such as OnlyFans. Best practice, advice and potential pitfalls will be highlighted in this session.

Chaired by Adeolu Adekola.

This talk is supported by JournalismFund Europe.



 

### Surveillance, Undercover Reporting and Source Protection: Dónal MacIntyre

Veteran TV investigative journalist Dónal MacIntyre joins Summer Conference to discuss a career of undercover work, protecting the identities of sources and his recent request to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) to confirm that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) placed him under direct surveillance.

He will be talking to the Director of Digital Security at the Freedom of the Press Foundation Harlo Holmes.

Part of the CIJ Source Protection Programme.

### Chasing Deforestation in Cambodia

It was on the third day of the trip into the jungles of northern Cambodia when three Mongabay journalists found themselves surrounded by government rangers pointing rifles at them.

Narrowly avoiding arrest, Mongabay combined satellite imagery, geospatial data, paper trails and a lot of hours in the jungle to expose how a network of politically connected timber traffickers are plundering Cambodia’s protected forests.

At CIJ’s Summer Conference, Gerald Flynn explains how he and his colleagues were able to put together the pieces, investigating environmental crimes in authoritarian Cambodia and tying illegally logged timber to global supply chains.

 

Logging route cut into Cambodia’s Prey Lang from Think Biotech’s concession. By Gerald Flynn, Andy Ball and Meng Kroypunlok. For Mongabay. 5 October 2023.

Video. The truth about Cambodia’s Prey Lang sanctuary. Chasing Deforestation. Mongabay.

Angkor Plywood, the ‘timber cartel’ shipping Cambodian forests internationally. By Gerald Flynn. For Mongabay. 14 October 2024.

### Companies House as a Tool for Investigative Journalism

This session will focus on how to find information on Companies House, how to use its search tools to find meaningful data and how to interpret the information you come across. Companies House isn't a tool designed to be used by journalists, therefore, when used that way, it's important to look out for the relevant bits while being aware of potentially misleading or even false information.

What's behind a registered address? A director or a shareholder? What can we trust and how can we use the information we're given to advance our investigations?

This session makes a good introduction to Understanding Company Accounts 1-4 - a very popular course taught by forensic accountant and friend to many investigative journalists, Raj Bairoliya.

### Are the UK's Contempt of Court Laws Fit for Purpose in the Digital Age?

In this session, we will look at the UK law on “contempt by publication” as set out in the 1981 Contempt of Court Act and discuss whether that law - post the Lucy Letby trial (where an article in The New Yorker was geo-blocked) - and the Southport killings (where the police appeared to believe the law restricted what they could say about the perpetrator of the stabbings, so allowing misinformation to spread), is no longer fit for purpose in the digital age.

In this class you will learn about:

- the origins and currency of the UK’s law on contempt by publication;
- the ECHR background
- The Law Commission’s recent contempt consultation

Gill Phillips will be speaking to Richard Danbury.

### How to Avoid Getting Sued: Right to Reply/Invitations to Comment

Pre-publication Right to Reply (R2R) and Invitation to Comment (ITC) are a key part of the investigative journalist's armoury. It is important that journalists are aware of these and how best to deploy them.
In this class you will learn:
- the importance legally and ethically of the R2R and ITC processes;
- how to draft R2Rs and ITCs;
- strategy around timing and responding to them.

 

### How to Make Your Investigative Journalism Connect with Readers

Since being founded in 2020, Mill Media has built a reputation for publishing hard-hitting investigative journalism that truly connects with readers. Its stories are known for their immersive feel and narrative structure, engaging audiences in a way that traditional investigations sometimes struggle to. Joshi Herrmann, who founded Mill Media and oversees its biggest stories, will explain his team's approach to narrative investigations, leading with the examples of two stories that have recently been longlisted for Private Eye's prestigious Paul Foot Award 2025.

### OSINT: 101 Places to Investigate Your Country

Would you like to find information about your country in foreign databases, public records and institutions? Are you looking for hidden story gems? This Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) session will equip you with useful knowledge and links for tracking reliable information in international online reading rooms, databases and platforms beyond traditional national sources.

You will learn how to track across borders your country’s spend on lobbying the USA and the EU; who  is suing your country and why; are international foreign investors operating in your country involved in disputes with local entities; are the foreign non-profits reliable; are there fraudsters and scammers around you who you did not know about?

The session is especially useful for journalists who work or are planning to work in countries where the local authorities restrict public information and finding other sources of reliable information is crucial.

### Financial Shenanigans Hiding in Plain Sight

Financial shenanigans are often hiding in plain sight. But where and how should you look? In this session we will review a series of case studies - such as Greensill Capital, NMC Health and others - showing practical examples of how public records and open source investigation tools have proved to be the keys to uncovering corporate wrongdoing. With some governments curtailing access to beneficial ownership information in registries we will also look at a few ways around the restrictions.

### No, It’s Still Not a Robot. How to Use Generative AI for Investigations. Hands On. [B]

Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are transforming the news industry — but should you be using them as an investigative journalist? And what are the pitfalls to watch out for?

In this practical workshop Paul Bradshaw will explore what large language models can do — and what they can’t — and which particular editorial and technical challenges they can help with. Specific scenarios will be explored, with advice on effective prompt writing. By the end of the session you should be able to identify opportunities for using genAI in your work, to write more effective prompts and interpret the results. These methods and skills can then be used for investigations in different areas of interest.

This session is suitable for beginners.

### OSINT: Uncovering Digital Footprints

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. In this course, corporate intelligence analyst and former journalist Sarah Cammarata will walk you through the tools, techniques and tips to answer questions such as:

- How do you search, gather and analyse data from social media platforms?
- How do you find hidden social media profiles and uncover new connections?
- How can we use this data to strengthen our investigations or uncover new leads?

### OSINT: Building Investigations with Open Source Intelligence

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.

Case studies will highlight how digital footprints and open data converge to expose truths, challenge official narratives, and drive accountability.

Attendees will leave with practical tools, proven methods, and a flexible framework for integrating OSINT into any investigative workflow.

### How to Use LinkedIn to Find Spies: The Bulgarian Cell

In an explosive investigation published in March, journalists from BBC News used open source investigative research as well as their sources to track down and name two Bulgarian women who spied for Russia. At Summer Conference they discuss how the story came about, and how they used LinkedIn to get it.

Two women who spied for Russia tracked down and named by BBC. By Daniel De Simone, Chris Bell, Tom Beal and Nikolai Atefie for the BBC. 24 March 2025.

How spy ring did Russia's dirty work from the UK. By Chris Bell and Tom Beal for the BBC. 7 March 2025. Featuring information on the plans to assassinate our past #CIJSummer speaker Roman Dobrokhotov.

Bulgarians guilty of spying for Russia in the UK. By Daniel De Simone and Amy Walker for the BBC. Featuring information on the plans to assassinate our past #CIJSummer speaker Christo Grozev.

### Meta and Me: Holding Tech Companies to Account with SARs

Tech companies are harvesting a terrifying amount of personal data from users all the time – and the practice is opaque by design. This talk will look at routes to discovering what data they hold. In particular, we’ll explore how to use subject access requests (SARs) combined with data analysis and other journalistic techniques to paint a picture of how tech and social media companies see and categorise us all.

Read the story: Every scary thing Meta knows about me - and you By Matilda Davies for The Times, 16 March 2024.

 

### Data Journalism: Investigating Data with R 1-3. Hands-on. [B+I]

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. Maybe you find yourself frequently updating a dataset or running the same calculations for your reporting. Or you just want to automate some of the collection or visualisation of a dataset.

If these are the problems you face, then R is your friend! And here's your chance to get to know it better.

By the end of these three sessions you will have learned the basics of using R and its most popular interface RStudio. You will know how to explore your data and run common analysis tasks.

These sessions can be taken as a whole course, but can also be taken as individual modules.

You do not need to have any prior coding or data experience to take this course.
Documentation will be provided to help you continue your learning after the conference.

Investigating Data with R - 1: First Steps [B]
You've heard of R as a tool for data analysis, you may even have tried it and found it too difficult. In this session we will get you over the hump of getting started, writing code to do in a few words things which you would need lots of instructions to do with Excel or Googlesheets. You will begin to understand what your code is doing, and how to use key functions to ask your data journalistic questions.
All sessions will be done using a cloud version of R - no installation necessary.

Investigating Data with R - 2: Visualisation [B+I]
In this session we will concentrate on visualisation using R's ever popular ggplot package. We will also show you a couple of cheats to help you learn more as you go.
All sessions will be done using a cloud version of R - no installation necessary.

Investigating Data with R - 3: Scraping [B+I]
In this session we will look at how to scrape web pages with R's rvest package. And we will talk about the various ways you can get AI to help you write R code, and perform more and more complex tasks.
All sessions will be done using a cloud version of R - no installation necessary.

### Data Journalism: Spreadsheets 1-3. Hands-on. [B+I]

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).
If you are a beginner, we recommend that you take the whole course. As a beginner - you do not need any prior knowledge of data analysis to take this course.

Spreadsheets 1: The Basics [Beginner]

This introductory course is not about software, heavy number crunching or coding. It's about developing what we call a "data state of mind." No prior knowledge is required. You will see how working with data is similar to any other form of reporting, and we will cover the core concepts that help you identify opportunities for incorporating data into your reporting. You will come away with a solid grasp of basic data journalism concepts and will understand the foundations of working with data in Google Sheets, setting you up to take your skills to a higher level in the following sessions.

Spreadsheets 2: Pivot tables [Beginner + Intermediate]

To take this class you should be comfortable with Excel or Google Sheets to the level of sorting and filtering. Want to take your spreadsheet skills to the next level? Have you ever opened a spreadsheet and been overwhelmed by the sheer size of the dataset in front of you? Well, in this session we give you the answer: pivot tables are a dream come true for those seeking to summarise and organise large amounts of data in just a few clicks.

Spreadsheets 3: Advanced Formulas [Beginner + Intermediate]

To take this class you should be comfortable with Excel or Google Sheets to the level of sorting and filtering. This session is all about formulas. If you’ve ever needed to split a name, find out if a certain word appears in a cell or merge data from one dataset into another this is the session for you! We’ll take you on a journey all the way from the basic formulas, to the slightly more complex ones. You'll learn how to manipulate and clean your data so that it's ready for your analysis.

### Data Journalism: Putting Python into Practice — Hands-on Coding for Journalists, by Journalists 1-3. Hands-On. [B-I]

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.

No prior coding experience is required and participants will receive workbooks to continue practicing in their own time. A laptop with read/write or admin permissions is required for all sessions.

 

Putting Python into Practice - 1. Python 101: Embark on the Road to Code [B]

This session introduces the building blocks of Python (variables, lists, dictionaries, calculations, how to handle errors and the all-important For loop). No prior coding knowledge or specialist software is required. Participants will leave with an understanding of how code works, a workbook which they can use as a reference and practice tool after the course.
This session is suitable for beginners or as a refresher for intermediates.

Putting Python into Practice - 2. Pandas Power: Python for Daunting Datasets [B/I]

Ever had Excel crash because the dataset you imported was just too big for it to ingest? This module shows you how to handle massive spreadsheets (over 1 million rows) using Python’s powerful Pandas library. No prior coding experience is needed (although total beginners are encouraged to attend session 1). Participants will learn how to load, sort and filter large datasets efficiently and will receive a copy of the workbook which they can reference when interrogating large datasets in future.
If taken individually, this session is suitable for beginners / intermediates.

Putting Python into Practice - 3. Scraping Data with Python (three ways) [I]

When the data you need is available online -- right there in front of your very eyes -- but there is no way of downloading it? Scraping to the rescue! In this session we demonstrate how Python can help you gather structured data spread across multiple web pages. Basic knowledge of Python or participation in the earlier sessions is highly recommended. Participants will leave with an understanding of how a web scraper works and a workbook which they can refer back to.
This session is suitable for intermediates, or beginners who have attended sessions 1 & 2.

### COP30: How to Better Cover the Climate Negotiations?

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). The key annual meeting, COP30, will take place next November in Belém, Brazil. But covering it is neither simple nor easy. Whether you are attending as accredited media or following it from afar, it is essential to understand the way the conference works and prepare ahead of time on the road to the COP30 and the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, so you can get meaningful stories.

Part of the CIJ OCRI Programme and the new CIJ Climate Investigations Course.

### Accessing the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive

This course will take a detailed look at the reporting requirements for large corporations on the impacts of their actions and those within their supply chains. It will guide participants through accessing, understanding and building compelling stories from the sustainability reports that will soon be filed by large corporations with operations in the EU.

Designed for the CIJ Dark Green programme, it is part of our climate and environmental investigations strands.
Supported by JournalismFund Europe.

### Story-Based Inquiry Method 1-2

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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

This is one of our most popular courses at #CIJSummer Conference.

“This method is a must for any investigative journalist. It will give you the tools to organise your material for the better. The manual equips with you a number of skills, but most importantly it structures your investigation. So when it comes to filing your story you are fully prepared and not looking for that quote in the cloud” #CIJSummer 2020 feedback

"This was the most useful course I have ever attended. Clear, hands-on, and superbly delivered." Feedback 2021

“A brilliant and very insightful course, which I've already started putting into practice. ” Feedback 2023

Part 1: From Question to Hypothesis
A hypothesis is what you think happened -- a provisional story based on available evidence. It enables rapid assessment of the interest and viability of your idea and potential sources before investing your time in further research. Our colleagues at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists call it a core skill in contemporary investigative projects.

Part 2: Nailing the Timeline
Timelines provide a backbone to your story, allowing you to see not only what happened, but what must have happened between known events, and how the story may end. It allows you to focus on dramatic scenes that deepen the impact of your work. In the process, it creates one possible structure for your narrative.

 

Parts 3 & 4 will run on Fri June 27

 

### Understanding Company Accounts 1-4

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. The objective of the course is to ensure that all participants feel comfortable with a set of accounts and know where and how to look for relevant information.

The only prerequisites for this course are numeracy and an interest in financial matters as the theory will be taught in the first class and applied to real-life examples in the following sessions.

Participants are actively encouraged to ask questions throughout.

Part 1: Motivation to Commit Corporate Fraud - Why are businesses motivated to commit accounting fraud and how do they do it.

Part 2: The Profit and Loss Account (also known as the Income Statement) - what a business makes and spends.

Part 3: The Balance Sheet - What a business owns and what it owes. Source and Application of funds.

Part 4: The Fine Print - the Devil's in the Detail. Probably the most important and practically useful session BUT assumes knowledge from sessions 1-3.

Participants are actively encouraged to ask questions throughout.

To benefit fully you should try and attend all sessions - and browse through the book that accompanies these sessions: The Investigative Journalist’s Guide to Company Accounts.


See also Companies House as a Tool for Investigative Journalism by Diogo Augusto. Thu 26 June at 10:20.

And see how the Financial Times investigative Journalist Cynthia O’Murchu, used these skills when investigating Financial Shenanigans Hiding in Plain Sight. Fri 27 June at 12:30.

### Using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 1-2

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.

FOIA 1: In this session, Jenna will talk you through how to draft effective FOIA requests, and will share her top tips and tricks. She will also provide an overview of accessing information under the Environmental Information Regulations and Data Protection legislation.

FOIA 2: In this session, Jenna will discuss the most common obstacles that you may encounter when submitting FOI requests, as well as how to challenge them. She will also discuss strategies when appealing against public authorities' decisions and taking challenges to the tribunal.

“I’ve never submitted an FOI request so I liked how the course showed me from start to finish how it works. It was also incredibly useful to hear about the potential pitfalls and what to do to appeal.” Feedback 2020

“Jenna is really the Queen of FOIA and it shows. I really appreciated that she shared her knowledge with us.” Feedback 2021

 

Please note that this course has a specific focus on UK FOI law and is unable to address the legislation in other national contexts in any great detail.

 

See also: You Gotta Fight for Your Right… To Information - Thu 26 June.

### Cathy Newman: Follow the Abuser. John Smyth and the Church of England

Cathy Newman talks about the exhaustive Channel 4 News investigation into John Smyth, the most prolific serial abuser in the Church of England. Her investigation, with her colleagues on the investigation team, started with a letter from a source, and took Channel 4 News journalists to three different countries. It ultimately led to the unprecedented resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.

You can read about Cathy’s investigation into John Smyth here: How a cover-up forced the Archbishop of Canterbury from office.

Cathy Newman's talk is this year's Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture. She will be speaking to The New York Times investigative reporter Jane Bradley.

### #CIJSummer Drinks Reception

All delegates, speakers, volunteers and CIJ staff are invited to the networking drinks reception at the end of the conference.

### Six Years of #MeToo Reporting [CHR]

The New York Times's investigation into allegations of sexual harassment and assault by the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein in October 2017 led to an avalanche of MeToo stories in the media. These are not easy stories to tell, especially in the UK where laws around both defamation and privacy are much tougher for journalists than in the US. Rosamund Urwin, who led the investigation into the comedian Russell Brand for the Sunday Times alongside colleagues at The Times, will talk about the challenges of these types of investigations and why journalism has such a vital role in exposing allegations of abuse.

Urwin is the media editor of The Sunday Times, and before that was the paper's Brexit correspondent. As well as leading the paper's investigation into Brand, her major scoops include exposing the government's "Operation Yellowhammer" planning for a no-deal Brexit and breaking the Martin Bashir scandal at the BBC.

This talk will be held under Chatham House Rules.

### Uncovering 'Systemic Abuse': Managing Vulnerable Patients and Rooting Out Care Scandals

As journalists we have the ability to share the stories of those who are often left without a voice. What are the challenges reporters face when trying to expose poor care within mental health services? How do we deal with vulnerable victims of abuse and protect hospital whistleblowers? What are the wider systemic problems driving poor care? This session will focus on the ins and outs of investigating allegations of abuse, spanning two decades within a group of privately run children's mental health hospitals.

### Data Journalism: Getting the Most out of Data Classes

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.

It will also give a brief description of the data skills taught at this year's conference and is designed to help you identify the best sessions to attend, given your own experience level and your objectives for incorporating data-driven research into your work.

### Lifting the Lid of the Single Justice Procedure [R]

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. His investigation has uncovered disabled people, the elderly, the sick, and the vulnerable being treated harshly in a court system aimed at speed rather than fairness.

Tristan will talk about the difficulties of finding out information from the Single Justice Procedure, the ways that criminal justice has changed to take vast amounts of public information into private computer systems, and the techniques that can be deployed to open up justice in the future.

Tristan won the 2024 Paul Foot Award for this investigation.

### Data Journalism: Keeping it Local

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. They will provide examples of stories, both from single titles and shared among several different outlets.

### The AI Revolution: Should We Issue Warnings or Welcomes?

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.

However, generative AI also brings the promise of empowering journalists and citizens alike towards deeper investigative research and improved transparency, accountability and justice. From automated monitoring and analysis of datasets, images or videos, to assistance in coding or identifying connections, there are a range of applications for AI that can help in our investigations. But what flaws, biases and dangers do we need to be aware of as we incorporate these new technologies?

This panel will discuss all the ways in which generative AI will impact investigative journalism - whether positive, negative or potentially unforeseen. Chaired by Paul Lynch.

You may also like: No, it’s Not a Robot. How to Use Generative AI for Investigations. Hands-On. B. - Wed 3 July.

### Bloodline: Investigating Infected Blood. [R]

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. In this session she will explain how she uncovered new evidence of pharmaceutical company wrongdoing, which was taken into the Inquiry. She will address working with documents and sensitive sources, as well as how to corral complicated reporting into a gripping narrative. Expect some teases for her new series of Bed of Lies, launching in September, about another under-reported British scandal.

### Youmna El Sayed: Investigating Gaza [R]

What are the difficulties of reporting and investigating from contemporary Gaza, amid the current Israeli onslaught and the growing numbers of journalist deaths? Are there any restrictions on independent reporting from the Hamas authorities? Can more be done by the international media to get journalists in?

### The Secret Compound: Investigating TB Joshua

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, navigating intimidation, an arrest and a shooting along the way.

### Election Integrity: The Indian Electoral Bonds Scam

The Electoral Bonds scheme was introduced by the Indian government as a tool to make political donations through banking channels. It was subsequently used by individuals within that government, according to Poonam Agarwal's investigation, to take bribes in the form of donations. Agarwal exposed the hidden unique alphanumeric codes embedded in the bonds, opening a Pandora’s box of corruption.

### No, It’s Not a Robot. How to Use Generative AI for Investigations. Hands On. [B]

Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are transforming the news industry — but should you be using them as an investigative journalist? And what are the pitfalls to watch out for?

In this practical workshop Paul Bradshaw will explore what large language models can do — and what they can’t — and which particular editorial and technical challenges they can help with. Specific scenarios will be explored, with advice on effective prompt writing. By the end of the session you should be able to identify opportunities for using genAI in your work, to write more effective prompts and interpret the results. These methods and skills can then be used for investigations in different areas of interest.

This session is suitable for beginners.

### Paul Foot: A Journalist’s Life [R]

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. But his page in the Daily Mirror, which ran for 14 years, was perhaps the most significant. No story was too small – a sick child in a damp flat – or too important for his critical eye: the sinking of the Belgrano, the bombing at Lockerbie, the Private Finance Initiative. Some of his stories ran for years – 30 years in the case of Jeffrey Archer. He also published books, ten in total, including three about miscarriages of justice: Who Killed Hanratty (1971), Murder at the Farm: Who Killed Carl Bridgewater? (1986), and Who Framed Colin Wallace? (1989). He never called himself an investigative journalist, and wrote news like it was fiction, everything was story.

Chaired by Christopher Hird.

Margaret Renn's book Paul Foot: a Life in Politics is on sale now through the publishers Verso and will be on sale at the #CIJSummer bookshop, ran by The Word Bookshop, an independent book shop in New Cross.

### Locating State Violence: OSINT and Geolocation. Hands-On. [B]

This workshop is an introduction to the principles and techniques of Forensic Architecture and open-source human rights investigations more broadly. This session will cover open-source research and geolocation, as well as basic media and spatial analysis.

Suitable for beginners. OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence Gathering) experience is a plus but not needed.

You may also be interested in OSINT: Uncovering Digital Footprints on Thu 4 July.

### How Not to Get Too Burned Investigating Gangsters & Bent Cops [CHR]

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. Freelance journalist Michael Gillard discusses how to operate outside the crime reporters' lobby, keep safe, develop sources, deal with the courts and libel proof your investigation. Drawing on 25 years' experience investigating police corruption, his talk will also call on a former Met detective to discuss the pitfalls of informant handling, how to talk to cops and robbers and other tricks of the trade.

This talk is held under Chatham House Rules. 

### Data Journalism: Mapping with QGIS 1+2. Hands On. [B+I]

One of the most powerful data analysis tools is mapping. It allows you to uncover patterns you would not see in rows and columns of data. From statistical trends, such as population characteristics, to locations of events or incidents, QGIS is a great tool to reveal geographic patterns in data. The first session will give you the basics for making maps using the open-source program QGIS. The second session will help you dig deeper by combining maps to do stories that can be done only by overlaying maps.

By the end of these two sessions you will have learned the basics of using QGIS to make maps and analyse data.

To benefit from the training, we recommend you take the whole course.

You do not need to have any prior mapping experience to take this course.

 

Mapping with QGIS - 1: This session will introduce you to the open-source mapping programme QGIS. It will cover some mapping best practices and how to do some basic maps.

Mapping with QGIS 2: Some investigations can be found only by overlaying maps. This session will cover how to combine data to find geographic patterns using QGIS.

To see how mapping with QGIS can be applied to your work - attend GeoJournalism: Detecting Oil and Gas Concessions in Protected Areas on Wed 3 July.

### Climate Arson and Cover-Ups [R]

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.

With Emma Howard (Unearthed), Nimra Shahid (freelance, formerly the Bureau of Investigative Journalism), Sebastián Rodriguez (Climate Home News) and Roxanne Joseph (Oxpeckers).

This talk is supported by JournalismFund Europe.

You may also like:

Investigating the Climate Crisis - Beyond Reporting the What [R] - Wed 3 July
COP Reporting: How to Prepare and Keep Focused [R] - Thu 4 July

### GeoJournalism: Detecting Oil and Gas Concessions in Protected Areas. Hands-on. [B]

Overlaps between natural resource exploitation and exploration licenses and protected area can be a great starter for diving into an environmental investigation! But just why and how could you apply this process in a systemic manner when it comes to global extractive giants?

With their #PerencoSystem global investigative series, EIF partnered with regional media InfoAmazonia and InfoCongo to track down and investigate the discreet - but globally criticised - French-British oil and gas giant Perenco. The results of their research fed a 3-part global investigation published in the EU, Latin America, North and West Africa.

During this hands-on training session, you will learn to cross-reference two sets of geodata: specifically, how to process an image in QGIS and then compare it with environmental data layers, based on the 'Perenco System' investigation. These methods and skills can then be used for investigations in different areas of interest.

This session is suitable for beginners.

This session is supported by JournalismFund Europe.

### COP Reporting - How to Prepare and Keep Focused [R]

The UN Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC is one of the biggest news events for international climate change negotiations each year, but it can be difficult to navigate as a journalist without the right preparation. Whether you are attending as accredited media or trying to make sense of the negotiations for your readers from afar, it is essential to understand the way the conference works and do your groundwork ahead of time, so you can get meaningful stories.

This class is part of our Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI).

You may also like:

Investigating the Climate Crisis - Beyond Reporting the What [R] - Wed 3 July
Climate Arson and Cover-ups [R] - Thu 4 July

### Investigating the Climate Crisis - Beyond Reporting the What [R]

In the midst of an unfolding global crisis, climate reporting is an urgent and necessary field, but there is a corresponding need for journalists to go further than reporting on what is happening due to climate change and investigate deeper questions: why it is happening, who is responsible, who is profiting and how the much-vaunted solutions are being undermined to the point of futility.

This talk is part of our Open Climate Reporting Initiative.

### Spiritual Abuse: Coercion and Forced Labour in Opus Dei

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. In the US, the Catholic Information Centre, an event space run by Opus Dei priests, has been closely tied to the conservative takeover of the US judiciary.

The elite status of Opus Dei's membership has fuelled speculation about the group’s influence in business, education and politics around the world. But far less known are the women — only women — whose domestic work has propped up Opus Dei's activities for decades.

Financial Times journalist Antonia Cundy uncovered the accounts of 16 women who accused Opus Dei of enslavement. Recruited as young girls from rural and working-class backgrounds on the premise of receiving an education, the women said they were coerced into domestic servitude — in effect modern slavery — through a rigid system of psychological control. When they eventually managed to leave Opus Dei, they had nothing to their name.

Cundy shares her experience of tracking down victims who by the nature of their experience have little to no digital presence, and the sensitivities and nuances of gaining their trust to report on institutional religious abuse.

Read the investigation in full: The Opus Dei Diaries. 16 March 2024. The Financial Times. 

### Data Journalism: Investigating Data with R 1-3. Hands-on. [B+I]

Hands-on. Beginner-Intermediate.

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. Maybe you find yourself frequently updating a dataset or running the same calculations for your reporting. Or you just want to automate some of the collection or visualisation of a dataset.

If these are the problems you face, then R is your friend! And here's your chance to get to know it better.

By the end of these three sessions you will have learned the basics of using R and its most popular interface RStudio. You will know how to explore your data and run common analysis tasks.

To benefit from the training, we recommend you take the whole course.

You do not need to have any prior coding or data experience to take this course.

### Data Journalism: 'Scraping' Data Without the Coding

Getting access to the data you want for a story, when it doesn't arrive already in a handy spreadsheet, can be a challenge. It can feel like you might have to learn a load of coding skills just to get started.

But there may be ways to access data held in webpages and APIs (Application Programming Interface) without becoming an expert in Python and R. This session will look at tips and techniques for getting the data you want using tools like Google Sheets, Excel and OpenRefine.

If you DO want to learn R - please attend:

Data Journalism. Investigating Data with R 1-3. Hands-On. Thu 4 July.

### Data Journalism: Spreadsheets 1-3. Hands-on. [B+I]

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).
If you are a beginner, we recommend that you take the whole course. As a beginner - you do not need any prior knowledge of data analysis to take this course.

Spreadsheets 1: The Basics [Beginner]

This introductory course is not about software, heavy number crunching or coding. It's about developing what we call a "data state of mind." No prior knowledge is required. You will see how working with data is similar to any other form of reporting, and we will cover the core concepts that help you identify opportunities for incorporating data into your reporting. You will come away with a solid grasp of basic data journalism concepts and will understand the foundations of working with data in Google Sheets, setting you up to take your skills to a higher level in the following sessions.

Spreadsheets 2: Pivot tables [Beginner + Intermediate]

To take this class you should be comfortable with Excel or Google Sheets to the level of sorting and filtering. Want to take your spreadsheet skills to the next level? Have you ever opened a spreadsheet and been overwhelmed by the sheer size of the dataset in front of you? Well, in this session we give you the answer: pivot tables are a dream come true for those seeking to summarise and organise large amounts of data in just a few clicks.

Spreadsheets 3: Advanced Formulas [Beginner + Intermediate]

To take this class you should be comfortable with Excel or Google Sheets to the level of sorting and filtering. This session is all about formulas. If you’ve ever needed to split a name, find out if a certain word appears in a cell or merge data from one dataset into another this is the session for you! We’ll take you on a journey all the way from the basic formulas, to the slightly more complex ones. You'll learn how to manipulate and clean your data so that it's ready for your analysis.

### OSINT: Uncovering Digital Footprints

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. In this course, corporate intelligence analyst and former journalist Sarah Cammarata will walk you through the tools, techniques and tips to answer questions such as:

- How do you search, gather and analyse data from social media platforms?
- How do you find hidden social media profiles and uncover new connections?
- How can we use this data to strengthen our investigations or uncover new leads?

You may also like: Locating State Violence: OSINT and Geolocation. Hands-On. [B] - on Thu 4 July.

### Using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 1-2

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.

“I’ve never submitted an FOI request so I liked how the course showed me from start to finish how it works. It was also incredibly useful to hear about the potential pitfalls and what to do to appeal.” Feedback 2020

“Jenna is very knowledgeable about FOI requests and I really appreciated her sharing her expertise.” Feedback 2020

 

Please note that this course has a specific focus on UK FOI law and is unable to address the legislation in other national contexts in any great detail.

### Tips for Investigative Journalists after Fifty Years' Experience

Veteran investigative journalist Martin Tomkinson has spent five decades digging through the dirt to uncover corruption in business, politics and the police. From bribes protecting those getting rich in exploitative industries to dodgy deals between developers and politicians at all levels, so much of his reporting is sadly still relevant today.

In this session, he talks to our director James Harkin about his long and successful career and shares his best tips for today's investigative journalists, especially those looking into wealth, finance and companies.

### Companies House as a Tool for Investigative Journalism

This session will focus on how to find information on Companies House, how to use its search tools to find meaningful data and how to interpret the information you come across. Companies House isn't a tool designed to be used by journalists, therefore, when used that way, it's important to look out for the relevant bits while being aware of potentially misleading or even false information.

What's behind a registered address? A director or a shareholder? What can we trust and how can we use the information we're given to advance our investigations?

This session makes a good introduction to Understanding Company Accounts 1-4 - a very popular course taught by a forensic accountant and a friend to many investigative journalists Raj Bairoliya.

### Breaking Horizon: The Post Office Scandal [R]

Over nearly two decades, the UK Post Office prosecuted hundreds of innocent subpostmasters for shortfalls in their accounts caused, in fact, by errors of an IT system called Horizon - one of the biggest and most egregious miscarriages of justice in recent British history. Long before the recent ITV drama popularised it, investigative journalists broke the story. Some of those journalists come to Summer Conference to talk about how they did it.

Rebecca Thomson broke the Post Office scandal while working as a reporter at Computer Weekly in 2009.
Karl Flinders covered the story for Computer Weekly.
Richard Brooks covered the story for Private Eye.

Chaired by Rosamund Urwin - Media Editor, The Sunday Times. 

### Understanding Company Accounts 1-4

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. The objective of the course is to ensure that all participants feel comfortable with a set of accounts and know where and how to look for relevant information.

The only prerequisites for this course are numeracy and an interest in financial matters as the theory will be taught in the first class and applied to real-life examples in the following sessions.

Participants are actively encouraged to ask questions throughout.

Part 1: Motivation to commit corporate fraud - Why are businesses motivated to commit accounting fraud and how do they do it.

Part 2: The Profit and Loss account (also known as the Income Statement) - what a business makes and spends.

Part 3: The Balance Sheet - What a business owns and what it owes. Source and Application of funds.

Part 4: The fine print - the devil's in the detail. Probably the most important and practically useful session BUT assumes knowledge from sessions 1-3.

Participants are actively encouraged to ask questions throughout.

To benefit fully you should try and attend all sessions - and browse through the book that accompanies these sessions: The Investigative Journalist’s Guide to Company Accounts.


See also Companies House as a Tool for Investigative Journalism by Diogo Augusto.

### Story-Based Inquiry Method 1-4

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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

This is one of our most popular courses at #CIJSummer Conference.

“This method is a must for any investigative journalist. It will give you the tools to organise your material for the better. The manual equips with you a number of skills, but most importantly it structures your investigation. So when it comes to filing your story you are fully prepared and not looking for that quote in the cloud” #CIJSummer 2020 feedback

"This was the most useful course I have ever attended. Clear, hands-on, and superbly delivered." Feedback 2021

“A brilliant and very insightful course, which I've already started putting into practice. ” Feedback 2023

Part 1: From question to hypothesis
A hypothesis is what you think happened -- a provisional story based on available evidence. It enables rapid assessment of the interest and viability of your idea and potential sources before investing your time in further research. Our colleagues at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists call it a core skill in contemporary investigative projects.

Part 2: Nailing the timeline
Timelines provide a backbone to your story, allowing you to see not only what happened, but what must have happened between known events, and how the story may end. It allows you to focus on dramatic scenes that deepen the impact of your work. In the process, it creates one possible structure for your narrative.

Part 3: Mapping the stakeholders
A stakeholder map shows you who is involved in your story – as actors, witnesses, and victims. The map leads you to further sources, and enables you to spot relationships among everyone involved. It also indicates the core audience for your story, which is essential to promoting its impact. Not least, it captures an alternative way to structure the story.

Part 4: From Masterfile to masterpiece
Organisation is a core process for in-depth reporting. A Masterfile is a simple yet effective database that we use to collect and analyse our material. We leverage organisational skills to facilitate the composition of final reports. The time you spend in this session will save you thousands of hours across your career. You will also learn writing techniques that enhance the power of your work.

### How to Avoid Getting Sued: Right to Reply/Invitations to Comment

Pre-publication Right to Reply (R2R) and Invitation to Comment (ITC) are a key part of the investigative journalist's armoury. It is important that journalists are aware of this and how best to deploy them.
In this class you will learn:
- the importance legally and ethically of the R2R and ITC processes;
- how to draft R2Rs and ITCs;
- strategy around timing and responding to them.

 

### Investigating Sexual Assault at the Workplace: the Case of  Crispin Odey

Crispin Odey reigned over London’s hedge fund scene for more than three decades. At its peak his firm, Odey Asset Management, was one of Europe's largest hedge fund companies. But behind the scenes, and known to the company's executives, persistent sexual misconduct and abuse was taking place.

Thirteen women who have worked for Odey Asset Management or had social or professional dealings with its founder told the Financial Times that Odey abused or harassed them; eight alleged he sexually assaulted them.

Three journalists who looked into the claims will share their experience of investigating sexual assault at the workplace.

### Investor-State Disputes: Exposing Shadowy Threats to Democracy

Multinational corporations and investors have filed almost 1,000 legal cases against entire countries at an obscure branch of the World Bank. Such cases have been successfully used by corporations to circumvent environmental regulations, as well as post-apartheid policies in South Africa designed to empower black communities. Yet few of these cases have been covered, let alone investigated, by journalists.

This session will look at current and recent investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) cases, public-interest questions to ask about them and sources to help answer those questions, including databases maintained by the World Bank and UN. It will draw on investigations that Claire Provost and Matt Kennard began as CIJ fellows in 2014-2016 and that culminated in the recent publication of their book Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy (Bloomsbury 2023).

### Of War Crimes and Libel Laws: The Case of Ben Roberts-Smith VC

In one of the most important libel trials for decades, this month three Australian newspapers won a historic victory over Ben Roberts-Smith VC, Australia’s most decorated soldier, after they accused him of killing three Afghan civilians in cold blood and he sued. The dismissal of the defamation case was also a rare victory for journalists over defamation laws which, in Australia as in the UK, are unashamedly hostile to press freedom. Two of the journalists who got the story, Nick McKenzie from The Age and Chris Masters, one of the country's most influential investigative journalists, join us from Australia. This session is via Zoom.

### Getting Green Scoops Using Environmental Law

Learn how to leverage the law to obtain ‘green’ information from government departments, regulators and even some private companies.

The Environmental Information Regulations (EIRs) - the ‘Sister Act’ of FOIA legislation - is a simple and powerful tool that allows access to public-interest information about the environment.

This session will teach reporters how to make requests and explain some basic principles for success, such as embracing your inner nerd. We will then walk through three recent openDemocracy case studies, which were also reported in The Guardian, The Times, and by Sky News.

This is a UK-focused session but, because the EIRs law is derived from the EU, some of the learning also applies to European country contexts.

Don't miss:
Using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 1-2. Jenna Corderoy. Thu 29 June. 10:10 - 12:30

### Source Protection Programme: Collaborating Across Borders

This session will cover a practical mix of data security tips and models for workflows that journalists can use when collaborating across borders. The session will be most useful for participants who already have some of their own digital security practices in place or have basic knowledge of digital security fundamentals.

Part of the CIJ Source Protection Programme (SPP).

### Source Protection Programme: Phishing 101

Phishing is a digital attempt by a bad actor (e.g. hackers, data-mining companies) to persuade you to reveal your personal information (e.g. passwords, credit card numbers) often received via email or text message. Phishing messages have become more advanced and harder to identify. In this activity-based session we will give you some tips and tricks you can use to determine if a message is authentic and safe, or suspicious and dangerous.

### BBC Data Team on Missing and Confusing Data

All the analysis tools and techniques in the world cannot land you a story when the data is missing or so messy as to be incomprehensible. Data journalists from BBC News share insights on how to tackle missing and confusing data in two subject areas. They discuss how they created an original dataset on NHS dentistry, and how they combine disconnected datasets to investigate UK property ownership.

### Time Travel for Beginners: How to Create and Use Web Archives. Hands-on.

Hands-on.

Ever relied upon an online source, only later to find it deleted or changed? Ever wanted to travel back in time? This class will cover the next best thing: web archives. We'll look at getting the most out of resources like the Wayback Machine -- what they're good for, and what they're not. We'll then look at when to build your own private archives of web content, and go hands-on to create our own archive with an easy-to-use tool.

No prior knowledge is required.

### Web Basics: How the Web Works and How to Scrape It. Hands-on. [B]

Hands-on. Beginner.

Have you ever wondered how exactly your stories reach your readers? Ever wanted to know how to build a simple webpage? Or how to scrape information from a website onto your computer? In this session we will cover the basics: the principles of how web pages get onto your screen, and then go hands-on learning the basics of the two key web technologies: HTML and CSS. These could be your first steps to learn to build web pages, but we'll also cover how what you've learnt can be used to start web scraping.

No prior knowledge required.

### Keeping It Local: Inspiring Regional Reporters to Use Data Journalism Tools for Their Stories

Helena Bengtsson is Data Editor at Gota Media, Swedish publisher of 13 local titles. In this session she explains how to educate, train and work directly with local reporters to produce both title-specific data stories and projects which can be shared across other titles.

### Ukraine: Investigations in the Shadow of Invasion

The Russian invasion of Ukraine changed many of the topics covered by Ukrainian investigative journalists, though the key investigative techniques have often remained the same.

Elena Loginova speaks about an investigation by the OCCRP, The Banality of Brutality. Using interviews, Telegram message groups, geolocation and in-person verification, Elena and her colleagues pieced together the experiences of residents in one apartment block in the occupied Kyiv suburb of Bucha.

She will also discuss another project - Russian War Criminals - where journalists undertook painstaking research to analyse and cross-check official and open-source information to gather evidence of crimes committed by individual soldiers.

 

 

### Investigating Covid Loan Fraud: How to Overcome Obstacles and Win an Award

British Journalism Awards winner in the Crime and Legal Affairs category, Stefania Spezzati speaks about her investigation into a massive taxpayer-funded fraud which the UK government tried to keep secret.

Millions in U.K. Covid Loans Went to Inactive or Brand-New Firms
U.K. Financier’s Firm Aided by Covid Loans Is Ensnared in Probe

### OSINT: Investigation Using Images

Taught by Paul Myers, one of Europe's top open-source intelligence specialists, this session will focus on using images in an investigation. It will show how to find images, including searching by face, finding locations and verifying information using reverse image searching.

### OSINT: Finding People

Taught by Paul Myers, one of Europe's top open-source intelligence specialists, this session will demonstrate techniques for locating and investigating people using various resources and detective skills like jigsaw identification.

 

### Oil Trade Tracking. Hands-on.

Hands-on.

This class will introduce participants to approaches to tracking and reporting on the opaque oil trade. The trainers will explain the value of commodity tracking through the presentation of some powerful stories that relied on the practice.

Participants will be introduced to the basics of the oil market before a hands-on review of the data sources for oil and ship tracking:

 	Refinitiv
 	Kpler
 	Import and export data
 	Marine Traffic

### Satellite Imagery: First Steps

Hands-on

This talk will build participants' knowledge of the available sources of satellite imagery, what their respective strengths are and how to use them effectively.

- Review of different sources: Planet, Sentinel-2, LandSat-7 and Maxar — we set out the main options in more detail in a recent Substack post.
- How to find the imagery at the time and place you are interested (using freely available sources).
- How to get around common obstacles when working with satellite imagery such as insufficient imagery, cloud cover and low-resolution captures.
- Beyond the visual — an overview of some of the analytical approaches and techniques that use data on frequencies that can’t be detected by the human eye. They can help us identify methane leaks, spot fires, or detect deforestation. We will look at some of these approaches and the resources available.

### Data Journalism: Scraping 1-2. Hands-on. [B+I]

Hands-on. Beginner-Intermediate.

Scraping 1
You may have heard of scraping, you may even have done a little yourself. These two sessions set out to demystify the process of getting data from websites where there is no download or export button, and copying and pasting is getting you nowhere. In the first session we will look at what is going on behind the scenes when you scrape, and discuss some of the legal and ethical issues that arise. We will do some basic scraping with ready made tools you already have on your desktop or can get for free.

Scraping 2 
In the second session we will go into some of the more subtle tricks of scraping, examine common problems that arise, and write some scraping code using R/RStudio that simplifies repetitive elements of scraping webpages. There is no need for prior knowledge of R - we will be using a cloud version of an R package, so you will only need to come with your own laptop, with Chrome or Firefox installed.

### Open-Source: Finding Russia's Filtration Camps

After the mayor of Mariupol warned that tens of thousands of people from the city were being interrogated in Russian filtration camps and forced across the border, the i newspaper’s award-winning investigations correspondent Dean Kirby set out to try to find them. But how do you investigate human rights abuses behind the frontlines of a war?

Dean will show how he became the first reporter to confirm the camps’ existence and went on to identify a network of 66 more sites stretching 6,000 miles to Vladivostok as he exposed a brutal system that led to an estimated two million Ukrainians being forcibly taken to Russia.

Links:

Satellite images show Russian tent camp for Ukrainians near Mariupol as claims of forced deportations grow

Mariupol mayor says 30,000 people deported to Russia as satellite images reveal Russian camp for Ukrainians

Vladimir Putin is resettling Ukrainians to Siberia and the Far East, Kremlin document shows

Mariupol survivors interrogated in Russian filtration camps as many face little chance of returning to Ukraine

Russia war crimes investigators reveal ‘numerous and consistent’ reports of forced Ukrainian deportations

Mariupol survivors taken to former Russian chemical weapons base 600 miles from Ukraine border

How a fenced camp for Ukrainians was tracked down to a former chemical weapons dump deep within Russia

Putin sends Mariupol survivors to remote corners of Russia as investigation reveals network of 66 camps

Russian civilians form ‘underground railroad’ to help Ukrainians transported to Russia escape to the West

'Putin has killed more in Mariupol than Hitler did’, says mayor as bodies risk poisoning city’s water

Thousands of Mariupol survivors being detained in Russia-controlled prisons in occupied Ukraine

Threatened with death, and a riot over inhumane conditions: Inside Russia’s filtration camps for Ukrainians

Russia committed war crime by forcibly herding Ukrainians over Russian border, human rights body finds

### Deny, Evade, Threaten: Dan Neidle on His Nadhim Zahawi Investigation

During his months-long investigation into the former Tory Chairman Nadhim Zahawi's tax affairs, which resulted in Zahawi's sacking, Dan Neidle was sent many threatening legal letters. They claimed repeatedly that Zahawi's taxes were in order and he was not under HMRC investigation - claims that we now know to be false.

The founder of Tax Policy Associates comes to #CIJSummer Conference to talk about his investigation, on how to find stories in complex tax arrangements, and how he responded to the libel threats by reporting both the lawyers involved, and the general practice of “secret libel letters”, to the Solicitors Regulatory Authority.

### Corderoy vs State Secrets: Freedom of Information Act as a Tool and a Career

In this session, openDemocracy's Jenna Corderoy will lift the lid on how she has used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain vital documents for her investigations. She will talk about how and why the FOIA is such a vital tool in holding the powerful to account, and discuss her favourite investigations and stories obtained via the Act. She will also talk about how she fell into this specialism and what journalists can do to protect the legislation.

### Breaking into Investigative Filmmaking

With a proven track record of producing hard-hitting major network investigations, BAFTA and International Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist Gesbeen (Gesh) Mohammad will share her journey of becoming a documentary filmmaker. She will talk about getting started in long-form investigative television and the uses of investigative techniques in documentary filmmaking, including going undercover. The session will include a Q&A.

You can watch some of her most recent work.

Big Oil vs the World. BBC iPlayer. (UK only). Gesh produced and directed Part 2: Doubt.
Same documentary, different name: Frontline: The Power of Big Oil. PBS Frontline. (US only).

Putin's War at Home. ITVX. (UK). Watch it on PBS Frontline. (US).

Both documentaries were nominated for the Peabody Award in the Public Service category.

Chatham House Rules.

### 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. Olga Rudenko was elected by the team to be its new chief editor.

Olga comes to #CIJSummer Conference to talk about running a media start-up while Russia was amassing troops on the Ukrainian borders; reporting on the full-scale invasion; conducting investigations, including into their own side, in times of war; and their drive to succeed, "because if we don’t, then the bad guys win.”

### Data Journalism: Investigating Data with R 1-3. Hands-on. [B+I]

Hands-on. Beginner-Intermediate.

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. Maybe you find yourself frequently updating a dataset or running the same calculations for your reporting. Or you just want to automate some of the collection or visualisation of a dataset.

If these are the problems you face, then R is your friend! And here's your chance to get to know it better.

By the end of these three sessions you will have learned the basics of using R and its most popular interface RStudio. You will know how to explore your data and run common analysis tasks.

To benefit from the training, we recommend you take the whole course. 

### Data Journalism: Spreadsheets 1-3. Hands-on. [B+I]

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).
If you are a beginner, we recommend that you take the whole course.

Spreadsheets I: the basics [Beginner]

This introductory course is not about software, heavy number crunching or coding. It's about developing what we call a "data state of mind." No prior knowledge is required. You will see how working with data is similar to any other form of reporting, and we will cover the core concepts that help you identify opportunities for incorporating data into your reporting. You will come away with a solid grasp of basic data journalism concepts and will understand the foundations of working with data in Google Sheets, setting you up to take your skills to a higher level in the following sessions.

Spreadsheets II: pivot tables [Intermediate]

To take this class you should be comfortable with Excel or Google Sheets to the level of sorting and filtering. Want to take your spreadsheet skills to the next level? Have you ever opened a spreadsheet and been overwhelmed by the sheer size of the dataset in front of you? Well, in this session we give you the answer: pivot tables are a dream come true for those seeking to summarise and organise large amounts of data in just a few clicks.

Spreadsheets III: advanced formulas [Intermediate]

To take this class you should be comfortable with Excel or Google Sheets to the level of sorting and filtering. This session is all about formulas. If you’ve ever needed to split a name, find out if a certain word appears in a cell or merge data from one dataset into another this is the session for you! We’ll take you on a journey all the way from the basic formulas, to the slightly more complex ones. You'll learn how to manipulate and clean your data so that it's ready for your analysis.

### Data Journalism: SQL. An Introduction. Hands-on. [B+I]

Hands-on. Intermediate.

Take the next step after interviewing spreadsheets, and learn how to handle large datasets with SQL. SQL allows us to expand the scope of our data-driven work, to safely share data with others, and most importantly, to combine tables together through joining.

In this session you will learn how relational databases work, especially how to join datasets to identify data that exist in both or use joining to add information into a table. Attendees will be able to understand when to take the step from Excel to SQL, and how to use SQL to join datasets together in order to find new information.

To attend this session participants should have basic knowledge of working with spreadsheets.

### Flash Floods: How to Report when Climate Disaster Strikes

Disasters triggered by climate change are many years in the making, but when they reach critical points the effects can unfold fast. If journalists are to capture and show the impacts of such events on affected communities, they too must act fast. That is exactly what staff of the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) in Nigeria had to do when unprecedented floods swept across Nigeria.

In this session, CJID Director Dr Tobi Oluwatola explains the tools, techniques and the preparations that allowed them to stay on top of one of Nigeria's fastest developing news stories of the past year. Chaired by CIJ's OCRI Regional Coordinator for MENA, Lina Yassin.

Part of the CIJ Climate OCRI Networking event at #CIJSummer Conference. Supported by Journalimsfund EU.

 

### Making It Count: Using Data to Tell Stories from the Climate Crisis

We are already seeing the impacts of the climate crisis, and many are so wide-ranging and devastating that they are difficult to comprehend. Many journalists are taking the skills and techniques of data journalism and applying these to the disastrous ramifications of climate change.

Much of the time, it is only through this work to bring forward the human stories that lie behind the numbers that we, as readers, are able to truly understand the ecological collapse our exploitation of the planet is causing. Four journalists talk through the methods they use to find, understand and tell these stories.

 



Michèle Ebongue (Cameroon) - looks at the data which shows devastating destruction of mangroves and what it means for the local community and for the environment.
With area losses estimated at 6.2% per year, or 31% over the last 5 years, Douala-Bonabéri has experienced the highest rate of destruction of mangroves in the Wouri Estuary. The socio-economic crisis in the North-West and South-West regions, the carelessness of populations and State projects are among the major causes of pressure on the mangroves in the Douala 4th district.
Environment: about 31% of mangroves lost in 5 years in Bonabéri (datacameroon.com)

Arun Karki and Basant Pratap Singh (Nepal) - write about the schools washed away by floods in Nepal - and look at pupils and communities behind the numbers.
Schools washed away by flood - The Kathmandu Post and Kantipur National Daily

Gianluca Liva (Italy) - uses data and maps to tell the story of PFAS - compounds with unique properties that do not degrade in the environment. This is why they are called “eternal pollutants". He was responsible, together with French and German colleagues, for the big map and the hundreds of datasets that were used to create it. Gianluca also did the first comprehensive scientific overview (published in Le Scienze - Scientific American) of what PFAS - actually - are.

PFAS, the case of the Spinetta Marengo Chemical Centre. Part 1: the People (Radar Magazine).
PFAS, the case of the Spinetta Marengo Chemical Centre. Part 2: the Institutions (Radar Magazine).
PFAS, the case of the Spinetta Marengo Chemical Centre. Part 3: the Company (Radar Magazine).

Chaired by the CIJ OCRI Project Manager Adeolu Adekola.

This talk is part of the CIJ Climate OCRI Networking event at #CIJSummer Conference. Supported by Journalimsfund EU.

This talk will be recorded.

### Broken Promises: Greenwashing Uncovered

Recent years have seen significant improvement in both recognition and rhetoric from those in power around the need for action to address the looming impacts of the climate crisis. However, in too many cases, positive words have served only to obscure inaction at best and continued harm at worst.

Furthermore, the role of holding those responsible - whether governments, international bodies or corporations - to account has too often been neglected by regulatory authorities, leaving investigative reporters to perform the role of watchdog. This session brings together three such instances where only the hard work of journalists has stopped large-scale corruption and malfeasance from going unchecked.

 



 

Case study 1:
Gone with the wind: Lesotho’s $15-billion energy pipedream
by Sechaba Mokhethi (Lesotho)
A $15-billion wind farm project that would have given Lesotho bragging rights to Africa’s largest renewable energy project, slashed electricity prices and created thousands of jobs has vanished from the country’s planned projects, leaving behind unanswered questions and politicians who don’t remember the detail.
the story was produced as part of the the 2022 Oxpeckers #PowerTracker professional support and training programme, supported by the CIJ’s Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI).

Case study 2:
How TotalEnergies oil pollution forced host communities to engage in illegal crude oil mining
By Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi (Nigeria)
A 17-year-old Ike and his elder brother of 24 years old in September 2022 visited their family farmland in Oduoha Nvakohia in Rivers State to harvest cassava, only to dig out crude oil in the course of uprooting their farm produce.

Case study 3:
‘Gone wrong’: Doubts on carbon-credit program in Peru forest 
In Peru, Kichwa tribe wants compensation for carbon credits
By Ed Davey (UK for AP)
An analysis by independent experts and reporting by The Associated Press raises doubts about whether the Cordillera Azul Project (Peru) has delivered on its promise to counter-balance emissions by oil companies such as Shell, TotalEnergies and others. And the tree loss has more than doubled, according to satellite analysis.
At the same time as millions of dollars in oil money began flowing into former tribal territory, after the creating of the Cordillera Azul Project, members of the local Kichwa tribe found themselves with no livelihood and no compensation.

 

Chaired by Akintunde Babatunde, CIJ OCRI Coordinator.

Part of the CIJ Climate OCRI Networking event at #CIJSummer Conference. Supported by Journalimsfund EU.

Parts of this session will be recorded, and some talks may operate under Chatham House Rules.

### ‘Fisayo Soyombo: Undercover in Lagos

A fearless Nigerian investigative journalist who has gone under cover on numerous occasions to expose corruption, 'Fisayo Soyombo is best known for spending several days in a police cell and a prison to expose corruption within the country’s criminal justice system.

At the CIJ he talks about his work and methods, and the huge challenges of investigating the Nigerian state.

 

### The Keys to the Algorithm: Inside an AI System

Across Europe, secretive algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of welfare recipients. An international team of journalists led by Lighthouse Reports gained unprecedented access to an AI system designed to predict which welfare recipients were committing fraud. This access enabled them to analyse the algorithm from the inside out and prove ethnic and gender discrimination. The result was a four-part series co-produced with WIRED magazine.

Lighthouse Reports’ lead reporter Gabriel Geiger will take you through the methodology of the two-year investigation, how they obtained the algorithm using public records laws, and the steps taken to run an academic-reviewed experiment to demonstrate bias.

 

### Patricia Devlin: Investigating Crime and Paramilitarism in Northern Ireland

Patricia Devlin’s investigations into crime and paramilitarism in post-Troubles Northern Ireland have left her with powerful enemies on all sides. At the CIJ she talks about how to investigate in sometimes hostile territory, and how to deal with the abuse and intimidation that follows. Chair: James Harkin, Director of the CIJ.

 

### No Business as Usual: Multinationals and the Climate Crisis

Luuk Sengers is a seasoned investigative journalist specialising in the impact of large corporations on the environment, public health, and the climate. In recent years he has found that the traditional way of business reporting is no longer sufficient: because of the decisive impact of many multinationals on the climate crisis, it has now literally become a matter of life and death. Based on his experience writing for the Dutch weekly De Groene Amsterdammer, he will take you through angles and sources that are still very much overlooked or underexploited.

### José María Irujo: How the CIA Spied on Assange

José María Irujo, senior staff writer and investigative reporter for El País, comes to London and the CIJ to deliver the annual Gavin MacFadyen memorial lecture. He will detail his explosive allegations about the CIA’s alleged capture of a private security firm whose job was to protect the Ecuadorian Embassy and Assange himself. Chair: James Harkin, Director of the CIJ.

### The Prepayment Meter Scandal

In different ways, the i newspaper's Dean Kirby and Paul Morgan-Bentley from The Times forced the pre-payment meter scandal into the open, their investigations leading to substantial industry change. Both come to Summer Conference to talk about their methods, which in the case of The Times involved undercover video, and the impact of their work.
Moderated by Emma Youle.

 

### Josie Stewart: Whistleblowing and the British State

In the wake of the chaos surrounding the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, Josie Stewart, then a senior official at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, became concerned that the truth was not being told by the government and talked to a journalist. Together with her lawyer Gavin Millar KC, she talks about her decision to turn whistleblower, the consequences, and the issues of legal principle it raises under the UK’s Public Interest Disclosure Act.
Josie Stewart is Director of Transparency International's Global Defence and Security Programme.

Gavin Millar KC is a barrister at Matrix Chambers.

Gill Phillips is the former Director of Editorial Legal Services at The Guardian and CIJ Trustee.

Chatham House Rules.

### How to Make a Successful Podcast

Two award-winning podcast creators Maeve McClenaghan (The Tip Off Podcast) and Basia Cummings (Tortoise Studios) share their experience of how to make investigative podcasts.

They'll discuss how to identify compelling subjects for audio stories, provide tips and tricks on sound design and the differences in writing and interviewing for the ear, rather than the eye.

### Understanding Company Accounts: Getting the Most out of Companies House

Any UK-based investigative journalist or aspiring journalist should have a working knowledge of Companies House.

Companies House is the central registry for all UK registered limited or PLC companies and contains a wealth of useful information for those who know how to use the site. The aim of this class is to show you how to get the most information from the official website, as well as highlighting what information can’t be found there. The class will give ample time for questions and is an absolute must for anybody who does not yet feel confident in using this vital tool for investigators.

Jonathan Stoneman will briefly demonstrate two tools which will aid you in looking at who owns companies, and what the real ownership structure is.

### Story-Based Inquiry Method 1-4

The 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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

This is one of our most popular courses at #CIJSummer Conference.

“This method is a must for any investigative journalist. It will give you the tools to organise your material for the better. The manual equips with you a number of skills, but most importantly it structures your investigation. So when it comes to filing your story you are fully prepared and not looking for that quote in the cloud” #CIJSummer 2020 feedback

"This was the most useful course I have ever attended. Clear, hands-on, and superbly delivered." Feedback 2021

“A brilliant and very insightful course, which I've already started putting into practice. ” Feedback 2023

Part 1: From question to hypothesis.
A hypothesis is what you think happened -- a provisional story based on available evidence. It enables rapid assessment of the interest and viability of your idea and potential sources before investing your time in further research. Our colleagues at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists call it a core skill in contemporary investigative projects.

Part 2: Nailing the timeline.
Timelines provide a backbone to your story, allowing you to see not only what happened, but what must have happened between known events, and how the story may end. It allows you to focus on dramatic scenes that deepen the impact of your work. In the process, it creates one possible structure for your narrative.

Part 3: Mapping the stakeholders.
A stakeholder map shows you who is involved in your story – as actors, witnesses, and victims. The map leads you to further sources, and enables you to spot relationships among everyone involved. It also indicates the core audience for your story, which is essential to promoting its impact. Not least, it captures an alternative way to structure the story.

Part 4: From Masterfile to masterpiece.
Organisation is a core process for in-depth reporting. A Masterfile is a simple yet effective database that we use to collect and analyse our material. We leverage organisational skills to facilitate the composition of final reports. The time you spend in this session will save you thousands of hours across your career. You will also learn writing techniques that enhance the power of your work.

### Using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 1-2

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.

“I’ve never submitted an FOI request so I liked how the course showed me from start to finish how it works. It was also incredibly useful to hear about the potential pitfalls and what to do to appeal.” Feedback 2020

“Jenna is very knowledgeable about FOI requests and I really appreciated her sharing her expertise.” Feedback 2020

 

Please note that this course has a specific focus on UK FOI law and is unable to address the legislation in other national contexts in any great detail.

### Understanding Company Accounts 1-4

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. The objective of the course is to ensure that all participants feel comfortable with a set of accounts and know where and how to look for relevant information.

The only prerequisites for this course are numeracy and an interest in financial matters as the theory will be taught in the first class and applied to real-life examples in the following sessions.

You must attend all the classes in this strand to benefit from it fully.

It will include the following topics: motivation to massage earnings; profit and loss account; balance sheet; funds flow statement; notes. The course will finish with putting it all together, an interactive session building up a sample set of accounts or case study questions.

Participants are actively encouraged to ask questions throughout.

### Data Journalism: Getting the Most out of Data Classes

We will be teaching a range of data journalism skills at the #CIJSummer Conference 2023.

This session will give a brief description of the skills taught and is designed to help you identify the best sessions to attend, given your own experience level and your objectives for incorporating data-driven research into your work.

The panel of data journalism trainers will discuss how data journalism skills can improve your reporting and help attendees determine how best to utilise the expertise available at the conference to enhance their own data journalism.

The skills taught at the conference include:

- Interviewing spreadsheets
- R programming language
- Web Basics
- Web Archives
- Scraping
- Visual data
- Oil tracking data

And much more!

### Lifting the Veil on Financial Secrecy and Tax Havens

This session delves into the Tax Justice Network's work and tools that set out to tackle financial secrecy, tax abuse and illicit financial flows. It focuses on how to use the Financial Secrecy Index, with the most recent edition released in May 2022. It also covers how to use the Corporate Tax Haven Index, the Illicit Financial Flows Tracker, and the State of Tax Justice for reporting on the enablers of money laundering, corruption and corporate tax abuse.

 

### Following the Covid Money

Private Eye investigative reporter Solomon Hughes recently exposed a loophole that allowed subcontracted "mini-umbrella companies" to avoid paying national insurance for staff of Covid-19 testing centres. He talks about this investigation and his other work, and about how to follow the Covid money and dig out corruption.

### Investigating the British Army: The Murder of Agnes Wanjiru

In 2012 a Kenyan called Agnes Wanjiru was murdered by a serving British soldier and her body hidden in a septic tank, a crime which was subsequently covered up. Winner of the 2022 Paul Foot award with her Sunday Times colleague David Collins, Hannah Al-Othman talks about how they worked with sources to bring the story to light, and their dealings with the police and the Ministry of Defence as they worked to investigative and publish it.

 

### Wood for the Trees: Data-Driven Environmental Journalism

This session, led by an expert in leveraging the techniques of data journalism to produce deforestation and climate change investigations, takes attendees through the practice and pitfalls of covering the environment. Using case studies and real life examples, this session is full of tips, tricks and advice for finding, cleaning and interpreting data on environmental and forest governance issues.

Part of the CIJ Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI)

 

### #CIJSummer Drinks Reception

This year's #CIJSummer drinks reception is co-hosted with Rest of World, an international non-profit journalism organisation, which documents what happens when technology, culture and the human experience collide, in places that are typically overlooked and underestimated.

### InfoSec Clinic

Sort all your information security problems with our InfoSec walk-in clinic.

Located in the atrium next to the #CIJSummer registration table, it will help you with your security questions and set up. Bring your devices!

Part of the CIJ Source Protection Programme.

Don't miss:  An Introduction to Information Security from the Source Protection Programme on Wed 29 June at 9:30am.

### Investigating MI5

Earlier this year the journalist Daniel De Simone published a long-form investigation into the activities of a rogue, abusive MI5 agent, the end result of a months-long tussle between the BBC and the British government which ended with his employer being taken to court. Under Chatham House rules, De Simone tells us what he can of the case – how to investigate the work of the security services, what it is like when you become the lead witness in a court case in which your investigation ends up under intimidating state scrutiny, and the continuing peril of state censorship in contemporary Britain.

NB! Chatham House rules apply.

### Environmental Investigations: Going Undercover

Sometimes, the only way to get the story out is to go in undercover.

These investigations can be the trickiest that a researcher will ever take on and come with a range of risks and potential pitfalls, but with the climate in crisis and on the brink of full collapse, and many vested interests keeping their deals well hidden, occasionally the means are justified.

Two experienced investigators will discuss successful undercover investigations that they have recently pulled off and describe their methods, the preparation required and give some practical tips and tricks for getting in and out safely and ethically.

This class is part of the CIJ Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI).

### Financial Journalism: Follow-the-Money Case Studies

These sessions will guide you through a real life investigation into dodgy dealings, offshore scams and shell companies. Each case study will provide you with copies of actual documents that the investigators used to identify points of interest and unearth the next piece of information or set of documents. Delegates will need to look carefully through each and take part in a guided discussion to determine where they might look next.

Specific to each session
1. Glencore and the Gatekeeper
Unpicking the relationship between the world’s largest commodities trader and the top fixer for the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

2. The Deceivers
A chain of coincidences stretches across several regions. Spot the common themes in this offshore trail, and see where it leads.

### Geojournalism: How to Use Satellite Imagery to Verify Information and Uncover New Stories

This presentation takes journalists and analysts through the basics of satellite imagery, geographical data, and using imagery in storytelling to verify information and make new findings.

The main fields attendees will learn in this session are: how do image-based investigations look in a story, what data is available and how can we actually use satellite imagery and geospatial information to boost our investigative and newsroom capacity.

### Investigating Media Celebrity: Tim Westwood

How do journalists go about investigating misconduct among media celebrities with many fans, and who might work for the same employers? Earlier this year, a joint investigation by reporters at the BBC and The Guardian uncovered allegations of sexual misconduct by the DJ Tim Westwood. All four reporters involved come to the CIJ to discuss how their investigation began, its implications, and the sensitivities involved.

Please note, Chatham House Rules apply. 

### Talking Sources: How to Find Them and Get Them to Talk

Jane Bradley, an award-winning investigative journalist at The New York Times, has tracked down some of the world's most wanted terrorists, Russian dissidents and spies, human traffickers, shadowy business figures and whistleblowers and convinced them to talk. This session gives practical advice on how to find sources and get them to talk.

### Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture: Meera Jatav

Meera Jatav, a journalist based in Uttar Pradesh in India comes to London and the CIJ to deliver the annual Gavin MacFadyen memorial lecture. The co-founder of the award-winning, grassroots feminist media organisation Khabar Lahariya, Jatav has won a reputation for her courageous investigations into gender-based violence and caste in India.

Translating from Hindi will be Meera's colleague Priyanka Kotamraju, from the University of Cambridge.

This is the Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture 2022.

### Data Journalism - Google Sheets - Hands-On

This three-part hands-on express data journalism course will introduce you to the basics of data analysis in Google Sheets. Suitable for beginners.



Google Sheets 1:
Data journalism introduction: The basics: use Google Sheets to carry out basic calculations and percentage increases

Google Sheets 2:
Finding your top line: sorting and filtering in Google Sheets/Excel Handy/fun tools: (split, concatenate, using simple formulas)

Google Sheets 3:
Quick-smart data summary/analysis using pivot tables. Merging datasets (VLookUps)

We advise you to attend the entire course: Google Sheets 1-3, especially if you are a beginner.

These sessions are intended as a methodical guide to the use of Google Sheets in finding stories.

Finding Stories in Data (Thu 30 June) covers similar skills, but in Excel and also focuses on integrating data into storytelling. You do not need to do both Data Journalism-Google Sheet and Finding Stories in Data. Select one only.

### Keeping it local: Inspiring Regional Reporters to Use Data Journalism Tools for Their Stories

Helena Bengtsson is Data Editor at Gota Media, Swedish publisher of 13 local titles. In this session she explains how to educate, train and work directly with local reporters to produce both title-specific data stories and projects which can be shared across the other titles.

### RuAssets: Searching for Russian and Belarusian politically exposed persons

RuAssets is a platform which uses open source information to uncover affiliations of companies and people from different parts of the world with Russian and Belarusian politically exposed persons (PEPs). It can also search for ties across the former USSR countries, and highlight connections to individuals under sanctions, terrorists, and propagandists.

This workshop will provide practical examples of using the tool in your investigative research, to identify links between companies and people with Russian and Belarusian PEPs.

Access to the RuAssets platform for journalists and researchers is free.

The platform has been developed by YouControl, a Ukrainian IT company that offers information services, based on open data.

This is a demonstration of the tool with an option of hands-on learning. For the latter - please fill the form below to get free access to the platform.

### How to Hold Local Power to Account

Local councils do far more than collect our bins and look after streetlights. They spend billions of pounds of public money each year but often with very little oversight. Journalist Tom Bristow will take you through how to find out where this money is going and how to spot potential corruption and scandals.

### Trase: Investigating Deforestation in Supply Chains

Global trade in soy, beef, palm oil and other agricultural commodities is driving tropical deforestation. Governments, businesses and financial institutions have pledged to halt deforestation, but only with transparency in supply chains can these commitments be meaningfully assessed. This session introduces Trase, a data-driven transparency initiative which maps the international trade and financing of forest risk commodities - providing free online data tools and analysis that journalists can use in supply chains investigations. Trase researcher André Vasconcelos will discuss how to access and use Trase, while Jessica Brice, Senior Editor for Latin America, Bloomberg News will share her experience of using Trase to report on how beef supply chains affect the Amazon. Moderated by Jolene Tan, communications lead for Trase.

Part of the CIJ Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI)

Pre reading: 

 	Trase's supply chain tools
 	Example of use of Trase data: Trase highlights UK's role in financing deforestation
 	How big beef is fuelling the Amazon's destruction (Bloomberg story)

### Using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

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.

“I’ve never submitted an FOI request so I liked how the course showed me from start to finish how it works. It was also incredibly useful to hear about the potential pitfalls and what to do to appeal.” Feedback 2020

“Jenna is very knowledgeable about FOI requests and I really appreciated her sharing her expertise.” Feedback 2020

 

Please note that this course has a specific focus on UK FOI law and is unable to address the legislation in other national contexts in any great detail.

### The London Laundromat: The Influence of Oligarchy and the Role of the UK

Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland, Butler to the World and Coda Story's Oligarchy Newsletter, will speak to The New York Times' Jane Bradley about Russian oligarch money and its relationship to the war in Ukraine, the role of London and other international financial centres in enabling oligarchs, money-launderers and criminals from all over the world to hide their money - and what can be done about it.



 

 

### Understanding Company Accounts: Getting the Most Out of Companies House

Any UK-based investigative journalist or aspiring journalist should have a working knowledge of Companies House.

Companies House is the central registry for all UK registered limited or PLC companies and contains a wealth of useful information for those who know how to use the site. The aim of this class is to show how to get the most information from the official website, as well as highlighting what information can’t be found there. The class will give ample time for questions and queries and is an absolute must for anybody who does not feel confident in using this vital tool for investigators.

### An Introduction to Information Security from the Source Protection Programme

This session provides a general introduction to the broad field of information security. We will be giving some basic definitions, describing a range of the possible risks of using digital technologies, and introducing some of the available strategies and tools to improve your digital security.

Our InfoSec clinic - set up in the atrium by the registration desk - will provide individual support and advise. Open to everyone.

Part of our Source Protection Programme.

### Open Source Intelligence Gathering (OSINT)

This short course is for those new to open-source intelligence. It will cover a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations.

Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.

As a practical hands-on training, you will discover tools to help you:

 	research more effectively using search operators
 	investigate using social media
 	make the most of geolocated data
 	run verification checks for images, video footage & websites
 	use public registries and other administrative online data sources

 

 

### Copy, Lie, Smear: Uncovering High-Level Plagiarism and Dealing with the Consequences

Romanian investigative journalist Emilia Șercan has won a niche reputation for uncovering plagiarism in the putative PhD theses of her country’s leading politicians. At the CIJ she talks about how she found the truth, and how to deal with the backlash; in her case, an organised, state-level campaign of intimidation and harassment.

Please note that Chatham House Rules apply. 

### Screening NAVALNY

Enthralling and intimate, director Daniel Roher’s NAVALNY unfolds with the pace of a thriller as it follows Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in his quest to identify the men who poisoned him in August 2020. Shot in Germany as the story unfolded and offering extraordinary access to the investigation, NAVALNY is a fly-on-the-wall documentary that is also a study of Navalny the man, a portrait of a leader intent on reform who will not be cowed by anything, including his own poisoning.

It also shows an Open Source (and not so open source) investigation into his poisoning attempt with one of our past #CIJSummer speakers, investigative journalist Christo Grozev.

“A Bourne-like thriller set in a terrifying real world” – Timeout.

### Story-Based Inquiry Method

The 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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

This is one of our most popular courses at #CIJSummer Conference.

“This method is a must for any investigative journalist. It will give you the tools to organise your material for the better. The manual equips with you a number of skills, but most importantly it structures your investigation. So when it comes to filing your story you are fully prepared and not looking for that quote in the cloud” #CIJSummer 2020 feedback

"This was the most useful course I have ever attended. Clear, hands-on, and superbly delivered." Feedback 2021

“It was great. I'd do it again and I'd recommend it to people. I wanted to learn how to organize my reporting process and the course gave me just that. I'm already using some of the techniques in my work.” Feedback 2021

### Data Journalism and the Rise of Green Crime

Data journalists from Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism will highlight several of the unit’s pioneering geo-journalism tools (#WildEye, #MineAlert, Rhino Court Cases and ClimaTracker) to demonstrate how journalists can incorporate environmental data into their work. We will showcase successful examples from reporters in Asia, Europe and Africa, and teach participants how to work with data. This will include basic practical training on identifying trends, patterns and outliers, as well as how to spot a good story angle within a dataset.

During this training, participants will learn:
● How Oxpeckers tools work and how to use them;
● How to work with data;
● How to identify stories in a dataset;
● How to use data in an investigation, from conception to publication.

Part of the CIJ Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI)

### Ukrainian Investigative Journalism In Times of War

Before the start of the war, Ukraine had a thriving investigative journalism scene, both on the national and local level.

How did the war change it?

What do Ukrainian journalists investigate now, especially when many were forced out of the country by the war?

### Chris Mullin: Protect Sources!

Chris Mullin, journalist and former MP has won his fight against being forced to hand over material that would identify confidential sources relating to his investigations into the Birmingham Six. He will be joined by the veteran crime journalist Duncan Campbell and Gill Phillips, Director of Editorial Legal Services at the Guardian to discuss the case and the importance of source protection.

Part of our Source Protection Programme.

 

### Screening: NAVALNY

In August 2020, a plane travelling from Siberia to Moscow made an emergency landing. One of its passengers, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was deathly ill. Taken to a local Siberian hospital and eventually evacuated to Berlin, doctors there confirmed that he had been poisoned with Novichok, a nerve agent implicated in attacks on other opponents of the Russian government. President Vladimir Putin immediately cast doubt on the findings and denied any involvement.

While recovering, Navalny and his team unravel the plot against him, finding evidence of the Kremlin’s involvement, and prepare to go public with their findings.

This exciting documentary also shows how Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) can help solving crimes and features Christo Grozev, an investigative journalist and one of our past speakers.

[Film duration: 93 mins]

### Finding Stories with Data - Hands-On

You may already know something about data journalism, but are unsure how to start an actual story.

In these sessions we will delve into some real data, looking for a real story, starting with an idea, downloading the data, cleaning it, exploring it, and finding the leads to stories in it –using the methods you would need in a data-led enquiry, and in the order you would use them.

Don’t worry if you’ve never used these techniques before – we will have time to stop and discuss them in detail as we go.

You might want to go to Data Journalism - Google Sheets - Hands-on  (Wed 29 June) instead to practise working with datasets from the ground up. You do not need to do both Data Journalism-Google Sheet and Finding Stories in Data. Select one only.

### Data Journalism: Investigating Data with R. Hands-On. I

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. Or your questions are becoming too complex for Excel’s built-in analytics tools to handle. Maybe you find yourself frequently updating a dataset or running the same calculations for your reporting. Or you just want to automate some of the collection or visualisation of a dataset you keep having to do.

Then R is your friend!

Our data trainers showcase the potential of R and the stories it helped investigating.

This course is for intermediate level of data journalism.

By the end of these three sessions you will have learned the basics of using R and its most popular interface RStudio. You will know how to explore your data and do the common analysis tasks.

 

The three sessions are organised as follows -
1 - introduction to R, the RStudio interface, the Tidyverse, importing data and taking your first look at the data you've imported
2 - exploring your data, reshaping it, analysing it
3 - visualising your data using the most popular R package ggplot2.

These sessions will make use of a cloud version of R and RStudio so there's no need to bring anything other than a laptop capable of accessing the internet. At the end you will be able to access your R files and packages for a couple of months, allowing you time to decide to install R and RStudio on your own computer if you want to.

### #CIJSummer 2022 - Welcome

A warm welcome from our Director James Harkin and Becky Gardiner, Senior Lecturer and co-convenor of the MA in Journalism at Goldsmiths, University of London.

### #CIJSummer Welcome

Director James Harkin's welcome message to #CIJSummer Conference 2021.

He was joined by Reuters reporter and head of #CIJMasterclass programme, who launched  #CIJMasterclass 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.

As these toxic narratives have become widespread, the problem of poverty has itself been increasing, through years of austerity and the thinning of social support. This has been taken to new extremes by the shocks of the global financial crisis and now the Covid-19 pandemic - the economic impact of which we have barely begun to witness.

This talk brings together two of the foremost chroniclers of inequality in both countries to discuss these issues, look ahead to future prospects and problems, and give advice on telling stories with authenticity and empathy.

### Welcome to #CIJSummer 2021

Welcome to the 19th annual #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference – the second, and almost certainly the last, to take place entirely online.

Working throughout a global pandemic has been a challenge for everyone, not least for investigative journalists and those working to help them. How do we find new sources when it’s almost impossible to meet, and how do we keep those sources safe when it’s only possible to talk to them online?

It’s also, however, presented unparalleled opportunities for learning new skills. At the CIJ, the last fifteen months has been a period of unprecedented renewal and expansion. We’ve completely redeveloped our training curriculum for a more global audience online, and thought up new ways to broaden both the audience for investigative journalism and the demographics of those attracted to the profession.

Our Lyra McKee initiative, two years old, has now been expanded into a fully-fledged, online-based mentorship programme. Our Collaborative Community Journalism Project, building capacity and training fellowships to fledgling new outlets across London, began its work almost entirely online.

Earlier this year, together with the Freedom of The Press Foundation, we launched the Source Protection Programme (SSP), a first comprehensive new information security programme (provided free for freelance journalists) to a class of investigative journalists from all around the world. The SPP emerged from our 4th international CIJ Logan Symposium in November and it’s high-level membership include everyone from Jessica Bruder to Laura Poitras, from Omar Mohammed to Barton Gellman, together with a great new faculty of information security trainers from around the world.

In the Autumn, we’re launching a second iteration of our of Masterclass programme, once again aimed at getting the best and the brightest of the disadvantaged into investigative journalism, and once again led by the Reuters investigative journalist Stephen Grey. This time, however, it will be delivered entirely online.

But that’s not all. As we’ve spread our wings internationally since Covid-19, we’re now running bespoke training programmes for investigative journalists everywhere from Indonesia to Cambodia to Vietnam to India. We’re also, for the first time, delivering training everywhere from the United States to Pakistan to Nepal. Those training programmes turned out to be only the beginning. Following a highly successful pilot in Mexico last year, we’re now building brand new training initiative aimed at journalists throughout Latin America. With that under our belt, this year we launched similar pilots in Francophone Africa and India.

It’s only the beginning. In the next two and a half years, thanks to fresh investment, we'll roll out a brand new programme to train and support investigative journalists which will give the CIJ a real presence in just about every continent, region and corner of the planet.

All those regional and international programmes come together at #CIJSummer – it’s our main experimental laboratory and networking event, a meeting place and a melting pot for new friends, new trainers and new investigative journalists.

This year’s faculty reflects our growing international interests. Michela Wrong discusses the practical and moral dilemmas of how to get access to and report from war-torn Africa; three investigative journalists from Russia talk about the new techniques which help journalists there uncover the truth about corruption; Ron Nixon from Associated Press talks about how to build and run a genuinely global investigation across international borders. Rana Ayyub, Natasha Loder and Shadab Nazmi track the catastrophe of Covid-19 in India. Wa Lone, the Myanmar journalist imprisoned for eighteen months for his investigation into a massacre there in 2017, gives the prestigious annual Gavin MacFadyen lecture.

When Covid-19 finally abates, life won’t be quite the same as before. Nor will the kind of high-quality, small-group, investigative training that the CIJ offers; much of what we do will be across a broader range of media and more focused, more deeply and interactive and resilient, more vibrantly international. For now though, take your pick, in the different rhythms of the online world, from a truly global smorgasbord of training and discussion at CIJ Summer. As we venture outside in the coming months, and in the run up to our exciting 20th anniversary next year, we look forward to seeing you in the flesh.

### Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture: Wa Lone

In 2017, Wa Lone, a journalist in Myanmar for Reuters, was arrested with his colleague Kyaw Soe Oo while reporting on military abuses of the Rohingya people in Rakhine State. Their ordeal included eighteen months in prison; for their investigation, they were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2019. At the CIJ, Wa Lone discusses their investigation, his time in prison, what it’s like to be a journalist in Myanmar, and how he finds time to write children’s stories as well as investigative journalism.

Wa Lone delivers this year's Gavin MacFadyen's Memorial Lecture. He is in conversation with our director James Harkin.



Gavin MacFadyen was CIJ's founding director. An investigative journalist of courage and integrity, he died in October 2016.
Past Gavin MacFadyen lectures have been delivered by Anabel Hernández, Rana Ayyub, Maria Ressa and Can Dündar.

### 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.

Leading Russian investigative journalists and editors join us to discuss the current dangers and future prospects of investigative reporting in Russia.

Roman Badanin is the founder and editor-in-chief of Proekt, a non-profit investigative media organisation based in Russia. One of Proekt's most famous investigations was into the private life of Vladimin Putin, a taboo subject for the Russian media. It showed how a former cleaner and reportedly the mother of the Russian President's illegitimate child became the owner of a luxury ski resort and a stakeholder in the Kremlin-friendly Bank Rossiya.

Roman Dobrokhotov - is founder and editor-in-chief of The Insider, an independent online magazine focusing on investigations and debunking misinformation in Russia. His most famous works includes an investigation into the Salisbury Poisoning Suspects and most recently his key role in unmasking the people behind the poisoning of Alexei Navalny.

Roman Shleynov - a legendary Russia investigative journalist, who worked for Novaya Gazeta, one of the very few opposition publications in the country. He now writes for iStories (Important Stories), an online publication with a specific investigative focus. iStories's offices have been recently raided by the Russian authorities and its editor Roman Anin taken in for questioning.

Moderated by Jane Lytvynenko - Senior Reporter, online investigations at BuzzFeed.

### Financial Journalism: How to Get the Most of Companies House

Any UK-based investigative journalist or aspiring journalist should have a working knowledge of Companies House, the central registry for all UK registered limited or PLC companies.

This is a free workshop.

Companies House website contains a wealth of useful information - for those who know how to use the site. The aim of this class is to show how to get the most information from the official website, as well as highlighting what information can’t be found there. The class will give ample time for questions and queries and is an absolute must for anybody who does not feel confident in using this vital tool for investigators.

You can watch a recording of the session below:



To deepen your understanding of companies accounts you can attend our #CIJSummer Understanding Companies Accounts course on 6 July.

### A Beginner's Guide to Using the OpenCorporates API to Power Your Investigation

Need to search for companies and their directors at scale to support your investigations? Simply use the OpenCorporates API.

Attend this free beginners' tutorial designed to equip you with the basics you need to access company data across 140 jurisdictions as structured data. You don’t need technical skills – all you need is an internet browser or Excel.

Attendees will be required to watch a video tutorial ahead of the session, alongside a comprehensive tipsheet. Both of these are available below.

Then, during the session, you'll get a chance to ask Rebecca Lee questions about the API service, and trouble-shoot your application of the service to your own investigations.

 

Please watch this video explainer ahead of the session start and come along with your questions about how OpenCorporates and the API service work.



 

Please also download this tipsheet for your reference.



This course is part of the #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2021.

Date: 8 July 2021
Time: 12:30 till 13:30 (BST London, UK time).
Group size: max 50 people.
Class duration: 1hr x 1 times a day x 1 day
Level of participation: medium, with dedicated Q&A section

### 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.

### Trase.earth: Deforestation and Supply-Chain Investigations

At this free workshop, you'll learn about the importance of covering forest-risk commodity trading, the impacts of the production of key commodities, such as soy, beef and palm oil, on deforestation of tropical forest regions, in particular of the Amazon and Cerrado, and how to use the Trase platform to conduct your own investigations into environmental and other impacts of corporate supply chains.

The session will have a live demo of the platform, as well as covering how to use Trase and the data behind it for journalistic research. Global Canopy's Andre Vasconcelos and Cristiane Fontes will be joined by The Economist's Brazil Correspondent, Sarah Esther Maslin, to discuss the ways she used Trase in her research for a 2020 investigation into the soya and beef firms responsible for Amazonian deforestation and their supply chains.

You can watch a recording of the session below



 

This course is part of the #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2021.

Date: 5 July 2021
Time: 12:00 till 13:30 (BST London, UK time).
Group size: max 30 people.
Class duration: 1hr 30min x 1 times a day x 1 day
Level of participation: medium, with regular Q&A sections

### Investigating Covid Contracts

The COVID-19 response has put a spotlight on health sector spending, be it protective equipment for front-line staff, vaccines, or medicines. Globally, US $13 trillion is spent on contracts with private companies each year and spending on health is one of the largest areas – and also one of the most opaque.



This free session explores tactics and tools to investigate public procurement and provides tips for identifying red flags and monitoring public data provided by the government. Georg Neumann from the Open Contracting Partnership will look at case studies from the health sector, as well as help you explore the data published from 9 countries on their platform at open-contracting.health.

This course is part of the #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2021.

Date: 7 July 2021
Time: 12:00 till 13:30 (BST London, UK time).
Group size: max 25 people.
Class duration: 1hr 30min x 1 times a day x 1 day
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections

### Aleph: the Tool that Turns Data into Leads

This free session is designed to give you an introduction to Aleph, the tool that turns data into leads.



At OCCRP, Aleph is the database of all databases. It makes leaked data accessible, cross-references the information with hundreds of other datasets and builds timelines or network diagrams.

This hands-on session shows you how to do all this yourself with your own investigations!

This course is part of the #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2021.



 

Date: 7 July 2021
Time: 10:00 till 11:30 (BST London, UK time).
Group size: max 25 people.
Class duration: 1hr 30min x 1 times a day x 1 day
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections

### #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.

Ron is in conversation with Sheila Coronel.

### No Country Left Behind? The Indian Covid-19 catastrophe

With the desperate Covid-19 situation in India continuing to dominate the headlines, our panel examines what went wrong.

Supriya Sharma, Executive Editor at scroll.in talks about covering the Covid-19 crisis on the ground and the work journalists have to do to to show what the situation is like in hospitals and in the community.

Shadab Nazmi, Visual and Data journalist at BBC South Asia shares what the numbers tell us. Data journalism has been key in understanding the pandemic.

Natasha Loder, Health and Policy Editor at the Economist focuses on the global vaccination programme, vaccine nationalism and what it means for India and the rest of the world.

Moderated by Lou Del Bello.

### Financial OSINT. Deep Diving.

Open-Source Intelligence (frequently referred to as OSINT) has become crucial to many investigators’ ability to cross-examine allegations and reports of serious financial crimes.

This practical course will take you through real-life cases to teach you the core techniques to conduct deep-dive investigations to uncover opaque global company structures used to facilitate money laundering, corruption, bribery, tax fraud schemes, and more.

This course is part of the #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2021.



Date: Thursday, 8 July 2021
Time: 10:00 till 11:30 (BST London, UK time).
Group size: max 40 people.
Class duration: 1hr 30min x 1 times a day x 1 day
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections

This session will focus on the following important areas of financial OSINT research:

 	Understanding and profiling UK shell company factory structures
 	Local to Global approach to identifying international connections
 	Linking shell company structures to websites and fintech

OSINT is an ever evolving field - especially in the fast-developing world of digital finance, so up-to-date skills are essential. If you are a beginner, this course will help you get started in the field, for those who already practice some of the skills, the training will provide guidance on using the best and most current techniques available.

### Understanding Company Accounts

A two-part session aimed at those who want to understand how to dig into financial statements and identify relevant information for investigations.



This course is part of the #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2021.

Date: 6 July 2021
Time: 10:00 till 11:30 AND 12:00 till 13:30 (BST London, UK time).
Group size: max 40 people.
Class duration: 1hr 30mins x 2 times a day x 1 day
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections

This course will show you how to understand company accounts and get beyond the corporate PR spin. The emphasis will be on teaching practical skills. The objective of the course is to ensure that all participants feel comfortable with a set of accounts and know where and how to look for relevant information.

The only prerequisites for this course are numeracy and an interest in financial matters.

### Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)

Open-Source Intelligence (frequently referred to as OSINT) has been adopted into many investigators' practice over the past decade and now covers a wide range of skills, tools and techniques.

This practical course will teach you the basics of some key areas of OSINT that will help you not only save time in your research, but also to dig deeper into issues, organisations and people.

This course is part of the #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2021.



Date: 7 July 2021
Time: 10:00 till 11:30 AND 12:00 till 13:30 (BST London, UK time).
Group size: max 40 people.
Class duration: 1hr 30min x 2 times a day x 1 day
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections

This two-part course will focus on two important areas of open source information gathering:

- sourcing leads and evidence through social media
- verification and fact-checking tools

OSINT is an ever evolving field, so up-to-date skills are essential. If you are a beginner, this course will help you get started in the field, for those who already practice some of the skills, the training will provide guidance on using the best and most current tools available.

### Using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

This two-part practical online 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.

This course is part of the #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2021.


Date: 8 July
Times: 10:00 - 11:00 AND 11:15 - 12:15
Group size: max 40 people.
Class duration: 1h x 2 times a day x 1 day
Level of participation: very high. Regular Q&As.

“I’ve never submitted an FOI request so I liked how the course showed me from start to finish how it works. It was also incredibly useful to hear about the potential pitfalls and what to do to appeal.” Feedback 2020

“Jenna is very knowledgeable about FOI requests and I really appreciated her sharing her expertise.” Feedback 2020

 

Please note that this course has a specific focus on UK FOI law and is unable to address the legislation in other national contexts in any great detail.

### Story-Based Inquiry Method - Online

This four-part online course, which takes place over two days gives you the basics for starting, deepening, organising and writing an investigative report. This course is part of the #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2021.  

Dates: 5-6 July 2021
Time: 10:00 till 11:30 AND 12:00 till 13:30 (BST London, UK time).
Group size: max 40 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 2 times a day x 2 days
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections.

The 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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

This is one of our most popular courses at #CIJSummer Conference.

“This method is a must for any investigative journalist. It will give you the tools to organise your material for the better. The manual equips with you a number of skills, but most importantly it structures your investigation. So when it comes to filing your story you are fully prepared and not looking for that quote in the cloud” #CIJSummer 2020 feedback

"This was the most useful course I have ever attended. Clear, hands-on, and superbly delivered." Feedback 2021

“It was great. I'd do it again and I'd recommend it to people. I wanted to learn how to organize my reporting process and the course gave me just that. I'm already using some of the techniques in my work.” Feedback 2021

The course fee includes not only the lectures, but also two Logan/CIJ handbooks that dive deep into the techniques covered in the lectures.

### 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. This course is part of our annual #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2021. 

Class size: max 12 people.
Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four workshops you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills, but no others have the specific focus on using these tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

The course is composed of four sessions of around 1.5 hours each, scheduled over 4 consecutive days, with exercises and recommended reading to augment your learning between sessions. Signed-up participants must attend all four sessions.

Classes for this course are capped to keep them small and ensure practicality and interactivity.

“A really great introduction to using data to tell stories. Lots of very practical tools and techniques and a huge list of resources to support you going forward.” Feedback 2021

“If you come from a non-tech background, but are interested in data, this is where you should start from.” Feedback 2020

### Shiv Malik in conversation with Jane Bradley: Let’s Talk About Sources

Sources play a vital role in alerting journalists to wrong-doing, but how should investigative journalists go about cultivating them? And how should you work with them once you’ve got your story? How can journalists protect their sources? And what happens if the source betrays the journalist? Shiv Malik and Jane Bradley discuss the sensitive, often complex, and sometimes fraught relationships between journalists and those who tell them their stories.



Other #CIJSummer 2019 Talks are available to watch on replay on our YouTube Channel.

### Yemen: The Price of Disclosure

In April 2019, using open-source intelligence and secret government documents, a team of journalists at the new French investigative outlet Disclose published a scoop on French arms sales to Yemen – as a result of which they faced harassment by French military intelligence and now a possible jail sentence. Geoffrey Livolsi, Aliaume Leroy and Tom Flannery, the team behind the story, discuss with Iona Craig their investigation and its consequences.



Other #CIJSummer 2019 Talks are available to watch on replay on our YouTube Channel.

### Robert Hunter: Cross-examination, Interrogation, Political Interviewing - What’s Going on Beneath the Surface?

Robert Hunter is a solicitor advocate, who made interviewing techniques his lifelong interest. Having done many a cross-examination himself, he also analysed political interviewing and even attended the US police interrogation course. Robert is profoundly deaf and is a founder of City Disability charity.

### Fiona Hamilton: A Life in Crime

How has crime reporting changed, and what are the new challenges of the beat? In a rare and wide-ranging conversation Fiona Hamilton, Crime and Security Editor of The Times, talks to Duncan Campbell, veteran crime reporter at the Guardian, and author of the new book Underworld: The Inside Story of Britain’s Professional and Organised Crime.

### Clare Rewcastle Brown: The Inside Story of the 1MDB Exposé

Award winning investigative journalist and author of The Sarawak Report, Clare Rewcastle Brown talks to Martin Tomkinson about her three-year long investigation, which exposed the theft of $8billion from a Malaysian development fund by corrupt officials accused of working for the country’s then prime minister Najib Razak.



Other #CIJSummer 2019 Talks are available to watch on replay on our YouTube Channel.

### Understanding Company Accounts

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. The objective of the course is to ensure that all participants feel comfortable with a set of accounts and know where and how to look for relevant information.

The only prerequisites for this course are numeracy and an interest in financial matters as the theory will be taught in the first class and applied to real-life examples in the following sessions.

You must attend all the classes in this strand to benefit from it fully.

It will include the following topics: motivation to massage earnings; profit and loss account; balance sheet; funds flow statement; notes. And will finish with putting it all together, an interactive session building-up a sample set of accounts or case study questions.

The participants are actively encouraged to ask questions throughout.

### The Source and the Surveillance: Annika Smethurst on Committing Acts of Journalism.

In June 2019 federal police raided NewsCorp journalist Annika Smethurt’s home and seized material for her story about government plans to increase surveillance of the Australian people. All charges against Smethurst have since been dropped; the raid appears to have been a naked attempt to uncover her source. In association with the 4th CIJ Logan Symposium, Smethurst talks about her experience and its implications for journalists everywhere to the Director of the CIJ James Harkin.



You can now watch all #CIJSummer 2020 Talks on replay on our YouTube channel

### US Protests and the Role of the Media

Whether it's the storm of false reports and unverified information that appear around protests, the danger faced by reporters on the ground from the police and security forces, or the close relevance of a protest to one's own experience and personal history, these events can be the most complex and difficult to cover.

In this panel we hear from journalists fresh from struggling with exactly these issues. Montinique Monroe is a photojournalist for whom the protests she's been covering have an acute personal relevance. Racism and police brutality have tragically been a fixture of her life, including the death of her father at the hands of a white policeman.

Andrea May Sahouri has been on the frontlines of reporting the protests in Iowa for the Des Moines Register, and was both pepper-sprayed and arrested for doing her job.

Craig Silverman is one of the foremost experts on verification and fact-checking. His workload has been increasing exponentially in the Trump era, but spiked even further during the recent protests.

The discussion is hosted by Kofi Smiles, a presenter of BBC No Filter, a programme for and by 18-35 year-olds on BBC Radio Humberside.



You can now watch all #CIJSummer 2020 Talks on replay on our YouTube channel

### Katherine Eban: Covid-19, Pharmaceuticals and Public Health.

Katherine Eban, an award-winning New York-based investigative journalist, reports on public health and pharmaceuticals for Vanity Fair and is the author of the New York Times bestseller Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom. She's also the author of the article, "Rorschach and Awe," which inspired last year's film The Report. She comes to the CIJ to talk about Covid-19, pharmaceutical drugs, lies and President Trump.



You can now watch all #CIJSummer 2020 Talks on replay on our YouTube channel

### Following the Science: Health and Science Reporting from Inside a Crisis.

The Covid-19 pandemic has made all of us follow science and heath reports like never before, reinforcing the importance of the work that health and science reporters do.

Meet some of the people behind the headlines, sharing their experience of covering the health and science beat during a global pandemic: from misinformation to reliable sources, from scientific and government reports to witnessing human resilience and tragedy.

We thank The Association of British Science Writers and The European Federation for Science Journalism for helping us with organising this talk.



You can now watch all #CIJSummer 2020 Talks on replay on our YouTube channel

### Can Dündar: Arrest, Escape and Exile.

Can Dündar will deliver our annual Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture. Can Dündar is a distinguished Turkish journalist with over 40 years of experience writing, editing and making investigative documentaries. After his newspaper published footage in 2015 of Turkish security services channelling arms to Islamist fighters in Syria, he was arrested and spent 92 days in prison on charges of 'terrorism'. the following year he was hauled back to court on treason charges and while defending himself was the subject of an attempted assassination. The same day he was sentenced to nearly 6 years imprisonment. Having fled to Germany, he now lives in exile, but continues to report on the situation in Turkey. He will address the CIJ conference, giving insights from his life and career on how to continue to hold the powerful to account when not only your journalism, but your freedom and even your life are under threat.
Chaired by CIJ director James Harkin.



You can now watch all #CIJSummer 2020 Talks on replay on our YouTube channel

### SPAC Nation Exposé: An Exploited Congregation.

A hugely successful church, lauded by politicians for its work on knife crime, was used as cover by some pastors within its ranks for financial fraud leaving many vulnerable followers in serious debt. Nadine White and Emma Youle pursued this story in what was Nadine's first major investigation with HuffPost UK while completing the CIJ's Investigative Journalism Masterclass series last year. Here Nadine and Emma speak about their experience, discussing the skills required, the challenges they faced, and the ultimate impact of the story.



You can now watch all #CIJSummer 2020 Talks on replay on our YouTube channel

### Covid-19: A Data Story. UK and Sweden.

Leading data journalists Helena Bengtsson of STV (Sweden), John Burn-Murdoch of the Financial Times (UK), and Pamela Duncan of the Guardian (UK), explain how data analysis plays a crucial part in the coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic. From death rates to what is a reliable Covid-19 data source, they share the best practices of data-driven stories at the times when data drives policy decisions like never before.



You can now watch all #CIJSummer 2020 Talks on replay on our YouTube channel

### Finding Stories with Data  - Google Sheets

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

7-11 July. Daily from 19:10 till 21:10 BST (UTC +1h)
Price: £70
Group size: max 8 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 4 days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four work sessions spread across the week, you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers Jonathan Stoneman, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills training, but no others have the specific focus on using the tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is from the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

 "Very clear insights into Excel, re-discovered as a powerful and ready-to-use tool to conduct investigations."   Course feedback

"Very knowledgeable tutor."Course feedback

This course will be broken down into 4 sessions of two hours each, spread out across 4 days. Signed up participants must attend all four sessions.

### Open-Source Intelligence

This course will be broken down into two sessions, which take place on the same day.

Taught by Paul Myers, one of Europe's leading open source intelligence specialists and a pioneer of open source research.

Open Source: Information Search
In this session, the BBC's Paul Myers shares his techniques for finding information online and reveals how tools and techniques can manipulate Google, or find information previously thought deleted from the Internet.
Open Source: Finding people online
BBC's Paul Myers reveals his techniques for finding people. The session will include specialist resources and social media research on Facebook & Twitter.

All timing - BST (UTC +1h)

### Using Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

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


10-11 July. 10:00 - 11:20 BST (UTC +1h)
Group size: max 15 people.
Class duration: 1h 20min.
Level of participation: very high. Regular Q&As and a clinic.
Price: £35 for the entire course.

All attendees will have a chance to submit their specific FOIA questions/challenges you may have, which will be discussed at the clinic on day two

Please note, this course has a specific focus on UK FOI law and is unable to address the legislation in other national contexts in any great detail..

"Illuminating, articulately presented"

"Jenna is a great trainer because she can talk from her own very real experience"

"Very informative. The practical part at the end was very beneficial. I feel confident that I will be able to utilise what I was taught."

Each session will last for 1h 20min. No prior knowledge required.

There will be class interaction and lots of opportunities to ask questions.
On day two, if there is a particular FOIA obstacle that you’ve encountered - and would like Jenna to talk through this challenge during the session - please send your question/problem to Jenna before this session. You will receive all the details, once you book for the course.

### Story-Based Inquiry Method

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


7-11 July. Daily from 17:00 till 19:00 BST (UTC +1h)
Price: £45 for the entire course, including two handbooks and a PDF workbook.
Group size: max 30 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 4 days
Level of participation: high, with regular Q&A sections.

The 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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

This is one of our most popular courses at #CIJSummer Conference.

“Most useful. Very concrete and practical and I feel that most definitely the knowledge obtained [during the classes] will be used.” Delegate feedback 2019

“A complete walkthrough on investigative story writing, further reading tips and lots of invaluable info.” Delegate feedback 2017

The course fee includes not only the lectures, but also a PDF workbook of presentations with space for notes, and two Logan/CIJ handbooks that dive deep into the techniques covered in the lectures.

NB The workbook will be distributed in advance of lectures, please print it out, you will need it during the course.

We also recommend you read the Logan/CIJ Handbooks provided ahead of the course.

### Finding Stories with Data - Excel

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

7-11 July. Daily from 11:30 till 13:30 BST (UTC +1h)
Price: £70
Group size: max 8 people.
Class duration: 2hrs x 4 days
Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, screenshares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

In four work sessions spread across the week, you will learn what data is available and how to find it, how to interrogate it and find facts or patterns in it which will lead, inform and enhance the stories you tell.

Guided by one of our data trainers Jonathan Stoneman, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for your own reporting projects.

There are lots of courses which teach data journalism skills training, but no others have the specific focus on using the tools and techniques for investigations and holding power to account that is from the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s speciality.

 "Very clear insights into Excel, re-discovered as a powerful and ready-to-use tool to conduct investigations."   Course feedback

"Very knowledgeable tutor."Course feedback

This course will be broken down into 4 sessions of two hours each, spread out across 4 days. Signed up participants must attend all four sessions.

### Maria Ressa: Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture

A Filipino-American journalist and author and co-founder of the innovative news site Rappler.com, Maria Ressa delivers our annual Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture.

Maria has been fearlessly reporting on the extrajudicial killings and human rights violations occurring in the Philippines under the Duterte regime. She discusses the difficulties of investigative reporting under intense pressure from the government on both her organisation and herself. She talks about journalism, technology, networks, Facebook, persecution from authorities, freedom of expression and much more.



Other #CIJSummer 2019 Talks are available to watch on replay on our YouTube Channel.

### Why Code?

A talk for those who are unsure on how knowledge of code can help journalists in their investigations. Leila Haddou talks to a developer, Max Harlow; a code newbie data journalist, Niamh McIntyre; and a code old-hand data journalist and editor, Helena Bengtsson. The discussion covers the use of code for journalism, which language to learn, and why and how it can improve your investigations. Questions from the audience are welcome and encouraged.

### Web Scraping Without Code

How to use the import functions for scraping data into Google Sheets, building a basic scraper with websraper.io and OCR 3 ways.

### Unlimited Power: Investigating Tony Robbins

In May 2019, BuzzFeed News published a major investigation into the world’s most famous self-help guru Tony Robbins, who claims to have revolutionised millions of lives including some of the most vulnerable. The investigation revealed that Robbins publicly berated victims of rape and abuse at his events – and is accused by nine women of inappropriate sexual advances or exposing himself to them, including groping followers and sexually harassing staffers. The millionaire’s legal team aggressively fought to shut the story down.

 

### Top-Shopped: Investigating Sir Philip Green

In this talk you will hear about the hard-hitting investigation the speaker co-authored for the Telegraph: uncovering the behaviour of businessman Sir Philip Green. You will hear how the investigation began and evolved, the role of whistleblowers, and about the injunction that almost shut it down.

### No Stone Unturned

An in-depth look at the unsolved 1994 Loughinisland massacre, where six Irishmen were murdered, presumably by a Unionist paramilitary group, while watching the World Cup at the local pub in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland.

Followed by Q&A with Barry McCaffrey



Other #CIJSummer 2019 Talks are available to watch on replay on our YouTube Channel.

 

### The Panama Papers: Screening + Q&A with Bastian Obermayer and Simon Bowers

The biggest global corruption scandal in history, and the hundreds of journalists who risked their lives to break the story. This documentary from Alex Winter charts the story of this huge cross-border collaboration, from first contact with the source to the coordinated international publication.

### Open Source: The Skripal Poisoning Investigation

When two suspects were identified in the police investigation surrounding the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia last March, several researchers from Bellingcat began a hunt to verify the real identities of the suspects, and their links to Russian military intelligence. This class will talk you through the OSINT tools and techniques, corroborated by reporters on the ground, that made the investigation possible.



Other #CIJSummer 2019 Talks are available to watch on replay on our YouTube Channel.

### Open Source: The GRU Globetrotters, Tracking Clandestine International Operations

Tracking agents of the Russian secret service and their European operations requires employing the full range of open-source intelligence techniques. This class will show you many tips and tricks, while explaining how they were used in a range of investigations looking into GRU activities in Switzerland, Bulgaria and elsewhere.



Other #CIJSummer 2019 Talks are available to watch on replay on our YouTube Channel.

 

### Open Source: Tracking Down a Most-Wanted Criminal via Instagram

What is “chronolocation” and why do we need it? How do we research deceiving Instagrams? What is wrong with Google reverse image search? What is the hidden connection between Instagram and Facebook?
How can you track down a fugitive criminal with Instagram and a little help from Facebook and Google, when the police want to know who the convict contacted and where he is right now? This session will answer all these questions and more. This is the first public session ever about the case that made headlines in The Netherlands this spring.

### Open Source: Fantastic Formulas to Filter Social Media

Who is the mysterious person behind a mining contract in the Central African Republic? What do you do when you have only a very common name and no photos? And what to do when a Twitter account is completely deleted? You filter social media with what you have. In this session you will find out how Mr/Mrs Brown was tracked down via clever use of fantastic filtering in social media, based on the trainer’s work for European news media.

### Online Toolkits and Resources for Data Journalists

First aid for your data journalism learning problems. When you’re diving into a new field of expertise, it can be overwhelming. Our trainer is here to help: tell her what you’d like to learn and why it hasn’t worked out so far, and she’ll try to point you to the online toolkit or resource you didn’t know you needed. This workshop will be a full improvisation, so buckle-up.

### Investigating Offshore Finances and Money-Laundering

How do you investigate ‘dark money? Knowing how ‘dark money’ enters the financial system is crucial to covering money laundering, corruption, bribery and tax evasion. In this session you will be provided with the tips, tools and resources for shining a light on a murky world.

### An Introduction to Statistics through Benford’s Law for Fraud Detection

If you’re wondering if there’s something a bit fishy about a dataset, but you don’t know where to start looking, you might get some relief from a weird quirk of numbers called Benford’s Law that’s ready to help in your search. Largely forgotten about for 80 years, it’s become a handy part of a fraud investigators toolkit in the last decade. Learn how to use it in your investigations, and pick up a brief introduction to using statistics at the same time.

### The Human Cost of the Housing Crisis

Council estates are being knocked down to build luxury developments and ‘affordable’ housing is out of reach of those that most need it. Meanwhile the number of homeless on the streets and people in temporary accommodation is growing. Our three panelists have independently researched the social cost of this and the impact on people’s lives and gather to discuss their methods of translating investigations into impact.



Other #CIJSummer 2019 Talks are available to watch on replay on our YouTube Channel.

 

### Heineken in Africa

From hiring sex workers to sell their products to buttressing murderous regimes, what are Western multinationals really up to in Africa and how might we go about researching it?

### Forensic Journalism: How Open-Source Investigations and Field Reporting are Uncovering the Tragedy of Yemen

More than 10,000 civilians have died since the Saudi-led war against Yemen’s Houthis began in 2015. While traditional field investigations are still critical to covering the crisis, open source monitoring and investigations are increasingly playing a role in holding power to account.

### Forensic Journalism: Image and Spatial Analysis in Investigative Reporting

Forensic Architecture work on human rights violation investigations with a range of different partners, from international prosecutors to media organisations. This session will provide an insight on this work from the mindset of both an architect and a journalist, with examples and workshop exercises in image analysis, geo-locating, and interpreting video. You’ll learn how that material goes out into the world and is received, the forums in which the organisation operates, and a consideration of the advantages and weaknesses of Forensic Architecture’s work in new media/social media spaces.

### Follow the Money: Financial Investigations

The session will teach you ways to investigate an individual or company’s finances. It will take you on a virtual trip around the world to show how to access public records in offshore jurisdictions and the stories they can yield.

### Finding the Human Face in a Data-Driven Investigation

We use data in our investigations to find out about the the scale of a problem that is affecting people, systems that aren’t helping them, or to shine a light on particular individuals. This workshop focuses on techniques for finding the human stories that help bring that data to life, from scoping the characters and settings that can help inject movement into your story, to tips on finding and interviewing key sources.

### Developing Cross-Border Ideas

Cross-border stories – wow… but how do you get started? In this workshop we discuss the quality of cross-border journalism ideas: how to systematically develop a cross-border story, how to deal with cross-border aspects of a local story, and how to find potential team members to further develop the story idea with.

### Data Journalism in the Newsroom

This panel of experienced data journalists will explain how data can give greater depth to your stories and discuss best-practice for integrating data analysis into newsroom workflows. If you’re new to data journalism and want to find out what the techniques can do for you, or if you work with data journalists and want a greater understanding of their role to inform your expectations then this talk is for you.



Other #CIJSummer 2019 Talks are available to watch on replay on our YouTube Channel.

### Data Escape Room

The Data Escape Room is a 60 minute data-driven challenge designed to test and develop your data skills with additional 60 minutes allowed for questions and individual help. Working in a small team you will be given a selection of real data and tasked with working out what the story is. Using all your team’s collective skills and your preferred software (eg Excel, googlesheets, R – all taught at the conference) you will sift through data and other material under extreme time pressure. It’s a great opportunity to try what you have learned and work out what other skills you might need to acquire. Bring your laptop, and come prepared to have some fun along the way.

### Cross-Border Journalism Case Studies

Cross-border collaborative journalism has proven to be a powerful method: Panama Papers, Football Leaks or Implant Files have set the political agenda and lead to significant societal change. Our panel have worked extensively on cross-border stories and will share their experiences with you using examples of stories they’ve recently worked on.

### The Cornerman: A True Crime Investigation

This session reveals the rise and fall of one of Britain’s most elusive organised crime bosses whose whispered name terrified communities from London’s glitzy West End to the leafy West Country. Firmly on the police’s radar ever since his name was linked to two notorious and still unsolved gangland murders twenty years ago in London, the Cornerman used his connection with one of the capital’s most successful crime families to build a network extending along the M4 corridor to Bristol. He walked free from prosecutions for kidnapping, murder and extortion of a championship football club owner. At least ten men, women and children, have been taken into witness protection on the police’s insistence. Meanwhile, the Cornerman continued to cash in by running protection rackets, cosying up to big players in the world of sport, and providing security for the men behind high-society nightclubs loved by the young royals and A-list celebrities. This talk gives a behind-the-scenes account of that long-term shoe-leather investigation.

### Building Your Own Searchable Document Archive

This session teaches you how to make searchable document archives. Transparency Toolkit recently built a hosted archive service to help journalists compile, explore, filter, and publish large sets of documents. You will learn how to use this software to create a searchable database by uploading files in your browser, analyse the data with text mining tools, and publish the documents.

### Build a Better News Mousetrap: A Crash-Course in Design Thinking

Design thinking is a methodology for building better news products. It is used by some of the largest, most innovative news sites in the world to rapidly develop and test new products and features. In these hands-on workshops, we will learn the basics of design thinking, and how this approach has revolutionised the process. Together we will learn the basics of design thinking and apply what we’ve learned to a real-world problem.

### Best European Examples of Data Journalism

For her Data Journalism Newsletter, Winny collects the best of the Data Journalism Web. In this presentation, she shares her favourites from all over Europe, carefully explaining why she loves these publications so much. Can’t wait for the presentation? Subscribe at http://bit.ly/ddjnews to get a small Data Journalism Party in your inbox every Sunday.

### Computer Security Advice Clinic

Visit the security zone in the Atrium with your laptop and learn how to set up tools to browse anonymously, chat and mail with encryption and prevent data-loss from theft/confiscation of laptops and storage media. This will include the TOR-browser, PGP mailcrypto and OTR-chat.



The security software we will be using are all free of cost and will work on Windows, Mac and Linux laptops. They will not work on iPads or Android tablets. Please bring a laptop that you are able/allowed to install software on and contact us with any specific questions beforehand.

### Accessing Information under FOIA

Session 1:
This session will outline the basics of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and how you can apply it to your research, campaigns and investigations. We’ll go through the type of information that can be accessed from government bodies and how you can draft effective requests to get the most out of the Act. We will also look at how to make requests for information under the lesser-known Environmental Information Regulations. Towards the end of the session, we will demonstrate WhatDoTheyKnowPro, a new FOIA toolkit for journalists developed by MySociety.
Session 2:
This session will go through the FOIA appeals process, and teach you how to argue your case when government bodies are doing whatever they can to prevent a disclosure. At the end of the session, we will look at how to send freedom of information requests around the world. To finish, we’ll discuss and work through some of the FOIA challenges that you have encountered.
 

### Cross-Border Journalism – Everybody can learn it

If you’re impressed by large cross-border stories like CumEx Files, Panama Papers or Malta Files, don’t be daunted. It is a method everybody can learn. In this workshop Brigitte Alfter gives an introduction to the basic considerations of cross-border collaborative journalism, the levels of intensity and the process from idea to publication and beyond.

### Covert Filming

This session on covert filming has evolved over the years into a state-of-the-art technical workshop looking at methods to acquire evidence for public interest investigations. It is taught by a leading undercover technician and an experienced television reporter who discuss the process and ethics of going undercover and look at the latest high-quality equipment.
Not so much a masterclass than a highly informative overview of every aspect of covert filming by a trainer who has been doing it for the last 25 years. He has worked for every single major channel in the UK and major international broadcasters. Learn about role playing, bonding with the subject, coping and exit strategies, the latest equipment and how to escape when rumbled. There’s never been a better time to get involved with covert filming. Learn how from the best in the business.
 

### Don’t Be Numbed by Numbers

What do you do when faced with a really big dataset for the first time? Using examples, Jonathan Stoneman will discuss approaches that help reduce a daunting mountain of data to a manageable mass.



Other #CIJSummer 2019 Talks are available to watch on replay on our YouTube Channel.

### Understanding Company Accounts: Getting the Most Out of Companies House

Any UK-based investigative journalist or aspiring journalist should have a working knowledge of Companies House.

Companies House is the central registry for all UK registered limited or PLC companies and contains a wealth of useful information for those who know how to use the site. The aim of this class is to show how to get the most information from the official website, as well as highlighting what information can’t be found there. The class will give ample time for questions and queries and is an absolute must for anybody who does not feel confident in using this vital tool for investigators.

### Introduction to Data Journalism: How to Get the Most out of the #CIJSummer Data Strand

This session will provide a chance to find out what data journalism classes are on offer and which tools are best for which tasks. Our data trainers will advice you on the best data pathway and explain how you can improve your journalism with data analysis.

### Investigating the National Health Service

Tips, tricks and ethical insights in how to properly investigate the UK NHS by the journalist who helped expose the Mid Staffordshire scandal. How to work with whistleblowers and bereaved families while at the same time respecting the commitment and dedication to NHS staff. Hear the shocking truth about the safety of the NHS and what role journalists can play in making it safer.



Other #CIJSummer 2019 Talks are available to watch on replay on our YouTube Channel.

 

### Investigative Interview Techniques

This talk will provide an overview of investigative interviewing tools and techniques used within a forensic context. The focus here is to elicit detailed and reliable information from witnesses and suspects as this can play a central role in legal decision-making and, ultimately, the delivery of justice. For a number of psychological reasons, even cooperative witnesses do not spontaneously report all the information they know. Further, interviewers can inadvertently limit or contaminate witness accounts through the use of misleading or otherwise inadequate questioning techniques. As such,investigative interviewing is a multi-faceted skill to master, and demands a sound understanding of memory, communication, and other cognitive, social, and environmental factors that may affect the content and accuracy of witness or suspect accounts. Throughout the talk, psychological factors known to underpin successful investigative interviews will be introduced, including building and maintaining rapport, establishing the role of the interviewer and interviewee, providing retrieval support, and asking the right questions at the right time.

### Libel and Privacy Laws

In this session you will learn about libel and privacy and hear how recent cases have affected the law. This class is for anyone who wants to update their legal knowledge and find out how they are affected by recent legal developments.

### SCIENCE: 101 on Science Reporting

Where to find stories and how to read research papers and university and journal press releases. An explanation of scientific methods, randomised clinical trials and their importance, including assessing aspects like sample sizes, statistics and risk assessments.



Other #CIJSummer 2019 Talks are available to watch on replay on our YouTube Channel.

 

### SCIENCE: Reporting on Academic Misconduct and the Business of Science

Science is often admired for its pure and infallible nature, but scientists are humans and, like any of us are affected by biases, conflicts of interest and money. And sometimes they do bad things that need exposing. Why do scientists go rogue, and what are the stories we can tell about this? How do you find stories about bad science, and how do you tell them? How do funding and policy affect research priorities? Come and learn about this and more in this session organised in partnership with the Association of British Science Writers.

### SCIENCE: Digging out Research Discoveries and Science Scoops

Much of core science reporting these days is driven by big science PR machine: major journals, universities and businesses bombard journalists with ready-to-print press releases that set the agenda and frame science and tech stories. A few brave journalists go beyond this flurry to find their own stories and find untold scoops. In this session, organised in partnership with the Association of British Science Writers you will find out how to break from the pack and find the science stories that no one else has and that your editors will love.

### Story-Based Inquiry Method

Story-Based Inquiry 1: Hypothesise Your Story
Investigation has a dirty name with editors, who think it’s about slowly rummaging through piles of garbage till you find (or don’t find) a jewel. Too often, they’re right. This session will show you how to choose a subject and define your investigation as a story from the start, using hypotheses. The method helps you figure out what to look for, how to look for it and how to sell it to your boss and the public.
Story-Based Inquiry 2: Creative Techniques Create the Timeline and Scenarise the Story
In this session we map the plot of a story – a sequence of events that must have occurred, which we can subsequently verify and enrich. Simultaneously, we create scenes, with characters whose actions and conflicts define the content and meaning of the story. These events lead to the sources you need.
Story-Based Inquiry 3: From Source Mapping to the MasterFile
This session begins with an alternative to the timeline – a map of the actors in your story and the sources they hold. Now that we’ve shown you where to acquire information assets, we’ll show you how to optimise them. We’ll create a simple but effective database in which you collect the results of your investigation. This ‘MasterFile’ makes it easier to structure your story – the hardest part of composition. It’s a way to write while you research, instead of first researching and then writing. It’s also a way to build resources for a long, successful career.
Story-Based Inquiry 4: Craft the Story
This session shows you how to compose a story that hits hard and fast, and builds to a powerful conclusion. The core of this method is continuous composition and referencing – an approach that saves both you and your colleagues time and anguish. We turn the ‘MasterFile’ into a narrative structure based on a chronology or a sequence of themes and characters. We apply techniques for controlling rhythm, the element that keeps your audience reading, listening or watching. We finish with quality control – reducing the risk of mistakes that can cause damage to others and your own reputation.

### Creating Data Visualisations and Interactives with Flourish

In this session you’re going to learn how to make data visualisations and interactives using Flourish. Flourish is a tool that allows journalists and non-coders to create high-end data visualisations and interactives, it’s free for newsrooms. Available templates include animated maps, network diagrams, Sankey charts, quizzes, and more. This workshop is lead by Katie Tyler at Flourish, who will introduce the Flourish platform and take participants through the process of creating and distributing data-driven stories.

### Excel

Excel 1: The Power of Data Analysis for Stories
Data is everywhere and spreadsheets can help reporters to find story ideas in the data. This course introduces data analysis using Microsoft Excel. Participants will learn basic calculations, rates, ratios and analytic tools that generate story ideas.
Excel 2: Finding Patterns in the Data
The second spreadsheet course covers built-in analytical tools, such as sorting, filtering and chart creation, tools that help reporters quickly find great stories within databases.
Excel 3: Summarising Your Data for the Big Picture
To complete your spreadsheet toolkit, learn how to make pivot tables that will summarise trends in your data.

### Finding Needles in Haystacks with Fuzzy Matching

Fuzzy matching is a process for linking up names that are similar, but not quite the same. It has become an increasingly important part of data-led investigations as a way to identify connections between public figures, key people, and companies that are relevant to a story. This class will cover how fuzzy matching typically fits into the investigative process, with some story examples. We will show you how to run some of the different types of fuzzy match on some real datasets, including the pros and cons of each.

### Data Journalism - Google Sheets

Googlesheets 1
Data journalism introduction: an overview of the seven building blocks behind data stories. The basics: using Googlesheets to carry out basic calculations and percentage increases.

Googlesheets 2
Finding your top line: sorting and filtering in Googlesheets/Excel. With handy/fun tools such as split, concatenate, currency conversion, translate.

Googlesheets 3
Quick-smart data summary/analysis using pivot tables, merging datasets (VLookUps) and basic scraping using Google’s import tools.

 

### Graph Databases

In data journalism, we tend to use relational databases – data in table form – such as Excel or SQL to do our analysis and find stories. Graph databases are different, but are incredibly useful to find connections or patterns within our data that would be difficult, if not impossible, to spot using a relational database.

 
Session 1:
This session will provide a hands-on introduction to graph database Neo4j, showing examples of its use for investigative stories including the Panama Papers, and demonstrate how to build a graph database of political donations and match them with corporate data to see at a glance the networks involved.
Session 2:
In part two, you will learn to analyse your newly built graph database using Cypher, Neo4j’s query language. It is advisable to have completed part one to get the most out of this session.

### Data Wrangling with Pandas 2

Your data is squeaky clean and ready to go – time to dig deep and start hunting for those elusive leads. Pandas allows you to quickly and easily perform statistical analysis on your data helping you to mine for stories and look for outliers.

Participants can expect to learn programmatic methods to analyse large datasets and to visualise their results within Jupyter Notebook.

Why Python?

Python makes it easy to replicate your analysis at a later stage and reduces the threat of human error that many face in Excel. It’s also shareable within teams and allows you to document and explain your work within the notebook so you can come back to it later and easily pick up from where you left off.
There are no upper limits in terms of data size, you can use Python on a csv with 10 rows or a billion. You get to a point where the limitation is the speed of the RAM on your machine, at which point you need to switch to a server.

 

### Data Cleaning with Pandas 1

Data cleaning can feel more like data penance, but Pandas can ease your pain, allowing you to clean and structure your data with minimal hassle. Jupyter Notebook’s interactive environment helps you keep track of your changes and allows you to explore your data.

Participants can expect to learn how to clean large complicated datasets quickly and learn how to explore data too large for Excel by using the browser based Jupyter Notebook.

Why Python?

Python makes it easy to replicate your analysis at a later stage and reduces the threat of human error that many face in Excel. It’s also shareable within teams and allows you to document and explain your work within the notebook so you can come back to it later and easily pick up from where you left off.
There are no upper limits in terms of data size, you can use Python on a csv with 10 rows or a billion. You get to a point where the limitation is the speed of the RAM on your machine, at which point you need to switch to a server.

### Dealing with Large Datasets

What do you do when faced with a really big dataset for the first time? Using examples, Jonathan Stoneman will discuss approaches that help reduce a daunting mountain of data to a manageable mass.

### How Can Code Help Your Journalism?

This talk is an introductory primer to understanding how code is used in the newsroom, showing recent story examples, explaining the fundamental concepts in programming and demystifying the jargon.
 You will learn how code is used by reporters to find stories and aid investigations, and gain a basic understanding of how computer programs are structured. 
We will also provide a guide to the most common programming languages to help you identify which would suit your needs if you decide pursue learning yourself.

### Introduction to Data Visualisation

If you’ve ever wondered how to make well-designed charts, this session will explain exactly how. Sophie will take you on a brief tour of the history of data visualisation, cover the principles of how data is encoded into visual cues, and end with an opportunity to make your own data visualisation using the HighCharts.js library.

### Investigating Data with R

In the first class, R-1, you’ll be shown the basics and get familiar with R and RStudio, import data and learn some functions for getting to grips with your dataset including sorting and filtering. This class assumes no prior experience with R.

In R-2 you’ll get down to some data wrangling and learn how join datasets and carry out calculations in R that will allow you to identify trends in the data for storytelling. You’ll also learn statistical functions in R and how to use ggplot2 for basic visual analysis.

In the third and final class, R-3, you’ll use R to scrape, clean and structure data from webpages and APIs. You’ll also learn how to use R to convert, join and split difficult data files.

### SQL for Journalists

What to do when Excel is not enough to crunch your data and hardcore coding is not your style? SQL is like Excel, but on steroids!



Module 1
This is the first of three workshops that will introduce you to the lingua franca of programming and a popular relational database. You’ll see what SQL does: create a database, import a spreadsheet, and learn about the main ‘select statements’.

Note: Familiarity with Excel is recommended for those wishing to attend.

​Module 2
You’ll learn about the power of the ‘golden query’ through the introduction of functions, filters and analysing data using code for reporting. You’ll also start joining tables.

Note: Familiarity with SQL ‘select statements’ is necessary, and with Excel recommended for those wishing to attend.

​Module 3
Building on SQL 1 and 2, you’ll make tables talk to each other, clean dirty data and update tables.

Note: Familiarity with SQL ‘select statements’ is necessary, and with Excel recommended for those wishing to attend.

 

*If you are a complete beginner, you should attend classes 1 to 3 as we will be building on knowledge and datasets from class to class. However, if you have experience in SQL you are free to join classes 2 and/or 3.

### Web Scraping for Journalists

In these hands-on sessions you will be introduced to some of the basic techniques to get started on scraping data for investigations:

 	investigation ideas: how to spot opportunities to use scraping and automation in investigations
 	scraping basics: finding structure in HTML and URLs; what’s possible with programming
 	simple scraping jobs: how to write a basic scraper in five minutes
 	data journalism tools: the challenges of scraping hundreds of webpages, dozens of documents, or the invisible contents of databases.

 


## Logan Symposium

### Venue

Barbican, London
Barbican Centre

Silk St

London EC2Y 8DS

United Kingdom
How to get there -> HERE
 

#CIJLOGAN Symposium delegates should enter the building via the Silk Street main entrance, make their way to the Garden Room on Level 3 for registration/refreshments with the actual talks taking place in Frobisher Auditorium 1 on Level 4.

(Stairs and lifts are available across the ground floor, opposite the Silk Street entrance.)

Barbican_Level G Map

Barbican_Level 3 Map

Barbican_Level 4 Map

Note: You will need to pick up your badge at our registration desk located in the Garden Room on Level 3 and wear it at all times in order to be allowed access to the talks in the Frobisher Auditorium 1 on Level 4 and to the networking & refreshements area in the Garden Room on Level 3.

### Book Now

#CIJLogan conference is open to all, but we charge booking fees on a sliding scale to ensure that larger newsrooms subsidise places for small organisations, freelancers and students.
Tickets entitle you to full access to our two-day programme as well as tea and coffee, and a light lunch on both days in the Barbican’s Garden Room and Conservatory. At the end of the conference on Friday afternoon there will also be a drinks reception with live music.
Rates: THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT
Students: £25
General Admission*: £45
Small Media/Education/NonProfit Organisations (<10 staff): £65
Large Media/Education/NonProfit Organisations (10+ staff): £95
Other Organisations: £150

Organisations rates: The price of the tickets is based on the size of your organisation. Please select the size of your organisation, and then choose how many tickets of each type you would like to order in the quantity box. You can order more than one ticket if, for instance, you're ordering tickets for multiple people in your organisation, but you will need to contact us at info@tcij.org to provide details for the other attendees.

We also offer group discounts for teachers / organisations wanting to purchase 5 tickets or more - please contact us at info@tcij.org.

*This rate applies if you are self-employed, unemployed, retired, or if your employer is not paying for or refunding your ticket. Note that we are a small charity and rely on your honesty so please do not register under this rate if your employer is reimbursing you for attending this event.

 
Bookings are non-refundable
CIJ is a registered charity and we do not make profits on our courses and public events, all money raised is used to organise training at prices well below the market rate.

Please consider making a small donation (recommended amounts: £10, £5 or an amount of your choice) to support the work of the CIJ  --> DONATE HERE.

 

### Source!

The Centre for Investigative Journalism present Source! the 10 year anniversary edition of the CIJ Logan Symposium.
Investigative journalism is in flux. Journalists need sources, but in the digital age those sources make contact in different ways, and sometimes don’t want to talk to journalists at all. What's the best way to protect sources when reporting is often done remotely, when our sources are under threat and when keeping our sources safe can sometimes be a matter of life and death? Should we trust technology to keep us safe, or stay close to traditional journalist tradecraft and trust only our wits?

Led by investigative journalists, the newest edition of the biennial CIJ Logan Symposium, Source! brings together some of the most courageous and innovative new investigative reporters and outlets in the world to forge alliances against official censorship, surveillance and deceit - and to talk candidly about the landscape for the profession and its future prospects.

This time the CIJ partners with Freedom of the Press Foundation in New York, Disclose in Paris, Reporters United in Athens, The Public Source in Beirut and Declassified in London to bring you talks and presentations that tackle the most pressing issues facing us all – how best to protect sources and whistleblowers, to deal with government harassment and gagging orders and to make the most of exciting new investigative tools and methods.

14, 15 November 2024
Barbican
London
The event is now sold out.
Please note: Tickets entitle you to full access to our two-day programme as well as tea and coffee served throughout the day. Attendees will also be provided with a light lunch on Thursday and a hot lunch on Friday in the Barbican’s Garden Room and Conservatory. At the end of the conference on Friday afternoon there will also be a drinks reception with live music from a quartet of students from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

### In the Media + Feedback

#CIJLogan2020 in the media:
Journalism.co.uk (UK). 23 November 2020.

Rai Radio (Italy). 19 November 2020.

Courrier International (France). 18 November 2020.

Journalism.co.uk (UK). 18 November 2020.

CNN Arabic (Indonesia). 17 November 2020.

L'orient du jour (France).17 November 2020.

Middle East Eye (UK). 16 November 2020.

Metro (UK). 16 November 2020.

 
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"I have never attended a conference that is as candid as this one. Usually there are some talks at most conferences that at least seem contrived, with an agenda or ulterior motive, to get me to buy something etc. but this one was true and pure and honest - if only most journalists were of the same ilk as the ones involved in organising this symposium!"Delegate

"This entire conference is amazing in depth, topics and speakers. Thank you!"Delegate

“Wow, the design and branding this year is fire.”Delegate

“I valued being exposed to presentations and ideas that I would not usually have access to.”Delegate

 

### Theme

Why Collective Intelligence?
 



Investigative journalism is changing, as are the people and organisations drawn to do it. While the mainstream media struggles with its authority and its business model, investigative reporting is growing in new places, and has discovered fresh allies and intermediaries. From facilities for anonymous online leaks and open-source intelligence tools, to the deployment of artificial intelligence and an energetic new cadre of freelancers and independent researchers, the result has been new sources of expertise and new ways of working, often across national and disciplinary borders. This new networked, interdisciplinary intelligence is making journalism smarter.

At the same time, however, the authorities are taking advantage of our organisational disarray by cracking down. From heavy-handed searches of our offices to draconian regimes of electronic surveillance, the last few years have seen the wholesale persecution of technologists, journalists, sources and whistleblowers. Public interest investigative reporting is now on the frontline – and those working in and around it under unprecedented threat.

Journalist-led and curated by the Centre for Investigative Journalism, the 4th CIJ Logan Symposium brings together some of the world’s most formidable and creative investigators to think about how best to take advantage of this new collective intelligence, and how better to build fresh international alliances against the encroachment of surveillance, official secrecy and censorship. What does it mean to be a journalist in the 21st Century, and how can we preserve the traditional legal protections afforded to the profession while extending support to our new allies and intermediaries? Amid sophisticated new kinds of state surveillance and threats from everyone from transnational corporations to terrorists, how do we best challenge power? Does the emerging culture of online anonymous leaking bring dangers as well as opportunities? And as big technology companies and foundations pick up the slack of funding investigative journalism – how does that change the dilemmas that we face?

### Training

Investigative Training
Over the course of the symposium the CIJ is running a brand new series of training workshops and conversations exploring new developments in investigative practice, and offering attendees the chance to hone their skills.

All training sessions will be free to attend but will have a limited number of places available. Access links to individual sessions will be made available on the dashboard.
Roundtables
Building Databases for Transparency
Date and Time: Tuesday 17th Nov, 17:00-18:30 UTC

From troves of leaked documents to huge datasets and scraped collations of public records, what are the priorities of those that need these resources to dig deeper and use the information to hold the powerful to account, and to what extent do those needs fit with the possibilities and opportunities available to the experts working to build, open and maintain them?

In this Roundtable, investigative journalist Katherine Eban will moderate an expert panel, drawn from those who both build and use such databases for investigative research. The participants will be addressing a whole range of relevant questions, including automation and AI, funding models, and the balances that need to be struck between source protection and transparency, or between technical functionality and front-end usability.
Masterclasses
FOIA Terrorism
Date and Time: Wednesday 18th Nov, 17:00-18:30 UTC

Few people have put the Freedom of Information Act to such good use in pursuit of the public interest as Jason Leopold, the investigative journalist the FBI referred to as a ‘FOIA Terrorist’.

Join this Masterclass to learn from his experience, as he explains how to navigate the often complex request and appeals process of the US FOI Act; get access to documents and data for your own stories; and help to push forward transparency and accountability for everyone.

 
Investigating Procurement
Date and Time: Thursday 19th Nov, 15:00-16:00 UTC

The global response to COVID-19 has put procurement in the spotlight. Masks, school lunches, potholes: that's where the government put taxpayer's money to work. Globally, US $13 trillion is spent on contracts with private companies. This session will explore tactics and tools to investigate public procurement and provide tips for monitoring red flags and using public data provided by the government. We'll look into specific case studies and share some of the most outrageous stories.

 
Information Security for Journalists
Dates and Times:
Monday 16th November 15.00–17.00 UTC
Tuesday 17th November 10.00–12.00 UTC
Wednesday 18th November 10.00–12.00 UTC
Thursday 19th November 10.00–12.00 UTC

Session 1: A general introduction to information security

This first session will serve as a general introduction to the (broad!) field of information security. We will be giving some basic definitions, describing possible risks of using digital technologies, and introducing some of the available strategies and tools to improve our security. Examples and exercises will help put things in context and understand the more abstract concepts. We will maintain a focus on those scenarios and strategies that are particularly relevant to the practice of journalism.

Session 2: Safe web browsing

This session will focus on web browsing: main risks and mitigation strategies. A look at some of the technological elements behind the internet (eg the network of submarine cables, web cookies, etc) will help us understand how certain forms of surveillance are possible and how certain cyber-attacks are carried out. We will be adding some new items to your infosec toolbox, such as privacy-protecting browser extensions, the Tor Browser, the Tails operating system. We will save the time for examples and exercises.

Session 3: Encrypted communications

What's the digital journey an email or text message have to go through when travelling from sender to recipient? How are these electronic messages processed and encoded? Who are the actors (in between sender and recipient) that make this communication possible and what fraction of the information exchanged do they have access to? We will answer these questions while explaining concepts such as encryption, end-to-end encryption, metadata, and anonymity. Hands-on activity with VeraCrypt, OnionShare, and (time permitting) GnuPG/PGP.

Session 4: More advanced scenarios and an AMA session

This fourth and last session will be for addressing slightly broader and more advanced topics such as evil maid attacks, crossing a border with digital devices, (hints of) operational security, cloud storage options (risks and benefits), free and open source collaborative platforms (eg Nextcloud, Mattermost, and Etherpad), how to preserve digital evidence. A ask-me-anything session.

 

### About

The 2nd CIJ Logan Symposium brought together a unique and powerful coalition of individuals with a single goal – the defence of freedom and democracy.
Over the years, facts like those revealed by WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden have made clear that we are all vulnerable. Our human rights are at risk.

For journalists, the disclosures impacted what we do and, importantly, how we do it. Remarkably, we also discovered allies we didn’t know we had.

Journalists offer “white hat” hackers a social and political context, and are specialists in the presentation and interpretation of facts for a broader audience. Hackers, experts in exposing and protecting critical evidence-based material, bring formidable skills and access to information in our increasingly data-driven society.

When joined by artists, whistleblowers, legal and security experts, these communities offer each other and the general public the basis for a highly charged and informed debate. The Logan CIJ Symposium aimed to strengthen these alliances and inspire people to challenge power. The Logan CIJ Symposium highlighted the importance of high quality investigative journalism. It stands for the commitment to a world free of authoritarian invasions of privacy that creates fear and threatens free association.

We invited leading international experts: outstanding speakers shared stories about the latest technologies, legal issues, and corporate practices which affect personal and press freedom. Discussing methods and grounds for collaboration all over the world. If you missed any of the sessions of were unable to attend the event, you can view the video recordings – what our presenters shared may surprise you.

If you care about the future of individual freedom and democracy – keep in touch and join us at the next Logan CIJ Symposium (details of the next Symposium will be announced soon).

### Investigative Practice

Investigative Practice is a series of experimental seminars developed by The Centre for Investigative Journalism especially for the 2018 Logan Symposium: Conspiracy. Over the course of the series invited guests and attendees were given the opportunity to learn the tools, tactics and strategies of traditional and emergent investigations; from some of the world’s foremost journalists, thinkers and doers.

Each session included an expert Chair and Panel, but the discussion was open, informal and participatory, with the intention that everyone present had a chance to contribute their own perspectives and ask questions.

Each seminar lasted 60 mins and aimed to:

 	Address hurdles and contradictory elements between emerging techniques and traditional practice.
 	Foster interdisciplinary collaboration between journalists, hackers, academics, artists and activists in order to challenge power and investigate abuses and injustice.
 	Create a network made up of people with a wide range of perspectives on the issues, from academia to professional practitioners.
 	Initiate a working legacy for the Logan Symposium that records and disseminates some of the expertise brought together for the event.

The discussions were recorded and collated and you can download a copy of the full summary document below.

### Collective Intelligence

Amidst the global pandemic, the CIJ Logan Symposium goes online. This November we present four days of challenging conversations, presentations and workshops; tackling everything from algorithms to state-sponsored surveillance, from official intimidation to insidious new forms of censorship.

Below you will find links to our on-demand stream player to (re)watch this year's panel discussions and presentations, and links to special events and experiments.

### About

Building alliances against surveillance, official secrecy and censorship.

In the last decade data leaks have vastly improved our understanding of everything from the war in Iraq to the machinery of domestic surveillance. But the authorities are striking back. In the UK and US, a wave of surveillance legislation threatens the very existence of investigative journalism, chilling sources and whistle-blowers and making journalists indistinguishable from spies. Internationally the weaponisation of journalism and leaks, together with a thick new fog of electronic propaganda, makes a confrontation between superpowers look increasingly likely. As we inch our way into electronic totalitarianism, we ask where the conspiracies really lie – and who’s conspiring against who.

Curated by the Centre for Investigative Journalism, the third international Logan Symposium brings together a unique global community of engaged investigative journalists, hackers, whistleblowers, artists and experts to London to illuminate the prospects for truth, freedom and democracy – and where we should go from here. Taking issue with sloganeering about “fake news” and “post-truth”, we tackle the conspiracies which thrive on fact-free fringe media and why in our new media age people are prone to joining up the dots in irrational ways. But in an era of dwindling print and TV budgets for real investigation, we’re also asking tough questions about the propaganda which finds its way into our mainstream media diet too. Is the blunt instrument of law and armies of “independent fact-checkers” now being hired by big tech companies going to help? Or is the increasing overpopulation of factoids, and think tanks and activist groups fact-checking their enemies part of the problem? Have we become slaves to the algorithms of information monopolies whose databases are working to predict our every move? Conspiracy theories are more widespread than ever, but is the allegation of conspiracy also being used to silence legitimate arguments, often coupled with the rise of a new McCarthyism which sees the hand of Russia everywhere?

Conspiracy is about the growing machinery of surveillance and censorship and what might be our response to it. New anti-terror laws gift governments with unprecedented powers to spy on the electronic data of their citizens. Should we put our faith in radical transparency and sophisticated electronic techniques with which to evade surveillance, or instead resort to being more careful about what we say? Then there’s official propaganda and subterfuge. Since World War I, the drumbeat to global war has been stoked by modern media. From paid Russian Trolls toiling to Western-funded “media activists” in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, what are the chances for real freedom and democracy when the new media machinery becomes a powerful new weapon of war? The proposed new Espionage Act in the UK, and the renewed threat of prosecutions under the 1917 Espionage Act in the US, deliberately blurs the distinction between information-seeking investigative journalists and spies from a hostile state. Investigative journalists could be prosecuted for “conspiring” with a source to publish classified information. Are some journalists really spies, and how do we best defend ourselves against the allegation that we are?

Confronted with the growing machinery of state power, Conspiracy presents the tools, tactics and strategies which are reinventing investigative journalism. Faced with the conspiracies on all sides, a unique global network of investigators and doers, rich in practical advice and personal stories, tries to steer a more enlightened path through the confusion and contradictions of our time.

### Conspiracy

The Logan Symposium returned to London for a major international event on subterfuge, propaganda and power.

Conspiracy brought together a unique community of investigative journalists, whistleblowers, hackers, artists and experts to challenge power and reinvigorate the field of investigative journalism.

Featuring a packed programme of talks, workshops, documentary film screenings and a brand new exhibition of artworks and specially commissioned installations, the event ran across 19–20 October.

### The Intercept

The Centre for Investigative Journalism and The Intercept today announce a media partnership to present the 3rd biannual Logan Symposium: Conspiracy. Held at Goldsmiths, University of London on 19 – 20 October, the symposium brings together two days of conversations and investigations as well as documentary film screenings and a brand new exhibition of contemporary art.

From alleged Russian election meddling and Macedonian fake news factories, to contested chemical weapons attacks in Syria and the Yemen crisis: faced with conspiracies on all sides and a thick new fog of electronic propaganda, a unique global network of investigators and doers tries to steer a more enlightened path through the confusion and contradiction of our times.

The Centre for Investigative Journalism is a think-tank, alternative university and an experimental laboratory set up to train a new generation of reporters in the tools of investigative, in-depth, and longform journalism across all media. Registered as a charity, we robustly defend investigative journalists and those who work with them.

After NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden came forward with revelations of mass surveillance in 2013, journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill decided to found a new media organisation dedicated to the kind of reporting those disclosures required: fearless, adversarial journalism. They called it The Intercept.

Today, The Intercept is an award-winning news organisation that covers national security, politics, civil liberties, the environment, international affairs, technology, criminal justice, the media, and more. The Intercept gives its journalists the editorial freedom and legal support they need to pursue investigations that expose corruption and injustice wherever they find it and hold the powerful accountable.

### Challenge Power

The 2nd CIJ Logan Symposium brought together a unique and powerful coalition of individuals with a single goal – the defence of freedom and democracy.



Over the years, facts like those revealed by WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden have made clear that we are all vulnerable. Our human rights are at risk.

For journalists, the disclosures impacted what we do and, importantly, how we do it. Remarkably, we also discovered allies we didn’t know we had.

### Building Alliances Against Secrecy, Surveillance and Censorship

The first CIJ Logan Symposium in 2014 brought together key figures in the fight against invasive surveillance and secrecy. Organised by the Centre for Investigative Journalism and generously funded by The Reva and David Logan Foundation, the inaugural event featured leading journalists and hacktivists. They form a natural alliance committed to a world free of authoritarian invasions into individual privacy and free speech.

Seeking common ground, journalists offer hacktivists a social and political context, as well as expertise in evidence-based storytelling. Hacktivists, expert in accessing, exposing and protecting critical evidence-based material, bring their own set of formidable skills.

Joined by artists, lawyers and whistleblowers, these communities offer each other, and the general public, charged, highly informed debate. Now that the Snowden disclosures have sunk in, it’s time for uncensored talk about the immediate threats we face.

Togther with Gavin MacFaydyen, director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism, we curated this program. Sarah Saunders was producer of the event.


## Symposium Events

### Are We All Working for the CIA?

Investigative journalism is expensive. As the cost of paying for it moves from the audience to big foundations, many of whom enjoy close relationships with Western states, how does that change the tone and rationale of what we produce? Is there a danger that we end up doing the bidding of those in power?

Chaired by James Harkin

### LUNCH AND DRINKS RECEPTION

All attendees are invited to have some drinks on us in the Barbican Conservatory, as well as a hot lunch and live music courtesy of a quartet from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

### All the Conspiracies are True: Speaking Truth to Power in the Age of ‘Disinformation’

How should truth-seeking investigative journalism operate amid the proliferation of conspiracy theories on one side and the rise of a cadre of sometimes censorious “disinformation” experts on the other? Can the slur of conspiracy be used to intimidate and discourage genuine investigative reporting? How does one separate genuine leads from conspiracy fiction, when a few of those conspiracies might be true?

Chaired by James Harkin

### Adapting Investigative Journalism

As journalism changes, so does the way it’s consumed. From serialised podcasts and audio networks to feature films, theatre productions to true crime TV series, our cast reflects on whether these new media enrich investigative reporting and its reach, or get in the way of the truth?

Chaired by Robert Evans.

### BREAK

Grab some refreshments in the Garden Room and have a wander around the Barbican’s Conservatory.

### Blowing the Whistle on Boeing

In 2019, after a series of fatal crashes involving Boeing’s 737 MAX model, planes were grounded around the world. Accusations of mismanagement, of a terminal decline in standards at factories, and of cover-ups have come in the wake of lawsuits and government investigations which continue today. A conversation between Dominic Gates, who won a Pulitzer for breaking the Boeing story, and Gerry Wagschal, Emmy-winning producer of a documentary on the topic.

### Welcome from The Reva & David Logan Foundation

A few words from the President of The Reva & David Logan Foundation.

### Reception

Please join us early for coffee and conversation.

### The Cost of Source Protection: Catherine Herridge in Conversation with Trevor Timm

Catherine V. Herridge, an Emmy Award‐winning veteran investigative correspondent, discusses the First Amendment, the U.S.A Press Act and the protection of confidential sources. Following a series of articles she wrote in 2017 about a federal espionage probe, the subject of the FBI case sued the US Government, accusing them of leaking information to Herridge, an alleged violation of the Privacy Act. As part of that case, Herridge was called as a witness and in February this year, a Federal Judge held Herridge in contempt for refusing to disclose her confidential sources. Daily fines of $800 have been stayed, pending Herridge's appeal. The case is being closely watched by First Amendment advocates because the outcome will impact every journalist in the United States. It has also renewed bi-partisan support for the Press Act, a federal shield law.

Chaired by Trevor Timm.

### After Assange: Journalists and the Espionage Act

Julian Assange’s release from a UK prison, the result of a plea deal with the US government, was long overdue. But it leaves in place the prospect of espionage legislation in the US, the UK and Europe being used to threaten and intimidate journalists who work with sources and whistleblowers on national security stories. What can be done?

Chaired by Trevor Timm

### Digital Security: Technology, Sources and Safety

Can technology keep journalists safe? What impact have encryption technologies had on investigative journalism, and what are the limitations of these technologies - especially for those who have less access to reliable tech infrastructure and resources and those operating under oppressive regimes?

Chaired by Harlo Holmes.

### Welcome from the Freedom of The Press Foundation

A few words from FPF's Director before we kick off the afternoon.

### LUNCH

Join us for sandwiches and refreshments -- on the house!

### War in Gaza

This session is split in two: an individual presentation, followed by a panel discussion.
Gaza: Tallying the Journalist Dead
A first-person presentation from Sherif Mansour, former Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists, on the work to count the numbers of journalists killed in the Israeli invasion of Gaza.

Sherif Mansour
Investigating Gaza
Given the difficulties of getting reporters into Gaza, journalists have been using remote methods - like AI and open-source technology - to find out what is going on there. Two reporters talk about the difficulties and opportunities of these methods, and the battle to uncover the truth.

Chair: Sherif Mansour
Krishna Karra
Abu Bakr Bashir

### BREAK

Grab some refreshments in the Garden Room and have a wander around the Barbican's Conservatory.

### Who Did Nord Stream?

In September 2022 a series of massive underwater explosions destroyed sections of the two Nord Stream pipelines built to transport natural gas from Russia to Europe via Germany. The investigation found itself in a highly politicised environment, with three schools of thought:

The Russians did it. The CIA did it. The Ukrainians did it. How do you cope as an independent journalist with a case which quickly became the subject of systematic disinformation and ideology? And how can a cross-border collaboration deal with the challenges of a multinational law investigation? Holger Stark, one of Germany’s most garlanded investigative reporters, discusses his and his colleagues' exhaustive investigation into the incident - and their conclusion.

### Welcome from the Centre for Investigative Journalism

A few words from the CIJ's Director.

### Registration

Please join us early to collect your pass, programme and caffeine.

### Reports from the Frontline

Investigative journalism is under threat as never before. From Beirut to Athens, Paris to London, our four journalist partners have been targets of those attacks. In this session, each of those partners talk us through one of their national security stories and its aftermath in the form of harassment from the state.

Chaired by James Harkin.

### Open Lab

The Open Lab is a new initiative from the CIJ Logan Symposium to promote work at the intersection of investigative journalism and the arts.

Over the course of the symposium you can watch a new commission from filmmakers Kevin B. Lee and Chloé Galibert-Laîné, explore painter Navine G. Khan Dossos’s new work “No Such Organisation”, utilise our new [re]source database that has started to map out the people, projects and organisations experimenting with artistic investigations, as well as take part in Fast Familiar’s interactive thriller, Smoking Gun and more.

Visit the Open Lab.

 
Bottled Songs


Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee compose letters addressed to each other, narrating their encounters with videos originating from the terrorist group the Islamic State (ISIS). They use a desktop documentary approach to trace and record their investigations playing directly upon their computer screens.

This screening presents four chapters from the project. “The Observer” and “Looking Into the Flames” delve deep into the details of individual ISIS videos. “My Crush was a Superstar” and The Spokesman” explore the lives of individuals who appear in the videos.

Bottled Songs will be screened as part of our programme in November, we'll be posting details of how to watch the project shortly.

 
No Such Organisation
No Such Organisation (2018-2020) is a series of one hundred paintings that document the fallout from a single event: the killing of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. This cycle of paintings follows the repercussions of this event in real time, through the news articles and the investigations it triggered, confronting the development of cyber weapons and spyware, and the ways in which they have compromised the safety and working conditions of journalists, activists and political dissidents throughout the world.

The reporting of the death of Khashoggi changed radically during the first days and weeks following the event; a kaleidoscope of tumbling details constantly re-arranging themselves, a story that never quite settled, in facts, or in responsibility. The paintings respond to this uncertainty by deploying symbolic elements which stand in for players in the story – nation states, agencies, technologies, and – which shift, recompose, and come into new alignments with each retelling of the story.

Significantly, the case remains without a central visual figure, as the body of Khashoggi was never recovered, while sound and silence played a key role in the case, as a recording from the Saudi Embassy in Istanbul circulated in the media. Into this absence of images, Khan-Dossos inscribes a hundred tracings of the event.

As the narrative of the killing expanded over the subsequent months, so the subjects of the paintings branch out to cover wider issues raised by this case, in particular the role of surveillance technologies sold by private companies to governments for domestic and international use in matters of security and intelligence, with little oversight. However, a critical stance is now developing around the ethics of such tools of surveillance, and the paintings explore these changes in awareness, campaigning and attitudes towards the role of cyber weapons in global politics.

*We had planned on showing a selection of paintings from "No Such Organisation" as part of our live event in Paris, but the pandemic presented us with the challenge of working out how to show the paintings to an online audience. Over the past 6 months we've worked with Navine to produce a website that archives the full cycle of one hundred paintings and the stories that inspired them, and let's you navigate the works in a variety of different ways. From November you'll be able to see the paintings and read the stories that track the shady dealings of NSO group.

### Using OpenCorporates for Investigations

OpenCorporates is the largest open database of companies in the world and the first port of call for any investigator wanting to find out information about a company. Rebecca introduces their mission and explains why it is critical that we all fight for open data about companies - their existence, ownership, activities and the people connected with them. As an ex-investigator, she takes us through how to use their website and some useful tips and tricks.

Watch the video below.

 

### I've Been Hacked!

From the NSO Group to Wirecard via the activities of groups like Black Cube, Hacking Team and FinFisher, the last few years have seen a worrying trend - especially in collaborative, cross-border investigation - for governments and shady corporates to deploy spyware and private investigators to hack the phones of journalists and political dissidents. How do these snooping technologies work, and what can be done to thwart them?

 



 

### Building Databases for Transparency

From troves of leaked documents to huge datasets and scraped collations of public records, what are the priorities of those that need these resources to dig deeper and use the information to hold the powerful to account, and to what extent do those needs fit with the possibilities and opportunities available to the experts working to build, open and maintain them?



In this roundtable, investigative journalist Katherine Eban moderates an expert panel, drawn from those who both build and use such databases for investigative research. The participants address a whole range of relevant questions, including automation and AI, funding models, and the balances that need to be struck between source protection and transparency, or between technical functionality and front-end usability.

Panel: Delphine Reuter, Friedrich Lindenberg, Georg Neumann, Jacinta Gonzalez, Jack Poulson, Jeremy B. Merrill, Lieke Ploeger, Micah Lee, Naoise Boyle, Rebecca Lee, Steve Day

Moderator: Katherine Eban

 

### FOIA Terrorism

Few people have put the Freedom of Information Act to such good use in pursuit of the public interest as Jason Leopold, the investigative journalist the FBI referred to as a ‘FOIA Terrorist’.

In this Masterclass Jason shares his experience, as he explains how to navigate the often complex request and appeals process of the US FOI Act; get access to documents and data for your own stories; and help to push forward transparency and accountability for everyone.

### Investigating Procurement

The global response to COVID-19 has put procurement in the spotlight. Masks, school lunches, potholes: that’s where the government put taxpayer’s money to work. Globally, US $13 trillion is spent on contracts with private companies.



This session explores tactics and tools to investigate public procurement and provide tips for monitoring red flags and using public data provided by the government. Georg Neumann from the Open Contracting Partnership looks into specific case studies and share some of the most outrageous stories.

You can watch a recording of the session below as well as access Georg's presentation.

Investigating Procurement Masterclass Presentation

 



 

### Infosec for Journalists

This masterclass series is comprised of four 90-min hands-on sessions on information security for journalists. It will cover the risks associated to digital technologies and mitigation strategies that can be employed to improve our security, as citizens and as professionals.



This Masterclass is now Fully Booked - you can add your name to the waiting list below to be contacted in the event a place becomes available.

Participants will need to attend all four sessions.
Session 1: A general introduction to information security.
This first session will serve as a general introduction to the (broad!) field of information security. We will be giving some basic definitions, describing possible risks of using digital technologies, and introducing some of the available strategies and tools to improve our security. Examples and exercises will put things in context and help you understand the more abstract concepts. We will maintain a focus on those scenarios and strategies that are particularly relevant to the practice of journalism.
Session 2: Safe web browsing.
This session will focus on web browsing: main risks and mitigation strategies. A look at some of the technological elements behind the internet (eg the network of submarine cables, web cookies, etc) will help us understand how certain forms of surveillance are possible and how certain cyber-attacks are carried out. We will be adding some new items to your infosec toolbox, such as privacy-protecting browser extensions, the Tor Browser, the Tails operating system. We will save the time for examples and exercises.
Session 3: Encrypted communications.
What's the digital journey an email or text message have to go through when travelling from sender to recipient? How are these electronic messages processed and encoded? Who are the actors (in between sender and recipient) that make this communication possible and what fraction of the information exchanged do they have access to? We will answer these questions while explaining concepts such as encryption, end-to-end encryption, metadata, and anonymity. Hands-on activity with VeraCrypt, OnionShare, and (time permitting) GnuPG/PGP.
Session 4: More advanced scenarios and an AMA session.
This fourth and last session will be for addressing slightly broader and more advanced topics such as evil maid attacks, crossing a border with digital devices, (hints of) operational security, cloud storage options (risks and benefits), free and open source collaborative platforms (eg Nextcloud, Mattermost, and Etherpad), how to preserve digital evidence. A ask-me-anything session.

### The Trial of Golden Dawn

Dubbed by the media as "the biggest trial of fascists since Nuremberg", the trial of the Greek neo-nazis concluded in late October with the conviction of the organisation’s leadership in long prison sentences. It took five and a half years of court proceedings, 453 sessions and 216 witnesses to reach the verdict that Golden Dawn was in fact a criminal organisation operating under the cover of a political party. Its leaders, including several former members of the parliament elected with Golden Dawn, were found responsible for crimes that ranged from the stabbing murder of rap singer Pavlos Fyssas to violent attacks on immigrants and left-wing activists. During Greece’s financial crisis in late 2009, Golden Dawn rose from a fringe organisation to the third-largest political party, fuelled by social dissatisfaction over mass unemployment and poverty.

This panel consists not only of investigative journalists but also of speakers from diverse disciplines and backgrounds who formed an atypical alliance, instrumental in documenting that Golden Dawn was a criminal organisation and not merely a political party. The panel will address one of the still uncharted sides of the far-right phenomenon: deeper ties, direct and indirect, between Golden Dawn and more “legitimate” institutions such as the police, the justice system, business interests, among others.

This panel is a collaboration between the CIJ Logan Symposium and Reporters United.

### Follow the Data: Corruption, Leaks & People vs. Power

Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli, this talk on how open-source intelligence tools and collective strategies reconfigure investigations brings together investigative television journalist Natalie Sedletska, software artisan and ethical hacker Denis “Jaromil” Roio, and data team lead at OCCRP Friedrich Lindenberg. This panel focuses on the one hand on methods of making leaks and large datasets accessible to a wider public, on the other hand on models to avoid the exploitation of sensitive data by authorities or organised crime.

Natalie will share the experience of the YanukovychLeaks National Project, concerning the nearly 200 folders of documents found in the lake at the residence of former president of Ukraine, thrown to destroy them as people were escaping the luxury residence. The documents were rescued by volunteer divers and systematised, investigated and published by a group of journalists and activists to make them available to citizens around the world.

Jaromil will speak about the importance of social movements challenging city policy on money speculation and hidden illicit cash flows, finding ways to have agency through collectivising big data controlled by financial and institutional powers.

Friedrich will present some of the recent work OCCRP’s data team has done analysing a large-scale dataset related to the murder investigation of Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak. He’ll also summarise some lessons learned about the use of data in investigative reporting, and the limitations of transparency as a method and an ideal, contributing another perspective coming from the context of investigating organised crime and corruption.

This panel is a collaboration between the CIJ Logan Symposium and Berlin-based non-profit organisation Disruption Network Lab.

### Opening Session

This is the opening session of this year's event and includes:

Opening remarks from Richard Logan, President of The Reva & David Logan Foundation.

A Keynote from Hatice Cengiz.

The Opening Plenary session with James Harkin, Edwy Plenel, Jen Robinson and Christophe Deloire.

What does it really mean to be an investigative journalist in the 21st Century, and how is the profession changing? Do the current threats to investigative journalism come from governments and the law, or from elsewhere – terrorists, mafia states, the purveyors of “disinformation” or the big technology companies, and foundations which increasingly fund it? What can we do to make our case to the public, and to keep journalism genuinely independent?

Opening Keynote from Stella Moris.

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



### Blowing the Whistle

Tyler Shultz is the whistleblower who first raised the alarm on Elizabeth Holmes's $10billion biotech company Theranos. In conversation with Delphine Halgand-Mishra, Executive Director of The Signals Network, he discusses the experience of turning whistleblower against fashionable big business and venture capital, the legal archipelago which often confronts those who speak out, the experience of dealing with journalists, and the wider implications of the case.

### Open Lab

The Open Lab is a new initiative from the CIJ Logan Symposium to promote work at the intersection of investigative journalism and the arts.

Over the course of the symposium you’ll be able to watch a new commission from filmmakers Kevin B. Lee and Chloé Galibert-Laîné, explore painter Navine G. Khan Dossos’s new work “No Such Organisation”, utilise our new [re]source database that has started to map out the people, projects and organisations experimenting with artistic investigations, as well as take part in Fast Familiar’s interactive thriller, Smoking Gun and more.

 
Bottled Songs


Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Filmmakers and media researchers Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee compose letters addressed to each other, narrating their encounters with videos originating from the terrorist group the Islamic State (ISIS). They use a desktop documentary approach to trace and record their investigations playing directly upon their computer screens.

This screening presents four chapters from the project. “The Observer” and “Looking Into the Flames” delve deep into the details of individual ISIS videos. “My Crush was a Superstar” and The Spokesman” explore the lives of individuals who appear in the videos.

Bottled Songs will be screened as part of our programme in November, we'll be posting details of how to watch the project shortly.

 
No Such Organisation
No Such Organisation (2018-2020) is a series of one hundred paintings that document the fallout from a single event: the killing of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. This cycle of paintings follows the repercussions of this event in real time, through the news articles and the investigations it triggered, confronting the development of cyber weapons and spyware, and the ways in which they have compromised the safety and working conditions of journalists, activists and political dissidents throughout the world.

The reporting of the death of Khashoggi changed radically during the first days and weeks following the event; a kaleidoscope of tumbling details constantly re-arranging themselves, a story that never quite settled, in facts, or in responsibility. The paintings respond to this uncertainty by deploying symbolic elements which stand in for players in the story – nation states, agencies, technologies, and – which shift, recompose, and come into new alignments with each retelling of the story.

Significantly, the case remains without a central visual figure, as the body of Khashoggi was never recovered, while sound and silence played a key role in the case, as a recording from the Saudi Embassy in Istanbul circulated in the media. Into this absence of images, Khan-Dossos inscribes a hundred tracings of the event.

As the narrative of the killing expanded over the subsequent months, so the subjects of the paintings branch out to cover wider issues raised by this case, in particular the role of surveillance technologies sold by private companies to governments for domestic and international use in matters of security and intelligence, with little oversight. However, a critical stance is now developing around the ethics of such tools of surveillance, and the paintings explore these changes in awareness, campaigning and attitudes towards the role of cyber weapons in global politics.

*We had planned on showing a selection of paintings from "No Such Organisation" as part of our live event in Paris, but the pandemic presented us with the challenge of working out how to show the paintings to an online audience. Over the past 6 months we've worked with Navine to produce a website that archives the full cycle of one hundred paintings and the stories that inspired them, and let's you navigate the works in a variety of different ways. From November you'll be able to see the paintings and read the stories that track the shady dealings of NSO group.

### Digging Italy: Doing Investigative Reporting in Italy

Doing investigative reporting in Italy can be dangerous and complex. Overall, Italian journalism lacks a strong investigative culture comparable to the one of the Anglo-Saxon world and, with some exceptions in broadcasting and other actors, Italian media tend to dedicate little attention to investigative reporting. A fragile market for journalism, economical restraints and the weak protections offered to reporters also play a major part in complicating an already dysfunctional scenario. Definitely, digital technology has brought new opportunities and practices, but what’s the state of the art of Italian investigative reporting? How to produce and fund investigations and make the best out of the digital environment?

This panel is a collaboration between the CIJ Logan Symposium and Documentari Inchieste Giornalismi (DIG).

### Locking down Debate?

Have the convulsions of Covid-19 opened to the door to a creeping censoriousness, surveillance and authoritarianism? Are big tech companies shutting down debate and stoking conspiracy theories by excluding controversial voices, and is the technology for coronavirus surveillance and the social measures to combat it as useful as it seems? Where do we draw the line between civility and censorship, and between necessary surveillance and snooping? Are we sleepwalking into the militarisation of our streets?

### The Limits of FOIA

Presentation: Nicholson Baker vs the CIA

Nearly a decade ago, while investigating the possibility that the United States had used biological weapons in the Korean War, one of America’s most inventive and challenging novelists Nicholson Baker requested a series of Air Force documents under the provisions of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. Thus began the odyssey of non-discovery and a frustrating paper trail in search of the truth which he documents in his new book Baseless. For Symposium Baker talks about the limits of FOIA and what can be done about them.

Panel debate: The Limits of FOIA

What are the limits of Freedom of Information legislation internationally, and is the game always worth the candle? How can investigators access “closed files” which fall outside the purview of FOIA legislation? Does it help to forge alliances with lawyers or friendly NGOs? Are there any other hidden strategies which can force information out in the public interest?

### Investigating Islamism

How far should a journalist go when it comes to investigating radical Islamism, and what are the dangers? What methods work best - undercover reporting online, the interpretation of documents, social media analysis, documentary or on-the-ground reporting? What are the risks, and how do we manage them? Are there any transferable lessons from investigating the extreme right?

### Opening the Black Box

With the resort to facial recognition technology and algorithms by governments and the private sector, big data and the “artificial” intelligence required to process that data are being deployed without any real accountability. What can journalists and their allies do to investigate these opaque new technologies, and how can we support them?

### Blaming the Messenger

With the rise of the Gilets Jaunes and Black Lives Matter movements and the furores over police brutality everywhere from France to the US to Belarus, how best do we defend and protect freelance journalists from attack by police, government and the state?

### The New Intermediaries

Autumn 2020: The trials of Rui Pinto in Lisbon and Julian Assange in London, at almost exactly the same time and on similar charges, have made even more pressing the question of how to defend the new intermediaries working in and around investigative journalism to challenge power. Some are whistleblowers, some are hacktivists, others are simply concerned citizens; many defy categorisation and end up falling between the cracks of advocacy and the meagre protections afforded by legislation. Provided they are exposing serious wrongdoing, should they be extended the traditional protections afforded to journalists? What is the best way to defend what they do?

### Inside Intel

The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) presented Inside Intel: an exhibition of contemporary artworks, design objects and digital assets brought together to investigate the confusion sewn by an increasingly partisan media, sinister new technologies and the culture of official secrecy and widespread surveillance.

Designed as an experimental Silicon Valley “imagineering lab” situated within Goldsmiths, University of London, the exhibition was an aesthetic response to the 2018 CIJ Logan Symposium: Conspiracy. Featuring practitioners from the fields of journalism, art, design and architecture, this group show featured faux state propaganda and factual misinformation, among genuine investigations to explore the signals and the noise of contemporary conspiracies.

 

Featuring works by:

Benjamin Grosser
Bob Bicknell-Knight
Céline Minkyung Park
Cosmic Latte (Neale Willis, Juan Covelli and Andrew Kiddie)
Darren Cullen
Davide Bevilacqua & Veronika Krenn
Eva & Franco Mattes
Ewan Jones Morris
Florentin Aisslinger
Forensic Architecture
Iain Ball
Joey Holder
Joseph Steele
Khaled Barakeh
Lucy Sanderson
Marion Balac
Nick Ryan in collaboration with Sean Malikides
Simon Denny
Ted Hunt
Thomas Yeomans
Yuri Pattison

### National Bird

National Bird follows the harrowing journey of three U.S. military veteran whistleblowers determined to break the silence surrounding America’s secret drone war. Tortured by guilt for their participation in the killing of faceless terror suspects, and despite the threat of being prosecuted, these three veterans offer an unprecedented look inside this secret program to reveal the haunting cost of America’s global drone strikes.

Directed by Sonia Kennebeck.

### Crime + Punishment

Amidst a landmark class action lawsuit over illegal policing quotas, CRIME + PUNISHMENT intimately observes the real lives and struggles of a group of black and Latino whistleblower cops known as “The NYPD 12” and the young minorities they are pressured to arrest and summons in New York City.

Over four years of unprecedented access, the film cinematically exposes the interconnected stories of systemic injustice in New York City policing through the bold efforts of a group of active duty officers, an innocent young man stuck in Rikers and one unforgettable private investigator. They bravely risk their safety, careers and livelihoods to bring light to harmful policing practices which have plagued the precincts and streets of New York City for decades.

Q&A: We’re thrilled to be joined by the film’s Director Steve Maing as well as Officer Edwin Raymond from the NYPD 12.

### Source Code

Information security is now an established weapon in the fight to keep journalists and their sources safe, but are we in danger of encouraging people to rely on technology that they might not fully understand, thus putting them at greater risk? Are we losing sight of the traditional way in which journalists keep their sources safe – by being unpredictable, and by using our wits as much as our smartphones?

In this seminar, Investigative Practice identified ways to combine the old and new in journalist operational security, as well as how best to advise whistleblowers who might want to send journalists and media outlets their stories.

### Forensic Journalism

If the intention behind violence and persecution towards journalists and whistleblowers is to keep their stories from ever getting out, and send a warning to others who may be considering researching similar areas, how best to protect the ultimate prize of investigative journalism: important stories?

In this seminar, Investigative Practice determined the methods through which journalists and their supporters can overcome the fear and intimidation that often causes them to drop investigations, or to never begin them at all.

### On the Ground and in the Ether

War reporting is changing: reams of data and munitions expertise can now be brought to bear without ever setting foot in a war zone, while the access of officially ‘embedded’ reporters is heavily subscribed, leaving it to freelancers to take the huge risks necessary to get the story out. Analysis of data and social media opens up unprecedented new opportunities for warzone reporting, but does it also open journalists up to manipulation?

In this seminar, Investigative Practice asked how online research and on-the-ground reporting can most fruitfully work together.

### Blowback: The Dangers of Whistleblowing – For Both Sources and Journalists

The need for stronger protection for whistleblowers is regularly discussed but far less attention is given to addressing the dangers of whistleblowing before the decision to raise concerns has even been made. How can we help those that want to speak up about corruption or abuse to do it in ways that minimise these dangers before it’s too late? And ways that maximise the chances of getting a good outcome for both journalist and source?

In this seminar, Investigative Practice aimed to move beyond general calls for whistleblower protection after the fact to identify more effective and safer methods for divulging information in the public interest.

### Winning the Trust of Sources – On and Offline

The slow, careful art of soliciting a trustworthy source is one of the exciting and overlooked skills in the investigative journalist’s toolkit. But how does it work when the source can only be reached via digital means, or presents only an anonymous identity in the first place?

In this seminar, Investigative Practice examined how the traditional art of cultivating a source works where trust must be won remotely – and whether practices from the digital age can inform traditional methods.

### Protecting Independence: Who Pays the Piper?

While the mainstream media withers, investigative practice is thriving, but it’s easy to lose sight of who’s funding it; big tech companies and philanthropic foundations, partisan NGOs and think-tanks. As investigative journalism becomes funded by practitioners outside its traditional field, are journalists still calling the tune?

In this seminar, Investigative Practice looked into the confusing new funding landscape for investigative journalism, and tackled the issues this raises for real, truth-seeking independent journalism.

### What’s The Best Way To Protect Journalists?

Many serious reporters now make their living as freelancers, with even less support than they enjoyed before. With mafia states, organised crime, and international jihadism circling the profession, what are the contemporary occupational hazards for independent journalists, and what can be done to protect them?

### White Helmets And Black-ops: The Propaganda Wars Over Syria

With the Syrian conflict in its 8th year, the propaganda on all sides grows ever more intense, never more so than in the barrage of conflicting narratives about the role of The White Helmets. Are they a volunteer organisation working to rescue Syrians on all sides, a propaganda front for Western governments or allies of Al-Qaeda? More generally, can we believe all we read on the mainstream media on Syria – and how do we get to the truth about Syria?

### Investigation: Khan Sheikhoun

On April 4 2017 the release of toxic chemicals killed scores of people in the Northern Syrian city of Khan Sheikhoun: the OPCW attributed the deaths to the Syrian Air Force. Two investigator experts bring very different tools try to shed light on what happened that day, followed by a conversation between them.

### Counting the Dead in Iraq

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### The Yemen Data Project



### Reporting The Troubles: Then and Now

From official British censorship during the Troubles to the “chilling effect” involved in navigating the peace, getting to the truth about the conflict in Northern Ireland has never been easy, and may even be growing more difficult. In a climate thick with political sensitivities and legal intimidation, a writer, a reporter and a documentary-maker talk about how best to get to the truth in Northern Ireland, and what stands in the way.

### Legal Challenges to the Truth in Ireland



### Cyber Crime and IRL Punishment

Jake Davis is a former hacker. He has worked with Anonymous, LulzSec, and similar hacktivist groups. He was an associate of the Internet group Anonymous which has publicly claimed various online attacks, including hacking HBGary, Westboro Baptist Church, and Gawker. They have also claimed responsibility for the defacing of government websites in countries such as Zimbabwe, Syria, Tunisia, Ireland, and Egypt.

### The Hack Leak Combo



### What’s The Best Way To Protect Whistleblowers?

A thicket of legislation in the UK and US aims to frustrate whistleblowers, and the digital era throws up whole new threats to their interests. What is the best way to protect whistleblowers, both before they make the decision to speak to a journalist and once the story is published?

### Source Protection In The Digital Age



### The Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Award

Presented by Compassion in Care and The Whistler.

### Collusion, Or The New Mccarthyism?

What is the evidence that the Russian Government colluded with the Trump campaign and pro-Brexit campaigners to win the 2016 Presidential Election and the UK Referendum in the same year? Is there a real and growing body of evidence of Russian disinformation, collusion and assassination, or are we witnessing a new Cold War mentality in which the country is blamed for all of our woes?

### The Secrets Of The Macedonian “fake News” Industry



### Investigating Via Forensic Architecture



### Aesthetic Journalism

From art to architecture, investigative journalism is increasingly borrowing from other disciplines and sources of professional expertise for its presentation and, sometimes, its research. Aesthetic journalism opens up fruitful new avenues for investigation and storytelling, but what are the issues that it raises?

### Telling The Story Of Syria, Graphically



### The New Online Culture Wars

From the rise of an internet-fuelled alt-right to the therapeutic language of trigger warnings and safe spaces on the left, the new online culture wars are rapidly advancing into what remains of the mainstream media. In this viciously partisan new environment thick with wild conspiracies, anonymous accusations, and the weaponised investigation of one’s political opponents, how should journalism, with its traditional concern for the truth, respond?

### Investigating The Investigators



### Surveillance Capitalism

Data is often described as the new oil. Technology companies are the gatekeepers of this wealth of information; many also own the algorithms and artificial intelligence required to extract and refine it. In the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, is “surveillance capitalism” simply the business model of the internet? What is its effect on journalism and democracy, and our understanding of truth itself?

### The Murder Accountability Project



### Spies Like Us: The Return Of The Espionage Act

The American authorities are increasingly resorting to The Espionage Act 1917 to prosecute journalists, and the British Government prepares its own Espionage Act which conflates journalists, whistleblowers and spies. As TV channels and NGO’s are asked to register as a “foreign agents” and Wikileaks is identified as a “hostile intelligence service”, we ask questions about the relationship between journalism and espionage. Are journalists still being used as spies and informants by intelligence agencies? How best can we best protect ourselves and those we work with against the allegation of spying?

### From Foia To Wikileaks



### Schedule 7 And The Development Of The Uk’s Border Surveillance Regime



### What Should We Be Afraid Of?

Duncan Campbell talks about the landscape of contemporary surveillance and official secrecy in the UK, the US and beyond.


## People

### Ana Lucía Duque Salazar

A member of the CONNECTAS Editorial Board since 2018 and an instructor for the CONNECTAS-Martin Baron Chair for editor training as well as other training programs, Ana is a Colombian journalist with nearly 3 decade of experience. She holds a Master's degree in Digital Communication and is a specialist in Electronic Journalism.

Ana is a also professor at the Universidad de los Andes, where she teaches the Reporting and News course at the Center for Journalism Studies (Ceper) and the Written Communication module in the Effective Communication course for the Master's in Information Technology Architecture (MATI).

### Sirin Kale

Sirin Kale is a staff feature writer for The Guardian, where she specialises in long-form investigative features. In 2021 she won the British Journalism Award for Arts and Entertainment Journalism for an investigation she co-authored into sexual misconduct allegations made by 20 women against the actor Noel Clarke. In 2024 she won her second British Journalism Award in the features category.

In 2021 she was a finalist in the Orwell Prize For Exposing Britain's Social Evils for her work on the Covid pandemic. She hosted the number one podcast Can I Tell You A Secret? for the Guardian, about the serial stalker Matthew Hardy, and co-hosted the number one podcast Unreal: A Critical History of Reality TV for the BBC. Can I Tell You A Secret? was subsequently adapted into a Netflix documentary in which Sirin appeared.

### Hannah O’Grady

Hannah O’Grady is an investigative journalist with the BBC’s Panorama programme, and is responsible for some of Panorama’s most notable investigations in recent years. She began investigating the actions of British Special Forces seven years ago. The resulting reporting has exposed evidence of war crimes spanning more than a decade of operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. A public inquiry was launched to examine the allegations in 2022.

During her time at Panorama, Hannah has worked closely with whistleblowers to expose some of the worst examples of corruption, exploitation and criminality amongst a number of the world’s leading companies as well as failures of the British State. This work has included exposing high street chains using child labour, the firm that cheated fire safety tests at Grenfell Tower, UK aid money used to fund terrorists, and evidence of a global cigarette giant’s attempts to bribe Robert Mugabe.

### Joel Gunter

Joel Gunter is an investigative reporter and foreign correspondent for the BBC. For the past three years he has worked on the BBC’s investigation into war crimes by UK Special Forces. Other recent work includes a year-long expose of global monkey torture networks and coverage of the war in Ukraine, for which he won a foreign press award.

### Patrick Butler

Patrick Butler is social policy editor at The Guardian, where he's worked for 25 years. He reports on poverty, social security, local government, the voluntary sector and social care. With his colleague Josh Halliday, he received the 2025 Paul Foot Award for investigative and campaigning journalism for their reporting on the Carer's Allowance Scandal.

### Rianna Croxford

Rianna Croxford is a multi-award-winning investigations correspondent for BBC News and Current Affairs. Based in London, she presents podcasts and documentaries and reports for UK and international TV, radio and digital platforms. Her recent documentary and podcast series, “The Abercrombie Guys", about the former CEO of fashion giant Abercrombie & Fitch, led to an FBI investigation and three men being arrested and charged with running an international sex trafficking operation.

Rianna is a two-time British Journalism Award winner, Forbes 30 under 30 media honouree, and a Royal Television Society Award and Orwell Prize finalist. In 2025, she was awarded Rising Star of the Year at the Women in Journalism Awards hosted at the US Embassy for her “ground-breaking reporting” into Abercrombie & Fitch.

Rianna previously worked as a community affairs correspondent, leading coverage of the UK's diverse population, and as a correspondent in Washington, D.C. reporting on breaking news across America.

### Peter Geoghegan

Peter Geoghegan edits Democracy for Sale, a newsletter dedicated to revealing how dark money and hidden influence threaten our democracy. Launched in 2023, Democracy for Sale has more than 25,000 subscribers and a team of three investigative reporters.

Peter was previously investigations editor and then editor-in-chief at openDemocracy, where he was nominated for industry awards including winning Campaign of the Year at the British Journalism Awards in 2022. He co-founded Scottish investigative website The Ferret and his work has appeared in numerous national and international outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, the London Review of Books, The Times and The Guardian. His most recent book, Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics was a Sunday Times bestseller.

### Edoardo Anziano

Edoardo Anziano is an Italian investigative reporter at IrpiMedia, where he covers organised crime, drug trafficking and sanctions evasion. He holds an Erasmus Mundus Masters in Journalism, Media and Globalisation from Aarhus University, Denmark and the University of Amsterdam.

### Dónal MacIntyre

Dónal MacIntyre is an investigative reporter, criminologist, and documentary-maker.

He made his name during ten years of undercover reporting with BBC, ITV and Channel 5. His work has been broadcast in over 75 countries, and he has won awards for his work in the UK, Ireland, and the US. He is a Sunday Times best-selling author, and he is currently directing and producing two feature documentaries, among other projects.

### John Walton

John Walton is a Data Journalism Editor on the BBC's Visual Journalism team.

### Gerald Flynn

Gerald Flynn is a Mongabay features writer, reporting across Southeast Asia on the intersection between human rights, ecosystems and natural resource governance. He was a Rainforest Investigations Network fellow with the Pulitzer Center in 2022 and 2023, during which he investigated illegal logging networks across Cambodia, with a focus on the Cardamom Mountains.

His work for Mongabay has linked high profile government officials to environmental crimes, uncovered how illegal fauna and flora make their way into global supply chains and scrutinized conservation efforts’ impact on Indigenous communities.

He served as president of the Overseas Press Club of Cambodia, advocating for greater press freedoms, until he was permanently banned from the country in January 2025. He is now based in Bangkok with his wife and two cats.

### Richard Danbury

Richard Danbury is an academic lawyer, a journalist and a former practicing barrister. He directs the MA in investigative journalism at City, University of London. He practised — briefly — as a criminal barrister before joining the BBC, where he worked for about a decade, based in News and Current Affairs, and specialising in interviews and investigations.

He spent extended periods on programmes such as Newsnight and Panorama and the investigative documentary series Rough Justice. His last staff job was Deputy Editor of the 2010 BBC Prime Ministerial Debate. While at the BBC, he was part of teams that won two Royal Television Society Awards and a New York Festivals medal. He then went freelance, and has worked for Channel 4, Sky and ITN, and, up until Kier Starmer, had produced interviews with just about every leader of a main UK political party since 2000. He has worked on TV coverage of the past seven general elections.

### Polina Bachlakova

Polina Bachlakova is a Canadian freelance journalist based in Copenhagen whose reporting primarily focuses on feminist issues. Her work appears in Al Jazeera, the BBC, openDemocracy, Unbias the News, taz and more, and has been used by organisations like Human Rights Watch as part of their advocacy work. She is a Fellow of 2024's European Collaborative Journalism Programme and a Journalismfund grant recipient. In addition, Polina is a Board Member at sex-positive association Bedside Productions, and previously served as the editor-in-chief of queer print publication Bedtime Magazine.

### Joshi Herrmann

Joshi Herrmann is the founder and editor of Mill Media, an innovative local news company which publishes long form local stories via newsletter in six UK cities and has received investment from CNN chief executive Mark Thompson. Mill Media has more than 150,000 email subscribers, 10,000 paying members and has been described by the FT’s John Burn-Murdoch as “one of the most interesting and impressive media startups of the last decade”. Joshi has also reported for The Guardian, The Telegraph and The Times and has been Highly Commended three times at the British Press Awards.

### Jess Staufenberg

Jess Staufenberg joined SourceMaterial in 2023 from Schools Week, a digital investigative newspaper. She has also reported for BBC Inside Out, The Guardian, The Independent and Eastern Daily Press.

### Alexenia Dimitrova

Alexenia Dimitrova is an award-winning journalist, OSINT expert and lecturer in journalism. She is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and holder of a shared Pulitzer Prize (2017) with the ICIJ team for their work on the The Panama Papers investigation. Alexenia is author of five non-fiction books (2005-2019) and Guide for Investigative Journalists in Their Work with Whistleblowers in SEE (2023). She is co-author of Manual for Investigative Reporting: Practical Tips For a Good Investigation (2007) and two documentary films (2018-2019). She is a founding member of the South East Europe Coalition on Whistleblower Protection (2015) and a certified tutor in journalism by BBC and SEENPM, which has been providing training to students and mid-career journalists around the world since 2003.

### Tom Beal

Tom Beal is a journalist in the BBC News Investigations team in London where he has a particular interest in financial, political and legal stories. Tom has a background in video journalism and has directed longform documentaries for the BBC.

### Chris Bell

Chris Bell works for BBC News Investigations in London, focusing particularly on stories involving crime, the courts or open-source investigation for broadcast and digital outlets.

### Matilda Davies

Matilda Davies has worked at The Times and The Sunday Times as a data journalist since 2021, specialising in data-led investigations. She has won several awards for her investigations, tech reporting and environmental journalism.

Matilda regularly speaks at global conferences about her work, new techniques and the future of data journalism, for organisations including DataWrapper, Vilnius TechFusion and the Night Time Industries Association.

### Cathy Newman

Cathy Newman is the first female main presenter of Channel 4 News. She spent over a decade in Fleet Street, latterly with the Financial Times. Since joining Channel 4 News in 2006 she has broadcast a string of scoops, including an eight-year investigation unmasking the most prolific abuser in the Church of England, barrister John Smyth. That led to the Archbishop of Canterbury being forced out of office for the first time in history and in January 2025 saw Cathy named Woman of the Year by Women in Journalism.

She has also broadcast sexual harassment allegations against the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Rennard, and an investigation into a British sex offender, Simon Harris, which saw him jailed for 17 years.

Her first best-selling book - Bloody Brilliant Women: Pioneers, Revolutionaries & Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention - about female pioneers in 20th century Britain, was published by HarperCollins in Autumn 2018.

Her second book, It Takes Two: A History of the Couples Who Dared To Be Different, was published on October 15, 2020 by HarperCollins.

Her third book, The Ladder, based on her weekly Times Radio interviews with leading women, was published in February 2024, again by HarperCollins.

You can read about Cathy's investigation into John Smyth here: How a cover-up forced the Archbishop of Canterbury from office.

### Amy Westervelt

Amy Westervelt is an award-winning investigative climate journalist. She is the founder of the podcast network Critical Frequency and of the multimedia climate reporting project Drilled, which includes a popular podcast by the same name as well as multiple cross-border investigations in collaboration with a wide range of print media partners. Her book Brought to You By, on the corporate capture of the information ecosystem, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury in 2026.

### Scilla Alecci

Scilla Alecci is an investigative reporter and video journalist for ICIJ. She is also the partnership coordinator for Asia and Europe. A native of Italy, before joining ICIJ, Scilla was based in Tokyo where she worked for Bloomberg News and other news organisations. In 2016, she was a member of the Japanese reporting team that took part in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Panama Papers investigation.

### Mayank Aggarwal

Trustee and Editor at The Reporters’ Collective, a Delhi-based investigative news platform, Mayank is a journalist with nearly two decades of experience. He has extensively worked on investigating and reporting on how environmental laws are being systematically diluted and flouted in India. His writing and reportage are focused on the intersections of environment, energy, business, climate change, diplomacy, technology and development.

Mayank is also a media trainer who works with journalists and students on fact-checking, greenwashing, climate misinformation and disinformation. He is a Pulitzer Center Grantee and through his work with The Reporters’ Collective and as a journalism community mentor working independently with several other organisations, he focuses on creating opportunities for fellow journalists.

### Dilrukshi Handunnetti

Dilrukshi Handunnetti is an award-winning Sri Lankan investigative journalist and editor. She is the co-founder and director of the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) in Colombo and currently serves as Sri Lanka editor for Mongabay. Her distinguished career includes senior editorial positions at several publications including The Sunday Leader and Sunday Observer.

Her investigative work focuses on civilian perspectives of conflict, governance, corruption, environment, and gender issues. Notable recognitions include the D.B. Dhanapala Journalist of the Year Award, the 2022 East West Center's Journalist of Courage and Impact Award, and the Vital Voices Fellowship. Her journalistic work has appeared in major international outlets including The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and The New York Times. She is also presently a columnist with the New Indian Express.

### Ștefan Cândea

Ștefan Cândea, a Romanian journalist, is the co-founder and coordinator of the European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) network and teaches an investigative collaborations clinic at the University of Coimbra.

During the early 2000s he was involved in the co-founding of one of the first European non-profit investigative structures, Centrul Român pentru Jurnalism de Investigație (CRJI). As a CRJI representative he participated in the early and informal co-founding of groups that later became formalised as the GIJN and OCCRP. Later on, as an ICIJ member, he contributed research, articles and coordination for the first large-scale cross-border collaboration, Secrecy for Sale, alongside journalistic work as the correspondent of RSF in Romania, a role he held for two decades.

Stefan developed critical research about media and investigative journalism structures, first as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and finally earning a PhD degree at the University of Westminster.

### Arnaud Ouédraogo

Arnaud Ouédraogo has been an investigative journalist from Burkina Faso for 17 years. Coordinator of the Norbert Zongo Unit for Investigative Journalism in West Africa (CENOZO) for over 5 years, he is a senior consultant in media development project management. He is also a publisher and expert trainer in investigative journalism and conflict-sensitive journalism.

### Ignace Sossou

Ignace Sossou is an investigative journalist from Benin. Program Manager and media relations officer at the Norbert Zongo Unit for Investigative Journalism in West Africa (CENOZO), he is also a trainer in OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) techniques and tools, fact-checking and digital security for several media development organisations in Africa.

### Anderson Diedri

Anderson Diedri has been a journalist since 2010. He worked for different local and international media outlets, including the Ivorian daily Le Nouveau Courrier, Senegal-based Africa Check, Germany-based dandc.eu, etc. He is currently the editor-in-chief for the news website Eburnie Today in Côte d'Ivoire. Anderson also works as a consultant for several development agencies and international media support organisations, including CFI and Equal Access International. His work focuses on investigation, fact-checking, media education, data journalism and digital journalism. He is a member of the Norbert Zongo Unit for Investigative Journalism in West Africa (CENOZO).

### David Tarazona

Colombian investigative journalist since 2012, David is co-founder and co-director of Cuestión Pública. He was a former editor at Mongabay LATAM, where he participated in environmental investigations and the award-winning #Narcofiles. At CONNECTAS, he investigated #ParadisePapers, and was nominated for a CPB award. He began his career at Noticias Uno in Colombia. and holds a master's in Communications and Data Journalism from Tilburg University in the Netherlands.

### Maximiliano Manzoni

Maximiliano is an Uruguayan journalist specialising in climate change and a member of #CONNECTASHub. He is a Gabo Prize winner and an alumnus of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network. He investigates climate disinformation in Latin America for Periodistas por el Planeta and Climate Tracker. He is the editor of the weekly newsletter Consenso and was a correspondent for COP27 (Egypt) and COP28 (Dubai).

### Grisha Vera

Member of the Editorial Board of CONNECTAS and its Hub, Grisha was the coordinator and reporter for the investigative team of El Pitazo de Venezuela. Apart from training on how to cover climate finance and environmental crimes in the Amazon for Planeta CONNECTAS, Grisha has also conducted investigations on monitoring public resources and violating children's rights. She is a graduate of the CONNECTAS-Martin Baron 2020 Chair.

### Claudia Báez

Claudia is the co-founder and managing director of Cuestión Pública. She has led projects that have won the King of Spain, Sigma Awards, SIP, WAN-IFRA Latam and TRACE for Investigative Reporting, among others. In 2019, she received the Alumni Impact Award from the US Department of State and is certified by Harvard Kennedy School in public storytelling and leadership. She holds a Masters in Economic and Social Development Studies from the Sorbonne in Paris.

### Joe O'Leary

Joe has been fact checking UK politics and policy for over a decade. He has delivered training in fact checking to civil servants, statisticians, journalists and businesses, both in the UK and internationally, as well as designing accredited courses in data analysis for the FE sector. Joe also enjoys teaching critical thinking in primary and secondary schools, and regularly gives talks to journalism students.

### Cecilia Maundu

Cecilia Maundu is a broadcast journalist, a digital rights researcher and a digital security trainer. She is also an African Union Media Fellow. She works at the intersection of journalism, technology and human rights, with a focus on countering online abuse against women journalists while protecting freedom of expression online. She is also a podcaster. She has a podcast called “Digital Dada Podcast." "Digital Dada” is a podcast focused on matters relating to online violence against women journalists and digital security. It aims to change the narrative and perceptions that online violence is not “real violence.” The podcast aims to cultivate in the citizenry of the world, a culture of digital security and encourage healthy conversations online for the advancement of a safer and a feminist internet."

### Laura Tich

Laura is the founder of SheHacks_KE, a group of women cyber security professionals and enthusiasts in Kenya. She is also a Mozilla Open Leader and an advocate for Internet Freedom, having worked on various projects around digital rights across Africa. Her journey started when she was at Daystar University where she studied for a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Computer Science.

### Brian Conley

Brian Conley, co-founder of Small World News, has been involved in media literacy and media democracy work for more than 10 years and has trained journalists and citizen media makers in a dozen countries. He has also designed an array of projects leveraging new and innovative technology to support journalists and community media in conflict areas.

### Michał Czyżewski

Michał "czesiek" Czyżewski is a public interest technologist with 14+ years of experience making and maintaining web infrastructure and applications (10+ years in NGOs). Czyżewski is also a journalism security expert and digital security trainer who has worked with organisations including OCCRP and Bellingcat.

### Jeje Mohamed

Jeje Mohamed is a holistic safety and security advisor and risk management expert. She is the co-founder of Aegis Safety Alliance, a collective of women and non-binary media safety experts. She has extensive experience in journalism, human rights, and safety and security. She offers holistic, trauma-informed, identity-centered safety training and resources focused on digital safety, physical safety, de-escalation, and psychological first aid. Mohamed works with journalists, documentarians, media-makers, and human rights activists working in various contexts, working with newsrooms, media agencies, and NGOs.

Previously, Mohamed was the Senior Manager for Digital Safety and Free Expression at PEN America, where she led the training program and resource building. She was a Next-Gen Safety Trainers fellow with the International Women’s Media Foundation, developing holistic safety training programs and incident response support for journalists. She has worked as a journalist in Egypt and the United States, producing documentaries and podcasts on human rights abuses and leading human rights programs focused on combatting sex trafficking.She received her bachelor’s degree from American University in Cairo in multimedia journalism and international relations and her master’s degree from American University in Washington, DC in international media focusing on human rights and democracy in areas of conflict as an Open Society Foundation Civil Society Leadership Award Fellow. She serves on the advisory board for the Coalition Against Online Violence and was a fellow with the Online News Association’s Women’s Leadership Accelerator.

### Gisela Pérez de Acha

Gisela Pérez de Acha reports on extremism, disinformation and environmental issues for UC Berkeley's Investigative Reporting Program with a focus on digital forensics and network analysis. Gisela has a master’s degree from Berkeley Journalism, where she now teaches cybersecurity and open-source investigations for upcoming journalists in a class that she helped create in partnership with the Human Rights Center Investigations Lab. She recently won a Polk Award for her work in Frontline's film American Insurrection and was also part of an Emmy award-winning team at the New York Times for a story about The Siege of Culiacán. Gisela is a cybersecurity expert and a digital safety trainer with PEN America. Born and raised in Mexico, she was trained as a lawyer before becoming a journalist. She speaks fluent Spanish, English, French and Portuguese.

### Frank Smyth

Frank Smyth (pronounced like Smythe) is an independent, award-winning investigative journalist specializing in armed conflicts, organized crime and human rights overseas, and on the gun movement and its influence at home. He is a former arms trafficking investigator for Human Rights Watch breaking the role of France in arming Rwanda before its genocide. Smyth is a global authority on journalist security and press freedom testifying to Congress and the member states of several multilateral organizations. Frank is founder and CEO of GJS, today the leading U.S.-based hostile environments training firm. He is the author of The NRA: The Unauthorized History, published by Flatiron in 2020. Frank is featured speaking throughout the documentary, “The Price of Freedom,” about the NRA and gun violence that aired on CNN in 2021 and that is now airing on HBO Max.

### Abigail LP

As program manager for the digital security training team, Abigail stewards client services and program development. They have an eclectic professional background, including experience in content production, project management, grassroots fundraising, facilitation, and communications, as well as a rich history as an artist, educator, and community organizer. Abigail is the founder and artistic director of folkLAB, an applied arts project based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that sits at the intersection of social justice and artmaking, and focuses on creating new work with underrepresented artists.

### Duncan Salkovskis

Duncan Salkovskis is an open source researcher specialising in geolocation. As geolocation lead at casualty recording NGO Airwars, he has documented allegations of civilian harm across conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, Gaza, Libya, Yemen and Somalia.

### Vivian Chime

Vivian is the Head of TheCable’s Climate Change Desk, where she leads a team of reporters who produce outstanding news stories, explainers, analyses, fact checks and features on climate change issues. Prior to this position, she pioneered the climate desk in 2021, developed the beat and expanded TheCable’s climate coverage to global climate conferences and debates, while also travelling across Nigeria to deliver high-quality stories highlighting extreme weather events, community-driven climate initiatives, and analysing climate change policies.

Besides reporting from Nigeria, Vivan has covered international climate conferences including COP27 in Egypt, COP28 in Dubai and the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya. In 2023, in a short-term consultancy, she served as Africa Journalism Manager at Climate Tracker, where she had previously been a two-time fellow – first as a global media mentorship fellow and later as a COP27 climate justice fellow.

She is also a member of the Reuters Institute Oxford Climate Journalism Network. Her works have received awards including the International Center for Journalists Global Health Crisis Reporting Award in 2021, Climate Tracker’s Best Climate Justice Story Award in 2022 and TheCable’s Journalist of the Year award, 2022.

### Temitayo Akinyemi

Temitayo Akinyemi (formerly Muhammed Akinyemi) is a journalist, creative writer, and editor known for utilising innovative tools like satellite imagery and interactive data in storytelling. A 2019 African Liberty Writing Fellow and Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) West African Journalist of the Year (2023), he specialises in managing media products to amplify impactful narratives.

He currently works as a Media Advisor at the Nigerian Media Innovation Program (NAMIP), where he helps media organisations achieve innovation, commercialisation, and work towards sustainability.

### Taiwo Adebayo

Taiwo Adebayo is an award-winning journalist, currently covering business and climate change in Africa for the global news agency, The Associated Press (AP). Among his recent accountability enterprise stories on climate issues are the staggering land deals for carbon offsets involving an Emirati company in Africa and the deforestation in the supply chains of the global chocolate industry. Previously, Taiwo was the editor and head of Investigations and Data at PREMIUM TIMES, where he led landmark investigations, including Pandora Papers and rampant child labour in the supply chain of a Dutch multinational dairy company, earning Nigerian Best Investigative Journalist awards in 2021 (DAME) and 2022 (Wole Soyinka). Taiwo has been active in the knowledge production and capacity building aspect of the media, training and mentoring hundreds of journalists on climate, illicit financial flows, natural resources governance, and conflict reporting over the years. Taiwo is also a researcher. In 2019, he was on the UK Global Challenges Research Fund project on the humanitarian crisis in the Lake Chad Basin region. Between 2020 and 2021, he was a research consultant at the Institute for Security Studies, conducting research on Boko Haram and the Economy of Violence in the Lake Chad Basin. He has also researched the Chinese capital inflow into Nigeria and, more recently, the expansion of Boko Haram groups. Taiwo has degrees from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, and the University of East Anglia, Norwich.

### Ibilolia Akahome

Ibilolia Akahome is a Business Development Manager and data professional with over three years of experience training enthusiasts in data-driven decision-making and storytelling. At Dataphyte Limited, she combines her expertise in business strategy and data analytics to empower organisations, journalists, government agencies and individuals to leverage data for impactful stories and informed decisions. Ibilolia is committed to using data for social good, transparency, and sustainable development, actively engaging in public advocacy and capacity-building initiatives across various sectors

### Bradley Hope

Bradley Hope is co-founder of Project Brazen, a journalism studio based in London and Singapore. He is the co-author of Billion Dollar Whale, Blood and Oil and author of The Rebel and the Kingdom. He spent seven years breaking stories and leading investigations at the Wall Street Journal from New York and London. Before that, he covered the Arab Spring from Cairo, Tripoli and Beirut. He started his career as a police reporter at the New York Sun in Manhattan. He is a Pulitzer finalist and a winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for International Reporting.

### Gerry Wagschal

Gerald (Gerry) Wagschal is a former Senior Investigative Producer for the Investigative Unit at ABC News in New York. He produced investigative reports for the ABC News programs Good Morning America, World News Tonight with David Muir, Nightline and 20/20. He had been with ABC News for over 17 years and has over three decades of experience working in network and syndicated television. In 2021, Wagschal and his team won an Emmy Award for their program about the Boeing 737 Max fiasco called “Falling from the Sky,” which has aired twice on the 20/20 show and is also streaming on Hulu. He is a former New York State-licensed private investigator. He obtained his J.D. at Fordham Law School. He is licensed as an attorney in New York and New Jersey.

Born in Montreal, Canada, Wagschal started his career as a newspaper reporter for the now-defunct Montreal Daily News. He also worked as a reporter for the New York Post. At various times, Gerry has worked for television news shows that were influential in shaping news as we know it today, including A Current Affair and Celebrity Justice (New York Bureau Chief).

### Dominic Gates

Dominic Gates has been the Seattle Times aerospace reporter since 2003. Over the years, Gates has broken numerous news stories on Boeing and the broader aviation industry, focused in particular on the company leadership’s strained relations with its employees in the Puget Sound region where Boeing was founded. His investigation of the two deadly 737 MAX crashes won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize.

### Frances Stonor Saunders

Frances Stonor Saunders is a writer, broadcaster and documentary maker. Her first book, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War won the Royal Historical Society’s William Gladstone Memorial Prize, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and is now published in fifteen languages. Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman, recounts the life of John Hawkwood, a condottiere of the fourteenth century. The Woman Who Shot Mussolini is a biography of Violet Gibson, the Anglo-Irish aristocrat who shot and wounded Mussolini. Her most recent book, The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border, won the PEN Ackerley Prize. Stonor Saunders is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

### Florence de Changy

Florence de Changy is a foreign correspondent, currently based in Hong Kong for Le Monde and RFI. She has been covering Asia-Pacific since the early 90s, from Sydney, Auckland, Kuala Lumpur and Taipei. She also went on numerous assignments throughout the region, including Antarctica, Tonga, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and Indonesia. Since 2014, she has been investigating the loss of flight MH370 and published The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370 in which she challenged and completely dismantled the official narrative of the accident. President of the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club from 2017-2019, she was awarded the French “Ordre National du Mérite” for services to journalism in 2018.

### Mads Brugger

Mads Brugger is an experienced journalist, editor, non-fiction author and film director. Three times Sundance Film Festival nominee and winner of The Grand Jury Award at Sundance 2010 with feature length documentary The Red Chapel, he has also twice been selected for New Directors New Films at MOMA in New York. His film The Ambassador opened the IDFA in Amsterdam 2012 and his feature fiction movie The St Bernard Syndicate won Best Script and Best Actor at Tribeca in New York 2018. At Sundance 2019 he won Best Director for the documentary Cold Case Hammarskjöld, which was picked up for US distribution by Magnolia Pictures. Most recently, he wrote and directed the real life documentary spy thriller The Mole, which premiered on BBC4 in October 2020, and won the Danish Film Academy award Robert, for best documentary of the year.

### Calle Fuhr

Calle Fuhr is a playwright, theatre director and performer from Düsseldorf. He creates investigative theatre plays with journalists from CORRECTIV and DOSSIER about fossil fuel companies and white collar crime. His works have been showcased on international festivals and translated into several languages.

### Robert Evans

Robert Evans is an American author, journalist, Cool Zone Media founder and podcast host of Behind the Bastards and It Could Happen Here. Evans' journalism has covered the 2020 George Floyd protests, work as a conflict journalist in Iraq and Ukraine, extensive reporting on far-right extremist groups and more. His work has been featured worldwide in publications such as Bellingcat, The New York Times, and The Guardian He's particularly interested in the ways terrorist groups recruit, radicalize and communicate through the Internet.

### Sacha Pfeiffer

Sacha Pfeiffer is a correspondent for National Public Radio's Investigations team and a guest host for NPR's national shows. She is a former member of the Boston Globe's investigative Spotlight team, whose stories on the Catholic Church's cover-up of clergy sex abuse won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, among other honors. That reporting is the subject of the movie Spotlight, which won the 2016 Academy Award for Best Picture.

### Catherine V. Herridge

Catherine V. Herridge is an Emmy Award‐winning veteran investigative correspondent who covers national security and intelligence. In February, Herridge was held in civil contempt by a US federal court for refusing to disclose her confidential sources for a series of national security reports in 2017.

As a senior investigative correspondent for CBS News from 2019-2024, Herridge’s reporting was a catalyst for legislative change affecting more than a million American veterans and civilians. The Investigative Unit’s Emmy‐nominated series “Decades of Exposure” is credited by activists and lawmakers with the passing of the Camp Lejeune Justice Act in August 2022.  Part of the burn pit legislation known as the PACT ACT, the law is considered one of the largest expansions of VA healthcare and benefits for American veterans.

In 2021, Herridge and the CBS News Investigative Unit won the Society of Environmental Journalists’ Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting, for a year-long probe that exposed serious health hazards at the K-2 military base in Uzbekistan that supported Special Operations missions into Afghanistan after 9/11. In response to Herridge’s reporting, an Executive Order recognized K2 veterans and mandated a comprehensive Defense Department study on the health consequences.

Herridge’s recent reporting on retired Col. Paris Davis, one of the first Black officers in the elite Green Berets, kept his story in front of government decision makers and helped right a 58-year-old wrong. In March 2023, the Vietnam hero was awarded the Medal of Honor at the White House for his heroism at the 1965 Battle of Bong Son after his nomination paperwork was lost twice at the height of the civil rights movement. Race was blamed as a factor.

Herridge has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Qatar, Israel, Northern Ireland, Russia and the former Yugoslavia.   Prior to joining CBS News, Herridge was the chief intelligence correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC), and a TV and radio correspondent for ABC News in London.  In 2019, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society awarded Herridge with its annual Tex McCrary Award for excellence in journalism.

She is a graduate of Harvard College and the Columbia School of Journalism where she founded a national security reporting scholarship.  Herridge comes from a military family and lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, a West Point graduate, and their two boys.

### Rowen S

Rowen S is a Senior Software Engineer at Freedom of the Press Foundation, and one of the maintainers of SecureDrop and SecureDrop Workstation. Their work in software development and digital security consultation has included projects spanning digital safety for at-risk communities, circumvention technology, migrant justice, and freedom of expression.

### Susan McGregor

Susan McGregor (she/her/hers) is an Associate Research Scholar at Columbia University's Data Science Institute, focusing on digital security and privacy issues for journalists and media organizations. She is the author of Information Security Essentials: A Guide for Reporters, Editors and Newsroom Leaders and Practical Python: Data Wrangling and Data Quality. Her current projects include enhancing digital media security with cryptographic signatures and developing classifiers to detect abusive speech on social media. As an educator, she aims to broaden access to data science education, having previously worked in digital news and technology roles with notable contributions to web reporting and security.

### Krishna Karra

Krishna Karra is a data journalist at Bloomberg News, and specializes in using satellite imagery, remote sensing, and machine learning to reveal changes on Earth’s surface. Combining expertise in geospatial technologies and advanced data analysis, Krishna transforms complex datasets into compelling visual narratives that expose environmental changes, track urban development, and reveal conflict patterns. With bylines in The New York Times and contributions to major publications, Karra's unique background in both engineering and journalism enables a powerful synthesis of technical prowess and storytelling, shedding light on critical issues even in areas where traditional data sources are limited or unreliable.

### Abu Bakr Bashir

Abu Bakr Bashir is a Palestinian journalist who lived and worked in Gaza reporting to National Public Radio (NPR), Wall Street Journal, & other international media outlets. Bashir has been based in London since 2019 reporting remotely on the Gaza war to NPR and The New York Times. He is also the UK reporter for AlQahera news TV.

### Sherif Mansour

Sherif Mansour is an Egyptian-American democracy and human rights advocate. Most recently, he served as Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists. Before joining CPJ, he worked with Freedom House, in Washington, D.C., where he managed advocacy training for activists from the Middle East and North Africa. In 2010, Mansour co-founded the Egyptian Association for Change, a Washington-based nonprofit group that mobilizes Egyptians in the US to support democracy and human rights in Egypt. He has monitored the Egyptian elections for the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies and has worked as a freelance journalist. In 2004, he was honored by the Al-Kalema Center for Human Rights for his work in defending freedom of expression in Egypt. His writings have been published in the Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsweek, LA Times, Foreign Policy, among others and he has appeared live on multiple television outlets, including CNN, BBC, France 24, and Al Jazeera English. Mansour has been recognized for his work by the Diplomatic Courier as a top foreign policy professional and was awarded a Tufts Alumni Award for his human rights work. He has a master’s in international relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, and a bachelor’s in education from Cairo’s Al-Azhar University. He speaks Arabic fluently.

### Holger Stark

Until 1991 Holger Stark studied journalism in Munich and Berlin before he started working as an editor for the Berliner Zeitung. From 1993 until 1998 he studied political science at the Otto-Suhr-Institute at the Free University of Berlin and besides his studies he continued working as a journalist for Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg and Radio Fritz in Babelsberg. After three years as editor at the Berliner Tagesspiegel Stark started working for “Der Spiegel” magazine where he was – amongst other functions – head of the Germany department as well as correspondent for the USA in Washington D.C. before he moved on to become a member of the editorial board of Die ZEIT where he is responsible for investigative research.

### Ariane Lavrilleux

Ariane Lavrilleux is a French journalist working in the Middle East and based in Cairo. In 2023, the French justice system seized equipment related to her investigation into Operation Sirli, with the aim of identifying her sources.

### Lara Bitar

Lara Bitar is an independent media worker based in Beirut, Lebanon, and the founding editor of The Public Source, a magazine of long-form journalism and critical commentary from the left.

### Imogen Barrer

Imogen Barrer is a multi-award winning journalist and the Head of Investigations & Special Projects at ITV News.

Originally from New Zealand, Imogen started her journalism career in radio and worked in regional and national newsrooms before joining ITN.

Having been a producer for several years, she travelled across the UK and internationally, working on some of the biggest news stories of the last decade.

### Maxence Peigné

Maxence is a French journalist based in London for the cross-border co-operative Investigate Europe. He has worked on in-depth investigations into multinationals such as care-home leader Orpea and oil giant Perenco. His research revealed financial wrongdoings that led to official probes into corruption and money laundering. Before joining IE, he worked for outlets such as France Télévision, Radio France and the BBC World Service. In 2019, he received the "Reporter D’espoir” Solutions Journalism award for his coverage of homelessness in Finland.

### Tais Gadea Lara

Tais Gadea Lara is a climate journalist from Argentina. Since 2014 she has been covering the climate negotiations and international politics. In 2024 she was a Climate Explorer at the Constructive Institute in Denmark, working on a global project to help journalists improve climate reporting. She is the author of the newsletter Planeta, coordinates a Climate Book Club, gives workshops on climate communication to multiple audiences, and collaborates in different media. Her work has appeared in Devex, InfoAmazonia, National Geographic, Climática La Marea, Canal de la Ciudad, among others.

In 2020, she created the Environmental Journalism Workshop to train more people in the communication of the climate and ecological crisis. She was recognized as one of the 100 Latin Americans most committed to climate action for several years.

### Rebecca Thomas

Rebecca Thomas is the Independent’s Health Correspondent. A health journalist for eight years, she has a particular focus on patient safety. In 2022 Rebecca won the Health and Science Journalism award at the British Media Awards for her “proper revelatory journalism” in her coverage of the worsening A&E crisis in the NHS. She was also shortlisted for a Paul Foot Award in 2024 for a series of investigations and campaigns focused on safety scandals within the UK's mental health services.

### Tristan Kirk

Tristan Kirk has been a dedicated court reporter for more than a decade and the Evening Standard’s courts correspondent since 2016. He reports each day on the high-profile, important, and unusual cases coming out of London’s criminal and civil courts, as well as chronicling parts of the justice system that exist under a veil of secrecy. He recently won the Paul Foot award for an investigation into the harsh treatment of vulnerable people in the Single Justice Procedure.

### Karl Flinders

Karl Flinders is chief reporter at Computer Weekly, where he helped to expose the Post Office scandal. He is also editor of several regional ezines for Computer Weekly: CW Nordics, CW Benelux, CW Middle East and CW Europe.

### Joshua Olufemi

Joshua Olufemi is a media development practitioner, entrepreneur and the Founder of Dataphyte, a media and data analytics company. Since its establishment, Dataphyte has pioneered several data access, data journalism and AI-powered products, including Nubia AI, Goloka, and Anfani. Prior to the launch of Dataphyte, Joshua was the pioneer Program Director at the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (now CJID).

At PTCIJ, Joshua launched several social accountability and media development platforms such as Dubawa (fact-checking), UDEME (budget accountability), CampusReporterNG, Press Attack Tracker, Spoor, and PriceBoard. He has done great data-driven investigations and reporting of corruption, failure of regulatory agencies, and human rights abuses, and is dedicated to achieving a better society where justice and fairness prevails. Joshua was the only data journalist among the Premium Times’ Team that published the multiple award-winning Panama Papers and Paradise Papers.

He holds a Bachelor in Economics and Education and a Masters in Measurement and Evaluation. Joshua is an alumnus of the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School. He is a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow.

### Paul Lynch

Paul Lynch is a multi-award-winning journalist who cut his teeth in local newsrooms in Derbyshire and Northampton before helping to establish Johnston Press’s Investigations Unit and more recently, the BBC’s Shared Data Unit.

During his time in Northampton Paul was awarded Johnston Press’s journalist of the year award twice – once for exposing corruption at the heart of the town’s football club and a second time revealing the extent of historical abuse in a locally-formed religious sect.

Since joining the shared data unit in 2019, he has focused on public interest investigations, delving into the UK’s care system, police misconduct and the lack of representation at music festivals among many other topics. The team won the Wincott award for data journalism for their piece on council budget deficits in 2022 and the unit has also been awarded Drum Media’s editorial team of the year.

Contact: paul.lynch01@bbc.co.uk to get in touch

### Cara McGoogan

Cara McGoogan is the award-winning author of The Poison Line: Life and Death in the Infected Blood Scandal, and Bed of Lies, a documentary podcast series that investigates major British scandals. She is the Telegraph's first Narrative Audio Journalist and published her debut book last year. She has won two Press Awards, a Media Freedom Award and a British Journalism Award. The Poison Line was shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize. In 2022, Cara spent three months at the Washington Post on the prestigious Stern-Bryan Fellowship.

### Youmna El Sayed

Youmna El Sayed is an award-winning Egyptian-Palestinian journalist. She was based in the Gaza Strip and has been covering the war in Gaza. Over the past 8 years, she has worked as a journalist for different international news outlets, including TRT Digital, TRT World, RT, Kuwait English Channel, CNA, the AP and now as an Al Jazeera English Correspondent. She is motivated to convey the human stories of the people and be a voice for the voiceless.

### Kelsey Farish

Kelsey Farish is a media solicitor specialising in the legal, ethical and practical implications of generative AI (genAI) content like deepfakes. She advises media companies, individuals, industry bodies, and policymakers on genAI challenges and opportunities, including those surrounding copyright, reputation, and public trust. An advocate of responsible AI integration in entertainment and journalism, her work emphasises the importance of media literacy, consent and transparency. Amongst other things, she serves on the advisory board of the European Commission’s VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence (Vera AI) project, which develops AI-supported verification tools for combatting disinformation. When not at her desk, Kelsey enjoys exploring London with her husband and young son.

### Christopher Hird

Christopher Hird founded Dartmouth Films in 2008, to pioneer new ways of funding, producing and distributing documentaries. A former investment analyst in the City, he worked as a journalist on the Economist, Daily Mail, New Statesman and Sunday Times (as the editor of Insight), before becoming a television reporter and producer. He is a former managing editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the author of Investigative Journalism Works: The Mechanism of Impact.

### Omar Ferwati

Omar Ferwati is the Head of Research Management at Forensic Architecture where he is involved in developing and applying spatial methods for human rights investigations. His investigations have ranged from airstrikes and colonial violence in Palestine to environmental racism in Namibia. His own research is currently about how civilians use architecture to survive urban warfare and other crises. He trained as an architect in Canada and has worked at several architecture practices internationally. Omar previously taught at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture.

### Michael Gillard

Michael Gillard is a freelance journalist and author of three books on policing and organised crime in the UK. In a 30-year career he has worked on the Guardian investigation team, The Sunday Times Insight Team and across TV and radio supplying investigations and dealing with in-house lawyers. He has won two important libel cases using the public interest responsible journalism defence. More recently, he has been writing The Upsetter newsletter on Substack, which since 2021 has published over eighty investigations into all manner of corruption, including by the media.

### David Batty

David Batty is a senior reporter at the Guardian, where he has worked since 2001. His specialist areas are social affairs, cultural politics, inequality, the super rich, visual art and higher education. He is also a visiting lecturer in journalism at City University.

### Poonam Agarwal

Poonam Agarwal is an award-winning Independent Senior Investigative Journalist with over 20 years of experience in journalism. She is also a legal advocate.

She started her career as a TV journalist in 2005 and worked with the BBC, NDTV, Times Now, and The Quint among others.

Poonam showed how the Electoral Bonds scheme, a tool to give political donations, was being secretly used by the ruling Indian government to take bribes from big corporate houses. This was the first major scam to be reported in India for ten years.

She has also made a longform investigative documentary with the BBC named The Trap: India's deadliest scam. The documentary exposes the Loan app scam that compelled many Indians to take their own lives.

She has won many awards: BBC News Awards; the Ramnath Goenka Award for Investigative Journalism; the Best Investigative Journalist at The News Television Awards; and the CNN Young Journalist Award, among others.

### Anna Leach

Anna Leach is a Visual Projects editor at The Guardian, where she creates visual and interactive stories ranging from the ownership of England's water companies to an analysis of what folklore can tell us about conspiracy theories. Day to day that involves lots of Javascript, story research, data journalism, and project management.

She has previously worked in visual journalism at the FT, the Mirror and as a software engineer.

### Ainslie Johnstone

Ainslie Johnstone is a data journalist and science correspondent at The Economist in London. She has previously edited the magazine's Graphic Detail and Daily Chart sections. She writes data-driven articles on topics ranging from war and politics to science and health. These projects involve using a wide variety of different data sources, from satellite images to large text corpuses, as well as traditional reporting.  Before joining The Economist Ainslie was a researcher at the UCL Department of Neurology and has a DPhil (PhD) in Clinical Neuroscience from the University of Oxford.

### Tom Calver

Tom Calver is the data editor of The Times and The Sunday Times. He manages a ten-person team of data reporters and developers, and writes a weekly data column called Go Figure. He was named Data Journalist of the year by the Wincott Foundation in 2023, and was on Forbes’s 30 Under 30 list in 2020. He started his career at Which? and BBC News, before moving to The Times in 2019.

### Sebastián Rodríguez

Sebastián Rodríguez joined Climate Home News in 2022 as special projects editor, coordinating international investigations with a focus on climate accountability. He has reported on climate for Reuters, The Verge, DW and Mongabay. He is originally from Costa Rica and currently based in the UK.

### Nimra Shahid

Nimra Shahid is an award-winning freelance journalist. Her recent work has focused on climate change, greenwashing and how money flows into the fossil fuel industry. She has worked with Bloomberg, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Global Witness and the Guardian.

### Roberto Belo-Rovella

Roberto Belo-Rovella is a freelance learning facilitator with experience in visual journalism and digital skills training. Before that he worked at BBC News, where he led the visual and data journalism teams for the World Service's 40 languages, producing original content formats and special reports.

### Margaret Renn

Margaret Renn is a writer and journalist. She worked alongside the investigative journalist Paul Foot on Socialist Worker and then at the Daily Mirror from the early ‘80s until 1993. She has since worked at the BBC and produced radio documentaries for Radio 4 and the World Service, including programs on Lockerbie and on corruption. She ran the Centre for Investigative Journalism for three years, and from 2009 until 2015 she was a Visiting Fellow in Investigative Journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Her book Paul Foot: A Life in Politics will be published in July 2024.

### Emma Howard

Emma Howard is a reporter for Unearthed, the investigative journalism outfit launched by Greenpeace UK. Her recent work has focused on plastic, climate change and offsetting. In 2023 her investigation into the burning of England's peatlands won Investigation of the Year at the Association of British Science Writers' Awards. Before that she worked at the Guardian.

### Juliana Mori

Juliana Mori is an award-winning journalist from Brazil, specialising in audiovisual productions and visualisation of geospatial data. She is Co-Founder and Editorial Director of InfoAmazonia, an independent media outlet that uses maps, data, and geolocalised reports to tell social environmental stories about the tropical forest over the nine Amazon countries. Juliana graduated in journalism from Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC), in São Paulo, and Master in Digital Arts at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), in Barcelona.

### Alexandre Brutelle

Alexandre Brutelle is the director and co-founder of the Environmental Investigative Forum (EIF), a global consortium of environmental investigative journalists. He is a senior journalist with 10 years of experience as a freelancer (Mediapart, Inkyfada, Daraj) and 7 years as an investigative project coordinator, trainer and mentor for a large range of organisations including IMS, CFI France, OCRI, CIFAR and many more.

### Sarah Cammarata

Sarah Cammarata is an OSINT practitioner and corporate intelligence analyst, investigating white collar crime. Before moving to London from Washington, D.C., to pursue a Masters in War Studies from King's College London, she worked as a reporter at POLITICO and Stars and Stripes, where she covered defence, Congress and US military branches.

### Charlie Northcott

Charlie Northcott is a documentary maker and investigative journalist, specialising in organised crime. His films have been nominated for 3 Emmys and won multiple international journalism awards. He was previously listed in Forbes Magazine’s 30 under 30 in the media.

### Rosamund Urwin

Rosamund Urwin is the media editor at The Sunday Times. She previously wrote about Brexit for the paper and has broken stories including the Yellowhammer leak of papers about a no-deal Brexit and the Martin Bashir scandal at the BBC. She has previously worked as a columnist, senior features writer, interviewer and editor.

### Helen Spooner

Helen Spooner is an award-winning documentary producer/director with a focus on stories about people overcoming adversity. Her work has led her to cover a wide range of topics around the world from the climate crisis to corruption, terrorism and sexual abuse.

### Tom Witherow

Tom Witherow is an award-winning special projects reporter with The Times in London, who made his name investigating Britain's gambling industry and the Post Office IT scandal. He has previously done stints covering politics in Westminster, and as a business correspondent.

### Claire Miller

Claire Miller is an award-winning investigative data journalist. She has worked across national and regional newspapers in the UK, with more than a decade's experience of using data skills to dig out data, find stories, and create visualisations.

She played a major role in the development of regional data journalism, launching the WalesOnline Datastore in 2011, winning the Digital Award at the Regional Press Awards in 2012. Until recently, she worked as the Editor of the Reach Data Unit, having been involved in building the unit from a small team of two journalists to a multi-award-winning team that includes reporters, developers, and designers.

Her years of working with data mean she’s built up extensive knowledge of the tools and techniques to source data, clean, and analyse it, as well as an understanding of how to create graphics, maps, and interactives.

She’s also an enthusiastic sender of Freedom of Information requests (possibly a little too enthusiastic if you ask the ICL), and has used requests to get the data that makes front page stories on national papers . She’s doggedly pursued access to the information, up to winning against the Information Commissioner in court.

### Michael Goodier

Michael Goodier is a journalist on the Guardian’s Data Project team. Previous to the Guardian, he worked as a data journalist at the New Statesman and as part of the Reach Data Unit. Mainly focused on UK news, Michael particularly enjoys using R to web scrape, clean and analyse datasets. He can also be found among the pile of unanswered Freedom of Information requests at your public authorities FOI office.

Recent stories include the carbon emissions of celebrities' jets, the harm caused by NHS waiting lists, the precarious state of council finances, and the crazy things invented last year.

Michael also teaches as a visiting lecturer in data journalism at City, University of London. His portfolio at the Guardian was shortlisted for the Press Awards in 2024.

### Jennifer LaFleur

Jennifer LaFleur teaches data journalism at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. She previously was senior editor for the Center for Public Integrity, an independent investigative newsroom. LaFleur also served as a senior editor for Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, where she managed an award-winning team of data journalists, investigative reporters and fellows. She held similar roles at ProPublica and The Dallas Morning News. She is a former training director for Investigative Reporters and Editors and previously served on IRE’s Board of Directors. She is on the Fund for Investigative Journalism board and the advisory board for the National Center for Disability and Journalism.

### Amro Khan

A distinguished journalist renowned for his expertise in energy, environmental issues, and climate change, Amro Khan's work extends beyond the realms of journalism into the academic fields of political science and African economics. With a deep-rooted understanding of these complex and interconnected areas, Khan brings a unique and insightful perspective to discussions on global environmental challenges. His ability to analyse and communicate intricate issues in energy and climate change, coupled with his knowledge of political and economic landscapes, especially in the African context, makes him a respected figure in his field.

### May Ahmed

May Ahmed is a dedicated professional responsible for the Sustainable Development and Energy Program at the Egyptian Enterprise Center. With a Master's degree in Sustainable Development Planning, she brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to her role. Currently, she is also engaged as a Ph.D. researcher in Crisis and Risk Management, which further enriches her understanding of the complexities involved in sustainable development and energy. Her work involves strategising and implementing programs that align with the goals of sustainable development, focusing on energy efficiency and sustainable practices while navigating the challenges of crisis and risk management in these sectors.

### Dr. Rania Abu Naima

A distinguished Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development Consultant Dr. Abu Naima holds the significant position of Secretary-General of the Environment Eye Association and serves as the General Coordinator of the Arab Initiative for Promoting Carbon Certificates and Market. Her work is at the forefront of environmental advocacy, emphasizing the importance of sustainable development practices. Her expertise extends to coordinating efforts across the Arab region for the promotion and understanding of carbon certificates and markets, contributing significantly to the regional dialogue on environmental sustainability and climate action.

### Dr. Ayman Al-Rifai

Dr. Al-Rifai is the Head of Mitigation and Clean Development Mechanism and Carbon Certificates Marketing at the Egyptian Ministry of Environment. In his pivotal role, he spearheads efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions within Egypt, aligning with the global environmental sustainability goals. He expertly manages the Clean Development Mechanism, an integral part of the Kyoto Protocol, which focuses on promoting sustainable development alongside emission reduction. His responsibilities extend to the dynamic sphere of carbon certificates marketing, where he plays a vital role in facilitating carbon trading, crucial for both the government and private sectors in their pursuit of environmental sustainability.

### Basma Fouad

She is the founder and president of the Board of Trustees of the Independents International Foundation, specializing in irregular migration. She holds a master's degree in EU Policy on Irregular Migration and a master's in Changing National Image Mechanisms. She is the founder of the Workshop program, the first program combating irregular migration through the economic empowerment of irregular labor.

### Dr. Ayman Zuhri

He holds a Ph.D. in Migration Studies from the University of Sussex, UK, and has worked in research, teaching, and executive roles with various governmental and non-governmental organizations and universities. He has also served as a consultant in population and migration fields for several UN and regional organizations.

### Ananda Ridart

Journalist and Political Scientist. Communications Coordinator and Researcher at the Iyaleta Research Association. Masters in Political Science from the Federal University of Pará (PPGCP/UFPA). Master in Data Journalism, Automation and Data Storytelling (Insper). She is developing the research project "Regulatory Policies on the Environment and their Impact on the Amazon" and is a member of the Centre for Environmental Policy Studies in the Amazon (POAM). Research and interest in: Legislative Studies, Political Behaviour, Political Institutions, Climate Change, Environmental Policies and the Amazon.

### Noha lamlom

Noha is an international journalist and media trainer with 15 years of experience in journalism and journalistic training. She is a trainer for the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) in the Arab and Middle East regions, and a gender training specialist with the Norwegian Journalists Union in Africa. She is the founder of 'Seha Pedia', producer of the 'Dark Red' podcast on women's health and societal stigma. Noha is also the founding member and Gender and Development Committee head at the Egyptian Women in Media Foundation and has trained hundreds of journalists in various fields at numerous Egyptian universities.

### Dr. Sawsan Elawady

Dr. Sawsan is a climate change expert and the President of the Impact for Environmental Action Foundation. She holds a PhD in Environmental Science and a member of the official youth constituency of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as well as the local contact point for the EU's Climathon project.

### Nouran Elmarsafy

Director of the Climate and Energy Program at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Nouran is a multi-passionate activist from Cairo, focusing on climate issues, feminism, and urbanism through various methods such as illustrations, advocacy campaigns, awareness, and academic research. Her areas of interest include gender, climate justice, and advocating for marginalised communities. Nouran holds a master's degree in Urban Design, and her practical experience covers numerous projects that promote gender and youth inclusion across Egypt.

### Stefano Wrobleski

Stefano is the Executive Director of InfoAmazônia, where he leads on fundraising, technology and administrative efforts. Previously, he worked at Internews as the Geojournalism Coordinator for the Earth Journalism Network and was part of projects for the Amazon in the Americas team.

### Jullie Pereira

She covers socio-environmental issues for InfoAmazonia and is a Letters - Portuguese Language student at the Amazonas State University (UEA). Previously, Jullie wrote for Amazônia Real, was a trainee and freelancer at Estadão and was also a reporter for the Amazonas Atual website as well as an executive producer for the Amazon Sat channel, part of the Rede Amazônica group, a Globo affiliate in the North. She is one of the founders of Abaré - Escola de Jornalismo, an organisation focused on combating disinformation, focusing on local journalism and media education in Manaus.

### Bernardo Loureiro

Bernardo is a data scientist and urban planner who joined Trase in 2021 and he leads the development of the internal and external data visualisation tools. Before joining Trase, he worked as a freelance data scientist and developer for NGOs, government, academic institutions and private companies. Bernardo has experience in communicating complex data insights in an accessible and engaging way. He holds a master's degree in Design and Urban Ecologies from Parsons The New School (2016) and a bachelor's degree from the University of São Paulo (Architecture and Urban Planning, 2013).

### Mariana Gomes

Mariana Gomes is a journalist, cyberactivist and researcher. She is the communications advisor for the Iyaleta Research Association and is currently studying for a master's degree in Communication and Contemporary Cultures at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). Mariana researches internet governance and cyberactivism and is a member of the Centre for Discourse Analysis and Media Studies at UFBA.

### Marta Salomon

A journalist specialising in public policy with a master and doctorate degree in sustainable development, Marta is an associate researcher at the Centre for Sustainable Development (CDS/UnB) and a lecturer on information and climate change. She also works as a senior specialist at the Talanoa Institute.

### Jean Ometto

Jean is a Senior researcher at Brazil's National Institute for Space Research and Coordinator of the Earth System Science Centre (CCST/INPE) where he doubles as a postgraduate lecturer. He is actively involved in a number of international research forums on the subject: he was appointed to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC - (Working Group II) and to the Task Force on GHG Emissions Inventories and to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services on Regional and Sub-Regional Scoping Assessment among the many other roles he plays.

### Helena Carpio

Innovation leader at Prodavinci and co-anchor of Deutsche Welle's "Fuerza Latina" programme, Helena is a Venezuelan multimedia journalist who explores the ever-changing relationship between society and the environment. At Prodavinci, she has published investigative reports on receding glaciers and invasive species, analysed remote sensing data on forest fires, produced podcasts on the economic crisis and 360 Virtual Reality videos on the lack of access to running water.

### Camila Rodrigues

A journalist with 18 years of experience in popular media outlets and the mainstream press, such as g1, Folha de S. Paulo and UOL. She has a PhD in Demography and a master's degree in Economics and has been covering human rights since 2012. She believes in journalism as a tool for tackling inequalities.

### Buanamade Assane Buana

Buanamade Assane was selected to be a teacher, following an intensive 30-day psycho-pedagogical training course at the Napipine Teacher Training School in January 1982. In 1984, he was invited by some foreigners, technical advisors from the then Media Office, now ICS, to be part of a team of journalists for the Nampula delegation, where he took his first steps in journalism.

Here, he started out in the newsroom, later moving on to the video sector (channel zero) where he worked as a camera assistant, cameraman, video editor, documentary film maker and photo reporter. He settled successively in Nampula until 1986 when he was transferred to Maputo. In 1990, he moved to ICS Pemba where he spent most of his time doing the same tasks until 2001.

While working in Maputo, Buanamade was part of teams that produced a number of documentaries that won prizes at international video and film festivals, such as gold medals, and silver medals. Honourable mention in Mogadishu, Germany and Brazil, respectively.

In 2002, as part of a group of journalists from iCS and RM, he took part in the creation of the newspaper Horizonte, where he was elected editor-in-chief and became co-editor until 2021. In 2022, he became director of Horizonte.

### Nelsa Momade Pedro

Nelsa Momade Pedro is a Mozambican journalist living in the city of Nampula. She has dedicated herself to publishing articles on womens’ rights, the LGBTQ+ community, renewable energy and politics. Her work is currently featured by Ikweli, and she was previously a children’s programme presenter and intern at Rádio Encontro, a Catholic broadcaster in Nampula. Nelsa has a degree in basic journalism education.

### Amade Abubacar

Amade Abubacar is a Mozambican journalist, researcher, trainer and human rights activist, based in Pemba. He has worked in radio, online and print media since 2008, and held the position of editor-in-chief at Macomia Nacedje radio. While reporting on the 2018 terrorist attacks in Cabo Delgado, he was detained by Mozambique Defence Armed Forces and is still waiting to hear whether or not he will go to trial. His work focuses on health, environment, climate change and the use of information and communication technologies. Amade has completed several journalism courses.

### Luke Barratt

Luke Barratt is an investigative reporter at SourceMaterial. He joined in 2020 from Unearthed, where he published investigations on climate change and the environment.

### Stephen Abbott Pugh

Stephen Abbott Pugh is Open Ownership’s Head of Technology. He looks after the overall technical roadmap for the organisation, providing technical assistance to governments with implementing technology reforms to advance beneficial ownership transparency. He is the product owner of the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard and the Open Ownership Register, along with a range of other technical products.

### Bianca Muniz

Data Analyst at Agência Pública, Bianca has a degree in Biomedicine, a Masters in Science from Unifesp and a specialisation in Data Journalism and Automation from Insper. She is currently a journalism student at the University of São Paulo, with an exchange period in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Since 2020 at Pública, she has covered stories recognised by the Roche Health Journalism Award and finalist stories in the Sigma Awards and the Cláudio Weber Abramo Data Journalism Award.

### Lucas Thaynan

Lucas is a data journalist, designer, python developer and web programmer. He has a degree in Journalism from the Federal University of Alagoas (Ufal) and a postgraduate degree in Data Journalism, Automation and Data Storytelling from Insper. He is also the Co-founder of the startup Agência Tatu, which develops journalistic content and products using public data for the context of the Northeast region. Lucas also currently works at the Estadão Arts Centre, focusing on the production of visual reports based on data.

### Dr. Rodrigo Cunha

Dr. Rodrigo Cunha is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Social Communication (DCOM) and permanent researcher in the Postgraduate Programme in Communication (PPGCOM) at the Federal University of Pernambuco. He has a PhD in Contemporary Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Bahia (PósCom/UFBA). His research focuses on digital journalism, data visualisation and editorial design.

### Clara Sacco

Clara is the Co-founder and coordinator of Data_labe. She is a also mediator at Sesc's Social Innovation Laboratory and has been a project coordinator at the Favelas Observatory.

### Lorena Esteves

Journalist and doctoral student at PPGCOM-UFPA. She studies indigenous women's activism in digital environments. An Amazonian woman of black and indigenous ancestry, feminist, anti-racist and decolonial. Mum to 12-year-old Kauan and Zen, a puppy with paws. Currently, as well as a PhD student, she is a civil servant at the Secretariat of Communication (Secom/PA).

### Tansy Hoskins

Tansy Hoskins is an award-winning journalist and author who investigates the global fashion industry. This work has taken her to Bangladesh, Kenya, Macedonia, and the Topshop warehouses in Solihull. Her latest book is The Anti-Capitalist Book Of Fashion. Her previous book, Foot Work – What Your Shoes Tell You About Globalisation, is an exposé of the dark origins of the shoes we wear. Tansy’s books have been translated into eight languages and she lectures across Europe on the politics of the fashion industry. Tansy won the Fashion & Beauty Writer Award at the inaugural Freelance Writing Awards, and has been nominated for a British Journalism Award.

 

### Sam Poling

Sam Poling is a multi-award-winning investigative journalist with the BBC, having won five BAFTAs for her documentaries for Panorama and the investigations series Disclosure and Frontline, as well as three Royal Television Society awards and the British Journalism Award for criminal investigation.

She was the writer and presenter of the multi-award-winning documentary Who Killed Emma? and the hit BBC podcast of the same name which launched in 2021 to critical acclaim. Shortlisted for the Webby Awards for Best Series, it was based on her investigation into the murder of a young woman. A man was subsequently arrested and is awaiting trial, charged with one murder and 43 rapes and serious sexual assaults.

Her work includes investigating human trafficking by organised crime gangs from eastern Europe to the UK, filming in Iraq to show military operations post-invasion, investigated banking call centres in India, working in Pakistan to expose illegal practices within the surgical instrument trade between Pakistan and the NHS with child exploitation front and centre, and investigating the hidden deaths of former servicemen in Iraq and Afghanistan whilst on UK Government contracts.

Sam is also a trainer in investigative journalism for BBC Media Action and has conducted investigations training for teams in Nepal, Central Asia and the Caucasus.

Sam lives in Scotland and, outside of work, enjoys paddleboarding and riding her Ducati motorbike through the Highlands.

### James Cruickshank

James Cruickshank founded The Digger in 2004 in the kitchen of a high-rise flat in the Possil area of Glasgow, one of the poorest parts of Europe. The Digger has gone from selling 100 copies per week to becoming the most widely read crime magazine in the city of Glasgow; it makes money, and is now established as a leader in alternative press.  A self-confessed, critic of the agencies of law and order and a staunch defender of free speech. The Digger has made him a millionaire: rags to riches on the back of selling information.

 

 

### Ignacio Acosta

Ignacio Acosta is an artist and researcher working with photography and video in territories under pressure from extractive industries. He works in places made vulnerable through the exploitation of ecologies by colonial intervention and intensive capitalisation. He is devoted to the understanding of sites and landscapes that, although often neglected, are of global significance. Through thorough, investigative and ethical practices, his methodology is akin to a forensic investigator in his desire to uncover and expose highly ambivalent power dynamics.

Image by Liz-Mari Nilsen

### Eilidh MacGlone

Eilidh MacGlone has supported National Library of Scotland curators in collecting the online aspects of Scotland's public sphere into the web archive since 2014. This has included Scottish news sites, Scottish government and more recently, the Talking about Health collections.

### Prof. Ainun Nishat

Prof. Nishat is a pioneering expert on water resource management and climate change in Bangladesh. Currently, he is involved in BRAC University as Professor Emeritus and is engaged in carrying out diversified research projects in the field of climate change and the environment. He is a key member of the Climate Change Negotiation Team for Bangladesh and represented Bangladesh at the United Nations Climate Change Conferences (CoP) since Bali, Indonesia at CoP 13 to date.

### Prof. Mizan R. Khan

Prof. Khan is the Deputy Director at the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), one of the leading research and capacity-building organisations working on climate change and development in Bangladesh. He is also the Programme Director of the Least Developed Countries Universities Consortium for Climate Change (LUCCC).

Prior to joining ICCCAD, he worked in academia as a Professor for more than 18 years along with working closely with the Government and the development sector of Bangladesh and beyond. He has been attending the UNFCCC process as the lead negotiator on climate finance with the Bangladesh delegation since 2001.

### Md. Ziaul Haque

Md. Haque is the Director (Air Quality Management) at the Department of Environment (DoE), Government of Bangladesh. He is an expert in the domain of environmental and climate change laws and policies.

### Hasibur Rahman

Hasibur is the Executive Director at Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) and leads with a deep understanding of Bangladeshi news media, in developing a strong and independent media that exercises excellence in journalism, through research, training and production-based practical learning. At present, he is working to prepare newsrooms to regulate themselves that will eventually contribute to the free and diverse media environment in the country. Under his leadership, MRDI has become the leading news media development organisation of Bangladesh with a particular focus on investigative journalism.

### Rafiqul Islam Montu

An award-winning Bangladeshi freelance journalist and a pioneer of coastal journalism in Bangladesh, Rafiqul writes reports on issues such as climate change, disasters, women's and children's rights, land rights, border disputes, environment, humanitarian, civic services, and development for National and International media.

### Iftekhar Mahmud

Iftekhar is a special correspondent at Daily Prothom Alo and a seasoned environment and climate change journalism expert both in newspapers and on the web. He has reported on the environment, climate change, food security, and all other natural and social sciences in
national and international newspapers.

### Md. Badruddoza Babu

Md. Babu is an award-winning producer and investigative journalist who is also the Head of Investigative Journalism Help Desk at the MRDI. With 21 years of experience in journalism, he has worked for many media organisations and received many accolades for his journalistic efforts against corruption and crime.

### Prof. Sharmind Neelormi

She is a professor of economics at Jahangirnagar University and a leading expert on climate and gender justice in Bangladesh. Her areas of expertise include climate adaptation, with a particular focus on community-based activities, disaster risk reduction and the gender aspects of adaptation and mitigation.

### Syeda Rizwana Hasan

Syeda is a lawyer of the Bangladesh Supreme Court and the chief executive of Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA). Over the past 20 years, she has been advocating for environmental protection on issues such as deforestation, pollution, unregulated shipbreaking, illegal appropriation of wetlands, cutting of hills, unregulated mining, unplanned urbanisation, commercial shrimp cultivation, and illegal land development in Bangladesh. Syeda was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for her campaign for environmental justice in 2012.

### Wellington Frazão

A journalist, popular communicator, coordinator of Belém's community media Periferia em Foco and master's student in communication (UFPA). In 2021/2022, Periferia em Foco was part of a national popular communication project for the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo (Estadão), where he showed Brazil the potential of the periphery of the Pará Amazon. He is one of the authors of the book "Novos Rumos da Comunicação Comunitária no Brasil", which contextualises popular communication experiences in the region. Since April 2023, he has been a columnist for Jornal Amazônia.

### Alyaa Abo Shahba

Alyaa is a journalist, blogger, and trainer with a career spanning numerous renowned publications including Rosal Youssef, Al Watan, and Raseef22. Throughout her career, she has undertaken advanced training with global institutions such as Reuters and Deutsche Welle. Alyaa's work has been recognised with numerous prizes, including awards from the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, UN Women, and the World Health Organisation (WHO). Additionally, she has been instrumental in training the next generation of journalists at prestigious institutions and has penned the book "Stigma," highlighting the lives of individuals with HIV.

### Ahmed Seba El-Lail

An environmental journalist and climate change researcher with over 6 years of experience covering national and international climate change topics. Ahmed has been a Climate Tracker fellow since 2018 and has worked on delivering journalism trainings across the Arab region. Ahmed is also the founder of the "Climate in Arabic" platform and a member of the Arab Youth Council for Climate Change.

### Dr. Ahmed Essmat

Dr. Essmat is a researcher in media technology and digital transformation, as well as the Executive Director of the Alexandria Media Forum. In 2006, he founded the magazine "Alex Agenda," which covers cultural, artistic, and social events in Alexandria, with a particular interest in business entrepreneurs, professionally in both Arabic and English. In addition, he co-founded the "Amwaj Alexandria" newspaper and "El-Raml Radio Station" in 2013. He also founded the Alexandria Media Forum, a regional Arab forum interested in developing media communities and addressing media development and technology issues.

### Dr. Hussein Abaza

A UN expert, member of the National Committee for Green Projects, adviser to the Ministry of Environment for Sustainable Development, and adviser to the Ministry of Planning and Development in Egypt.

### Shehata El-Sayed

El-Sayed is an independent investigative journalist and founder of the Open Sources Guide for Arab Journalists. He participated in the Emerging Media Initiatives Orientation Center programme and manages the "Meta" community in Arabic. In 2022, he secured a spot for his project in the Innovation Challenge out of 425 other competitors and initiatives from 42 countries. He currently holds the position of CEO for the OSH Group specialising in technology and artificial intelligence industries.

### Ehab Zidan

An Egyptian investigative journalist, specialising in covering environmental and climate change issues, Ehab has overed environmental and climate change issues on various regional and international platforms, including specialised investigative reports. He has received environmental and climate coverage targeted training and fellowships from international institutions, most notably Thomson Reuters, the ARIJ Network of Arab Investigative Journalists, DW Academy, and the French agency CFi. Ehab won the 2019 EU Journalism Excellence Award and the International Center for Journalists award.

### Ahmed Ashour

Investigative journalist and trainer with ARIJ Network for Investigative Journalism. Ahmed has collaborated with organisations like Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), Deutsche Welle (DW), Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CiFAR), and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on cross-border investigations spanning Yemen to Egypt. Ahmed is also a recipient of international awards from ARIJ, the Goethe Institute, and the Fetisov Award. He also teaches Digital Media at Cairo University.

### Bianca Cavalcanti

Researcher at Greenpeace Brazil and a Master's student in Geography at the Federal University of Amazonas. She has experience in deforestation and environmental modelling of land use and land cover, monitoring ocean oil spills using geoprocessing and remote sensing techniques. She currently works on the Climate Justice and Oceans campaigns of Greenpeace Brazil.

### Sineia do Vale

Indigenous of the Wapichana people, Serra da Lua region, in Roraima, she is currently the National Coordinator of the Indigenous Committee on Climate Change (CIMC). She also works as an environmental manager and coordinator of the Department of Territorial and Environmental Management of the Indigenous Council of Roraima (CIR). In 2021, she was the only Brazilian to speak at the Leaders' Climate Summit in the United States. For more than ten years, she has followed climate discussions at the international level of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

### Fernanda Wenzel

She is an investigative reporter and works as a freelancer. Specializing in the environment and the Amazon, she has had stories published by outlets such as Unearthed, Mongabay, Repórter Brasil, Agência Pública, ((o))eco, Folha de São Paulo, The Guardian, BBC Brasil and CNN International. In 2022, she produced the series Ladrões de Floresta for The Intercept Brasil as a fellow of the Pulitzer Center's Rainforest Investigation Network. She was the creator and screenwriter of the documentary BR Acima de Tudo, which deals with the project to build a road over one of the most preserved areas of the Amazon.

### Edriano Souza

Research Analyst at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) and has academic and professional experience in the areas of Tropical Forest Sciences at the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA) and forest engineering at the Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR). He is a specialist in geospatial analysis applied to native vegetation conservation, with a focus on Biomass (AGBD) and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) modeling in Brazil. At IPAM, he collaborates to improve the quantification and qualification of estimates related to the Land Use Change and Forest sector (Deforestation, Degradation and Recovery) in the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimation System (SEEG).

### Wérica Lima

Graduated in social communication-journalism from Nilton Lins University, she is a student of Biological Sciences at the Federal Institute of Amazonas (IFAM). In her career, she worked as a communications officer at the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA). In 2019, she participated in the 1st Socio-environmental Journalism Workshop of Amazônia Real and was a social media at the agency between July 2020 and January 2021. Since 2021, she has been a reporter for Amazônia Real and strives to make reports that represent Amazonian diversity and give space for populations to talk about their own realities based on scientific and socio-environmental journalism.

### Rafael Moro

A special reporter for Sumaúma in Brasília. He was a contributor to media outlets such as Revista Piauí, Valor Econômico, UOL, Agência Pública and Folha de S. Paulo. One of the reporters of the Vaza Jato series. Member of Agência Livre.jor, which produces independent journalism based on the Access to Information Law.

### Cícero Pedrosa

Cícero Pedrosa Neto holds a master's in sociology and anthropology from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA). Since 2018, he has been a multimedia reporter at the Amazônia Real agency, working on topics related to the environment, socio-environmental impacts of mining, quilombola populations, indigenous populations and agrarian conflicts. He has collaborated with international outlets such as DW, The Bureau, The Guardian and the podcast El Hilo. In 2019 he was one of the journalists awarded the 41st Vladimir Herzog Prize in the multimedia category with the series "Sem Direitos: o rosto da exclusão social no Brasil" (Without Rights: the face of social exclusion in Brazil).

### Cecília do Lago

Data journalist, currently a reporter at Estadão Verifica. Previously, she was a freelance reporter, reporter at Radar Aos Fatos, producer at CNN Brasil, politics reporter at Estadão. She covers disinformation, politics, judiciary, public safety, education and transparency. She did the data analysis for the report "God of São Félix", a cover of the Washington Post which denounces the association of deforesters with local political power in the Amazon, part of the series "Amazon Undone", the best report in Latin America by the Overseas Press Club award and a finalist for the Pulitzer 2023 in Explanatory Reporting. She is currently improving his coverage of disinformation, maps, data and OSINT.

### Juliana Mori

Juliana Mori is a journalist specialising in audiovisual productions and geospatial data visualisation. Co-founder and editorial director of InfoAmazonia. Graduated in journalism from the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC) of São Paulo, she holds a master's degree in Digital Arts from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona.

### Giulio Carvalho

He has been working with data scraping and engineering for four years and is a graduate of the Computer Engineering course at UFPE. Since 2019, he has been an active member and part of the Python Users Group of Pernambuco (PUG-PE) organisation. Since 2020, he has been part of the team of maintainers of the Querido Diário project and also the network of Civic Innovation Ambassadors of Open Knowledge Brasil. He currently serves as OKBR's Civic Innovation coordinator.

### Jamile Santana

Presently the coordinator of Escola de Dados, a global program of Open Knowledge Brazil which aims to foster learning communities around relevant topics such as data journalism, transparency, and open data publication, Jamile is a data journalist with 11 years of experience in news coverage and local investigations. She is also an activist with recognised and awarded work in the defense of the transparency of public data in municipalities.

### Shahzeb Jillani

A multimedia journalist, broadcaster and editor, Shahzeb has worked with leading media outlets in senior editorial and managerial roles producing compelling, high quality, original content for digital, TV and radio. He was previously the Senior Editor at DW News in Germany, and a Senior Executive Editor at Dunya News in Karachi. Shahzeb has extensive experience in covering elections, natural disasters, militancy and interviewing news makers during his 15 years as a BBC correspondent reporting from the US, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba and the Guantanamo Bay. He has also served as a Team Leader of BBC Urdu Services.

### Omardine Zacarias Omar

A Mozambican investigative journalist with Integrity Magazine, Omardine has a master's degree in political science from the Higher Institute of Science and Technology of Mozambique (ISCTEM). In 2017, he worked with the National Institute of Statistics to train 45 candidates as census takers and controllers, including surveys of journalistic investigations and implementation of the African Union Convention on Anti-Corruption.

### Armando Nanhamtumbo

Armando has held several management positions in different media organisations in Mozambique and has conducted many investigations into human rights abuses, corruption, conflicts, freedom of expression, access to information and digital rights, including the current Islamic insurgency in the Cabo Delgado province. He has a specialty in investigative reporting, fact-checking and digital media.

### Daniel Ribeiro

For the past 16 years, Daniel has served as the Technical and Research Coordinator at Justiça Ambiental, a Mozambican organisation he co-founded in 2004 and volunteered in till 2007. A Mozambican biologist, he has a degree in Biology and a Masters in Ecology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

### Carlos Manuel dos Santos Serra

Carlos is a Mozambican lawyer, consultant, university lecturer and environmental activist, specialising in environmental law and with extensive experience on the topics of management and pollution, waste legislation, and local governance. He coordinates the Center for Environmental Law, Biodiversity and Quality of Life and teaches undergraduate and master's courses. He is also an author of several works and collections of legislation and scientific articles in local and international publications.

### Ansgar Graw

Ansgar Graw is a German journalist and publicist. He assumed directorship of the Singapore-based Media Programme Asia of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in August 2021. In Berlin, he has observed German domestic and foreign policy over many years. A historian and political scientist by degree (University Hamburg), he was a chief political correspondent in Washington DC for the daily newspaper Die Welt and Germany’s biggest quality Sunday paper Welt Am Sonntag from 2009-2017. From 2020 to 2021, Graw was the publisher of the debate portal TheEuropean and host of the weekly TV talk format “TheEuropeanTV” (Berlin TV). Graw is the author of several books, most recently Die Grünen an der Macht: Eine kritische Bilanz and Trump verrückt(e) die Welt: Was nun? (both Munich 2020).

### Subhra Priyadarshini

Subhra Priyadarshini is the Editor in Chief of Nature India and Nature Portfolio's globally supported projects. She has been a science and environment journalist for close to 25 years, working with various Indian and global media houses. Subhra trains scientists and journalists in science and health writing, fact-checking and combatting misinformation.

A member of many national and international committees on science communication, science policy, environment and health, Subhra also serves as a Board Director at the World Federation of Science Jouranalists (WFSJ) and is the founding President of the Science Journalists Association of India (SJAI). A British Chevening scholar, Robert Bosch fellow, IREX-UNESCO fellow and a Kavli Prize Media Scholarship awardee, Subhra received the BBC World Service Trust award for her coverage of the ‘Vanishing Islands of Sunderbans’ in the Bay of Bengal and the PANOS South Asia Media Excellence Award for her incisive coverage of climate change issues.

### Aditi Tandon

Aditi Tandon is a Senior Production Editor at Mongabay India, an environment and conservation news portal. She has worked for over two decades in journalism and communications. 

She is a trainer with the Google News Initiative India Training Network since 2018 and in recent years has been tracking and conducting training on the growing misinformation about climate change in India.

### Anoushka Dalmia

Anoushka Dalmia is a data-driven investigative reporter with a focus on human rights. She is currently the South Asia Correspondent & Editorial Strategist for Asian Dispatch, a cross-border, collaborative Asian newsroom. She is based out of Delhi, India and has conducted training on data journalism across the country. She holds an M.Sc. in Journalism from Boston University and has previously worked for Telegram & Gazette, Institute for Nonprofit News and the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism.

### Syed Nazakat

Syed Nazakat is an award-winning Indian journalist, media entrepreneur, founder of DataLEADS. He leads DataLEADS in New Delhi, as well as oversees its outreach across Asia with different partners, including with Google News Initiative. He has worked in senior positions at different media organisations and his work has earned him global recognition and awards. He is passionate about open data, governance, public health and the intersection of technology and media, and is a frequent speaker on these issues across conferences and media outlets globally. He holds B.Sc degree from India and Master’s degree in Journalism from the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines.

### Rintu Thomas

Rintu Thomas is an Academy Award-nominated, Peabody Award-winning Indian filmmaker, whose decade-long body of work sits at the intersection of storytelling as both an art and a conversation. Her recent feature documentary 'Writing With Fire' was India's first feature documentary to be nominated for an Oscar. Rintu is a co-founder of Black Ticket Films, an award-winning production company invested in the power of storytelling. With a strong eye on social justice stories, Black Ticket Films’ critically acclaimed slate of films are being used as advocacy, impact and education tools by institutions across the world.

Rintu’s award-winning shorts include ‘Dilli’ (2010) and ‘Timbaktu’ (2012). She is a recipient of the President’s Medal of India, an IDA ‘Courage Under Fire’ awardee, a Skoll Stories of Change Fellow and also a South Asia Fellow with the Japan Foundation. She lives between New Delhi and a quaint mountain town in North India.

### Chandrani Sinha

Chandrani Sinha is an independent multimedia journalist, currently based in Guwahati city of Assam India. She covers the eastern corridor of India along with all the North-Eastern states including West Bengal and Odisha. She has been reporting stories from Northeast India for the past 10 years. She works on climate change, migration, health and along with other human-interest stories.

She was one of the first journalists to report on the National Registration Certificate in the Indian state of Assam and linking it with climate change and how it affected the identity of climate victims of Assam. The story was later selected as a finalist of ASIA CENTRE-OXFAM award for equitable Asia series. She is a 2022 IVLP fellow, a prestigious international exchange program conducted by the US state department on disinformation and misinformation. She is a 2021 fellow for National Foundation of India on Mental health issues of pregnant tea garden workers during the pandemic in Assam, India. Currently, she contributes to both Indian and Foreign media organizations like The third pole, BBC, climate home, Washington Post, Vice US, and Times UK mostly on digital platforms. Her last story “laments of Brahmaputra '' published by The Third Pole, won the covering climate now global journalism award 2022, also reviewed by Columbia Journalism School.

### Amitabh Sinha

Amitabh Sinha is Deputy Editor at The Indian Express. He has been a journalist for 23 years, and has previously worked with Press Trust of India, Reuters and BBC. At The Indian Express, where he has spent more than 15 years, Amitabh writes mainly on climate change and science, two very vast fields that cover a range of topics. Amitabh is a Chemistry graduate and has a Masters in Public Policy besides a post-graduate diploma in journalism.

### Dr. S. Sreekesh

Dr. Sreekesh is an Associate professor at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India and also a member of expert committee of 2 National missions of Climate change namely National Mission of Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change and National Mission on Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem. He has over 20 years of teaching experience with expertise in climate change and water resources. Dr. Sreekesh has worked with The Energy Resource Institute of India [TERI] at the Department of Natural Sciences.  He has been awarded World Bank Fellowship for advanced training in GIS and internet mapping applications and International Center for Science and technology (ICS) of UNIDO fellowship for training on "Geographic Information System and Water Management for Industrial Activities."

### Madison Marriage

Madison Marriage is the Financial Times’ special investigations editor. She leads a team of reporters investigating misconduct and abuse of power across business, politics, housing, education and beyond.

Since joining the FT 12 years ago she has held a number of correspondent positions covering asset management, tax and accounting. She joined the investigations desk in 2019 after delivering two award-winning investigations into sexual harassment at the elite Presidents Club charity dinner and the defenestration of advertising mogul Sir Martin Sorrell.

### Paul Caruana Galizia

Paul Caruana Galizia became a reporter at Tortoise after his mother Daphne was assassinated and since then has won several journalism awards and, with his two brothers, a Magnitsky Human Rights Award and an Anderson-Lucas-Norman Award for tax justice.

### Antonia Cundy

Antonia Cundy is a multi award-winning special investigations reporter at the Financial Times, focused on exposing abuses of power. Before joining the FT in 2022, Antonia worked as a freelance foreign correspondent and investigative reporter. In 2022, she won the Marie Colvin Award at the British Journalism Awards for her freelance war reportage from Ukraine, and was also awarded Newcomer of the Year at the Free Press Awards.

Her investigations at the FT have won her multiple accolades. In 2023, she won Best Investigative News Article at the Anti-Slavery Day Awards for an exposé into modern slavery in the UK fishing industry; in 2024, her investigation with Madison Marriage and Paul Caruana Galizia into sexual abuse by financier Crispin Odey won Scoop of the Year at the British Press Awards, was highly commended for Investigation of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Private Eye Paul Foot Award.

Cundy was also awarded Young Journalist of the Year at the 2024 Harold Wincott Awards for business, economic and financial journalism.

### Matt Kennard 

Matt Kennard was co-founder and former chief investigator at Declassified UK, a news outlet investigating British foreign policy. He was a fellow at the CIJ in 2014-2016. He has worked as a staff writer for the Financial Times in Washington, D.C., New York, and London. He is the author of three books: Irregular Army (2012), The Racket (2015) and Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy (2023).

### Claire Provost

Claire Provost is a senior investigative journalist and co-author of Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy (Bloomsbury Academic 2023), with Matt Kennard, which is the product of research they started while fellows at the CIJ in 2014-2016. She is also a co-founder of the new non-profit Institute for Journalism and Social Change which is bringing together journalists, activists and researchers to reinvigorate the media with its core social purpose: to support democracy. Claire was previously head of global investigations at openDemocracy, and a data journalist at the Guardian. Her work has also been published by outlets including Al Jazeera, CNN, Foreign Policy and The New York Review of Books. She lives in Italy.

### Zofeen Ebrahim

Zofeen has written extensively on development issues including climate change, water, energy, renewables, sanitation, health, women’s health, diseases etc., and its impact on lives. She is an independent journalist and was previously Pakistan editor at The Third Pole. Zofeen is writer at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Dawn and the Guardian. She also contributes regularly to the Inter Press Service.

### Kamal Siddiqi

Kamal is the Director of Media Unlimited and was previously the Director of the Centre for Excellence in Journalism at the Institute of Business Administration, where he worked for over five years and helped the center focus on sustainability. Prior to that, he served as an editor at The Express Tribune for over six years, overseeing print and online editions. He also held editorial positions at The News, Dawn, Dow Jones Newswires, and Asia Times.

### Lubna Jerar Naqvi

With over two decades experience as a Journalist and Fact Checker, Lubna is currently the Pakistan Gender Coordinator of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and an IFJ Council Member for Gender 2022-2025. She regularly conducts workshops and training sessions to prepare reporters for challenges in the media and provide insights on how to safely report sensitive news and stories across several thematic areas.

### Hoda Osman

Hoda Osman has over a decade experience teaching investigative journalism extensively in the Arab region and elsewhere. She is the President of the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalist Association (AMEJA), member of ARIJ editorial committee, and has worked as a journalist across various media organisations and news outlets globally. In 2008, Hoda and Dave Kaplan created an investigative journalism course for Arab journalists under the International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ).

### Munir Al-Khatib

Currently the ARIJ editor-in-chief and Internews SAWT media team lead, Munir is an experienced journalist and media consultant with over two decades of experience as an editorial leader, mentor and coach in the digital publishing and news industries. In 2012, he worked as a media coordinator on the UNDP’s peace building project ‘Strengthening Civil Peace in Lebanon’, where he helped prepare workshops for journalists, and trained them in peacebuilding and investigative journalism.

### Julia Neumann

Julia works as an independent correspondent for various German media outlets such as taz newspaper and the public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk. She follows a constructivist/solutions-oriented approach in reporting and covers topics revolving around gender, environment, migration and social justice.

### Maristela Crispim

Founder and editor-in-chief of Eco Nordeste - Content Agency, Maristela is an award winning journalist of over three decades. She is a former press advisor for the Ceará Meteorology and Water Resources Foundation (Funceme) and was part of the Esso Award jury and the selection team for the Petrobras Socio-environmental Programme. Maristela has been part of the Brazilian Network of Environmental Journalism (RBJA) and Earth Journalism Network (EJN).

### Felipe Barcellos

Working at the Institute of Energy and Environment (IEMA) with research on energy policy, urban mobility, air quality, and atmospheric emissions modeling, Felipe has a technical background in electronics from Fundação Instituto Tecnológico de Osasco and a specialisation in Urban Mobility and Contemporary City from Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo Escola da Cidade. He is part of the Greenhouse Gas Emission and Removal Estimation System (SEEG) team, an initiative of the Climate Observatory (OC).

### Carolina Dantas

Carolina is a journalist specialised in science journalism and has established two areas of interest: environment, with a special focus on the Amazon, and health since 2016. She has more than a decade of experience in large newsrooms, such as Folha de S.Paulo, g1 and TV Globo and she is currently the editor and coordinator of the PlenaMata project by InfoAmazonia and the Einstein News Agency.

### Nick McKenzie

Nick McKenzie is an acclaimed Australian investigative journalist, working primarily for Melbourne newspaper The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. He’s also presented major investigations for the ABC's Four Corners program, 60 Minutes and the Australian Financial Review. With two decades of experience, Nick has won every major award in Australian journalism, including 12 wins of the Walkley, the nation’s highest journalism award. He’s been named Australian Journalist of the Year on three occasions.

His investigations span foreign affairs, defence and national security, corporate wrongdoing, politics, organised crime and corruption, the criminal justice system and social affairs. His work has sparked many national and state inquires, including Royal Commissions and parliamentary probes, prompted major corruption investigations in Australia, the US and Britain, and led to significant legislative change.

### Chris Masters

Chris Masters worked as an investigative reporter on ABC TV's Four Corners program from 1983-2010, and was responsible for many nation-shaping reports, including The Big League in 1983, which triggered the NSW Street Royal Commission, and the Moonlight State report on police corruption in Queensland which prompted the Fitzgerald Inquiry.

He produced three television features for the ABC and Network Ten on Australian military operations in Afghanistan. He is the author of six books, the latest Flawed Hero, the story of Ben Roberts-Smith VC. Chris and Nick McKenzie unmasked the war hero as a war criminal. In June 2023, following ‘the defamation trial of the century’, Justice Anthony Besanko of Australia’s Federal Court, ruled in their favour.

### Lucas Amin

Lucas Amin is an investigative journalist and cofounder of Democracy for Sale, the newsletter dedicated to revealing how dark money and hidden influence threaten our democracy. His work has been nominated for several press prizes and he was part of a team that won Campaign of the Year at the British Journalism Awards in 2022. An expert in using information law for journalism, Lucas has taken the government to court on several occasions to force the publication of documents in the public interest. He is co-author of two CIJ guidebooks: FOIA Without the Lawyer and its companion guide to using the Environmental Information Regulations.

### Will Dahlgreen

Will Dahlgreen is a senior data journalist in the BBC’s data team with an interest in investigations and financial crime. In recent years he has worked on international investigations, such as the Pandora Papers and Uber Files, and domestic investigations on property ownership and company secrecy. Two of these won British Journalism Awards in 2022. He enjoys using R and Python to apply new technologies to journalism, like computer vision, or getting his head around new techniques like spatial analysis.

### Harriet Agerholm

Harriet Agerholm is a data journalist at the BBC data team and has a special interest in social affairs, mainly working on housing and health stories. She uses programming language R for data analysis and visualisation, but dabbles in Python too. She has a history of getting stories out of FOIs.

### Libby Rogers

Libby Rogers is a data scientist specialising in spatial data, automation and dealing with tricky data sets using R and Python. She also provides training, support and tools for the BBC data team. She has a particular interest in health and cost of living. Previously, Libby has worked for the Greater London Authority and UCL maths department.

### Elena Loginova

Elena Loginova joined OCCRP in 2017 as an investigative reporter. She has been a team member on the Paradise Papers, FinCEN Files, and Pandora Papers projects. Elena also worked as a filmmaker for Slidstvo.Info, an OCCRP member centre in Ukraine. In 2021, she received the Ukrainian “Honor of Profession” award in the investigative journalism category for her documentary Break the Bank.

Elena was a reporter/producer for the investigative documentary Killing Pavel, about the murder of Ukrainian journalist Pavel Sheremet. The documentary won the 2017 Investigative Reporters and Editors Medal (US) and the 2018 DIG Award (Italy). She has a degree in International Information from the National Aviation University.

### Stefania Spezzati

Stefania Spezzati is an award-winning reporter covering European banking at Reuters. Based in London, she chronicles all things finance, breaks news and digs deep into the world's biggest banks. Prior to joining Reuters, Stefania spent about a decade at Bloomberg News. In 2022, she co-led a data-driven investigation which exposed how over 130 million pounds in taxpayer-backed loans went to firms with dubious credentials. The story won at the British Journalism Awards in Crime and Legal Affairs Journalism.

### Olga Rudenko

Olga Rudenko is the chief editor of the Kyiv Independent, an award-winning English language media start-up launched in November 2021 by the former editorial team of the Kyiv Post where she was the deputy chief editor. She has written for global publications and was a fellow at the Chicago Booth School of Business in 2021. She was featured on the cover of Time magazine in May 2022 as one of the publication’s Next Generation Leaders, and won the Women of Europe award in the Woman in Action category in December 2022.

### Gesbeen Mohammad

Gesbeen (Gesh) Mohammad is a BAFTA and Emmy-winning journalist and documentary producer and director. She started off as an intern at the Centre for Investigative Journalism in 2015.

Since then she has been making documentaries for major UK broadcasters, such as ITV, the BBC, and Channel 4 as well as PBS’s FRONTLINE in the US. Her credits include: the Peabody-nominated Inside Russia: Putin’s War at Home (2022), the Peabody-nominated The Power of Big Oil (2022) - shown on BBC iPlayer as Big Oil v the World, the Bafta and Peabody-nominated The Battle for Hong Kong (2020), the Bafta and Emmy-winning Undercover: Inside China’s Digital Gulag (2019), and the Bafta and Emmy-nominated Iran Unveiled: Taking on the Ayatollahs (2018).

Her documentaries are often focused on human rights in difficult to access authoritarian countries, such as China, Russia, and Iran. She combines emotional human stories with complex undercover filming or investigative techniques.

### Gianluca Liva

Gianluca Liva is an Italian science journalist and science communicator. He is one of the founders of RADAR Magazine, the website of an Italian collective of science, investigative and environmental journalists and photographers. He covers environmental crimes, toxicology and the social impacts of pollution. He has contributed to Le Scienze (Scientific American), MIND, VICE Media Group LCC, European Science Media Hub and other media. As a science communicator, he has worked with the UN Environment Program, UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the International Fact-Checking Network.

### Ed Davey

Ed Davey is a Special Correspondent for Climate Accountability at the Associated Press, working to hold corporations and politicians to account for their contribution to global warming. He specialises in investigative and environmental journalism. When not working he enjoys travel to far-flung and occasionally dangerous spots for reporting or to research his fiction. In 2015, whilst location-scouting his novel The Killing Gene, he drove along the porous Afghan border with Tajikistan.

While working for the BBC, Ed went undercover for Panorama, presented on the BBC World Service and worked on investigations for Newsnight, File on 4, and the national News at Six. At the international campaign group Global Witness, he went on to expose corruption, human rights abuses and environmental destruction in some of the world’s most beautiful but troubled countries. In 2018, he helped reveal that the world’s top three commodity trading houses – Glencore, Trafigura and Vitol, with a joint turnover greater than the GDP of Austria – were embroiled in Brazil’s legendary Car Wash scandal. It was one of that year’s biggest corruption stories. In a secret filming investigation published in 2021, he and colleagues accused palm oil executives in Papua New Guinea of the alleged bribing of ministers, tax evasion, use of child labour, paying police to assault protesting villagers and destroying rainforests. Their product went to brands including Kellogg’s, Danone, Nestlé, Hersheys, Colgate, Imperial Leather and Strepsils.

He writes his books under the name of E. M. Davey.

### Dr Tobi Oluwatola

Dr Tobi Oluwatola is an experienced executive in the energy sector with over 16 years of expertise. He is the Chief Executive of TAO Energy. Previously, he was the Executive Director of the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development, an African media innovation think tank. Prior to this, he worked in many policy and business consulting roles across four continents, including at the World Bank, FCDO, GIZ, RAND Corporation, and KPMG. He is an avid Africa-first investor with interests in energy, real estate, and financial technology. He holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Policy Analysis.

### Patricia Devlin

Patricia Devlin is an award-winning crime and investigative journalist from Northern Ireland. Over the last 16 years she has covered organised crime and paramilitary activity which has resulted in serious threats to her life. In 2021, she was shortlisted in the international RSF Press Freedom Awards for successfully challenging the Police Service of Northern Ireland over its failure to appropriately investigate neo-Nazis' threats to her young child over her work.

### Basant Pratap Singh

Basant Pratap Singh is an investigative journalist based in Far-Western Nepal, with 17 years' experience in the field. He has built a reputation for himself as a reporter covering pressing issues related to the environment, climate change, human rights, gender, and social affairs, as well as good governance in remote and rural parts of Western Nepal.

As a reporter, Basant regularly contributes articles, stories, and reports to Kantipur National Daily, The Kathmandu Post, Kantipur television, and Radio Kantipur. He has also served as a reporting fellow for the Center for Investigative Journalism Nepal and the Center for Data Journalism Nepal, where he has produced impactful investigative and data-driven pieces.

Basant's journalistic works have been rewarded and recognised by leading organisations such as WWF Nepal and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). Through his outstanding journalism, he has managed to bring critical issues affecting marginalised communities in Western Nepal to the forefront, creating awareness and triggering discussions on necessary interventions.

His investigation into floods washing away schools was published as part of the CIJ Open Climate Reporting Initiative pilot in Nepal.

### Gabriel Geiger

Gabriel Geiger is an investigative journalist at Lighthouse Reports – an award-winning pioneer of collaborative journalism – where he specialises in surveillance and algorithmic accountability reporting. His work often grapples with issues of inequality through a global lens.

### Sechaba Mokhethi

Sechaba Mokhethi is an investigative journalist and founding partner of MNN Centre for Investigative Journalism in Lesotho. He started out as a political writer for Public Eye, a local newspaper in Lesotho. He then moved to become the Lesotho correspondent for the South Africa based African Independent and for The Southern Times in Namibia. At the same time, he was contributing stories for Good Governance Africa and Germany-based IDN IndepthNews, a flagship of International Press Syndicate Group.

Mokhethi is former Secretary General for the Media Institute of Southern Africa-Lesotho. In 2019, he joined the amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism as a Fellow. He soon established himself as a reliable investigative journalist in southern Africa. His story was rated the best among the Oxpeckers Centre for Investigative Journalism’s Data-Driven Reporting on Green Energy in Africa project in 2022. Mokhethi is part of the MNN team that produced investigations for the Africa China Reporting Project, Centre for Collaborative Investigative Journalism and Pulitzer Centre as grantees from 2021 to 2023.

Sechaba is a graduate of the 2022 Oxpeckers #PowerTracker professional support and training programme, supported by the CIJ's Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI).

Read his story Gone With The Wind: Lesotho’s $15-Billion Energy Pipedream.

### Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi

Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi is an investigative journalist, AI expert, technologist, and media innovator. With a decade of experience, she focuses on uncovering environmental and social injustices, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. She is the developer of NewsAssist AI, an AI-powered platform that transcribes audio and video files to text, analyses and translates documents, and summarizes and edits articles.

As the Founder and CEO of The Colonist Report Africa, The Colonist Report UK, and JournoTECH, she leads organisations that leverage AI-powered tools and scientific analysis to report on critical issues such as oil pollution, climate change, and human rights violations.

Elfredah is also an AI app developer and web designer, with expertise in cybersecurity and ethical hacking.

At The Colonist Report, she integrates AI-driven research and data analysis to investigate and expose underreported environmental crises in hard-to-reach communities. Her work has brought global attention to issues such as oil spills and government inaction in Nigeria.

Through JournoTECH, she bridges the AI literacy gap by training journalists, educators, and marginalised communities to use AI tools for storytelling, fact-checking, digital security, and product development—with a focus on ethical AI use.

With NewsAssist AI, Elfredah pioneers AI solutions for content creators, journalists, and professionals—automating transcription, summarisation, grammar checks, and content extraction from long-form audio and documents. The platform is designed to reduce burnout and improve productivity, especially for users in underserved regions.

### José María Irujo

José María Irujo is Editor-in-Chief of Investigation at El País. He specialises in investigating ETA terrorism and jihadist groups. For his investigations he has won numerous national and international awards, including the Ortega y Gasset and the King of Spain Award for Journalism. He discovered the Roldán case, for which the director of the Spanish State Security Forces was sentenced to 31 years in prison for corruption, and revealed the hidden accounts in Switzerland of King Emeritus Juan Carlos I, a scandal that in the last two years has caused an informative earthquake in Spain. He is the author of five books, the most recent being El Agujero. Spain Invaded by Jihad (Aguilar 2005), on the 11-M attacks, and lectures at universities, forums, and think tanks in Europe, Asia, and America.

### Michèle Ebongue

Michèle Ebongue is an investigative journalist, data journalist, fact-checker, blogger, and Head of News Desk at Data Cameroon.

Michelle started as a radio journalist, but with time moved to print. Since July 2020, she has been part of the team at Data Cameroon, an online publication specialising in data journalism and fact-checking.

She is a fellow of several projects, including Open Data for Environment and Civic Awareness in Cameroon, Open Data for Governance in Cameroon, Desinfox Afrique, and a coach in investigative journalism, data journalism and fact-checking for the Talk Peace project, which aims to stabilise peace and social cohesion in crisis regions in Cameroon.

She is one of the CIJ Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) participants. You can see her work on the destruction of mangroves here.

### Paul Morgan-Bentley

Paul Morgan-Bentley is head of investigations at The Times and specialises in undercover work and in-depth reporting. He has won The Cudlipp Award for campaigning journalism at the UK Press Awards, a Future of Media Award for his investigative reporting, and is among the writers who have been shortlisted the most times for British Journalism Awards. Paul is also the author of The Equal Parent, which explores myths around gendered parenting roles and advocates for men properly sharing responsibility for caring for their children.

### Gavin Millar KC

Gavin Millar KC is a specialist barrister in all areas of media law. He often represents media outlets, journalists and politicians in both civil and criminal proceedings. He represented the Telegraph Media Group at the Leveson Inquiry and in 2013 advised the Guardian on its coverage of Edward Snowden’s disclosures. He represented the Sun newspaper in the “plebgate” libel trial and the “PJS” celebrity injunction litigation, and the BBC in the Cliff Richard privacy trial. More recently he has represented Carole Cadwalladr in libel proceedings brought by Arron Banks. He has successfully advanced a public interest speech defence in four high profile High Court libel trials. He regularly gives pre-publication advice to journalists and news outlets on legal and regulatory issues and often defends the rights of journalists to protect confidential journalistic sources. In 2022 he represented Chris Mullin, successfully resisting an attempt by West Midlands Police to identify a source in his 1980s investigations into the Birmingham Six miscarriage of justice.

### Josie Stewart

Josie Stewart is Director of Transparency International Defence and Security. She has previously worked for and with governments, multilateral institutions, development agencies, militaries, law enforcement agencies, civil society, and the private sector, in policy and delivery roles supporting effective and accountable governance. She is an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute and serves on the board of Spotlight on Corruption. She was sacked by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in 2022 for revealing to a journalist information concerning the UK's withdrawal from Afghanistan. Josie has lived and worked in Liberia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, the UAE, and Afghanistan.

### Basia Cummings

Basia Cummings is an editor and partner at Tortoise, an audio-first newsroom based in London. She is the host of the weekly investigative show, the Slow Newscast,; executive editor of numerous investigative podcast series including Sweet Bobby, Hoaxed and Hidden Homicides (shortlisted for the 2022 Orwell Prize); and reporter of Pig Iron and Left to Die, which won the 2021 Foreign Press Award for best podcast. Before joining Tortoise, Basia worked on the foreign desk at the Guardian and was news editor of HuffPost UK.

### Dean Kirby

Dean Kirby is the award-winning Investigations Correspondent of the i newspaper in London. His recent awards include the Medical Journalists’ Association News Story of the Year for an investigation into Britain's PPE supply chain chaos during the Covid pandemic. In 2022, he was highly commended for the Hugh Cudlipp Award for Investigative and Campaigning Journalism and shortlisted for Scoop of the Year at the British Journalism Awards for his open-source work on the war in Ukraine, as well as being a finalist at the London Press Club Awards. His recent projects include an exposé of the UK’s prepayment energy meter scandal, for which he was longlisted for the Paul Foot Award and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain's Social Evils. He is an author, has a PhD in urban history and is a volunteer mentor to socially disadvantaged journalism students.

### Carmen Aguilar García

Carmen Aguilar García is an award-winning journalist, currently part of The Guardian Data Project team. Before joining the Guardian, she was the first data journalist at Sky News, working on a wide range of topics to find data stories, and covering the Covid pandemic.

Carmen also worked as a TV reporter and a multimedia journalist in Chile and Spain before jumping into the world of spreadsheets, coding and visualisations.

The stories she has published include a report where she used information from company accounts to track who owns England’s water and an investigation into the offshore companies with properties in the UK. She has also written about health, excess deaths in private homes, climate displacements and droughts.

Carmen was shortlisted for the Sigma Awards for her portfolio and her project automating data processes when covering the Covid pandemic for Sky News, and she won prestigious awards during her time in Chile. She has taught and given talks at other conferences, including Dataharvest in Belgium and the European Data and Computational Journalism Conference.

### ‘Fisayo Soyombo

‘Fisayo Soyombo is best known for his undercover work tracking corruption in Nigeria’s criminal justice system, such as spending five days in a police cell as a suspect and eight as an inmate in Ikoyi Prison. He is also known for being the journalist who drove the equivalent of a stolen vehicle from Abuja to Lagos, passing through a whopping 86 checkpoints on a journey of over 1,600km that lasted a cumulative 28 hours and 17 minutes.

He has investigated the abandonment of soldiers injured in battle against Boko Haram and the corruption in the handling of corpses at government-run mortuaries and cemeteries.

In 2019, he went undercover for three weeks as a patient in the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Yaba, Lagos. 'Fisayo is currently the Founder/Editor-in-Chief of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ).

### Arun Karki

Arun Karki is a Nepal-based leading data journalist, trainer and the founder of the Center for Data Journalism Nepal (CDJN). Since 2020, he has spearheaded various data-driven reporting projects, including COVID-19 data reporting and climate investigations, employing open-source intelligence. Showcasing his collaborative effort, Arun has worked on cross-border investigative reporting projects with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Additionally, Arun has more than ten years of experience in producing video news content at Nepal Television. He has completed an MSc in Data Journalism from Columbia University and teaches data-driven reporting at CMR Journalism Academy in Kathmandu. For CIJ, Arun serves as the South Asia coordinator for the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) project.

### Dan Neidle

Dan Neidle spent almost 25 years as a tax lawyer, and was head of tax at the London office of one of the largest law firms in the world. During his career, Dan advised corporates, governments, regulators, central banks and NGOs on tax and tax policy. Dan then retired in May 2022 to found Tax Policy Associates, with the aim of improving tax policy and shaping and informing the debate around tax.

Read an interview with Dan Neidle.

‘I’m embarrassed about how horribly overpaid I was’: tax campaigner Dan Neidle
By Rupert Neate for the Guardian. 25 June 2023.

### Alice de Souza

Alice is a Brazilian journalist with multiple national and international awards, including the Vladimir Herzog and One World Media. A researcher at the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji), she is also a freelance reporter, working with OSINT and digital investigations. Alice has a decade experience as a reporter at Diario de Pernambuco, editorial coordinator at Jornal do Commercio and Énois Laboratório de Jornalismo.

### Sam Leon

Sam Leon is co-founder of Data Desk, an investigative consultancy focused on climate and the commodities industry. He previously worked at Global Witness where he ran their digital investigations unit.

### Louis Goddard

Louis Goddard is co-founder of Data Desk, an investigative consultancy focused on climate and the commodities industry. He previously worked for The Times and Global Witness, where he produced data-driven investigations, including as part of a high-impact campaign against Russian fossil fuel exports.

### Sally Herships

Sally Herships is an award-winning journalist and director of the audio program at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. She covered the pandemic and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for NPR’s National Desk, has been a frequent contributor to NPR’s “Indicator” podcast and has reported for multiple other shows and outlets including Marketplace, the BBC, The New York Times, Morning Edition and All Things Considered. The Heist, an investigative series examining President Trump’s 2017 tax bill, which she hosted and co-Executive Produced, was honored as a finalist for the 2022 DuPont awards. The judges wrote: “A forensic review of the 2017 Tax bill, The Heist managed to be both an informative and wildly entertaining”. Sally founded and runs Radio Boot Camp, an online podcast school, and lives in Brooklyn with her family.

### Laura Sofía Mejía

A social communicator and journalist by profession with a master's degree in direction and project management from OBS and the University of Barcelona, Laura is Co-founder and Director of Baudó Public Agency. She has over a decade experience managing social and cultural projects.

At BaudóAP she focuses on devising, managing and coordinating journalistic coverage projects on the environment; memory, peace and conflict; gender and inclusion. Laura has also been an independent photographer and audiovisual producer.

### Dora Montero

Dora is the Vice President of Consejo de Redacción, a Colombian journalist and an Investigative journalist with more than 20 years of journalistic experience working in different national media and covering regional issues in Colombia. She graduated from the University of La Sabana and currently works at RCN television, editing and investigating judicial issues.

### Diogo Augusto

Diogo Augusto comes from a background in Sociology, having worked as a lecturer and researcher for 10 years in universities in Portugal and Belize. As a sociologist he specialised in cultural and political issues. After finishing an MA in Journalism in Edinburgh, he started dedicating himself to investigative journalism, working on issues such as corporate uses of offshore jurisdictions, tax avoidance, lobbying and environment and the misuse of the UK company formation system. He also works as a research analyst investigating corporations and tracing assets. He is a member of the Portuguese investigative journalism collective Matéria.

### Fatou Jeng

Fatou Jeng has 7 years of experience in climate change policy and advocacy, community development, and gender equality work. With a master’s degree in Environment, Development, and Policy at the University of Sussex, She is the founder of Clean Earth Gambia, Board member of Plant-for-the-Planet International, and Policy lead on gender and climate change at the UNFCCC Youth Constituency, leading several projects on community resilience to climate change, resulting in her recognition as one of the most influential climate activists from Africa.

 

### Mojeed Alabi

Mojeed is an experienced reporter with a demonstrated history of excellent delivery skilled in investigative reporting, news sourcing, and building brands. He is a media and communication professional with a BA in English focused in English Language from Obafemi Awolowo University and Masters in Diplomacy and Strategic Studies (MDSS) from the University of Lagos (UNILAG).

Mojeed is a two-time recipient of the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting, among other awards. He is currently the Head,
Development Desk at PREMIUM TIMES and serves as Uptake Officer for Lagos at the African Cities Research Consortium.

### Lina Yassin

Lina Yassin is a Sudanese climate journalism and development consultant, with experience working on climate change communications and journalism projects across the MENA region. She worked for 5 years as the Operations Manager at Climate Tracker where she implemented a series of journalism fellowships and training on climate change and climate policy across different countries. She also works as the OCRI Regional Coordinator for Middle East and North Africa.

 

### Godson Ikiebey

Godson is a sustainable development researcher and advisor. He was a founding Research Fellow of the Knowledge Economy Group; a think tank that conducted research on the knowledge economy in Nigeria. He is interested in the interplay between sustainability strategy, sustainable innovation, sustainable value creation and sustainable socio-economic development. Godson has worked with a range of clients across different industries and markets. His research/advisory interests include Public Policy, Sustainability, Public and Corporate Sustainability Strategy, Sustainable Finance and Investment, Climate Change and Climate Finance, ESG, Sustainability Innovation Process, Corporate Tax Responsibility and Sustainable Development.

### Olumide Idowu

Olumide is a co-founder of the International Climate Change Development Initiative (ICCDI), a non-governmental organisation that aims to produce climate-smart generations throughout Africa while also tackling development disparities. He also serves as the UNDP Small Grants Program's Youth Focal Point in Nigeria, as well as the Youth Lead Author of the Global Environmental Outlook (GEO6) and the Executive Coordinator of the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change. He is a former Atlas Corps Fellow and an alumnus of the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) in the United States.

He has been actively involved in climate change activism for the past 12 years and is strategically positioned to engage both younger and older generations through his active engagement in climate change organisations and social media, where he is known as 'Mr. Climate.'

### Jubril Adeojo

Jubril is the Co-founder at OneWattSolar, a clean-tech company in Africa. He is also the Co-founder/Managing Director at SMEFUNDS Capital Limited, where he led the consortium that set up the $100million Nigeria-Green Energy Fund programme that is backed by the African Guarantee Fund.

He has professional experience spanning over 14 years spanning entrepreneurship, enterprise development, disruptive innovations, and the Nigeria banking system covering project finance, corporate finance, SME banking, financial inclusion, audit and strategy planning. On need basis, he advises several multi-lateral development institutions on climate finance matters in line with the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of different African countries under the Paris Agreement for Climate Change.

Jubril is a certified climate impact finance expert from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. He holds a PhD in development finance and community development from the Da Vinci Institute for Technology Management.

### Tobi Oluwatola

Tobi is an executive with over 16 years of experience in media, energy, finance, and policy. He is currently the Executive Director of the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID), a West African media innovation think (and do) tank. He also leads TAO Energy, an energy technology company, and serves on the boards of a few technology startups and nonprofit organisations.

Holding a Phd in Quantitative Policy Analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School, Tobi's specialties are energy, economic development, policy analysis, financial modeling, data science, business/ entrepreneurship, climate change, media, journalism.

### Annie Burns-Pieper

Annie is a senior researcher for Inclusive Development International (IDI) based in Montreal. Before this role, she worked for ten years as an investigative reporter in Canada and internationally. Her past work includes stories on Indigenous water rights, sexual violence on public
transit, maternity care, physician over billing, hospital suicide, tax havens and pipelines. Annie’s award-winning journalism has helped open national conversations and sparked policy change.

She has reported from Canada, The United States, Australia, Madagascar, India and Malaysia. Annie has two master’s degrees from the Toronto Metropolitan University for journalism and the London School of Economics for global history.

### Dustin Roasa

Dustin is research director at Inclusive Development International (IDI). He joined the organisation in 2016 to help design and launch the Follow the Money initiative, an innovative approach to corporate accountability. Upon request from civil society organisations, IDI investigates the investment and supply chains behind harmful projects – and gets that information into the hands of affected communities, so they can better defend their rights.

Prior to IDI, Dustin worked for 10 years as a journalist in Asia, where he wrote about human rights, politics and culture for publications including the Guardian, LA Times, Washington Post and Foreign Policy.

### Adam Oxford

Adam is a highly experienced journalist in the fields of technology and international development, telecoms, IT in education and more. He is passionate about open data and citizenship issues as well as the African startup scene.

### Tabu Butagira

Presently the Managing Editor of Nation Media Group-Uganda (NMG-U), Tabu is an alumnus of both Chevening Scholarship and Fulbright (Hubert H. Humphrey) fellowship.

Uganda’s pioneer David Astor Journalism Award winner on which he had work placement at The Times of London, Tabu has near two-decade journalism experience, most of it as a Reporter covering politics, security, diplomacy and investigations.

He is invested in mentoring young-and-upcoming Reporters, both in and outside the newsroom, and guest-speaks at university Journalism schools.

### Stuart Tibaweswa

Stuart is a Kampala-based Ugandan documentary photographer. His work often focuses on marginalized communities, their relationship to wider society and seeks to contribute towards correcting misrepresented narratives. Stuart's interest in documentary storytelling springs from the desire to question himself about social, identity, and climate change issues around his community and address them through a series of photographs.

He was nominated for the 2018 Young Achievers Awards in the Film and Photography category, runner-up in the “Middle Income in Uganda" photography contest by Goethe-Zentrum, Kampala in 2019, and won 1st place in the “People Category” of the Uganda Press Photo Awards 2021.

His latest long-term project seeks to document how climate injustices continue to affect vulnerable communities like women and children.

 

### Solomon Serwanjja

Solomon is a Ugandan investigative journalist and the Executive Director of the African Institute For Investigative Journalism (AIIJ).

The 2019 BBC Komla Dumor award winner, Solomon has executed collaborative projects with BBC to produce a ground breaking documentary on drug theft in public health facilities which generated debates and policy action.

He has an incremental experience spanning many years in investigative reporting, news anchoring, policy analysis, budget tracking and health rights advocacy. He has also previously served as Uganda correspondent for KTN News in Nairobi focusing on accountability, transparency, corruption in the health sector, politics, human rights and good governance.

### Raymond Mujuni

Raymond is an investigative journalist in East Africa currently working with Nation Media Group as the head of the Current Affairs Programming and show Host for the Fourth Estate program. He is also Deputy Director at the African Institute For Investigative Journalism (AIIJ). He is a three time winner of the National Journalism Award for explanatory reporting and Investigative Reporting for his stories that exposed a high end government to government deal for the exchange of refugees for guns between Uganda and Israel. He also received the Explanatory reporting award in 2020 for his story chronicling the fate of MV Templar. His impactful investigation on Makerere's sexual harassment caused a review of the University policy and a debate on a national sexual offences bill.

### Daniel Lutaaya

Daniel is an Investigative journalist with years’ experience in TV and radio news. Founder and CEO of Uganda’s first 24 hour online multimedia news service, News 24/7, he has produced various investigations that have touched the nation, invoked debate, and stimulated change in policy.

A 3-time winner of the Ugandan national journalism award for extractives reporting, health reporting, and investigative journalism, Daniel is a Thomson Reuters foundation, BBC, Voice of America, and institute for the advancement of journalism fellow.

### Saul Daniel Ddumba

Saul is a seasoned Climate Change and Environmental Science Specialist with over 16 years’ international experience in research, training and examining policy issues linking climate change to a number of themes. He has significantly contributed to development of crop-climate modelling systems, climate change science, policy formulation and implementation of various projects in several countries in the Horn of Africa including Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, and South Sudan.

Saul is currently a Lecturer at Makerere University and Busitema University.

### Jacques Ngor Sarr

Jacques Ngor Sarr is a Senegalese experienced investigative journalist and trainer/consultant in journalism. He has carried out several national and international investigations on corruption, illicit financial flows, migration and environmental issues as a reporter for various local media. Member of the Norbert Zongo Cell for Investigative Journalism in West Africa (CENOZO), he is also managing director of the online media mediaspost.com.

### Birame Faye

Birame Faye is currently the regional media coordinator at the Panos West Africa Institute (IPAO), a regional media development NGO.
As an investigative journalist, he trains and mentors journalists in several West African Countries, developing many tools and resources on journalism. A former senior reporter at the Senegalese Journal Le Quotidien, from 2008 to 2016, Birame was trained in data journalism in 2011 at the Berlin International Journalism Centre. One of the pioneers of Fact-Checking in French-speaking Africa, he is also an environment specialist and worked as the Focal Point of the research project “African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis "2050 (AMMA-2050)" which brought together 16 African and European think-tanks led by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology of Great Britain. He is also a member of Environmental Investigative Forum (EIF).

### Dr Moustapha Sène

Dr Moustapha Sène is a Senegalese senior journalist and socio-anthropologist with extensive training in ecological and sustainable development issues. He is a founding member and honorary president of an Environment and Press Research Group (GREP), a joint international network of experts and experienced journalists. Dr. Sène has produced numerous reports and works on issues related to the fisheries ecosystems, the environment ecosystems, the marine environment and artisanal fisheries. Currently, Dr Sène teaches Communication for Development at the Dakar public journalism school "Centre d'études des sciences et techniques de l'information - CESTI" of the Cheikh Anta Diop University.

### Mary Stewart

Mary is globally and locally recognised as an expert in climate risk and energy management strategies. In 2017, she was chosen to represent the Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia on the innovation and research, development and demonstration task force of the UNFCCC’s Technology Executive Committee. She is also a member of the International Energy Board of the Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE). Locally, Mary is on the Board of the Energy Efficiency Council (EEC) where she chairs the strategy committee. She won the Women’s Agenda Leadership Award for Emerging Leader in the Private Sector in 2017.

With a Ph.D in Chemical Engineering and formerly the Chief Operating Officer, Mary took on the position of CEO after 17 years in senior consulting and leadership roles at Energetics.

### Alexandre Brutelle

Alexandre Brutelle is an investigative journalist, director, and co-founder of the Environmental Investigative Forum which is an investigative consortium of journalists and experts on the environment and climate change around the world. He is a mentor and trainer specialised in cross-border collaboration and environmental issues.

### Gustavo Faleiros

Gustavo is an environmental research editor for the Pulitzer Center's Tropical Forest Research Network (RIN). Based in São Paulo, Brazil, he is an environmental journalist and media trainer specializing in data-driven reporting. In 2012, he launched InfoAmazonia, a digital platform that uses satellite images and other publicly available data to report on the nine countries of the Amazon rainforest.

### Gloria Pallarès

Gloria is an independent journalist focused on the environment and global development, and has published in media such as El País, Mongabay and Devex. Her work in the Congo Basin, supported by the Pulitzer Center, has exposed cases of illegal logging and mining and weaknesses in the governance of carbon projects in a total area equivalent to the size of Costa Rica.

In the last decade, she has taught trainings for African environmental media and for international students of journalism and global governance. She has also written for UN initiatives, international think tanks and think tanks on both sides of the Atlantic, and has worked as a news analyst in South Sudan.

Glòria works in five languages ​​​​and has a background in Biotechnology (BSc) and Biodiversity Conservation (MSc) and Journalism (BSc).

### Marie-Louise Mamgue

Marie-Louise Mamgue is a Cameroonian award-winning investigative journalist. Fellow of several training programs from previous years, she has built her own skills in development journalism, investigative journalism, fact-checking, and data journalism. Since 2019, she has held the position of Editor-in-Chief at DataCameroon, a Cameroonian platform specialising in data journalism and fact-checking. Marie-Louise has worked for many media in Cameroon and abroad. She is co-winner of an investigative journalism award on access to information and public data practices and another one in the online category.

 

### Paul-Joël Kamtchang

Paul-Joël Kamtchang is a Cameroonian data journalist, data hunter, and datactivist. He is the Executive Secretary of ADISI-Cameroon, a civil society organisation based in the Cameroonian economic capital Douala, working on issues of access to information, open data, data journalism, freedom of expression and digital rights. He is a former a Reagan-Fascell Fellowship Fellow and is working on a book project about "Kleptocracy and Open Data in Central Africa".

### Jessica Brice

Jessica Brice is a senior investigative journalist for Bloomberg News and a fellow at the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting who has been writing about Latin America for more than 15 years, including five years as Bloomberg News’ Brazil Bureau Chief. Her 2021 investigative feature on how protected Amazon land gets devoured by industrial-scale agriculture won a citation from the Overseas Press Club of America. An active coder, Jessica uses python and geospatial analysis to compliment her boots-on-the-ground reporting. Originally from San Francisco, Jessica received her Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and a Masters of Fine Arts for Creative Writing & Screenwriting from U.C. Riverside.

### Claudio Guarnieri (Nex)

Claudio Guarnieri (Nex) is a security researcher, free software developer and artist. He researches the use of technology as a mean for repression, and provides assistance to human rights organizations, journalists, and activists with issues of computer security, privacy and surveillance.

### Eva Danzi

Eva Danzi is a researcher at the Tax Justice Network and is part of the core research team for the Financial Secrecy Index and Corporate Tax Haven Index. She is based in Rome, Italy. She has previously worked for Tax Justice Network Africa and the Financial Transparency Coalition, and she contributes to the work of Tax Justice Italy. She holds an MA in International Law from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS Univerisity of London), and a BA in International Relations.

### Solomon Hughes

Solomon Hughes has worked as an investigative journalist for over 25 years, mostly for Private Eye magazine. His work – which often focusses on where money meets politics - has also appeared in the Guardian, Observer, Independent and other newspapers. He also contributes to left wing titles, including Tribune Magazine and a regular column in the Morning Star. He was Shortlisted for the 2022 Paul Foot Award for exposing tax fiddles by contractors on Covid Test Sites and will be discussing this and other stories.

### Hannah Al-Othman

Hannah Al-Othman is a News Reporter at the Sunday Times, based in Manchester, where she has broken stories including the murder of Kenyan woman Agnes Wanjiru by a British soldier. Previously she was a Political Correspondent for BuzzFeed News, based in Westminster, and has worked online and in print for regional and national newspapers.

### Madeleine Ngeunga

Madeleine Ngeunga is a Cameroonian data journalist specialising in environment and human rights. Currently a fellow at the Pulitzer Center's Rainforest Investigation Network and editor of InfoCongo, Madeleine combines fieldwork and satellite data analysis to produce in-depth articles. Madeleine has conducted several investigations related to forest governance, deforestation, land grabbing and the impact of climate change on communities living in the Congo Basin rainforest.

### Damian Kahya

Damian Kahya is Editor of Unearthed, Greenpeace's investigative journalism team. Before joining Greenpeace he worked at the BBC both in the UK at the Business unit and overseas in Bolivia. He has also worked for Prospect and the New Statesman.

### C. Orange

Orange is a Newcastle-born Digital Technologist with specialisms in Privacy and Security. Currently working at Reckon Digital, Orange supports and assists NGOs and investigative journalists in digital forensics. Their work and interests more broadly includes research into smartphone surveillance, big data analysis, platform security, cryptocurrencies and automation on social media.

### Daniel De Simone

Daniel De Simone is investigations correspondent for BBC News, where he mainly researches stories involving injustice, crime, and terrorism. Daniel was educated at Goldsmiths College.

### Julian Newman

Julian Newman has worked for the London-based NGO Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) since 1997. EIA was established in 1984 to investigate, expose, and campaign against environmental crimes. He joined the organisation as an Investigator, and during his time at EIA he has carried out field investigations into a range of environmental crimes, including illegal logging, smuggling of ozone-depleting chemicals and hazardous waste, as well as illicit trade in ivory and tiger parts. He has also been involved in training NGOs in Indonesia, Myanmar and Tanzania on field documentation skills. He is currently Campaigns Director at EIA, a position he has held since 2008. Before joining EIA he worked as a journalist.

### Daniel Balint-Kurti

Daniel Balint-Kurti is an investigative journalist specialised in reporting on corruption, for outlets including OCCRP, Private Eye and Africa Confidential. Before going freelance in 2020, he was Head of Investigations at Global Witness, and has a background as a reporter and editor at The Times, AP and Reuters.

### Leigh Baldwin

Leigh Baldwin is the editor of the non-profit investigative journalism organisation SourceMaterial. He was previously a corruption investigator for Global Witness and a reporter for Bloomberg News.

### Benjamin Strick

Benjamin Strick is a digital investigator and is the Director of Investigations for both the Centre for Information Resilience and Myanmar Witness. Ben was previously an open source investigator with BBC Africa Eye, is a Bellingcat contributor and co-founder of Ocelli Project. In 2021 he was awarded Open Source Intelligence Champion of the Year for investment, commitment and contribution to the field.

### Aamna Mohdin

Aamna Mohdin is The Guardian's Community Affairs Correspondent, where she covers race and inequality.

### Chi Chi Izundu

Chi Chi Izundu started her journalistic career at the age of 17 as a regular columnist for Girl About Town magazine. A few years later she joined BBC London 94.9 as a researcher, before graduating to become a producer working on the Saturday Sport show, the Jon Gaunt show, Drive, Vanessa Feltz and other programmes. She then left to complete a Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism at City University. Afterwards, she worked at Virgin Radio on their entertainment news team. She also freelanced at Sky News and worked at ITN before returning to the BBC as a reporter for BBC Radio 1Xtra. She also presented their two hour news magazine show, TXU and was the entertainment presenter on the Trevor Nelson breakfast show. She then joined the BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat entertainment news team, presented entertainment news and the news as well as breaking a number of big stories, including doing a week long expose on the ticketing industry which contributed to Newsbeat winning a Sony Gold award. In 2016, she became part of the team on the Victoria Derbyshire show, breaking a number of big stories including on the police risk assessment form 696, before joining the national BBC correspondents desk where she won awards for pieces including her investigation into student mental health at universities. Last year, she was nominated for a British Journalism Award for her piece on historical sexual abuse in the fashion industry, plus she was nominated for an award for her innovative concept of teaching people mental health first aid on the BBC News website during Covid.

### Alexandra Topping

Alexandra Topping is a senior national news reporter at The Guardian. For more than a decade she has reported on violence against women and girls, as well as wider societal issues related to sex and gender such as childcare, shared parenting and workplace and economic inequality. Over the last four years she helped expose the systematic failure of rape victims within the criminal justice system, and previously lead the reporting of the Guardian's award winning media campaign to end FGM. She started her career at The Washington Post’s Paris bureau, before moving to the Guardian.

### Ruth Evans

Ruth Evans started her career on ‘File on 4’, exposing a kidney trafficking gang in Pakistan and the abuse of children at Aston Hall psychiatric hospital. She has made several investigative documentaries for BBC Three, including False Hope: Alternative Cancer Cures, and Under the Skin: The Botched Beauty Business. She directed Tim Westwood: Abuse of Power.

### Anton Bidziura

Anton Bidziura is International Business Development Officer at YouControl, a Ukrainian company which develops and provides analytical systems for compliance, market analysis, financial monitoring, business intelligence and investigations.
At YouControl, Anton is at the forefront of developing and defining key values of the product to identify all risk factors for cooperation with unreliable companies and individuals. Has experience in developing methods to improve business intelligence and compliance expertise.

YouControl developed RuAssets a free tool for journalists, which help track public figures' wealth, using open source information.

### Veronika Boyko

Veronika Boyko is social direction chief at YC World - global searching, and visualizing business connections to uncover hidden insights.
YC World is an investigation tool which ensures a thorough analysis of the links between companies and individuals at various levels. The system provides global data on companies and individuals, focusing on international jurisdictions to uncover hidden connections and insights.

Skilled in open data analytics, social media marketing, she organised trainings and taught more than 1700 journalists in Ukraine and abroad how to use analytical instruments in investigations.

### Priyanka Kotamraju

Priyanka Kotamraju is pursuing a doctorate degree at the Department of Sociology in the University of Cambridge on the Gates Cambridge international scholarship. She is the co-author of The Murderer, the Monarch and the Fakir - a new investigation into Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination (October 2021, HarperCollins India). She is also one of the co-founders of Chitrakoot Collective, and will be translating Meera Devi’s autobiography into English. Priyanka has previously worked as a journalist with the Indian Express, Hindu Business Line and Khabar Lahariya.

### Meera Jatav

Meera Jatav is a feminist-journalist based in Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh, India.

She is the co-founder of the award-winning, grassroots feminist media organisation Khabar Lahariya and served as its Chief Editor from 2005 to 2019. In 2020, Meera co-founded an intersectional feminist research collective called Chitrakoot Collective in Uttar Pradesh. In 2021, Meera became one of the eight recipients of the Navayana Dalit History Fellowship; as part of this she is writing an intersectional autobiography of feminist movements in Uttar Pradesh called ‘Hamari Lahariya’ (‘The Waves We Made’ in English), which will be published next year.

### Jolene Tan

Jolene Tan is an experienced communications professional and novelist (two books and counting) who joined Trase in 2021. She leads Trase’s communications work. Before joining Trase, Jolene worked for a decade on research and policy communications in Singapore, with a particular focus on equalities and human rights. She has also worked in London as a capital markets and financial regulation solicitor. Jolene holds degrees in law from Harvard Law School (LLM, 2005) and the University of Cambridge (BA, 2004).

### Akintunde Babatunde

Akintunde Babatunde is a Programme Manager with extensive experience in international development, public policy, civic technology, climate change, and media innovation. He is the Executive Director at the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) and the OCRI regional coordinator for Anglophone Africa.

Akintunde is a sought-after speaker, having delivered presentations on Africa’s media innovation and development policy at notable institutions such as the European Parliament, the New York Times Climate Hub, the University of London, and the Presidential Precinct. His commentary has also been featured on renowned media platforms including the BBC, Channels TV, TVC, Silverbird, and NTA, among others.

### Maxime Koami Domegni

Based in Dakar Senegal, Maxime is the Francophone Africa Editor for the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN). He is a journalist with years of experience in investigative journalism. Maxime has worked in, and collaborated with, a number of different media organisations, including the CIJ’s Francophone Africa Investigative Practice programme held in February 2022; and has also been coordinating the CIJ's Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) activities in Francophone Africa.

### Adeolu Adekola

Adeolu Adekola joined the CIJ to manage its Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI). The initiative has reached beneficiaries in 58 countries and counting (across Africa, Asia and the Americas), with reported successes that have included making communities more climate-resilient, and reducing the vulnerabilities of local populations to climate change. Through his decade-long experience in project management, information technology, accountability in governance, civic engagement and investigative journalism, Adeolu has successfully facilitated media/investigative training and led other social development projects with verifiable results covering a wide range of issues, from education to elections and health to mention a few.

### Kamala Oli Shivakoti

Kamala Oli Shivakoti is a Board Member at the President Chure Terai Madhesh Conservation Development Board.

### Ugan Manandhar

Working on Rural renewable energy, International Climate Policy, Carbon Financing, Climate Change Adaptation, Fresh Water and Sustainable Hydropwer Issues, Environment Flows, SDGs, IRWM, Water Resources Management, REDD+, Green Economy; Ugan Manandhar is the Climate and Environment Advisor at Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), British Embassy, Nepal.

### Sudip Pradhan

A GIS/Remote Sensing Specialist, Sudip Pradhan the Programme Coordinator, Regional Database System, Mountain Environment Regional Information System (MENRIS) at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). He oversees the development of databases, geospatial applications and information systems and he also contributes as a Geospatial Information Technology Lead for the SERVIR-HKH initiative.

### Deepak Adhikari

Deepak Adhikari is a freelance journalist based in Kathmandu, Nepal. His work has appeared in his native Nepal and in international outlets, including New York Times, Time magazine, Al Jazeera English, The Guardian. He has contributed chapters to books including Garrisoned Minds: Militarisation of Women in South Asia and The Caravan Book of Profiles.

### Kiran Nepal

Kiran Nepal is the Editor of the Centre for Investigative Journalism Nepal (CIJ-Nepal) since 2021. Prior to joining CIJ-Nepal, Nepal was the editor of Himal Khabar Patrika

### Basanta Raj Adhikari

Basanta Raj Adhikari holds a Ph.D. degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Vienna, Austria. His main research interest are disaster risk reduction and management, Climate change and hill slope dynamics, tectonic geomorphology, landslide, floods, and Earthquakes in the mountain. He is the author of more than 40 scientific papers and book chapters and received various recognitions for his work in the field of earth science

### Shiva Gaunle

Shiva Gaunle led the collaborative #NepaLeaks investigation in 2019 and he is the editor of the Center for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) Nepal. He is a well recognized senior investigative journalist in Nepal who has been exposing stories related to corruption, irregularities, and wrongdoings for more than 25 years, including investigations that exposed bribery in the judiciary of Nepal. This work created a national debate about corruption.

### Rabin Raj Niraula

Rabin Raj Niraula holds a in PhD, Water Governance and Climate Change Vulnerability from Kathmandu University. He has published research in water management, water governance, climatic suitability, vulnerability and adaptation, spatial modeling, forest mapping, landuse and landcover change.

### Kunda Dixit

A journalist and editor, Kunda Dixit teaches Media Studies at Kathmandu University, and as visiting faculty at New York University Abu Dhabi Campus. He is the co-publisher at Himalmedia which produces the weekly Nepali language magazine Himal Khabarpatrika, and chief editor of the English-language weekly newspaper Nepali Times. He is also the author of several books, including a trilogy on the Nepali conflict, and Dateline Earth: Journalism As If the Planet Mattered.

### Emilia Șercan

Emilia Șercan is a Romanian investigative journalist, author and senior lecturer at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Science within the University of Bucharest.

She has spent the last seven years uncovering dozens of plagiarism cases in doctoral dissertations of top Romanian politicians and high officials in the judiciary, law enforcement, military and intelligence community. Her investigative work turned into a public mission, unveiling a vast, intricate mechanism of trading political power and influence through plagiarism and academic fraud.

Throughout her career, Emilia Șercan has received numerous professional and academic honours and awards: Journalist of the Year, the Prize for Freedom of Expression, “Ion Rațiu” Prize for Journalism, the Professor of the Year, the Prize of the Romanian Society of Historical Sciences, the European Network for Academic Integrity Award, the Social Dialogue Group Award, the Association Initiative for European Democratic Culture Award and International Anti-Corruption Day reward from U.S. Embassy in Romania.

She has published three books: The Cult of Secrecy. The Censorship Mechanisms in the Communist Press (2015); Doctorates Factory or How to Ruin a Nation’s Fundamentals (2017); Ponta Case. The Re-enactment of the Most Infamous Plagiarism in Romania’s History (2022).

### Roxanne Joseph

Roxanne Joseph is a data journalist and project manager at Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism. Based in Cape Town, South Africa, she manages several Oxpeckers tools, #WildEye and #PowerTracker, and has trained journalists in Africa, Europe and Asia to map, track and report on wildlife, green energy and other environmental crimes.

### Nompumelelo Mtsweni

Nompumelelo Mtsweni works with data and other multimedia elements to produce meaningful stories and tools that aim to drive positive impacts in society. At Oxpeckers she works as a data wrangler and trainer, focusing on environmental crime data for the #WildEye tool. She participated in the Data journalism in Africa 2021 Masterclass programme offered by Media Hack, and was awarded the Vodacom Journalist of the Year regional award (Western Cape) in 2021 under the sustainability category.

### Oliver Bullough

Oliver Bullough is an award-winning journalist and author, whose most recent book is Butler to the World. His articles appear in the Guardian, the Sunday Times, GQ magazine and elsewhere. He also writes a weekly Oligarchy Newsletter for Coda Story.

### Anna Babinets

Anna Babinets is the Editor-in-Chief of Slidstvo.info investigative agency based Kyiv, Ukraine. She is a Regional Editor of Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).
She specialises in discovering high scale corruption, money laundering schemes and crime. Anna is part of the Panama Papers team –several stories about Ukrainian president`s Petro Poroshenko offshore companies was written by her. She is also, one of the co-authors of Killing Pavel, a documentary about the murder of Pavel Sheremet, a famous journalist in Kyiv. The documentary received DIG Award (Italy) and IRE Medal (USA) in 2018.
From the beginning of Russian-Ukrainian war, Anna and Slidstvo.info focus on the covering war crimes, reportages from the field (Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities), researching and identifying Russian militaries in Ukraine.

### Chris Mullin

Chris Mullin is a journalist and has been an MP for 23 years; a minister in three departments; Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee 1997-9 and 2001-3; and author of three widely acclaimed volumes of diaries, two of which were BBC Books of the Week, and four novels the best known of which, A Very British Coup, was made into a successful television series.
Other books include: Error of Judgement – The Truth About the Birmingham Bombings.

### Dr Aisling Rusk

Dr Aisling Rusk is a practising architect and Director of Belfast practice, Studio idir.  She is also the founding chair of RSUA's Women in Architecture group, supporting and promoting women architects in Northern Ireland.  In 2020, Aisling was named one of the Architect's Journal's 40 Architects under 40, a celebration of the UK's most exciting emerging architectural talent.  Her research and work explore practices that build connection in the leftover and in-between spaces of cities during and after conflict. Aisling lives in East Belfast with her husband and two children.

### Vicky Gayle

Based in Wednesbury, Vicky began her journalism career at community magazines in Birmingham before ending up in Colchester, where she worked as a news reporter at the Daily Gazette and other weekly titles in north Essex. After a secondment with the BBC’s Shared Data Unit in 2018, she returned to Newsquest where she co-led its first Data Investigations Unit. She has reported on deaths of ex-offenders under probation supervision, inequalities around deaf people accessing mental health care and racism in the UK deaf community. She was also Black Ballad’s West Midlands commissioning editor for its Black Women in Britain project.

### Rachel Hamada

Based in Edinburgh, Rachel is one of the founders of Scottish investigative journalism cooperative the Ferret. Based in Edinburgh, she has worked as a journalist for 16 years, with a particular interest in social justice and marginalised communities. She has worked as community organiser with the Bureau Local for over two years, recently running the Change the Story project, which looked at reimagining local news with an emphasis on collaboration, inclusion and power building. She has been the lead reporter on health inequality since the end of 2020.

### Emily Wilson

Based in Brighton, Emily has a background in news journalism, working at the BBC and ITN’s Channel 4 News. Most recently she was head of home news at Channel 4 News, focusing particularly on increasing their UK-wide reporting, supporting the launch of a bureau in Glasgow, and expanding award-winning journalism in Manchester, Nottingham and Cardiff. The stories and investigations she led during this time spanned subjects such as drugs deaths in Dundee, Covid-19 testing lapses in adult social care and knife-crime deaths among children, winning awards including RTS TV Journalism Awards, Mind Media Award, Bafta Cymru and the Criminal Justice Alliance Outstanding Journalism award. She spent four years in Washington DC as Channel 4 News’ news editor there. She previously worked at the BBC as an output editor and producer on the Today programme.

### Chris Moore

Chris Moore, winner of journalist of the year and features journalist of the Year in Northern Ireland and the author of six books, became a local reporter in Northern Ireland in 1968 before joining BBC Northern Ireland in 1979. In 1982 he cut his investigative teeth on Kincora, a scandal whose full dimensions remain to be revealed and which still permeates his work.

### Juliette Garside

Juliette Garside is deputy business editor of the Guardian and the Observer. A business writer by training, she specialises in tax and offshore investigations.

In 2016, her scoop on the financial affairs of David Cameron's family forced him to become the first British prime minister to publish his tax returns. The story was part of the Guardian's coverage of the Panama Papers, the ICIJ-led project which won a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting.

Juliette joined the Guardian in 2011, having previously worked at the Daily Telegraph, the London Evening Standard and the Sunday Herald in Glasgow.

### Paul Nuki

Paul Nuki is a senior British journalist and editor. He is currently Global Health Security Editor at The Telegraph.

In previous posts, Nuki was Focus editor, deputy news editor, money editor, personal finance editor, consumer affairs editor, deputy Insight editor and reporter at The Sunday Times, which he joined in 1993. In May 2007, he left The Sunday Times to become the founding chief editor of NHS Choices, the web portal of the UK National Health Service. He was also co-founder and CEO of Stepjockey, a London-based digital health business that promotes stair use.

### Liam O'Dell

Liam O'Dell is an award-winning deaf and disabled journalist, and an alumnus of the first #CIJMasterclass cohort in 2019.

While Liam began freelancing in 2016, it was in 2020 that he took things seriously, and he believes in the year and a half since then, that he's consistently produced work that not only reports on the present, but has a long-term impact on the future of marginalised communities and large-scale social media companies.

He's overcome the biggest challenge in the early stages of his freelance career, asserting his own legitimacy and authority as a journalist, and has established himself as the top journalist reporting on issues concerning Deaf people.

### Tom Bergin

Tom Bergin is an investigative journalist and author who focuses on fraud, corruption, tax abuses and corporate wrongdoing. In 20 years with Reuters, he has reported from 30 countries and his work has won awards in Europe, the United States and Asia. He is the author of a critically-acclaimed investigation of oil giant BP called Spills & Spin, and his latest book Free Lunch Thinking investigates economics and the way in which false claims and misrepresentations of economic research often lead to policies that make countries poorer and less equal.

 

### Steve Stecklow

Steve Stecklow is a London-based, global investigative reporter for Reuters who previously worked at the Wall Street Journal and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He has won numerous awards, including sharing three Pulitzer Prizes (2024, 2019 and 2007) and has been a Pulitzer finalist three times (2020, 2017 and 2003). A series of stories he did at Reuters in 2012 and 2013 on sanctions busting involving Chinese companies in Iran led to about $2 billion in fines for ZTE and the arrest of Huawei’s chief financial officer in Vancouver.

### Ben Plesser

An award-winning producer of television news and documentary, Ben started out as a print reporter for The New York Times and got his start in television at 60 Minutes, the venerated news magazine show. For nearly two decades, he travelled the world for CBS News, producing news coverage from war zones and political hot spots as well as magazine stories ranging from ambitious investigations to explorations of science and culture.

In 2013, he moved to NBC News, where he became an Executive Producer, launching an ambitious new hour-long documentary show and overseeing the team responsible for the network's most visible foreign stories.

Throughout his career in television, Ben’s passion for investigative journalism took him to some of the most remote and dangerous places on earth in pursuit of uncovered stories. Along the way, he won numerous industry awards, including four Emmys, a Peabody and, most recently, the Edward R. Murrow award.

In 2019, he left commercial television to launch an independent production company.

### Erick Kabendera

Erick Kabendera is a freelance investigative journalist based in Tanzania who writes for international and regional publications. He has covered a wide range of topics since 2004 but currently focuses on politics, extractive industries and transnational organised crime. In 2019, he spent seven months in prison on retaliation charges for his critical journalism.

### Supriya Sharma

Supriya Sharma is the Executive Editor of Scroll.in, an independent digital news organisation in India known for its investigative reportage and explanatory journalism. She has previously worked with NDTV and The Times of India and reported widely on politics, conflict and development in the country. She is the recipient of several honours, including two Ramnath Goenka Awards, the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Journalist, among others. She is a former Fellow of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. Supriya lives in New Delhi.

### Lou Del Bello

Lou Del Bello Lou is a climate and energy journalist who has been based in India for the past three and a half years. During two lockdowns, she wrote about what it feels like to be lonely in front of slow and sudden global crises, she covered the rollout of India's contact tracing app and the impacts of air pollution on the spread of Covid-19.
She currently works as special projects editor for the online magazine The Third Pole, and was environment correspondent for Bloomberg in Delhi and a freelance science writer for BBC, Undark, Nature News, New Scientist and more.
She is a 2021 winner of The Freelance Writing Awards in the Science and Health Category.

### Becky Gardiner

Becky Gardiner worked as a journalist for 25 years on national newspapers and magazines. She was at the Guardian from 1998, when she joined as Women’s Editor, until 2015. She held a number of senior editorial positions there, including, most recently, Comment Editor. Before working at the Guardian she edited the Big Issue for two years, was deputy editor on the Independent on Sunday’s Real Life supplement, and a freelance writer for various newspapers. She has worked with a number of newsrooms internationally to help them tackle harassment of their journalists online. She is now a senior lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she co-convenes the MA Journalism programme.

### Sarah Esther Maslin

Sarah Esther Maslin joined The Economist in 2017. In 2018 she moved to São Paulo to become The Economist‘s Brazil correspondent. Previously, she was a freelance journalist based in Central America.

The recipient of many awards, she spent several years reporting in the village of El Mozote, where government soldiers killed hundreds of civilians in 1981 at the start of El Salvador’s civil war. She is writing a book about the El Mozote massacre, the limits of truth and reconciliation, gang violence in El Salvador and the US, and the long-term effects of trauma on a community and a country.

### Mary O'Hara

Mary O’Hara is an award-winning journalist, author and producer. Her journalism appears in publications including the Guardian and Mosaic Science. She is the author of two books: The Shame Game: Overturning the toxic poverty narrative (2020) & Austerity Bites: A journey to the sharp end of cuts in the UK (2014) and is founder of the multi-platform anti-poverty initiative, Project Twist-It. She is a contributor to the book, The Violence of Austerity (Pluto Press 2017) and others including Council Skies by the artist, Pete McKee and Vulnerable Consumers and the Law, Routledge (2021).

Mary has directed/produced short films, run a comedy club, been an Alistair Cooke Fulbright Scholar at UC Berkeley and a producer and consultant on Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness. In 2020 she was named Best Foreign Columnist at the Southern California Journalism Awards for her Guardian column, Lesson From America. In 2021 she will be a contributor to the anthology of working class writers, Common Gossip, edited by Natasha Carthew. She is on the board of the charity, Arts Emergency, is the founder and chair of the David Nobbs Memorial Trust, and a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.

### Dale Maharidge

Dale Maharidge is the author of non-fiction Pulitzer Prize-winning And Their Children After Them, and eleven other books. Among them is Journey to Nowhere/The Saga of the New Underclass, which inspired Bruce Springsteen to write the song “Youngstown.” His most recent book is Fucked At Birth/ Recalibrating the American Dream. He has written for the Nation, Smithsonian, Harper’s, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, and others. He was a 1988 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and is a professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

### Jane Lytvynenko

Jane Lytvynenko is a senior reporter at BuzzFeed News where she focuses on disinformation and online investigations. Her work has focused on the rise of conspiracy theories, hyperpartisan news, cryptocurrency scams, and extremism globally.

Her investigative work has uncovered a secretive extremist organization operating in the US, disinformation network operators who manipulate social media on behalf of state actors, and online hucksters seeking to scam people out of their livelihoods. During breaking news situations, Jane brings swift and accessible debunks to global audiences across mediums, including video, print, and social media.
In 2020, Jane won the prestigious Emerging Excellence award. The Digital Publishing Award jury called her “a global leader in debunking disinformation” and noted her “impact on global media and ability to lead and train others in this important field.” Jane was born in Kyiv, Ukraine and resides in Toronto, Canada.

### Roman Shleynov

Roman Shleynov is an author at iStories (Important Stories), a new investigative outlet in Russia, founded by the some of the country's leading investigative journalists. He is also OCCRP's regional editor for Russia. Roman has worked on several major transnational projects for OCCRP, including Secrecy For Sale: Inside The Global Offshore Money Maze, Swiss Leaks: Murky Cash Sheltered By Bank Secrecy, the Panama Papers, and the Troika Laundromat.

He began his journalism career in 1999 as a staff correspondent for Moscow-based newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and then as an investigations editor. He was an editorial board member for Novaya Gazeta until 2010. Then he became an investigative journalist for Vedomosti, a Russian-language business daily that was a joint venture of Dow Jones, the Financial Times, and The Moscow Times. He has won a number of awards for his work, including the Paul Klebnikov Prize for Excellence in Journalism, the Transparency International Integrity Award, the ZEIT Foundation of Hamburg Free Press of Russia Award, and the 2019 Moscow Union of Journalists Award.

### Wa Lone

Wa Lone is a journalist, currently working for Reuters in Toronto bureau, Canada. He has covered a range of in-depth stories in Myanmar, including land grabs by the military and the murder of prominent lawyer Ko Ni, as well as uncovering evidence of killings by soldiers in the country’s northeast. His reporting on the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in 2017 won him and his colleagues several journalism awards including the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting.
During his reporting on the Rohingya, he and a colleague were arrested on December 12, 2017 by Myanmar police and sentenced in September 2018 to seven years in prison on Official Secrets Act charges. Thet Oo Maung was freed in May 2019 in a presidential amnesty.

### Roman Dobrokhotov

Roman Dobrokhotov is founder and editor-in-chief of The Insider. Having graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations with a PhD in political science, he started working as a journalist in 2005. In 2013 founded an online internet magazine The Insider, which focused on investigations and debunking of fake news. Roman Dobrokhotov has participated in many important investigations concerning Russian trolls and hackers, invasion in Ukraine, GRU operations in Europe, corruption of the Russian government and many others.

### Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell is a journalist and editor with two decades of international experience. She has been a foreign correspondent for Reuters and The Independent in East Africa, the Middle East and Asia, including covering the fall of Kabul in the Afghan war and the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the anti-American insurgency. During nearly three years in Myanmar, Ros reported undercover under a pseudonym on the Saffron Revolution, elections and the release from house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi.

She is the author of two non-fiction books -  Burma’s Spring, a character-driven account of Myanmar’s turbulent transition and The End of Where We Begin, the story of three young South Sudanese refugees, which was published late last year. She lives in London and has just launched Vaccine for the World for the Evening Standard, a year-long reporting project focused on the Covid-19 vaccine rollout in Africa.

### Roman Badanin

Roman Badanin is the founder and editor-in-chief of Proekt, a non-profit investigative media organisation based in Russia. Previously, he worked at Dozhd, RBC, and the Russian edition of Forbes magazine as editor-in-chief. He has also worked at Gazeta as deputy editor-in-chief.

Roman has been affiliated with the Gorbachev Foundation and the Russian Academy of Sciences as a researcher. He studied history at Moscow State University, and was a Stanford John S. Knight international fellow in Journalism.

### Sheila Coronel

Sheila Coronel is director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and Stabile professor of professional practice at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism . She began her reporting career in the Philippines and was co-founder of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. She is the author and editor of more than a dozen books on Philippine politics and society, and on investigative reporting and freedom of information. She is chair of the board of the Media Development Investment Fund and also sits on the boards of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Columbia Journalism Review, National Security Archive and Correctiv.

### Cristiane Fontes

Cristiane Fontes (Krika) is a journalist who worked for media vehicles and environmental NGOs in Brazil and then moved into programme management.

In the last two years, she was involved with the strategic planning of various organisations, such as Fundação Roberto Marinho, Fundo (Funbio), Instituto Clima e Sociedade (iCS), Fundo Brasileiro para a Biodiversidade, Fundo Brasil de Direitos Humanos, as a consultant. She first lead on communications at Global Canopy for the Trase project and now works as Project Lead – Brazil and Regional Partnerships.

### André Vasconcelos

André Vasconcelos is a conservation ecologist who joined Trase in 2018. He works in Trase's impact team, analysing and interpreting Trase data for key audiences in Brazil, Europe and China. Prior to joining Trase, he worked on conservation related issues for over ten years, including planning and implementing strategic conservation plans for timber and paper certification, and providing support for large businesses and smallholders to comply with certification requirements, including High Conservation Value Areas assessments. André holds a degree in Ecology from the São Paulo State University (BSc, 2009).

### Jan Strozyk

Jan Strozyk joined OCCRP in 2021 as data editor. He works closely with both the editorial and the data team, coordinating data analysis and supporting investigations and cross-border projects. Prior to joining OCCRP, Jan was a reporter with the German public news broadcaster NDR, where he worked on the Luxembourg Leaks, the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers, FinCen Files and other investigations. He is based in Hamburg, Germany.

### Aye Min Thant

Aye Min Thant is a Burmese-American journalist and the features editor for Frontier Myanmar. Aye holds degrees in gender studies anthropology, and Asian studies. They won a Pulitzer Prize in 2019 as part of the Reuters team covering the Rohingya crisis and its aftermath.

### Michela Wrong

Michela Wrong has spent nearly three decades writing about Africa, first as a Reuters correspondent based in Cote d'Ivoire and former Zaire, and then as the Financial Times Africa correspondent, based in Kenya. From journalism, she moved into book-writing. Previous books include “In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz”, the story of Mobutu Sese Seko, “I Didn’t do it for You”, focussing on Eritrea, “It’s Our Turn to Eat”, an examination of Kenyan corruption, and “Borderlines”, a novel set in the Horn of Africa.
Her latest book, “Do Not Disturb”, is a scathing assessment of the Rwandan Patriotic Front and President Paul Kagame. She is based in London.

### Natasha Loder

Natasha Loder is the health policy editor at The Economist. She has worked there for over 20 years in a range of reporting roles mostly in science, technology, and medicine. Between 2011 and 2015 she was based in Chicago and covered politics, education, and American life. After this, she moved to a health beat. Before arriving at The Economist she worked at Nature, and The Times Higher Education Supplement. She has won awards for her work in feature writing, news, opinion, and investigative reporting. She is a former chair of the Association of British Science Writers, and a current judge of the John Maddox Prize. This recognises the work of individuals who promote sound science and evidence.
Together with Alok Jha she hosts The Jab, a podcast from The Economist, focusing on the global vaccination race.

### Shadab Nazmi

Shadab Nazmi is a Data Journalist with BBC South Asia bureau. He works with six Indian & four South Asian language services, analysing elections and data-led investigations. He is an award-winning journalist and has been the recipient of multiple fellowships including MJ Bear Fellowship in New Orleans in 2019 and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Fellowship in 2018 in Woods Hole, Boston. He lives in New Delhi.

### David Huerta

David Huerta is a Digital Security Trainer at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, where he’s working on methods to train journalists to take advantage of privacy-enhancing technology to empower a free press. He’s co-organised dozens of trainings across the US, including one at the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of Laura Poitras’s Astro Noise exhibition in 2016. He’s also spoken on the subject of usable privacy technology at DEF CON, Radical Networks, Rightscon and random cocktail bars.

### Olivia Martin

Olivia Martin is the Deputy Director of Digital Security at Freedom of the Press Foundation. A graduate of NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, her professional work focuses on researching and delivering digital security trainings to journalists, activists, and human rights defenders. She has spent years in newsrooms as a designer and editor with new media and student publications, and uses this experience to aid in assessing the evolving needs of journalists in today's media landscape.

### Rana Ayyub

Rana Ayyub is an award winning Indian investigative journalist and a global opinions Editor at the Washington Post. She has worked as a reporter, editor and columnist with some of the leading publications in India and internationally, including the Time, New York Times, The Guardian and Foreign Policy.

Formerly, Editor with Tehelka, India's ground-breaking investigative magazine, Rana has reported on religious violence, extrajudicial killings by the state, insurgency in Kashmir , terrorism by the Tamil tigers in Sri Lanka and authored an international bestseller titled Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover-Up, an undercover investigation which exposes the complicity of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in state-sponsored genocide. At the age of 26, post getting the first serving Home Minister (Amit Shah) under arrest.

In 2020, she was announced as the recipient of the McGill medal for journalistic courage.

### Robyn Vinter

Robyn Vinter is an investigative journalist who writes for publications like The Observer, the Guardian, the i newspaper and the Sunday Mirror. She was formerly a reporter at the Yorkshire Post and previously ran The Overtake, an investigative news website.

### Dylan Kennedy

Dylan Kennedy has over two decades of expertise in the United Kingdom’s leading international Law Enforcement Agencies, Global Correspondent Banking Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Investigations, and Global Express Courier Logistics sectors. He is an accredited intelligence analyst & investigator, and advanced OSINT collector.

Since 2019, Dylan has been delivering Internet Intelligence and Investigation training to law enforcement, regulatory bodies, the private sector, and international investigative journalists. He has presented on advanced OSINT collection techniques to international law enforcement and intelligence community audiences in both English and German and has given talks on OSINT collection as a guest lecturer at the School of Computer Science at University of Birmingham, UK. He has presented on using OSINT research techniques for financial investigations at global conferences and online webinars.

Dylan works as a Consultant Trainer with select partners, including TCIJ, and also acts in an advisory capacity to Sayari, a leading provider of data intelligence platforms to power the fight against financial crime, increase corporate transparency in high-risk places, and support critical national security mission sets.

### Ron Nixon

Ron Nixon is global investigations editor at the Associated Press where he oversees the news agency’s investigative unit.

Nixon received the inaugural 2021 News Leader of the Year award from the News Leaders Association. He has overseen investigations that have won a number of awards including the Selden Ring, Overseas Press Club and the Worth Bingham award. The team won a 2020 News and Documentary Emmy in collaboration with PBS Frontline for an investigation into the record-breaking numbers of migrant children in detention under former President Trump. Prior to coming to the AP, Nixon spent 14 years at the New York Times. He is the author of Selling Apartheid: South Africa’s Global Propaganda War.

### James Marcus

James Marcus is the author of Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot-Com Juggernaut and seven translations from the Italian, including Giacomo Casanova’s The Duel. He is the former editor of Harper’s Magazine and has contributed to The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, The American Scholar, VQR, the Guardian, The Nation, and Best American Essays. He also edited and introduced Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage and is currently at work on his next book, Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Emerson in Fifteen Installments.

### Bart Libaut

Bart Libaut is a freelance open source investigator and trainer, with a special interest in environment(al crime), human rights, arms and conflict issues. He has almost two decades of experience in technical and environmental research, and some of his work includes the Arctic and the oil industry, supply chain research, and maritime monitoring and analysis. He enjoys delivering webinars and trainings to different audiences and introduce them to tools and techniques applicable to open source investigations.

### Laura Poitras

Laura Poitras is a filmmaker and journalist. Her film Citizenfour, the third instalment of her post-9/11 Trilogy, won an Academy Award for Best Documentary, along with awards from the British Academy of Film, Independent Spirit Awards, Director’s Guild of America, and Emmy Awards.

Her reporting on NSA mass surveillance shared in the 2014 Pulitzer Prize Public Service. She has been on a U.S. government secret watch list since 2006. In 2015, the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a FOIA lawsuit against the U.S. government to obtain her FBI files.

In 2016, she had her first solo museum exhibition at the Whitney Museum. Laura is the recipient of a 2012 MacArthur Fellowship, and is the co-creator and executive producer of Field of Vision.

### Barton Gellman

Barton Gellman, a Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning journalist, is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a senior fellow at the Century Foundation. In previous assignments he served tours as legal, military, diplomatic, and foreign correspondent for The Washington Post. His bestselling Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of 2008.

### Igor Ostrovskiy

Igor Ostrovskiy is an experienced professional investigator with a mindset, skillset, and determination to solve problems to help clients do what they want to do. Igor's professional experience started with undercover investigations in 2007. Igor cares about press freedom and is passionate about supporting at risk folks and journalists.

### Jessica Bruder

Jessica Bruder is a journalist who writes about subcultures and social issues. In May of 2013 an unusual package arrived on her doorstep. It turned out to be Ed Snowden's full NSA archive, sent by the leaker himself. With co-author Dale Maharidge she chronicled the behind-the-scenes caper in "Snowden’s Box: Trust in the Age of Surveillance," a non-fiction account of friendship, ineptitude, paranoia and the U.S. Postal Service. Jessica is also the author of the bestselling Nomadland, which was adapted for an Oscar-nominated film of the same name starring Frances McDormand, and the co-creator, with director Brett Story, of the short documentary CamperForce.

Jessica has been teaching narrative storytelling at Columbia Journalism School and contributing to The New York Times for more than a decade. She has also written for New York Magazine, WIRED, Harper's Magazine, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, The International Herald Tribune, The New York Times Magazine and the Guardian.

### Omar Mohammed

Dr. Omar Mohammed is a historian from Mosul, known until recently only as the anonymous blogger Mosul Eye. Through Mosul Eye, Omar set out to inform the world about life under the Islamic State in his city. He is currently teaching Middle East History and Cultural Heritage Diplomacy at Sciences Po University. His focus has now shifted to the advocacy of social initiatives for the people of Mosul, including the international effort to re-supply Central Library of the University of Mosul. At the intersection of media, academia, and civil society, Omar is motivated to develop new networks of collaboration and innovations in humanitarian action. As a historian and lecturer at the University of Mosul, he focuses his scholarly work on conceptual history and research dealing with local historiographies and narratives, micro-histories, and Orientalism. Omar is a regular media commentator on Iraq, has an MA in Middle East History from the University of Mosul, and was named 2013 Researcher of the Year by Iraq’s Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. His doctoral research explores history and historians in the 19th and 20th century Mosul. He now lives in exile in France.

### Harlo Holmes

Harlo Holmes is the Director of Digital Security at Freedom of the Press Foundation. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organisations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large. She is a media scholar, software programmer and activist, and was a regular contributor to the open-source mobile security collective The Guardian Project. She is also an adjunct professor at New York University.

### Juliet Ferguson

Juliet Ferguson manages the Access to Tools programme. She is a journalist who has worked for the Telegraph and the BBC, starting out with BBC World Service radio and ending up on the BBC’s investigative programme, Panorama. She works part-time for the CIJ, sharing her days with Investigate Europe, where she works as a reporter.

### Keith Perch

Keith Perch has edited three regional daily newspapers, was MD of digital publishing at the Daily Mail group's newspaper business and is now Head of Journalism at Derby University. He was a founder-director of the UK's main Press regulator, IPSO.

### Laura Garcia

Laura Garcia came to the UK from her home-country of Mexico in 2011 and has worked in newsrooms across the country. She is a lecturer in Television and Multimedia Journalism at the University of Kent, produces a politics show for KMTV and is a correspondent for Imagen Mexico, Bloomberg Mexico and Estrella TV in LA.

### Pupul Chatterjee

Pupul Chatterjee works as a freelance social media, multimedia and investigative journalist for the BBC Victoria Derbyshire Show, BBC West of England, Birmingham Mail, Birmingham Eastside, Transport Network/Surveyor Magazine, Birmingham Social Media Surgery, Centaur Media PLC, Majestic SEO and others. She has worked with senior news reporters and editors to help them bridge the skills gap.

 

### Zoë Blackler

Zoë Blackler is an investigative researcher and journalist that has worked on stories for the Guardian, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Which?, Privacy International and Reprieve. Her teaching experience includes a course in writing skills for thesis students at the New York Institute of Technology.

### Irving Huerta

Irving Huerta is a journalist and an academic. He was the first CIJ and Forensic Architecture Gavin MacFadyen Investigative Fellow for the Project ‘Plataforma Ayotzinapa’ on the enforced disappearance of 43 students in Mexico in 2014. Prior to this he worked for the Mexican publication AristeguiNoticias.com as an investigative journalist, carrying out investigations on accountability, corruption and organised crime; for instance the "casa blanca" escandal, about a 7-million-dollar mansion owned by the Mexican president, and the Panama Papers exposé, a collaborative investigation coordinated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists which won the Pulitzer Prize. He holds a PhD in Politics from Goldsmiths University, is a member of CONNECTAS' Editorial Board, and is a regular trainer and course developer for the CIJ.

### Guy Porter

Guy Porter has a background in digital investigations, data analysis and research for campaign organisations Global Witness, Avaaz and Purpose, and training and development for the CIJ, Public Media Alliance and Goldsmiths, University of London.

Working across projects focused on climate, tech and human rights, he uses open-source data, tools and methodologies that focus on supporting collaborative campaigns and investigations that make a difference.

### Daniel Gorman

Daniel Gorman is the Director of English PEN. He joined PEN from the Shubbak Festival, where as its Executive Director he grew the festival in scale and scope to become the largest festival of Arab culture in the UK. His extensive experience of working with writers and supporting artists in areas of conflict, both with Shubbak and as co-founder of Highlight Arts, makes him well suited to PEN’s work protecting writers at risk across the world. As a commissioner  he also has a brilliant track record of presenting new and diverse voices to audiences in the UK – also central to English PEN’s mission.

### Cătălin Tolontan

Cătălin Tolontan is a Romanian investigative journalist based in Bucharest.

### Alexander Nanau

Alexander Nanau is a German-Romanian film director and producer.

Alexander was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1979. His family belongs to the Transylvanian Saxons, a cultural minority of German descent who have lived for generations in Romania. In 1990 they emigrated to Germany and became German citizens. Alexander studied Film Direction at the renowned DFFB in Berlin. His first feature documentary Peter Zadek inszeniert Peer Gynt (2006) was released 2006 in Germany and Austria. In 2007 he was a scholarship holder of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In 2008/2009 he co-produced with HBO Romania, directed and shot the documentary The World According to Ion B. (2009) about a 62 years homeless man who starts a career in the international art world with collages he made over the last 30 years. The documentary was selected for over 40 international film festivals and won the prestigious 'International Emmy Award' for Arts Programming in 2010. His third feature documentary Toto and His Sisters (2014), produced together with HBO Europe, premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival in the 'New Directors' section. The film won major awards at the international film festivals in Angers, Zurich, Warsaw, Jihlava, Leipzig and Sarajevo. It was nominated as 'Best Documentary' at the European Film Awards 2015 and won the international Cinema Eye Honors' Spotlight Award 2016.

### Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden is a former intelligence officer who served the CIA, NSA, and DIA for nearly a decade as a subject matter expert on technology and cybersecurity. In 2013, he revealed the NSA was unconstitutionally seizing the private records of billions of individuals who had not been suspected of any wrongdoing, resulting in the largest debate about reforms to US surveillance policy since 1978. He has received awards for courage, integrity, and public service, and was named the top global thinker of 2013 by Foreign Policy magazine. Today, he works on methods of enforcing human rights through the application and development of new technologies. He joined the board of Freedom of the Press Foundation in February 2014 and was named the president of the board in 2016.

### Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai is a senior staff writer at Motherboard, where he covers hacking, information security, surveillance, and privacy.

### Dan McCrum

Dan McCrum is a multi-award winning investigative journalist. His work for the Financial Times has helped expose accounting problems and fraud at several listed companies, most recently Wirecard. Formerly the Editor of FT Alphaville, over his 13 year career at the FT he’s also run part of the newspapers markets team, worked as the FT’s Investment Correspondent in New York and for the Lex Column. Dan’s previous experience includes four years in Citigroup’s equity research department.

His reporting on Wirecard has been recognised with the Impact Award for distinguished financial journalism from the New York Financial Writers' Association, the Ludwig Erhard Prize for economic journalism and an honorary Helmut Schmidt Journalistenpreis.

### Steve Day

Steve Day is OpenOwnership’s technical lead. He is responsible for the practical side of their technology and technical advice to partners, as well as making sure that they are an integral part of the wider digital government and civic-technology community. He has a background in software development for government digital transformation, big data startups and civic technology.

### Delphine Reuter

Delphine Reuter is ICIJ’s data journalist and researcher.

She started collaborating with ICIJ on the LuxLeaks project in 2014. Prior to joining ICIJ's Data & Research Unit full time, she described her position as "brain for hire." She's no data witch, but somehow working for ICIJ has sparked a love for spreadsheets, everything that requires research, and cross-border investigations.

Previously she was a freelancer working on investigative cross-border projects. She has also been a researcher for environmental organizations. More recently, she was a coordinator of journalism training for professionals and a teacher at IHECS, a journalism school in Brussels.

### Jacinta Gonzalez

Jacinta Gonzalez is a senior campaign organizer with Mijente and leads their #NoTechforICE campaign. Previously, she worked at PODER in México, organizing the Río Sonora River Basin committees against water contamination by the mining industry.  Jacinta was the lead organizer for the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice Congress of Day Laborers (2007-2014). In Louisiana Gonzalez helped establish a base of day laborers and undocumented families dedicated to building worker power, advancing racial justice, and organizing against deportations in post-Katrina New Orleans.

### Micah Lee

Micah Lee is The Intercept/First Look Media’s director of information security. He is a computer security engineer and an open-source software developer who writes about technical topics like digital and operational security, encryption tools, whistleblowing, and hacking using language that everyone can understand without dumbing it down. He develops security and privacy tools such as OnionShare, Dangerzone, and semiphemeral.

### Runa Sandvik

Runa Sandvik works on digital security for journalists and other high-risk people. Her work builds upon experience from her time at The New York Times, Freedom of the Press Foundation, and The Tor Project. She is a board member of the Norwegian Online News Association.

### Akil Harris

Akil Harris is a research engineer at The Intercept / First Look Media. He builds software and does data analysis to assist editors and reporters covering topics ranging from the environment, national security, politics, and criminal justice.

### Edwy Plenel

Edwy Plenel is a French political journalist. He has been a journalist since 1976 and is a former Editor in Chief of Le Monde. He is currently the President and Co-founder of Mediapart, an independent web-based investigative journal created in 2008.

### Rebecca Lee

Rebecca Lee is the Chief Impact Officer at OpenCorporates, the largest open database of companies in the world. OpenCorporates’ core mission is to promote global corporate transparency by making the world’s company data open to all, shining a light on the existence, ownership and activities of entities, and the people connected with them – particularly to tackle the use of companies for corruption, money laundering and other anti-social purposes. Their data has been involved in groundbreaking investigations including the ICIJ’s Panama Papers, Global Witness’ Narco-a-lago report, Transparency International’s London property money laundering report, and the OCCRP’s Troika Laundromat investigations.

Before joining OpenCorporates, Rebecca led PwC’s Investigative Analytics group – a team of 30 data scientists and investigators using data to detect, investigate, prevent and remediate a range of issues such as anti-money laundering, Know Your Client, bribery & corruption, sanctions and fraud. Her expertise across projects at PwC and her prior roles at Deloitte, include disputes, cyber breaches, reactive regulatory investigations and remediation through to proactive compliance and risk management. Many of the projects she managed were high-profile and especially challenging due to the complexity, scale and volume of the data, and often had a global reach – involving periods working in Iceland, Dubai, South Africa and Switzerland.

### Siarhei Satsuk

Siarhei Satsuk is Editor of the online newspaper Yezhednevnik and is well known for his investigative reporting on Belarus’ healthcare system. For the last three years Satsuk has focused on uncovering corruption inside the Ministry of Health in Belarus. On March 25 2020, officers of the State Control Committee, which oversees the country’s financial investigations, detained Satsuk for his reporting. He faced up to ten years in prison for an editorial casting doubt on the official Covid-19 statistics and criticising an order issued by President Alexander Lukashenko to “deal with” media outlets that are “sowing panic” about the epidemic. Most recently he has published a series of investigations exposing a huge level of corruption in the state procurement of drugs and medical devices. The investigations lead to some high level officials in the law enforcement agencies and even to [the President] Lukashenko’s eldest son.

### Naoise Boyle

Naoise Boyle is a designer and researcher based in London. His work exists at the intersection of critical design studies, STS and spatial politics, examining systems of power manifested through technology and new forms of social relations. His current research examines modes of governance and statecraft in Xinjiang, China.

### Lieke Ploeger

Lieke Ploeger is the community director of the Disruption Network Lab in Berlin. Her core interest lies in building and developing both online and offline communities of interest, with a focus on sharing knowledge and expertise in an open way. Previously, she co-founded the independent art space SPEKTRUM Berlin, and worked for the Open Knowledge Foundation, where she was involved in various European research projects in the areas of open cultural data, open access and open science.

### Jeremy B. Merrill

Jeremy B. Merrill is a data journalist whose work has appeared in ProPublica, The Markup, Quartz and The New York Times.

### Banjo Damilola

Banjo Damilola is an investigative journalist from Nigeria. She reports on education, health, and social justice. She is one of Transparency International’s young journalists in 2018. A graduate of Communication and Language Arts from the University of Ibadan. She has carried out some of the most daunting investigations in Nigeria. She investigated the killings and kidnappings in Zamfara State. Her piece reverberated and led to a nationwide protest, demanding improved security in the region. She has also investigated corruption in the justice system, documented malfeasance in the Nigeria Police Force, the courts, and the Prison Service. Damilola's work has brought her some recognition, like the commendation awards from the Wole Soyinka Center for Investigative Journalism, runner up for the 2019 Thompson Foundation Young Journalist Award, shortlisted for the 2019 Fetisov Journalism Awards, a finalist for the 2019 Kurt Schork Memorial Awards, runner up for the AMDF 2019 Journalist of the Year among others. Her works have been published across major news platforms in Nigeria, including BBC. She was the only Nigerian investigative journalist in a global investigation by openDemocracy.

### Stefanos Levidis

Stefanos Levidis is a researcher at Forensic Architecture, where he participated in the investigation into the murder of Pavols Fyssas by the Golden Dawn. He is also a PhD candidate at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University. His thesis, titled 'Border Natures', interrogates the entanglement of border defence strategies with the natural environment at the external borders of the EU.

### Ioanna Meitani

Ioanna Meitani is a translator of German literature. She has worked as a programme coordinator of the Athens Office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation for seven years. She has been a member of the coordination team of the initiative for monitoring the trial of Golden Dawn, Golden Dawn Watch. She is a founding member and coordinator of the new organisation Simeio/Signal: Researching and Confronting the Far Right.

### Chrisa Papadopoulou

Chrisa Papadopoulou is a lawyer, member of the Piraeus Bar Association since 2010. In the trial against Golden Dawn, she represented the family of Pavlos Fyssas, the Greek rap singer murdered by a Golden Dawn operative.

### Ioannis Papadopoulos

Ioannis Papadopoulos is a feature writer and investigative reporter at the Greek newspaper Kathimerini. He has also worked as a feature writer at the newspaper TA NEA focusing on social issues and immigration. His work has been published in the online edition of the German newspaper Zeit, the German edition of Le Monde Diplomatique, the Greek investigative website Inside Story and the Greek edition of VICE. In 2017 he won the 3rd prize at the print category of the EU Migration Media Award. In 2016 he was nominated for the Special Award of the European Press Prize, which was dedicated that year to the refugee crisis.

Ioannis has been reporting on Golden Dawn since 2010.

### John Scott-Railton

John Scott-Railton is a Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab (at The University of Toronto). His work focuses on technological threats to civil society, including targeted malware operations, cyber militias, and online disinformation. His greatest hits include a collaboration with colleague Bill Marczak that uncovered the the systematic use of Pegasus spyware to target civil society in several countries, including Mexico and the UAE. Pegasus is developed by the Israeli cyber-warfare company NSO Group and sold exclusively to governments. That investigation also uncovered the first iPhone zero-day and remote jailbreak seen in the wild. Other investigations with Citizen Lab colleagues include the first report of ISIS-led malware operations, China's "Great Cannon," the Government of China's nation-scale DDoS attack, and the "tainted leaks" disinformation campaigns strongly linked to the Russian Government. These investigations, and others, have served as the basis for criminal investigations and lawsuits. John has also investigated the successful manipulation of news aggregators such as Google News, and privacy and security issues with fitness trackers. Recently, John was a fellow at Google Ideas and Jigsaw at Alphabet.

John has undergraduate degrees from the University of Chicago and a Masters from the University of Michigan. He is completing a PhD at UCLA. Previously he founded The Voices Projects, collaborative information feeds that bypassed internet shutdowns in Libya and Egypt. John's work has been covered by Time Magazine, BBC, CNN, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.

### Georg Neumann

Georg Neumann heads communications at the Open Contracting Partnership. Previously, he led on digital and strategic communications at the Inter-American Development Bank and at Transparency International. He has written for a German journal on Latin America and online news websites. He worked in development projects in Mexico and Morocco and holds a Masters in Strategic Economic and Social Communications from Berlin's University of Fine Arts.

### Sasha Joelle Achilli

Sasha Joelle Achilli is an Italian/Australian Emmy, BAFTA and DuPont award-winning documentary filmmaker specialising in international current affairs. Sasha has spent her career getting at the heart of difficult stories in some of the most remote parts of Africa and the Middle East.

### Cecilia Anesi

Cecilia Anesi is an Italian journalist and reporter at the Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI), a centre for investigative journalism based in Italy and member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network.

 

Graduated in Journalism with Sociology at City University London in 2011, she co-authored the investigative journalism documentary Toxic Europe, which won the Best International Organised Crime Report Award 2011 and was nominated in the Data Journalism Award 2012.

Cecilia works on investigations in team. The latest have been Food for Fraud (2013), on counterfeited food; The Suntech Saga (2014), an ICIJ's Chinaleaks spinoff unveiling the rise and fall of China's largest solar panel producer passing from the BVI and reaching through intermediates the Italian mafia; The Wolves of Europe (2014), which unveiled the life and magic of a group of fraudsters, the same behind the fake bonds provided to Suntech. The latter was co-produced with CORRECT!V, and published in four languages by CORRECT!V, the Tages-Anzeiger, L'Espresso, Il Dispaccio and El Confidencial.

Cecilia also writes for German nonprofit journalism centre CORRECT!V on Italian and transnational organised crime.

### Philip Di Salvo

Philip Di Salvo is a lecturer and a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Media and Journalism at the Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland. He researches whistleblowing, leaks, and the relationships between journalism and hacking.

### Alberto Nerazzini

Alberto Nerazzini is an Italian investigative journalist, and the director and co-founder of investigative press agency and production company DERSU.

### Natalie Sedletska

Natalie Sedletska is a Ukrainian investigative television journalist and editor who works in the anticorruption field. At present, Natalie works as the chief editor and host of the investigative programme Schemes – a television project that she founded in 2014 with the support of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Schemes project is broadcasted by the Ukrainian public TV on a weekly basis.

### Friedrich Lindenberg

Friedrich Lindenberg leads the data team at OCCRP. He is responsible for the development of OCCRP Aleph and supports ongoing investigations where data analysis is needed. In 2014/2015, Friedrich was a Knight International journalism fellow with the International Center for Journalists, working with the African Network of Centers for Investigative Reporting (ANCIR), and in 2013 he was a Knight-Mozilla Open News fellow at Spiegel Online in Hamburg. Prior to that, Friedrich was an open data activist, and worked to promote the release of government information about public finance, lobbying, procurement and law making across the world.

### Denis Roio

Denis Roio, better known by his hacker nickname Jaromil, is CTO of the DECODE EU flagship project on blockchain technologies and data ownership, involving pilots in cooperation with the municipalities of Barcelona and Amsterdam. Jaromil published his PhD on “Algorithmic Sovereignty” (AlgoSov.org) and received the Vilém Flusser Award at transmediale (Berlin, 2009) while leading for six years the R&D department of the Netherlands Media Art Institute (Montevideo/TBA). He has been a fellow of the “40 under 40” European Young Leaders programme since 2012 and was listed in the “Purpose Economy” list of the top 100 social entrepreneurs in the EU in 2014.

### Tatiana Bazzichelli

Tatiana Bazzichelli is founder and programme director at Disruption Network Lab, an organisation in Berlin examining the intersection of politics, technology, and society, and exposing the misconduct and wrongdoing of the powerful (disruptionlab.org). Her focus of work is hacktivism, network culture, art and whistleblowing. In 2011-2014 she was programme curator at transmediale art & digital culture festival, where she developed the year-round initiative reSource transmedial culture Berlin, and curated several conference events, workshops and installations. She is a member of the Transparency International Anti-Corruption Award Committee 2020. In 2019 she has been appointed jury member for the Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Capital Cultural Fund) by the German federal government and Berlin, and in 2020 jury member for the Kulturlichter prize, a new award for digital cultural education by the German federal government.

### Paul O'Connor

Paul O'Connor is the manager at the Pat Finucane Centre in Derry, north of Ireland. The Centre has offices in Derry, Belfast and Armagh and also has a base in Dublin through its project Justice for the Forgotten and provides advocacy support to families bereaved through the political conflict on the island of Ireland. This support usually entails seeking documents and information from public bodies. Paul and other staff at the PFC have been mining the archives at the UK National Archives for many years. Paul is a graduate in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Ulster and lives in his native Derry. He has lived, worked, studied and/or volunteered in the US, Germany, Spain and Nicaragua,

### Kevin B. Lee

Kevin B. Lee is a filmmaker, media artist, and critic.

He has produced over 360 video essays exploring film and media. His award-winning Transformers: The Premake introduced the “desktop documentary” format, was named one of the best documentaries of 2014 by Sight & Sound and screened in many festivals including Berlin Critics Week, Rotterdam International Film Festival and Viennale International Film Festival.

Through Bottled Songs, his collaborative project with Chloé Galibert-Laîné, he was awarded the 2018 Sundance Institute Art of Nonfiction Grant, the 2018 European Media Artist Platform Residency, and the 2019 Eurimages Lab Project Award at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

He was 2017 Artist in Residence of the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin. In 2019 he produced “Learning Farocki”, a series of video essays on Harun Farocki, commissioned by the Goethe Institut. In 2020 he is co-curating the Black Lives Matter Video Essay Playlist with Will DiGravio and Cydnii Wilde Harris.

He was Founding Editor and Chief Video Essayist at Fandor from 2011-2016, supervising producer at
 Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies, and has written for The New York Times, Sight & Sound, Slate and Indiewire. He is Professor of Crossmedia Publishing at Merz Akademie, Stuttgart.

### Rebecca Vincent

Rebecca Vincent is the Director of Campaigns for Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which acts globally to defend the freedom, pluralism and independence of journalism. She is an American-British human rights campaigner and former diplomat with nearly two decades of experience. She has worked with a wide range of NGOs and coordinated many high profile international human rights campaigns. Rebecca has lived and worked in London, Paris, Washington, D.C., New York, and Baku, Azerbaijan. She holds an MA in Human Rights from University College London. She is a frequent commentator in the media and has published widely.

### Tam Hussein

Tam Hussein is an award winning investigative journalist and writer. His work has been recognised by the Royal Television Society Awards. Tam has spent several years in the MENA region travelling, studying, and working. He speaks five languages and holds an MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies.

His work appears in major publications including the Guardian, New Statesman, New Internationalist, The Majalla, Tunisia Live, Sharq Al-Awsat, Egypt Today and others. He has broken exclusive stories with BBC Newsnight, ITV News, Channel 4 News, NBC and others. He is a consultant with various NGOs and his work has been cited by policy think tanks and major news publications such as The New York Times.

He is currently working as a specialist producer/video journalist for various national and international broadcasters. He is the author of To The Mountains My Life in Jihad from Algeria to Afghanistan (Hurst) and Travels of Ibn Fudayl (Darf).

### Martin Williams

Martin Williams is the investigations editor at openDemocracy. Previously he was Specialist Producer at Channel 4 News. Martin is the author of Parliament Ltd.

### April Glaser

April Glaser is an investigative journalist at NBC News, covering the technology industry and labor and workplace culture in Silicon Valley. Previously, she worked at Slate, Recode, and Wired, reporting on AI, surveillance, disinformation and hate online, and the politics of social media platforms. Before journalism, Glaser worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and various other nonprofits focusing on technology policy. She is a 2020 journalist-fellow at the Shorenstein Center at the Harvard Kennedy School.

### Tyler Shultz

Tyler Shultz is a startup founder fostering innovation in healthcare. He graduated from Stanford with a Biology degree and entered the national scene when he blew the whistle at Theranos. Tyler complained to the public health regulators in New York and was a source for a series of Wall Street Journal articles exposing Theranos’ dubious blood-testing practices. Owing to his role in exposing the fraud, Shultz was featured in Bad Blood, the book about the scandal penned by John Carreyrou, the original author of the Wall Street Journal articles, as well as in Alex Gibney’s HBO documentary “The Inventor”. Currently, Shultz is the CEO and Co-Founder of Flux Biosciences, Inc., a bay-area start-up that aims to bring medical grade diagnostics into the homes of consumers. His efforts were recognized by Forbes when he was named to their “30 under 30” Health Care 2017 list.

### Clive Stafford Smith

Clive Stafford Smith is the founder of Reprieve. After graduating from Columbia Law School in New York, Clive spent nine years as a lawyer with the Southern Center for Human Rights working on death penalty cases and other civil rights issues. In 1993, Clive moved to New Orleans and launched the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center, a non-profit law office specialising in representation of poor people in death penalty cases.

In total, Clive has represented over 300 prisoners facing the death penalty in the southern United States. While he only took on the cases of those who could not afford a lawyer – he has never been paid by a client – and always the most despised, he prevented the death penalty in all but six cases (a 98% “victory” rate). Few lawyers ever take a case to the US Supreme Court – Clive has taken five, and all of the prisoners prevailed.

### William Bourdon

William Bourdon is an International Human Rights lawyer who represents prominent whistleblowers. He's now leading the defense team for Rui Pinto, the man behind the Football Leaks revelations.

### Jennifer Robinson

Jennifer Robinson is an Australian human rights lawyer and barrister with Doughty Street Chambers in London. Before coming to the Bar, she founded the Bertha Justice Initiative and is Director of Legal Advocacy for the Bertha Foundation in London. She is also an adjunct lecturer in Law at the University of Sydney Law School.

Jennifer is best known for her role as a long-standing member of the legal team defending Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. She has also provided legal assistance to activists from West Papua.

### Christophe Deloire

Christophe Deloire is a French journalist who has been secretary-general and executive director of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) since 2012. He ran one of the leading French journalism schools, the CFJ, from 2008 to 2012, and was an investigative reporter for the politics and society sections of the French news magazine Le Point from 1998 to 2007. He has also worked for the TV channels ARTE and TF1, made documentary films, edited several authors and written several bestsellers including Les islamistes Sont Déjà Là (2004), Sexus Politicus (2006) and Circus Politicus (2012).

### Richard Logan

Richard Logan is President of the Reva & David Logan Foundation, a Chicago-based family foundation that provides strategic grants to support social justice, the arts and investigative journalism both in Chicago and around the world.

The Reva & David Logan Foundation has been the principal funder of the CIJ Logan Symposium since its inception in 2014.

### Barbora Bukovská

Barbora Bukovská is a human rights attorney and activist, known for her work on racial discrimination of Romani people in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Since 2009, she has been a Senior Director for Law and Policy at ARTICLE 19, an international free speech organisation. In this capacity,she has been leading on the development of all ARTICLE 19 policies and legal work, covering a broad range of freedom of expression issues. She is also overseeing legal support to ARTICLE 19 offices in Mexico, Brazil, USA, Kenya, Senegal, Tunisia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kazakhstan and international operations.

Prior to ARTICLE 19, Barbora worked with various organisations on a range of human rights issues, including protection from discrimination, access to justice, deprivation of liberty, reproductive rights and community development. She also initiated about 50 cases at the European Court of Human Rights on these issues and has published a number of reports and articles on a broad range of human rights.

She was one of the founders of the Courage Foundation in 2013 and was working closely with the CIJ's founder Gavin MacFadyen for several years.

Barbora is a member of the CIJ's Board of Trustees.

### Jiayang Fan

Jiayang Fan became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 2016. Her reporting on China, American politics, and culture has appeared in the magazine since 2010. Her latest article is "How My Mother and I Became Chinese Propaganda."

### Eloïse Bajou

Eloïse Bajou is a French journalist and photographer as well as a member of Reporters En Colère (REC), a journalist collective created in 2019 that aims to give tools to field reporters when they experience press freedom restrictions. REC now counts nearly 200 members including photographers, video reporters and writers specialised in social movements. Convinced that freedom of expression, freedom of association and freedom of the press are the keystones of a democratic and inclusive state, she came recently to journalism. She graduated from one of the 14 recognised schools of journalism in France, the Ecole Publique de Journalisme de Tours (EPJT) last year and also holds a bachelor’s degree of psychology and a state Diploma of Nursing, her first career. Her graduation essay eloquently details the journalistic treatment of police violence during the Gilets Jaunes protests in France. It compares on-the-field observations with data from over one hundred news articles and breaking news broadcast reports. Her constant work and strong writing skills have earned her accolades from award-winning journalist David Dufresne among others, and an internship at Agence France Presse (AFP) and Radio France International (RFI). She's now a contributor to French media such as Rue89 Bordeaux and Le MediaTV.

### Janina Findeisen

Janina Findeisen is an anthropologist, investigative journalist and researcher with a MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology (FU Berlin) and Comparative Studies of Religion and European Anthropology (HU Berlin). Her research focuses on extremism in Germany and the Middle East, specifically the digital and visual influence related to online networks of new terrorism and their influence on propaganda. As a journalist she has worked for the the Guardian, the investigative unit of the German television stations “SWR“, "NDR“ and “WDR“ and the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. Based in Berlin she has directed short films and documentaries, Berlin Muslims and Reise in den Tod. She is currently working on a documentary feature film about extremism in Germany. Her book My Room in the House of War was published at Piper publishing house.

### Stella Moris

Stella Moris is a South Africa-born human rights lawyer. Stella is the fiancée of Julian Assange and mother of his two children. She is fighting against Julian's extradition from the United Kingdom to the United States.

### Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi

Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi is an independent analyst and a doctoral candidate at Swansea University, where he focuses on the role of historical narratives in Islamic State propaganda. His public media work focuses primarily on the Islamic State, Iraq, and Syria, and he has been cited in numerous outlets for his insights, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Agence France-Presse, and the Associated Press.

### Trevor Timm

Trevor Timm is a co-founder and the executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. He is a journalist, activist, and legal analyst whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Guardian, USA Today, The Atlantic, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Harvard Law and Policy Review, and Politico. He also writes a column on press freedom for Columbia Journalism Review.

Timm formerly worked as an activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Before that, he helped the longtime General Counsel of The New York Times, James Goodale, write a book on the Pentagon Papers and the First Amendment. He received his J.D. from New York Law School.

In 2013, he received the Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award for journalism.

### Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker is the author of eighteen books, among them The Mezzanine, Human Smoke, The Anthologist, and Substitute. He’s written for The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The New York Review of Books. His new book, Baseless: My Search for Secrets Among the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act, was published in July 2020. He has received a National Book Critics Circle award, a James Madison Freedom of Information Award, the Herman Hesse Prize, and the Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1999, Nicholson and his wife, Margaret Brentano (co-author with Nicholson of The World on Sunday, 2005), founded the American Newspaper Repository in order to save a large collection of U.S. newspapers listed for auction by the British Library, including a priceless run of Joseph Pulitzer's influential daily, the New York World. In 2004 the Repository’s holdings became a gift to Duke University. Nicholson and Margaret have two children; they live on the Penobscot River in Maine.

### Jack Poulson

Dr. Jack Poulson is the Executive Director of tech accountability nonprofit Tech Inquiry. He completed his PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics at UT Austin in 2012 before serving as an Assistant Professor of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech then as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics as Stanford University. After two years as a Research Scientist in Google's AI division working on recommendation systems and natural language processing, he resigned in protest of the company rolling back its international human rights protections and transitioned (back) into the nonprofit sector. His work focuses on data curation of the interface between tech companies and weapons manufacturers with the U.S. government and supporting civil society and tech workers in opposing related abuses.

### Nabiha Syed

Nabiha Syed is the President of The Markup, a new investigative journalism startup that explores how powerful actors use technology to reshape society. Previously, she was Vice President and Associate General Counsel at BuzzFeed. As the company's first newsroom lawyer, she oversaw litigation, including the "Steele Dossier" litigation, as well as select intellectual property, security, international, and cross-company strategic initiatives. Nabiha has been described as “one of the best emerging free speech lawyers” by Forbes magazine. Before BuzzFeed, Nabiha was an associate at Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, a leading media law firm, and the First Amendment Fellow at The New York Times. She has worked on legal access issues at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; represented asylum-seekers in south Texas; counseled on whether to publish hacked materials; and spoken about misinformation at the inaugural Obama Foundation Summit.

### Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently Radicalized and Walkaway, science fiction for adults, In Real Life, a graphic novel; Information Doesn't Want To Be Free, a book about earning a living in the Internet age, and Homeland, a YA sequel to Little Brother. His latest book is Poesy the Monster Slayer, a picture book for young readers. His next book is Attack Surface, an adult sequel to Little Brother.

### Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei is renowned for making strong aesthetic statements that resonate with timely phenomena across today’s geopolitical world. From architecture to installations, social media to documentaries, Ai Weiwei uses a wide range of media as expressions of new ways for his audiences to examine society and its values. Recent exhibitions include: Ai Weiwei: Resetting Memories at MARCO in Monterrey, Ai Weiwei: Bare Life at the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum in St. Louis, Ai Weiwei at the K20/K21 in Dusseldorf, and Good Fences Make Good Neighbors with the Public Art Fund in New York City. Ai Weiwei was born in Beijing in 1957 and currently resides and works in Berlin. He is the recipient of the 2015 Ambassador of Conscience Award from Amnesty International and the 2012 Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent from the Human Rights Foundation.

### Hatice Cengiz

Hatice Cengiz is a Turkish academic and researcher in middle Eastern studies, and has published academic articles and a book on Gulf Countries. She is the partner of slain Washington Post editorialist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in 2018. Since that day, Hatice has campaigned for truth and justice in the killing of her fiancée, and for the international community to hold accountable those who ordered and planned the killing. She has testified her campaign to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the European Parliament, the US Congress, and various other national parliaments. Hatice has studied and lived in Egypt, Oman, Jordan and the United Kingdom.

### David Rose

David Rose is a veteran investigative journalist who has written for publications including the Guardian, the Observer, the Sunday Times, the Mail on Sunday and Vanity Fair. His seven books include Violation: Justice, Race and Serial Murder in the Deep South, and Guantanamo: America’s War on Human Rights. A past winner of the Royal Institute of International Affairs David Watt Memorial Prize, he was Reporter of the Year in the 2015 British National Press Awards and Feature Writer of the Year for 2018.

### Tim Maughan

Tim Maughan is an author and journalist using both fiction and non-fiction to explore issues around cities, class, culture, technology, and the future. His work regularly appears on the BBC, New Scientist, and Vice/Motherboard. His debut novel INFINITE DETAIL was published by FSG in 2019, and selected by the Guardian as their Science Fiction and Fantasy book of the year and shortlisted for the Locus Magazine Award for Best First Novel. He also collaborates with artists and filmmakers, and has had work shown at the V&A, Columbia School of Architecture, the Vienna Biennale, and on Channel 4. He currently lives in Canada.

### Jason Leopold

Jason Leopold is an Emmy nominated investigative reporter on the BuzzFeed News investigations team and a member of the reporting team named a 2018 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. Leopold's FOIA work has been profiled by dozens of radio, television, and print outlets, including a front-page story in The New York Times. Politico referred to Leopold as “perhaps the most prolific Freedom of Information requester.” The FBI has referred to him as a FOIA terrorist, the Department of Justice has said he is part of a "FOIA posse" and the NSA has said he has "weaponized " the FOIA. In 2016, Leopold was awarded the FOI award from Investigative Reporters & Editors and was inducted into the National Freedom of Information Hall of Fame by the Newseum Institute.

### Katie Riley

Katie Riley is a Graphics Reporter at The Wall Street Journal. She was previously the in-house Data Journalist at Flourish, where she built visualisations, blogs about new templates and features, and supported newsroom users. Before that she was a Google News Fellow at the Financial Times, an Editorial Fellow at The Atlantic, and a Teaching Assistant at the Goldsmiths Department of Media and Communications. Katie has a BA in History from University College London and an MSc in Digital Journalism from Goldsmiths, University of London.

 

### Emma Stoye

Emma Stoye is a the news editor of weekly international journal Nature, where she writes and edits news on cutting edge research as well as issues affecting the scientific community. Her work has been featured in Scientific American, and on the BBC radio show The Naked Scientists. She is currently Vice Chair of the Association of British Science Writers.

 

### Shiv Malik

Shiv Malik is a former investigative journalist who, along with reporting from Afghanistan and Pakistan, worked for the Guardian for five years breaking exclusive front page stories on everything from UK government social policy to international terrorism. He's the author of two books including the 2010 cult book, Jilted Generation, and is a co-founder of the think-tank, the Intergenerational Foundation. He’s now a full-time contributor to the crypto-technology project Streamr, where he evangelises about digital ethics and a new data economy. His latest book, The Messenger, is an intrepid personal tale about a relationship with a terrorist and is published by Faber.

 

### Tom Flannery

Tom Flannery runs Mono, a digital design studio, based in Cardiff. His award-winning work with the BBC and the Guardian turns complex data or investigations into compelling visual stories.

 

### Aliaume Leroy

Aliaume Leroy is an open-source investigative journalist with BBC Africa Eye and a contributor to Bellingcat. Before, he was a campaigner on the Conflict & Fragile States strand at the NGO Global Witness. He focuses on conflicts and all kinds of illegal trafficking in both Africa and Latin America.

### Geoffrey Livolsi

Geoffrey Livolsi is a co-founder of Disclose, the first non-profit investigative newsroom in France. He worked as an investigative journalist specialising in corruption and tax evasion, working with Mediapart, France Inter, Envoyé Spécial on Channel France 2. He has also directed a number of TV documentaries.

 

### Fiona Hamilton

Fiona Hamilton is crime and security editor at The Times.

 

### Annika Smethurst

Annika Smethurst is the National Political Editor for the Sunday News Corp mastheads in Australia. She began her career in Bendigo before she was selected for a cadetship with the Herald and Weekly Times in Melbourne. Annika worked as a state political reporter at Melbourne's number one selling paper the Herald Sun before joining the Canberra bureau in 2015. That same year she won Australia's premier journalism award the Walkley Award for the Choppergate scandal which say The Speaker resign over the abuse of her entitlements. She won her second Walkley in 2017 for a series of articles which revealed the Health Minister Sussan Ley had purchased a holiday home during a taxpayer-funded trip to the Gold Coast. Annika was the 2016 Young Press Gallery Journalist of the Year and the 2017 Press Gallery journalist of the year. In 2019 her house was raided by the AFP after she wrote a story about proposed new powers for Australia's digital spy agency, prompting a debate about press freedom. She was the 2019 Sir Keith Murdoch Journalist of the Year and regularly appears on Sky News and the ABC

### Kofi Smiles

Kofi Smiles is a digital journalist and presenter with the BBC Radio Humberside in the city of Hull. He hosts No Filter, a radio show for and by 18-35s.

### Montinique Monroe

Montinique Monroe is a freelance photojournalist based in Austin, Texas, interested in documenting gentrification and displacement, police violence and issues affecting black communities.

She discovered her passion for visual storytelling as a student journalist in 2014 while covering the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown who was fatally shot by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. It was in Ferguson that Montinique realized the power of telling a story through images and how crucial it is to relaying news.

Since Ferguson Montinique has covered legalization and regulation of marijuana in the U.S., migrant family reunification, local and state elections, the Texas mass church shooting and more. She is known to successfully execute daily assignments but finds the most joy working on long-term documentary projects.

### Andrea May Sahouri

Andrea May Sahouri is on the breaking news team at the Des Moines Register covering police, crime, and justice. Andrea was recently arrested and pepper sprayed in Des Moines, Iowa while covering the protests that followed George Floyd’s death.
Andrea is a Palestinian American, born in Flint, Michigan. She recently graduated from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2019 where she discovered her love and talent for storytelling. Before earning her MS in journalism, she studied American Culture and Arab and Muslim American studies at the University of Michigan.

### Craig Silverman

Craig Silverman is an award-winning journalist and author and one of the world's leading experts on online disinformation, fake news, and digital investigations. He is the media editor of BuzzFeed News.

Craig is also the editor of the European Journalism Centre’s Verification Handbook series. These free online books offer world-class guidance on how to verify online content and investigate disinformation and media manipulation.

Craig was named to the Politico 50 for his work exposing fake news and its effect on American politics and is the recipient of the Carey McWilliams Award from the American Political Science Association, which honors “a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.” His series exposing a global Facebook scam was named investigation of the year by the Canadian Association of Journalists. His journalism and books have also been honored by the Mirror Awards, U.S. National Press Club, and National Magazine Awards (Canada).

### Jop de Vrieze

Jop de Vrieze is an award winning investigative science journalist based in Amsterdam working for national as well as international media. He has a background in infectious disease epidemiology and science communication. As a journalist he tries to dig into issues where science is being (ab)used to serve political and other interests. During the coronavirus pandemic he has been critically covering the Dutch strategy and policy, placing it in an international perspective.

### Clare Wilson

Clare Wilson is an award-winning medical reporter at New Scientist, the world’s leading science and technology magazine and website. Clare reports on everything life-science-related, from Ageing to Zika, and her life now revolves around covering coronavirus. Clare has been a writer or editor at the magazine for 16 years, and she also writes an email newsletter for subscribers called Health Check. Her exploits include watching brain surgery close-up, having her pain threshold tested while lying in a brain scanner and a trip in the European Space Agency’s vomit comet.
Health Check: bit.ly/2NPDv0F

### John Burn-Murdoch

John Burn-Murdoch is a senior data-visualisation journalist at the Financial Times.

### Jake Charles Rees

Jake Charles Rees is a curator and Head of the Logan Programme. In this role he manages the Source Protection Programme for the CIJ, as well as the biannual Logan Symposium, Closed Circuit webtv series and Logan Talks public lecture programme. Outside of his work for the CIJ, Jake was an inaugural fellow at the AKO Storytelling Institute at the University of the Arts in London (UAL); and teaches journalism to artists, designers and film-makers at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague (KABK), University of Fine Arts (HfBK), Dresden and UAL.

### Jason Hickel

Jason Hickel is an anthropologist, author, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Virginia in 2011 and has taught there and at the London School of Economics, and Goldsmiths, University of London, where he convenes the MA in Anthropology and Cultural Politics. He writes on global development and political economy, contributing regularly to the Guardian, Jacobin, Al Jazeera, and other popular outlets. His work has been funded by Fulbright, the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Charlotte Newcombe Foundation, and the Leverhulme Trust. As of 2019, he serves on the U.K. Labour Party task force on international development.

His book The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions is published by Penguin Random House.

### Ala’a Shehabi

Ala'a Shehabi is a British-born economics lecturer, activist and writer. She has a PhD from Imperial College London, is a former policy analyst at Rand Europe. She is the deputy director of the Institute for Global Prosperity at University College London.

 

Her husband is a political prisoner in Bahrain.

### Angela Phillips

Angela Phillips teaches journalism and journalism studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, and is active in journalism research. She established the MA Journalism, MA Digital Journalism and initiated the joint honours BA Journalism in conjunction with the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths. In 2009, she launched EastLondonLines a local, multi-media, news website that is run by Goldsmiths students and has a significant local audience. She was a journalist for over forty years, training initially as a photographer, and she worked for several years as a photojournalist before moving into print for national newspapers and magazines with occasional forays into TV and radio. Her research interests cover: news audiences democracy and journalism, ethics, working practices, the changing audience for news and changing news consumption behaviour.  She worked with the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre and was one of the founders of the Media Reform Coalition.  She gave verbal evidence to the Leveson enquiry into the press.

### Marina Calland

Marina Calland started off as a journalist in Ukraine, writing about cultural events. Having spent a year in an American high school as a MUSKIE scholar, her English language and journalistic skills made her become a fixer and local producer for TVE, BBC World and RAI2, who were filming documentaries in Ukraine. She specialised in social issues, environment and human trafficking. After a year doing MA in International Journalism at City, University of London as a Chevening scholar, she did various journalistic and non-journalistic jobs for London information agencies, luxury travel magazines and even a stint as a Marketing and PR director for a luxury car and bike show in Moscow. She worked as an events manager at the Frontline Club in London before joining the CIJ in 2009. She’s been living and breathing #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference ever since.

### Katherine Eban

Katherine Eban, an award-winning New York-based investigative journalist, reports on public health and pharmaceuticals for Vanity Fair and is the author of the New York Times bestseller Bottle of Lies: the Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom. She's also the author of the article, "Rorschach and Awe", which inspired last year's film The Report.

Read Katherine's most recent investigation into the FDA commissioner's involvement in promoting hydroxychloroquine as treatment for Covid-19.
“I’ll Send You the Contact”: Documents Expose FDA Commissioner’s Personal Interventions on Behalf of Trump’s Favorite Chloroquine Doctor. Vanity Fair 27 May 2020.

### Richard Norton-Taylor

Richard Norton-Taylor is a former security and defence editor at the Guardian. His books include In Defence of the Realm? The case for Accountable Security and Intelligence Services and Truth is A Difficult Concept: Inside the Scott Inquiry. He has written a number of award-winning plays, including Half the Picture, The Colour of Justice, Justifying War, Bloody Sunday, Called to Account and Chilcot. He is on the board of Liberty, the National Council for Civil Liberties. He has twice won the Freedom of Information Campaign awards.

### Nadine White

Nadine White is an award-winning journalist and the UK's first race correspondent at The Independent.

Formerly a news reporter at HuffPost UK, where she also specialised in race and social affairs, her work has had real impact and uncovered stories that would otherwise have not reached a mass audience, placing perspectives from BAME communities at the forefront of the national news agenda. Nadine’s journalism has helped to expose widespread racial and social inequalities in the UK and she has carved out a reputation for being one of Britain's most prolific Black journalists. Nadine's stories have earned her recognition from the Amnesty Media Awards and the prestigious Hugh Cudlipp Prize. Nadine was previously a reporter and weekend editor at The Voice newspaper - Britain’s longest-running Black publication. She is also an alumna of the #CIJMasterclass programme.

Nadine and her colleague Emma Youle were shortlisted for the 2020 Paul Foot Award for their SPAC Nation Expose.

### Can Dündar

Can Dündar is a Turkish journalist, columnist  and writer. Editor-in-chief of center-left Cumhuriyet newspaper until August 2016, he was arrested in November 2015 after his newspaper published footage showing the State Intelligence MİT sending weapons to Syrian Islamist fighters.

He is one of the best known figures in Turkish media. Dündar has written for several newspapers, produced many television programs for state-owned TRT and various private channels including CNN Türk and NTV, and published more than 20 books. His play #WeAreArrested has been premiered at Arcola Theatre in London in 2019.

### Rafael Marques de Morais

Rafael Marques de Morais is an Angolan journalist and anti-corruption activist who received several international awards for his reporting on conflict diamonds and government corruption in Angola. He currently heads the anti-corruption watchdog Maka Angola.

### Paul Samrai

Paul Samrai has worked for every major UK and various international broadcasters over last 25 years. His covert filming skills have been featured in many a Panorama, Dispatches, C4 News, Sky News, BBC News among many others. He has worked with leading investigative reporters such Donal and Darragh MacIntyre, Paul Kenyon, Fergal Keane and Stuart Ramsay. His award-winning undercover work has covered a diverse range of subjects including organised crime, child sacrifice, trafficking of drugs, arms, humans and organs, child labour and sports corruption. He was there at the beginning when covert filming for broadcast was in its infancy and involved, rather crudely, strapping a camcorder under one armpit and a huge battery pack in the other… and he’s still at the forefront now when all the equipment you need is smaller than a packet of cigarettes.

### Ted Gup

Ted Gup is an author, journalist and professor known for his work on government secrecy, free speech and journalistic ethics. He is the author of three books, including The Book of Honor: Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA, which told the stories of previously unnamed CIA officers killed in the line of duty. His work has appeared in Slate, the Guardian, The Washington Post, National Geographic, Smithsonian, The New York Times, The Nation, NPR, GQ, and numerous other venues.

### Misha Glenny

Michael V. E. "Misha" Glenny is a British journalist, specialising in southeast Europe, global organised crime, and cybersecurity.

Glenny became Central Europe correspondent for the Guardian and later the BBC. He specialised in reporting on the Yugoslav wars in the early 1990s that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia. While at the BBC, Glenny won 1993's Sony Gold Award for his "outstanding contribution to broadcasting". He published three books about Central and Eastern Europe.

In McMafia (2008), he wrote that international organised crime could account for 15% of the world's GDP. Glenny advised the US and some European governments on policy issues and for three years ran an NGO helping with the reconstruction of Serbia, North Macedonia and Kosovo.

Glenny's later books continue an interest in international crime. DarkMarket (2011) concerns cybercrime and the activities of hackers involved in phishing and other activities. Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio (2015) is about the leading Brazilian drug trafficker Antônio Francisco Bonfim Lopes (known as "Nem") in Rocinha, a favela.

From January 2012, Glenny was visiting professor at Columbia University's Harriman Institute, teaching a course on "crime in transition".

Glenny was an executive producer of the BBC One eight-part drama series, McMafia, inspired by his non-fiction book of the same name.

### Alexis Okeowo

Alexis Okeowo is an American journalist who is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She is the author of A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Woman and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa. 

From 2006-2007, Okeowo was a Princeton in Africa Fellow working at the New Vision newspaper in Uganda. In 2012, she won an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship to write about gay rights in Africa. She became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 2015. Her book A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Woman and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa came out in 2017.

The Christian Science Monitor called Okeowo one of the "finest war and foreign correspondents" at The New Yorker: "Alexis Okeowo, who was named a staff writer in late 2015, is continuing the tradition of the foreign correspondent who takes considerable personal risks driven by the conviction that all stories deserve to be told, particularly those that require a great deal of courage to uncover in the first place."

### Maria Alyokhina

Maria Alyokhina, a political activist, artist and founding member of the punk collective Pussy Riot, was convicted in 2012 of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” and sentenced to two years in prison. Upon her release she helped found Media Zona, an independent media outlet which aims to hold Russia’s justice system to account.

Maria Alyokhina is the author of Riot Days, a hallucinatory account of her experiences of the Russian justice system.

### Martin Baron

Martin Baron is an American journalist who has been editor of The Washington Post since December 2012, after having been editor of The Boston Globe since 2001.

He achieved heightened prominence in 2015 and 2016 from his portrayal in the film Spotlight and also his involvement in the release of Jason Rezaian, the Tehran bureau chief for The Washington Post, who was released in January 2016 after being imprisoned in Iran for 18 months.

### Lawrence Wright

Lawrence Wright is an American author, screenwriter, staff writer for The New Yorker, and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. Wright is best known as the author of the 2006 nonfiction book Going Clear and The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda’s Road to 9/11. Wright is also known for his work with documentarian Alex Gibney who directed film versions of Wright's one man show My Trip to Al-Qaeda and his book Going Clear.

### Seymour Hersh

Seymour Hersh is an American investigative journalist and political writer. He is a longtime contributor to The New Yorker on national security matters and has also written for the London Review of Books since 2013.

Hersh first gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. During the 1970s, Hersh covered the Watergate scandal for The New York Times and revealed the clandestine bombing of Cambodia. In 2004, he reported on the U.S. military's mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison. He has also won two National Magazine Awards and five George Polk Awards. In 2004, he received the George Orwell Award.

In recent years, Hersh has accused the Obama administration of lying about the death of Osama bin Laden and disputed the claim that the Assad regime used chemical weapons on civilians in the Syrian Civil War. Both assertions have stirred controversy.

### Dame Frances Cairncross

Dame Frances Cairncross, formerly a senior editor at The Economist and an economics columnist at the Guardian, is author of The Cairncross Review: A Sustainable Future for Journalism.

She is a British economist, journalist and academic. She is a Senior Fellow at the School of Public Policy, UCLA. She chairs the Executive Committee of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. From 2004 to 2014, she was the Rector of Exeter College, Oxford.

### Srećko Horvat

Srećko Horvat is a Croatian philosopher, author and political activist. The German weekly Der Freitag called him as "one of the most exciting voices of his generation" and he has been described as a "fiery voice of dissent in the Post-Yugoslav landscape". His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Der Spiegel, Jacobin, Newsweek and The New York Times.

Horvat, from Croatia, is the author of Poetry from the Future and What Does Europe Want (co-authored with Slavoj Žižek). He was a 2019 European election candidate for the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25).

### Bhaskar Sunkara

Bhaskar Sunkara is an American political writer. He is the founding editor and publisher of Jacobin, and publisher of Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy and Tribune. He is a former vice-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America and the author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality as well as a columnist for the Guardian US.

### Antony Loewenstein

Antony Loewenstein is an Australian German freelance investigative journalist, author and filmmaker.

Loewenstein has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Sydney's Sun-Herald, The Bulletin, ZNet, The Big Issue, Crikey, CounterPunch, and the online magazine New Matilda among others. He appears regularly on TV, radio, in public and at universities around the world discussing current affairs and politics.

For his book Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe, Loewenstein travelled across the US, Britain, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea and Australia to witness the reality of Disaster Capitalism—the hidden world of privatized detention centers and militarized private security, formed to protect corporations as they profit from war zones. He visited Britain’s immigration detention centres, toured the prison system in the United States, and dug into the underbelly of the companies making a fortune from them. In his book, Loewenstein reveals the dark history of how large multinational corporations have become more powerful than governments, supported by media and political elites.

### Zelda Perkins

Zelda Perkins is a Theatre Producer for Robert Fox Ltd and a former assistant to Harvey Weinstein. She publicly broke the 20-year silence on her non-disclosure agreement in 2017, facing the risk of legal action to talk about what she faced and its contents. In 2018 and 2019, Perkins testified before parliament to push change in regulation and legislation around such employment contracts and settlement agreements. She is currently campaigning with the Women and Equalities Committee and legal regulatory bodies to change the way NDA’s are structured within the law.

### Tom Mueller

Tom Mueller is a New York Times-bestselling author whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly and elsewhere. He has reported from 22 countries on a wide range of topics, with recent emphasis on fraud and institutional corruption. His most recent book is Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud, published by Atlantic Books in the UK and by Penguin Random House in the US. This work, the result of 7 years of research and reporting and over 200 interviews with whistleblowers, traces the rise of whistleblowing as a legal and social phenomenon.

### Joseph Farrell

Joseph Farrell is a British journalist and editor who has worked for the Centre for Investigative Journalism, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, WikiLeaks and is currently heading up the NGO Tenure. He has been a section editor for many important WikiLeaks' publications including the Iraq and Afghan War Logs and Cablegate to name but a few. He was a member of the Civil Society Coalition at the WIPO diplomatic conference on a treaty for copyright exceptions for persons with disabilities in Marrakesh, Morocco. Farrell regularly appears on TV networks analysing the week's news headlines.

Joseph was a member of the CIJ's Board of Trustees between 2016 and 2024.

### Mary Inman

Mary Inman is a partner in Constantine Cannon’s London Office. After 20 years representing whistleblowers in the U.S, she moved to London in July 2017 to launch the firm’s international whistleblower practice. She specialises in representing whistleblowers from the U.K., E.U. and worldwide under the American whistleblower reward programs.

### Simon Akam

Simon Akam is a British writer. He worked at the New York Times and subsequently spent several years in West Africa as a freelance correspondent for Reuters and The Economist. In 2015 Simon was commissioned by Penguin Random House imprint William Heinemann to write a narrative non-fiction book on the post-9/11 evolution of the British Army. Called The Changing of the Guard, the book was due to be published in March 2019. Two months before publication, following external pressures, the publisher demanded that Simon instigate full ‘copy approval’ for his book. Despite the involvement of eight press freedom organisations – including the CIJ, RSF, Index on Censorship, the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom – PRH cancelled the book’s publication.

### Paul Myers

The BBC’s top online sleuth Paul Myers is one of Europe's leading open-source intelligence specialists and a very popular and engaging speaker. He has been working at the sharp edge of online research for nearly twenty years. Currently working as a senior journalist with BBC News, Paul first joined the corporation as an information researcher in 1995. He started training journalists in 1999, and has pioneered many of the online research techniques that are now commonplace in the media. He runs the researchclinic.net website and is always developing new investigation strategies to cope with the changing digital landscape.

### Sophia Ignatidou

Sophia Ignatidou is an Academy Stavros Niarchos Foundation Fellow at the International Security Department of Chatham House. She researches artificial intelligence, disinformation, political campaigning, propaganda and surveillance. Before joining Chatham House in 2018, she was working as a freelance journalist and digital sub-editor for The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and CNN, among others. Sophia holds an MA in Journalism from Goldsmiths, University of London, as well as an MA/PGDip in International Studies and Diplomacy from the School of Oriental and African Studies.

### Hossein Derakhshan

Hossein Derakhshan is an Iranian-Canadian writer and researcher who focuses on the long-term socio-political impacts of media and technology. In the early 2000s, he introduced blogging to Iran, which earned him the title of ‘blogfather’. He was imprisoned in Tehran from 2008–14 for his writings and online activism. Derakhshan is the author of the longform essay ‘The Web We Have to Save’ (2015), a co-author of the Council of Europe’s report into disinformation, Information Disorder: Toward an Interdisciplinary Framework for Research and Policymaking (2017), and he has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, Libération, MIT Technology Review, Wired, and other outlets.

### Sophia Al-Maria

Sophia Al-Maria is a Qatari-American screenwriter and artist. Her new film Beast Type Song was shown at Tate Britain as part of the Art Now program until February 2020. Her book Sad Sack (2019) is out with Bookworks.

### Tom Sanderson

Tom Sanderson is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism.

He joined the CIJ in 2014 as Training Coordinator and now oversees all aspects of the CIJ’s training provision and leads on the development of funded projects and initiatives. His recent projects have focused on supporting new models of community and non-profit journalism with investigative training.

### Mollie Hanley

Mollie Hanley is a writer, researcher and organiser, with a background in corporate transparency and open data. After graduating from SOAS, Mollie mobilised campaigns to open up public records about companies at OpenCorporates. Alongside her role boosting awareness of the CIJ's training courses, Mollie is a former Communications Associate at OpenOwnership, a global database of company owners. She is fascinated by infrastructure, and passionate about increasing financial literacy.

### Nick Mathiason

Nick Mathiason has been a business and finance journalist for 30 years and has broken a sizable number of impactful stories that gained international prominence. Subjects investigated include developing countries access to medicine, vulture funds, labour issues and the growth of private equity.

In 2012, Nick founded and today co-directs Finance Uncovered – a five-strong team which trains reporters and activists around the world to follow the money and then supports them to get impactful stories into the public domain working with organisations such as the ICIJ, OCCRP and emerging investigative centres.

Formerly a business correspondent at The Observer, The Guardian, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the Big Issue magazine for the homeless, Nick has written major reports for Publish What You Pay, Fairtrade Foundation and the Tax Justice Network.

### Zubeida Malik

Zubeida Malik is an award winning journalist and broadcaster. She worked on the BBC's Today Programme for 18 years, which included high profile interviews, foreign reporting, domestic and social analysis and investigative work. She has also reported for the BBC's Newsnight and made documentaries for Radio 4.

### Jess Brammar

Jess Brammar is Editor of the BBC News and BBC World channels. Prior to that, Jess was the executive editor of HuffPost UK and deputy editor of the BBC's Newsnight, having joined the programme as a producer covering domestic and foreign news. In her time at Newsnight she led award-winning coverage on the Grenfell Tower fire and the Westminster bullying scandal. Before Newsnight she was a field producer for ITN and a producer for BBC Question Time.

### Emma Youle

Emma Youle is an award-winning investigative journalist who has worked for regional newspapers and for HuffPost UK as a special correspondent. She has undertaken investigative reporting into the coronavirus pandemic, the housing crisis, historic child abuse, the Grenfell disaster, the contaminated blood scandal, and won the Private Eye Paul Foot Award in 2017 for her stories exposing squalid conditions inside homeless hostels.

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### Darren Cullen



### Cosmic Latte



### Céline Minkyung Park



### Sonia Kennebeck

Sonia Kennebeck is an independent documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist with more than 15 years of directing and producing experience. She has directed eight television documentaries and more than 50 investigative reports. National Bird, her first feature-length film, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival 2016 and was also selected for Tribeca, Sheffield, and IDFA. Foreign Policy magazine recognised Sonia as one of the 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2016, and she was also selected as one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2016 by Filmmaker Magazine.

In March 2017, National Bird received the prestigious Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize that is awarded to one documentary a year “that defends the public interest, advances or promotes social justice, or illuminates a more just vision of society.” Sonia received a master’s degree in international affairs from American University in Washington, D.C.

She was born in Malacca, Malaysia, and lives in New York, NY.

### Bob Bicknell-Knight



### Benjamin Grosser



### Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa is a Filipino-American journalist and author, best known for co-founding Rappler as its Chief Executive Officer. She previously spent nearly two decades working as a lead investigative reporter in Southeast Asia for CNN.

Ressa was included in Time's Person of the Year 2018 as one of a collection of journalists from around the world combating fake news. On February 13, 2019, she was arrested for "cyberlibel" due to accusations that Rappler published a false news story concerning businessman Wilfredo Keng. On June 15, 2020, a court in Manila found her guilty of cyberlibel. As she is an outspoken critic of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, her arrest was seen by many in the international media and the opposition Liberal Party as a politically motivated act by Duterte's government.

Ressa is one of the 25 leading figures on the Information and Democracy Commission launched by Reporters Without Borders.

### Malcolm Moore

Malcolm Moore is the technology news editor of The Financial Times. Previously head of UK news and a foreign correspondent in Rome, Shanghai and Beijing.

### Karoline Kan

Karoline Kan was born in Tianjin in 1989 and studied at Beijing International Studies University. After graduating she worked for three years at That’s Beijing, writing long-form features in English about Chinese people’s lives in a society shaped by a changing culture, economy and politics. She then worked at Radio France International, focusing more on hard news, which helped her develop a better understanding of China from different angles. From summer 2016 to the end of 2018, she worked for The New York Times in Beijing and is now an editor at China Dialogue.

### Fabio Natali

Fabio Natali is a London-based information security advisor, software architect, and consultant. His interests lie at the intersection of technology, ethics, and politics. As an information security consultant, he has worked with and provided support to investigative journalists, activists, and human rights organisations, from the UK and abroad.

### Marie Gutbub



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### Silkie Carlo

Silkie Carlo is the Director of Big Brother Watch. She is a lifelong campaigner for the protection of civil liberties, particularly in the context of new and emerging technologies.

She works to uphold rights in the fields of state surveillance, policing technologies, big data, artificial intelligence and free expression online.

Before joining Big Brother Watch in January 2018, she was the Senior Advocacy Officer at Liberty where she led a programme on Technology and Human Rights and launched a legal challenge to the Investigatory Powers Act. She previously worked for Edward Snowden’s official defence fund and whistleblowers at risk.

Carlo is also an information security trainer and organises Cryptoparty London. She is the co-author of Information Security for Journalists.

### Sarah Giaziri



### Chris Woods

Chris Woods is the founder and Director of Airwars, where he leads on research, investigations and military advocacy. A conflict specialist, he worked for the BBC’s Newsnight and Panorama as a senior producer for many years. Chris also set up and ran the Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s award-winning Drones Project. His book, Sudden Justice, charts the history of armed drone use in Iraq and elsewhere since 9/11.

### Samaneh Moafi



### Bill Goodwin

Bill Goodwin is Computer Weekly’s investigations editor. He is an award-winning journalist, who has written for national newspapers, magazines and has worked as a researcher on investigative television documentaries

### Rachel Oldroyd



### Phil Chamberlain



### Stephen Grey

Stephen Grey is a British investigative journalist and special correspondent for Reuters.

He has published several books including The New Spymasters and Ghost Plane, which revealed details of the CIA's program of 'extraordinary rendition.' He has also reported extensively from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

### Matt Kennard

Matt Kennard is an investigative journalist and co-founder of Declassified UK, a news outlet covering British national security issues. He worked as a staff writer for the Financial Times in the US and UK and is the author of two books, Irregular Army (2012), which investigated the degradation of the US military during the War on Terror and The Racket (2015), which investigated how the US rigs the global economy for the benefit of its elite.

### Maria Teresa Ronderos



### Colin Pereira

Colin Pereira is a Director of HP Risk Management and the Journalist Safety Strategist for the Committee to Protect Journalists. He was previously the Head of High-Risk Security for ITN News and Deputy Head at the BBC High-Risk Team, and before that worked as a producer for BBC Newsnight and Radio 4.

### Jake Davis

Jake Davis is a former hacker. He has worked with Anonymous, LulzSec, and similar hacktivist groups. He was an associate of the Internet group Anonymous which has publicly claimed various online attacks, including hacking HBGary, Westboro Baptist Church, and Gawker. They have also claimed responsibility for the defacing of government websites in countries such as Zimbabwe, Syria, Tunisia, Ireland, and Egypt.

### Yasha Levine

Yasha Levine is a Russian-American investigative journalist and author. Levine, is a former editor of Moscow-based satirical newspaper The eXile. He is the author of the 2018 book Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet. Levine has also written several other books, including A Journey Through California’s Oligarch Valley, The Koch Brothers: A Short History, and The Corruption of Malcolm Gladwell. Levine was previously a correspondent at PandoDaily. He has also written for Wired, The Nation, Slate, TIME, the New York Observer, and more. He is co-founder of the S.H.A.M.E. Project.

### William Davies

William Davies is Reader in Political Economy at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Centre. His latest book is Nervous States: How feeling took over the world, and the edited collection Economic Science Fictions.

### Vanessa Gezari

Vanessa Gezari is National Security Editor at The Intercept and author of The Tender Soldier, a narrative nonfiction account of the Human Terrain System, a controversial U.S. Army program that sent civilian social scientists into combat with soldiers to try to help the military understand local culture in Iraq and Afghanistan. Gezari has reported from Afghanistan, South Asia, and West Africa and is an adjunct professor at Columbia Journalism School.

### Thomas Hargrove

Thomas Hargrove, a former investigative journalist, is Chairman of the nonprofit Murder Accountability Project in Washington.

### Theodore A. Postol

Theodore A. Postol is Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology, and National Security Policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has also worked at Stanford University, as a technical and Policy Advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations, as an analyst on nuclear weapons systems for the Congress of the United States, and as a member of the science research staff at Argonne National Laboratory. He has received awards from the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, The German Federation of Scientists, The Committee for the Republic, and the Federation of American Scientists. He is also the recipient of the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage.

### Stephen Maing

Stephen Maing is an Emmy-nominated Brooklyn-based filmmaker. His feature documentary, High Tech, Low Life, chronicled the gripping story of two of China’s first dissident citizen-journalists fighting state-monitored censorship. His short film, The Surrender, produced with Academy Award winner Laura Poitras, was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Documentary. He has directed numerous films for Time Magazine, The Nation, New York Times, The Intercept, PBS and Field of Vision including the Times Documentary Hers to Lose which was awarded a World Press Photo Award for Long Features. Stephen is a Sundance Institute Fellow and recipient of the International Documentary Association’s inaugural Enterprise Investigative Journalism grant as well as a John Jay/Harry Frank Guggenheim Reporting Fellow. His most recent film Crime + Punishment received a Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

### Stéphanie Gibaud

Stéphanie Gibaud is a public relations expert, event marketing specialist and whistleblower. In 2008, while working for the Marketing department of UBS, her employer asked her to shred documents while an investigation by the French government was taking place. Risking jail, she blew the whistle internally and was accused of defamation by her employer: her documents have widely helped to identify 38.000 offshore bank accounts amounting to €12 billion. Her books include The Woman Who Knew Far Too Much, and The Hunt to Break Down Whistleblowers.

### Stephanie McCrummen

Stephanie McCrummen is a national enterprise reporter for The Washington Post. She was a leading member of the team that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting on the U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore, which included exposing an attempted sting aimed at undermining the work. That coverage also won a George Polk award for Political Reporting and the Robin Toner Prize for National Reporting. Stephanie has also won national awards for long-form narratives including An American Void, about the people who hosted the mass killer Dylann Roof, and others concerning mental illness. Prior to joining the national staff, she was the paper’s East Africa bureau chief. She was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama and lives in Washington, D.C.

### Stefania Maurizi

Stefania Maurizi works for the Italian daily la Repubblica as an investigative journalist, after ten years working for the Italian newsmagazine l’Espresso. She has worked on all WikiLeaks releases of secret documents, and partnered with Glenn Greenwald to reveal the Snowden files about Italy. She has started a multi-jurisdictional FOIA litigation effort to defend the right of the press to access the full set of documents on the Julian Assange and WikiLeaks cases. She authored two books: Dossier WikiLeaks. Segreti Italiani and Una Bomba, Dieci Storie, the latter translated into Japanese.

### Sinéad O’Shea

Sinéad O’Shea is an award winning journalist and filmmaker. She has made films and reports for the BBC, Al-Jazeera English, the Guardian, RTE and the Irish Times.

### Saska Cvetkovska

Saska Cvetkovska is investigative reporter on corruption, the illicit arms trade and the global information wars. She works for the Investigative Reporting Lab Macedonia, a NGO whose mission is to fight disinformation with real reporting and an interdisciplinary approach. She also works as investigative reporter at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting project (OCCRP); she was wiretapped by Macedonian Counterintelligence between 2014 and 2016.

### Sarah Kember

Sarah Kember is Professor of New Technologies of Communication at Goldsmiths, and Director of Goldsmiths Press. She works on gender and artificial intelligence and has written several articles on face recognition technology. She also writes science fiction.

### Renzo Martens

Renzo Martens is a Dutch artist and filmmaker and currently serves as director of the Institute for Human Activities. In his first film, Episode 1, Renzo travels to Chechnya to adopt a rarely defined role in contemporary war: that of its spectator. Episode 3, also known as Enjoy Poverty, is a meditation on the political claims of contemporary art and the result of Renzo’s two-year journey in the Congo. In 2013 the artist attended the Yale World Fellow Program and he is currently working on a PhD in the arts at the School of Arts in Ghent.

### Pavla Holcová

Pavla Holcová is the founder of the Czech Center for Investigative Journalism. She is a co-recipient of the Global Shining Light Award and European Union investigative journalism prize. Pavla is closely working with Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) as regional editor and has also worked on various international projects and investigations such as Panama papers, Paradise Papers, Russian Laundromat or Azerbaijani Laundromat – exposing payments from Azerbaijani government officials to European politicians.

### Paul Lashmar

Paul Lashmar is Deputy Head of Journalism at City, University of London. His research interests include investiga­tive journalism, intelligence-media relations, organised crime reporting, digital journalism and media bias. Paul has been an investigative journalist in television and print and on the staff of The Observer, Granada Television’s World in Action current affairs series and The Independent.

### Patrick Loughrey

Patrick Loughrey is the Warden of Goldsmiths, University of London. Born in Donegal and a former BBC journalist, he was once Controller of BBC Northern Ireland.

### Patrick Cockburn

Patrick Cockburn is an award-winning writer on The Independent who specialises in analysis of Iraq, Syria and wars in the Middle East. In 2014 he forecasted the rise of Isis before it was well known, and has written extensively about it and other players in the region. He joined the Financial Times, covering the Middle East, and was later Moscow correspondent. In 1990, he joined The Independent, reporting on the First Gulf War from Baghdad, and has written largely on the Middle East ever since.

### Nour Samaha

Nour Samaha is a freelance journalist based in Beirut, Lebanon. She has been covering the region for over a decade, with a specific focus on Syria, Lebanon and Israel-Palestine. She has produced in-depth reports and investigations from the ground for publications including The Intercept, The Century Foundation, Al Monitor, Al Jazeera and Foreign Policy.

### Naomi Colvin

Naomi Colvin is a whistleblower advocate with a particular interest in the space where whistleblowing and hacking meet. She writes on information politics at New Internationalist and a few other places besides. Colvin led Courage’s campaign against the extradition of British-Finnish computer scientist Laurie Love.

### Mustafa Al-Bassam

Mustafa Al-Bassam is a security researcher and hacker who co-founded LulzSec, a high-profile hacking group which made headlines in 2011 for its hacks on Sony, Fox and the FBI. As a result, he was legally banned from the Internet for almost two years as a condition of his bail. He is a currently a PhD researcher at the Information Security Research Group at University College London, focusing on scaling distributed ledgers. In 2016 he was listed by Forbes as one of the 30 Under 30 in the Technology section.

### Muhammad Rabbani

Muhammad Rabbani is the International Director of CAGE. He has been instrumental in bringing to light abuses of torture and human rights violations, seeking justice and accountability for victims. Rabbani has spent his life committed to promoting the welfare of his community and upholding the fundamental principles of due process and the rule of law. He worked within his community mediating between gangs to end cycles of violence and reach peaceful solutions to the issues they were raising. He has consistently maintained and promoted the use of dialogue as a means of bringing conflicts to an end.

### Mowaffaq Safadi

Mowaffaq Safadi is a Syrian freelance journalist who works across broadcast and print media. He writes regularly for Arabic and Syria-opposition websites and was a presenter for Syrian radio station Hawa Smart. He has worked for the Guardian, the Observer, BBC Radio 4 and international NGOs. He’s currently based in London, where he has discovered his inner hipster.

### Molly Crabapple

Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer in New York. Brothers of the Gun, her illustrated collaboration with Syrian war journalist Marwan Hisham, was published in May 2018. Her reportage has been published in the New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, VICE, and elsewhere. She has been the recipient of a Yale Poynter Fellowship, a Front Page Award, and a Gold Rush Award, and shortlisted for a Frontline Print Journalism Award. Her art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the United States Library of Congress and the New York Historical Society.

### Michael Scott Moore

Michael Scott Moore is a journalist and a novelist whose work appears in Der Spiegel, The Atlantic, and The New York Times. He covered the 2011 trial of ten Somali pirates in Europe for Spiegel Online, then traveled to Somalia in early 2012, where he was kidnapped and held hostage for two and a half years. His memoir about the ordeal, The Desert and The Sea, is newly published by HarperCollins.

### May Jeong

May Jeong is an award-winning magazine writer and investigative reporter. She is best known for her months-long investigation into the MSF hospital bombing in Kunduz, Afghanistan for The Intercept. This won her the 2017 South Asian Journalists Association’s Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Report on South Asia, as well as the Prix Bayeux Calvados Award for War Correspondents in the Young Reporter category. Her long form pieces have been translated into several languages.

### Mary Dejevsky

Mary Dejevsky has worked as a former foreign correspondent in Moscow, Paris and Washington; she was in Moscow during the collapse of communism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. She writes a weekly column for The Independent, and contributes also to The Guardian and other publications.

### Marc Tuters

Marc Tuters As the director of the Open Intelligence Lab, a researcher affiliated with the Digital Methods Initiative and a senior lecturer in the University of Amsterdam’s Media Studies program (currently ranked #1 in the world), Marc’s work focuses on how web subcultures constitute themselves as political movements.

### Manuel Gomez

Manuel Gomez was born in Puerto Rico. After 9/11, Gomez was called to active duty with the 18th Airborne, conducting training and working in counterintelligence. In 2004, he deployed again to Afghanistan where he provided real-time All-Source Intelligence on enemy forces as a liaison to the CIA, FBI and other coalition forces. In 2013, Gomez he started BlackOPS Private Investigators, establishing a policy of only taking innocent clients. In the last two years, his company has been responsible for proving the innocence of 87 cases of falsely accused and arrested individuals.

### Lauri Love

Lauri Love is a computer scientist from Stradishall in the UK who has a long history of involvement in political activism. He played a prominent role in the student and Occupy movements in Glasgow during 2011-12. Lauri faced potential extradition to the United States for his alleged involvement in #OpLastResort, the series of online protests that followed the persecution and untimely death of Aaron Swartz. Love is increasingly being recognised as an expert on hacking, surveillance and privacy issues in the UK and has made a principled stand against the country’s forced decryption laws.

### Laurent Richard

Laurent Richard is a French award-winning investigative journalist and 2017 Knight-Wallace fellow. He is co-founder of the highly reputed inquiry magazine Cash Investigation broadcast on French public television. Richard worked on many fields such as Iraq, Palestine, Kashmir and has also investigated multiple corporate sectors such as “big tobacco”, pharmaceutical companies, financial institutions… Laurent Richard is the co-author of the book Reporting Is Not a Crime. Stand Together Against Censorship, (Informer n’est pas un délit, ensemble contre les nouvelles censures).

### Julie Posetti

Julie Posetti is Senior Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, where she leads the Journalism Innovation Project. A multi-award winning journalist formerly with the ABC, she authored UNESCO’s Protecting Journalism Sources in the Digital Age and co-anchors the Working With Whistleblowers Project for Blueprint for Free Speech.

### John Goetz

John Goetz is an investigative journalist at ARD-Hauptstadtstudio in Berlin. Previously, he wrote for Der Spiegel until 2011. Together with Danish documentary filmmaker Poul-Erik Heilbuth, he wrote and directed the 2015 documentary Terminal F/Chasing Edward Snowden. The documentary was awarded a special commendation in the category of Best European TV Current Affairs Programme at the 2015 Prix Europa in Berlin.

### Jesselyn Radack

Jesselyn Radack is a national security and human rights attorney known for her defense of whistleblowers, journalists, and hacktivists. She has represented National Security Agency whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Thomas Drake. Radack is the director of National Security & Human Rights at Expose Facts. She was named one of Foreign Policy magazine’s “100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2013,” was one of 100 worldwide figures pictured in “Justice: Faces of the Human Rights Revolution,” and was a visiting Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow from 2014 to 2016.

### James Risen

Jim Risen, a best-selling author and former New York Times reporter, is The Intercept’s senior national security correspondent, based in Washington, D.C. He won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his stories about the National Security Agency’s domestic spying program, and he was a member of the reporting team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for coverage of the September 11 attacks and terrorism. Risen was a target of the U.S. government’s crackdown on journalists and whistleblowers and waged a seven-year legal battle, risking jail, after the Bush administration and later the Obama administration sought to force him to testify and reveal his confidential sources in a leak investigation. He also serves as director of First Look Media’s Press Freedom Defense Fund, which is dedicated to supporting news organizations, journalists, and whistleblowers in legal fights in which a substantial public interest, freedom of the press, or related human or civil right is at stake.

### Ian Cobain

Ian Cobain was born in Liverpool in 1960. He has been a journalist since the early 1980s and was an investigative reporter with the Guardian. He is now a senior reporter for Middle East Eye. His inquiries into the UK’s involvement in torture since 9/11 have won a number of major awards, including the Martha Gellhorn Prize and the Paul Foot Award for investigative journalism. He has also won two Amnesty International media awards. Ian is the author of Anatomy of a Killing, Cruel Britannia and The History Thieves.

### Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald is one of three co-founding editors of The Intercept. He is a journalist, constitutional lawyer, and author of four New York Times best-selling books on politics and law. His most recent book, “No Place to Hide,” is about the U.S. surveillance state and his experiences reporting on the Snowden documents around the world. Prior to co-founding The Intercept, Glenn’s column was featured in the Guardian and Salon. He was the debut winner, along with Amy Goodman, of the Park Center I.F. Stone Award for Independent Journalism in 2008, and also received the 2010 Online Journalism Award for his investigative work on the abusive detention conditions of Chelsea Manning. For his 2013 NSA reporting, he received the George Polk Award for National Security Reporting; the Gannett Foundation Award for investigative journalism and the Gannett Foundation Watchdog Journalism Award; the Esso Premio for Excellence in Investigative Reporting in Brazil (he was the first non-Brazilian to win), and the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award. Along with Laura Poitras, Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013. The NSA reporting he led for the Guardian was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service.

### Gill Phillips

Gill Phillips is a solicitor who works as an editorial legal consultant for a number of NGOs and not-for-profits, advising on a range of content-related matters including defamation, privacy, contempt of court and reporting restrictions. For over 10 years she was the Director of Editorial Legal Services at The Guardian News and Media (GNM). In that capacity she was involved in the Trafigura super injunction case, and has advised GNM publications on Wikileaks, Edward Snowden, and various big data leak stories such as the Panama and Paradise Papers. She also co-authors the University of Law Employment Law handbook.

Gill is a member of the CIJ's Board of Trustees.

### Gabriella Coleman

Gabriella Coleman holds the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University. Trained as an anthropologist, her scholarship explores the intersection of the cultures of hacking and politics, with a focus on the sociopolitical implications of the free software movement and the digital protest ensemble Anonymous. She has authored two books, Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking and Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous, which was named to Kirkus Reviews’Best Books of 2014 and was awarded the Diana Forsythe Prize by the American Anthropological Association.

### Frederik Obermaier

Frederik Obermaier is a Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative reporter for the Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany’s leading broadsheet. He is one of the two reporters first contacted by the anonymous source of the Panama Papers, the leaked documents that prompted a global investigation involving hundreds of journalists. He also initiated the Paradise Papers-revelations. Obermaier is member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and co-author of the international bestseller “Panama Papers – Breaking the story of how the rich and powerful hide their money”.

### Eyal Weizman

Eyal Weizman is an architect, professor of spatial and visual cultures and director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2010 he set up the research agency Forensic Architecture (FA) and in 2007 he set up, with Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, the architectural collective DAAR in Beit Sahour/Palestine. Eyal is on the editorial board of Third Text, Humanity, Cabinet and Political Concepts; he is on the advisory boards of the ICA in London and B’Tselem in Jerusalem, amongst others.

Eyal was a member of the CIJ's Board of Trustees between 2016 and 2024.

### Eric Olson

Eric Olson is the main investigative source and leading narrative voice for the docudrama miniseries “Wormwood,”. Eric is the son of Frank Olson, an American biological warfare scientist and Central Intelligence Agency employee, who died in 1953 in what was initially called an “accident,”. Twenty-two years later, in 1975, the CIA claimed that Olson’s death had in fact been an LSD suicide. Subsequent investigations by Eric and others have shown that the LSD story was yet another layer of coverup of what was in fact a brazen murder — a secret execution.

### Eoin McNamee

Eoin McNamee is the author of eighteen works of fiction, including Resurrection Man, later filmed, and The Ultras, which deals with the disappearance of Robert Nairac in South Armagh and the covert war in the north of Ireland. His latest novel is The Vogue published by Faber and Faber.

### Eliot Higgins

Eliot Higgins is the founder of the multi-award winning investigative collective Bellingcat. He started his investigative career by blogging under the name Brown Moses about the weapons used in the conflict in Syria. Eliot Higgins is a research fellow at UC Berkeley School of Law’s Human Rights Centre, nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Future Europe Initiative, a member of the Technology Advisory Board of the International Criminal Court, and has recently won the Golden Nica Ars Electronica prize for Digital Communities.

### Edwin Raymond

Edwin Raymond is an officer of the New York Police Department who was part of class-action lawsuit against the NYPD alleging that the department used quotas and court summonses for arrests and punished police officers who complained about the policy.

### Ed Moloney

Ed Moloney is a journalist and film-maker who has made the Troubles in Northern Ireland his speciality. The former Northern editor of The Irish Times and The Sunday Tribune, he is the author of three books: ‘A Secret History of the IRA’, ‘Voices From the Grave’ and ‘Paisley – From Demagogue To Democrat?’. He has also co-produced two major documentaries on the Troubles: ‘Voices From the Grave’ and ‘I, Dolours’. He was voted Irish journalist of the year in 1999 and now lives and works in New York.

### Duncan Campbell

Duncan Campbell was a freelance journalist.

For many years he was the crime correspondent of the Guardian, the chairman of the Crime Reporters’ Association and previously worked for LBC Radio, Time Out and City Limits magazines, and Robert Maxwell’s London Daily News. He was also the Guardian’s Los Angeles correspondent for five years and covered Latin America. He was the first presenter of Crime Desk, the Radio 5 Live programme. He published four books on crime: That Was Business, This is Personal: the Changing Faces of Professional Crime (1989); The Underworld (1994) and its updated version Underworld (2019); A Stranger and Afraid: the Story of Caroline Beale (1997); We’ll All Be Murdered in Our Beds, the Shocking History of Crime Reporting in Britain (2016). Also two novels, The Paradise Trail and If It Bleeds, and two books with Billy Connolly (Billy Connolly: the Authorised Version and Gullible’s Travels) with whom he toured Britain in 1975, and the Middle East and the US in 1981. He won the Bar Council newspaper journalist of the year award in 1992.

In 1997, he was the defendant in a libel action brought by eight police officers, backed by the Police Federation, over an article he had written about police corruption in Stoke Newington; the Guardian fought the action - defended by George Carman QC - and won, the first newspaper to win a libel case brought by the police in 95 such actions; it cost the Police Federation £600,000 in costs. He was consultant on King of Thieves, (2018) the film directed by James Marsh and starring Michael Caine and Ray Winstone about the Hatton Garden £14M burglary, which was partly based on an article he wrote about the case.

Duncan passed away in 2025.

### Delphine Halgand-Mishra

Delphine Halgand-Mishra is the Executive Director of The Signals Network. She previously served for six years as Reporters Without Borders’ North America Director, advocating for journalists, bloggers, and media rights worldwide. The Signals Network aims to advance the public interest by encouraging transparency, accountability, reporting and whistleblowing.

### Charlotte Cook

Charlotte Cook is a documentary film programmer, curator, producer and co-founder of Field of Vision. Cook was also the Director of Programming at Hot Docs for four years; she has also worked with BBC Storyville, the Channel 4 BritDoc Foundation’s Puma Creative Catalyst Fund and the Edinburgh International Film Festival. In addition, Charlotte is currently a programmer at CPH:DOX.

### Barret Brown

Barrett Brown is a writer and anarchist activist. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, and dozens of other outlets. He founded Project PM, a think tank, assigned to oversee an investigation into the private espionage industry and the intelligence community. In 2011 and 2012, he worked with Anonymous on campaigns involving the Tunisian revolution, government misconduct, and other issues which resulted in his sentence to four years in federal prison. While imprisoned, he won the National Magazine Award for his column, “The Barrett Brown Review of Arts and Letters and Prison.”

### Betsy Reed

Betsy Reed is the Editor-in-Chief of The Intercept. Previously, she was Executive Editor of The Nation, where she led the magazine’s award-winning investigative coverage. She has edited several best-selling books, including Jeremy Scahill’s “Blackwater” and “Dirty Wars.” Reed co-edited the New York Times best-seller “Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare” with Richard Kim. She is also the editor of the essay collections “Unnatural Disaster: The Nation on Hurricane Katrina,” published on the storm’s one-year anniversary, and “Nothing Sacred: Women Respond to Religious Fundamentalism and Terror” published in 2003.

### Anna Belkina

Anna Belkina is RT’s deputy editor in chief and head of communications, marketing and strategic development. Anna has provided expertise to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee of the UK Parliament, has appeared as a speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Westminster Media Forum, the Global Editors Network and a range of other academic and media industry events, and has provided commentary for dozens of international news media outlets, including Forbes, the BBC and the New York Times.

### Angela Nagle

Angela Nagle is an essayist for The Atlantic, Jacobin and The Baffler. Her best selling book Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right was voted one of the Guardian’s books of the year in 2017 by novelist George Saunders. Slavoj Zizek called it a “dynamite stick packaged as a short book” and she has been praised in the LA Review of Books as “one of the brightest lights in a new generation of left writers and thinkers who have declared their independence from intellectual conformity”.

### Andy Mueller-Maguhn

Andy Mueller-Maguhn is a member of the German hacker association Chaos Computer Club. In November 2000, he was elected to the ICANN Board of Directors which made him jointly responsible with 18 other directors for the worldwide development of guidelines and the decision of fundamental questions for the internet structure. Müller-Maguhn is the founder of the “Datenreisebüro” (‘Data Travel Agency’) which trains system administrators in data protection and data security.

Andy was a member of the CIJ's Board of Trustees between 2016 and 2024.

### Andrew Orlowski

Andrew Orlowski is a British columnist, investigative journalist and executive editor of the IT news and opinion website The Register.

### Dr. Anastasia Denisova

Dr. Anastasia Denisova is a Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Westminster, who writes about memes, virality and politics. Before her academic career, Anastasia worked as a TV news editor and reporter, travel editor and lifestyle columnist. Next year, she will publish her first book, Internet Memes and Society.

### Alfredo Cramerotti

Alfredo Cramerotti is a writer, curator and broadcaster, director of MOSTYN Visual Arts Centre in Wales. He is also the founder of CuratorWork, and Head Curator of APT (the Artist Pension Trust). His book Aesthetic Journalism was one of the first to recognise the contemporary blurring of aesthetic and information practices, and to address the relationship between art and interview, fiction and reportage.

### Anand Gopal

Anand Gopal is a journalist and author of No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War Through Afghan Eyes, which describes the travails of three Afghans caught in the war on terror. It was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction, the 2014 National Book Award and the 2015 Helen Bernstein Award. It was awarded the 2015 Ridenhour Prize for demonstrating “why the United States’ emphasis on counterterrorism at the expense of nation-building and reconciliation inadvertently led to the Taliban's resurgence after 2001.”

Gopal is notable for his reporting in Afghanistan and the Middle East. He is believed to be one of the few Western journalists to have embedded with the Taliban, an experience that forms part of the basis of No Good Men Among the Living. In 2012 Gopal reported for Harper's Magazine on the town of Taftanaz in Syria, which suffered a massacre at the hands of the regime of Bashar al-Assad. In 2014 he reported for Harper's on a murderous U.S.-backed police chief in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

He has reported for The New York Times, The Atlantic and Harpers and other outlets. Gopal's views on the Taliban have been quoted in several books. From 2012-2014 Gopal was a Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation.

### Niamh McIntyre

Niamh McIntyre is a journalist on the Guardian’s data projects team, working on data-driven investigations and news stories. Recent stories include an investigation into schools using crowdfunding websites and coverage of the UK’s gender pay gap. She has taught data journalism at Westminster and City University.

 

### Katie Baker

Katie Baker is an award-winning investigative reporter on institutional injustice and abuses of power at BuzzFeed News. Her work has changed state law, prompted nationwide legislation, launched internal government and corporate inquiries and helped put sex abusers in jail.

 

### Jane Bradley

Jane Bradley is the UK investigative correspondent for The New York Times. She is a Pulitzer and three-time Orwell Prize finalist and is based in London, where she focuses on abuses of power, national security and crime,  money and influence, and social injustices.

### Raj Bairoliya

Raj Bairoliya is a well-known expert forensic accountant and has been teaching Understanding Company Accounts at the CIJ for many years. Raj frequently helps journalists and broadcasters to decipher the accounting and business aspects of a story.

He is the author of the CIJ handbook The Investigative Journalist's Guide to Company Accounts. He is also a founder of the charity Dawai Dost, which helps people in Jharkhand, India, afford medicines.

### Claire Newell

Claire Newell is the Telegraph's Investigations Editor. Since joining the paper, she has exposed greed and corruption in English football, "Politicians for Hire" and Britain's #MeToo scandal.  Her team's revelations about English football won digital scoop of the year at the Press Awards 2010 and she has been shortlisted for several Paul Foot Awards.  Her work has prompted parliamentary inquiries, police investigations and numerous resignations.

 

### Bastian Obermayer

Bastian Obermayer is a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter and the head of the investigative department of Süddeutsche Zeitung. With his partner in crime Frederik Obermaier he received the Panama Papers leak. After seven years at Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine, Obermayer joined the investigative team in 2011 and worked on projects like Lux-Leaks, Offshore-Leaks and Swiss leaks. His latest work – the publication of the Strache-Video – brought down the Austrian government in May 2019. Obermayer has received numerous national and international awards for his work, among them the Pulitzer Prize, the George-Polk-Award, the Henri Nannen Prize, the Theodor Wolff Prize and the German Reporter Award. He is the author of a number of books, most notably, again with Obermaier, the international bestseller Panama Papers.

 

### Christo Grozev

Christo Grozev has been writing for Bellingcat since 2015, focusing on Russia-related security threats and the weaponisation of information. Based in Vienna, he authored or co-authored many of Bellingcat’s landmark investigations including identifying the three Skripal poisoning suspects in 2018, for which he was awarded the European Press Prize for Investigative Journalism. When he is not doing investigative work for Bellingcat, Christo runs radio stations in the Netherlands and Ukraine, and is senior researcher in the area of cyber warfare and weaponisation of information, at the Risk Management Lab at the New Bulgarian University.

### Henk van Ess

Henk Van Ess is an assessor of Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network and a member of Bellingcat. He is obsessed with finding stories in (big) data. His specialisations include social media and data journalism. As an author, he has published books in Dutch, French, German, English and Italian about Google, data journalism, web research, and fantastic Facebook formulas.

### Graham Barrow

Graham Barrow is a writer, speaker and advisor on anti-money-laundering, who works extensively with investigative journalists and advocacy organisations on investigating financial crime. Graham has most recently been at the heart of Deutsche Bank’s regulatory investigation, liaising directly with the Financial Conduct Authority throughout. His Introduction to Global Financial Crime workshop has been delivered to many thousands of people across hundreds of workshops in a variety of different institutions worldwide to consistent acclaim.

 

### Andrew Salerno-Garthwaite

Dr Andrew Salerno-Garthwaite is a freelance journalist and editor with interests in OSINT, data journalism and international development. He was highly commended for statistical excellence in investigative journalism by the Royal Statistical Society in 2020 for his work at the Financial Times on the Democratic Republic of Congo election fraud. Andrew has worked as the Data Editor for Vogue Business, a data journalist for I by IMD, and a statistical journalist at the FT.  He has also been a  cartoonist for the Centre for Investigative Journalism , and worked as a freelance designer or editorial illustrator for The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, CodaStory, Sifted, and The Huffington Post.

### Tom Bristow

Tom Bristow has been a journalist for 12 years and spent the last six years establishing an award-winning investigations team at one of the largest regional publishers in the UK. The Archant Investigations Unit focuses on holding local power to account, including councils, health authorities, the police and businesses. Under his leadership, the investigations unit has won numerous awards, including Regional Press Awards, the Paul Foot Award and has been shortlisted three times at the British Journalism Awards. He also produced an award-winning, investigative podcast, with colleague Charles Thomson, into how police allegedly covered up an Essex paedophile ring.
Before that he was the editor of a news site in Berlin called The Local. He now works for Meta's content team.

 

### Maeve McClenaghan

Maeve McClenaghan is an award-winning investigative journalist and founder of the critically-acclaimed podcast The Tip Off. Formerly at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Maeve now works as investigations correspondent at the Guardian.

She has led nationwide, collaborative investigations on issues including cuts to domestic violence refuges, politicians' use of Facebook “dark ads” and homeless deaths. Her investigation Dying Homeless - a year-long project counting homeless deaths - prompted widespread debate, influenced national and local policy and caused the Office for National Statistics to start recording when and how people are dying homeless in the UK.

### Lois Kapila

Lois Kapila is an editor and reporter with Dublin Inquirer, an independent reader-funded newspaper in Ireland's capital. She mainly covers stories around housing and land. She previously worked for The Statesman in Kolkata.

 

### Iona Craig

Iona Craig is a freelance print and broadcast journalist. Based in Yemen from 2010 to 2015 as The Times (London) Yemen correspondent she regularly returns to the country to cover the ongoing civil war. She has won multiple awards for her reporting on the most tumultuous period in Yemen’s modern history, including the 2016 Orwell Prize for journalism and the 2014 Martha Gellhorn award for investigative reporting. During her time in Yemen she has contributed to more than 20 media outlets worldwide including The Intercept, The Irish Times, the BBC, Channel 4 News (UK), RTÉ (Ireland) and The Independent.

### Christiaan Triebert

Christiaan Triebert is a journalist on the Visual Investigations team at The New York Times.

### Robert Trafford

Robert Trafford works at Forensic Architecture on open source research, data mining and analysis, as well as writing and editing for scripts and exhibitions, and occasional reporting. He is also a project coordinator. Before joining Forensic Architecture, he was a freelance journalist, including reporting on the refugee crisis from France and Greece. His work has appeared among others in The Intercept, The Times and the Independent.

### Nicholas Masterton

Nicholas Masterton works at Forensic Architecture, focusing on the spatialisation of video and other open source media. He studied architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture and the Architectural Association (AA), where he carried out research into the nature of digital labour through the orchestration of crowdsourced tasks. He graduated from the AA in 2015 with RIBA Part II. He currently teaches a digital skills workshop at the AA and at the Goldsmiths Centre for Research Architecture. Prior to joining the team in 2017 Nicholas worked at Wilkinson Eyre Architects and KTB Architecture.

### Cynthia O’Murchu

Cynthia O'Murchu is an investigative reporter at the Financial Times focusing on financial wrongdoing and corporate fraud. Her work focuses on unravelling complex financial money flows, often using public records and open source methods.

She was part of the team that won the Politics Journalism Award and Investigation of the Year at the 2021 British Journalism Awards, as well as the Paul Foot Award for reporting on Greensill Capital and served as a producer on two Wincott nominated documentary films. She was previously deputy editor of the FT's interactive team, where she specialized in multimedia and using data to find stories.

### Daphné Dupont-Nivet

Daphné Dupont-Nivet is an Amsterdam-based freelance investigative journalist and researcher. Since 2016, she has been reporting for the Dutch investigative journalism platform Investico, covering various issues including (sustainable) energy policy, (sustainable) business, global commodity chains and the precarisation of labour. Most recently, she collaborated with Investigate Europe to investigate big tech and the European fight against disinformation. A historian by training, she aims to zoom out and look at the structural trends underlying daily events.

 

 

### Simon Bowers

Simon Bowers is an investigative journalist with ICIJ, a non-profit organisation specialising in cross-border journalistic collaborations. As well as coordinating the collaborative efforts of ICIJ partner journalists in Europe, he continues to work as a reporter. His work has been published in The New York Times, Australian Financial Review, Le Monde, Süddeutsche Zeitung, El Confidencial, British Medical Journal, Irish Times, the Guardian, BBC, Knack, De Tijd, Aftenposten and ICIJ.org. He joined ICIJ at the start of 2017 after almost 20 years as a financial and investigative reporter for the Guardian.

 

### Brennan Novak

Brennan Novak is a UX designer/developer and data hacker who focuses on creating user-friendly tools for journalists and freedom of information activists. He has been a core team member of Transparency Toolkit since 2015 and has also worked on other privacy enhancing open-source tools.

### MC McGrath

M C McGrath is a member of Julian Assange's legal team who worked as a legal researcher on his extradition case.

M C is also the founder of Transparency Toolkit, a non-profit organization that creates open source software to help journalists, researchers, and human rights groups collect, analyze, search, and understand data.

 

### Aron Pilhofer

Aron Pilhofer is the James B. Steele Chair in Journalism Innovation at the Klein College of Media and Communication, Temple University. In addition to teaching, his work is focused on new business models, digital transformation and innovation in news. Before joining Temple, Pilhofer was executive editor, digital, and interim chief digital officer at the Guardian. There, he led the Guardian's product and technology teams as well as heading visual journalism. Before coming to the Guardian, Pilhofer was associate managing editor for digital strategy and editor of interactive news at The New York Times. Outside the newsroom, Pilhofer co-founded two news-related startups: DocumentCloud.org and Hacks/Hackers.

### Winny de Jong

Winny de Jong is a data journalist at the Dutch national broadcaster NOS. Described by colleagues as a ‘workaholic’, and ’strategist’ who gives ‘EPIC presentations’, she usually speaks about the importance of data literacy, how to develop ideas, and her data journalistic workflow. She has presented for organisations like TEDx, Brussels News Summit, and several journalism colleges.

 

### Shaun Lintern

Shaun Lintern is health editor of The Sunday Times. An investigative health journalist for more than a decade, he has helped expose some of the worst scandals in NHS history, including the Shropshire and Telford maternity disaster and poor care at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust and subsequent public inquiry. He was health correspondent for The Independent during the Coronavirus pandemic and previously bureau chief for the Health Service Journal.

### Max Harlow

Max Harlow works on the visual and data journalism team at the Financial Times, focusing on investigations. He also runs Journocoders, a group for journalists to develop technical skills for use in their reporting.

### Alon Aviram

Alon Aviram is a co-founder of the The Bristol Cable. Aviram is an operations coordinator and investigative reporter for the citywide media cooperative. The Bristol Cable is powered by over 2,000 members and is pioneering a new model for public-interest local journalism. Aviram’s reporting has uncovered organised crime groups responsible for murder, protection rackets, slavery and money laundering; indiscriminate surveillance by UK police; and businesses violating worker and tenant rights.

### Brigitte Alfter

Brigitte Alfter is the director of Arena for Journalism in Europe, supporting collaborative and investigative journalism in Europe. She was a Brussels correspondent for Danish daily Dagbladet Information from 2004-2008. Having practiced journalism for more than a decade on local, national and European level, she realised the need for cross-border collaborative journalism structures. From 2008 onwards, she developed a European support- and infrastructure for cross-border journalism at Journalismfund.eu, where she was a managing editor and developed cross-border journalism work grants and the European Investigative Journalism Conference & Dataharvest. She is the author of Cross-Border Collaborative Journalism: a step-by-step guide and combines journalism practice, networking activities and academic work. 

### Barry McCaffrey

Barry McCaffrey is a senior reporter with The Detail. He started his career in journalism as a trainee reporter in the Down Democrat in 1996 before moving to The North Belfast News in 1998. In 2001 he joined the Irish News, where he worked for 10 years. Barry has written for the Ireland on Sunday, Sunday Times, Sunday Business Post and Irish Voice. In 2013 he was awarded the overall award in the Attorney General’s Justice Media Awards. The award recognised his investigation into the use of solitary confinement in Northern Ireland’s prisons. In the same year Barry was named CIPR Digital Journalist of the Year.



In 2018 Barry and fellow journalist Trevor Birney were arrested for the suspected theft of documents from the Police Ombudsman’s Office, this was after the release of their documentary No Stone Unturned about the 1994 murder of six men in Loughinisland.

### Clare Rewcastle Brown

Clare Rewcastle Brown is a British journalist and the founder and editor of the website Sarawak Report. Her investigations resulted in the exposure of the 1MDB Development Fund scandal, which revealed grand kleptocracy by the Malaysian Prime Minister; rocked the global financial community; helped put the off-shore finance industry on the run and embarrassed some of the most famous figures in Hollywood, Vegas and New York.



Malaysia issued a warrant for her arrest in 2015 and requested INTERPOL place her on the international Red Notice list, however INTERPOL rejected the request and following the election of a new government in May 2018 Malaysia cancelled all charges against her.



Awards include: Fortune Magazine’s one of the World’s 50 Most Influential Figures (2016); one of Britain’s Women of the Year 2016. She is the Winner of the Guardian Award for International Fraud Reporting 2018 from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

### Crispin Dowler

Crispin Dowler is a senior reporter for Unearthed, an investigative environmental journalism project funded by Greenpeace UK. He has published investigations on subjects including agriculture, pesticides, fisheries and air pollution. His stories have been picked up across the national media and internationally by publications and broadcasters including ITV, the BBC, RTL, the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Telegraph, and Le Monde. Before joining Unearthed he worked in specialist and local journalism, including as a reporter and bureau chief at the Health Service Journal. He has won awards from the Medical Journalists Association and the Periodicals Training Council, and been shortlisted for various other journalism prizes.

### Éanna Kelly

Éanna Kelly has been responsible for writing international news features at Science|Business since 2014. He was previously a research assistant with the RAND Corporation (Brussels office). Éanna has a degree in economics and law from Dublin City University and an MSc in political science from Trinity College Dublin.

### Fiona Gabbert

Fiona Gabbert is a Professor of Applied Psychology, and Director of the Forensic Psychology Unit at Goldsmiths, University of London. She also chairs the Scientific Committee of the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group (iIIRG). Fiona has an international reputation for her research in the field of investigative interviewing, that has a strong focus on improving the usability, credibility, and reliability of evidence from victims and witnesses. Her work has had an international impact on police operational procedure and policy including the introduction of new evidence-based investigative interview tools and training resources to the field.

### Hannah Devlin

Hannah Devlin is the Guardian’s science correspondent, having previously been science editor of the Times. She has a PhD in biomedical imaging from the University of Oxford. Hannah also presents the Science Weekly podcast.

### Helena Bengtsson

Helena Bengtsson is the data journalism editor at Gota Media, a regional publishing company in the south of Sweden with 13 local titles. She previously worked as the data journalism editor at Sveriges Television, Sweden’s national television broadcaster, for 27 years and has also served as Editor, Data Projects of The Guardian UK between 2014-2017. In 2006 and 2007, she was database editor at the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C. She was awarded the Stora Journalistpriset (The Swedish Grand Prize for Journalism) twice, in 2010 and in 2016 for innovator of the year.

### Jonathan Stoneman

Jonathan Stoneman is a freelance trainer specialising in data journalism. He has been working with data since 2010. Before that he worked at the BBC - as a reporter, producer, editor of output in Macedonian and Croatian, and finally as head of training at BBC World Service.

### Joshua Howgego

Joshua Howgego is a features editor at New Scientist magazine. He covers physical science in every possible guide, from stories on reinventing the address to loop quantum gravity. Before joining the magazine in 2015, he was a deputy editor at SciDev.Net.

### Julian Sturdy

Julian Sturdy is the Investigations Editor for BBC East’s Impact Hub, having previously worked as a district Chief Reporter for Eastern Daily Press; and as a district producer for BBC Radio Norfolk.
Recent projects include exposing high mortality rates at SeaLife Centres in the UK, Ryanair bouncing compensation cheques for late flights, and a long-running series of exposés on millions of pounds missing from a council loan to Northampton Town Football Club.

Awards include: an award from the Royal Television Society for his film on stammering, the Medical Journalists’ Association Healthcare Journalist of the Year. Four-times nominated in the British Journalism Awards 2017-2018.

### Kevin McConway

Kevin McConway retired in 2016 after teaching and researching in statistics for many years at the Open University. He was academic adviser to the BBC Radio Four programme ‘More or Less’ for eleven years, and has worked with journalists and press officers in other contexts, including through the Science Media Centre where he is now a trustee and a member of the Advisory Committee. He enjoys talking about statistics in the media, particularly statistics about health or the environment, to pretty well any audience who will have him.

### Leila Haddou

Leila Haddou is an investigative and data journalist.
She has previously worked for BBC Panorama, The Times and Sunday Times, the FT and the Guardian. She has an avid interest in how technology can aid investigative reporting.

### Luuk Sengers

Luuk Sengers is an experienced teacher and investigative journalist. He lectures at universities and in newsrooms and writes data-driven stories for the leading Dutch magazine De Groene Amsterdammer. He is also the co-developer of Story-Based Inquiry.

 	CIJ Logan Handbook: The Hidden Scenario
 	CIJ Logan Handbook: The Story Tells the Facts

 

### Mark Lee Hunter

Dr Mark Lee Hunter is a founding member of The Global Investigative Journalism Network, the principal author of Story-Based Inquiry: A Manual for Investigative Journalists (UNESCO 2009) and the recipient of many awards for his reporting. He is the founding academic director of the Future Media Management Programme at Stockholm School of Economics, Riga. He has lectured in 40 countries on five continents and pioneered collaborative investigations with NGOs, notably Greenpeace.  His most recent book with Luuk Sengers, Modern Investigative Journalism: A Comprehensive Curriculum, was published by Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism in 2019.

With Luk N. Van Wassenhove and Maria Besiou, he wrote Power is Everywhere: How stakeholder-driven media build the future of watchdog news (Stakeholder Media Project, 2017).
Free book downloads: https://www.storybasedinquiry.com/publications

 	

 	CIJ Logan Handbook: The Hidden Scenario
 	CIJ Logan Handbook: The Story Tells the Facts
 	#CIJSummer 2017 video Stakeholder Media

### Mike Power

Mike Power is a British freelance investigative journalist specialising in drugs and technology.
His book Drugs 2.0: The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World Gets High documents a new digital frontline in the war on drugs.
His reports around the emergence of so-called “legal highs” – recreational drugs manufactured in Chinese laboratories that are legal in most countries – have prompted complex policy debates in the UK and beyond. His in-depth research into the Dark Web, Tor, Bitcoin and cryptomarkets predicted accurately the explosive growth in digital drug dealing that we have witnessed in the recent years.

His “Drugs Unlimited” report for Matter.com documented an undercover mission to produce and import to the UK a new, legal drug – using only a laptop – and won the 2014 Association of British Science Writers prize for the best investigative journalism.

### Nikolas Leontopoulos

Nikolas Leontopoulos is a Greek journalist based in Athens. He is the co-founder of Reporters United, a new centre for investigative journalism and a network of reporters in Greece. Leontopoulos worked for ten years for the Athens daily Eleftherotypia. He collaborated in investigations with Reuters on banks, shipping and the media in Greece, and reported for the “Outlaw Ocean” New York Times series. During the Greek financial crisis, he worked as a fixer for several international media. He made two documentaries for VICE Greece: “The European Commission and the Defence Industry Lobby” and “The German Big Brother”. He was a co-founder of Investigate Europe, a consortium of European journalists publishing with media partners across Europe.

### Olivier van Beemen

Olivier van Beemen is an investigative journalist from Amsterdam and the author of the book Heineken in Africa: A Multinational Unleashed. The book is the result of six years of thorough journalistic research, not only in thirteen African countries where the Dutch multinational is operating, but also in the company’s archives and academic literature. The author has spoken to more than 400 sources within and around Heineken.

Earlier in his career, Van Beemen was correspondent in France for several leading Dutch and Belgian news media and he currently publishes in newspapers such as Le Monde, NRC Handelsblad and the Guardian. His work has been nominated for several awards in the Netherlands.

### Pamela Duncan

Pamela Duncan is the editor of The Guardian’s Data Project team, an occasional award-winning journalist (#humblebrag) and a self-confessed data nerd. She can usually be found at her desk poring over spreadsheets and using her coding skills - usually a combination of scraping, regex and pandas/Python - to build and analyse datasets to produce high quality and exclusive data stories. She has worked on a number of international collaborations including the Pandora Papers, Russian Asset Tracker and The Uber Files.

Pamela is a very popular data journalism trainer at the #CIJSummer Conference despite being an insufferable data evangelist who forces her love of data upon others. She has taught as a visiting lecturer in data journalism at City, University of London and trained journalists at conferences including DataHarvest, GIJC and NICAR as well as CIJ's Summer Conference. She has also written a bespoke data curriculum to teach journalists in developing countries.

### Robert Hunter

Robert Hunter is a founder of City Disabilities, a charity which supports people with disabilities in the work place. He is an experienced solicitor advocate. In the course of 30 years in the City, Robert has been a partner in a magic circle firm and is now a partner at a specialist litigation boutique. Interviewing techniques, as used by journalists, lawyers and police has been his life-long interest. Robert is also profoundly deaf.

### Wendy M. Grossman

Wendy M. Grossman covers the intersection of computers, freedom, and privacy and is a long-time member of the executive board of the Association of British Science Writers. Her Friday net.wars column has appeared continuously since 2001. She has been a regular contributor to New Scientist, the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, and Scientific American, and is author or editor of several books. She was the 2013 winner of the BT Information Security Journalism Enigma Award.

### Jenna Corderoy

Jenna Corderoy is an investigative reporter for Democracy for Sale, a newsletter dedicated to revealing how dark money and hidden influence threaten our democracy. She specialises in obtaining documents under the Freedom of Information Act, and has brought several successful FOIA challenges at tribunal.

Her work on access to information has been widely recognised. In 2022, she won Campaign of the Year at the British Journalism Awards along with her openDemocracy colleagues for investigations on transparency in British public life. openDemocracy’s campaign was also nominated at the Press Awards that year. In 2021, she was shortlisted for Private Eye’s Paul Foot Award for an investigation into the government’s ‘Clearing House’ and the state of freedom of information. In 2019, she was longlisted for the Paul Foot Award and shortlisted for the investigations category for the British Journalism Awards.

Previously, she advised mySociety developers on the design of a new toolkit, WhatDoTheyKnow Pro, which helps journalists submit FOIA requests. She also specialises in requesting personal data under the Data Protection Act.

### Robert Miller

Robert Miller is the Business Night Editor at The Times. Formerly a broadcaster for BBC Radio Five Live on Wake Up to Money, a presenter for Telegraph TV and Telegraph Talk, a senior business correspondent at the Telegraph, Associate Editor of Sunday Business, City Editor-in-Chief of The Express and banking correspondent of The Times. Previously he was a personal finance correspondent at The Observer and is a former adviser to the DTI's Foresight Panel on business, a member of Lautro, the old unit trust and life office regulator and pension fund trustee at News International.

### Martin Tomkinson

Martin Tomkinson is a veteran investigative financial journalist and corporate researcher. He was a financial researcher for The Mail on Sunday‘s ‘Rich List’ from 2000-2004 and has worked on The Sunday Times‘ ‘Rich List’ since 2005. Martin has written for all the UK’s major newspapers. He started work with Private Eye in 1972 and has worked as a freelancer since 1981. He is the author of two books, Nothing to Declare: The Political Corruptions of John Poulson (with Michael Gillard) and The Pornbrokers: The Rise of the Soho Sex Barons.

Martin is a member of the CIJ’s Board of Trustees.

Read an article about Martin from the 2024 CIJ Summer Conference:
Reporting Tips from an Investigative Journalist of 50 Years. By Emily O’Sullivan for the Global Investigative Journalism Network. July 17, 2024

### Justin Walford

Justin Walford is a barrister and editorial legal counsel at News Group Newspapers

### Holly Else

Holly Else is a reporter with Nature in London. She writes about the ways that scientists conduct research and communicate their findings. Before joining Nature in 2018, she wrote about research policy and universities for Times Higher Education, and she has experience reporting on engineering, infectious diseases and public health. She studied biomedical science at the University of Sheffield and has a master’s degree in science communication from Imperial College London.

 

### Daan Louter

Daan Louter is a Dutch designer and developer based in London. He's currently working on Flourish, before that he worked at the Guardian.

### Sophie Warnes



### Caelainn Barr

Caelainn Barr is Editor of Data Projects at the Guardian. She has worked at The Wall Street Journal, The Irish Times, Bloomberg and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. She is a graduate of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia Journalism School in New York.

### Paul Bradshaw

Professor Paul Bradshaw is a data journalist and author, who leads the MA in Data Journalism at Birmingham City University.

He publishes the Online Journalism Blog, and was the co-founder of Help Me Investigate, an investigative journalism website funded by Channel 4 and Screen WM. He works as a data journalist with the BBC Shared Data Unit, and has written for journalism.co.uk, Press Gazette, the Guardian, Nieman Reports and the Poynter Institute in the US. From 2010-2015 he was also a Visiting Professor at City, University of London’s School of Journalism.

Paul is the author of the Online Journalism Handbook, now in its third edition, and the co-author of Mobile-First Journalism and Magazine Editing. He has also self-published a number of ebooks on data journalism and contributed to over a dozen books including Investigative Journalism (2nd Ed); The Data Journalism Handbook; Digital Investigative Journalism; Insights on Investigative Journalism; Specialist Reporting; Data Journalism: Mapping the Future; and Ethics for Digital Journalists: Emerging Best Practices.

Paul has been listed in Journalism.co.uk’s list of the leading innovators in journalism and media and Poynter’s most influential people in social media. His awards include the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Award for Sport Reporting, the Wincott Award for Data Journalism of the Year, The Drum's Editorial Innovation of the Year, and the Guardian Local award for Best Investigation.

One of Paul's MA students was Lyra McKee.

### Crina Boroş

Crina Boroş is an award-winning investigative reporter who crunches data and gathers forensic evidence in parallel with field reporting. A freelance, she has been published by the BBC, Reuters, openDemocracy and Unearthed among many. She co-authored two journalism manuals, has sued the European Parliament, teaches data journalism internationally and can be found posting on crinaboros.tumblr.com

### Karrie Kehoe

Karrie Kehoe is a data journalist and researcher on the Data and Research team at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Karrie has worked on award-winning global investigations like the FinCEN Files, Pandora Papers, Uber Files, Implant Files and more recently Deforestation Inc.

Prior to joining the ICIJ, she investigated health care, human rights, environmental pollution and public expenditure at The Times & Sunday Times newspapers, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, and the RTÉ Investigations unit.

### James Harkin

James Harkin is the director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism.

He is a journalist who covers social change and political conflict and whose work appears in Vanity Fair, Harper’s, GQ, The Smithsonian, Prospect and The Guardian. A former director of talks at the Institute for Contemporary Arts, he once taught politics at Oxford University, and was associate producer on Adam Curtis’ two BBC series The Trap and All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace. He’s been reporting on the Syrian conflict from all sides. His last book, Hunting Season, an investigative account of the rise of the Islamic State group and its campaign of kidnapping journalists, was published in November 2015 by Little, Brown in the UK and Hachette in the US.

### David Kirkpatrick

David D. Kirkpatrick is an American, London-based international correspondent for The New York Times. From 2011 through 2015, he served as its Cairo bureau chief and a Middle East correspondent.

Kirkpatrick's book, Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East, (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018) narrates the author's notes on how and why the Arab Spring sparked, then failed, focusing on America's role in that failure and the subsequent military coup that put Sisi in power. The Economist and the Financial Times both named it one of the best books published in 2018.

### Matthew Hedges

In May 2018, Matthew Hedges, a PhD candidate at Durham University, who was in the United Arab Emirates for a two-week research trip, was arrested at Dubai International Airport on suspicion of spying on behalf of the British government. In November 2018, Hedges was sentenced to life imprisonment in the United Arab Emirates on charges of espionage in state security. The verdict was criticised in the United Kingdom, including by UK Prime Minister Theresa May and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Jeremy Hunt. Hedges was pardoned later in November 2018, ahead of the UAE's National Day.

### Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales is an American-British Internet entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the for-profit web hosting company Wikia.

In 1996, he and two partners founded Bomis, a web portal featuring entertainment and adult content. Bomis provided the initial funding for the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia, Nupedia (2000–2003), and its successor, Wikipedia. On January 15, 2001, with Larry Sanger and others, Wales launched Wikipedia—a free, open-content encyclopedia that enjoyed rapid growth and popularity. As Wikipedia's public profile grew, he became its promoter and spokesman. Though he is historically credited as co-founder, he has disputed this, declaring himself the sole founder.

Wales serves on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, the charity that he helped establish to operate Wikipedia, holding its board-appointed "community founder" seat. For his role in creating Wikipedia, which has become the world's largest encyclopedia, in 2006 TIME named him one of "The 100 Most Influential People in the World".

### Richard Brooks

Richard Brooks is an investigative journalist for Private Eye magazine. He covers financial and political scandals and has written two books: Beancounters and The Great Tax Robbery.

### Åsne Seierstad

Åsne Seierstad is an acclaimed Norwegian writer and investigative journalist and the author of The Bookseller of Kabul. Her books have sold over a million copies to date: Two Sisters was the best-selling book in Norway in 2016.

### Alex Perry

Alex Perry is a non-fiction writer. He is the author of The Good Mothers, The Rift, Falling Off The Edge, and Lifeblood, as well as several ebooks, and ghost-wrote Long Shot for Azad Cudi, a British-Kurdish sniper. His journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Outside, Harper’s, the Guardian, TIME, Newsweek, Roads and Kingdoms, The Sunday Times magazine and others.

Alex’s journalism has won a number of awards and his investigation into Boko Haram’s use of beheadings was requested as evidence by the International Criminal Court in The Hague. At times, he has been recognised in other ways. In 2002, the Indian government tried to deport him when he questioned the state of the Prime Minister’s health. In 2007 Alex was held in jail in Zimbabwe for five days for working without accreditation before being convicted of being a “determined and resourceful journalist.”

### Theo Padnos

Theo Padnos is an American journalist who was released by the al-Nusra Front in August 2014, after being held hostage for almost two years. He was the cellmate of American war photographer Matt Schrier, who escaped after seven months of captivity.

Padnos is the author of Undercover Muslim, and writes for The New York Times Magazine and The New Republic.

 

### Lowell Bergman

Lowell Bergman is the former Reva and David Logan Distinguished Chair in Investigative Reporting at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley and director of the Investigative Reporting Program, where he taught a seminar dedicated to investigative reporting for over 20 years. He was also a producer/correspondent for the PBS documentary series Frontline.

Bergman’s career spans nearly five decades, most notably as a producer, a reporter and then the director of investigative reporting at ABC News and as CBS News producer for 60 Minutes. As of January 2019, Bergman retired after 28 years of teaching, capping a 50-year career in journalism.


## About Pages

### About Us

The CIJ is an experimental laboratory that teaches reporters new tools alongside the traditional craft of investigative journalism. We incubate promising new investigative projects and open out investigative journalism into fertile new territory.

Established in 2003 by the late investigative journalist and filmmaker Gavin MacFadyen and others as a response to the worrying decline of investigative reporting, our remit is like no other – we can take more risks than a conventional public interest publisher, be more radical than an advocacy NGO and be more innovative than either in championing new ways to do investigative journalism in the public interest.

By robustly defending investigative journalists and all those who work with them, we've earned a reputation for integrity that is second-to-none.

### About the CIJ

Here's a little bit about what we do, how we do it and why we do it.
Tradecraft
The CIJ’s core charitable purpose is the training and education of journalists in advanced investigative techniques: what we call tradecraft. We were established in 2003 by the late investigative journalist and film-maker Gavin MacFadyen with the help of the investigative journalist Michael Gillard and others, as an urgent response to the worrying fall-off in investigative reporting within the mainstream media.

Since then the key event in our calendar has been our annual Summer Conference in London. Thus far it’s attracted thousands of journalists from thirty-five countries: including Iraq, China, Russia, Brazil, South Africa, Mexico and Serbia. Our areas of expertise have grown to include data journalism, computer and operational security, business document analysis, illicit finance fraud and corruption, libel, privacy and defamation, unconventional evidence and covert recording, financial modelling, advanced internet searching and investigation, cross-border investigations, court and local reporting, surveillance, encryption and anonymity, and source protection. Our pioneering work in the tradecraft of investigative journalism has transformed newsrooms across Britain.
Regional and International
More recently we’ve taken our industry-leading investigative training to dozens of cities and towns around the UK and Ireland to help train a new cadre of investigative journalists, with our Access To Tools programme teaching digital tools, and our ongoing, capacity-building work among .among community and independent media. In addition to the Summer Conference and our year-round scheduled and bespoke training programmes we run regular lectures and seminars throughout the year in London in response to issues within investigative journalism, or threats to practising journalists. Nimble and internationally networked, with friends from Berkeley to Berlin to Johannesburg, the CIJ seeks to propagate the craft of investigative journalism, to promote its value, and to defend investigative journalists and all those who work with them from attacks and intimidation.
Ideas
As our reputation for new ideas developed, so too did our ambitions. In its early years the CIJ was instrumental in championing data journalism and in bringing its best practitioners from the United States to the UK. In keeping with our mission to support promising new experiments in investigative reporting, our interns and our Director Gavin MacFadyen were central to the early development of Wikileaks. In 2009 the CIJ was instrumental in the establishment of The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a new non-profit publisher of in-depth investigative journalism. More recently we’ve taken our industry-leading investigative training around the UK to help grow new, community-focused investigative outfits: The Bristol Cable, for example, and the investigative platform The Ferret which covers Scotland. We'll continue to support alternative economic models of all kinds for public-interest journalism.

The CIJ is also addressing the narrowing demographics of the profession. With the help of the family of the slain journalist Lyra McKee, we’re also working hard give more people from working-class and disadvantaged backgrounds a leg-up into investigative journalism via an outreach programme and an annual Lyra McKee bursary programme enabling beneficiaries from around the UK and Ireland to attend our annual Summer conference.

Building on our reputation for  innovation and for genuinely independent, critical thinking, in 2014 the CIJ began curating unique, politically challenging large-auditorium international Symposia with the help and support of the Reva & David Logan Foundation. The first took place at The Barbican in London in December 2014, the second at The Berlin Congress Center in March 2016, and the third at our home in Goldsmiths, University of London. Our media partners were, in turn, the Guardian, Der Spiegel magazine and The Intercept. All three events brought together an international cast of investigative reporters, hackers, thinkers, lawyers and artists in a mould-breaking combination to challenge power, defend freedom and democracy from state intrusion, and to open out investigative journalism into fertile new territory.

In the era of “fake news”, the CIJ sees it as its mission to stimulate creative and courageous thinking about what investigative journalism has become and where we want it to go from here. It’s all the more pressing a task at a time when journalism is changing its form and where investigative journalism - the kind which holds power to account, and which shines a light on it at every turn - has to be nimble to survive. Visit the Symposium section of the website for regular updates.
Ethics
Investigative journalism is an essential pillar of democratic society - a bloodhound as well as a watchdog - to expose criminality, immorality or wrongdoing as well as to hold elites and the powerful to account.

At the CIJ our approach to ethics is rooted in the professional ethics intrinsic to good journalism. Investigative journalism should be founded on the public interest, integrity and reliability. It should be fact-based and, as far as possible, transparent about its methods. Reporters should always strive for accuracy. Buying information, illegally hacking telephones and computers or other similar methods must only be considered and deployed where justified in the most exceptional public interest.

The very nature of investigative reporting, however, means that the information-gathering methods employed in its production can be intrinsically intrusive. Where information-gathering methods involve covert surveillance, undercover filming, sting operations, the use of subterfuge, or the invasion of privacy of individuals, the methods and degree of intrusion must be proportionate and justified by the seriousness of the story, and the public good likely to follow from its publication. Reporters must protect not only their sources’ identities but should keep their communications with sources confidential. They should take all available steps to protect the safety and security of their work product.

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1.1 The website https://tcij.org (“our website”) is operated by the Centre for Investigative Journalism Limited (“we / our / us”), a Limited Company (Company Number: 5471322) registered in England and Wales in 2005 and a registered Charity (Charity Number: 1118602) since 2007. Its registered office is at:
The Centre for Investigative Journalism Limited
Goldsmiths, University of London
Department of Media, Communications & Cultural Studies
8 Lewisham Way
London SE14 6NW


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2.3 We recommend that you print a copy of these Terms and Conditions each time they are updated.

 	 Accessing Our Website

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 	 Linking to Our Site

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Department of Media, Communications & Cultural Studies
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London SE14 6NW 
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### Board

Isabel Hilton - Chair
Isabel Hilton has reported from China, South Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Europe, written and presented several documentaries for BBC radio and television, and has been a writer or editor for The Sunday Times, the Independent and the Guardian. She’s Founder and Senior Adviser of The China Dialogue Trust of www.chinadialogue.net, an innovative, fully bilingual Chinese English website devoted to building a shared approach on climate change and environmental issues with China.
Alf Hill - Treasurer
Alf Hill is an accountant with extensive experience in the public and private sectors. Following graduate recruitment as a civil servant he worked in the insurance and reinsurance industry as a company director in the corporate sector and Lloyd’s of London, chairing the tax committee of the Association of British Insurers. Changing careers, he worked in adult education before leading up finance and resources at the Equal Opportunities Commission and onto its transition as part of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. He has mentored early stage social entrepreneurs as part of UnLtd, chairs Storm Skills Training CiC, providing training in self harm and suicide prevention and is or has been trustee of social benefit and environmental charities, including Keep Britain Tidy.
Barbora Bukovska
Since 2009, she has been a Senior Director for Law and Policy at ARTICLE 19, an international free speech organisation. In this capacity, she has been leading on the development of all ARTICLE 19 policies and legal work, covering a broad range of freedom of expression issues (e.g. protest, protection of journalists, digital technologies, internet and telecommunication infrastructure, right to information, hate speech and many others). She is also overseeing legal support to ARTICLE 19 offices in Mexico, Brazil, USA, Kenya, Senegal, Tunisia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kazakhstan and international operations, hence offering not only substantive expertise but also global expertise and experience. Prior to ARTICLE 19, Barbora worked with various organisations on a range of human rights issues, including protection from discrimination, access to justice, deprivation of liberty, reproductive rights and community development. She also initiated about 50 cases at the European Court of Human Rights on these issues and has published a number of reports and articles on a broad range of human rights.
Iona Craig
Iona Craig is a British-Irish freelance investigative journalist. Since 2010 her work has focused on Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula. Her work from Yemen has won six awards including the 2016 Orwell Prize for journalism as well as the 2016 Kurt Schork Memorial Award for international journalism. In 2014 she received the Martha Gellhorn Prize and the Frontline Club award for print journalism, for her undercover investigative reporting. In addition to Yemen, Iona has reported from Djibouti, Turkey, Lebanon, Washington DC and the Occupied Territories.
Gill Phillips
Gill Phillips is a media law specialist. She currently works in-house as the Director of Editorial Legal Services for Guardian News & Media Limited (publishers of the Guardian and Observer newspapers and guardian.co.uk). She advises on a range of content-related matters including defamation, privacy, contempt of court and reporting restrictions. In 1987, she escaped from private practice, joining the BBC as an in-house lawyer dealing with pre and post publication and litigation matters. Between 1996/7 she was an in-house lawyer at News Group Newspapers (The Sun & The News of the World) before moving, in 1997, to the College of Law, where she lectured in Civil and Criminal Litigation and Employment. In 2000, she joined Times Newspapers Limited (publishers of The Times and The Sunday Times) as an in-house editorial lawyer. In May 2009, she moved to Guardian News & Media Limited. She was a member of the Ministry of Justice’s Working Group on Libel Reform. She was involved in the Trafigura super injunction case, and has been involved in advising GNM publications on Wikileaks, Edward Snowden, and various big data leak stories such as the Panama and Paradise Papers. She also sits as a part-time Employment Tribunal Judge and co-authors the University of Law Employment Law handbook.
Martin Tomkinson
Martin Tomkinson is a veteran investigative financial journalist and corporate researcher. He was a financial researcher for The Mail on Sunday's 'Rich List' from 2000-2004 and has worked on The Sunday Times' 'Rich List' since 2005. Martin has written for all the UK’s major newspapers. He started work with Private Eye in 1972 and has worked as a freelance since 1981. He is the author of two books, Nothing to Declare: The Political Corruptions of John Poulson (with Michael Gillard) and The Pornbrokers: The Rise of the Soho Sex Barons.
Stefania Spezzati
Stefania Spezzati is an award-winning reporter covering European banking at Reuters. Based in London, she chronicles all things finance, breaks news and digs deep into the world’s biggest banks. Prior to joining Reuters, Stefania spent about a decade at Bloomberg News. In 2022, she co-led a data-driven investigation which exposed how over 130 million pounds in taxpayer-backed loans went to firms with dubious credentials. The story won at the British Journalism Awards in Crime and Legal Affairs Journalism.
Abbianca Nassar
Abbianca is an award-winning ex-newspaper journalist and NCTJ-accredited ghostwriter. Formerly with the Evening Standard, her diverse reporting has spotlighted hidden child victims of lockdown, uncovered stories of the XTC gang, an illegal wildlife syndicate exploiting Thai women and girls as scapegoats for wildlife crimes and the issue of period poverty and its impact on homeless girls. After several successful years in journalism, she transitioned to sales, working with clients (big and small) in Chicago and Texas. Now back to her storytelling roots, Abbianca ghostwrites for top CEOs across Dubai, London, and the US, helping them establish thought leadership. With a ‘squiggly career’ path from journalism to sales and back again, Abbianca thrives on using her storytelling expertise to make an impact across industries.

 

 
Miranda McLachlan - Board Observer
Miranda McLachlan has worked as a professional journalist, multi-platform content producer and digital news products specialist over the past 25 years. Miranda has principally worked for international and national news organisations, most recently working for The Times of London on its newspaper and digital products in 2006-12 as a journalist and news editor. She has also written and edited for The Sunday Telegraph, Independent on Sunday, Daily Express, the Australian Financial Review and Herald Sun. Miranda has also worked as a TV and radio producer and correspondent as well as a sound engineer.

Miranda has worked as an academic – lecturing in multi-platform journalism, new media and politics – for a range of universities including Coventry University, Middlesex University and the University of Gloucestershire – teaching both theory and practice on journalism undergraduate degrees through to Masters in Global Media and Communications and Global Journalism. She joined Goldsmiths, University of London in 2013 and is currently a senior lecturer and convenor of the MA/MSc Digital Journalism. It is the first programme of its type (teaching computational skills) in the UK having been launched in 2012.

### Privacy and Data Protection

We take privacy seriously, which is why we have taken measures to protect the privacy of visitors to our website and of anyone attending one of our events or our training courses. Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy are welcomed and should be sent to privacy[at]tcij[dot]org.

 

 	 Privacy Policy for the Centre for Investigative Journalism
 	 Information we may collect from you 
 	 Purposes of processing 
 	 Disclosure of your information 
 	 Where we store your data 
 	 Retention of your data 
 	 Access to information and Your rights
 	Complaints

 

When you use the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s website, or attend one of our events/courses, you should be aware that the Centre for Investigative Journalism may collect certain information about you.

The Centre for Investigative Journalism collects this information so that we can provide our products and services, run our business, contact you and comply with the law.

 

 	 Privacy Policy for the Centre for Investigative Journalism:

 

1.1 The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ), a Charity registered in the UK with charity number 1118602, and a Limited Company registered in England & Wales with company number 5471322 and registered address
The Centre for Investigative Journalism
Goldsmiths, University of London
Department of Media, Communications & Cultural Studies
8 Lewisham Way
London SE14 6NW
(“we / us / our”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

1.2 You can contact us at privacy[at]tcij[dot]org

1.3 This policy (together with the Terms and Conditions for the tci.org (“our website”)) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting our website and giving us information you acknowledge the practices described in this policy. If you do not agree to us collecting and using the information about you then you must not use our website.

1.4 Our website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partners and affiliates, for example third party payment processors such as PayPal. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

1.5 This Privacy Policy was last updated in March 2020. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time and, where material changes have been made, you will be notified of changes we make to this Privacy Policy.

 

 	 Information we may collect from you 

 

2.1 We may collect and process the following information in accordance with applicable data protection laws:

(a) the email address provided by you to

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(b) information provided via online or paper form submission such as:

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Through these forms we may be provided with certain personal data such as your name, email address and information contained in the correspondence (which could tell us something about the individual’s preferences).

The individual contacting us is in control of the personal data and other information that they share with us. We need this information to be able to respond to the enquiry and to administer our website.

These details include but are not limited to name, order information, billing information, address, type of subscription, hashed payment details, including whether payments have been accepted or declined. We need this information to be able to provide our products and services to you.

c) Pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you were visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

2.2 Where you provide us with personal data about other people, you warrant that you have the authority to pass this information to us. Please note this does not apply to information of journalistic interest. For more on passing information to us see here.

2.3 We are required to comply with certain legal and regulatory requirements, and may process your personal data for compliance with such legal or regulatory obligations, to which we or regulators or law enforcement agencies are subject. In this eventuality we may seek independent legal advice to determine the lawfulness of any data access request.

2.4 If any of your personal details change during your use of our website, you are responsible for updating them by accessing the relevant section of our website, or by contacting us at info[at]tcij[dot]org.

 	 Purposes of processing

3.1 Any personal data we process will be used in accordance with applicable data protection laws. We describe below our purposes for processing personal data.

3.2 We may use information you give us or that we collect from you:

(a) to provide our products and services and run our organisation;

(i) we have a legitimate interest to process the personal data of our users in order to provide products and services, and run our organisation;

(b) to inform individuals about promotions and our products and services:

(i) we may use personal data to inform individuals of information, promotions, suggestions, recommendations, products and services that may be of interest where they are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about such as training and events (unless you opt-out), we are legally permitted to do so or where an individual has consented to receiving direct marketing from us.

Individuals may be contacted by post, email, telephone or such other means as we regard as appropriate and as legally permitted;

(ii) we have a legitimate interest to process the personal data of our users for direct marketing purposes to provide our products and services and to run our business and rely on consent from the user as a basis for direct marketing where we are legally required to do so; and

(iii) if you are an existing user, we will only contact you with information about products and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous transaction with you.

(c) to communicate with you:

(i) we have a legitimate interest to process this personal data in order to respond to enquiries, requests, complaints or comments that users submit to us;

(d) to administer, maintain and improve our website:

(i) we use “cookies” to monitor site user traffic patterns and site usage. This helps us to understand how our users and potential users use our website so that we can develop and improve the design, layout and functionality of the sites.

(ii) to process the personal data of our users in order to administer, maintain and improve our website;

(e) to notify you about changes to our service. This processing is necessary for the performance of our contract with you;

(f) for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes. We have a legitimate interest in processing the personal data of our users for our internal operations;

(g) to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service. This processing is necessary for the performance of our contract with you;

(h) as part of our efforts to keep our website safe and secure. We have a legitimate interest in processing the personal data of our users to keep our website safe and secure; and

(i) to comply with any legal or regulatory obligations to which we or regulators or law enforcement agencies are subject. This processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we, our users or the regulator/law enforcement agency are subject.

3.3 If you have any questions about how we use your data please contact us at privacy[at]tcij[dot]org.

 	 Disclosure of your information

4.1 We maintain a principle not to disclose your personal data to third parties without your consent. However, we may share your personal data if we are under a duty to or permitted to disclose it in order to comply with any legal or regulatory obligations, or in order to enforce or apply our website Terms and Conditions and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Centre for Investigative Journalism Limited, our users, or others’ personal data. In these circumstances we will notify you in advance wherever possible.

 	 Where we store your data

5.1 If we or our service providers transfer any personal data out of the European Economic Area (EEA), it will only be done with the relevant protection (stated under UK law) being in place.

 	 Retention of your data

We take appropriate measures to ensure that any personal data is kept secure. We will store your personal data for the duration of your use of our website. If you delete your account, we will continue to store your personal data for as long as is required by legal, regulatory, financial and business requirements. We also keep a record of correspondence for as long as is required by legal, regulatory, financial and business requirements. We will delete such personal data and correspondence once it is no longer required.

 	 Access to information and Your rights

7.1 As a result of us collecting and processing your information, you have the following legal rights:

(a) to access personal data held about you;

(b) to request us to make any changes to your personal data if it is inaccurate or incomplete;

(c) to request your personal data is erased where we do not have a compelling reason to continue to process such data in certain circumstances;

(d) to receive your personal data provided to us as a data controller in a usable way in certain circumstances;

(e) to object to, or restrict, our processing of your personal data in certain circumstances;

(f) to object to, and not be subject to a decision which is based solely on, automated processing (including profiling), which produces legal effects or could significantly affect you;

(g) where our processing of your personal data is based on your consent you have the right to withdraw consent at any time by contacting us; and

(h) to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner’s Office.

7.2 To exercise any of your rights as set out above, please contact us at privacy[at]tcij[dot]org.

 

8. Complaints

If you have any complaints about how your data is used or about the overall service, please send an email to info[at]tcij[dot]org and we will investigate your complaint and respond within 14 days.

 

### Funders

The Centre for Investigative Journalism is a registered charity (number 1118602) whose funding has traditionally come from a small, trusted group of foundations in the United States, Britain and Europe. At the same time, like good investigative journalists, we reserve the right to criticise or investigate any of those funders, and to bite the hand that feeds.
Our current core funders:

 	The Reva & David Logan Foundation

Other current support for the CIJ’s work comes from:

 	Quadrature Climate Foundation
 	The Lorana Sullivan UK Foundation
 	The Lyra McKee Family Foundation
 	Journalismfund Europe

Our host:

 	Goldsmiths, University of London

 

The CIJ is a member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network

### Opportunities

None for now but watch this space.

### Contact us securely

It is concerning to think that the government and private corporations may be able to access our emails and other communications. Understandably, such threats to privacy (whether perceived or real) significantly hinder the work of a free press.

There are also valid safety concerns for individuals wanting to publicise hidden or illegal practices within organisations. We at the Centre for Investigative Journalism want to make it easy and safe for people to tell the stories that need to be told.

One of the safest methods of delivering information without it being tracked is to send us a physical letter. This is easy, cheap and requires no knowledge of internet security. Send letters to:

The Centre for Investigative Journalism
Goldsmiths, University of London
Department of Media, Communications & Cultural Studies
8 Lewisham Way
London SE14 6NW

On our website we do not harvest visitors’ information and sell it to third parties. However, at present we do use Google email accounts.. Find our email addresses on our team page.

If you would like to send us an encrypted email, one way is to use the Mailvelope addon, which can encrypt and decrypt emails using your chosen email provider. Our team page includes a list of CIJ contacts and their corresponding PGP fingerprints (so you can be sure any replies are coming from the right person).

Alternatively, you could make a new email account using an email server which stores your emails encrypted like Tutanota or Proton Mail.

If you are going down this route, it would be a good idea to use a system like Tails or at the least TorBrowser when setting up your new email account. And consider using an encrypted email server, as mentioned earlier.
A quick guide to PGP
All email communication should be viewed as analogous to postcards, in that any message sent through electronic means is entirely open to be read by anyone who intercepts the message. Within this analogy, encryption is the equivalent of placing your message into a sealed envelope, making it much more difficult for anyone but the intended recipient to read the content of the communication. 

The vast majority of email is encrypted to some extent, but the encryption offered by Gmail or Outlook is all handled by the email provider (Google, Microsoft, etc.) and they will generally have a quick look at each 'postcard' that comes through their mail depot, for reasons of your convenience - so they can check for spam, phishing scams or offer auto-reply suggestions, for instance. 

For most purposes this is secure enough, but when you're sending or receiving sensitive information, especially in a journalistic capacity, it's worth considering taking responsibility for the encryption into your own hands. This is where PGP comes in and if you use a plug-in or extension (and with a bit of getting used to) it's not as technically complicated as you might think. Many people use Thunderbird (Mozilla's email client, through which you can access a Gmail or Outlook account) and a Thunderbird plugin called Enigmail, which handles the PGP encryption.

Essentially, PGP provides you with a lockable 'envelope' for each 'postcard' you send. However, these 'envelopes' have one key for locking them and a different key for unlocking them. The key for locking (or encrypting) the message is your public PGP key and anyone who wants to send you a locked message will need a copy of this key. So we make infinite copies of this key (the public PGP key) and make it as easy as possible for people to get hold of a copy. Many people put their public key on a personal website from which people can quickly and easily download a copy. There are also publicly hosted servers which keep libraries of public keys and can be searched for the email account you want to send an encrypted email to. It's also very easy (using Enigmail/Thunderbird) to attach a copy of your public PGP key to an email you send to a contact, so that they can encrypt their reply to you. 

The other key (your private PGP key) is the only one that can unlock 'envelopes' that have been locked with a copy of your public PGP key. You should have only one copy of this key (or at most two if you need a back up, but both should be kept safely and securely) which you keep to yourself somewhere safe and secure. Once someone encrypts a message with a copy of your public PGP key and you receive it, Thunderbird/Enigmail will use your private key to decrypt it, once you enter a password that you set when you first generate the pair of keys.

 

### Legal



### About the Team

Here's a little bit about the core team behind the CIJ.

### Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement

The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) has a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery. We strive to act ethically and with integrity in all of our activities and relationships to make sure modern slavery is not taking place anywhere in the CIJ or in any of our supply chains. We will also make sure our approach is clear with our partner organisations.

We believe that a modern slavery statement is an important part of our approach to implementing our ethical policy. We have opted to adopt a statement which we will update and publish annually on our website, although we are not required to have such a statement under current regulations.

This policy covers all the activities of the CIJ. It governs all our business dealings and the conduct of all persons or organisations with whom we contract directly or who we appoint to act on our behalf. We expect all who have, or seek to have, a business relationship with the CIJ to familiarise themselves with our anti-slavery policy and to act at all times in a way which is consistent with our anti-slavery policy.
Organisation structure and supply chain
We are governed by our articles of association and a board of trustees who volunteer their time to help direct our work. They oversee our chief executive who manages our circa 7 staff.

The CIJ uses a number of suppliers, contractors and partners to enable it to carry out its core training activities and funded initiatives.

The CIJ carries out employment checks, including making sure that our people have the right to work for us and we pay at least the Living Wage.

The organisation is increasingly global and currently has funders, clients, partners and contractors based in the following countries: UK, Denmark, USA, Egypt, Nigeria, Sudan, Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil, Nepal, Pakistan, India, Cambodia, The Philippines. However, operations and core training provision are predominantly conducted in the United Kingdom.
Responsibility for the organisation’s anti-slavery initiatives is as follows:
Due diligence: Our leadership team and Programme Managers are responsible for due diligence in relation to known or suspected instances of modern slavery and human trafficking.

Training: To ensure a good understanding of the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking in our business and supply chains, the CIJ requires all staff to familiarise themselves with our policies and complete appropriate E Learning modules provided by our host, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Policies: The CIJ is committed to ensuring that there is no modern slavery or human trafficking in our business or our supply chains. This Statement affirms its intention to act ethically in our business relationships. CIJ’s Operations Manager is responsible for creating and reviewing policies. The process by which policies are developed is by looking at current best practice, taking advice from our trustees as appropriate and adapting to the needs of the organisation.

The following policies and terms of business set down our approach to the identification of modern slavery risks and steps to be taken to prevent slavery and human trafficking in our operations:

 	Whistleblowing policy & Grievance Procedure - the Organisation encourages all its workers, customers and other business partners to report any concerns related to its direct activities or its supply chains.
 	Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policy – This policy sets down the actions and behaviours expected of employees when representing and working within the organisation.
 	Safeguarding Adults Policy –  The CIJ provides a range of educational services focused on investigative journalism and research. This work involves interactions with adults who may have care and support needs. These interactions occur between the organisation (and those who represent it) and people who participate in its educational programmes. This policy benefits the organisation and those it interacts with by specifying the conduct and behaviour expected of its representatives by the organisation, and ensuring that the rights and dignity of those with such needs are respected and protected at all times.

Due Diligence Processes for Slavery and Human Trafficking
We undertake due diligence when considering taking on new suppliers, and regularly review our existing suppliers. Non-compliance by one of our existing suppliers, partners or contractors to our anti-slavery policy will result in immediate termination of contract.

We update our staff on our new policies and procedures.

We will review our related policies and documents to make sure these demonstrate the robustness of our approach to removing the risk of modern slavery from our supply chain.

This Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement will be regularly reviewed and updated as necessary. The Senior Management Team endorses this policy statement and is fully committed to its implementation.

 

Approved by the board of trustees on 11/10/2023
Last update: 11/10/2023

### Zoom InfoSec

We use Zoom as our platform of choice to host our online training.

We are aware that there have been security issues raised with the use of Zoom, and have taken several steps to minimise this.

 

 	We never allow Zoom to automatically access data and info we store on other applications/platforms we use i.e. we actively avoid to integrate Zoom with other applications such as Slack and Google Cal whenever we are prompted to do so

 

 	We do not share participants details with other participants other than the surnames they choose to be listed as in the Zoom meeting room

 

 	Our Zoom account default settings have been modified to maximise information security and ensure all training participants’ data protection and privacy, as shown below:


## Summer Conference Announcements

### Keynote: Rianna Croxford to Talk about Sexual Abuse in the Fast Fashion Industry

Multi-award-winning investigative journalist Rianna Croxford will talk about her investigation into the men in charge of teen retailer Abercrombie & Fitch, who along with running a fashion business were at the centre of a global operation scouting young men for sex.

As Mike Jeffries – the multi-millionaire ex-fashion boss - together with his British partner, Matthew Smith, and their middleman James Jacobson, face charges of running an international sex trafficking and prostitution business, we look into how a cryptic Instagram comment written by a former model named Barrett Pall lead Rianna to this investigation.

### Keynote: Dónal MacIntyre Talks Surveillance, Undercover Reporting and Source Protectio

Veteran TV investigative journalist Dónal MacIntyre is coming to CIJ Summer Conference to talk to Harlo Holmes of Freedom of the Press Foundation about his investigative career, working with sources and most recently being spied on by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).

This talk is part of our Source Protection Programme.

### Cathy Newman to Deliver the 2025 CIJ Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture

Cathy Newman, Presenter & Investigations Editor at Channel 4 News and Presenter at Times Radio, will deliver this year’s Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture: Follow the Abuser. John Smyth and the Church of England.

The Gavin MacFadyen Memorial lecture was established in 2017 after the death of our founding director, investigative journalist Gavin MacFadyen. The lecture aims to honour his memory by inviting some of the world’s most courageous investigative journalists to talk about their investigations.

In the past these lectures were delivered by a Mexican journalist Anabel Hernández (2017), an Indian investigative journalist Rana Ayyub (2018), a Filipino-American journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa (2019), a Turkish journalist and editor Can Dündar (2020), an investigative journalist from Myanmar, Wa Lone (2021), an Indian journalist and activist Meera Jatav (2022), and a veteran Spanish investigative journalist José María Irujo (2023), Indian investigative journalist Poonam Agarwal (2024).

### #CIJSummer 2025: First Speakers Announced

CIJSummer features some of the best speakers and trainers from the UK and internationally. We are delighted to welcome some of the confirmed speakers for 2025.

The speakers page will be updated regularly.

### Paul Foot Award Winner and Nominees Speak at #CIJSummer 2024

The 2024 winner of the Paul Foot Award, Tristan Kirk, the Evening Standard's Courts Correspondent will talk about his award-winning investigation into the Single Justice Procedure, a secretive court process where hundreds of thousands of people are convicted each year in private hearings. (Thu 4 July).

The Independent’s Health Correspondent Rebecca Thomas was shortlisted for this year's Paul Foot Award. She will speak about exposing poor care within mental health services: from working with vulnerable victims/sources to rooting out care scandals in the famously secretive industry. (Wed 3 July).

Another 2024 Paul Foot Award nominee Antonia Cundy will talk about her new investigation into exploitation by the powerful Catholic organisation Opus Dei. (Wed 3 July).

And if you want to know about Paul Foot and why there is a journalism award named after him - don't miss Margaret Renn, the author of a brand new book about Foot, talking to Christopher Hird about the man himself. (Wed 3 July).

### Poonam Agarwal to Deliver the 2024 CIJ Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture

Indian investigative journalist Poonam Agarwal will deliver this year's Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture: Election Integrity: the Indian Electoral Bonds Scam on Wed 3 July.

The Gavin MacFadyen Memorial lecture was established in 2017 after the death of our founding director, investigative journalist Gavin MacFadyen. The lecture aims to honour his memory by inviting some of the world's most courageous investigative journalists to talk about their investigations.

In the past these lectures were delivered by a Mexican journalist Anabel Hernández (2017), an Indian investigative journalist Rana Ayyub (2018), a Filipino-American journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa (2019), a Turkish journalist and editor Can Dündar (2020), an investigative journalist from Myanmar, Wa Lone (2021), an Indian journalist and activist Meera Jatav (2022), and a veteran Spanish investigative journalist José María Irujo (2023). The lecture wasn't recorded due to the sensitive nature of the topic.

### #CIJSummer and UK General Election: Changes to the Timetable

We have made some minor changes to the timetable on Thu 4 July to allow more time for people to cast their votes in the UK General Election.

The conference will start a bit later: 10am instead of 9:30am.
The talks on the day will also finish a bit earlier: 6pm instead of 6:30pm.
This is to allow people to vote.

The polling stations open at 7am and close at 10pm on Thu 4 July 2024.
If you do not think you will have enough time to vote on the day, we recommend you register for a postal or a proxy vote.
The deadline for online applications for a postal vote is 5pm on the 19th of June 2024.
The deadline for registering to vote by proxy is 5pm on the 26th June 2024.

We look forward to welcoming you at #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2024!

### The Legend That Was Paul Foot

The annual Paul Foot Awards for Campaigning and Investigative Journalism are a highlight of the journalistic year: they are given to some of the best investigative journalists in the UK. But for those who don't remember the man himself - who was Paul Foot?

We are delighted to welcome Margaret Renn, the author of a new book Paul Foot: a Life in Politics, and Christopher Hird, who knew the man himself, to talk about one of the UK's best known journalists, campaigners and political radicals.

Margaret's book will be on sale through the conference bookshop, run by our friends from The Word Bookshop.

Also, don't miss this year's Paul Foot Award nominees speaking at #CIJSummer 2024:

Rosamund Urwin (Horizon/ Post Office Scandal and reporting #MeToo. Both - 4 July), Richard Brooks (Horizon/ Post Office Scandal - 4 July) and Antonia Cundy (Investigating Opus Dei - 3 July).

This talk is part of #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2024. Book your place here.

### Climate Investigations at #CIJSummer Conference

What is the difference between a climate story and a climate investigation? And where do you even start with COP?

This year we bring climate journalists and CIJ Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) coordinators to share their knowledge and skills on all things climate.

Investigating the Climate Crisis – Beyond Reporting the What - Wed 3 July
COP Reporting – How to Prepare and Keep Focused - Thu 4 July
GeoJournalism: Detecting Oil and Gas Concessions in Protected Areas. Hands-on - Wed 3 July
Climate Arson and Cover-Ups - Thu 4 July

These talks and classes are supported by JournalismFund Europe and CIJ OCRI Programme.

### Financial Journalism Courses at #CIJSummer 2024

Back by popular demand: Understanding Company Accounts - a four-part course taught by a forensic accountant Raj Bairoliya that will demystify the jargon and teach you about companies' motivation to massage earnings; their profit and loss accounts and balance sheets; funds flow statements and the small print (often the most interesting bit of the whole document).

Our talk Companies House as a Tool for Investigative Journalism will help you find information about companies and their accounts, as well as show how else you can use this tool to help your investigations. Taught by Diogo Augusto.

Martin Tomkinson will share his tips on how to do financial investigations, when he discusses his experience of over 50 years of investigative journalism.

### Keynote: Post Office Horizon Scandal

We are delighted to welcome Rebecca Thomson, who broke the Post Office scandal while working as a reporter at Computer Weekly in 2009, and Tom Witherow, who did extensive coverage of this story when he was business editor of the Daily Mail, and Richard Brooks from Private Eye, who covered this scandal for the magazine as our keynote speakers at #CIJSummer Conference 2024.

The talk will be hosted by Rosamund Urwin - the Media Editor at the Sunday Times.

More journalists who investigated one of the biggest examples of miscarriages of justice in the UK history will be joining them on 4 July: Breaking Horizon: The Post Office Scandal.

### First #CIJSummer Speakers Announced

We are delighted to announce the first (confirmed!) #CIJSummer Conference 2024 speakers!

Once again we have an excellent data team, who will offer hands-on training in everything from spreadsheets to R, maps to scraping. Every good investigative journalist must know what data analysis can do for you, so we are pleased to have a great team to teach you just that. We'll have everything from the beginner to advanced level.

We are especially excited to welcome back Jennifer LaFleur - a data journalist, editor and teacher. She is a longstanding friend of the CIJ, who's been teaching data (originally called Computer Assisted Reporting), long before it became fashionable.

Our climate and environment strands will feature both case studies and useful guides to how to conduct climate investigations successfully, and if you find yourself at a COP conference we will help you make the most of it. These talks/training are part of our Open Climate Reporting Initiative and some are supported by JournalismFund Europe.

Back by popular demand are Understanding Companies Accounts and Story-Based Inquiry courses.

Don't miss talks by Antonia Cundy (The Opus Dei Diaries), as well as Charlie Northcott and Helen Spooner (TB Joshua exposé), and Anna Bawden and David Batty's investigation into sexual harassment in the NHS.

There is more to come. Watch this space!

### Announcing Our Annual Gavin MacFadyen Lecture: José María Irujo

Delighted to welcome a legend of Spanish investigative journalism José María Irujo, senior staff writer and investigative reporter for El País.

José María Irujo will deliver our annual Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture: How the CIA spied on Assange.

He will talk about his explosive allegations about the CIA’s alleged capture of a private security firm whose job it was to protect the Ecuadorian Embassy and Assange himself.

Date: 29 June 2023.

### NEW Talk. Investigating Sexual Assault at the Workplace: the Case of  Crispin Odey

We are delighted to welcome Madison Marriage (The FT), Antonia Cundy (The FT) and Paul Caruana Galizia (Tortoise) to talk about their investigation into historic sexual assault allegations  against former hedge fund manager Crispin Odey.

Listen to Madison Marriage speak to Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel at The News Agents Podcast.

Watch all of them live at #CIJSummer Conference on Wed 28 June.

See all the stories on Madson Marriage's FT profile (Paywall).

### NEW Talk: Of War Crimes and Libel Laws: The Case of Ben Roberts-Smith VC

We are delighted to welcome Chris Masters, one of Australia’s most influential investigative journalists and Nick McKenzie from The Age to talk about the case of Ben Roberts-Smith VC.

In one of the most important libel trials for decades, this month three Australian newspapers won a historic victory over Ben Roberts-Smith VC, Australia’s most decorated soldier, after they accused him of killing three Afghan civilians in cold blood and he sued. The dismissal of the defamation case was also a rare victory for journalists over defamation laws which, in Australia as in the UK, are unashamedly hostile to press freedom.

Wed 28 June at 10:50am. Via Zoom.

### NEW! Gesbeen Mohammad: Breaking into investigative filmmaking

Delighted and very proud to welcome back Gesbeen Mohammad, a CIJ graduate and former intern: she went from strength to strength breaking into investigative filmmaking. From going undercover  to producing and directing her own documentaries.

She returns to the CIJ as a speaker to talk about breaking into investigative filmmaking.

You can watch some of her most recent work.

Big Oil vs the World. BBC iPlayer. (UK only). Gesbeen directed Part 2: Doubt
Same documentary, different name: Frontline: The Power of Big Oil. PBS Frontline. (US only).

Putin's War at Home. ITVX. (UK). Watch it on PBS Frontline. (US).

Both documentaries were nominated for the Peabody Award in the Public Service category.

### NEW! Keynote talk! Olga Rudenko - How to run a successful media start-up in times of war

Ukrainian editor Olga Rudenko comes to #CIJSummer Conference to talk about The Kyiv Independent, a very successful English language media start up. Established only a few months before Russia's full-scale invasion, it quickly became one of the main sources of news from Ukraine in English. The number of its Twitter followers grew from 30,000 to over 2,100,000.

The publication was founded by the former journalists of an older English language publication The Kyiv Post, who were all fired following a dispute about editorial independence from its new owner. The Kyiv Independent reflects its values of independence and serving the community, not its owners, by taking on difficult topics, such as investigating abuse inside the International Legion fighting on the side of Ukraine.

Olga Rudenko herself was featured on the cover of Time magazine in May 2022 as one of the publication’s Next Generation Leaders, and won the Women of Europe award in the “Woman in Action” category in December 2022.

Olga will open the conference on Wed 28 June.

### NEW Keynote! Investigating crime and paramilitarism in Northern Ireland: Patricia Delvin

Delighted to welcome Patricia Delvin,  an award-winning crime and investigative journalist from Northern Ireland. She will be talking about her investigations into crime and paramilitarism in post-troubles Northern Ireland.

### Climate and Environment Investigations at #CIJSummer 2023

Where to find good climate and environment stories? How to report them for the biggest impact?

This year we are bringing journalists specialising in climate and environment investigations from all over the world.

From industries destroying the environment to the broken promises, from greenwash to water-focused stories, our speakers will talk you through the methods they use, the lessons they learned and the skills they use the most.

Don't miss these talks: 

Broken Promises: Greenwashing Uncovered - 28 June
With Sechaba Mokhethi (Lesotho), Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi (Nigeria) and Ed Davey (UK for AP). Chaired by Akintunde Babatunde, CIJ OCRI Coordinator.

Flash Floods: How to report when climate disaster strikes - 28 June
With Dr Tobi Oluwatola (Nigeria). Chaired by Lina Yassin, CIJ OCRI Coordinator.

No Business as Usual: Multinationals and the climate crisis - 28 June
With Luuk Sengers (The Netherlands)

Oil Trade Tracking. Hands-on - 28 June
With Louis Goddard and Sam Leon (UK)

Making it Count: Using data to tell stories from the climate crisis - 29 June
With Michèle Ebongue (Cameroon), Arun Karki and Basant Pratap Singh (Nepal), Gianluca Liva (Italy). Chaired by IJ OCRI Project Manager Adeolu Adekola.

Getting Green Scoops Using Environmental Law - 29 June
With Lucas Amin (UK)

### New speakers join #CIJSummer

Maeve McClenaghan (The Top off Podcast and the Guardian), Basia Cummings (Tortoise Studios) and Dean Kirby (the i newspaper) will be speaking at the #CIJSummer Conference 2023.

Maeve and Basia will share their experience of creating successful podcasts.

Dean will be taking about his open source investigation into Russia's filtration camps in Ukraine and his investigation into the prepayment meter scandal.

### Talks by investigative journalists and investigators

We will be bringing some of the best investigative journalists and investigators to #CIJSummer 2023.

We are delighted to have 'Fisayo Soyombo, a Nigerian investigative journalist and editor best known for his undercover investigations, as one of this year’s keynote speakers.

Former tax lawyer and founder of Tax Policy Associates Dan Neidle will talk about his investigation into the former Tory Chairman Nadhim Zahawi’s tax affairs.

Jenna Corderoy, an investigative journalist who specialises in the Freedom of Information Act investigations, will show how and why the FOI Act is a vital tool in holding the powerful to account. She will also talk about how she fell into this specialism and what journalists can do to protect the legislation.

Our very own Adeolu Adekola, head of the CIJ Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI), will host talks with some of the leading climate and environment journalists from all over the world.

We will be updating our speakers list regularly. Watch this space.

### Financial Journalism at #CIJSummer Conference

We are delighted to welcome back our long-time trainer and supporter of investigative journalists Raj Bairoliya. A forensic accountant, Raj will teach journalists how to read company accounts and decode corporate PR speak.

Veteran journalist Martin Tomkinson will be sharing his knowledge on how to navigate Companies House.

There will be more financial journalism talks and classes - watch this space.

### Meet the #CIJSummer 2023 Data Team

Data journalism plays a key role in all our training. It was at the very early Summer Conferences (then called Summer Schools) that data journalism, known as Computer Assisted Reporting (CAR) was first introduced to the UK.

Back then we could hardly get anyone to attend - now it is a must-have skill for any journalist.

In 2023 we will have a fantastic data team, a mix of our long-term trainers and even our alumni, who are now working data journalists and trainers themselves!

We will be offering a mix of hands-on training: from spreadsheets to R programming language, from the web basics to data case studies. There will be something for every level.

### #CIJSummer Cartoons

Back by popular demand, Dr Andrew Salerno-Garthwaite, a statistician, journalist and a cartoonist, will be drawing live cartoons at #CIJSummer 2022.

Follow him on Twitter to see them live.

### The Word Bookshop at #CIJSummer

We are delighted to welcome back our friendly booksellers from The Word Bookshop to the #CIJSummer Conference 2022.

An independent bookshop in New Cross, The Word Bookshop has been our partner for many tears.

David and his team will be selling books by our speakers and other relevant titles, as well as CIJ handbooks.

 

### Hannah Al-Othman. Investigating the British Army: The Murder of Agnes Wanjiru

In 2012 a Kenyan called Agnes Wanjiru was murdered by a serving British soldier and her body hidden in a septic tank, a crime which was subsequently covered up. Winner of the 2022 Paul Foot award with her Sunday Times colleague David Collins, Hannah Al-Othman talks about how they worked with sources to bring the story to light, and their dealings with the police and the Ministry of Defence as they worked to investigative and publish it.

### Daniel De Simone: Investigating MI5

Earlier this year the journalist Daniel De Simone published a long-form investigation into the activities of a rogue, abusive MI5 agent, the end result of a months-long tussle between the BBC and the British government which ended with his employer being taken to court.
Now after the investigation has been published, he comes to #CIJSummer to tell us what he can about it.
Thu 30 June.
Chatham House Rules apply.

### Jane Bradley to speak at #CIJSummer

UK investigative correspondent for The New York Times, Jane Bradley will join #CIJSummer to speak about finding sources and getting them to talk. She will also join Oliver Bullough to discuss the role of London and other international financial centres in enabling oligarchs, money-launderers and criminals from all over the world to hide their money.

Both talks take place on 29 June.

### New Keynote. Investigating Media Celebrity: Tim Westwood

How do journalists go about investigating misconduct among media celebrities with many fans, and who might work for the same employers? Earlier this year, a joint investigation by reporters at the BBC and The Guardian uncovered allegations of sexual misconduct by the DJ Tim Westwood. All four reporters involved come to the CIJ to discuss how their investigation began, its implications, and the sensitivities involved.

With Chi Chi Izundu and Ruth Evans (BBC) and Alexandra Topping and Aamna Mohdin (The Guardian).

 

### Copy, Lie, Smear. Emilia Șercan on uncovering high-level plagiarism and dealing with the consequences

This is a real first for #CIJSummer: investigating plagiarism!

Romanian investigative journalist Emilia Șercan has won a niche reputation for uncovering plagiarism in the putative PhD theses of her country’s leading politicians. At the CIJ she talks about how to do it, and how to deal with the backlash; in her case, an organised, state-level campaign of intimidation and harassment.

### Watch NAVALNY Film at #CIJSummer

We will be showing NAVALNY Film at the #CIJSummer Conference 2022.

"A Bourne-like thriller set in a terrifying real world" - Timeout.

The film features Aleksei Navalny - Vladimir Putin's biggest critic and opponent - now serving a long prison sentence in Russia.

It also shows an Open Source (and not so open source) investigation into his poisoning attempt with one of our past #CIJSummer speakers, investigative journalist Christo Grozev.

We will also be teaching Open Source Intelligence (OCINT) skills at the conference.

### Oxpeckers Team Join #CIJSummer

We are delighted to welcome our new partners Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism. Based in South Africa, Oxpeckers track, map and investigate environmental crime.

Nompumelelo Mtsweni and Roxanne Joseph will come to #CIJSummer Conference in London to teach the tools Oxpeckers developed to investigate environmental crime.

### Ukrainian Investigative Journalist Anna Babinets to speak at #CIJSummer

Editor-in-Chief of Slidstvo.info investigative agency based Kyiv, Ukraine and a Regional Editor of Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), Anna Babinets will speak at the #CIJSummer Conference 2022.



From the beginning of Russian-Ukrainian war, Anna and Slidstvo.info focus on the covering war crimes, reportages from the field (Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities), researching and identifying Russian military crimes in Ukraine.

Read Anna's Interview for ICIJ about doing investigative journalism during the war.

### Oliver Bullough to speak at #CIJSummer 2022

Oliver Bullough is a journalist and author from Wales who writes about financial crime, the former Soviet Union, and offshore skulduggery will speak at #CIJSummer Conference on Wed 29 June.

He will be talking about Russian oligarch money and its relationship to the war, the role of London and other international financial centres in enabling that, the mechanisms used to hide money and what - if anything - can be done.

Oliver Bullough's new book Butler to the World: The book the oligarchs don’t want you to read - how Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals is out now.

### First #CIJSummer Keynote Speakers Announced

Chris Mullin, Duncan Campbell and Gill Phillips will discuss West Midlands Police seeking a court order to force the journalist, novelist and former Parliamentarian Chris Mullin to give up sources and material relating to his ground-breaking investigation into the wrongful imprisonment of the Birmingham Six which ultimately led to their convictions being quashed.



Chris Mullin is a journalist, former Labour MP and author of A Very British Coup.
Duncan Campbell is a veteran crime journalist and author of We'll All Be Murdered in our Beds.
Gill Phillips is a CIJ Board member, and Director of Editorial Legal Services at The Guardian.

Date: Wed 29 June. Time - TBC.

In association with the new CIJ Logan Source Protection Programme

### Welcome from the Director of the CIJ

Welcome to the 19th annual #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference – the second, and almost certainly the last, to take place entirely online.

Working throughout a global pandemic has been a challenge for everyone, not least for investigative journalists and those working to help them. How do we find new sources when it’s almost impossible to meet, and how do we keep those sources safe when it’s only possible to talk to them online?

It’s also, however, presented unparalleled opportunities for learning new skills. At the CIJ, the last fifteen months has been a period of unprecedented renewal and expansion. We’ve completely redeveloped our training curriculum for a more global audience online, and thought up new ways to broaden both the audience for investigative journalism and the demographics of those attracted to the profession.

Our Lyra McKee initiative, two years old, has now been expanded into a fully-fledged, online-based mentorship programme. Our Collaborative Community Journalism Project, building capacity and training fellowships to fledgling new outlets across London, began its work almost entirely online.

Earlier this year, together with the Freedom of The Press Foundation, we launched the Source Protection Programme (SSP), a first comprehensive new information security programme (provided free for freelance journalists) to a class of investigative journalists from all around the world. The SPP emerged from our 4th international CIJ Logan Symposium in November and it’s high-level membership include everyone from Jessica Bruder to Laura Poitras, from Omar Mohammed to Barton Gellman, together with a great new faculty of information security trainers from around the world.

In the Autumn, we’re launching a second iteration of our of Masterclass programme, once again aimed at getting the best and the brightest of the disadvantaged into investigative journalism, and once again led by the Reuters investigative journalist Stephen Grey. This time, however, it will be delivered entirely online.

But that’s not all. As we’ve spread our wings internationally since Covid-19, we’re now running bespoke training programmes for investigative journalists everywhere from Indonesia to Cambodia to Vietnam to India. We’re also, for the first time, delivering training everywhere from the United States to Pakistan to Nepal. Those training programmes turned out to be only the beginning. Following a highly successful pilot in Mexico last year, we’re now building brand new training initiative aimed at journalists throughout Latin America. With that under our belt, this year we launched similar pilots in Francophone Africa and India.

It’s only the beginning. In the next two and a half years, thanks to fresh investment, we'll roll out a brand new programme to train and support investigative journalists which will give the CIJ a real presence in just about every continent, region and corner of the planet.

All those regional and international programmes come together at #CIJSummer – it’s our main experimental laboratory and networking event, a meeting place and a melting pot for new friends, new trainers and new investigative journalists.

This year’s faculty reflects our growing international interests. Michela Wrong discusses the practical and moral dilemmas of how to get access to and report from war-torn Africa; three investigative journalists from Russia talk about the new techniques which help journalists there uncover the truth about corruption; Ron Nixon from Associated Press talks about how to build and run a genuinely global investigation across international borders. Rana Ayyub, Natasha Loder and Shadab Nazmi track the catastrophe of Covid-19 in India. Wa Lone, the Myanmar journalist imprisoned for eighteen months for his investigation into a massacre there in 2017, gives the prestigious annual Gavin MacFadyen lecture.

When Covid-19 finally abates, life won’t be quite the same as before. Nor will the kind of high-quality, small-group, investigative training that the CIJ offers; much of what we do will be across a broader range of media and more focused, more interactive and resilient, more vibrantly international. For now though, take your pick, in the different rhythms of the online world, from a truly global smorgasbord of training and discussion at CIJ Summer. As we venture outside in the coming months, and in the run up to our exciting 20th anniversary next year, we look forward to seeing you in the flesh.

### Natasha Loder, Rana Ayyub and Shadab Nazmi join India Covid-19 panel

Leading science, data and investigative journalists join #CIJSummer discussion: No Country Left Behind? The Indian Covid-19 catastrophe.

Natasha Loder, Health Policy Editor at The Economist, Indian investigative journalist Rana Ayuub and Shadab Nazmi, BBC South Asia data and visual journalist, will examine the Covid-19 situation in India, focusing on the stories from the frontline, Covid-19 data and global vaccination policies.

All #CIJSummer talks and discussions are held online and are free to attend. Bookings will open in mid June 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 will talk about his investigative career, moving from press to news agency, and about a year on the job conducting global investigations.

### Welcome from the Director of the CIJ

What a difference a few months makes. This time last year investigative reporters were digging into the convulsions wrought by Brexit, and following money and patterns of migration amid the fraying of liberal internationalism and a new global thirst for sovereignty and populist politics. Then came Covid-19. If investigative journalism seemed a luxury amid a rapacious global pandemic and its economic fallout, it turned out to be more necessary than ever.

At the CIJ, while standing in solidarity with laid-off colleagues and hard-pressed freelancers, we didn’t want to waste a crisis. Instead we took a step back. Together with our world-class faculty of trainers, we began a unique programme of research and development to think about what works online, about how to rebuild quality training in investigative reporting from the ground up. We also wanted to build out – to use the opportunity of a new medium to extend our training to more local, regional and international audiences. The upshot, bringing together all our different training subjects and programmes for the first time under one virtual roof, is this year’s CIJSummer Conference – the 18th iteration of our annual conference, and the first to take place online.

We’re genuinely excited by it, and we hope you are too. As well as reworking our teaching methods, Summer Conference manager Marina Calland and the rest of the team have rebuilt the pace of #CIJSummer too. Instead of taking place over three full days, this year’s event will take place over six. We wanted to give you more time to take a breath - that government-mandated stroll in the park, for example, or some urgent weeding of the garden. In between those breaks we’re offering you four days of hands-on, small-class, pay-as-you-go training in our usual specialist subjects – how to do data journalism, how to use freedom of Information legislation, how to turn investigations into stories and how to use “open source” intelligence – sandwiched between two days of public conversations and addresses which we’re making available entirely free. This year, among others, you can hear the inimitable Can Dündar, who was arrested for an explosive scoop about illicit Turkish sales to Syrian rebels and who now lives under threat and in exile; the indomitable Annika Smethurst, whose home was raided by Australian Federal police in search of the source for her important surveillance story; the indefatigable Katherine Eban, a New Yorker who, even before the age of Covid-19, was digging into the murky relationship between big pharmaceuticals, government and public health; and the inspirational Nadine White, a CIJ alumna and co-author (with Emma Youle) of an original investigation into financial exploitation at a politically fashionable London church.

As the world continues to collapse inwards, it’s heartening to see investigative journalists continuing to stand their ground - asking difficult questions, challenging malfeasance wherever they find it. It’s hard to avoid the fact that it’s made them enemies of all kinds. In America we see the brutalising of journalists covering protests against police brutality in the wake of the killing of George Floyd: one of the subjects of our panel discussion on the US protests on 11 July. In the Philippines we see the conviction on spurious charges of last year’s Gavin MacFadyen lecturer speaker Maria Ressa. Closer to home in the UK, we see the continued detention and possible extradition of Julian Assange for services to investigative journalism.

At the CIJ, our primary mission has always been to refresh investigative journalists with skills other parts of the media can’t reach, or won’t teach. In 2003 CIJ Summer Conference (formerly called Summer School) was our foundation stone. Now it’s a showcase for what’s new and what’s possible in teaching investigative reporting. The results of our new online curriculum are already in. #CIJSummer sold out in little more than a week, and the rest of our training is benefitting from a newly global reach. In the last few months we’ve taken high-quality, hands-on education to groups of budding and experienced investigative reporters in India, Australia, and Latin America – and done it more efficiently and more cheaply than would ever have been possible before. In response to the increased demand, we’re running more scheduled training sessions in the weeks after CIJSummer, and will announce more in the Autumn; see our website for details.

When things go back to (relatively) normal, we’re going to continue our online training efforts, because we’re determined to get our training into as many of the right hands as possible, wherever it’s needed most. As Covid-19 continues to throw our lives and economies into disarray over the next year, one thing we do know - journalists will be in the frontline. We want to make sure they’re not only safe but well-equipped to do their best work. Until then, resist the temptation of freshly opened pubs and come find us online.

James Harkin
CIJ Director
25th June 2020

### New talk: US protests - Reporting From the Outside?

Three journalists from the US and Canada will speak about their experience of covering the protests provoked by the killing of George Floyd.

Facing attacks by police and arrests, an avalanche of false information online, or dealing with the close relevance of a protest to one’s own experience and personal history, Andrea May Sahouri (Des Moines Register, Iowa), Craig Silverman (BuzzFeed News) and Montinique Monroe (photojournalist from Austin, Texas) will share their experience of covering the protests in the US.

The discussion will be hosted by Kofi Smiles, presenter of BBC No Filter, a programme for and by 18-35s on BBC Radio Humberside (Hull).
The CIJ held one of our #CIJLyraMcKee outreach events in Hull earlier in February.

### New talk: Behind the scenes of health and science reporting

Independent Dutch science journalist Jop de Vrieze and health correspondent for The Independent Shaun Lintern talk to Clare Wilson, medical reporter at New Scientist, about covering the health and science beat during a global pandemic: from misinformation to reliable sources, from scientific and government reports to witnessing human resilience and tragedy.

### Data journalists: the rock stars of news

Leading data journalists Helena Bengtsson of STV (Sweden), John Burn-Murdoch of The Financial Times (UK), and Pamela Duncan of The Guardian (UK) join our Covid-19: a Data Story panel.

If the financial crisis of 2008 made finance and economic correspondents the stars of news, the Coronavirus pandemic made data journalists, science and health correspondents into household names.

We've never watched the numbers and graphs with such intensity. But what data can you trust and how to interpret what you see? Learn the best practices of data-driven stories at the times when data drives policy decisions like never before. Mon 6 June at 14:00 BST. Register to attend for free.

And here is a taster. One of this panel's speakers, John Burn-Murdoch appeared on the BBC Radio 4 The Media Show, alongside Caelainn Barr of The Guardian, talking about data journalism at the time of the Coronavirus pandemic.

### Katherine Eban talks Covid-19, pharmaceuticals, lies and President Trump

Katherine Eban, an award-winning New York-based investigative journalist, joins #CIJSummer 2020 Online from new York. She comes to the CIJ to talk about Covid-19, pharmaceutical drugs, lies and President Trump.

### New Keynote: Exiled Turkish Journalist Can Dündar

Veteran Turkish journalist Can Dündar will address the CIJ conference, giving insights from his life and career on how to continue to hold the powerful to account when not only your journalism, but your freedom and even your life are under threat.

### New speakers: Nadine White and Emma Youle

HuffPostUK news reporter Nadine White and special correspondent Emma Youle will give a talk on "SPAC Nation Exposé: An Exploited Congregation."

### #CIJSummer Online hands-on courses confirmed

Data Journalism, Using the Freedom of Information Act, Story Based Inquiry Method and Open Source Intelligence training will take place over four days on 7-10 July as part of the #CIJSummer Conference. They will be divided into one to two hour classes each day. Each course will be priced individually and you will be able to sign up to as many as you like. The number of places per course is limited.

### #CIJSummer goes online

We are delighted to announce that #CIJSummer 2020 WILL take place this year, but like everything else, it will move online.

#CIJSummer 2020 Online will take place over six days and have two distinct parts:

 	Free talks and lectures - days 1 and 6
 	Mix and match pay-as-you go training courses - days 2-5

 

 

### Maria Ressa lecture

We are delighted to announce that Maria Ressa, a Filipino-American journalist and author and co-founder of Rappler will deliver our annual Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture on Sat 6 July.

### New Speakers

Jane Bradley and Katie Baker, both of BuzzFeed News will give a talk on their work investigating self-help guru Tony Robbins.

### New Speaker: Bastian Obermayer

Bastian Obermayer, one of the journalists behind the Panama Papers investigation will give a talk alongside the screening of his recent film.

### Twitter speakers list

We have created a Twitter list of all the speakers at the 2019 summer conference. Follow the list here.

### Lyra McKee Investigative Training Bursary

The Lyra McKee Investigative Training Bursary applications are now closed. The successful applicants will be contacted by email/phone by Monday 17 June.


## Symposium Announcements

### Programme Launch!

This year's programme is now online. From Ukraine and Gaza to whistleblowing, conspiracies, cryptography and frontline reports -- we've put together an genuinely thrilling programme to challenge power and build alliances across the profession.

### Back at the Barbican

It's 10 years since our first CIJ Logan Symposium and we're delighted to be returning to the Barbican for two days of talks and debate. Bookinga are now open!

### Open Lab launch

We're delighted to be able to launch the Open Lab, a new initiative from the CIJ promoting work at the intersection of journalism and the arts. From the new Creative Investigations Database, to new commissions from Kevin B Lee and Chloé Galibert-Laîné, and Navine G. Khan Dossos to a new online exhibition from students on MA Culture, Criticism and Curation at Central Saint Martins.

Check out the Open Lab here.

### New speaker: Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden will join Ai Weiwei for a conversation on 'Dissidence, Exile and How to Fight for Truth from afar'.

Tune in on 16 Nov @ 6pm GMT.

### Training now online!

You can now book your place on some of this year's limited availability CIJ Masterclasses and roundtable discussions.

For more information visit our registration page.

### Programme announcement

We're thrilled to announce the first batch of conversations and panel discussions for this years Symposium. We'll be announcing more panels, presentations, workshops and events in the coming weeks.

### Introducing our speakers

With interventions from AI WEIWEI, CORY DOCTOROW, ELOÏSE BAJOU, EYAL WEIZMAN, HATICE CENGIZ, IAN COBAIN, JACK POULSON, JANINA FINDEISEN, JIAYANG FAN, NABIHA SYED, NICHOLSON BAKER, STELLA MORIS, and TIM MAUGHAN, this year’s symposium will be bringing together some of the world’s most creative thinkers to discuss how best to take advantage of our new collective intelligence, and how to build better international alliances against the encroachment of surveillance, official secrecy and censorship.

We'll be posting more announcements in the coming weeks, with lots of new speakers, workshops, Open Lab projects and more.

### COVID-19 and Access To Tools programme

Our Access To Tools training programme is uninterrupted by the COVID-19 crisis – while social distancing measures are in place, our training workshops are hosted online.

We use Zoom as our platform of choice to host our online training.

To find out more about how we use Zoom for our training, check out our Zoom Infosec page HERE

### Film Screenings

This year we will be screening several documentary films and hosting Q+A’s with the films creators. National Bird and Crime and Punishment are free to attend and open to everyone. Just sign up. Field of Vision tickets will be on sale shortly on the Curzon Goldsmiths website.

### Talk Recordings Released

Recordings of the main programme panels are now available on our vimeo channel.

### Full Programme Announced



### Presenting Inside Intel

The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) presents Inside Intel: an exhibition of contemporary artworks, design objects and digital assets brought together to investigate the confusion sewn by an increasingly partisan media, sinister new technologies and the culture of official secrecy and widespread surveillance.

Designed as an experimental Silicon Valley “imagineering lab” situated within Goldsmiths, University of London, the exhibition forms an aesthetic response to the 2018 CIJ Logan Symposium: Conspiracy. Featuring practitioners from the fields of journalism, art, design and architecture, this group show features faux state propaganda, factual misinformation among genuine investigations to explore the signals and the noise.

### Tickets now on sale




## Initiatives

### Journalist Security Training

Journalist Security Training
In an increasingly uncertain time for journalists' security in the US, the CIJ has partnered with our friends at Freedom of the Press Foundation, ACOS Alliance and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to deliver security trainings to reporters on the frontline. Initially this new project commits to support local journalists and freelancers who cover migration and events on the US border with Mexico. We will be selecting the first cohort throughout June and July, and the trainings will take place in person in New Mexico and Texas in August 2025. If you would like to be considered for this in person training programme please contact: info@tcij.org.

### Supported Stories

As part of the Dark Green project, we were able to award five participants small grants to support their research into a related investigation.

Stories from each of the grantees are detailed below



Copyright: Josse van Meegeren

Daphné Dupont-Nivet is an investigative journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on climate, environment and the energy transition. She is affiliated to investigative journalism platform Investico and is co-presenter of the climate tv programme Wat Houdt Ons Tegen?.

Daphne researched the environmental impacts of the 'Hyphen Project' a huge hydrogen facility planned for construction in coastal Namibia. Several EU countries are hoping to use the hydrogen produced as they seek to decarbonise crucial industries to meet their climate goals.

The resulting story was published May 15, in English in EU Observer, and in Dutch in De Groene Amsterdammer and Trouw.

 

 

 



Jasmine Owens is a freelance journalist, and co-editor of Ethical Consumer magazine, based in Edinburgh, UK. With a focus on corporate accountability, Jasmine’s investigations range from exposing poor working conditions within the supply chains of major brands to pointing out greenwashing.

Jasmine researched the hidden problem of oil leakage from power cables, which has introduced millions of litres of oil into a wide range of ecosystems causing environmental degradation and biodiversity loss.

The resulting story was published August 13 in the Guardian.

### Lyra McKee Bursary Scheme 2025

Applications for the #CIJLyraMcKee Bursary Scheme 2025 are now closed.
#CIJLyraMcKee Bursary Scheme:
The #CIJLyraMcKee Bursary Scheme was established in memory of the young and courageous Northern Irish investigative journalist Lyra McKee, who was shot dead by dissident republicans in Derry in April 2019.

The aim of this five-month bursary scheme is to train and mentor people from underrepresented backgrounds, who aspire to become journalists or who are at the very early stages of their journalism career.

The Lyra McKee Journalism Training Bursary was inspired by Lyra’s determination to become an investigative journalist despite personal disability, the need to care for her disabled mother, as well as fighting the in-built bias against working-class entrants to journalism.

Launched in 2019, this will be our sixth intake (the 2020 bursary scheme was postponed due to the global Covid-19 pandemic).
What to expect?
It is not just a paid-for training.

The #CIJLyra McKee Bursary Scheme is a five-month programme which incorporates training at #CIJSummer Conference 2025 and online, as well as a mentoring programme with regular meetings.

It builds towards a Pitch to the Editors session, where the trainees will pitch stories to working UK editors.

"I thought the mentors were so constructive and friendly in their feedback. I didn’t find them intimidating to talk to, and they helped to solve problems in a supportive and empowering way"Bursary recipient 2024

"[The mentors] worked through bumps in my ideas; helped me hone my emails, media requests and pitch; and were on hand for the many questions, small and large, that I had throughout the programme. Having never personally known a working journalist I could turn to for advice, the mentors on this programme were such an integral part to my learning and development. I think I learnt as much from them in a few months as I would have on any full time journalism course."Bursary recipient 2023
Time Commitment
Mentoring: 9-10 x 1.5 -2 hours online evening sessions: 19 May, 2, 16 June, 7,14 July, 1, 8, 15, 22 September 2025.
#CIJSummer Conference: 2 full days of training at Goldsmiths, University of London. Dates: 26-27 June 2025.
Online data course: 6hrs of online data journalism course in July spread over 2 days. Dates - TBC.
Why apply?
#CIJLyraMcKee provides cutting edge investigative journalism training (online courses and in-person #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2025), and regular online mentoring from leading investigative journalists, culminating in a Pitch to the Editors Day, when the trainees pitch their stories to working UK editors.

“I think it’s a really generous scheme that genuinely wants to equip people with the skills to further themselves. The addition of mentoring felt vital to me. I’ve been for job interviews where the interviewer was very impressed with the fact I was on the scheme. Thanks so much.”Bursary recipient 2021

It is a tough and very practical training programme with a great success record.

“The #CIJLyraMcKee scheme was one of the best things I did last year!”Flávia Gouveia, Bursary recipient 2023, tweeted when the story she worked on during the CIJ Lyra McKee training was published on the fornt page of the Belfast Telegraph

Assisted by the mentors, lots of participants secured journalism jobs and internships following their training at #CIJSummer Conference, a fantastic measure of the programme’s success. These include positions at the BBC Scotland Disclosure team, BBC Asian Network, BBC Humberside, The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, The Belfast Telegraph, The Northern Echo, Tortoise Media, Deutsche Welle, and FE Week among others.

Jax Sinclair (CIJ Lyra McKee 2021) works as an assistant producer/journalist for the BBC.

Rhys Everquill (CIJ Lyra McKee 2022) co-founded a media co-operative in Leicester – Leicester Gazette.

Rachel Keenan (CIJ Lyra McKee 2022) received the Scott Trust Bursary at Goldsmiths and is now working at the Guardian.

Flávia Gouveia (CIJ Lyra McKee 2023) started doing paid shifts at the Belfast Telegraph and has recently had the story she worked on during her CIJ Lyra McKee traineeship about the disused properties in Northern Ireland published on the front page! She is currently working as a journalist at the Irish News.

Meg Byrom (CIJ Lyra McKee 2023) works as a trainee reporter at The Daily Mail.

Darcie Rawlings (CIJ Lyra McKee 2023) started working as an Apprentice Reporter for The Northern Echo.

Kateryna Pavliuk (CIJ Lyra McKee 2023) joined the BBC journalism apprenticeship scheme and secured a job as a video editor at Tortoise Media.
Who can apply?
We especially welcome applications from people from poorer backgrounds, people of colour, people with disabilities, carers, members of the LGBTQ+ community, Travellers and anyone who cannot afford to pay for the #CIJSummer training. It is open to UK and Republic of Ireland residents only. Applicants must be at least 18 years old.
What is covered by the bursary scheme?
The 2025 bursary scheme has funding from the Lorana Sullivan Foundation, from Lyra McKee's family and for the first time this year from The Press Council of Ireland.

The bursary covers training and mentoring, as well as, depending on the trainees' needs, travel and accommodation in London to attend the #CIJSummer Conference 2025.
Key dates:
Application opens: 31 January 2025
Application deadline: 31 March, 23:59 BST (UK time)
Offers to successful applicants made by: 1 May 2025
Programme starts: Mid-May 2025
#CIJSummer Conference 2025: 26-27 June 2025.
'Pitch to the Editors' Day: September 2025
Programme ends: September 2025

 
Testimonials:
“It is well recognised and quality training. It gives a great start for journalists in the industry and gives niche training not available elsewhere. Great for the CV! ”Bursary recipient 2023.

“I really enjoyed [Pitch to the Editors]! Getting that level of feedback from people I would be pitching to in the future was really helpful, as I now understand what they would be looking for. Despite studying journalism at university I have always struggled to understand what an editor would want from me in a pitch and now I don't feel in the dark anymore. It was also great to hear other people’s pitches and feedback for other stories.”Bursary recipient 2022.

"The scheme is invaluable. I have gained so many skills that I wouldn’t have gotten from my university course. I met some fab people."Bursary recipient 2024

"I think it’s a really helpful scheme that genuinely wants to equip people with the skills to further themselves. The addition of mentoring felt vital to me. I’ve been for job interviews where the interviewer was very impressed with the fact I was on the scheme, so it’s given me opportunities to impress people and a boost for my CV. I’ve enjoyed it all. Thanks so much. "Bursary recipient 2021
More:
You can read Francesca Hughes' (CIJ Lyra McKee 2022) account of her experience of the bursary scheme on the the Warwick University Website.

We also urge you to watch LYRA, an award winning documentary about Lyra McKee on Channel 4 On Demand.

### Dark Green

Dark Green: Shining a light on climate finance
 

Dark Green is a new free training programme for European journalists focused specifically on helping journalists to more effectively follow the money in their environmental and climate investigations. Climate finance encompasses a complex web of financial flows, surrounded by much PR fanfare, but little practical transparency. However, there are techniques to cut through the secrecy and uncover the real stories of how money affects efforts to address the climate crisis and the wider environment.

The training programme builds on the experience of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) in supporting environmental journalism globally through our Open Climate Reporting Initiative. It will run for 4 weeks, taking a cohort of dedicated journalists through the different methods, tools and research skills needed to investigate climate finance.

Once the training programme is complete, participants who have attended at least 6/8 of the sessions, will be invited to submit a story proposal. There will be five story grants of €1000 each available, and selected pitches will be evaluated on the criteria of relevance, feasibility and potential for impact. Successful proposals will be granted €800 to contribute towards research time and expenses, with the final €200 provided on publication.

This programme is funded by JournalismFund Europe. It has been developed and is run by the CIJ.
Applications are now closed.
Successful applicants will be notified by 10th February.
If you have not heard from us by that date, your application has been unsuccessful.

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Course schedule
 

Module 1 - Understanding Company Accounts
Diogo Augusto, Investigative Journalist

Wednesday 19 February, 14.00-16.00

The opening module will build a basis for the learning across the rest of the course, building an understanding of how financial accounts and other documents can provide journalists with important insights when conducting investigations. It will explain the structure of such documents, the terminology they use and how to access and quickly understand them.

Module 2 - Financial Open-Source Intelligence
Dylan Kennedy, Director of Analysis, Nodum Global

Thursday 20 February, 10.00-12.00

This module will cover advanced online research techniques to identify connections between corporations, individuals and other entities. Practical sections will take participants through real-life cases to demonstrate core techniques for conducting deep-dive investigations to uncover opaque global company structures used to facilitate money laundering, corruption, bribery, tax fraud schemes, and more.

Module 3 - Investigating Corporations
Nimra Shahid, Award-winning investigative journalist

Wednesday 26 February, 14.00-16.00

This module will take participants deeper into financial research, giving an understanding of how to find stories and report on companies engaging in greenwashing, using financial institutions as examples. Through case studies, the module will show a range of different lines of inquiry, such as financial data, corporate and sustainability reports, and sources to find the information required and bring investigations to publication

Module 4 - Investigating Governments
Scilla Alecci, Investigative Reporter, ICIJ

Thursday 27 February, 10.00-12.00

During the fourth module, participants will change focus to governments and national bodies. The learning will encompass techniques to identify where regulation is lacking, or enforcement is inadequate. It will also look at researching the public promises of government figures and provide guidance on critically evaluating these and the extent to which they match with actions and policy. It will look at a range of sources for this research, and address some of the common difficulties, including a lack of transparency or available data.

Module 5 - Investigating the Enablers
Amy Westervelt, Founder, Drilled Media

Wednesday 5 March, 14,00-16.00

Sitting alongside the corporate and governmental actors whose detrimental impacts on climate change mitigation and the environment more generally, is an entire ecosystem of enablers. This includes lobbying firms and PR consultancies, but also research institutions and academic researchers susceptible to influence, and co-opted campaign groups and opaquely funded ‘grassroots’ movements. This module will provide guidance on identifying the different elements of this ecosystem and uncovering the influence they have on public debate and policy decisions.

Module 6 - Investigating the Offsetting Industry
Leigh Baldwin & Luke Barratt, Source Material

Thursday 6 March, 10.00-12.00

One of the most lauded solutions to the climate crisis of recent times, carbon offsetting, has now been shown to be, in reality, one of the most flawed. The voluntary carbon offset market in particular is open to speculation and fraud on a huge scale, making profits for companies involved, providing PR copy for greenwashing to multinational corporations, but doing little if anything to mitigate the climate crisis.

Investigative journalism has been an essential element in uncovering this fraud and, despite the revelations, there is still an urgent need for independent journalists to act as watchdogs over an industry that remains open to large-scale corruption. The module will take participants through the processes involved in several recent investigations into fraudulent carbon offsetting projects and provide insight into navigating the data on others.

Module 7 - Accessing the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive
Luuk Sengers, Investigative journalist, mentor and trainer

Wednesday 12 March, 14.00-16.00

This module will take a detailed look at the reporting requirements for large corporations on the impacts of their actions and those within their supply chains. It will guide participants through accessing, understanding and building compelling stories from the sustainability reports that will soon be filed by large corporations with operations in the EU.

Module 8 - Supply Chain Investigations
Tansy Hoskins, Award-winning journalist and author

Thursday 13 March, 10.00-12.00

This session will cover practicalities of supply-chain investigations, using case studies to guide participants through the process of tracking commodity flows through data and shipping records. Using published investigations as examples, this session takes participants step-by-step through how to run a supply chain investigation. It covers training in how to find stories, gather evidence and carefully use multiple databases to locate hidden information and prove wrongdoing. It also covers questions around legal issues, source protection, and cross border collaboration

### Deep Focus

Deep Focus is an experimental lab for non-fiction storytelling, and is a collaboration between the CIJ,  Abandon Normal Devices (AND) and the Center for Artistic Inquiry and Reporting (CAIR). Deep Focus will support journalists, artists and filmmakers based in the UK to uncover new and diverse ways to shape compelling non-fiction films.

We have put together this programme to create a space for collaboration and to support storytellers who want to make impactful works that address important issues. Deep Focus will equip a hand-picked cohort of 9 early career professionals with a range of investigative tools and tactics to experiment with peers. Participants will be encouraged to interrogate the unsettling rise of misinformation, extreme online communities, conspiracies and the ominous influence of online personalities.

Hosted at Manchester Metropolitan University’s School of Digital Arts (SODA), the lab will feature workshops, guest lectures and trainings delivered by external practitioners and creatives. We will also run a series of social events and a screening of short non-fiction films which will be open to the public. The lab will take place on the 6th and 7th December 2024 at SODA’s building in Manchester.  Following on from the in person lab, we will run a short series of online training and mentoring sessions. Delivered in partnership with and supported by SODA and Arts Council England.

If you would like to know more about Deep Focus please email: jake@tcij.org

### Lyra McKee Bursary Scheme 2024

We are delighted to announce that we received confirmation of funding for the CIJ Lyra McKee Investigative Journalism Training and Mentoring Scheme from the Lorana Sullivan Foundation for the next three years. This is in addition to the funds given to the scheme by Lyra's family.

The applications for the #CIJLyraMcKee Bursary Scheme 2024 are now closed. Only successful applicants will be contacted.

 


#CIJLyraMcKee Bursary Scheme:
The #CIJLyraMcKee Bursary Scheme was established in memory of the young and courageous Northern Irish investigative journalist Lyra McKee, who was shot dead by dissident republicans in Derry in April 2019.

The aim of this five-month bursary scheme is to train and mentor people from underrepresented backgrounds, who aspire to become journalists or who are at the very early stages of their journalism career.

The Lyra McKee Journalism Training Bursary was inspired by Lyra’s determination to become an investigative journalist despite personal disability, the need to care for her disabled mother, as well as fighting the in-built bias against working-class entrants to journalism.

Launched in 2019, this will be our fifth intake (the 2020 bursary scheme was postponed due to the global Covid-19 pandemic).
What to expect?
It is not just a paid-for training.

The #CIJLyra McKee Bursary Scheme is a five-month programme which incorporates training at #CIJSummer Conference 2024 and online, as well as a mentoring programme with regular meetings.

It builds towards a Pitch to the Editors session, where the trainees will pitch stories to the working UK editors.

"My expectations were exceeded. Beforehand I thought it would have been paid-for training sessions but it was so, so, so much more. The mentoring and on-hand support was invaluable."Bursary recipient 2022

"[The mentors] worked through bumps in my ideas; helped me hone my emails, media requests and pitch; and were on hand for the many questions, small and large, that I had throughout the programme. Having never personally known a working journalist I could turn to for advice, the mentors on this programme were such an integral part to my learning and development. I think I learnt as much from them in a few months as I would have on any full time journalism course."Bursary recipient 2023

 
Time Commitment
Mentoring: 9-10 x 1.5 hour online evening sessions In May-July and then in September 2024. Dates - TBC.
#CIJSummer Conferece: 2 full days of training at Goldsmiths, University of London. Dates: 3-4 July.
Online data course: 6hrs of online data journalism course in July spread over 2-4 days. Dates - TBC.
Why apply?
#CIJLyraMcKee provides cutting edge investigative journalism training (online courses and in-person #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2024), and regular online mentoring from leading investigative journalists, culminating in a "Pitch to the Editors" Day, when the trainees pitch their stories to working UK editors.

“I think it’s a really generous scheme that genuinely wants to equip people with the skills to further themselves. The addition of mentoring felt vital to me. I’ve been for job interviews where the interviewer was very impressed with the fact I was on the scheme. Thanks so much.”Bursary recipient 2021

It is a tough and very practical training programme with a great success record.

“The #CIJLyraMcKee scheme was one of the best things I did last year!”Flávia Gouveia, Bursary recipient 2023, tweeted when the story she worked on during the CIJ Lyra McKee training was published on the fornt page of the Belfast Telegraph

Assisted by the mentors, lots of participants secured journalism jobs and internships following their training at #CIJSummer Conference, a fantastic measure of the programme’s success. These include positions at the BBC Scotland Disclosure team, The Times, The Belfast Telegraph, The Northern Echo, Deutsche Welle, BBC Humberside, and FE Week. In 2021 one trainee got a place on the BBC Future Voices Scheme for bilingual reporters.

Jax Sinclair (CIJ Lyra McKee 2021) was nominated for the RTS Scotland Awards 2023 in the Young Journalist category for their documentary Should I Tell You I am Trans? 

Cherise Hamilton (CIJ Lyra McKee 2021) won Gold for The Creativity Award and Bronze for Best Current Affairs Podcast at the Brit Pod Awards 2021.

Francesca Hughes’ pitch to the editors, about the price difference of university accommodation for the able bodied and disabled students was commissioned by one of the editors Ramzy Alwakeel, and was published by openDemocracy. Since then she has interned at FT Weekend Magazine for three months as an editorial assistant, where her primary responsibility was fact checking. She was also recently accepted onto the NCTJ Diploma course with Ability Today. (CIJ Lyra McKee 2022)

Rhys Everquill (né Reece Stafferton, CIJ Lyra McKee 2022) co-founded a media co-operative in Leicester – Leicester Gazette.

Rachel Keenan (CIJ LyraMcKee 2022) received the Scott Trust Bursary at Goldsmiths.

Flávia Gouveia (CIJ Lyra McKee 2023) started doing paid shifts at the Belfast Telegraph and has recently had the story she worked on during her CIJ Lyra McKee traineeship about the disused properties in Northern Ireland published on the front page!

Darcie Rawlings (CIJ Lyra McKee 2023) started working as an Apprentice Reporter for The Northern Echo.
Who can apply?
We especially welcome applications from people from poorer backgrounds, people of colour, people with disabilities, carers, members of the LGBTQ+ community, Travellers and anyone who cannot afford to pay for the #CIJSummer training. It is open to the UK and the Republic of Ireland residents only. Applicants must be at least 18 years old.
What is covered by the bursary scheme?
The 2024 bursary scheme has funding from the Lorana Sullivan Foundation and from Lyra McKee's family.

The bursary covers training and mentoring, as well as, depending on the trainees' needs, travel and accommodation in London to attend the #CIJSummer Conference 2024.
Key dates:
Application opens: 29 January 2024
Application deadline: 1 April 2024 at 23:59
Offers to successful applicants made by: 1 May 2024
Programme starts: Mid May 2024
#CIJSummer Conference 2024: 3-4 July 2024
'Pitch to the Editors' Day: September 2024
Programme ends: September 2024
Application:
Applications for the 2024 scheme are now closed.
Testimonials:
“It is well recognised and quality training. It gives a great start for journalists in the industry and gives niche training not available elsewhere. Great for the CV! ”Bursary recipient 2023.

“I really enjoyed [Pitch to the Editors]! Getting that level of feedback from people I would be pitching to in the future was really helpful, as I now understand what they would be looking for. Despite studying journalism at university I have always struggled to understand what an editor would want from me in a pitch and now I don't feel in the dark anymore. It was also great to hear other people’s pitches and feedback for other stories.”Bursary recipient 2022.

"I think the scheme is invaluable and one of the best opportunities I have had in the industry. It helped me network with other journalists, develop my data skills, and attend the CIJ Summer Conference. I now feel better equipped to continue pursuing a career in journalism."Bursary recipient 2021

"I think it’s a really helpful scheme that genuinely wants to equip people with the skills to further themselves. The addition of mentoring felt vital to me. I’ve been for job interviews where the interviewer was very impressed with the fact I was on the scheme, so it’s given me opportunities to impress people and a boost for my CV. I’ve enjoyed it all. Thanks so much. "Bursary recipient 2021
More:
You can read Francesca Hughes' (CIJ Lyra McKee 2022) account of her experience of the bursary scheme on the the Warwick University Website.

We also urge you to watch LYRA, an award winning documentary about Lyra McKee on Channel 4 On Demand.

 
Apply now:
Please fill this form to apply.

Only successful candidates will be contacted.

Deadline: Mon 1 April 2024. 23:59 BST

### Anglophone Africa - List of Beneficiary Media Organisations

Working with the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development, we engaged ten media organisations in Nigeria and Ghana.
Nigeria
Tribune
The oldest running private newspaper in Nigeria
was founded in 1949 and published by African
Newspapers of Nigeria PLC. It has national
coverage with more popularity in South-West
Nigeria.
Premium Times
Launched in 2011, Premium Times is notable for
investigative journalism in Nigeria,
headquartered in Abuja but with national
coverage.
Trust TV
Trust TV is a credible and trustworthy television
channel widely watched by Nigerians. It is
owned by Media Trust Limited, which also
publishes the Daily Trust Newspaper titles.
Dataphyte
A data-driven platform that provides access to
open data useful for journalists, researchers, and
civil society analysts, Dataphyte is a media, research
and data analytics organisation that uses data
science and artificial intelligence tools.
Kiss FM
Kicking off transmission in 2008 with coverage
spanning at least five states, Kiss FM provides
audience with relevant, vibrant and high-quality
content driven by high broadcast standards.
Ghana
TV3
TV3 is a privately owned television station with
an incredible reach and great viewership that
launched in 1997. With its headquarters in
Accra, it has a huge nationwide penetration and
is owned by Media General Ghana Limited.
Starr FM
Starr FM is an Accra based urban, lifestyle
radio station that focuses on the delivery
of compelling programmes for its target audience.
Daily Guide
Regarded as one of the most circulated daily
newspapers in Ghana, Daily Guide has a wide
audience reach and has existed since 1984.
Ghanaweb
A digital news platform, GhanaWeb is part of
the AfricaWeb Holding group, a digital solutions
provider for African publishers. It ensures
balanced and unbiased coverage of the news.
Zami Reports
Zami Reports focuses on the reportage of
gender, environment and biodiversity issues
as a news agency in Ghana with an eco-system
of change makers and solutions journalists.

### Francophone Africa - List of Beneficiary Media Organisations

Working with ADISI-Cameroun, we engaged five media organisations in Cameroon and Gabon.
Cameroon
Mutations Newspaper
One of Cameroon’s most popular and nationally
circulated newspapers that the South Media
Corporation group publishes. Mutations was
launched in Yaoundé in 1996.
DBS TV
DBS TV is a private Cameroonian television
channel headquartered in Douala that started
broadcasting in 2009 and is owned by the Baba
Amadou Danpullo Group. Although generalist, it
proposes to build a new African consciousness
by educating and informing its audience.
Kalak FM
A generalist radio broadcasting since 2011
covering the whole central region and its
surroundings. Among the most listened to in
Yaoundé, Kalak FM is owned by the Africa News
Network Multimedia group.
Gabon
Echos du Nord
Founded by Désiré Ename, this newspaper is
among the widely known print newspapers in
Gabon that cover the country. The newspaper is
considered among the most serious due to its
consistency in speaking truth to power and
holding the government accountable.

### 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 post-training support to the newsrooms also yielded an unprecedented impact. The trained beneficiaries trained over 80 more  journalists in their organisations, while at least 6 of the newsrooms have now set up a climate change reporting desk by participating in the project. So far, this has led to the publication/broadcast of over 100 stories (see compilation)!

The collaborative effort was built on the ongoing success of the CIJ’s global Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI), providing climate focused workshops for reporters in three regions around the world.

Our partnership with UNESCO’s Section for Media Development and Media in Emergency went beyond regular news coverage. It strengthened the capacity of media in the four countries to hold powerful actors to account, use digital methodologies for news gathering and production, and practice solutions journalism to combat climate change.

The partnership made use of the Paris-based organisation’s networks and offices in Africa. Together with CIJ’s own resources and partners in dozens of countries throughout the continent, it held workshops for news organisations on climate change in two English- and two French-speaking countries.

Throughout 2023, OCRI is also bring our investigative training to three new climate-affected regions of the world.

For more information about UNESCO’s activities in this field, please visit: https://www.unesco.org/en/media-crisis

### Lyra McKee Bursary Scheme 2023

Applications have now closed for the 2023 #CIJLyraMcKee Investigative Journalism Training and Mentoring Bursary Scheme. Only successful applicants will be contacted.


#CIJLyraMcKee Bursary Scheme:
#CIJLyraMcKee Bursary Scheme was established in memory of a young and courageous Irish investigative journalist Lyra McKee, who was shot dead by dissident republicans in Derry in April 2019.

The aim of this five-month bursary scheme is to train and mentor people from underprivileged backgrounds, who aspire to become journalists or who are at the very early stages of their journalism career.

The Lyra McKee Journalism Training Bursary was inspired by Lyra’s determination to become an investigative journalist despite personal disability, the need to care for her disabled mother as well as fighting the in-built bias against working-class entrants to journalism.

Launched in 2019, this will be our fourth intake (the 2020 bursary scheme was postponed due to the global Covid-19 pandemic).
What to expect?
It is not just a paid-for training.

The #CIJLyra McKee Bursary Scheme is a five-month programme which incorporates training at #CIJSummer Conference 2023 and online as well as a mentoring programme with regular meetings.

It builds towards a Pitch to the Editors session, where the trainees will pitch stories to the working UK editors. 

"My expectations were exceeded. Beforehand I thought it would have been paid-for training sessions but it was so, so, so much more. The mentoring and on-hand support was invaluable."Bursary recipient 2022
Why apply?
#CIJLyraMcKee provides cutting edge investigative journalism training (online courses and in-person #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2023), and regular online mentoring from leading investigative journalists, culminating in a "Pitch to the Editors" Day, when the trainees pitch their stories to working UK editors.

“I think it’s a really generous scheme that genuinely wants to equip people with the skills to further themselves. The addition of mentoring felt vital to me. I’ve been for job interviews where the interviewer was very impressed with the fact I was on the scheme. Thanks so much.”Bursary recipient 2021

 It is a tough and very practical training programme with a great success record.

During the duration of the programme and assisted by the mentors, lots of participants secured journalism jobs and internships following their training at #CIJSummer Conference, a fantastic measure of the programme’s success. These include positions at BBC Scotland Disclosure team, The Times, Deutsche Welle, BBC Humberside, FE Week. In 2021 one trainee got a place at the BBC Future Voices Scheme for bilingual reporters.

Cherise Hamilton won Gold for The Creativity Award and Bronze for Best Current Affairs Podcast from Brit Pod Awards 2021.
In 2022

Francesca Hughes’ pitch to the editors, about the price difference of university accommodation for the able bodied and disabled students was commissioned by one of the editors Ramzy Alwakeel, and was published by openDemocracy.

Reece Stafferton co-founded a media co-operative in Leicester – Great Central Gazette.
Who can apply?
We especially welcome applications from people from poorer backgrounds, people of colour, people with disabilities, carers, members of the LGBTQ+ community, travellers and anyone who cannot afford to pay for the #CIJSummer training. It is open to the UK and the Republic of Ireland residents only. Applicants must be at least 18 years old.
What is covered by the bursary scheme?
The 2023 bursary scheme has funding from the Lorana Sullivan Foundation and from Lyra McKee's family.

The bursary covers training and mentoring, as well as, depending on the trainees needs, travel and accommodation in London to attend the #CIJSummer Conference 2023.
Key dates
Application opens: 26 January 2023
Application deadline: 9 April 23:59
Offers to successful applicants made by: 1 May 2023
Programme starts: Mid May 2023
#CIJSummer Conference 2023: 28-29 June 2023
'Pitch to the Editors' Day: September 2023
Programme ends: September 2023
Application:
Applications for the 2023 scheme have now closed.
Testimonials:
“I really enjoyed [Pitch to the Editors]! Getting that level of feedback from people I would be pitching to in the future was really helpful, as I now understand what they would be looking for. Despite studying journalism at university I have always struggled to understand what an editor would want from me in a pitch and now I don't feel in the dark anymore. It was also great to hear other people’s pitches and feedback for other stories.”Bursary recipient 2022.

"I think the scheme is invaluable and one of the best opportunities I have had in the industry. It helped me network with other journalists, develop my data skills, and attend the CIJ Summer Conference. I now feel better equipped to continue pursuing a career in journalism."Bursary recipient 2021

"I think it’s a really helpful scheme that genuinely wants to equip people with the skills to further themselves. The addition of mentoring felt vital to me. I’ve been for job interviews where the interviewer was very impressed with the fact I was on the scheme, so it’s given me opportunities to impress people and a boost for my CV. I’ve enjoyed it all. Thanks so much. "Bursary recipient 2021

### 2022: Collaborative Community Journalism

During 2022, The Centre for Investigative Journalism, with funding from the Trust for London, delivered a project aimed at strengthening links between London-based community journalism outlets and community campaign groups. The project brought together and supported both groups, as well as an early-career investigative journalist, to work on collaborative investigative projects focusing on issues affecting London communities.

During the second year of this project we were very happy to work with: Barnet Post, Brixton Blog, Newham Voices and Social Streets.

The four Investigative Fellows received the following benefits:

- Access to online investigative skills training organised by the CIJ over the summer.
- Participation in the project will cover 3 months (approx. June-August 2022) of research time to a total of £1,650 as well as reasonable expenses.
- An opportunity to forge stronger links with a media outlet and campaign group in the community through collaborative work.
- Profile raising through publicity about the project and research findings.

Applicants were chosen on the basis of their commitment to the ethical use of investigative journalism in the public interest and connection to the relevant London communities. Training took place through May 2022, after which Fellows spent June-August researching their investigative piece with their local outlet.

--

You can read the resulting published work below

Newham

Newham Voices - Noah Enahoro

2012 Legacy? Newham still waiting

 

Brixton

Brixton Blog & Bugle - Chrissie Okorie

Lambeth and Slavery (Pgs 12-14)

 

Tower Hamlets

Social Streets - Cormac Kehoe

Truman Brewery Development series

 	The Truman Brewery development: The community reaches boiling point
 	The Council’s decision on the Truman Brewery
 	The Spitalfields Neighbourhood Plan: The silencing of a community’s voice
 	From East End to Offshore: Who is behind the Truman Brewery development?
 	Empire builders: The Brick Lane property portfolio of Truman Estates Ltd and its power to alter the fabric of the East End

 

 

Barnet

The Barnet Post - Maya Sall

https://barnetpost.co.uk/2023/06/21/cooking-a-meal-has-become-a-luxury/

https://barnetpost.co.uk/2023/06/26/barnet-food-banks-part-two-all-we-got-were-nine-crates-of-aubergines-and-seven-crates-of-bananas/

### Lyra McKee Bursary Scheme 2022

Applications for the 2022 #CIJLyraMcKee Investigative Journalism Training and Mentoring Bursary Scheme are now closed.

 
#CIJLyraMcKee Bursary Scheme:


#CIJLyraMcKee Bursary Scheme was established in memory of a young and courageous Irish investigative journalist Lyra McKee, who was shot dead by dissident republicans in Derry in April 2019.

The aim of this five-month bursary scheme is to train and mentor people from underprivileged backgrounds, who aspire to become journalists or who are at the very early stages of their journalism career.

The Lyra McKee Journalism Training Bursary was inspired by Lyra’s determination to become an investigative journalist despite personal disability, the need to care for her disabled mother as well as fighting the in-built bias against working-class entrants to journalism.

Launched in 2019, this will be our third intake (the 2020 bursary scheme was postponed due to the global Covid-19 pandemic).

 


Why apply? 
#CIJLyraMcKee provides cutting edge investigative journalism training (online courses and in-person #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2022), and regular online mentoring from leading investigative journalists, culminating in a "Pitch to the Editors" Day, when the trainees pitch their stories to working UK editors. It is a tough and very practical training programme.

“I think it’s a really generous scheme that genuinely wants to equip people with the skills to further themselves. The addition of mentoring felt vital to me. I’ve been for job interviews where the interviewer was very impressed with the fact I was on the scheme. Thanks so much.”Bursary recipient 2021

The 2021 programme, which for the first time combined training and mentoring, has been very successful.

During the duration of the programme and assisted by the mentors, most participants secured journalism jobs and internships following their training at #CIJSummer Conference, a fantastic measure of the programme’s success. These include positions at BBC Scotland Disclosure team, The Times, Deutsche Welle, BBC Humberside. Three enrolled in an NCTJ course and one trainee got a place at the BBC Future Voices Scheme for bilingual reporters. Cherise Hamilton won Gold for The Creativity Award and Bronze for Best Current Affairs Podcast from Brit Pod Awards 2021.


Who can apply?

We especially welcome applications from people from poorer backgrounds, people of colour, people with disabilities, carers, members of the LGBTQ+ community, travellers and anyone who cannot afford to pay for the #CIJSummer training. It is open to the UK and the Republic of Ireland residents only. Applicants must be at least 18 years old.

 
What is covered by the bursary scheme? 
The 2022 bursary scheme has funding from the Lorana Sullivan Foundation.

The bursary covers training and mentoring, as well as, depending on the trainees needs, travel and accommodation in London to attend the #CIJSummer Conference 2022.
Key dates

 	Application deadline: Sun 10 April 2022 at 23:59
 	Offers to successful applicants made by: 1 May 2022
 	Programme starts: w/c 23 May 2022
 	#CIJSummer Conference 2022: 29-30 June at Goldsmiths, University of London
 	'Pitch to the Editors' Day: w/c 19 September
 	Programme ends: w/c 26 September

 
Testimonials
"I think the scheme is invaluable and one of the best opportunities I have had in the industry. It helped me network with other journalists, develop my data skills, and attend the CIJ Summer Conference. I now feel better equipped to continue pursuing a career in journalism."Bursary recipient 2021

"I think it’s a really helpful scheme that genuinely wants to equip people with the skills to further themselves. The addition of mentoring felt vital to me. I’ve been for job interviews where the interviewer was very impressed with the fact I was on the scheme, so it’s given me opportunities to impress people and a boost for my CV. I’ve enjoyed it all. Thanks so much. "Bursary recipient 2021

"I had previously thought that being an investigative journalist was a far off dream career that I didn't really understand or know how to pursue. [...] I felt encouraged by the feeling of belonging to a collective of people who all had the shared belief and desire to hold power to account."Bursary recipient 2019

“The experience blew my mind!”Bursary recipient 2019

 

 

### Open Climate Reporting Initiative

Climate change is a multi-faceted problem in which the issues at play are interlinked and complex, running across many different fields; scientific, financial and political. Finding solutions requires an understanding of these issues that can be facilitated through access to high-quality, trusted information and the ability to construct compelling narratives.

The Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) is a new initiative from the CIJ focused on raising the standard of environmental investigations, enabling thoroughly researched public interest reporting and evidence-based advocacy across target regions of the world. OCRI will provide the necessary tools, techniques and expertise to those working at the sharp end of climate change to investigate and expose wrongdoing; research and quantify accurate pictures of the situation and the impact of other efforts; and craft meaningful stories which garner support for changes in policy, regulation or economic actors’ decisions.

We are finalising the exact parameters of the project, but we expect to be able to announce more details in spring 2022. Watch this space, follow us on twitter or sign up to our newsletter to stay informed as the project develops.

For inquiries or opportunities for collaboration, contact the Project Manager, Adeolu Adekola at adeolu[at]tcij[dot]org.

 

### South Asia

Following on from our successful pilot workshops for Latin America held in summer 2020, we have been awarded a grant from the Bertha Foundation to pilot similar training in the Indian Subcontinent. We have, to date, conducted three training sessions, one in Nepal and two in India with the objective of the developing investigative skills of participants and helping them find new sources for stories through data and advanced search techniques.
Nepal
Working with the Center for Data Journalism Nepal (CDJN), the originally planned in-person hack-day moved online due to rising Covid cases. CIJ trainer, Jonathan Stoneman delivered a three-hour workshop in finding and working with data. He was supported by members of the CIJN who provided extra training and assistance to delegates after the workshop.

Delegates were invited to submit story ideas and the four strongest stories received a small grant to help bring the idea to fruition. Here are the links to the stories that ended up being published:

Pandemic led to unemployment, depression, and suicide
Published Date: 21 July 2021
News outlet: Kantipur National Daily
Reporter: Bidhya Rai

Obesity among the children bringing a ‘terrible situation’
Published Date: 25 August 2021
News outlet: Himal Khabar
Reporter: Kaushila Kunwar and Ramu Sapkota

Covid patients reached the hospital on time but the hospital’s mismanagement killed them
Published Date: 29 July 2021
News outlet: Swasthya Khabar
Reporter: Rita Lamsal
“In this story, we analyzed the data of 8K+ covid deaths which fall under many categories (i.e. deaths at home, hospital,  isolation center, on the way to the hospital, and so on. The data was exclusively obtained from the health ministry. As it was too messy, we worked for nearly two months to refine, process, analyze and visualize it. HERE is the TRANSLATED COPY of this piece.”

Covid 19 and lockdown changed crime incidences: Organized and social crimes went down while suicides and violence against women and children went up.
Published Date: 3 July 2021
News outlet: Pahilo Post
Reporter: Bidhur Dhakal
India
In India, we teamed-up with 101Reporters and delivered a two-hour workshop on advanced search techniques, and a slightly longer version of the workshop that we had delivered for Nepal.

 

“Thoroughly enjoyed today's session on Data journalism with Mr. Stoneman, it was truly illuminating and I am looking forward to more courses/workshops by CIJ.”

 

“I found the workshop very helpful and full of insights”

 

“Thank you so much. It was really an excellent session today. The things related to data journalism were so clearly explained. I have attended many sessions on data journalism but trust me it's the best one. I think the amount of time given to explain the difficult things really helped.”

 

### Francophone Africa



### Latin America



### 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. After conducting pilot sessions in each region to scope out the needs of the journalists working there, we collaborate with local trainers and partner organisations to produce a bespoke investigative training programme. The pilot sessions and tailored programmes take place online, in local languages and with simultaneous translation available where needed.

If you would like to bring our International Investigative Practice programme to your region, or collaborate with us in an existing area, please contact us at: info@tcij.org

### 2021: Collaborative Community Journalism

In late 2019, the Trust for London committed to supporting the CIJ to bring our experience in supporting independent public-interest news across the UK back to the capital.

Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, we reluctantly postponed the project while we translated our training and events to online formats. However, we were still able to run a pilot version of the project with the Tottenham Community Press. The pilot proved a great success and you can read about the work our first Investigative Fellow, Bella Saltiel, produced through the programme here.

After successfully transitioning our work online during 2020, we were able to run the first full version of the programme this year. For the past eight months we've been working closely with community journalism organisations in four London boroughs to support their efforts to nurture the talent of early career journalists and investigate the issues that matter to the communities they serve.

In March 2021 we recruited young journalists to form our first cohort of Investigative Fellows. Each of the young people had strong ties to their borough and were assigned to the relevant community journalism outlet. The Fellows were also connected to campaign groups working on the issues affecting their local communities.

Over the course of the project Fellows were supported by their editors, campaign groups and the CIJ to develop their investigative research skills and produce an in-depth piece of local reporting. Funding for the project came from the Trust for London and provided paid research and support time for the outlets and the Fellows, as well as access to CIJ training programmes and additional assistance such as legal advice.

The published pieces cover topics ranging from knife crime to social care to temporary housing and can be read below.

 

Waltham Forest

Waltham Forest Echo - Marcia Veiga

The long shadow of Waltham Forest’s knife crime

 

Greenwich

853 - Yohannes Lowe

‘Smoke and mirrors’ hide cuts hitting Greenwich’s most vulnerable people
NHS bosses threatened Greenwich Council with auditors over social care cuts

 

 

Enfield

Enfield Dispatch - Sabah Hussain

The reality of living in temporary accommodation
The scale of Enfield’s housing crisis

 
Testimonials
"[The training] spoke to the style of reporting and writing that I've always wanted to achieve as a journalist. It taught me the hallmarks of what is needed to make an investigative article gripping, effective, and impactful. The course structure and tutors were engaging and enjoyable from beginning to end and heavily informed every part of my investigative process in this programme and outside of it." Investigative Fellow 2021

"The course content was great - I think the data journalism one was a stand out as it was so useful in helping me to better analyse government documents and other official statistical releases."Investigative Fellow 2021

### Lyra McKee Bursary Scheme 2021

#CIJ Lyra McKee Investigative Journalism Training and Mentoring Scheme 2021 is now over.
Fully online, it was open to applicants over 18 from the UK and the Republic of Ireland only.



The CIJ Lyra McKee Investigative Journalism Training Bursary Scheme was established in memory of a young and courageous Irish investigative journalist Lyra McKee, who was shot dead by dissident republicans in Derry in April 2019.

The aim of this six months bursary scheme is to train and mentor people from underprivileged backgrounds, who aspire to become journalists or who are at the very early stages of their journalism career.

The Lyra McKee Journalism Training Bursary was inspired by Lyra’s determination to become an investigative journalist: despite personal disability, the need to care for her disabled mother as well as fighting the in-built bias against working-class entrants to journalism.

It was launched in 2019 with 11 people attending #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Training Conference 2019. Postponed in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it is returning in an online form this year and includes a mentoring programme!

We are delighted to announce that Emma Youle (HuffPost UK) and Jenna Corderoy (openDemocracy) have joined us as this year's mentors.

In 2021 seventy people applied for the bursary scheme, eleven were selected in May and seven graduated in November.

The bursary scheme is funded by The Lorana Sullivan UK Foundation and the Lyra McKee Foundation.

While we have a funder for this year's bursary scheme, if you want to make a donation and support it, all the money raised will go towards bursaries and will enable us to offer more places to candidates. Please donate here.
The Programme 2021:
Bursary recipients were be offered training in investigative journalism skills, including data, storytelling, FOIA, information security and open source intelligence (OSINT), they attended #CIJCummer 2021 Online (5 - 7 July 2021) and had regular meetings with mentors, guest speakers and CIJ alumni.

This is a fully online-based bursary and mentoring scheme.

We especially welcomed applications from people from poorer backgrounds, people of colour, people with disabilities, carers, members of the LGBTQ+ community, travellers and anyone who cannot afford to pay for the #CIJSummer training. It is open to UK and the Republic of Ireland residents only. Applicants must be at least 18 years old.
#CIJLyraMcKee Alumni 2021

We are very proud of our 2021 alumni. During the duration of the programme and assisted by the mentors, most participants secured journalism jobs and internships following their training at #CIJSummer Conference, a fantastic measure of the programme's success. These include positions at BBC Scotland Disclosure team, The Times, Deutsche Welle, BBC Humberside. Three enrolled in an NCTJ course one trainee got a place at the BBC Future Voices Scheme, for bilingual reporters. Cherise Hamilton won Gold for The Creativity Award and Bronze for Best Current Affairs Podcast from Brit Pod Awards 2021.

 

You can read some of their stories published in 2021 here:

Disclosure. The Truth about BrewDog. by Mark Daly. Researchers: Jax Sinclair (CIJ Lyra McKee) and Katie McEvinney. Disclosure. BBC Scotland. 24 January 2022. (Available for the viewers in the UK only).
‘Study drugs’ Rife at Leading Universities by Dominic Kennedy, Arthi Nachiappan, Matthew Kayanja (CIJ Lyra McKee) for The Times. 27 December 2021. (Paywall).
Housing Doesn’t Meet ‘Basic Human Rights’ Say Mitcham Residents Asked to Pay Repair Bill by Matthew Kayanja for SWLondoner. 29 November 2021
Cladding scandal: 93 buildings in Hackney deemed high risk by Charissa Cheong in the Hackney Gazette. 29 October 2021.
Data at First Sight: Telling the human story through numbers by Fatima Hudoon for exposingtheinvisible.org. 20 October 2021.
Coronavirus: Scottish Student on Life in South Korea During the Pandemic by Jax Sinclair for BBC Scotland. 29 May 2020.
Links:
Details of the CIJ Lyra McKee Investigative Journalism Training and Mentorship Bursary Scheme

Testimonials:
“I think it’s a really generous scheme that genuinely wants to equip people with the skills to further themselves. The addition of mentoring felt vital to me. I’ve been for job interviews where the interviewer was very impressed with the fact I was on the scheme. Thanks so much.
”Bursary recipient 2021

"I had previously I'd thought that being an investigative journalism was a far off dream career that I didn't really understand or know how to pursue. [...] I felt encouraged by the feeling of belonging to a collective of people who all had the shared belief and desire to hold power to account."Bursary recipient 2019

“The experience blew my mind!”Bursary recipient 2019
#CIJLyra McKee in the media:

 	BBC Radio Humberside (Hull). David Burns Show. (from 2hrs 24mins in). 25 February 2020.
 	BBC Radio Humberside (Hull). No-Filter with Kofi Smiles. (From 1hr 2mins in). 17 February 2020.
 	CIJ Director James Harkin speaks to NVTV, local TV for Belfast, The Round-Up Programme. 11 February 2020.
 	Bursary for Young Journalists will Keep Lyra McKee's Memory Alive, Says Sister. By David Young for Belfast Telegraph. 6 February 2020. (Paywall).
 	Centre for Investigative Journalism sets up training bursary in honour of Lyra McKee by Press Gazette. 20 May 2019.
 	New training bursary to support young investigative journalists launched in memory of Lyra McKee by journalism.co.uk. 21 May 2019.
 	Here is how to make the media fit for modern Britain. By Roy Greenslade for the Guardian. 7 July 2019.

### 2020: Collaborative Community Journalism

The Trust for London has committed to funding a full training and mentoring programme in the community journalism sector, allowing us to bring our experience of supporting independent public-interest news across the UK, back to the capital.



The project is set to provide investigative skills and guidance to collaborative projects between London-based community journalism outlets and groups working to campaign on the ground around issues that are affecting the local communities. The funding will pay for training and research time for ‘Investigative Fellows’ - young journalists who will work in collaboration with an outlet and a local campaign group, digging into decision making processes and holding local authorities to account.

Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the project had to be postponed while we translated our training and events to online formats. However, we were still able to run a pilot version of the project with the Tottenham Community Press.

"This was an amazing opportunity. Speaking to individuals I learnt about the cost of regeneration and the housing pressures eroding trust between the council and temp tenants."Bella Saltiel, Investigative Fellow 2020 The pilot was a great success, and we were able to provide training, expertise and support to staff of the Tottenham Community Press and an excellent young journalist, Bella Saltiel, who grew up in in the community. Using some of the skills learned, as well as her natural talent for digging out a story, Bella wrote 'Living in Limbo' a thoroughly researched piece of journalism covering the difficulties faced by residents in the Love Lane estate, many of whom are being displaced and forced out by the regeneration plans of the council. The piece was published in the December 2020 issue of Tottenham Community Press (pages 6-8).

 

Bella then served as the Editor of the new title Barnet Post and secured a post at the BBC.

### 2018: Community Investigations Training Programmes

Wanting to build on our success with the workshops we held during 2016 and 2017, and backed by repeat funding from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, in 2018 we partnered up with some of the most established organisations we’d engaged then and worked closely with them to put together tailored programmes which would run for much longer and take a cohort of trainee contributors through their own investigations.

This required some collaborative planning meetings and some coordination across the organisations, with the CIJ acting as a central hub. Obviously, we also attended sessions of each course, met participants and provided guidance and expertise to feed into the curricula that each organisation built for its participants.

In the end, we and the four partner organisations delivered some comprehensive training programmes that not only skilled up the contributor bases of each publication and helped to cement their community ties, but also produced some excellent investigations and stories.

The four programmes were:

Bristol Cable: Media Lab 2018

Star and Crescent: Reclaim The News

Manchester Meteor: Be The Media

The Ferret: Story Lab

### 2016-17: Community and Citizen Journalism Workshops

Having identified both the demand for and the desire to produce more public-interest investigative journalism from within the community and citizen journalism sector across the UK, we spoke to many representatives in 2016 to determine the main barriers to advancing this. The primary difficulties were, unsurprisingly, shortages of both time and money and although we were unable to help directly with this, we realised that some of the investigative skills and techniques included in our training provision could help to reduce both the time required and the logistical burden of taking on such work.

Following a successful pilot workshop hosted by the Bristol Cable and attended by a selection of their members, we set about securing funding which would allow us to provide training for free to as many representatives from the sector as we could and were grateful to receive a year’s funding across 2016-17 from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust to begin the work.

While we initially aimed to hold seven workshops with a total of 105 participants, we were able to stretch the funding - thanks to goodwill and help from many sources - to include 191 participants across 11 workshops. We also managed to cover a much wider geographical area than first envisaged, taking the training not just to several different cities, but also ensuring we were able to get to all four countries of the United Kingdom as well as hold an extra workshop in Dublin. One of the organisations we worked with, The Bristol Cable, had already been making ambitious plans to conduct a full training programme so our work with them on this project was expanded from a two-day workshop to feed into a longer-term training programme, The Media Lab, which they ran with support from us and our network of expertise.

Attendees to the workshops received a mix of different investigative skills training, tailored to the needs identified ahead of time, but primarily the content focused on the following areas:

Data Journalism
Company Investigations
Effective FOI Requests
New Business Models
Media Law 

We’re proud of what this project managed to achieve and grateful to all the excellent folk who helped us and who took the time to participate.

### 2018: Data-Driven Community Journalism

During 2018 we ran a focused training programme for community journalists specifically targeted at helping them to use the techniques of Data Journalism for their investigative reporting. Participants were chosen by application and we were able to support them to travel to a series of our trademark hands-on classes and work through their own investigations with the support and mentorship of our data journalism experts.

The cohort of community journalists learned a full range of skills and techniques and were able to then apply these to live projects. They used the training to produce work on a diverse range of subjects:

 	Offshore companies hoovering up property
 	Police inaction on burglaries
 	The impact of cuts on drug services

### 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. She attended #CIJSummer Conferences and training in London and Dublin.



The Lyra McKee Journalism Training Bursary was inspired by Lyra's determination to become an investigative journalist: despite personal disability, the need to care for her disabled mother as well as fighting the in-built bias against working-class entrants to journalism.

It was launched in 2019, we skipped 2020 and re-started it in 2021 fully online with the addition of a 6 months mentoring programme.

Nearly 50 people have been trained during the first four years of the scheme.

We especially welcome applications from people of colour, people from poorer backgrounds, people with disabilities, carers, members of the LGBTQ+ community, travellers and anyone who cannot afford to pay for the #CIJSummer training. It is open to UK and republic of Ireland residents only. Applicants must be 18 years old.
Support #CIJLyraMcKee Bursary Scheme
We have limited funding for this bursary scheme from the Lorana Sullivan UK Foundation, the Lyra McKee family and in 2025 - The Press Council of Irelend.

We want to train as many people as possible and more funding will allow us to train kore people.

The 2025 bursary echeme is running now, but you can support the #CIJLyraMckee bursary scheme 2026. 

All the money raised will go towards bursaries and will enable us to offer more places to candidates. Please donate here.

 
Why support #CIJLyraMcKee?
The programme is very successful in helping the trainees get into the industry.

In 2023 our trainees applied for work/further study. One is doing paid shifts at The Belfast Telegraph.  Another did a stint at The Scottish Sun and is now writing freelance tech and gaming news for a website called ReadWrite; others secured a position of an Apprentice Reporter at The Northern Echo , became an apprentice witht the BBC journalism apprenticeship scheme, received a bursary to attend IRE AccessFest23 (US’s data journalism training), pursuing the NCTJ Level 5 Diploma (and struggling with shorthand!) and received funding from the Journalism Diversity Fund to study at City University.

In 2022 #CIJLyraMcKee Francesca Hughes' pitch to the editors, about the price difference of university accommodation for the able bodied and disabled students was commissioned by one of the editors Ramzy Alwakeel, and was published by openDemocracy.
Reece Stafferton co-founded a media co-operative in Leicester - Leicester Gazette. Based on The Bristol Cable model, the cooperative promises  "slow, quality news created with sensitivity, calm and care."

The class of 2021 with the support from the mentors, secured positions at BBC Scotland Disclosure team, The Times, Deutsche Welle, and BBC Humberside. Three enrolled in an NCTJ course and one trainee got a place on the BBC Future Voices Scheme for bilingual reporters. Cherise Hamilton won Gold for The Creativity Award and Bronze for Best Current Affairs Podcast from Brit Pod Awards 2021.

 
Stories by #CIJLyraMcKee class of 2024:
Tory debate takeaways: a clash of styles, a tame format and a win for Badenoch by Peter Walker and Rosie Anfilogoff (CIJ Lyra McKee graduate). The Guardian. 17 October 2024.

Tory MP says Badenoch too ‘preoccupied with her children’ to lead party by Rosie Anfilogoff (Cij Lyra McKee graduate) and Kiran Stacey. The Guardian. 17 October 2024.
Stories by #CIJLyraMcKee class of 2023:
Stormont pays out more than £6m on empty buildings and disused land by Flávia Gouveia. The Belfast Telegraph. 2 January 2024.
This is the story Flavia was working on during her training as part of the CIJ Lyra McKee Bursary Scheme and it made hers (and CIJ Lyra McKee scheme's!) first front page.

Brig and other non-Russell Group universities seriously disadvantaged in Student Publication Association Awards. By Ali Rees. 23 January 2024. Brig Newspaper.
More stories on tech and gaming news by Ali Rees can be found on ReadWrite website, where they work as a freelancer.
Stories by #CIJLyraMcKee class of 2022:
Universities ‘illegally hitting disabled students with extra housing costs by Francesca Hughes. openDemocracy. 9 November 2022.
Stories by #CIJLyraMcKee class of 2021:
Should I Tell You I am Trans? A BBC Scotland short documentary by Jax Sinclair. Jax was
nominated for young journalist of the year 2022 by RTS Scotland.

Disclosure. The Truth about BrewDog. by Mark Daly. Researchers: Jax Sinclair (CIJ Lyra MCKee Alumnus) and Katie McEvinney. Disclosure. BBC Scotland. 24 January 2022. (Available for the viewers in the UK only).
‘Study drugs’ rife at leading universities by Dominic Kennedy, Arthi Nachiappan, Matthew Kayanja for The Times. 27 December 2021. (Paywall).
Housing Doesn’t Meet ‘Basic Human Rights’ Say Mitcham Residents Asked to Pay Repair Bill by Matthew Kayanja for SWLondoner. 29 November 2021
Cladding scandal: 93 buildings in Hackney deemed high risk by Charissa Cheong in the Hackney Gazette. 29 October 2021.
Data at First Sight: Telling the human story through numbers by Fatima Hudoon for exposingtheinvisible.org. 20 October 2021.
Coronavirus: Scottish Student on Life in South Korea During the Pandemic. By Jax Sinclair for BBC Scotland. 29 May 2020.
CIJ Lyra McKee Alumni News:
Jax Sinclair (CIJ Lyra McKee 2021) works as an assistant producer/journalist for the BBC. They produced an award winning documentary Should I Tell You I’m Trans? And were nominated for a Young Journalist of the Year 2023 by the RTS Scotland. In 2024, at the invitation of the CIJ, they took part in Deep Focus, an experimental lab for non-fiction storytelling. In February 2025, Jax (together with Marc Daly) made a documentary about the mistreatment of children with mental disabilities: Kids on the Psychiatric Ward.

Rachel Keenan (CIJ Lyra McKee 2022) received the Scott Trust Bursary at Goldsmiths.

Francesca Hughes (CIJ Lyra McKee 2022) interned at FT Weekend Magazine for three months as an editorial assistant, her primary responsibility was fact checking. She was also recently accepted onto the NCTJ Diploma course with Ability Today.

Rhys Everquill (né Reece Stafferton, CIJ Lyra McKee 2022) now runs a community newspaper in Leicester.

Darcie Rawlings (CIJ Lyra McKee 2023) started working as an Apprentice Reporter for The Northern Echo.

Ali Rees (CIJ Lyra McKee 2023) works as a freelancer specialising in tech and gaming news for ReadWrite.

Meg Byrom (CIJ Lyra McKee 2023) Junior Commissioning Editor for Inspire Magazine, The Daily Mail’s lifestyle monday supplement. (Meg's writing).

Kateryna Pavliuk (CIJ Lyra McKee 2023) joined the BBC journalism apprenticeship scheme and secured a job as a video editor at Tortoise Media.

Flávia Gouveia (CIJ Lyra McKee 2023) writes for the Belfast Telegraph.

Maria Hassan (CIJ Lyra McKee 2024) is a trainee production journalist at ITV Belfast.

Sonya Kumar (CIJ Lyra McKee 2024) works as a journalist at BBC Yorkshire.
Testimonials:
"I think it is great for the CV. It is well recognised and quality training. It gives a great start for journalists in the industry and gives niche training not available elsewhere."Bursary recipient 2023

"My expectations were exceeded. Beforehand I thought it would have been paid-for training sessions but it was so, so, so much more. The mentoring and on-hand support was invaluable."Bursary recipient 2022

"I think the scheme is invaluable and one of the best opportunities I have had in the industry. It helped me network with other journalists, develop my data skills, and attend the CIJ Summer Conference. I now feel better equipped to continue pursuing a career in journalism."Bursary recipient 2021

"I think it’s a really helpful scheme that genuinely wants to equip people with the skills to further themselves. The addition of mentoring felt vital to me. I’ve been for job interviews where the interviewer was very impressed with the fact I was on the scheme, so it’s given me opportunities to impress people and a boost for my CV. I’ve enjoyed it all. Thanks so much. "Bursary recipient 2021

"I had previously thought that being an investigative journalist was a far off dream career that I didn't really understand or know how to pursue. [...] I felt encouraged by the feeling of belonging to a collective of people who all had the shared belief and desire to hold power to account."Bursary recipient 2019

The #CIJLyraMcKee scheme was one of the best things I did last year!
Aswell as training in investigative journalism, inc data journalism & FOIs, I got to meet some great ppl and received guidance from top journos!

The scheme runs every year and is great for aspiring journos! https://t.co/kw9YhiP2MG

— Flávia Gouveia (@flaviasgouveia) January 9, 2024

About #CIJLyra McKee in the media:

 	BBC Radio Humberside (Hull). David Burns Show. (from 2hrs 24mins in). 25 February 2020.
 	BBC Radio Humberside (Hull). No-Filter with Kofi Smiles. (From 1hr 2mins in). 17 February 2020.
 	CIJ Director James Harkin speaks to NVTV, local TV for Belfast, The Round-Up Programme. 11 February 2020.
 	Bursary for Young Journalists will Keep Lyra McKee's Memory Alive, Says Sister. By David Young for Belfast Telegraph. 6 February 2020. (Paywall).
 	Centre for Investigative Journalism sets up training bursary in honour of Lyra McKee by Press Gazette. 20 May 2019.
 	New training bursary to support young investigative journalists launched in memory of Lyra McKee by journalism.co.uk. 21 May 2019.
 	Here is how to make the media fit for modern Britain. By Roy Greenslade for the Guardian. 7 July 2019.

 

### Community Journalism

The business of journalism is changing fast.

With the collapse of traditional advertising revenue models, the argument that thoroughly researched investigative journalism is a public good that needs to be properly funded cannot be made too strongly or too often.

At the CIJ we’re interested in supporting innovative alternative methods for keeping investigative journalism financially sustainable. Whether through diversifying revenue streams, philanthropic grants, or working directly with NGOs and interest groups we want to incubate alternative business models to ensure good journalism pays.

One area in which we see potential is in those outlets pioneering different ways of engaging with people to build not just readerships, but communities for their work. There are many methods of doing this but some of the best involve giving their audience ways to meaningfully engage in both the production of the journalism and the management of the organisation. In return, audiences are becoming supporters or members who give regular donations to sustain the investigative work.

We’re always interested in supporting other community journalism projects. We can provide advice, guidance and even help you pitch for funding to cover training for your outlet. If you are working with or setting up an investigative community journalism outlet, contact us at tom [at] tcij.org to discuss how we might be able to help.


## Initiative Events

### Applications Open for CIJ Masterclass 2021

We are now accepting applications for the 2021 iteration of our Masterclass programme. It is designed to provide guidance, support and skills to early-career journalists who face structural barriers to entering the investigative journalism profession.

While we hope to include some in-person elements, at present we are planning for all the sessions to run online. This will include at least six 2-hour workshops/lectures. The exact dates are to be confirmed, but will run during September and October 2021.

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED.

The deadline for applications was 5pm BST, Thurs 5 Aug.

Application criteria

Participants in the Investigative Masterclass Programme should be at the early stages of their journalistic career.

We intend the masterclasses to help those who have faced barriers to becoming investigative journalists to overcome these barriers and begin their careers in the field.

Selection criteria

Your application needs to make the case for your participation in the programme and your potential as an investigative journalist. Please ensure you show us your skills, your ideas and any experience or previous work you have published. You do not have to be a journalist already, but showing commitment and enthusiasm for the job is essential.

Geographical restrictions

Applicants must be resident in the UK and successful participants will be required to attend all online classes in the course.

Other
Only successful candidates will be contacted. We are not able to respond to unsuccessful applications.

### #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.

That’s why the CIJ spent much of 2021 focusing on finding ways to give a leg-up to determined, intelligent young people from backgrounds that fall outside the usual privileged recipients of internships and informal mentoring.

We’ve used our connections as an organisation to bring the kind of advice and assistance that’s often passed to the children of established journalists’ friends to those that really need it, reinforcing that advice with access to the robust, skills-based training in which we’ve always specialised. From our Collaborative Community Journalism Project, to the mentoring and training bursary in honour of Lyra McKee, via the Source Protection Programme teaching advanced information security, we’ve been providing much-needed direct help to journalists at a range of different points in their career paths.

In addition to those, we ran the second iteration of our Masterclass initiative, building on our successful initiative of 2019, which saw alumni nominated for prizes such as the Paul Foot Award and the British Journalism Awards. We were delighted to welcome back Stephen Grey, the Reuters Investigative Journalist who curated the original Masterclass curriculum (and then pipped his former student Sabrina Weiss to the British Journalism Award for Science Journalism in 2020) to run this year’s course. The last course featured special guests sharing their experience for free in every session, featuring no less than three Pulitzer winners and a leading security expert.

We used our recent success in adapting hands-on practical training for remote online delivery to ensure that geography is no barrier to entry, and invited applications from all over the UK.

The course ran during September and October across six lectures/workshops featuring those special guests from among the best in profession as well as a collaborative project for participants to put the training into practice.

The only eligibility criteria were being resident in the UK, showing a commitment to and talent for investigative journalism in the public interest, and an agreement to attend all sessions. We prioritised applications from those who’re currently underrepresented in journalism, with a particular focus on class, race and geography.

2021 Programme and Speakers

 

### #CIJMasterclass - Class of 2019

Over a series of Saturday mornings in September/October 2019, our CIJ Masterclass took students through a wide-ranging curriculum drawing on the best professional expertise available anywhere. Its first iteration, was curated by Reuters special correspondent and author of The New Spymasters and Ghost Plane, Stephen Grey, assisted by some of the UK’s most experienced investigative reporters, and experts in handling both sources and data .

The first curriculum of CIJ Masterclasses, curated by Reuters special correspondent Stephen Grey, was attended by 13 people. The faculty of teachers included three Pulitzer Prize winners, NBC News best international producer on operational security and a former specialist from the security services. The result was a priceless primer in investigative journalism, all of it made available for free to the best and the brightest of the disadvantaged. An alumna of this programme Nadine White has published a major investigation into SPAC Nation church for HuffPost UK: something she’s been working one while attending the course.  

#CIJMasterclass - Class of 2019

### CIJ launches its Masterclass programme

The CIJ today announces a new masterclass in investigative journalism with an urgent, socially progressive mission.

Too often in the media starts 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 experience in common with wider society.

At the CIJ we want to move beyond “diversity” to something more pugnacious – a programme of training which actively seeks out bright people without access to London media connections, and which justifies doing so because we’re hungry for access to the sharpest investigative stories and the brightest talent.

Over a series of Saturday mornings, the new CIJ Masterclass will take students through a wide-ranging curriculum drawing on the best professional expertise available anywhere. Its first iteration, will be curated by Reuters special correspondent and author of The New Spymasters and Ghost Plane, Stephen Grey, assisted by some of the UK’s most experienced investigative reporters, and experts in handling both sources and data .

Places on the masterclass will be free and made available via open competition and application. Priority will be given to those from under-privileged and non-traditional backgrounds, without existing connections to the national media, and who have also already demonstrated talent and a commitment to truth-telling journalism, for example in local or regional media, magazines, blogs or other new media.

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MASTERCLASS Applications are now closed. Due to the high volume of applicants, we will only be able to respond to successful candidates. Thank you.

### Access to Tools Launches

The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ), in association with the Google News Initiative, are delighted to announce the launch of Access to Tools, a new project that will bring skills and techniques available through the Google News Initiative’s suite of applications and other digital tools to local newsrooms, independent media, academics and ordinary citizens around the UK.

The CIJ will lead up to 20 Access to Tools workshops between September 2018 and January 2019, training journalists and citizens in key areas, and showing how digital tools can improve their journalism. The workshops will be held in cities around the UK: in the Midlands, in the South West, the South East, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

We will be working with local partners and have hired new trainers.

The workshops will be free to attend.

The project will kick-off with the CIJ’s first regional, one-day conference in advanced investigative tradecraft - bringing the best resources and trainers to teach people how to find things out.

Building on the success of the CIJ’s annual Summer Conference in London, this one-day Access to Tools conference will be held in Newcastle University, and will feature training in digital tools as a constituent part of our broader investigative offer; a keynote lecture and presentation on how to investigative.

The conference will establish a bridgehead and prepare the ground for the more focused Access to Tools workshops.

Said CIJ Director, James Harkin:

“At the CIJ our leading concern is to put the best tools in the hands of investigative journalists, and then grow their expertise in using them.

“Building on our 15 years’ expertise in data journalism, advanced internet research, financial investigations, internet-powered fact-checking and our relationships of trust with the corporate and independent local media, Access to Tools is the perfect way to extend the already impressive reach of our regional network and to get out there into more regional newsrooms, communities, and universities.”

Said Matt Cooke, Head of Partnerships and Training, Google News Lab:

“Working together with the CIJ, the Google News Initiative wants to demonstrate how a range of free digital tools can be used to help journalists with their newsgathering and research.

"The CIJ trainers will offer their expertise and present the tools they’ve used themselves to write high quality, original, investigative stories.

"The practical workshops will feature technology from a range of providers and real-life examples. It’s important for us to help provide training across the country, and to widen access to digital training and education.”

### Newcastle CIJ Conference

We have finally realised our dream to take the CIJ Summer Conference outside London with a one-day conference at Newcastle University on Saturday (29 September).

The day was made possible thanks to the support of the Google News Initiative and marked the launch of our Access to Tools training.

We're delighted to report that the sell-out event was a great success.

BuzzFeed's Alex Campbell started the day with a talk about investigations that included Russian assassinations, money laundering and government corruption.

We then split off into workshops that looked at how to use the Freedom of Information Act, Find Data, and three sessions of Access to Tools.

The day finished with Amelia Gentleman in conversation with Zubeida Malik discussing her investigation into the Windrush scandal.

We had some excellent questions from a very engaged audience and a great time was had by all.

If you weren't able to attend the conference, or you did but want to listen again, we have the audio and slides from Alex Campbell’s BuzzFeed presentation, and the audio of Amelia Gentleman in conversation with Zubeida Malik.

We hope this will be the first of many conferences outside London.

And, if you are interested in booking a two-hour, free Access to Tools training session for your workplace, please contact juliet [at] tcij.org

### The CIJ and the Google News Initiative to continue delivering Access to Tools

The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) is delighted to announce that it will be continuing its partnership with the Google News Initiative. Building on the success of last year’s training that was launched in Newcastle in September 2018, the Access to Tools programme will see the CIJ lead 25 workshops between May and December 2019.

The training will take place in newsrooms around the country, bringing skills and techniques available through the Google News Initiative’s suite of applications and other digital tools to local newsrooms, independent media, academics and ordinary citizens around the UK.

The two-hour workshops are free for organisations to host and for participants to attend and will look specifically at tools that can be used for investigations. Thanks to a grant from the Google News Initiative, the CIJ will cover all the costs of the training.

The CIJ’s director, James Harkin said:

“In the last year in a range of cities around the UK and Ireland, Access to Tools has proven a thrilling, demand-led success in helping hundreds of local journalists and citizens discover new digital ways to find things out via advanced search and verification – and in sparking conversations about what these digital tools can do.

“In this new phase we’re going to build on that success by taking the programme to new cities and fresh newsrooms. To meet the growing confidence of our audiences, we’re also going to make our training more customised to particular needs, more story-led and more hands-on.”

Matt Cooke, Head of Partnerships and Training, Google News Lab said:

“We’re renewing our collaboration with the CIJ for a second year, with a commitment to provide journalists right across the country with the tools and training they can use for their investigations. The CIJ trainers offer their expertise and point towards a range of techniques and technologies - and with support from the Google News Initiative they’ll focus on providing workshops for local newsrooms, widening access to digital training opportunities."

If you are interested in booking a workshop for your newsroom, please email: juliet [at] tcij.org

You can find out more on the CIJ website and further resources are available at the Google News Initiative Training Centre.
About the Google News Initiative
The Google News Initiative signifies a major milestone in Google’s 15-year commitment to the news industry, and brings together everything Google does in collaboration with the industry - across products, partnerships, and programmes - to help build a stronger future for news. You can learn more at g.co/newsinitiative
About the CIJ
The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) is a think-tank and experimental laboratory set up refresh the art of investigative journalism, and to train a new generation of reporters in the tools of investigative, in-depth, and long-form journalism across all media. In the 16 years since its foundation, the CIJ has trained over 3000 journalists. #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference, the CIJ's flagship training event, will be taking place on 4-6 July at Goldsmiths, University of London.


## Regional Conferences

### Venue

The conference will be held in the National Library of Scotland, Kelvin Hall, home to the Moving Image Archive, digital collections and discovery area:

The National Library of Scotland
Kelvin Hall
1445 Argyle Street
Glasgow
G3 8AW

A location map of the venue can be found HERE.

The National Library of Scotland is a reference library with world-class collections. It is also Scotland's largest library and one of the major research libraries in Europe.

Its collections range from rare historical documents to online journals, covering every subject. It specialises in Scotland's knowledge, history and culture.

### Register Now

#CIJGlasgow 2024 is open to everyone over the age of 18, journalists and non-journalists alike.

The event is free, and you can attend the whole programme or just individual events but you must register in advance as places are limited

### #CIJGlasgow 2024

Saturday 7th September 2024
The CIJ, in partnership with the National Library of Scotland, is returning to Glasgow. Join us on Saturday 7th September for a day of free workshops where you can learn some investigative skills, and then hear how to put them into practice with Imogen Barrer from the ITV investigations team.
What to expect?
Ever wondered what it takes to be an investigative journalist? Ever thought something demanded further scrutiny but didn’t know where to start? If the answer is yes, then the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s free day-long event is for you.

We are offering practical workshops in investigative skills: an introduction to finding company information, open-source investigations and understanding supply chains.

 	Martin Tomkinson will talk about his career working as a financial reporter and intrepid investigative journalist, and offer pearls of wisdom and tips for budding investigative journalists along the way
 	Sarah Cammarata will show how journalists can reveal valuable insights into a person's identity by examining digital footprints
 	Maxence Peigné will explain how to use open-source material to investigate companies
 	Tansy Hoskins looks at supply-chains and the process of tracking commodity flows through sources and shipping records
 	Our keynote speaker Imogen Barrer is a multi-award winning journalist and the Head of Investigations & Special Projects at ITV News

The CIJ Clinic! Anything you need help with finding out, or are there any public bodies or companies who you’d like to look into? Come and be a patient at the CIJ clinic, and our trainers will do their best to help you. No appointment necessary - just bring your questions along for a one-to-one consultation. Our investigative clinics will be held in a private meeting room.

At the end of the day, we invite you to join the CIJ, the National Library of Scotland and friends after the sessions for networking drinks.
Who can attend?
The even is open to everyone over the age of 18, journalists and non-journalists alike. You will learn some investigative skills and hear different approaches to storytelling.
Tickets
The conference is free to attend but places are limited. Your ticket includes tea, coffee, biscuits and a drinks reception. Go to our registration page now to secure your FREE place.

### Venue

The National Library of Scotland is a reference library with world-class collections. It is also Scotland's largest library and one of the major research libraries in Europe.

Its collections range from rare historical documents to online journals, covering every subject. It specialises in Scotland's knowledge, history and culture.

The conference will be held in Kelvin Hall, home to the Moving Image Archive, digital collections and discovery area:

Kelvin Hall
1445 Argyle Street
Glasgow
G3 8AW

A location map of the venue can be found HERE.

### #CIJGlasgow 2023

#CIJGlasgow
21 October 2023
The CIJ comes to Glasgow for a day of talks and workshops in partnership with the National Library of Scotland.
What to expect?
We are offering hands-on workshops in advanced investigative skills and an introduction to finding company information.

Ever wondered what it takes to be an investigative journalist? Ever thought something demanded further scrutiny but didn’t know where to start? If the answer is yes, then the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s free day-long event is for you.

 	Artist Ignacio Acosta will describe the investigative tools he’s used for his research into the extractive industries.
 	Martin Tomkinson will teach you some of these tools in hands-on workshops in advanced search and understanding Companies House.
 	The information security session with C. Orange will look at methods to keep your sources, yourself and your stories safe and confidential. Though the tools and advice are applicable to online safety in general, the session is particularly targeted at journalists and journalism students.
 	Eilidh MacGlone will show you the riches that are already held in the library for anyone researching the Covid pandemic, and how to access them.
 	James Harkin will talk about disinformation during wartime and his Syria investigations.
 	Our keynote speaker is James Cruickshank from The Digger, whose car has been firebombed for his intrepid investigations into serious crime in the city.

Join the CIJ and friends after the sessions for networking drinks. If you’re already working as a journalist there is a special session in the morning to show how to protect yourself and your sources.
Who can attend?
Open to everyone over the age of 18, journalists and non-journalists alike. You will learn some investigative skills and hear different approaches to story-telling.
Tickets
The conference is free to attend but places are limited. Includes lunch and a drinks reception. Register HERE now to secure your FREE place.

### Book Now

#CIJGlasgow 2023 is open to everyone over the age of 18, journalists and non-journalists alike.

The event is free and you can attend the whole programme or just individual events but you must register in advance as places are limited.

Bookings now closed

### Venue

The MAC is a cultural hub and since opening in 2012 has quickly become a beacon for the ongoing regeneration of Belfast, offering an eclectic programme of visual art, theatre, dance, family workshops and lots more.

10 Exchange St West, Belfast, BT1 2NJ. 

### Book Now

#CIJBelfast 2022 is open to everyone over the age of 18, journalists and non-journalists alike.

The event is free and you can attend the whole programme or just individual events but you must register in advance as places are limited.

Click HERE to register.

### #CIJBelfast

#CIJBelfast
25 March 2022
The CIJ comes to Belfast as part of the Imagine Belfast Festival of Ideas and Politics.
What to expect?
We are offering hands-on workshops in advanced investigative skills and an introduction to finding company information.

We have two talks: in the first the Bureau Local team will explain how their latest investigation took shape - revealing long delays and hardships for disabled people trying to make their homes more accessible -  and how you can get involved in the next one. Our second talk Spatial Investigations: Why Architecture Matters, brings together artist Gabriela Löffel, who will talk about her work exploring Free Ports and architect Aisling Rusk, who will consider how spaces and architecture can influence how we interact with an environment.

The afternoon will end with a keynote from Chris Moore talking about the Kincora scandal: Cover-ups, editorial cowardice and the challenges of doing investigative journalism in Northern Ireland. Join us for a drink after the sessions for opportunities to network and share ideas.

You can attend the whole programme or register for individual events.
Who can attend?
Open to everyone over the age of 18, journalists and non-journalists alike. You will learn some investigative skills and hear different approaches to story-telling.
Tickets
The conference is free to attend but places are limited. Includes lunch and a drinks reception. Please register in advance HERE.

 
#CIJLyraMcKee Investigative Journalism Training and Bursary Scheme
Join us at #CIJBelfast and learn about #CIJLyraMcKee Investigative Journalism Training and Bursary Scheme 2022.

### Book Now

Bookings for this event are now closed

### Information

The venue
The Boiler House is in the heart of the university on the King's Road. Built in 1923 it has recently been redeveloped to include an events space. The two training rooms are a short walk away in the Barbara Strang Teaching Centre.
Details of how to get to the venue can be found on the university's website, where you can also find details about travelling to Newcastle.

### #CIJNewcastle

Following on from the previous year's sell-out event, we were delighted to once again be returning to Newcastle for a day of investigative talks and training.

In association with the Civic Journalism Lab at Newcastle University, we held our one-day conference in the Boiler House, Newcastle University on Saturday 9 November 2019.

#CIJNewcastle featured talks from investigative journalists in the UK, as well as offering hands-on training in understanding companies house, digital tools for journalism, and reading accounts.

There were lots of networking opportunities with a delegate's lunch and drinks reception included in the ticket price.
Some feedback from the event
"It was incredible - I went last year and loved it - It would be great if you did them up here more often or even extended it to two days."

"I had a great day and lots of us were talking about it well into the following week. Some of those who hadn't been and heard us clearly wished they had taken part after all - and probably will next year."

“The conference was really interesting experience, speakers were amazingly picked, really great insight into investigative journalism and I met a lot of interesting people as well. Thank you for amazing day.”

“Very useful - please keep running them. Good value for money because if you live in the north, it is becoming unaffordable to travel to London for the summer schools”

“Great line-up and chance to network with fellow journos. Brilliant to have it on the doorstep in Newcastle and very pleased to support.”


“Great. Informative and inspiration for a person just starting off in this career.”
And from Twitter
“How to use Companies House for investigative journalism - and how to find out about individuals who don’t want you to know about their fraudulent brand of capitalism (& NI avoidance). Brilliant talk & demo by Martin Tomkinson. Aided by Mr Terry Dunne. #CIJNewcastle @cijournalism”

https://twitter.com/profcolinclark/status/1193148375870427136

“An ‘old fashioned’ investigation in the digital age; a fascinating & very moving talk this morning at #CIJNewcastle by @emmayoule & @jessbrammar from @HuffPostUK on #Grenfell. The details are all in the data... & in Council property dealings. Read it here.”

https://twitter.com/profcolinclark/status/1193147072603729921

“Brilliant start to the #CIJournalism conference by @emmayoule and @jessbrammar! Thanks for the amazing tips and can’t wait to read the @HuffPost investigation into council failures and spending leading up to #grenfell. #cijnewcastle”

https://twitter.com/NathanPSouthern/status/1193122840423358465

“Some great, practical sessions at #CIJNewcastle today on mining Companies House and understanding company accounts. Hoping to tweet my key takeaways once I've got my copious notes in order…”

https://twitter.com/ruthbushi/status/1193208095037644801


## Regional Conference Events

### Keynote: Imogen Barrer

In her keynote talk Imogen Barrer will look at her investigations into Partygate, Britain's social housing scandal, and the UK's hidden homelessness crisis that won six Royal Television Society TV Journalism Awards across 2022, 2023, and 2024.

Her work has also won a Broadcast Award, an AIB award for Best UK Documentary, and she is a 2024 Orwell Prize, BAFTA, and British Journalism Awards nominee.

Originally from New Zealand, Imogen started her journalism career in radio and worked in regional and national newsrooms before joining ITN.

Having been a producer for several years, she travelled across the UK and internationally, working on some of the biggest news stories of the last decade.

At ITV News, Imogen leads teams working on a wide range of investigations. Her main passion lies in exposing issues of social inequality and injustice. Imogen centres people and their stories in her investigative reports, known for their signature humanity and emotional rawness.

 

### OSINT Clinic

The CIJ Clinic! Anything you need help with finding out, are there any OSINT techniques you need help with? Are you struggling with your research? Come and be a patient at the CIJ clinic, and our trainers will do their best to help you. No appointment necessary – just bring your questions along for a one-to-one consultation. Our investigative clinics will be held in a private meeting room.

### Companies House Clinic

The CIJ Clinic! Anything you need help with finding out, or are there any public bodies or companies who you’d like to look into? Come and be a patient at the CIJ clinic, and our trainers will do their best to help you. No appointment necessary – just bring your questions along for a one-to-one consultation. Our investigative clinics will be held in a private meeting room.

### Companies House Clinic

The CIJ Clinic! Anything you need help with finding out, or are there any public bodies or companies who you’d like to look into? Come and be a patient at the CIJ clinic, and our trainers will do their best to help you. No appointment necessary – just bring your questions along for a one-to-one consultation. Our investigative clinics will be held in a private meeting room.

### Investigating Companies

In this session, we'll learn how to get the most out of Companies House to answer some of the questions journalists ask themselves when investigating companies: Who owns this entity? What are its assets? Who are its related parties? How can I find red flags? Based on real case examples, we'll look at how to best use the search functions of the website and how to track relevant information in the documents available. We'll also explore some of the other databases that can help in your investigations, such as land registries, legal-entity database and corporate registries in tax havens.

### OSINT: Uncovering Digital Footprints

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. In this course, corporate intelligence analyst and former journalist Sarah Cammarata will walk you through the tools, techniques and tips to answer questions such as:

 	How do you search, gather and analyse data from social media platforms?
 	How do you find hidden social media profiles and uncover new connections?
 	How can we use this data to strengthen our investigations or uncover new leads?

### Supply Chain Investigations

Using case studies to guide participants through the process of tracking commodity flows through data and shipping records, this session will look at verifying claims of unsafe or inhumane conditions through analysis of social media and interviewing unions and workers’ groups, as well as using platforms such as Panjiva to identify links between factories and larger corporations and brands that profit from them.

The training is designed to help researchers and journalists be as global as the corporate supply chains they are tracking – if necessary, without leaving their desks. It covers training in how to find stories, gather evidence and carefully use multiple databases to locate hidden information and prove wrongdoing. It also covers questions around legal issues, worker safety, and cross border collaboration.

### Tips for Investigative Journalists after Fifty Years’ Experience

Veteran investigative journalist Martin Tomkinson has spent five decades digging through the dirt to uncover corruption in business, politics and the police. From bribes protecting those getting rich in exploitative industries, to dodgy deals between developers and politicians at all levels, so much of his reporting is sadly still relevant today. You can read a review by the GIJN of this talk that Marin gave at the CIJ Summer Conference earlier this year: Reporting Tips from an Investigative Journalist of 50 Years.

### Keynote: James Cruickshank

James Cruickshank, founder and editor-in-chief of The Digger, will talk about his life and work as a muckraker for Scotland's best, and most notorious, investigative crime magazine. Cruickshank, whose work has seen him shunned by the authorities (he was once banned from Glasgow Sheriff Court) and targeted by gangland criminals (in 2020, his car was firebombed by unknown assailants) will argue that The Digger has become a pressure valve for thousands of people who have no voice or representation.

### Copper Geographies: Ignacio Acosta

In this talk, Ignacio will talk about his project 'Copper Geographies' and how he explores the global flow of mined copper. He will describe how he presents this series of fieldwork explorations of geographically disparate landscapes historically connected by copper. Using research and investigative skills, he maps sites of transformation along the production network and commodity chain, documenting the mutation and transformation of copper from raw material to capital; through ore, smelted commodity, stock market exchanged value, assembled material and waste.

Copper Geographies discloses the uneven spatial conditions in which the material circulates by connecting the ecologies of resource exploitation in the Atacama Desert with the global centres of consumption and trade in Britain, and by making visible its return, hidden in manufactured goods, to the territories it originated from.

Ignacio will also discuss his latest project Not a Pearl, a new commission by the Gewerbemuseum Winterthur for the Mining Photography exhibition. The installation, consisting of 36 silkscreen prints and texts, questions the position role of the canton of Zug in the Swiss extractive landscape as global trading hub and offshore haven for shell companies.

 

### Truth amid wartime; "disinformation", propaganda and investigative journalism

In this lecture drawn from one of one of his Syria investigations, James Harkin tells the story of how difficult it is to get to the truth in modern warfare, and why genuinely independent investigative journalism is more important than ever. James Harkin is Director of the CIJ, and writes for GQ, Harper's, the Guardian and Vanity Fair.

### Archive of Tomorrow Project

The National Library of Scotland has been collecting information from the open web, alongside the other legal deposit libraries of the UK, as part of the web archive project.

This session will begin with a short history of the web archive, before covering how to find information within it and how to archive sites there, including your own.

The archive is available at webarchive.org.uk, where it is possible to browse the collection and check for archived versions of websites.

### Advanced Search

Whether you’re conducting public-interest research for your journalism or advocacy, trying to verify a claim you’ve read or heard, or looking into a company before trusting them with your money, business or personal data, there are many tools, techniques, and online platforms that will help make your research and fact-checking quicker, simpler and more effective.

This session will signpost a huge range of methods to help you search the internet more effectively, find eyewitnesses and potential sources, and follow the digital trails of fraudsters and criminals.

Participants will hear about:

 	Advanced searching
 	Social media analysis
 	Finding eyewitnesses, experts, sources
 	Verification, geolocation, air and marine traffic tracking
 	Profiling public figures

N.B. You will require a laptop to take part in this session.

Limited to 20 places. First come, first served.

### Investigating Companies

Any UK-based investigative journalist or aspiring journalist should have a working knowledge of Companies House. Companies House is the central registry for all UK registered limited or PLC companies and contains a wealth of useful information for those who know how to use the site. The aim of this class is to show how to get the most information from the official website, as well as highlighting what information can’t be found there. The class will give ample time for questions and queries and is an absolute must for anybody who does not feel confident in using this vital tool for investigators.

Limited to 20 places. First come, first served.

### Information Security for Journalists 101

In an era of digital journalism and digital surveillance best encapsulated by the 2013 Snowden leaks and the use of Pegasus surveillance tech to target journalists in Hungary, Greece, and other countries across the globe, the importance of journalists protecting themselves and their sources has never been greater.

In the session, we introduce some of the available strategies and tools to improve our security. We will present the fundamental best-practices that will help you keep your sources, yourself and your stories (in that order) safe and confidential. We will cover:

 	Best practices and communication tools, including threat assessment, compartmentalisation, and secure web browsing
 	Metadata
 	Password management and multi-factor authentication
 	Secure file deletion

Though the tools and advice are applicable to online safety in general, the session is particularly targeted at journalists and journalism students.

Limited to 20 places. First come, first served.

### Bureau Local: How to Get Involved in - or Lead - a Community Investigation

Bureau Local is part of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, one of the biggest non-profit journalism organisations in the country. Bureau Local aims to shed light on issues and stories that affect local communities but that also provide a national picture. The team will explain how their latest investigation took shape - revealing long delays and hardships for disabled people trying to make their homes more accessible -  and how you can get involved in the next one.

On the panel will be Emily Wilson, Editor, Bureau Local; Rachel Hamada, Lead Health Inequality Reporter and Community Organiser, Bureau Local; and Vicky Gayle, Health Inequality Reporter, Bureau Local

### Investigating Companies

Any UK-based investigative journalist or aspiring journalist should have a working knowledge of Companies House. Companies House is the central registry for all UK registered limited or PLC companies and contains a wealth of useful information for those who know how to use the site. The aim of this class is to show how to get the most information from the official website, as well as highlighting what information can’t be found there. The class will give ample time for questions and queries and is an absolute must for anybody who does not feel confident in using this vital tool for investigators.

### Keynote: Chris Moore

From the Kincora rape scandal to priests protected by the Catholic Church to the strange alliances which emerged at the close of the Troubles to bury the secrets of the murky intelligence war, Chris Moore talks about how investigative journalism worked among the Northern Irish conflict, and the enemies ranged against it. Chaired by the CIJ’s James Harkin.

### Spatial Investigations: Why Architecture Matters

A conversation between Gabriela Löffel and Aisling Rusk.

We have invited Gabriela Löffel, a Swiss artist whose multi-channel video installation "Inside" explores the concept of art freeports. She will show excerpts of her work and discuss her approach and strategies to exploring investigative themes through art.

The experiences she made on the construction site of a new art freeport in Shanghai, together with the position of the Geneva art freeport the first art freeport ever and which takes the function of a model are the focus of her work “Inside”.

The inaccessibility and non-transparency that operate in these financial tools, in form of buildings - Art Freeports, constitute the starting point of “Inside”.

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Aisling Rusk is a practising architect and researcher who explores spatial practice in contested space. 'It was Churchill who said that we shape our buildings and then afterwards, our buildings shape us. Conflicts and wars have a physical impact on our built environment that often far outlasts the civil unrest.  In Belfast, for example, 24 years after the Good Friday Agreement there are still 100 peace walls that are not proving easy to remove, because people still think they are necessary.  Aisling will explore how conflict shapes the built environment in more and less obvious ways, through the example of Belfast, and will set out some examples of 'liminal spatial praxis' in Northern Ireland - practices that are, in various ways, transgressions that erode physical divisions between people and places.

### Digital Tools for Journalism

Whether you’re conducting public-interest research for your journalism or advocacy, trying to verify a claim you’ve read or heard, or looking into a company before trusting them with your money, business or personal data, there are many tools, techniques, and online platforms that will help make your research and fact-checking quicker, simpler and more effective.

This session will signpost a huge range of methods to help you search the internet more effectively, find eyewitnesses and potential sources, and follow the digital trails of fraudsters and criminals.

N.B. You will require a laptop to take part in this session.

### Welcome & About the CIJ

Join us for a light lunch as we begin the afternoon with a short introduction about the work of the CIJ.

### Strand Two: Digital Tools for Journalism

These days all journalists are digital journalists to some extent. However, there may be tools, techniques, and online platforms that will help make your research and fact-checking quicker, simpler and more effective, leaving you more time to get out of the office and speak to people, or to write up your findings into a compelling narrative.

This session will signpost a huge range of tools to help you search the internet more effectively, find eyewitnesses and potential sources, and follow the digital trails of fraudsters and criminals.

### Lunch break

Lunch break

### Strand Two: How to make the most out of Companies House

Any UK-based investigative journalist or aspiring journalist should have a working knowledge of Companies House. Companies House is the central registry for all UK registered limited or PLC companies and contains a wealth of useful information for those who know how to use the site. The aim of this class is to show how to get the most information from the official website, as well as highlighting what information can’t be found there. The class will give ample time for questions and queries and is an absolute must for anybody who does not feel confident in using this vital tool for investigators.

### Coffee break

Break, tea and coffee will be served in the Lindisfarne Room

### Keynote: Investigative Journalism In A Digital Age

Special correspondent Emma Youle and executive editor Jess Brammar discuss how investigative journalism plays a key role in HuffPost UK’s newsroom and the challenges and opportunities of pursuing investigative stories in the age of 24/7 rolling news and multi-platforms.

### Welcome address

Welcome and Introduction to the project and the work of the CIJ with James Harkin, Director of the CIJ

### Registration



### Strand One: Digital Tools for Journalism

These days all journalists are digital journalists to some extent. However, there may be tools, techniques, and online platforms that will help make your research and fact-checking quicker, simpler and more effective, leaving you more time to get out of the office and speak to people, or to write up your findings into a compelling narrative.

This session will signpost a huge range of tools to help you search the internet more effectively, find eyewitnesses and potential sources, and follow the digital trails of fraudsters and criminals.

### Investigating International Corporate Networks

The past 10 years have seen the rise of open data and the belief that some data - especially public records - should be made available for anyone to use, access and share at no cost. As a result, a wealth of information about companies has been uncovered, from basic company incorporation data, to annual accounts and even beneficial ownership.

Access to data is undoubtedly making unpicking complex and global corporate networks easier, but understanding how to find and use the data (alongside its caveats) can be tricky. This workshop will give you an introduction to where to find open data about companies, and how to use this data to quickly find and tell stories about the corporate world.

### Strand One: Reading Accounts

Are you afraid of looking into numbers? Do you always phone an accountant friend to help you make sense of a balance sheet? Do company accounts seem like a completely different language to you? Using an actual set of accounts, this workshop will show you where to find the stories hiding in the numbers.

### Keynote: We’ll All Be Murdered In Our Beds!

Duncan Campbell, in conversation with Zubeida Malik talk about why crime reporting is so vital and how it has changed - both for the better and the worse - in the last fifty years. The following excerpt from the introduction to his latest book: We’ll All Be Murdered In Our Beds! explain why he think it’s so important.

A day of court reporting provides as illuminating a snapshot as any lengthy think-tank report or ministerial briefing on the state of education, immigration, unemployment, mental health and popular culture, not to mention policing, the criminal justice system and the failures or successes of government policies. Nor is it a grim beat; the phrase “gallows humour” did not come from nowhere. Life and death. Human nature. Drama. As Edgar Wallace, himself a crime reporter before becoming the best-selling author in Britain, remarked: “truth is stranger than fiction and has every need to be since most fiction is founded on truth.” No wonder the television channels overflow every day with fictional - and a few non-fictional - criminals and detectives.


## News

### CIJSummer Conference 2025 - feedback and reactions

A huge thank you to everyone who attended, taught and volunteered at #CIJSummer Conference 2025. For the second year in a row, Summer Conference was a sell-out success.

170 delegates, mainly from the UK, but also from countries such as Thailand, Peru, Poland, Lithuania, Norway and the USA, attended. We are always delighted to have people from all over the world and from all over the UK attending the event in London - not the cheapest city to come and visit. So this comment about the conference made us particularly happy: “So informative, so inspiring, worth dragging myself to London for.” 

45 speakers, mainly from the UK but also from the Netherlands, France, USA, Sweden, Portugal, Thailand, and Bulgaria spoke and trained at the Summer Conference: some for the first time, while others have been teaching with us for more than 10 years.

The vast majority of delegates gave us high marks of 5/5 and 4/5!

One delegate wrote: “Quality speakers and good opportunities to meet a really interesting bunch of like-minded people. Top work!”

 

We always say that #CIJSummer is a friendly and collaborative conference. This year’s keynote speakers brought a wealth of journalistic experience and generously shared their knowledge and insights.

Rianna Croxford “gave an excellent talk” and “described her investigation in detail, focusing on the specific techniques and skills she used to get the results.” She was “inspirational”.

 

Gavin MacFadyen Memorial lecturer 2025: Cathy Newman

Our 2025 Gavin MacFadyen memorial talk was delivered by Cathy Newman. She gave a great talk “about a long-running investigation, which took years to come off, but defined news agendas when published” - her work on the Church of England’s serial sex abuser John Smyth. (The video of the talk is now available on the CIJ YouTube channel).

Donal MacIntyre “was wonderfully affable and enthusiastic. He was a great final speaker as he was so passionate”. (The video of the talk will be available on the CIJ YouTube channel).

#CIJSummer is a small, friendly and practical conference for people who want to upgrade their investigative skills, be it by attending our hands-on classes such as data journalism training and OSINT, or learning about companies accounts or investigative methodology.

Like most journalistic conferences which focus on practical skills, #CIJSummer offers a variety of talks and classes which run simultaneously, allowing for smaller learning groups and a variety of skills covered. It is not a typical one-strand event where everyone sits in the same auditorium throughout the day.

Too much choice is the complaint we hear often, but it is the one we like best.

“So many things I wanted to attend, but clashed with many other options”

 

Each year we teach some core skills like spreadsheets, OSINT and FOI basics, investigative methodology as well as offering more niche and specialised training such as reading company accounts, SARS (Subject Access Requests), understanding right to reply or not-so-niche-anymore AI for journalists. We have been also focusing on climate investigations - from case studies to how to report COP. This allows returning delegates to choose something they may have not learned before, and for the new delegates to sample and learn different skills.

Some of the more popular talks are based on recent investigations: where delegates can meet the journalists who broke the stories and learn how they did it. This year the 2025 Paul Foot Award co-winner Patrick Butler talked about his investigative series with colleague Josh Halliday into the Carer’s Allowance Scandal. Gerald Flynn talked of being banned from Cambodia after investigating deforestation there. Hannah O’Grady and Joel Gunter spoke of a difficult investigation into alleged war crimes committed by the British Special Forces in Afghanistan. We always look into new ways of doing impactful journalism and Joshi Herrmann of Mill Media focused on just that.

Paul Bradshaw addressing AI and journalism (Image by Sophie Garcia)

We always have different levels of journalistic knowledge in the audience, where sometimes people can be experts in one field of journalism but complete novices in another. So inevitably we hear that the very same session can be too basic or too advanced at the same time. We signpost the levels, especially for the hands-on sessions, to make people’s choices easier.

The good news this year is that we definitely had enough tea and coffee. If there’s one thing we know about journalism conferences, it’s that they run on coffee!

We hope that you all had a great time at the event and hope to see many of you again either at future CIJ Summer Conferences or at our online courses.

“It was a brilliant informative couple of days with lovely people and staff and I hope to attend again next year as it has been a great way to network and learn.”

Here are some longer LinkedIn posts by the delegates and speakers of #CIJSummer 2025.

Olena Kozii speaks about #CIJSummer being a safe space to think deeper and stay alert.

Pamela Duncan teaching data journalism

Speaker Tom Beal talks about the conference’s friendly and collaborative atmosphere and some great questions from the audience.

And the CIJ’s very own OCRI regional coordinator Alice de Souza shares her highlights of #CIJSummer 2025.

Photos from #CIJSummer 2025 can be found on the CIJ LinkedIn and Facebook accounts.

Videos will be posted in the next couple of weeks on the CIJ YouTube Channel.

 

### #CIJSummer 2025: early access for organisations



### #CIJSummer 2025 Talks and Training Proposals

We are opening submissions of talks and training proposals for #CIJSummer 2025. We would welcome proposals on new, innovative or emerging investigative practices from journalists, researchers, experts and technologists.

Subjects usually covered include (but are not limited to): Data Journalism, Open-Source Intelligence, mapping, FOI and other information access law, Information Security and Source Protection, Financial Investigation, Climate Journalism.

Please read the information below carefully before submitting your proposal.

Submission deadline: Sun 2 March at 23:59 UK time


What is #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference?
#CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference is our annual flagship event, and the UK's only training conference dedicated to teaching investigative skills.

The 2025 dates are 26-27 June at Goldsmiths, University of London.

 
Who teaches/speaks at #CIJSummer?
Each year we invite some of the best investigative journalists and trainers to London.

We are a small organisation with a small budget, so we have limited funds to invite international speakers as well as UK journalists.

 
What proposals are we looking for?
It is a training conference. All talks and classes must have an educational aspect, so the participants can come out with new knowledge and/or skills.

We are looking for two types of session:

Case studies talks - where a speaker talks about their investigative story/stories in detail, focusing on the investigative methods and/or techniques they used as well as skills they needed to conduct the investigation.
We do not accept panel discussion proposals unless a story was investigated by more than one journalist, each contributing different skills to the investigation. Maximum number of speakers for such case studies is three.

Examples of these talks from last year include:

Spiritual Abuse: Coercion and Forced Labour in Opus Dei

Lifting the Lid of the Single Justice Procedure

Uncovering ‘Systemic Abuse’: Managing Vulnerable Patients and Rooting Out Care Scandals

 

Training: demos, workshops, or courses - where trainers teach the participants how to use a particular investigative tool or teach them a particular investigative skill.

Demo - showcase of a tool, platform or technique which will show participants how they can integrate it into their own work, but will not include hands-on practical elements.
Workshop - presentation of a tool, platform or technique with some practical exercises included.
Course - in-depth and hands-on session(s) in which the majority of time will be spent guiding participants through practical use of a tool, platform or technique.

Training proposals can take place over multiple sessions if needed.
Sessions are typically 60 mins long, including Q&A.
Maximum number of trainers per workshop is two.
Maximum number of trainers for demos is one.

Examples of hands-on practical workshops or demos from last year include:

Workshop - GeoJournalism: Detecting Oil and Gas Concessions in Protected Areas. Hands-on.

Demo - OSINT: Uncovering Digital Footprints

Course - Data Journalism: Spreadsheets 1-3. Hands-on.

 
Why teach/speak at #CIJSummer Conference:
#CIJSummer Conference is a small, informal and friendly event with a strong collaborative atmosphere and plentiful networking opportunities. Speakers and trainers are invited and encouraged to attend the full conference and learn from their colleagues, as well as sharing their own skills with others.

There are no green rooms - we all mix together, exchanging knowledge, ideas, skills and contacts.

All speakers and trainers are also invited to our very popular speakers dinner.

 
Financial:
We are a small charity with a very small budget.

We have very limited funding for travel and accommodation, especially for international speakers.

We have limited funding for speakers’ fees.

If your organisation can cover all or part of your travel and/or accommodation costs - this would help us invite more speakers to the event / offer more affordable places for students and freelancers.

Some speakers donate their speakers fees to the CIJ - it is by no means expected, but very much appreciated.

We do not make money on the #CIJSummer Conference or any of our events or training  - the aim is to train as many people as possible at affordable prices. Any surplus is reinvested into developing and subsidising our training.

 
How to submit your proposal?
Please note, the conference is conducted in English and we are unable to provide translations. All speakers/trainers must be fluent in English to be considered.

You can submit proposals for training sessions (workshop/course/demo) and case study talks, but the maximum number of proposals per person, per year is three.

 
Submit:
Case studies talks proposals

Training: demos, workshops, or courses proposals

Deadline: Sun 2 March at 23:59 UK time

Only successful speakers/trainers will be contacted.

### CIJ Climate Investigations Course

The Centre for Investigative Journalism is today announcing the launch of a new training programme covering all aspects of deep investigative research into climate change and its causes - The CIJ Climate Investigations Course.

At the CIJ, we have spent the past three years working to improve the quantity and quality of climate investigations across the world. Our Open Climate Reporting Initiative has taught practical investigative skills to over 700 journalists across 58 countries. Check out our global footprints here.

In the process of delivering this work, through discussions on investigative practice with experts and by listening to the needs of our participants, we have built a comprehensive curriculum of training. We are now aiming to bring the benefits of this experience to journalists and researchers everywhere.

We have convened a world-class training team to deliver 23 hours of uniquely positioned training. Our work in delivering climate-focused content across three continents over the past year ensures that our course is informed by a truly global perspective.

In keeping with our central mission, we are making it available more affordably than any other equivalent training programme. It is designed to provoke and inspire commissionable stories.

 

We are doing this because the Climate Crisis is here.

The wildfires currently raging across California are only the latest in a long line of visible impacts from a catastrophe that began several decades ago. While journalists need to get on the ground, interview those affected and document these tragedies, it is abundantly clear that this alone is not enough.

As the crisis unfolds around us, it is crucial that journalists keep in mind the nature of this emergency. It is not merely a series of discrete disasters, a natural phenomenon, nor the cruel acts of a vengeful god.

This is a crisis that stems from the decisions, actions and inactions of people and the organisations they work for and run.

The climate crisis is a subject that demands urgent investigation. 

Just as with conflicts, state repression or corporate corruption there are perpetrators, profiteers and swathes of criminal negligence. There are people and corporations who must be held to account and in many cases it is up to investigative journalists to perform this task.

This new training will provide the tools to do this.

There is one other element of the climate crisis that is worth remembering - one that underlines the urgency of the need for investigative journalism.

The slow-motion nature of the situation makes it difficult to investigate, but it also means that we must act now if we are to have any impact. An instance of corruption can be investigated after the fact. The people involved can be held to account, fined, jailed or removed from office. Laws and regulations can be changed, loopholes closed, to prevent it from happening again. But if the objective of journalistic impact for climate investigations is to prevent it from reoccurring, then we will already be too late.

This means that investigative impact is particularly difficult to achieve - it will require diligence and persistence, but it also presents an incredible opportunity. Rarely in journalism do we see the prospect of making positive change before the very worst consequences have come to pass.

 

As far as we are aware the Climate Investigations Course is a unique offering. 23 hours of teaching on industry-leading expertise from practitioners at the highest levels. Any near equivalents would cost more in both fees and time commitment by orders of magnitude.

Modules covered:
Climate investigation Fundamentals - 27,28 March. AM - 5hrs of training
Data-Driven Climate Investigations - 14-17 April. AM - 6hrs of training
Investigating Climate Finance - 12-15 May. PM - 6hrs of training
ECOSINT: Environmental & Climate Open-Source Intelligence - 3-6 June. AM -  6hrs of training

Flexibility is built into the programme. You can take any combination of these modules, or sign up for the full course and get a 20% discount on the overall fee, plus a CIJ Climate Investigations Certificate.

The course is designed to help participants identify impactful investigative stories and refine their work on these projects as they progress through the modules, ensuring that they graduate the course with not only a wealth of new skills to apply to their research, but also with solid plans for investigations, ready for pitching and publication.

There are excellent climate journalism courses out there, but none have the specific focus on practical, hands-on investigative skills that you will find in ours.

### CIJ Logan Symposium 2024 - Videos of all 13 sessions are now online



### CIJ 2024 - a Year in Review

A year is a long time in investigative journalism, even more so when the world hurtles in dark new directions everywhere from the Middle East to Ukraine to the Taiwan Strait. For the CIJ, however, the last twelve months have been one of unprecedented domestic and global expansion.

From the fresh countries and regions being trained under our Open Climate Reporting Initiative, to the sterling work being done to train journalists everywhere in the world under our largely online Source Protection Programme, to the growing reputation of our programme to train some of the best investigative journalists in Latin America, we’re training more journalists and citizens than ever before. And not only that: we’ve been busy researching and developing whole new proprietary CIJ curricula to help make sure that training works, at the right pace, language and tone, for real investigative journalists wherever they are.

Then there’s our regular scheduled and bespoke training throughout the year, most of it still offered to journalists here in the UK. But in tandem with our growing international profile, our year-round training work now attracts many more clients in Europe and beyond.

Add to that the regular work of CIJ Summer Conference and our CIJ Lyra McKee Training and Mentoring programme at home, and a blockbuster new international CIJ Logan Symposium last month which quickly sold out at the Barbican, and we think we’re a small organisation on the move. But good journalists need data, so we thought we’d bring you some statistics to illustrate what we’ve been up to.



CIJ Year In Numbers
We try to reach as many people as possible, in the UK and all around the world. Our online training allowed us to reach far and wide. But when the events do take place in real life, we all know that coffee (and to some extent, tea) - is THE most important aspect of any event. So we make sure there is enough of it.

Number of people trained:

 	Scheduled courses: 479
 	Bespoke courses: 266
 	Source Protection Programme charitable and bespoke: 307
 	CIJSummer Conference: 250
 	CIJLogan Symposium: 262
 	Protecting Sources Training: 121
 	CIJGlasgow training: 70
 	Open Climate Reporting Initiative : 49

 

Number of cups of tea and coffee drunk by participants:

 	CIJ Logan Symposium: 1560
 	CIJ Summer Conference: 1000
 	Protecting Sources: 472
 	CIJ Glasgow: 140
 	Open Climate Reporting Initiative: 100


CIJ Logan Symposium 2024
For the 10th anniversary we returned to the Barbican to deliver the 5th edition of our unique and provocative CIJ Logan Symposium. 262 of you joined us over the two days to hear from our friends at Freedom of the Press Foundation, and our investigative partners Disclose, Reporters United, The Public Source and Declassified UK, as well as a host of reporters, investigators and allies to take a look under the hood of journalism today and some of the external threats facing us and our sources.

Videos from all of the panels are now online; you can watch them over on the CIJ Youtube Playlist.

 
The Source Protection Programme (SPP)
As ever, we’ve had a busy year providing a veritable smorgasbord of security training for journalists around the world alongside our partners at Freedom of the Press Foundation. This year SPP focused on developing a series of short programmes to meet the needs of busy reporters and organisations with limited availability for longer engagements. We also built a special series of training to support journalists covering the huge number of elections this year, as well as delivered our first sessions for US reporters in collaboration with the Oklahoma Media Center.

But this year our focus was on the Protecting Sources conference we produced in November, in partnership with the A Culture of Safety (ACOS) Alliance and hosted at Bloomberg in London. Due to the success of the event we hope to reproduce it in some form next year – so watch this space. Next year we’ll redouble our efforts to roll out more bespoke charitable programmes for different regions including Latin America and Africa. The programme also has limited availability under our commercial stream to train journalists working for large organisations. If you would like to talk to us about a bespoke programme for your newsroom – get in touch!

 
Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI)
We closed the second implementing year of the Open Climate Reporting Initiative in March following our collaboration with 10 organisations in 3 regions, namely Brazil & Lusophone Africa, South Asia and the Middle East & North Africa (MENA).

Key highlights of OCRI Year 2 were our ability to nearly double the number trained in Year 1, going up from 225 to 444, and the 66 story projects published through OCRI’s support! We took some time to reflect on our 2-year journey by visualising OCRI’s footprint around the world and detailing what reporting climate change really means. Read here.

We also worked with 12 CIJ trainers in developing the Climate Investigations Course (CIC) (about which more later) which we’ll launch early next year - a brand new 4-module course put together in English, which will become part of our scheduled course offerings online from Q1 2025.

During the course of the year, we also delivered a core, region-contextualised and translated version (where applicable) of the CIC by working with 4 OCRI partners and 19 regional trainers in Anglophone Africa, Francophone Africa, Latin America and South Asia. The full CIC consists of 14 sessions within the 4 modules. We however identified 10 core sessions that were delivered during the in-person story lab workshops in Nigeria, Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire and Sri Lanka. We trained 49 journalists from 24 countries across the four regions in 2024. You can read more about how OCRI broke new ground in 2024 here.

 
Climate Investigations Course
The icing on the cake of this last year’s hard work of research and development work on new courses is the brand new Climate Investigations Course (CIC). For most of the year we’ve been working with a stellar and truly global line up of experts to develop and refine it, building on our wealth of experience bringing skills and tools to environmental and climate journalists across the globe through the OCRI project.

Full details will follow in January 2025, but this new course will bring our expertise in a range of subjects from Data Journalism to Financial Investigation and OSINT to bear on the hard work of digging more deeply into the climate crisis.

 
CIJ Summer Investigative Journalism Conference 2024
We are pleased to say that the UK general election, which took place on the second day of #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference, didn’t have a major effect on this year’s event! For the second year in a row, we were sold out long before the actual conference.

The 2024 Paul Foot Award winner Tristan Kirk, the Evening Standard‘s Courts Correspondent, was joined by the Paul Foot award nominees The Independent’s Health Correspondent Rebecca Thomas, and investigations reporter for the Financial Times Antonia Cundy.

Our annual Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture Election Integrity: The Indian Electoral Bonds Scam was delivered by courageous Indian journalist Poonam Agarwal. See all 2024 speakers here.

The delegates were also able to choose between many hands-on classes and as always, one of the biggest complaints we had was that there were too many good things to choose from.

#CIJSummer 2025 will take place on 26-27 June at Goldsmiths: mark your calendars.

 
OCRI Focus Day
The CIJ Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) once again hosted an invitation-only event tagged OCRI Focus Day . It took place one day before the #CIJSummer Conference and brought together over twenty climate and environment journalists from all over the world. Participants and partners from year two of our OCRI Programme were joined by UK journalists specialising in climate issues.

The event discussed cases, tools and collaborations while also emphasising the need for journalists to sharpen their skills in data, digital technology and finance for improved climate reportage.

 
CIJ Glasgow Training
In September this year, we returned to Glasgow and the National Library of Scotland for our fifth regional conference. Free from the storm disruptions that had plagued last year’s conference, we had our highest turn out yet - around 70 delegates.

Martin Tomkinson spoke about his long decades of experience working as a journalist. Investigate Europe’s Maxence Peigné shared tools to investigate companies. Corporate and open-source intelligence analyst Sarah Cammarata showed techniques for investigating digital footprints, and supply chains investigation expert Tansy Hoskins explained how to track commodity flows.

In the keynote talk Imogen Barrer, Head of Investigations at ITV News, explained how Partygate grew from a small story to gaining national media coverage. After a day of talks, workshops and some lively discussions we rounded off the day with networking drinks.

 
#CIJLyraMcKee Bursary Scheme
We had another very successful year with our annual CIJ Lyra McKee Investigative Journalism Training and Mentoring Bursary Scheme. Nine trainees from all over the UK and Ireland took part this year.

The trainees were required to attend three training courses in person during the #CIJSummer Conference 2024, as well as take part in further online training and mentoring.

The programme culminated with the participants pitching their stories to three UK working editors. This year Emily Wilson, Head of UK News, ITV News, Basia Cummings, Partner and Editor, Tortoise, and Gareth Davies, Editor, The Bureau Local gave feedback on the trainees’ pitches.

The aim of the bursary is to fund the training and mentoring of aspiring and early-career journalists from poor and underrepresented backgrounds who live in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, thus helping them get into the profession. It has a fantastic success rate and our trainees this year were no exception. Thus far our graduates had their stories published, or secured jobs in a number of UK and international media outlets: BBC Scotland, Belfast Telegraph, Deutsche Welle, the Guardian, ITV Belfast, The Northern Echo, and Tortoise Media to name but a few. We’re terribly proud of all of them!

 
CIJ Bespoke Training: Online and In-person
We continued working with newsrooms and research organisations delivering tailored training to address specific needs within their teams. There was strong demand for bespoke versions of our Financial Investigations course, which we were able to deliver to an investigative newsroom in the Middle East and to a team of investigators working across the titles in the FT Specialist group, including Investors Chronicle, FT Adviser, Banking Risk and Regulation and others.

We’ve also seen a lot of interest in bespoke versions of our OSINT training, which we brought to the Video News team at the Telegraph, covering a range of digital tools as well as dedicated modules on Geolocation and Social Media Analysis.

Alongside this work, we collaborated closely with the Public Interest News Foundation (PINF), generously supported by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, to develop a bespoke course on Local Accountability Investigation. The course took in a wide range of subjects, from data to FOI, Company Accounts and understanding local authority structures. We delivered this course to two cohorts made up of members of the PINF network, in support of their ongoing work towards capacity building across the independent media sector.

This provision was primarily delivered online, but we are teaching bespoke courses in-person too, having finished up the year putting together and delivering a multi-day bespoke Data Journalism course on site at the Which? offices for journalists working across the organisation's titles.

 
CIJ Scheduled Courses
This year we ran 35 scheduled courses, training 479 people. We kicked off with an in-person Radio Boot Camp in January, and saw the return of the CIJ core curriculum in the form of investigative methodology, data journalism, web scraping and digital tools training.

On top of this the Financial Investigations course we launched in 2023 continued to prove very popular, and we ran two coding courses in the autumn, one utilising R for data investigations, the other Python.

We also launched two new scheduled courses this year. The first is a two-hour workshop on supply chain investigations, using case studies to guide participants through the process of tracking commodity flows through data and shipping records. This new course ran twice in 2024 and already has two sessions booked in for early 2025.

The second is an in-depth multi-module Open-Source Intelligence course, building on the introductory Digital Tools workshop we run. The course covers OSINT best practice, social media analysis, fact-checking and verification, and geolocation and satellite imagery.

We’re excited to run it again in 2025!

 
Looking into the future
That’s a Christmas CIJ wrap. Next year, in addition to launching the CIC, we’ll be focusing on training more and more journalists around the world under our Source Protection Programme and Open Climate Reporting Initiative, and training even more journalists at home with our regular scheduled and bespoke training. Then there’s Summer Conference, this year in late June. Plus our annual regional conference, as usual, in the Autumn.

We hate to say it, but there’s no better way to stay sharp and up-to-date in investigative journalism - and to land your next job - than to take our training. Watch this space (and read this newsletter) to find out more and what we’re up to and where we’ll be. In the meantime, from the entire CIJ staff, we wish you a peaceful and jolly festive period, and a professionally rewarding new year.

 

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### CIJ Recommends 2024: Good Reads, Listens and Things to Watch

Each year we select the books, articles, podcasts, films, TV dramas and documentaries that we liked the most. Here is the 2024 lineup - in case you get bored of playing charades.

 
Books
The Great Post Office Scandal. By Nick Wallis.
The book recounts how thousands of subpostmasters were accused of theft and false accounting on the back of evidence from Horizon, the flawed computer system designed by Fujitsu, and how a group of them, led by Alan Bates, took their fight to the High Court.

 

 

The Poison Line: Life and Death in the Infected Blood Scandal. By Cara McGoogan, #CIJSummer Conference speaker.
The shocking true story of the infected blood scandal: the worst treatment disaster in NHS history, which saw people infected with HIV by a revolutionary medical treatment and a cover-up from governments and the multi-billion-dollar plasma industry.

 

Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War. by Frances Stonor Saunders, #CIJLogan Symposium speaker.
During the Cold War, writers and artists were faced with a huge challenge. In the Soviet world, they were expected to turn out works that glorified militancy, struggle and relentless optimism. In the West, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession. But such freedom could carry a cost. This book documents the extraordinary energy of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West became instruments - whether they knew it or not, whether they liked it or not - of America's secret service.

Paul Foot: A Life in Politics. By Margaret Renn.
#CIJSummer Conference speaker Margaret Renn knew Paul Foot, one of the most influential investigative reporters of his generation.
In this, the first biography of Paul Foot, Margaret Renn traces Foot’s personal, political and professional trajectories, placing his life and works within the long arc of postwar Britain. Drawing on extensive interviews with those close to him, and utilising her unparalleled knowledge of his prodigious output, the book brings the many different faces of Paul Foot together into a single portrait. Watch Margeret talk about Paul Foot at #CIJSummer Conference 2024.

 

Billion Dollar Whale. By Tom Wright and #CIJLogan Symposium speaker Bradley Hope.
The epic story of how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest financial heists in history.

 

 

 

Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power. By #CIJLogan Symposium speaker Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck.
The explosive untold story of how Mohammed bin Salman and his entourage grabbed power in the Middle East and acquired a network of Western allies - including well-known US bankers, Hollywood figures, and politicians - all eager to help the charming and crafty crown prince.

 

Information Security Essentials: a Guide for Reporters, Editors, and Newsroom Leaders. By Susan E. McGregor.
This book is an essential guide to protecting news writers, sources, and organisations in the digital era.

 

 

AI Snake Oil. By Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor.
Confused about the hype around AI? Worried about misinformation and misunderstanding? In AI Snake Oil, computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor shine a light on misleading claims about the capabilities of AI and the serious harms it is already causing in how it’s being built, marketed, and used.

 

 
Long Reads
Chortle chortle, scribble scribble: inside the Old Bailey with Britain’s last court reporters. By Sophie Elmhirst for The Guardian. 11 July 2024.
The cases heard at the Old Bailey offer a vivid, often grim portrait of England and Wales today. What happens when there is no one left to tell these stories?
There are hardly any specialised court reporters left in the UK. Yet, the next big scoop may be right there - before everyone's eyes.

65 Doctors, Nurses, and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza. By Feroze Sidhwa for the New York Times.
Doctor Feroze Sidwha, who spent a few weeks last spring working in Gaza, collaborated with The New York Times to poll 65 volunteer health care workers about their experiences in the besieged region since October 7.

Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers. By Charlotte Higgins for The Guardian. 30 July 2024.
When Putin invaded, a historian in Kyiv saw that Ukraine’s cultural heritage was in danger so he set out to save as much of it as he could.

Russia uses civilians as ‘target practice’ for killer drones. By Christopher Miller, Sam Joiner and Irene de la Torre Arenas for the Financial Times.
Southern Ukrainian city of Kherson hit more than 9,500 times as Moscow attempts to drive out residents

The Upsetter offers a style of crime and corruption reporting different from the drive-by journalism of most mainstream outlets. It is independent of media organisations, law firms, private investigators, NGOs, think tanks, law enforcement and regulators to bring unvarnished news about how they all play ‘the game’. It’s a (paid for) Substack by the #CIJSummer conference speaker, award-winning journalist Michael Gillard.

Deadly prices: Alarming gaps in availability of innovative drugs across the EU. By Investigate Europe journalists. Investigations published throughout 2024.
Where you live shouldn’t determine access to life-saving drugs, however Investigate Europe research reveals how several EU countries do not have direct access to a number of critical medicines.
Radio and Podcasts
The Great Post Office Trial. BBC.
An investigation of the largest miscarriage of justice in UK legal history. It's the story of how the Post Office systematically persecuted honest people, and how a small band of victims fought back in the face of impossible odds. By Nick Wallis.

 

 

Yusuf and the Whale. BBC.
Yemen. 2023. In one of the poorest countries in the world, with civil war raging, life isn’t exactly easy, and most days the fishermen return with barely enough to live off, let alone to sell. But fisherman’s son Yusuf is an eternal optimist, and dreamer, who keeps the community’s spirits high with tales of whales and his dreams of the Gulf’s glorious past. Plus, he’s secretly in love with his best friend. But when disaster strikes, and Yusuf’s optimism is tested to the limit, he ends up at sea in the strangest of scenarios.

 

The Gift. Series 2. BBC.
Home test DNA kits were intended as tools to discover one’s roots. They are often given as fun gifts. But sometimes they lead to unintended and upsetting revelations. In series two of this popular podcast, people around the world use DNA kits as a tool to find out the truth about their families.

 

 
Films, Documentaries and TV Series
Films:

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. 2022
Artist Nan Goldin was prescribed OxyContin for pain relief and very soon found herself addicted. This led to her founding the advocacy group Prescription Addiction Intervention Now, or Pain, to challenge the Sackler family’s ‘reputation laundering’ through their large donations to galleries and museums. A look at OxyContin from a different perspective.

Scoop. 2024
A dramatic retelling of the process of securing and filming the 2019 BBC television interview of Prince Andrew by presenter and journalist Emily Maitlis and the production team at the BBC Two news and current affairs programme Newsnight.

She Said. 2022
The film follows The New York Times investigation that exposed Harvey Weinstein's history of abuse and sexual misconduct against women.
Now available on most streaming platforms.

 

Dramas:

Mr Bates vs The Post Office
The ITV drama that brought the Post Office scandal to wider attention and put it firmly on the political agenda.

Say Nothing
A riveting account of events during the Northern Irish Troubles, based on the book of the same name by Patrick Radden Keefe.

 

Documentaries:

Inside Iran: The Fight for Freedom
Directed by CIJ alumna Geshbeen Mohammad. Geshbeen was nominated for the 2024 British Academy Television Craft Awards in the Director: Factual category.

Africa Eye: Nigeria’s Miracle Baby Scammers.
Africa Eye went undercover to expose the fertility scammers targeting Nigerian women and fuelling an underground trade in black market babies. Women with fertility issues in Nigeria are being tricked into parting with hundreds of dollars, duped into believing they’re pregnant, and delivering babies that are often trafficked.
A documentary by CIJ Protecting Sources event speakers Mark Perkins, BBC Africa Eye editor, and filmmaker Peter Murimi.

NEW! The Invisible Battles of Ukrainian Military Medics
The Kyiv Independent's journalists Francis Farrell and Olena Zashko followed a group of Ukrainian military medics as they journeyed from the heat of battle in war-torn Ukraine to the serene forests of Sweden for a short mental health retreat.
For the first time since 2022, these medics have a chance to process the trauma they have experienced – ​​grappling with the loss of brothers-in-arms, surviving Russian captivity, and the weight of guilt over soldiers they couldn’t save. This documentary film is about them.

The Leasehold Trap
This BBC investigation asks whether some property management companies are engaging in sharp practice and overcharging. From a family home damaged by a leaking roof to a flat where the service charge is higher than the mortgage payments, are leaseholders getting a fair deal?
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### #CIJSummer 2024 Talks and Training Proposals

We are opening submissions of talks and training proposals for the #CIJSummer 2024. We would welcome proposals on new, innovative or emerging investigative practices from journalists, researchers, experts and technologists.

Subjects usually covered include (but are not limited to): Data Journalism, Open-Source Intelligence, FOI and other information access law, Information Security and Source Protection, Financial investigation, Climate Journalism.

Please read the information below carefully before submitting your proposal.

Submission deadline: Sun 17 March at 23:59 UK time



What is #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference?
#CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference is our annual flagship event, and the UK's only training conference dedicated to teaching investigative skills.

The 2024 dates are 3-4 July at Goldsmiths, University of London.

 
Who teaches/speaks at #CIJSummer?
Each year we invite some of the best investigative journalists and trainers to London.

We are a small organisation with a small budget, so we have limited funds to invite international speakers as well as UK journalists.

 
What proposals are we looking for?
It is a training conference. All talks and classes must have an educational aspect, so the participants can come out with new knowledge and/or skills.

We are looking for two types of session:

Case studies talks - where a speaker talks about their investigative story/stories in detail, focusing on the investigative methods and/or techniques they used as well as skills they needed to conduct the investigation.
We do not accept panel discussion proposals unless a story was investigated by more than one journalist, each contributing different skills to the investigation. Maximum number of speakers for such case studies is three.

Examples of these talks from last year include:

Investigating Covid Loan Fraud: How to Overcome Obstacles and Win an Award

The Keys to the Algorithm: Inside an AI System
Watch this talk on our YouTube channel.

Open-Source: Finding Russia’s Filtration Camps

Investigating Sexual Assault at the Workplace: the Case of Crispin Odey

 

Training: demos, workshops, or courses - where trainers teach the participants how to use a particular investigative tool or teach them a particular investigative skill.

Demo - showcase of a tool, platform or technique which will show participants how they can integrate it into their own work, but will not include hands-on practical elements.
Workshop - presentation of a tool, platform or technique with some practical exercises included.
Course - in-depth and hands-on session(s) in which the majority of time will be spent guiding participants through practical use of a tool, platform or technique.

Training proposals can take place over multiple sessions if needed.
Sessions are typically 60-70 mins long, including Q&A.
Maximum number of trainers per workshop is two.
Maximum number of trainers for demos is one.

Examples of hands-on practical workshops or demos from last year include:

Workshop - Source Protection Programme: Phishing 101

Demo - OSINT: Finding People

Course - Data Journalism: Spreadsheets 1-3. Hands-on.

Course - Using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 1-2

 
Why teach/speak at #CIJSummer Conference:
#CIJSummer Conference is a small, informal and friendly event with a strong collaborative atmosphere and plentiful networking opportunities. Speakers and trainers are invited and encouraged to attend the full conference and learn from their colleagues, as well as sharing their own skills with others.

There are no green rooms - we all mix together, exchanging knowledge, ideas, skills and contacts.

All speakers and trainers are also invited to our very popular speakers dinner.

 
Financial:
We are a small charity with a very small budget.

We have very limited funding for travel and accommodation, especially for international speakers.

We have limited funding for speakers’ fees.

If your organisation can cover all or part of your travel and/or accommodation costs - this would help us invite more speakers to the event / offer more affordable places for students and freelancers.

Some speakers donate their speakers fees to the CIJ - it is by no means expected, but very much appreciated.

We do not make money on the #CIJSummer Conference or any of our events or training  - the aim is to train as many people as possible at affordable prices. Any surplus is reinvested into developing and subsidising our training.

 
How to submit your proposal?
Please note, the conference is conducted in English and we are unable to provide translations. All speakers/trainers must be fluent in English to be considered.

You can submit proposals for training sessions (workshop/course/demo) and case study talks, but the maximum number of proposals per person, per year is three.

 

Applications for session proposals are now closed.

Deadline: Sun 17 March at 23:59 UK time

Only successful speakers/trainers will be contacted.

### CIJ 2023 - a Year in Review

Twelve months is a long time in investigative journalism, all the more so amidst rising political chaos at home and militarism overseas. Perhaps as a result, the last year has also been a time of unprecedented growth for the CIJ’s investigative training, both in the UK and around the world. From South Asia to Latin America to the Middle East, CIJ trainers and programme managers have been working hard to help both journalists and ordinary citizens dig out investigative truths, and shine a light on corruption and malfeasance wherever it arises.

It’s exhausting but exciting work which now takes place, from our modest offices in London, over a dizzying array of different time zones. Where to begin? Let’s start with our newest and most ambitious programme, the Open Climate Reporting Initiative.
OCRI is making a global difference!


2023 was a rollercoaster year for the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) at the CIJ. We built on a successful Year One (April 2022 – March 2023) and moved into 3 new regions for Year Two that runs until March 2024.

Our big bet on the implementation strategy for the regions, Brazil and Lusophone Africa, South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), is proving to be a valid one, with more than 300 people directly trained from 16 countries, and over 1000 reached indirectly.

By the end of Year Two, OCRI will have reached journalists, researchers, academics, activists, environmentalists, state and civil society actors in 53 countries! That is a big deal and we are proud of how far we have come.

The multi-layered impact of OCRI is what makes it a unique intervention. One advantage of this is seeing the improvements due to the training and skill-sharing nearly instantly, with investigative projects numbering more than 80 so far. These projects have been able to go deeper into the subjects covered and achieved wider impact by incorporating innovations such as data analysis, open-source intelligence and satellite imagery into their methodologies. Read more about our OCRI programme here!
Climate Change in News Media: in partnership with UNESCO


Our partnership with UNESCO in 2023 went beyond regular news coverage and strengthened the capacity of the media to hold powerful actors to account, use digital methodologies for news gathering and production, and practise solutions journalism to combat climate change.

With UNESCO we worked from December 2022 until July 2023 by collaborating with Adisi-Cameroon for Francophone Africa and the Centre for Journalism, Innovation and Development (CJID) for Anglophone Africa. Through the project, we directly trained 40 journalists from 14 media organisations in 4 countries, namely Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana and Nigeria between March and May.

The post-training support to the newsrooms yielded an unprecedented impact. Over 80 more journalists were trained in their organisations, while at least 6 of the newsrooms set up a climate change reporting desk by participating in the project. This has led to the publication/broadcast of over 100 stories!

 
#CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference


Our flagship training event #CIJSummer Conference took place on 28-29 June at Goldsmiths, University of London.

It is the UK's only conference with a focus on investigative skills. Over 170 people attended and this year we had 53 speakers.

We were delighted to welcome our Open Climate Reporting Initiative partners and trainees as both delegates and speakers at the conference.

This year’s keynote speakers were Olga Rudenko, editor of the Kyiv Independent; ‘Fisayo Soyombo, Nigerian investigative journalist, specialising in undercover investigations; legendary Spanish investigative journalist José María Irujo; and courageous Northern Irish investigative journalist Patricia Devlin.

“Really good. Really appreciated the opportunity to learn more deeply about practical skills, hearing consecutive sessions on data journalism, company accounts, etc.”

Photos only with captions on the CIJ Facebook page.
The videos are on the CIJ YouTube Channel.
Open Climate Reporting Initiative Networking at #CIJSummer Conference 2023


Just over 25 journalists gathered together a day before the #CIJSummer Conference to meet and build a network of trusted contacts for future cooperation. It was quite an experience to have journalists with similar interests on climate change and environmental reporting discuss their work and establish relationships that we hope will blossom.

5 out of 6 CIJ OCRI regional coordinators were joined by 10 Year One OCRI partners and the best trainees coming from 13 countries across Africa, Europe, Latin America and Asia. These included: Argentina, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Colombia, Lesotho, Nepal, Nigeria, Senegal and Uganda.

8 UK-based journalists specialising in covering climate and environment also attended, as well as 6 recipients of JournalismFund Europe funding.

 
CIJ Lyra McKee Investigative Journalism Training and Mentoring Bursary Scheme 2023


The CIJ Lyra McKee Bursary Scheme was established in 2019, following the murder of Lyra McKee, a courageous young Northern Irish journalist and friend of the CIJ.

The aim of the bursary is to fund the training and mentoring of aspiring and early-career journalists from poor and underrepresented backgrounds who live in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. This year the scheme welcomed 10 new trainees.

While participating in the CIJ Lyra McKee scheme, and assisted by the mentors, many applied for work/further study and are now doing paid shifts at The Belfast Telegraph and The Scottish Sun; another trainee has secured the position of an Apprentice Reporter for The Northern Echo; one trainee received a bursary to attend IRE AccessFest23 (US data journalism training); another is pursuing the NCTJ Level 5 Diploma (and struggling with shorthand!); and one trainee received funding from the Journalism Diversity Fund to study at City University.

“I think it is great for the CV. It is well recognised and quality training. It gives a great start for journalists in the industry and gives niche training not available elsewhere.”

CIJ Lyra McKee 2024 applications will open in late January 2024. Watch this space.

 
LYRA Documentary Wins Human Interest Documentary of the Year Award


On the evening of Friday 24 November, LYRA, the fantastic documentary about Lyra McKee by Alison Millar, won the Human Interest Documentary of the Year at the prestigious Association of International Broadcasting awards in London. Accepting the award on behalf of Alison and Lyra’s family, and together with the producer Jackie Doyle, our Director James Harkin talked about Lyra’s enduring legacy in the CIJ’s Lyra McKee mentoring scheme. Here’s an edited summary of his speech:

"One of the things that you get from watching this incredible documentary was that Lyra, from a modest Belfast background, had no poverty of ambition. And she needed that self-belief, she needed to be pushy, because the odds were so much stacked against her.

Which brings me to the reason why I’m here, representing the Centre for Investigative Journalism: Lyra was a friend of ours and a regular at our Summer Conference. And when she was so cruelly shot dead a number of friends of the CIJ got together, together with Lyra’s sister, Nichola, to see what we could do to get more people like her, the brightest and best, into the profession of investigative journalism. People exactly like Lyra, but who needed a helping hand on their way."

 
CIJ Scheduled Courses
In 2023 we continued to provide our core scheduled training, as well as developing several exciting new courses.

Our data, digital tools and story-based inquiry training remain as popular as ever, and the financial investigations course we introduced last year sold out several times in 2023. We held another audio skills course focusing on podcast and radio, and are delighted that we'll be able to offer this training in-person in early 2024.

In addition to delivering two more rounds of R training and bringing back our Web Scraping course, we introduced a new course on Investigating Data with Python, rounding out our training on coding for journalists.

In total we ran 36 scheduled courses this year, training 426 participants.
See the list of our upcoming courses here.
CIJ Bespoke Training
Alongside our scheduled courses, the CIJ offers bespoke training programmes, working closely with editors, research teams and their managers to understand the skills they currently possess, the skills they know they need, and the areas where our training can help in ways they may not be aware of.

We ran seven bespoke training programmes this year, continuing work with clients from previous years such as Oxfam and iNews, and joining with new organisations like Unite and Springer Nature to support their teams to develop their investigative capacity. The topics covered were wide-ranging, but included: open-source intelligence; financial investigations; environmental and supply chain investigations; and web scraping.

 
Source Protection Programme


The Source Protection Programme is an advanced digital security training course for investigators of all stripes. We focus on skills and methods that help reporters protect both themselves and their sources. 2023 was a big year for the programme, as we sought to fully establish our work and start to offer bespoke programmes to meet the different needs of reporters and organisations. We trained more than 550 journalists from over 40 countries in a variety of different settings, including online charitable and commercial programmes and in-person workshops at conferences around the world.

The end of 2023 marks the close of the first two years of running the programme. In 2024 we are looking ahead to expanding our work in the US, Eastern Europe and Southern Africa. If you would like to bring the programme to your newsroom or colleagues – get in touch!

 
Investigative Practice in Latin America
Along with our partners Fundacion Gabo and CLIP, we have consolidated a programme for Investigative Practice in Latin America, that has been renamed ‘Taller Logan de Prácticas Investigativas’ (formerly ‘The Logan Workshop on Investigative Practices’). Under this new name we embarked on an 18-month programme of training in investigative and associated skills for journalists and researchers across all of Latin America, including Brazil.

We have already completed Year 1, with almost one thousand people reached. This includes two online workshops and two open lectures between December 2022 and May 2023.

Our first two workshop rounds were attended by a total of 32 participants from 14 countries, while the open lectures have been viewed by more than 952 people from across the region, from Mexico to Argentina.

Year 1 has been very successful. In its second year of formal delivery, ‘The Logan Workshop on Investigative Practices’ has proved to be an increasingly sought-after training space for investigations and has expanded its reach — growing from 55 applications to 115, and for the forthcoming third round (to be held in January 2024) we have a preliminary figure of 170 applicants.

 
CIJ Glasgow Training


Storm Babet did its best, but couldn’t put a stop to the CIJ’s regional training that took place in Glasgow on 21 October this year. Held in partnership with the National Library of Scotland at Glasgow’s prestigious Kelvin Hall, places filled quickly. Unfortunately the storm disrupted the travel of many, but we had around 50 delegates who were treated to a day of talks and hands-on workshops. The day was rounded off with networking drinks.

Look out for details of next year’s conference on our website and in the newsletter.

 
CIJ Wall of Fame


We are always very proud of our speakers, trainers, volunteers and alumni. Here are just some of their achievements this year!!!

Our former volunteer and graduate of #CIJSummer Conference, Gesbeen Mohammad (now a #CIJSummer Speaker too!) won an Emmy Award in the Hard News Feature Story: Long Form category for her documentary Putin’s War at Home.

Our long term trainer and CIJ Lyra McKee Bursary Scheme mentor Jenna Corderoy won mySociety’s Exposing the truth award!

Our CIJ Lyra McKee graduate Jax Sinclair was nominated for the RTS Scotland Awards 2023 in the Young Journalist category.

Speakers from 2023's #CIJSummer conference were recognised for their achievements at the British Journalism Awards 2023. Dan Neidle won Investigation of the Year, while Paul Morgan-Bentley picked up Scoop of the Year. You can watch the recording of Paul speaking with Dean Kirby, who was shortlisted, about their work investigating the Prepayment Meter Scandal here.
That's a Wrap
That’s a wrap for 2023, probably the CIJ’s busiest year thus far. But 2024 promises to be even bigger and better. As the Open Climate Reporting Initiative gathers momentum and allies, we’re going to go further and deeper into helping journalists around the world to get great climate stories using state-of-the-art investigative tools. Our Source Protection Programme is expanding into whole new parts of the world, including Africa and North America. Our Summer Conference, as usual, will take place in early summer - be there or miss out.

In the autumn we’ll return to Glasgow for a whole new regional conference, offering exciting speakers and tasters of our training for next to no money. Also next autumn we’ll be running the latest exciting iteration of the CIJ Logan Symposium, the world’s premier and most prestigious meeting place for fearlessly critical and imaginative thinking about the landscape of investigative journalism.

Then there’s our ongoing work to train local journalists (as well as a rising “fifth estate” of skilled local investigators) in and around the UK and Ireland, including our Access To Tools programme, which has seen the CIJ develop a powerful web of training and support everywhere from Belfast to Hull. Our Lyra McKee initiative, which offers a muscular leg-up into the profession for the brightest and the best of those who need it. And our delicious bread and butter of scheduled and bespoke training which operates right throughout the year, and which (in its bespoke form) is now training some of the very best newsrooms in the world.

We might have said this before, but CIJ training is simply the best possible way to further your skills and your career in investigative journalism. Either as a Christmas gift to yourself or a new year’s resolution, do consider getting some soon, if only to refresh your understanding of what’s possible in the brave new world of investigative journalism.

Here’s hoping that we’ll see you, either in the flesh or online, at one of our training events in the new year. In the meantime, a very merry Christmas and happy new year from the (newly global) CIJ team.

Have a fantastic holiday season and a very happy new year from all of us at the CIJ!

 

See also: CIJ Recommends 2023: Good reads, podcasts and documentaries. 

### 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.

 

 

Extremely Online, By Taylor Lorenz
A timely study into the world of social media and the trajectories of the platforms and influencers that have taken over the media landscape.

 

 

 

Every Man For Himself and God Against All: A Memoir, By Werner Herzog
If you know, you know – highly recommend the audiobook read by the man himself.

 

 

 

My Fourth Time, We Drowned
Winner of the 2022 Orwell prize for Political Writing by CIJ Speaker Sally Hayden.
A staggering investigation into the migrant crisis across North Africa.

 

 

 

The Poet, By Michael Connelly
An oldie, but a goodie.
Denver crime-beat reporter Jack McEvoy specialises in violent death. So when his homicide detective brother kills himself, McEvoy copes in the only way he knows how--he decides to write the story. But his research leads him to suspect a serial killer is at work--a devious murderer who's killing cops and leaving a trail of poetic clues. It's the news story of a lifetime, if he can get the story without losing his life.

 

Ukraine 22. Ukrainian Writers Respond to War, Edited by Mark Andryczyk
A selection of Ukraine's leading writers convey the reality of life within Ukraine during the first year of the invasion.

 

 

 
Long Reads
Philip Meyer, Reporter Who Pioneered Data-Driven Journalism, Dies at 93. By Clay Risen for The New York Times. (Paywall)
An obituary for Philip Meyer, a reporter who pioneered data-driven journalism.

Israeli tank fire killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah in Lebanon. By Maya Gebeily, Anthony Deutsch and David Clarke for Reuters.
A Reuters investigation into the killing of a Reuters journalist (and the wounding of six other reporters) at the hands of Israeli tank fire.

The Great Cash for Carbon Hustle. By Heidi Blake for The New Yorker.
Offsetting has been hailed as a fix for runaway emissions and climate change—but the market’s largest firm sold millions of credits for carbon reductions that weren’t real.

‘Get Out of Jail Free’
Source Material’s collaborative report on the rise of the new offsetting market for plastics production that’s fast becoming part of the problem.

Talking Peace in Sudan, the U.A.E. Secretly Fuels the Fight. By Declan Walsh, Christoph Koettl and Eric Schmitt for The New York Times (Paywall).
From a remote air base in Chad, the Emirates is giving arms and medical treatment to fighters on one side in Sudan’s worsening war, officials say.

How a Teenage Lie Led To the Beheading of a Teacher. by Peter Conradi for The Times.
When disinformation can kill; the murder of Samuel Paty (Paywall)

How China is Tearing Down Islam. By the FT reporters for the Financial Times.
Thousands of mosques have been altered or destroyed as Beijing’s suppression of Islamic culture spreads.
An FT visual investigation into the disappearance of mosques in China.

Jack Teixeira got security clearance despite history of violent threats. By Shane Harris and Samuel Oakford for the Washington Post.
Why did Jack Teixeira do it? The story behind the Discord leaks.

The Private History of the Espionage Act. By Amy Davidson Sorkin for The New Yorker.
The law, passed in a frenzy after the First World War, is a disaster. Why is it still on the books?

The War in Gaza Has Been Deadly for Journalists. By Isaac Chotiner for The New Yorker.
The President of the Committee to Protect Journalists explains why Israel’s military campaign lead to an unprecedented number of deaths among members of the press in just two months.

The Most Consequential Act of Sabotage in Modern Times. By Mark Bowden, for The Atlantic. (Free with a sign in, then Paywall).
The destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline curtailed Europe’s reliance on Russian gas. But who was responsible? A fantastic long read, involving lots of shoe leather, which gets us closer to the truth of one of the most consequential acts of sabotage in modern history.

 
Podcasts
Buried
First aired on BBC Radio 4. Now on BBC Sounds (UK). Also on Spotify and other platforms. - A deathbed tape leads two reporters into one of the worst environment crimes in UK history: a secret one million tonne toxic dump near a city. What did the man in the tape know?

Who Killed Daphne?
A podcast hosted by our speaker and trainer, award winning investigative journalist Stephen Grey.
When a car bomb kills Daphne Caruana Galizia on the beautiful Mediterranean island of Malta, the hunt for her killers exposes secrets with consequences that go far beyond its shores. In the aftermath of her death an international team of journalists comes together to continue her work. Along the way they start to uncover clues that might lead to her killers.

Page 94. The Private Eye Podcast
One of our firm favourites. Comes out as an when throught the year.
Some of the best stories investigated by the journalists of the Private Eye.

The Oatly Chronicles
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer look into the rise and controversies around the world’s biggest oat milk company.
Documentaries
LYRA
Channel 4 On Demand. UK only.
An emotive, intimate, feature-length portrait of Lyra McKee - the remarkable young journalist murdered in Northern Ireland in 2019 after a life fearlessly committed to truth and justice. The CIJ runs an annual training and mentoring bursary scheme in her name.

 

20 Days in Mariupol
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.
US - watch free of charge on PBS Frontline.
UK - watch on-demand to rent or buy. See all the platforms here.

 

The Power of Big Oil (for the US viewers) or Big Oil vs the World (UK viewers) by our former volunteer, now an award winning investigative documentaries producer and director and #CIJSummer Speaker Gesbeen Mohammad.

 

 

 

Putin’s War at Home (US viewers only) also by our former volunteer, now an award winning investigative documentaries producer and director and #CIJSummer Speaker Gesbeen Mohammad.

 

 

 

Disclosure: Should I tell You I’m Trans? (BBC iPlayer. UK only).
A documentary by the CIJ Lyra McKee graduate Jax Sinclair.

### CIJ 2022 - a Year in Review

I used to be an investigative reporter of some repute, John Hamm tells almost everyone he meets in the new film Confess Fletch - ad nauseam and apropos of nothing. The truth is that everyone, on some level, wants to be an investigative journalist. At the CIJ we’re here to help.

Twenty years in, and it’s going rather well. From the pandemic to the war in Ukraine the last few years have been awful for lots of people, including ourselves in different ways, but what’s helped to keep us going at the CIJ is our sudden and quite unexpected growth and expansion beyond the UK.

The CIJ is now training almost everywhere in the world.  In the last year or so we've been active everywhere from Costa Rica to Colombia, from Burkina Faso to Benin, from Bangkok to Kathmandu. And all that in addition to our growing presence throughout the UK with our Access to Tools programme, our Lyra McKee bursary scheme which aims to get people into investigative journalism who don’t have any convenient middle-class or family connections to the industry, and our ongoing help for non-profit and local investigative outlets around the country. As part of our bespoke programmes, the CIJ is now also training some of the world’s most prestigious newsrooms in investigative techniques.

Here’s what we’ve been up to in the last twelve months, in detail and in numbers:

 
Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI)


In April, the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) started the first year of its work after months of research and preliminary engagements. Starting with a pilot programme in Nepal, we partnered with the Center for Data Journalism Nepal (CDJN) to teach OSINT and deep data dive tools to 12 Nepali journalists producing investigative pieces on the environment and climate change. Out of the seven stories selected for support after the training, four of them have been published so far. We are glad to see that one of the supported stories has prompted steps to address the problems raised from the authorities responsible.

So far, we have worked in 3 regions for the first year of OCRI, which runs until March 2023. They are Latin America (excluding Brazil), Anglophone Africa and Francophone Africa. We have heavily leveraged partnerships to train 239 and directly reach nearly 700 journalists, researchers and activists/environmentalists in 37 countries. With our 10 partners across the regions, we have hosted no less than 38 different forms of in-person and virtual engagements. These have been in the form of curriculum development meetings; train-the-trainer sessions; hands-on training workshops; learning & sharing sessions; masterclasses; tools demos; conference panels and a public launch.

All this work has set us up in an excellent position to deliver the second year of the programme across new regions of the world, which will be announced in spring 2023.

 
#CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2022
#CIJSummer Conference 2022

Our annual flagship training event the #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference took place at Goldsmiths, University of London in June. As always it combined hands-on training in data journalism, FOIA, journalistic methodology, Open Source Intelligence as well as talks from some of the leading UK and international journalists. Meera Jatav, an Indian journalist and a co-founder of the award-winning, grassroots feminist media organisation Khabar Lahariya, delivered our annual Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture on her experiences reporting for and about some of the most marginalised communities in India.

2022 Paul Foot award winner Hannah Al-Othman of The Sunday Times, talked about investigating the British Army, while author and journalist Oliver Bullough spoke to The New York Times’ Jane Bradley about the role of London and other international financial centres in enabling oligarchs, money-launderers and criminals from all over the world to hide their money – and what can be done about it. Award winning Ukrainian investigative journalist and editor of Slidstvo.info Anna Babinets spoke about the rapid adaptation Ukrainian newsrooms had to go through to change their reporting after the Russian invasion.

The next conference will take place at the end of June 2023. Watch this space.

 
CIJ Lyra McKee Investigative Journalism Training and Bursary Scheme
The aim of our five-month Lyra McKee bursary scheme is to train and mentor people from underprivileged backgrounds, who aspire to become journalists or who are at the very early stages of their journalism career. This year ten people from all over the UK took part.

CIJ Lyra McKee trainees pitch their stories to the editors.

They attended and trained at the #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference; they also attended online mentoring sessions with Jenna Corderoy (openDemocracy) and Emma Youle (formerly of HuffPostUK). At the end of the programme they pitched their investigative stories to working editors Basia Cummings (Tortoise Media), Emily Wilson (the Bureau Local) and Ramzy Alwakeel (openDemocracy).

This year’s graduates are already making waves in the UK media: the story Francesca Hughes pitched to the editors so impressed them that it was commissioned and published by openDemocracy: Universities ‘illegally hitting disabled students with extra housing costs’. Another graduate Reece Stafferton has started a media co-operative in Leicester! The Great Central Gazette promises "slow, quality news created with sensitivity, calm and care".

Applications for the CIJ Lyra McKee bursary scheme 2023 will open early next year.

 
CIJ Courses
We continued to expand our online scheduled training, adding new courses to our established offer of Data Journalism, Digital Tools and Story-Based Inquiry, all of which ran multiple times with full classes during 2022. In total, we ran 32 scheduled courses this year, training 387 participants.

We developed and rolled out a new course on Financial Investigations, exploring company accounts, financial OSINT and follow-the-money case studies, providing examples for the practical application of investigative skills. This has proven hugely popular and we plan to have dates for more 2023 iterations very soon. We also trialled an Audio Skills Bootcamp course teaching the essentials for creating an investigative podcast - the course will formally launch in January.

Going into 2023 we plan to develop several new scheduled courses as well as continue designing bespoke training for organisations across the world.

 
Bespoke Training
We have also been developing our bespoke training provision. Working closely with a wide range of clients, from international NGOs such as Oxfam and OpenOwnership to newsrooms of every size including The i and Good Morning Britain, we’ve put together and delivered 15 tailored training programmes. Specifically designed to address skills gaps and staff development needs, these courses have pushed forward investigative capacity and enhanced stories and reports across several areas, both topical and geographic.

The skills these programmes have covered are as diverse as the clients, but this year we’ve built bespoke courses on:

 	Investigative Methodologies
 	All aspects of Data Journalism
 	Financial Investigations
 	Open-Source Intelligence
 	Environmental and Supply Chain Research
 	Freedom of Information

If you’d like to discuss how we could help your reporters or researchers, you can find more information about the way this service works here or contact Tom Sanderson to discuss the possibilities.

 
Community Journalism
During 2022, we’ve continued our work supporting community journalism outlets across London. Supported by the Trust for London, we’ve been delighted to work with four new outlets, helping them dig into the issues that matter to communities in four boroughs.

Newham - Newham Voices

Lambeth - Brixton Bugle

Barnet - Barnet Post

Tower Hamlets - Social Streets

The project has focused on fostering collaborative work between young, up-and-coming journalists - our Investigative Fellows - from each area with established community journalism organisations there. We’ve been able to provide a full range of training opportunities for the Investigative Fellows, taking in the Story-Based Inquiry investigative methodology, Data Journalism skills, Freedom of Information use and Open-Source Intelligence.

The Trust for London’s support for the project has also allowed us to provide financial backing to research projects that constituted the second phase of the project. Time has been covered for both the Fellows and an editor from each outlet while they work on researching a topic of importance to their readership. We look forward to sharing all the published work in the new year.

 
Belfast Regional Conference
Chris Moore speaks at #CIJBelfast Regional Conference in 2022

Thanks to generous funding from the Lorana Sullivan Foundation, we held our third regional conference in March at the prestigious MAC gallery in Belfast as part of the popular ‘Imagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas and Politics’. This was our first in-person conference post-covid and we were able to offer:

Two hands-on workshops - advanced investigative skills and finding company information.

Two talks - Spatial Investigations: ‘Why Architecture Matters’, with Swiss artist Gabriela Löffel, and Belfast-based architect Aisling Rusk; and the Bureau Local revealing long delays and hardships for disabled people trying to make their homes more accessible

Our keynote was Belfast-based Chris Moore who spoke about the Kincora scandal and the challenges of doing investigative journalism in Northern Ireland.

“Really fascinating workshops organised by @cijournalism as part of the #Imagine!festival. I personally found the Digital Tools workshop by Tom Sanderson very interesting in explaining the tools to fact-check and verify images/videos with dubious provenance: @ImagineBelfast"

 
Access to Tools
Access to Tools is a two-hour workshop looking specifically at digital tools that can be used for investigations.

Four of them took place in newsrooms in the East of England (Peterborough, Lincoln, Norwich and Bury St. Edmunds). We also piloted our first library workshop - thanks to Cambridge Library for hosting this and being our guinea pigs.

“Though-provoking”, “brilliant”, and “really useful”. 

“The reporters and news editors loved the course – and came away with lots of useful skills that they will be able to use to increase the quality of their content day in, day out.”

 
The Source Protection Programme
Over the last 12 months alongside our friends at the Freedom of the Press Foundation we’ve begun to roll out our new digital security programme for freelancers and investigators who are in desperate need of protection from increasing threats both on and off-line. Since we launched the programme at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia in April we’ve trained over 400 reporters from more than 65 countries across six continents.

We’ve partnered with a range of press freedom organisations and journalism conferences to reach journalists across the Middle East, Europe, Asia and the Pacific as well as South and North America. We’ve also started to offer bespoke programmes for newsrooms and media organisations, as well as introduce the material to university journalism students across the UK.

We’re looking forward to 2023 when we’ll be running more free-to-access programmes everywhere from Mexico to Singapore. Look out for announcements early next year. In the meantime, if you’re looking for digital security advice check out Freedom of the Press Foundation’s online resources. If you’re in need of emergency support please get in touch with the team.

 
Thank you!
Much like Santa’s presents, it wouldn’t have been possible to deliver any of this training without a growing army of helpers and supporters around the world.

Martin Tomkinson teaches financial journalism

We would especially like to thank our trainers Daniel Balint-Kurti, Diogo Augusto, Fabio Natali, Guy Porter, Harlo Holmes, Irving Huerta, Jonathan Stoneman, Leigh Baldwin, Leila Haddou, Luuk Sengers, Mark Lee Hunter, Martin Tomkinson, Orange, Runa Sandvik, Sally Herships, Sam Leon, Tansy Hoskins.

The #CIJLyra McKee bursary scheme would have been impossible without our excellent mentors Jenna Corderoy and Emma Youle, and guest editors Basia Cummings (Editor, Tortoise Studios), Emily Wilson (Editor, The Bureau Local) and Ramzy Alwakeel (Head of News, openDemocracy).

There are of course many more! If you’re one of them – a profound thank you!

If not, please do get involved or come to one of our training sessions in the New Year. In the meantime, and from everyone at the CIJ - wishing you a very Happy Christmas!

### CIJ 2022 Holiday Reading, Listening and Watch List

As the year comes to a close, we publish our selection of the best reads and podcasts to dive into.
Books
The disappearing act. The impossible case of MH370, by Le Monde foreign correspondent Florence de Changy.

Tantalising the reader with conspiracy, this account by a veteran investigative journalist is enthralling.

Buy preloved from World of Books
Buy from the publisher Mudlark at HarperCollins

 

Butler to the World: How Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals by the #CIJSummer Conference speaker Oliver Bullough.

This excellent, easy-to-read book reveals the scandalous reality of Britain's new position in the world.

Listen to Oliver's talk at #CIJSummer Conference 2022.
Buy preloved from World of Books
Buy from the publishers Profile Books

 

My Fourth Time, We Drowned by Sally Hayden

A staggering investigation into the migrant crisis across North Africa. This book follows the shocking experiences of refugees seeking sanctuary, but it also surveys the bigger picture: the negligence of NGOs and corruption within the United Nations. The economics of the twenty-first-century slave trade and the EU's bankrolling of Libyan militias. The trials of people smugglers, the frustrations of aid workers, the loopholes refugees seek out and the role of social media in crowdfunding ransoms. Who was accountable for the abuse? Where were the people finding solutions? Why wasn't it being widely reported?

Buy preloved from World of Books
Buy from the publisher HarperCollins

 

Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies by Stefania Maurizi. Translated by Lesli Cavanaugh-Bardelli

Working closely with WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange and his organisation for her newspaper, Maurizi has spent over a decade investigating state criminality protected by thick layers of secrecy, while also embarking on a solitary trench warfare to unearth the facts underpinning the cruel persecution of Assange and WikiLeaks.

Buy from the publisher Pluto Press

 

The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion by Tansy E. Hoskins

Investigative, political, thoughtful, the Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion strips away the glitz to show the huge damage done by the garment industry, to our environment, to those trapped inside its production, and to our psychological and emotional well-being. This book goes far beyond sustainable fashion or ethical consumerism to show that if we want to feel comfortable in our clothes we need to reshape the entire system.

Buy from the publisher Pluto Press

 

 
Podcasts
Who killed Daphne? 
A podcast by Reuters investigative journalist (and CIJ trainer) Stephen Grey.
Listen on Apple Podcasts on Spotify, on Stitcher.

How to Steal a Trillion
Another one from the author and journalist Oliver Bullough traces Britain's vital role in the growth of 'offshore' money laundering.
Listen on BBC Sounds

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast
A (roughly) monthly podcast on the best stories investigated by the Private Eye journalists. Don't miss their 2022 Paul Foot Award episode featuring all the runners up and the ultimate winners Hannah Al-Othman and David Collins of The Sunday Times. Watch Hannah speak at #CIJSummer Conference 2022.
Listen on The Private Eye website.
Listen on Apple Podcasts on Spotify, on PodBean

The Heist
Award-winning podcast from the Center for Public Integrity, hosted by CIJ trainer Sally Herships investigates the broken promises of the Trump presidency.
Listen on the Center for Public Integrity Website
Listen on Apple Podcasts, on PodBean

The Slow Newscast
This podcast made by Tortoise Media (one of its editors, Basia Cummings, was our guest editor on the #CIJLyra McKee Bursary Scheme programme) gives a voice and a space for some of the biggest stories around the world.
Listen on Tortoise Media
Listen on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, on PodBean

Conspiracyland: The Strange case of Havana Syndrome. By far the best of the “Havana Syndrome” podcasts, by the brilliant Michael Isikoff, Yahoo News Chief Investigative Correspondent.
Listen on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, on TuneIn

 
Documentaries
Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard
Upstart payment firm Wirecard wowed the financial industry with its runaway success — until a tenacious team of journalists exposed massive fraud. Featuring 2020 Logan Symposium speaker from the FT Dan McCrum.
Watch Dan speaking at the Logan Symposium.

Once Upon a Time in Londongrad
The documentary tells the story based on BuzzFeed’s From Russia With Blood investigation by journalist and #CIJSummer speaker Heidi Blake and her team into the the death of a multi-millionaire property tycoon, which then unfolded into a convoluted web of mystery Russian oligarch deaths.
It also features another #CIJSummer speaker Jane Bradley.

 
CIJ Videos
Check out CIJ YouTube Channel to watch all our talks and discussions, including from #CIJSummer 2022.

### Gavin MacFadyen

Gavin MacFadyen, Mentor and Defender of WikiLeaks's Founder, Is Dead at 76

The New York Times - 28 October, 2016

Gavin MacFadyen, an American investigative journalist who became an early mentor and defender of the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, died on Saturday in London, where he lived and spent much of his professional life. He was 76.

The cause was lung cancer, his wife, Susan Benn, said.

Since the 1970s, Mr. MacFadyen produced and directed scores of television documentaries on a wide range of subjects, including neo-Nazi violence, child labor, nuclear proliferation and industrial accidents. Sometimes he worked in disguise.

He also co-founded the nonprofit Center for Investigative Journalism in London in 2003, a training program in skeptical reporting, and WhistleblowersUK, a support group for tipsters. He was a director of WikiLeaks and, with his wife and another journalist, John Pilger, formed the Julian Assange Legal Defense Committee.

Mr. Assange, an Australian computer programmer, founded WikiLeaks in 2006 and published millions of secret documents, many supplied by Chelsea Manning, a United States Army intelligence analyst. Mr. Assange has been under investigation by the American government and is wanted for questioning about rape allegations in Sweden. He has found refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London to avoid extradition.

Immediately after Mr. MacFadyen's death, WikiLeaks issued this Twitter post: ''Gavin Macfadyen, beloved director of WikiLeaks, now takes his fists and his fight to battle God. Sock it to him, forever, Gavin.'' It was signed ''JA.''

In his book ''WikiLeaks: News in the Networked Era'' (2012), Charlie Beckett wrote that Mr. MacFadyen ''was a core WikiLeaks supporter who had offered the services of interns, facilities and even on occasion his sofa to the team.'' Mr. Assange moved into Mr. MacFadyen's London townhouse in 2010, bringing with him only three pairs of socks.

Elaine Potter, a philanthropist and co-founder of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, based in London, said Mr. MacFadyen had been driven by ''passion, politics and curiosity.''

''He recognized the significance of WikiLeaks and made contact from the moment they arrived on the internet,'' she said. ''He became obsessed with providing support for whistle-blowers.''

Mr. Assange and WikiLeaks have been thrust into the spotlight in recent months by the release of thousands of Democratic National Committee emails amid suspicions by United States officials that the files were hacked by the Russian government, possibly to influence the American elections.

But Mr. MacFadyen maintained that Western news organizations had uncritically published material provided by the Central Intelligence Agency and that the fundamental question was whether the information was true and in the public interest, rather than its source.

"His commitment to exposing the true nature of power was his life force,'' Ms. Benn, his wife, said. ''He spearheaded the creation of a journalistic landscape which has irrevocably lifted the bar for ethical and hard-hitting reporting.''

She added: ''Gavin worked tirelessly to hold power to account. He once said, 'Good journalism is always political journalism.'''

Mr. MacFadyen was born Gavin Hall Galter on Jan. 1, 1940, in Greeley, Colo., and grew up in Chicago. He never knew his father, and he adopted the surname of his stepfather, a medical researcher. His mother was a pianist.

He worked as a union organizer and demonstrated for civil rights before moving to Britain, where he graduated from the London School of Film Technique (now the London Film School).

Afterward, he created a documentary film group to chronicle the political turmoil in the United States during the late 1960s for the BBC, covering anti-Vietnam War protests, race riots and the police clash with demonstrators at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968.

He went on to cover the war in Nicaragua between the right-wing contra rebels and the Marxist Sandinista government in the 1980s.

Collaborating with the director Michael Mann, he played Boreksco, a crooked police officer, in Mr. Mann's 1981 debut feature film, ''Thief,'' and was a technical adviser to ''The Insider,'' Mr. Mann's 1999 film about Jeffrey Wigand, a tobacco company whistle-blower, starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino.

He produced documentaries for the BBC, Granada Television and ABC-TV and for Frontline on PBS. He was a visiting professor at City, University of London.

In addition to Ms. Benn, he is survived by a son, Michael, from his first marriage, to Virginia Daum, which ended in divorce; three stepdaughters, Sarah Saunders, Deborah Ramsay and Samantha McLean; and six grandchildren.

In an interview with Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands in 2009, Mr. MacFadyen drew a distinction between being a witness and bearing witness, and defined a whistle-blower or an informer as someone who values the truth because it will affect the future.

''The wealthy and powerful often are unhappy about telling the truth,'' he said. ''There is a famous story that if you give a poor man on the street a dollar, you're considered a good Christian, but if you ask, 'Why is that man poor?' you'll go to prison.''

Journalism, he suggested, was essentially pursuing answers to basic questions: ''A building has blown up. Great. We need to know that -- very important. Who did it? Why did it blow up? What are the consequences? Who was killed? Who benefits from this? Those are the questions I want to ask.''

He added: ''The more we know, the more we can control an event or stop those events. To understand the events, not to cry, not to laugh, but to understand.''

[Link to the original article]

### #CIJSummer 2024: early-access booking form for organisations

#CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2024 will take place in person on 03-04 July at Goldsmiths, University of London.

This is an advance booking form for organisations who've attended our training in recent years. Prices include a 10% early-bird discount. 

The number of places will be limited so make sure to take advantage of this early access!

Topics and skills:

 	Financial journalism
 	Data journalism (hands-on)
 	Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests
 	Environmental investigations
 	Crime investigations
 	Investigative methodology
 	Source Protection Programme
 	And much more

### CIJ 2021: A Year in Review

We mainly spent 2021 online, yet we managed to travel far and wide. From training all over the world to opening an “office” in Lagos. Here is our year in review.
2021 at a glance

 	Number of online scheduled courses: 101
 	Number of online bespoke training courses: 33
 	Number of people attending our training: just over 1650
 	Number of people attending talks and events: over 1000
 	Number of outreach training programmes: 6
 	Number of training programme fellows: 184
 	Number of countries reached: 51
 	Number of online events and conferences: 2
 	Number of in-person events and conferences: 0
 	Number of Zoom meetings: lost count
 	Number of people joining the CIJ team: 2 (1 in London + 1 in Lagos)

From our director
Happy Christmas and a happy and healthy new year from everyone at the CIJ. As you’ll see below, we’ve been enormously busy expanding around the world even in the headwinds of a global pandemic. Next year, and Covid-permitting, we’ll be presenting our brand new Source Protection Programme at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, and hosting the latest of our regional conferences in association with the Imagine Belfast festival in Northern Ireland.

Whether Covid permits it or not, we’ll be taking our quality, small-group investigative training to even more regions and continents around the world, initially online – to Anglophone and Francophone Africa, Latin America and Asia. We’ll also be running classroom-based training in the UK as soon as the pandemic permits. Then there’s the twentieth CIJ Summer Investigative Journalism Conference, which we plan to hold at the beginning of July 2022. Mark the date in your calendar, and see you there!
New recruits and the Lagos “Office”
We were delighted to welcome two new people to the CIJ team.

Beth Blackmore joined the CIJ in the summer of 2021 from a learning & development consultancy in the non-profit sector. At the CIJ she provides coordination for training, projects and events.

Adeolu Adekola, formerly from the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, joined the CIJ in the autumn to manage its Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI). This is a new post created to oversee a two-year programme of training in investigative skills with the aim of raising the standard of climate-focused investigations.

Adeolu's sitting room is the CIJ's new "office" in Lagos. Nearly two years of covid-induced working online helped us integrate our London and Lagos bases very quickly, but we are planning to see a good deal of Adeolu in London and throughout our international work.
Source Protection Programme
The Source Protection Programme is an advanced information security syllabus provided free for freelance journalists delivered by the Centre for Investigative Journalism and the Freedom of The Press Foundation.

The pilot programme ran from 10 May – 30 June 2021 and consisted of eight weeks of online training, workshops, guest lectures and masterclasses from some of the world’s leading journalists, investigators and security researchers.

The speakers and trainers included: Iona Craig (a freelance journalist and CIJ board member), a Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning journalist Barton Gellman (The Atlantic), Laura Poitras (filmmaker, Citizenfour), Trevor Timm and Harlo Holmes (the Freedom of Press Foundation), Dr. Omar Mohammed (aka Mosul Eye, historian) to name but a few. See the full list here.
#CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2021 Online
It had to be online again. But we did it better this year!

The event took place on 5-8 July and we almost doubled the number of attendees compared to 2020.

922 people attended in 2021 from a wide range of countries: Canada, India, Australia, USA, Mexico, Russia, Kenya, Vietnam to name but a few, plus a good many non-London based participants in the UK.

While still not as fun as the “real” conference, the online format enables us to reach people all over the world.

Once again, we were delighted to welcome some excellent speakers:

Wa Lone delivered our annual Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture. Together with his colleague Kyaw Soe Oo, he was arrested while reporting on military abuses of the Rohingya people in Rakhine State.

Associated Press’s Global Investigations Editor Ron Nixon spoke to Sheila Coronel about his journalistic career.

Covid-19 was naturally still on the agenda and this year we focused on India. No Country Left Behind? The Indian Covid-19 Catastrophe featured Supriya Sharma (scroll.in), Shadab Nazmi (BBC South Asia), Natasha Loder, (The Economist) and was moderated by India-based journalist Lou Del Bello.

Reporting Russia: Independent Journalism Under Putin focused on the situation in Russia. Sadly, though perhaps predictably, the freedom of the press situation there got worse very quickly and half of our panelists had to leave the country for fear of prosecution, while all their publications were declared “Foreign Agents”.

Dale Maharidge and Mary O'Hara spoke about Reporting Poverty.

Erick Kabendera and Michela Wrong spoke to Rosalind Russell about Investigating Africa.

You can watch all CIJSummer Videos on our YouTube channel.

#CIJSummer Conference is supported by the Lorana Sullivan UK Foundation.
CIJ around the world
Latin America:
Following on from last year's successful pilot programme in Latin America, and supported by funding from the Reva and David Logan Foundation, we have developed and delivered an investigative training programme for the region.

Working in partnership with Fundación Gabo and the Centro Latinoamericano de Periodismo de Investigación (CLIP), we delivered two rounds of training, each for 12 participants, with workshops and CIJ-produced materials translated into Spanish. In total 270 people applied for the course, and Fundación Gabo told us it was one of the most wanted courses they'd ever had.
India and Nepal:
In June and July, with support from the Bertha Foundation, we held pilot data workshops in Nepal and India, and an advanced search workshop in India. All the data workshops were very well attended. The Nepal training was done in partnership with the Centre for Investigative Journalism Nepal, who followed up the workshop with mentoring, and stories have been published that drew on the skills learned in the training.

Impact of Covid-19 Infection and Lockdown on the Nature of Crime: Decreased Organized and Social Crime, Increased Suicide and Violence Against Women. By Bidhur Dhakal for PahiloPost.

The pandemic has led to unemployment, increased depression and suicide. By Bidhya Rai, Kantipur for National Daily.
Francophone Africa:
We have now finalised the dates for our final round of Bertha Foundation's funded pilots, and will be running four workshops in February. We will soon be putting out a call for applications for this training.
#CIJLyraMcKee Investigative Journalism Bursary and Mentoring Scheme
The second CIJ Lyra McKee Bursary Scheme concluded in November. The final session marked the graduation of seven trainees, six of whom presented story pitches to a line-up of editors: Emily Wilson (The Bureau Local), Jess Brammar (the BBC) and Martin Williams (openDemocracy).

The CIJ Lyra McKee Investigative Journalism Training Bursary Scheme was established in memory of a young and courageous Irish investigative journalist Lyra McKee, who was shot dead by dissident republicans in Derry in April 2019.

This year’s CIJ Lyra McKee Bursary Scheme was held fully online and offered mentoring from journalists Emma Youle and Jenna Corderoy alongside training.

One of the trainees said of the scheme: "I think it’s a really generous scheme that genuinely wants to equip people with the skills to further themselves. The addition of mentoring felt vital to me. I’ve been for job interviews where the interviewer was very impressed with the fact I was on the scheme. Thanks so much."

We are very proud of our 2021 alumni. Over the course of the programme and assisted by the mentors, most participants secured journalism jobs and internships following their training at #CIJSummer Conference, a fantastic measure of the programme’s success.

These include positions at BBC Scotland Disclosure team, The Times, Deutsche Welle, and BBC Humberside. Three enrolled in an NCTJ course and one trainee got a place on the BBC Future Voices Scheme for bilingual reporters. Cherise Hamilton won Gold for The Creativity Award and Bronze for Best Current Affairs Podcast from Brit Pod Awards 2021.

The CIJ Lyra McKee Bursary scheme is funded by the Lorana Sullivan UK Foundation and the Lyra McKee Foundation.

Applications for the CIJ Lyra McKee Bursary Scheme 2022 will open early next year.
#CIJMasterclass with Stephen Grey and friends
Eleven trainees attended six sessions curated by award-winning investigative journalist Stephen Grey of Reuters.

Places on the masterclass are free and were made available via open competition and application. Priority was given to those from under-privileged and non-traditional backgrounds, without existing connections to the national media, who have demonstrated talent and a commitment to truth-telling journalism.

Speakers included:

Ben Plesser, award-winning producer and executive news producer, formerly of NBC News and CBS’s 60 Minutes.

Steve Stecklow, a senior Reuters investigative reporter and a double Pulitzer Prize winner.

Tom Bergin, Reuters business correspondent, winner of the Orwell Prize and European Press Prize for uncovering Starbucks' and Vodafone's failure to pay significant UK tax.

Juliette Garside, deputy business editor of the Guardian and the Observer.

Paul Nuki, Global Health Security Editor at The Telegraph.

This was our second Masterclass programme after the initiative launched in 2019.
Collaborative Community Journalism Project
After successfully transitioning our work online during 2020, we were able to run the first Collaborative Community Journalism programme this year, working closely with community journalism organisations in four London boroughs to support their efforts to nurture the talent of early career journalists and investigate the issues that matter to the communities they serve.

In March 2021 we recruited four young journalists to form our first cohort of Investigative Fellows. Each of the young people had strong ties to their borough and were assigned to the relevant community journalism outlet. The Fellows were also connected to campaign groups working on the issues affecting their local communities.

Over the course of the project Fellows were supported by their editors, campaign groups and the CIJ to develop their investigative research skills and produce an in-depth piece of local reporting. Funding for the project came from the Trust for London and provided paid research and support time for the outlets and the Fellows, as well as access to CIJ training programmes and additional assistance such as legal advice.

The published pieces cover topics ranging from knife crime to social care to temporary housing and can be read below.

Waltham Forest: Waltham Forest Echo – Marcia Veiga
The long shadow of Waltham Forest’s knife crime

Greenwich: 853 – Yohannes Lowe
‘Smoke and mirrors’ hide cuts hitting Greenwich’s most vulnerable people
NHS bosses threatened Greenwich Council with auditors over social care cuts

Lewisham: The Lewisham Ledger – Rosario Blue
Publication due soon

Enfield: Enfield Dispatch – Sabah Husain
The reality of living in temporary accommodation
The scale of Enfield’s housing crisis
A big thank you to our loyal trainers
Lots of people support our work, but none more than our loyal trainers. A big thank you goes to all of them. They continue to develop themselves and bring some of the most cutting-edge investigative training to all of you.

Jonathan Stoneman and Leila Haddou (data journalism), Mark Lee Hunter and Luuk Sengers (Story-based Inquiry method), Irving Huerta and Guy Porter (Digital Tools for Investigation), Paul Bradshaw (web scraping), Dylan Kennedy (Financial Investigation).

2021 has been a busy year for us. But our biggest achievements are not what we do in the office, they are what our trainees, trainers and speakers do in the field. So If you ever attended a CIJ event and what you learned there helped you with your investigative work, let us know. We love having our very own “wall of fame” with your names on it.

“If your aim is to change the world”, said Tom Stoppard, “journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.”  It’s a weapon more important and necessary than ever.

Here’s to a happy 2022!

The CIJ Team

### Adeolu Adekola to lead CIJ's Open Climate Reporting Initiative

Former Senior Programme Officer at the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, Adeolu Adekola has been appointed Project Manager for the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) in London.

This is a new post created to oversee a two-year programme of training in investigative skills with the aim of raising the standard of climate-focused investigations. There will be a particular focus on practices that are contributing to the climate crisis, enabling thoroughly researched public interest reporting and evidence-based advocacy.

On the new appointment the CIJ’s Deputy Director, Tom Sanderson said “We are delighted to welcome Adeolu to the team. It’s been an incredibly competitive recruitment process, but Adeolu’s experience, network and wide range of skills make him the perfect candidate to lead this programme and ensure it delivers on our aims in transformative ways.”

The project – The Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) – is a global programme of training aimed at journalists, activists, NGOs and CSOs. This is the first time the CIJ has embarked on training around a specific theme: “our training provision has always been hands-on, practical and applicable to the full range of issues that require investigation and public-interest reporting at all levels,” explained Sanderson.

“However, we feel that the sheer scale of the current climate crisis requires a sharpening of focus, and this programme will aim to bring the skills we specialise in - data journalism, financial investigation, open-source intelligence, and source protection - to those who have borne witness to the impacts of the climate crisis for many years now.”

Commenting on his appointment, Adekola expressed optimism that the project will shed more light about the climate crisis across regions for stakeholder action. He said "The impact of climate change in the next few years, if proper steps are not taken, will be detrimental to human existence. The OCRI implemented by the CIJ will contribute immensely to asking the difficult questions that need answers and I am thrilled to be joining a team of great minds."

Working from his home town of Lagos, Nigeria, Adekola is uniquely placed to understand first-hand the effects of climate change. In his first interview in his new role - for the BBC’s World Service Radio’s Weekend Programme - he explained:

“Lagos, if care is not taken - having a very fragile coastline - the impact of flooding and climate change and global warming will be very huge”

“In July, for example, this year, there was massive flooding, with about 4,000 residents in Lagos displaced”

You can hear the interview in full.


https://tcij.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Adeolu-Adekoya-interview-on-Weekend-programme.mp3

 

The project is funded by Quadrature Climate Foundation, to provide a two-year programme of training in six global regions. By working on the frontline of exposing activities that exacerbate climate change, OCRI will provide the skills to examine and question the structures in place at an international level that may be facilitating harmful activities, and teach delegates how to tell these stories in a way that is compelling and accessible to a general audience.

This project will provide the necessary tools, techniques and expertise to those working at the sharp end of climate change to investigate and expose wrongdoing; research and quantify accurate pictures of the situation and the impact of other efforts; and craft meaningful stories which garner support for changes in policy, regulation or economic actors’ decisions.

### We're hiring - Project Manager (fixed-term contract)

We’re now seeking a highly motivated Project Manager with a clear understanding of the debates and issues surrounding media and journalism, and experience of working on issues relating to the environment or climate change. This is a collaborative role in a senior position and includes budget and line management, and administration. You will work closely with several regional coordinators to organise training in investigative skills to help uncover and tell the stories relating to climate change.

This is a new post to provide international training, through a network of regional partners, for those working on investigations and research relating to greenhouse gas emissions associated with human activities.

Job title: Project Manager

Contract type: Full-time fixed-term until 31 January 2024, with the possibility of a short extension should the project require it.

Starting annual salary: £42k

Location: Remote working. Occasional international travel might be required.

Direct report: Deputy Director

Start date: As soon as possible

Description and Purpose of the post:

This is a collaborative role in a senior position and includes budget and line management, and administration. You will work closely with several  regional coordinators to organise training in investigative skills to help uncover and tell the stories relating to climate change.

To support and further the aims of the Centre for Investigative Journalism through delivering:

Phase I: Scoping the project - under the supervision of the Deputy Director

Building on the knowledge within the Centre for Investigative Journalism and using existing networks and contacts, the first six months will be taken up producing a comprehensive scoping document consisting of a detailed project plan outlining the delivery of the training, budget and identifying any gaps alongside proposals as to how these can be filled. The project plan will determine the direction of work for the rest of the contract.

Through this scoping, we would expect the Project Manager to be able to:

 	Identify the regions and languages for the training
 	Secure collaboration with local partners
 	Recruit regional coordinators
 	Detail the type and level of training required and build a core curriculum around this
 	Determine the level and nature of input required from other team members
 	Identify any subject and region specific training
 	Produce a detailed budget for each of the regions
 	Produce a project plan for delivery of the training
 	Identify risks associated with the project and mitigation strategies for each
 	Identify any additional support that might be needed
 	Determine what support materials are needed
 	Propose how best to engage with audiences and ensure maximum coverage of stories
 	Establish a clear process for evaluating the project

Phase II: Delivering the project - under the supervision of the Deputy Director

 	Once signed-off, the scoping document will determine the role until the end of the contract as the work will be to deliver it.
 	You will have the support of other team members for the process of scoping the project. You will also manage any staff that were identified as needed to deliver the project.
 	The role is likely to require occasional international travel, although this should be kept to a minimum and the project should rely as much as possible on the regional networks.

Essential Criteria:

 	Project management experience of 5+ years
 	Demonstrable experience of working on a similar project
 	Knowledge of environmental/ climate issues
 	Experience of working for a charity, NGO or CSO
 	Happy to work on own initiative unsupervised
 	Experience of managing budgets
 	Experience of managing staff
 	Created and developed networks

Desirable Criteria:

 	A second language
 	Assertive and comfortable with speaking in public
 	Good network of international contacts
 	PRINCE2 or equivalent

Please email your CV with a cover letter to jobs@tcij.org, quoting reference OCRI-3 in your email's subject line.

Application deadline: 16 August 2021

We thank all applicants for their interest, but only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

### #CIJSummer Conference, 5-8 July 2021: Free Talks



### New Data Journalism Courses - May 2021

Whether starting from scratch or refining your existing data skills, our training courses are hands-on, practical and designed to get you applying data analysis to your investigative research straight away.



The course is just brilliantly designed. Everything is useful.Finding Stories with Data Feedback, 2020

Having sold out its successful online debut, our advanced data journalism course, Data-Driven Investigations, is back with more dates! The course leads you through the process of building data into your investigation from the start, taking your own story ideas and applying tested methodologies that allow you to quickly and effectively leverage the power of data analysis to progress your leads and find the evidence you need to construct a compelling pitch.

Alongside the ever-popular online Finding Stories with Data course, you can also take the full programme at a 10% discount with the Deep Dive into Data package.

This package combines both courses with a structured progression to build on your learning, and a 10% discount on the overall booking fee.

Informative and a great foundation to build on and put me on the right trajectory for my own professional needs.Data-Driven Investigations Feedback, 2021

 
Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive
(4 modules of 1.5hrs each - four consecutive days)
Mon 17 May 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)
Tue 18 May 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)
Wed 19 May 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)
Thu 20 May 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)

 
Data-Driven Investigation – Online, Intensive
(5 modules of 2hrs each - five consecutive days)
Mon 24 May 2021 @ 10am–12pm (UK time)
Tue 25 May 2021 @ 10am–12pm (UK time)
Wed 26 May 2021 @ 10am–12pm (UK time)
Thu 27 May 2021 @ 10am–12pm (UK time)
Fri 28 May 2021 @ 10am–12pm (UK time)

 
Deep Dive into Data Journalism – 2-course package (10% discount): Finding Stories with Data + Data-Driven Investigations
 

### CIJ Bursaries, Fellowships and Masterclasses

We run a number of initiatives which aim to diversify investigative journalism. We also run research projects aimed to build connections between community journalism groups and community campaign groups.

Below is a list of the 2021 initiatives.

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#CIJLyraMcKee Investigative Journalism Training and Mentoring Bursary Scheme
Aim
Supporting people from underrepresented and marginalised communities to gain entry into the journalistic profession.
Who is it for?
People from underrepresented backgrounds trying to break into journalism or who are at the very early stages of their journalistic career.
Paid/unpaid
This is an unpaid training programme
Eligibility criteria
18+ residents of the UK and the Republic of Ireland AND unable to attend CIJ training for financial reasons.
Duration
May - November 2021, excluding August
Location
Fully online
What’s included

 	Free attendance of  CIJ Scheduled Courses: Story-Based Inquiry, Finding Stories with Data, Freedom of Information Act Requests, others - TBC.
 	Free attendance of the #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2021
 	Regular meetings with mentors, working towards pitching story ideas.
 	Guest speakers

Funded by
The Lorana Sullivan Foundation and the Lyra McKee Foundation
Application deadline - Applications are now closed.
Applications closed on Sun 4 April 2021, 23:59. Only successful candidates will be contacted.
Click HERE for more information
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CIJ Collaborative Journalism Fellowship 2021
Aim
Strengthening links between London-based community journalism outlets and community campaign groups
Who is it for?
Early-career investigative journalists
Paid/unpaid
This is a paid fellowship
Eligibility criteria
Essential criteria:

 	Have shown commitment to ethical use of investigative journalism in the public interest

Desirable criteria:

 	Have brought 1 piece of work with investigative elements to successful publication
 	Lived experience of poverty, inequality or other structural barriers to entering the journalism profession
 	A connection to one of the following London communities: Greenwich, Lewisham, Enfield, Waltham Forest

Duration
June - August 2021. Two days a week.
What’s expected
Work with a Community Journalism Outlet and a Community Campaign Partner to research issues that are affecting local people in one of the target London boroughs.
What’s included

 	Free attendance of CIJ Scheduled Courses: Story-Based Inquiry, Finding Stories with Data, Freedom of Information Act Requests, Company Accounts
 	Free attendance of the #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2021

Funded by
Trust for London
Application deadline - Applications are now closed.
Applications closed on Sun 28 March 2021, 23:59. Only successful candidates will be contacted.
Click HERE for more information
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The Source Protection Programme 2021
Aim
An advanced information security programme provided free for freelance journalists who need it. The programme will bolster the skills of a cohort of investigators committed to challenging power and tackling official secrecy, surveillance and censorship. Care, innovation, precision, scepticism and accuracy are the guiding principles of the programme.

The programme pilot runs May - June 2021 and consists of 8 weeks of free training workshops and guest lectures from some of the world’s leading journalists and security researchers.
Eligibility criteria
We are looking for mid-career freelance investigative journalists to participate in the programme. This will require some commitments from you, but we can offer several benefits from being involved in the project:

 	Access to free online information security training and guidance organised by the CIJ and Freedom of the Press Foundation.
 	An opportunity to network with a small cohort of other journalists working in similar fields.
Profile raising through publicity about the project.

Essential criteria

 	Commitment to ethical use of investigative journalism in the public interest
 	Ability to commit to sessions in GMT or EST outlined below
 	English language proficiency

Desirable criteria

 	Mid career working freelancer reporting on: national security, organised crime, technology, cross-border investigations
 	You’ve published a long form investigative piece
 	You’ve worked across multiple media (video, audio etc)

Paid/unpaid
This is an unpaid training programme
Duration
8 weeks -- 10 May / 30 June
Location
Fully online
Programme details

 	8 weeks, 6 training sessions, 6 guest lectures, 2 office hours, taking place on Monday and Wednesday nights
 	Two cohorts of between 10 - 15 participants
 	Two time slots for the programme (1 x North America, 1 x European)
 	A certificate of completion will be awarded at the conclusion of the programme to all participants who have attended 90% of the teaching sessions.

Application deadline - Applications are now closed.
Applications closed on Wed 21 April 2021, 23:59. Only successful candidates will be contacted.
Funded by
The programme is generously supported by The Reva & David Logan Foundation and delivered by The Centre for Investigative Journalism and The Freedom of the Press Foundation.
Click HERE for more information
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CIJ Masterclass 2021
Aim
To get the best and brightest into the profession of investigative journalism, irrespective of their background
Who is it for?
Budding to early-career investigative journalists who have faced barriers to entering the profession
Paid/unpaid
This is an unpaid training programme
Eligibility criteria

 	Participants in the Investigative Masterclass Programme should be at the early stages of their journalistic career
 	We intend the masterclasses to help those who have faced barriers to becoming investigative journalists to overcome these barriers and begin their careers in the field. Therefore, priority will be given to those from under-privileged and non-traditional backgrounds, without existing connections to the national media, and who have also already demonstrated talent and a commitment to truth-telling journalism, for example in local or regional media, magazines, blogs or other new media.
 	You will need to be able to commit to attending the classes every Saturday.

Duration
4-6 consecutive Saturdays in September-October 2021 - TBC
Location
Fully online
What’s included
Free high-value, small-group tuition with one of Britain’s best investigative journalists, Stephen Grey of Reuters. Possible hands-on project to work on.
Funded by
The Centre for Investigative Journalism
Application deadline
Applications are not open yet. Watch this space.
A link to this initiative's page will be provided soon.

### Data Journalism Courses - Spring 2021

Having sold out all previous versions of our new Online Data Journalism courses, we were eager to make some new dates available as soon as possible to meet the demand.

The course is just brilliantly designed. Everything is useful.Finding Stories with Data Feedback, 2020

The process of translating our training from in-person to a remote online format posed a lot of questions - primarily how to do this without losing the hands-on and practical nature of the courses that makes them so effective. Judging by their popularity and the feedback they are receiving, our team and the expert trainers in our network have found the right answers to these questions.

Worked very well online. Plenty of opportunity to ask questions.Story-based Inquiry Feedback, 2020

 

So for the springtime of this new and hopefully brighter year ahead, we're not only making more dates for 'Finding Stories with Data' available, but we're now also launching online versions of our more advanced data journalism training courses: 'Data-Driven Investigations' and 'Investigating Data with R'.

In their in-person classroom incarnations, these were some of our most popular courses ever and we hope the work we've been doing over the winter break to get them up and running online will prove time well spent. Both courses have been translated, trialled, refined and trialled again and we're now very happy to open bookings for them.

To celebrate having 'Data-Driven Investigations' back on our timetable, we're also offering the option of combining both levels of the data journalism courses, with our 'Deep Dive into Data Journalism': a package of both courses with a structured progression to build on your learning, and a 10% discount on the overall booking fee.

The full range of options are below, with links to more details and booking forms.
Finding Stories with Data – Online, Intensive
(4 modules of 1.5hrs each - four consecutive days)
OPTION A --> SOLD OUT
Mon 22 February 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)
Tue 23 February 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)
Wed 24 February 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)
Thu 25 February 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)
OPTION B
Mon 29 March 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)
Tue 30 March 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)
Wed 31 March 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)
Thu 1 April 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)

 
Data-Driven Investigation – Online, Intensive
(5 modules of 2hrs each - five consecutive days)
OPTION 1 --> SOLD OUT
Mon 8 March 2021 @ 10am–12pm (UK time)
Tue 9 March 2021 @ 10am–12pm (UK time)
Wed 10 March 2021 @ 10am–12pm (UK time)
Thu 11 March 2021 @ 10am–12pm (UK time)
Fri 12 March 2021 @ 10am–12pm (UK time)
OPTION 2 --> SOLD OUT
Mon 12 April 2021 @ 10am–12pm (UK time)
Tue 13 April 2021 @ 10am–12pm (UK time)
Wed 14 April 2021 @ 10am–12pm (UK time)
Thu 15 April 2021 @ 10am–12pm (UK time)
Fri 16 April 2021 @ 10am–12pm (UK time)

 
Deep Dive into Data Journalism – 2-course package (10% discount):
Finding Stories with Data + Data-Driven Investigations
OPTION A + OPTION 1 --> SOLD OUT
OPTION A + OPTION 2 --> SOLD OUT
OPTION B + OPTION 2 --> SOLD OUT
 
Investigating Data with R – Online
(3 modules of 1.5hrs each - three alternative days)
Mon 15 March 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)
Wed 17 March 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)
Fri 19 March 2021 @ 10am–11.30am (UK time)

 

### 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.

 
Books
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup. By John Carreyrou.
The investigation behind the rise and fall of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup that made false claims about its technology. The book received critical acclaim, winning the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.
Tyler Shultz, the whistleblower who first raised the alarm on Theranos spoke at the recent CIJ Logan Symposium. > CIJ Logan Symposium 2020: An interview with Theranos Whistleblower Tyler Shultz.

 

Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drugs Boom. By Katherine Eban.
From an award-winning journalist and our #CIJSummer Conference 2020 and #CIJLogan2020 Symposium speaker, an explosive narrative investigation of the generic drug boom that reveals fraud and life-threatening dangers on a global scale—The Jungle for pharmaceuticals.
> Bottle of Lies – HarperCollins

 

Burned: The Inside Story of the ‘Cash-for-Ash’ Scandal and Northern Ireland’s Secretive New Elite. By Sam McBride.
A riveting political thriller from the journalist who covered the controversy for over two years, Burned is the inside story of the shocking scandal that brought down a government. Sam McBride was a keynote speaker at the #CIJLyraMcKee Investigative Journalism Bursary Scheme launch in Belfast.
> Burned: The Inside Story of the ‘Cash-for-Ash’ Scandal and Northern Ireland’s Secretive New Elite by Sam McBride (goodreads.com)

 

Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World.  By Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West.
Some of it is obvious, a lot of it is eye opening. In the times of fake news, this book is a must.
> Calling Bullshit.

 

Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics. By Peter Geoghegan.
This is the story of how money, vested interests and digital skulduggery are eroding trust in democracy.
> Democracy for Sale | Head of Zeus

 

Footwork: What Your Shoes are Doing to the World. By Tansy E. Hoskins.
Taking us deep into the heart of an industry that is exploiting workers and deceiving consumers, we begin to understand that if we don't act fast, this humble household object will take us to the point of no return.
> Footwork | Waterstones

 

Rage. By Bob Woodward.
Woodward has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that the Covid-19 epidemic would be the biggest national security threat to his presidency. But this too became controversial, as the author himself has been asked why he kept this information until the publication of this book.
> Rage | Waterstones

 

Reporter: a Memoir. By Seymour Hersh.
Not fresh off the press, but doesn’t get old. Legendary investigative journalist talks about his life and career. Here he speaks at the CIJ Logan event.
> Reporter: A Memoir | Goodreads.com

 
Long reads
How My Mother and I Became Chinese Propaganda. By Jiayang Fan.
A wonderfully loving account of one mother and one daughter’s struggle in the Covid-19 times, hijacked by the Chinese propaganda machine. Jiayang Fan spoke at the #CIJLogan2020 Symposium.
> How My Mother and I Became Chinese Propaganda | The New Yorker

 

Katherine Eban’s long reads for Vanity Fair. Katherine is an investigative journalist and writer, specialising in pharmaceuticals. She wrote a series of health and pharma related stories for the magazine. Including stories on the Trump rally in Tulsa, vaccine producing plants and an expose of the FDA Commissioner’s personal interventions on behalf of Trump’s favorite chloroquine doctor. She also spoke at our #CIJSummer Conference 2020 and #CIJLogan2020 Symposium.
> Katherine Eban Latest Articles | Vanity Fair

 

The Mystery of the Gatwick Drone. By Samira Shackle.
A drone sighting caused the airport to close for two days in 2018, but despite a lengthy police investigation, no culprit was ever found. So what exactly did people see in the Sussex sky?
> The Mystery of the Gatwick drone | UK news | the Guardian

 

Unmasking Stakeknife: The most notorious double agent in British history. By James Harkin
Our Director James Harkin's long read about intelligence skullduggery in Northern Ireland was published in October's GQ magazine and got a mention by, among others, David David MP and the Taoiseach Micheál Martin.
> Unmasking Stakeknife: the most notorious double agent in British history | GQ

 
Podcasts
The Dark Money Files. By Graham Barrow and Ray Blake. Money laundering, corruption, bribery and tax evasion explained in plain language. You’ll be outraged by just how much of it goes on routinely. Graham is another #CIJSummer speaker. And even if we say so ourselves - he’s gooood!
> The Dark Money Files | buzzsprout.com

 

Investigate Europe Podcast. Investigate Europe is a team of ten journalists who cover pan-European issues. In these podcasts they discuss fossil fuel subsidies, migration crisis and tax havens.
> Investigate Europe Podcast

 

Longform Podcast. A weekly conversation with a non-fiction writer on how they tell stories. In the space of an hour Longform’s hosts attempt to unpick how journalists got scoops, started their careers and brought huge stories to the page.
> Longform Podcast
> A few of the CIJ speakers have been guests on the podcast: some we particularly enjoyed listening to are: Katherine Eban, Nicholson Baker, Jiayang Fan.

 

The Messenger. A true crime / journalism podcast by Shiv Malik.
Shiv spoke at #CIJSummer Conference 2019 and boy, is he a good speaker! You will no doubt enjoy this podcast based on the book of the same name. You can watch his #CIJSummer Talk here.
> The Messenger. A true crime / journalism podcast
> #CIJSummer 2019. Let's talk about sources - Shiv Malik in conversation with Jane Bradley | YouTube

 

Mental Illness Happy Hour. In this episode, host Paul Gilmartin is joined by the Northern Irish journalist Mary O’Hara. The first pupil from her inner-city high school to attend Cambridge, Mary talks about the poverty, violence and dysfunction that defined her childhood in West Belfast, Northern Ireland.
> Mental Illness Happy Hour

 

My Mother’s Murder. A Paul Caruana Galizia’s podcast for The Tortoise. Poignant, painful, truthful.
> My Mother’s Murder

 

Page 94: the Private Eye Podcast. An (almost) monthly podcast, focusing on the biggest topics of the time. Delivered with the Eye’s typical wit, it features the magazine’s journalists. Our favourite episodes from 2020 are Nice Footwork (featuring the winners of the Paul Foot Awards) and the US Elections Fake News Special.
> Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

 

The Tip Off Podcast. By Maeve McClenaghan. If you are serious about investigative journalism, this podcast is a must. It takes you behind the scenes of some of the best investigations in the UK. Don’t miss an episode on Dark Money about Peter Geoghegan’s investigation into the dark world of campaign spending or Under Our Noses, Nadine White’s expose of SPAC Nation church practices by some of their pastors.
> The Tip Off | Acast

Watch Peter Geoghegan speak at #CIJSummer 2017 on our Building Community Journalism panel.
> #CIJSummer 2017: Building Community Journalism | YouTube

Watch Nadine White and Emma Youle talk at #CIJSummer 2020 about their SPAC Nation investigation.
> #CIJSummer 2020. SPAC Nation Exposé | YouTube

### CIJ 2020: A Year in Review

What a year! We almost forgot what happened in January-February, since all of it has been totally overshadowed by the global Covid-19 pandemic. Since this is a year in review, let's start from the beginning.
#CIJLyraMcKee Investigative Journalism Training Bursary Scheme
2020 would have been the second year of our CIJ Lyra McKee bursary scheme. Established in remembrance of Lyra McKee a Northern Irish journalist, who was shot in Creggan in 2019, it aims to diversify investigative journalism, by training people from underrepresented backgrounds and providing them with the skills and contacts needed to break into the industry.

We were inspired by Lyra’s determination to become an investigative journalist: despite personal disability, the need to care for her disabled mother as well as fighting the in-built bias against working-class entrants to journalism.

Two big launch events took place in Belfast, Lyra’s home city and in Hull, with the hope of attracting a diverse number of applicants.

Sadly, Covid-19 put an end to all of it, as we had to cancel the in-person #CIJCummer Investigative Journalism Training Conference 2020, which was the prize for all the bursary recipients.

But we are delighted to announce that the #CIJLyraMcKee Investigative Journalism Training Bursary Scheme will be back in 2021. It will have a slightly different format, but it will stay true to its aim: opening doors into the world of investigative journalism to people who are underrepresented in the media.

 
Adapting our Training to the Pandemic
As for many around the world, the rapid spread of Covid-19 and subsequent lockdowns have forced us into a virtual world.

In the past, we have explored the possibility of delivering training online so that we could reach a wider audience – those who couldn’t afford to to travel, or specialised training and support over a longer period that wouldn’t be practicable for trainers or delegates to travel to and from – but such was the demand for classroom-based training, this had never moved beyond the planning stage. Until now.

Our training is effective because it is hands-on and highly participatory. We couldn’t just record some videos or send the participants a bunch of materials to master at home and call it CIJ training.

Instead we spent the spring testing a new participatory online format and as a result came up with a busy programme of online courses, which we have been delivering throughout the year: from data journalism for all levels to investigative methodology, from scheduled courses to bespoke.

All have been sold out and immensely successful.

“Experienced trainers, great content and lots of practical examples. Good advert, easy to book, clear joining instructions.” Story Based Inquiry Method course feedback 2020.

“I particularly appreciated Jonathan's generous availability in between sessions to help and discuss things I was grappling with. I also really enjoyed the hands-on practical nature of the course.” Finding Stories With Data course feedback 2020.

“Jenna Corderoy is amazing. She was involved, engaged, asking questions, and an all around star in sharing her experiences, successes, and knowledge.” Freedom of Information Act (FOI) for Journalists course feedback 2020.

See the 2021 Scheduled Courses here.

 
#CIJSummer Conference 2020 Online
Encouraged by the success of the online training, we decided not to cancel our annual #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Training conference, but hold it online instead.

It was a much scaled down affair, but we had over 500 people attending practical courses and free talks from all over the world. Over 60% of the audience had never attended #CIJSummer before. The majority mentioned distance, time and affordability as the reason.

“It is an excellent programme that is very educational, interesting, useful and entertaining.” Feedback 2020.

“The CIJ conference was exactly what I was looking for to begin helping to bridge the gap in my knowledge and boost my confidence.” Feedback 2020.

You can watch all the #CIJSummer 2020 Free Talks on our YouTube Channel, including a Covid-19 in numbers discussion with data journalists, our annual Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture delivered by Turkish editor and journalist Can Dündar, a SPAC Nation Church exposé by our alumna Nadine White and award-winning journalist Emma Youle, health and science journalism discussions and much more.

 
Going Big: #CIJLogan2020 Symposium. Collective Intelligence.
Come November, we were ready for our big event of the year #CIJLogan2020 Symposium.

Collective Intelligence featured some of the most famous journalists, artists, activists, whistleblowers, lawyers and writers.

Some of the highlights include:

Ai Weiwei in Conversation with Edward Snowden

Our opening plenary with Edwy Plenel, Jennifer Robinson and Christophe Deloire, and keynotes from Hatice Cengiz and Stella Moris

The New Intermediaries with William Bourdon and Clive Stafford Smith

I've Been Hacked! with Dan McCrum, John Scott-Railton, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai and Runa Sandvik

Blowing the Whistle with Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz and Delphine Halgand-Mishra

Talks from our partners:

Digging Italy with DIG Awards (Italy)

The Trial of Golden Dawn with Reporters United (Greece)

Follow the Data: Corruption, Leaks & People vs. Power with Disruption Network Lab (Germany)

As well as Masterclasses on FOIA, Open Corporates and Investigating Procurement.

You can watch all the #CIJLogan2020 Symposium talks on our YouTube Channel.

You can read the media coverage of the event here.

 
Access to Tools Training
Access To Tools was the first of the CIJ training to go online and this online version of the Access to Tools (ATT) training targeted to UK newsrooms is now a well oiled machine.

Since mid-April, when the first online ATT workshop launched, we’ve delivered 13 OSINT training workshops to over 100  individuals across the UK. We’ve found that rather than training for individual newsrooms, as was the case when workshops were in person, individuals are attending from beyond those locations, and from bigger groups. For example, the Newsquest training had participants from newsrooms across the UK: Mold, Brighton, London, North West, Yorkshire and North East, and the Midlands, and delegates who were unable to attend this session were able to join the freelance session, held a few weeks later.
By keeping the number of delegates to a smaller number than the in-person workshops, we have been able to provide a strong element of the hands-on training that makes our workshops so popular.

 
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.

 
And a Happy New Year!
So we look to 2021 with hope and not just because the new vaccines may control the pandemic and we all may meet again in real life, but because 2020 taught us how to be resilient and adaptive.

Even when things “get back to normal” we’ll still be offering online training in addition to our more traditional classroom offer. In 2021 we have big plans to spread our training, and evangelise for investigative journalism in collaboration with local partners, everywhere from Francophone Africa to India, from Pakistan to Latin America.

Watch this space. And happy holidays!

The CIJ Team.

### 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.

This methodology 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. Its language and approach have been integrated into leading journalism organisations and NGOs worldwide.

The options with dates and times are below, with links to more details and booking forms.

 
March 2021 --> SOLD OUT
(4 modules of 2 hours each – four consecutive Wednesdays)
3 March 2021 @ 10.00 (UK time)
10 March 2021 @ 10.00 (UK time)
17 March 2021 @ 10.00 (UK time)
24 March 2021 @ 10.00 (UK time)

 
May 2021
(4 modules of 2 hours each – spread over two weeks)
17 May 2021 @ 10.00 (UK time)
19 May 2021 @ 10.00 (UK time)
24 May 2021 @ 10.00 (UK time)
26 May 2021 @ 10.00 (UK time)

### New Course Available - Investigating Data with R

Having successfully moved our Introductory Data Journalism Course - Finding Stories with Data - online since the Covid-19 pandemic hit, we've now been looking at the potential for teaching more advanced journalistic tools for data analysis.

We've followed the same rigorous and thorough trial and testing process that we subjected our introductory courses too and are now ready to open our next new subject - Investigating Data with R.

R is a programming language which, although originally developed for data analysts, has found many supporters within the journalism world, and is now - alongside Python - the most popular coding language among data journalists. There is a learning curve, but once you've climbed it you'll find many ways to use R to save you time.

You can take the course as either morning or evening classes. The  full options with dates and times are below, with links to more details and booking forms.

Evening Course
(3 modules of 2 hours each – three consecutive days)
12 October 2020 @ 5pm (UK time)
13 October 2020 @ 5pm (UK time)
14 October 2020 @ 5pm (UK time)

Morning course
(3 modules of 2 hours each – three consecutive days)
19 October 2020 @ 10am (UK time)
20 October 2020 @ 10am (UK time)
21 October 2020 @ 10am (UK time)

### New Data Journalism Courses

Having sold out all four versions of our new Online Data Journalism courses, we were eager to make some new dates available as soon as possible to meet the demand. The process of translating our training from in-person to a remote online format has thrown up a lot of questions - primarily how to do this without losing the hands-on and practical nature of the courses that makes them so effective.

While we found some very effective answers to that, another question was what days and times would work best for online training, especially given the recent disruption and ongoing changes to people's workloads, lives and schedules. We tried to find answers to this through offering a range of options, but since they were all fully booked, it seems the answer depends on who's booking!

So that's why we're continuing to offer a range of options to accommodate different needs, so we are now open for bookings with and online data course that runs every Thursday morning for four weeks, and other more intensive courses that start and finish in the same week. We also offer versions of both that run in the evenings for those that can't take time out of their working days. The full range of options are below, with links to more details and booking forms.
Evening course
(4 modules of 90 mins each - four consecutive Mondays)
Mon February 1st @ 5pm (UK time)
Mon February 8th @ 5pm (UK time)
Mon February 15th @ 5pm (UK time)
Mon February 22nd @ 5pm (UK time)
Intensive - Evening course
(4 modules of 90 mins each - four consecutive days)
Mon January 18th @ 5pm (UK time)
Tue January 19th @ 5pm (UK time)
Wed January 20th @ 5pm (UK time)
Thu January 21st @ 5pm (UK time)

 

 

 

 

 

### From classroom to virtual room: CIJ training online

As for many around the world, the rapid spread of Covid-19 and subsequent lockdowns have forced us into a virtual world but we are happy to announce that we are already able to offer most of our training online.

The CIJ has 17 years’ experience of delivering world class, classroom-based teaching and training. In the past, we have explored the possibility of delivering training online so that we could reach a wider audience – those who couldn’t afford to travel, or specialised training and support over a longer period that wouldn’t be practicable for trainers or delegates to travel to and from – but such has been the demand for classroom-based training, this has never moved beyond the planning stage. Until now.

However, this was no small task. Our training is effective because it is hands-on and highly participatory. We couldn’t just record some videos and call it CIJ training. Equally, sending people a whole bunch of materials, in the style of washing machine operating manuals, and expecting them to master it all on their own at home wasn’t the answer either.

What we are offering is online training in small groups, allowing you to have direct contact with the trainer, and hands-on exercises for you to practice what you’ve learnt.  We're offering training for larger groups too, where the content is less hands-on but the methods are just as interactive. All the courses have been specifically adapted to the online format.

See our scheduled courses.

See videos from our first ever fully online #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2020.

### CIJ Announces Investigative Journalism Masterclass Programme

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### Lyra McKee Investigative Journalism Training Bursary 2020

It is with great sadness that we have to announce the postponement of the #CIJLyraMcKee Bursary scheme 2020.

Due to the spread of COVID-19, we have decided to make the #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2020 and online event only. To ensure the #CIJLyraMcKee bursary recipients get the full experience of attendance and training at a CIJ Summer Conference, we thought it best to postpone the bursary until 2021.

Everyone who applied will be contacted directly.

 

### We’re Hiring!

The CIJ is looking for production assistants to work on the upcoming Logan Symposium in 2020.

Apply Here

### A statement from the CIJ on the arrest of Julian Assange

The CIJ notes with grave concern Julian Assange’s arrest at the Embassy of Ecuador in London today. The organisation that he leads, Wikileaks, was pioneering in its publication of classified media – which is why, in its early years, the CIJ loaned it some of our interns. Wikileaks material from Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere has become a unique, invaluable resource for investigative journalists and scholars around the world. Its innovations – from cross-border, collaborative reporting to systems for secure, anonymous leaks – have been borrowed by almost every major news outlet in the world.

Whatever your view of its philosophy of radical transparency, Wikileaks is a publisher. Any charges now brought in connection with that material, or any attempt to extradite Mr Assange to the United States for prosecution under the deeply flawed cudgel of the Espionage Act 1917, is an attack on all of us.

Mr Assange deserves the solidarity of the community of investigative journalists. The world is now watching.

11 April 2019


## Initiative Announcements

### Applications Open for #CIJMasterclasses 2021

We are now accepting applications for the 2021 iteration of our Masterclass programme. It is designed to provide guidance, support and skills to early-career journalists who face structural barriers to entering the investigative journalism profession.

While we hope to include some in-person elements, at present we are planning for all the sessions to run online. This will include at least six 2-hour workshops/lectures. The exact dates are to be confirmed, but will run during September and October 2021.

 

To apply, please complete the Application Form. The deadline for applications is 5pm BST, Thurs 5 Aug.

Application criteria

Participants in the Investigative Masterclass Programme should be at the early stages of their journalistic career.

We intend the masterclasses to help those who have faced barriers to becoming investigative journalists to overcome these barriers and begin their careers in the field.

Selection criteria

Your application needs to make the case for your participation in the programme and your potential as an investigative journalist. Please ensure you show us your skills, your ideas and any experience or previous work you have published. You do not have to be a journalist already, but showing commitment and enthusiasm for the job is essential.

Geographical restrictions

Applicants must be resident in the UK and successful participants will be required to attend all online classes in the course.

Other
Only successful candidates will be contacted. We are not able to respond to unsuccessful applications.

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### Covid-19 and Access To Tools Programme

Our Access To Tools training programme is uninterrupted by the COVID-19 crisis – while social distancing measures are in place, our training workshops are hosted online.

We use Zoom as our platform of choice to host our online training.

To find out more about how we use Zoom for our training, check out our Zoom Infosec page HERE


## Dashboard Announcements

### First Speakers Announced

With interventions from AI WEIWEI, CORY DOCTOROW, ELOÏSE BAJOU, EYAL WEIZMAN, HATICE CENGIZ, IAN COBAIN, JACK POULSON, JANINA FINDEISEN, JIAYANG FAN, NABIHA SYED, NICHOLSON BAKER, STELLA MORIS, and TIM MAUGHAN, this year’s symposium will be bringing together some of the world’s most creative thinkers to discuss how best to take advantage of our new collective intelligence, and how to build better international alliances against the encroachment of surveillance, official secrecy and censorship.

We’ll be posting more announcements in the coming weeks, with lots of new speakers, workshops, Open Lab projects and more.

### Welcome to the Symposium

Welcome to the 2020 CIJ Logan Symposium, Collective Intelligence. Here you can find the latest news and programme updates as well as more information on how to book training courses, workshops and other events.


## Access to Tools

### Feedback

I just wanted to say a big thank you for the training today. Zoe did a great job showing us lots of new search tools and I am sure we will all be able to put these skills to good use. We really appreciate you offering to come to us and all of our participants today found it really worthwhile and interesting. The location and image tools are the ones I plan to go away and use first! Kathryn Turney, The Detail

 Thanks so much for coming in. Feedback was positive and everyone found it very useful and informative. Thanks again! Lauran Clark, Vice

All I am hearing are rave reviews, I think everyone found it not only fascinating but practically useful as well.Jonathan Humphries, Liverpool Echo

"Just wanted to say a big thank you for your session in Norwich the other week. Everyone found it really interesting and the reverse image search skills have already come in use!"Tom Bristow, Archant Norwich

"Thank you for the wonderful presentation about Advanced Digital Tools at Newcastle University on Saturday. It was one of my favorite sessions."Ayushi Shah, Newcastle University

 "Just wanted to say I really enjoyed the session and found it really useful, can't wait to put it all into practice at work."Jessica Murray, The Guardian (at Newcastle)

Thanks very much for an excellent course this morning, Guy.

Please pass on my thanks to the people who ran the CIJ course yesterday. I thought it was brilliant.

It was very useful for our reporters and myself... and we appreciate the work that you do.

### Information

The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) has teamed up for a third consecutive year with the Google News Initiative to bring skills and techniques available through the Google News Initiative’s suite of applications and other digital tools to local newsrooms, independent media, academics and ordinary citizens around the UK.

The Access to Tools programme will see the CIJ lead 25 workshops between April 2020 and February 2021, training journalists and citizens in key areas, and showing how digital tools can improve their journalism.
Free Training for Journalists Across the UK
The workshops will be free for organisations to host and for participants to attend.

The project kicked-off in 2018 with the CIJ’s first regional, one-day conference in advanced investigative tradecraft at Newcastle University.

It brought together the best resources and trainers to teach people how to find things out and featured training in digital tools as a constituent part of our broader investigative offer; keynote lectures and panel conversations on how to investigate.

It was the first time we’d hosted a conference of this kind outside London and we hope it will be the first of many.
About the training:
What does the training involve?
The training is a two-hour workshop that looks specifically at tools that can be used for investigations. Further resources are available at the Google News Initiative Training Center. Thanks to a grant from the Google News Initiative, the CIJ will cover the cost of the training and pay for trainer to come to you.
How is the training affected by Covid-19?
Our Access To Tools training programme is uninterrupted by the COVID-19 crisis – while social distancing measures are in place, our training workshops are hosted online on Zoom. To find out more about how we use the Zoom platform, please check out our Zoom Infosec page
Who are the trainers?
Our five trainers are Guy Porter, Pupul Chatterjee, Zoe Blackler, Laura Garcia, Rubén Huerta Zapién. They will be delivering the sessions, as well as CIJ staff.
How do I bring the training to my organisation?
Training is available to news organisations throughout the UK. You will need to provide a room for participants with a projector, laptop connection, wifi and power points. We expect the host organisation to play a large part in marketing the workshop and would aim for around 15 participants.
What tools will I learn in the workshop?
You will be taught a range of investigative tools to enhance your research skills and help you develop stories. This is a practical hands-on workshop that will teach you skills you can take back to your newsroom.
How do I request training?
Please email juliet [at] tcij.org and we’ll get back to you to discuss this.
Why are you providing this training?
At the CIJ our leading concern is to put the best tools in the hands investigative journalists, and then grow their expertise in using them. Building on our 16 years’ expertise in data journalism, advanced internet research, financial investigations, internet-powered fact-checking and our relationships of trust with the corporate and independent local media, Access to Tools is the perfect way to extend the already impressive reach of our regional network and to get out there into more regional newsrooms, communities, and universities.

### Open-Source Intelligence

Access to Tools is a two-hour workshop looking specifically at tools that can be used for investigations. At the CIJ our leading concern is to put the best tools in the hands of investigative journalists, and then grow their expertise in using them. Access to Tools is the perfect way to extend the already impressive reach of our regional network and to get out there into more regional newsrooms, communities, and universities. In this workshop you will be taught a range of investigative tools to enhance your research skills and help you develop stories. This is practical hands-on training that will teach you skills you can take back to your newsroom. Further resources are available at the Google News Initiative Training Center.


## Access to Tools Workshops

### Trinity Mirror (UK wide)



### Wales Online (Swansea and Cardiff)



### Reach (UK wide)



### Byline Times (UK wide)



### Bury Free Press KM Group (Suffolk)



### Archant - Norwich Evening News (East Anglia)



### Liberty (London)



### The Courier (Newcastle)



### Newsquest (UK wide)



### Ours to Save (London)



### Freelancers (UK wide)



### JPIMedia (UK wide)



### openDemocracy (UK wide)



### Newsquest (UK wide)



### Rake Collective (London)



### Participation and the Practice of Rights (Belfast)



### Reach - Derbyshire Live (Derby Telegraph)



### Newsquest



### Dublin Inquirer



### HuffPost UK



### Coventry University



### The Ferret



### BBC Birmingham



### Liverpool Echo



### Vice



### BBC Inside Out for the North East and Cumbria



### The Detail



### Irish News



### The Bristol Cable



### CIJ Regional Conference



### JPIMedia - Sheffield Star



### Archant - Barking



### Association of Publishers



### Newsquest - Alloa & Hillfoots Advertiser



### JPIMedia - The Scotsman/EEN



### Newsquest - Barrhead News



### Archant St Albans



### openDemocracy



### Archant - Suffolk



### Hastings Independent Press



### openDemocracy



### Metro



### Archant Norwich



### Newcastle Chronicle + Freelancers



### Newsquest - Hampshire Basingstoke Gazette



### JPIMedia- Eastbourne Herald



### Archant - Eastern Daily Press



### JPIMedia - News Letter, Derry Journal



### Newsquest - Warrington Guardian



### JPIMedia - Yorkshire Post



### JPIMedia - The News




## Source Protection Programme

### Programmes

The Source Protection Programme (SPP) delivers both charitable and bespoke programmes. You can find out more about our work below.
Charitable
SPP is supported by grant funding in order to provide free access to safety training opportunities for investigative journalists, freelancers, fixers and newsroom managers. This is done through open calls and by working directly with other organisations and non-profit newsrooms around the world.
Recent Charitable Programmes
Protecting Sources
Source Protection Programme Conference
London, UK
November 2024

Elections, Digital Security and Source Protection
Oklahoma Media Center
Oklahoma, USA
June 2024

Journalist Safety Panel and Source Protection Consultations
GIJC, the Global Investigative Journalism Conference
Gothenburg, Sweden
October 2023

Source Protection Training
Dataharvest, the European Investigative Journalism Conference
Mechelen, Belgium
June 2023

Bespoke Programme
Open Democracy
April 2023

Source Protection Programme: Mexico
Quinto Elemento Lab and Freelance Frontline Mexico
March 2023

Investigative Journalism Safety & Security
Global Investigative Journalism Network
Asia and the Pacific
February 2023

Introduction to Digital Security
Refugee Journalism Project
London
November 2022

Introduction to Digital Security & Consultations
CIJ Summer Conference
London
June 2022

Investigative Journalism Safety & Security
Global Investigative Journalism Network
Europe, the Americas and MENA
June 2022

Source Protection Training
Dataharvest, the European Investigative Journalism Conference
Mechelen, Belgium
May 2022

Programme Launch & Digital Security Consultations
International Journalism Festival
Perugia, Italy
April 2022

Introduction to Digital Security
International Investigative Practice
Francophone Africa
February 2022

Introduction to Digital Security
International Investigative Practice
Latin America
October 2021

Source Protection Programme Pilot
Global
June 2021
Bespoke
Alongside our charitable work we offer a bespoke service for commercial newsrooms. These programmes are developed alongside our clients and are tailored to their specific needs. Any profits made undertaking this work are reinvested into our charitable programmes and help us to train journalists who do not have well resourced organisational support.

If you would like to discuss a programme for your organisation please contact info@tcij.org
Universities
We have also begun rolling out introductory and advanced training sessions for journalism students at universities around the UK.

Introduction to Digital Security & Advanced Digital Security
Cross-border Journalism Campus (Centre de Formation des Journaliste in cooperation with Sciences Po Lyon, Leipzig University and University of Gothenborg)
December 2023

Introduction to Digital Security & Advanced Digital Security
Cardiff University
February 2023

Introduction to Digital Security
University of Strathclyde
December 2022

Introduction to Digital Security
Goldsmiths, University of London
April 2022

If you would like to bring our training to your university please contact info@tcij.org

 

### Source Protection Programme

The Source Protection Programme (SPP) 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 and the Freedom of The Press Foundation with generous support from The Reva & David Logan Foundation.

Since launching in 2021 SPP has trained more than 2000 journalists, in over 65 countries on 6 continents. We are continually updating our materials to tackle the big challenges facing the profession such as covering increasingly dangerous election cycles, reporting on border violence and being faced with state intimidation and corporate malfeasance. Our work varies in scope and scale, if you would like more information please contact: info@tcij.org


## Source Protection Programme Events

### Test event



### National Security Reporting: Barton Gellman in conversation with Cory Doctorow

(90 mins) 16:30 BST / 11:30 ET

Barton Gellman is one of three journalists to have shared the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on Edward Snowden's revelations on mass surveillance, as part of the programme he talks to author, journalist and activist Cory Doctorow about the national security beat and working with whistleblowers and leaks.

### Private Security Targeting: Igor Ostrovskiy in conversation with John Scott-Railton

(90 mins) 18:00 BST / 13:00 EST

As chronicled by Ronan Farrow in Catch and Kill, private investigator Igor Ostrovskiy found himself working freelance for Black Cube, a shady Israeli intelligence company investigating Harvey Weinstein's accusers. After being tasked with supporting a botched operation to surveil Citizen Lab researcher John Scott-Railton, Ostrovskiy cut ties with Black Cube. He started his own firm, Ostro Intelligence, aiming to bring a public-service angle to his investigation work. Instead of tailing them, he now wanted to help groups like Citizen Lab.

As part of the Source Protection Programme Igor and John discuss the worrying trend of private security targeting investigative journalists and share strategies to protect sources and investigations.

### Protecting sources under repressive regimes with Omar Mohammed (Mosul Eye)

(90 mins) 18:00 BST / 13:00 EST

This masterclass is a conversation with Omar Mohammed, author of the Mosul Eye blog which documented life under ISIS rule in Iraq's second city on how to protect your investigations from the prying eyes of repressive authoritarian regimes.

### Investigative film-making and opsec with Sonia Kennebeck

(90 mins) 18:00 BST / 13:00 EST

This masterclass explores how operational and digital security work in the documentary and investigative film-making field. When you need to get on the ground to record footage, or record interviews in person for broadcast, it can add layers of complexity to some elements of source protection. The session will delve into these issues and provide some tips, tricks and best practice from real-life projects and experience.

### Introduction to the Source Protection Programme

(90 mins) 18:00 BST / 13:00 EST

This introductory session will feature a welcome from CIJ Director James Harkin and Freedom of the Press Executive Director Trevor Timm, as well as a special discussion between Jessica Bruder and Laura Poitras moderated by James Marcus.

### Borders, conflict and security with Iona Craig

(90 mins) 18:00 BST / 13:00 EST

This masterclass from intrepid investigative journalist Iona Craig takes a closer look into Iona's experience reporting from conflict zones like Yemen while protecting sources, fixers and her investigations. Iona regularly returns to Yemen and has repeatedly crossed the front lines to report on both sides of Yemen’s ongoing conflict and humanitarian crisis, crossing the Bab el Mandeb by boat between Djibouti and Yemen three times in 2015 to file reports for TV, radio and print from inside the two besieged cities of Aden and Taiz as well as the Houthi stronghold of Sa'ada. To date she has travelled over ten thousand miles across the country since the war began in 2014. Her latest visit in 2020 was for three months, coinciding with the rapid spread of COVID-19, an escalation in the conflict, defunding of aid programmes, and the decleration of self-rule by the Southern Transitional Council in Aden.

### Training Sources in Operational Security

(90 mins) 18:00 BST & 18:00 EST

This session focuses on guidelines and frameworks to support your sources to protect their own identity. Even if you take every care to keep your own infosec practices tight, it will often mean little if you can't also give your sources the support they need to secure their communication with you from their side.

Often, vulnerabilities are introduced at the moment a potential source approaches you, before you have any chance to give advice or support, so this session will look at methods to reduce the risks to sources at the point off first contact too.

The whole process of blowing the whistle or revealing information in the public interest can put a lot of pressure on people, so this session will also address some of the challenges of post-publication and give support and resources for dealing with these potential problems ahead of time.

Topics include:

 	First contact challenges
 	Support and resources for whistleblowers post-publication

### Office Hours

Book a one to one session with one of our trainers to go over specific issues or review last weeks training.

### Source Protection

(90 mins) 18:00 BST & 18:00 EST

In this workshop you will receive training in keeping your sources confidential. We'll look into how to encrypt not just your communications with a source on both email and mobile, but also how to keep documents, data and other source material encrypted with tools like diskutility, bitlocker and VeraCrypt.

The session will also encompass cross-border work, giving advice and guidance on how to work with colleagues in other national contexts and cross borders yourself while keeping your devices and your data secure where possible, and setting up secondary, burner and travel devices where necessary.

In addition, the class will cover working with metadata and look at how to avoid inadvertently breaching confidentiality through leaking metadata or providing other information that could be used for jigsaw identification.

### Advanced Newsroom Security

(90mins) 18:00 BST & 18:00 EST

Building on earlier security sessions, this training will help you protect yourself and your online accounts. We’ll talk about various forms of phishing; steps you can take if an account has been compromised; and how to handle online threats and harassment, including the risk of doxxing.

Topics include:

 	Phishing, Account security and recovery, inc. Google’s APP
 	Practical exercises in doxxing oneself
 	Online safety and preventing harassment for journalists
 	How and when to request assistance from social media platforms

### Digital Security in Hostile Urban Environments

(90mins) 18:00 BST & 18:00 EST

This session builds on the fundamentals to bring in more advanced information security topics. It will go into the technical details of mobile security, and look at the privacy and security settings within different operating systems including those built for security such as Tails. We'll identify who has visibility on different networks, and how this changes when using VPNs and the Tor Browser.

Participants will also get the chance to learn about additional tools and techniques to help increase the security of your research methods.

### Office Hours

Book a one to one session with one of our trainers to go over specific issues or review last weeks training.

### Threat Assessment Workshop

(90 mins) 18:00 BST & 18:00 EST

Want to improve your online security, but unsure where to start? This workshop is all about identifying and understanding the challenges associated with your work and your online life. Harlo Holmes, Fabio Natali and Runa Sandvik will enable you to carry out your own assessment and identify areas where you can be more secure.

### Information Security Fundamentals

(90mins) 18:00 BST & 18:00 EST

This session will serve as a general introduction to the (broad!) field of information security. We will be giving some basic definitions, describing possible risks of using digital technologies, and introducing some of the available strategies and tools to improve our security. We will present some basic best-practices, e.g. around passwords, backups, software updates, and web browsing.


## Masterclasses

### About

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.

At the CIJ we want to move beyond “diversity” to something more pugnacious – a programme of training which actively seeks out bright people without access to London media connections, and which justifies doing so because we’re hungry for access to the sharpest investigative stories and the brightest talent.

Over a series of workshops, our CIJ Masterclass takes students through a wide-ranging curriculum drawing on the best professional expertise available anywhere. Its first iteration, was curated by Reuters special correspondent and author of The New Spymasters and Ghost Plane, Stephen Grey, assisted by some of the UK’s most experienced investigative reporters, and experts in handling both sources and data .

Places on the masterclass are free and made available via open competition and application. Priority are given to those from under-privileged and non-traditional backgrounds, without existing connections to the national media, and who have also already demonstrated talent and a commitment to truth-telling journalism, for example in local or regional media, magazines, blogs or other new media.

The first curriculum of CIJ Masterclasses, curated by Reuters special correspondent Stephen Grey, was attended by 13 people. The faculty of teachers included three Pulitzer Prize winners, NBC News best international producer on operational security and a former specialist from the security services. The result was a priceless primer in investigative journalism, all of it made available for free to the best and the brightest of the disadvantaged. An alumna of this programme Nadine White has published a major investigation into SPAC Nation church for HuffPost UK: something she’s been working one while attending the course. 

#CIJMasterclass - Class of 2019

### Masterclass 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.

That’s why the CIJ spent much of 2021 focusing on finding ways to give a leg-up to determined, intelligent young people from backgrounds that fall outside the usual privileged recipients of internships and informal mentoring.

We’ve used our connections as an organisation to bring the kind of advice and assistance that’s often passed to the children of established journalists’ friends to those that really need it, reinforcing that advice with access to the robust, skills-based training in which we’ve always specialised. From our Collaborative Community Journalism Project, to the mentoring and training bursary in honour of Lyra McKee, via the Source Protection Programme teaching advanced information security, we’ve been providing much-needed direct help to journalists at a range of different points in their career paths.

In addition to those, we ran the second iteration of our Masterclass initiative, building on our successful initiative of 2019, which saw alumni nominated for prizes such as the Paul Foot Award and the British Journalism Awards. We were delighted to welcome back Stephen Grey, the Reuters Investigative Journalist who curated the original Masterclass curriculum (and then pipped his former student Sabrina Weiss to the British Journalism Award for Science Journalism in 2020) to run this year’s course. The last course featured special guests sharing their experience for free in every session, featuring no less than three Pulitzer winners and a leading security expert.

We used our recent success in adapting hands-on practical training for remote online delivery to ensure that geography is no barrier to entry, and invited applications from all over the UK.

The course ran during September and October across six lectures/workshops featuring those special guests from among the best in profession as well as a collaborative project for participants to put the training into practice.

The only eligibility criteria were being resident in the UK, showing a commitment to and talent for investigative journalism in the public interest, and an agreement to attend all sessions. We prioritised applications from those who’re currently underrepresented in journalism, with a particular focus on class, race and geography.

 


## Masterclass Events

### Running Investigations

Putting it together. Nailing the facts. Making accusations stick. The workflow. Managing the investigation and writing it up.

### Source Protection

Finding, recruiting and protecting human sources. Practical information security and physical operational security. Skills for avoiding or mitigating surveillance.

### How Not to Get Lost in Big Data

Keeping data-driven journalism under control.

### Finding Corruption in Documents and Accounts

Reading company accounts and other documents to find and verify indicators of corruption.

### Finding People and Spotting Connections

Social media analysis or other corroboration of links between potential investigative subjects, and what these can or can't mean in terms of evidence.

### The Scoop

Basic principles of investigative journalism and how to spot the big story.


## Masterclass Announcements

### #CIJMasterclass 2021 Alumnus Investigates "Racism for Sale" in BBC Africa Eye Documentary

Runako Celina, who took part in the #CIJMasterclass 2021, has helped to expose a Chinese video-making industry that exploits vulnerable children across the continent in her first documentary for BBC Africa Eye. The documentary, reported and investigated by Runako and Henry Mhango, was released on 13 June 2022, and has since been shared by celebrities such as Lupita Nyong'o and Maria Borges. Alongside her work as an investigative journalist at the BBC, Runako is Co-Founder & Managing Editor of Black Livity China, the largest Black-owned platform documenting the experiences of people of African descent both in China and in relation to China.

### Front Page Feature for #CIJMasterclass 2021 Alumnus

An alumnus of the #CIJMasterclass 2021 programme has contributed to a front page story for The Times. Hamzah Khalique-Loonat, who attended the training sessions curated by Stephen Grey of Reuters, was one of four journalists investigating companies that have been set up to claim emergency pandemic funds through the government's furlough scheme. The story was published on the front page of 11 November edition of the paper. Before his current role as a Graduate Trainee at The Times, Hamzah gained experience across a range of journalism outlets, including Thomson Reuters, The Mirror, PA Media and Al Jazeera.

### #CIJMasterclass 2021: it's a wrap!

The second, online iteration of the highly successful Masterclass programme curated by Stephen Grey began on 14 September, with participants hearing from speakers such as Ben Plesser, an executive producer from 60 Minutes and Juliette Garside, the deputy business editor at the Guardian and Observer. The final session was delivered in person at the Reuters office on 21 October and concluded with a celebration to acknowledge the completion of the training.

 

### IPSE Young Freelancer Year Award

In more Masterclass news, we are delighted to see that an alumnus of the first Masterclass cohort in 2019, Liam O’Dell, won Young Freelancer of the Year at the IPSE Freelancer Awards for his work on the campaign to have a British Sign Language Interpreter at government briefings.

IPSE is searching for the most talented self-employed people in the UK who are under 30 to enter our IPSE Young Freelancer Year Award. This award is about celebrating the achievements of people who have made the jump into freelancing at an early age and are already a success.

### Applications Open for CIJ Masterclass 2021

We are now accepting applications for the 2021 iteration of our Masterclass programme. It is designed to provide guidance, support and skills to early-career journalists who face structural barriers to entering the investigative journalism profession.

While we hope to include some in-person elements, at present we are planning for all the sessions to run online. This will include at least six 2-hour workshops/lectures. The exact dates are to be confirmed, but will run during September and October 2021.

The deadline for applications is 5pm BST, Thurs 5 Aug.

Application criteria

Participants in the Investigative Masterclass Programme should be at the early stages of their journalistic career.

We intend the masterclasses to help those who have faced barriers to becoming investigative journalists to overcome these barriers and begin their careers in the field.

Selection criteria

Your application needs to make the case for your participation in the programme and your potential as an investigative journalist. Please ensure you show us your skills, your ideas and any experience or previous work you have published. You do not have to be a journalist already, but showing commitment and enthusiasm for the job is essential.

Geographical restrictions

Applicants must be resident in the UK and successful participants will be required to attend all online classes in the course.

Other
Only successful candidates will be contacted. We are not able to respond to unsuccessful applications.


## OCRI

### Middle East and North Africa

The CIJ collaborated with 4 partners in the Middle East and North Africa region who were responsible for coordinating and delivering activities including training of participants during the Year 2 period of the project. They are the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), Climate in Arabic, Nas Active Network and Press Accelerate.

Watch this space as we make more announcements, follow us on X (twitter) or sign up to our newsletter to stay informed as the project develops.

For inquiries or opportunities, contact the Project Manager, Adeolu Adekola at adeolu@tcij.org.

### South Asia

The CIJ collaborated with 3 partners in the South Asia region who were responsible for coordinating and delivering activities including training of participants during the Year 2 period of the project. They are the DataLEADS, Media Unlimited, and the Media Resources Development Initiative (MRDI - formerly Management and Resources Development Initiative).

During the next iteration of OCRI running till September 2025, the CIJ is collaborating with DataLEADS who will co-coordinate activities that includes the delivery of the new Climate Investigations Course (CIC) developed by the CIJ and tailored to the context of the region.

Watch this space as we make more announcements, follow us on X (twitter) or sign up to our newsletter to stay informed as the project develops.

For inquiries or opportunities, contact the Project Manager, Adeolu Adekola at adeolu@tcij.org.

### Brazil and Lusophone Africa

The CIJ collaborated with 3 partners in the Brazil and Lusophone Africa region who were responsible for coordinating and delivering activities including training of participants during the Year 2 period of the project. They are the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji), Open Knowledge Brasil (OKBR), and Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism.

Watch this space as we make more announcements, follow us on X (twitter) or sign up to our newsletter to stay informed as the project develops.

For inquiries or opportunities, contact the Project Manager, Adeolu Adekola at adeolu@tcij.org.

### Pilot in Nepal

As a pilot programme under OCRI, the CIJ is partnered with the Center for Data Journalism Nepal (CDJN) to teach OSINT and deep data dive tools and techniques to Nepali journalists in order to produce investigative pieces (in web-based multimedia formats) on the environment and climate change.

From May 16 to 19, journalists participated in a residential workshop in Nepal. Following the training workshop and towards the end of the programme, we organised a session for attendees to pitch their story ideas. Based on the strength of the pitches, the best refined pitches were selected and commissioned to be realised as investigative stories over the next few weeks, with the guidance of subject matter experts and mentors/editors.

### Latin America

The CIJ collaborated with 3 partners in the Latin America region (excluding Brazil) who were responsible for coordinating and delivering activities including training of participants during the Year 1 period of the project. They are Fundación Connectas, Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS) and Fundación Gabo.

During the next iteration of OCRI that includes Brazil running till September 2025, the CIJ is collaborating with CONNECTAS who will co-coordinate activities that includes the delivery of the new Climate Investigations Course (CIC) developed by the CIJ and tailored to the context of the region.

Watch this space as we make more announcements and follow us on X (twitter) or sign up to our newsletter to stay informed as the project develops.

For inquiries or opportunities, contact the Project Manager, Adeolu Adekola at adeolu@tcij.org.

### Francophone Africa

The CIJ collaborated with 4 partners in the Francophone Africa region who were responsible for coordinating and delivering activities including training of participants during the Year 1 period of the project. They are ADISI-Cameroun, Cell Norbert Zongo for Investigative Journalism in West Africa (CENOZO), Institut Panos Afrique de l’Ouest and Ajebudi-Yaga.

During the next iteration of OCRI running till September 2025, the CIJ is collaborating with the Cell Norbert Zongo for Investigative Journalism in West Africa (CENOZO) who will co-coordinate activities that includes the delivery of the new Climate Investigations Course (CIC) developed by the CIJ and tailored to the context of the region.

Watch this space as we make more announcements and follow us on X (twitter) or sign up to our newsletter to stay informed as the project develops.

For inquiries or opportunities, contact the Project Manager, Adeolu Adekola at adeolu@tcij.org.

### Anglophone Africa

The CIJ collaborated with 3 partners in the Anglophone Africa region who were responsible for coordinating and delivering activities including training of participants during the Year 1 period of the project (April 2022 - March 2023). They are Oxpeckers Center for Investigative Environmental Journalism, African Institute for Investigative Journalism (AIIJ) and the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID).

During the next iteration of OCRI running till September 2025, the CIJ is collaborating with the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) who will co-coordinate activities that includes the delivery of the new Climate Investigations Course (CIC) developed by the CIJ and tailored to the context of the region.

Watch this space as we make more announcements and follow us on X (twitter) or sign up to our newsletter to stay informed as the project develops.

For inquiries or opportunities, contact the Project Manager, Adeolu Adekola at adeolu@tcij.org.


## OCRI Announcements

### Policy brief on Environmental Governance in West Africa uses OCRI Investigations as case study

The Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development, OCRI’s Anglophone Africa partner, hosted a stakeholder dialogue and policy brief presentation on 22 July using OCRI-supported investigations as case studies in the publication. The first draft of the policy brief titled Environmental Governance in West Africa - Focus on The Gambia, Ghana and Nigeria offered insights into the state of environmental governance in the sub-region (specifically in The Gambia, Ghana, and Nigeria) by assessing institutional strengths and weaknesses, policy implementation gaps, and opportunities for reform.

Seven of the ten OCRI-supported Anglophone Africa stories published in 2025 formed part of the resources used in a comparative analysis study undertaken in the policy brief to gauge policy responses and gaps. The stories and publication showed how escalating threats from climate change, land degradation, deforestation, and pollution, is adversely affecting communities and livelihoods.
 
In his remarks during the event, OCRI’s Project Manager, Adeolu Adekola set the tone by drawing on the OCRI’s footprints in the region while also highlighting how the policy brief is a fulfillment of a part of OCRI's objective - enabling thoroughly researched public interest reporting and evidence-based advocacy. Akintunde Babatunde, OCRI's Anglophone Africa Regional Coordinator and CJID's Executive Director also emphasised the need to strengthen climate accountability and environmental justice across Africa.

The policy brief highlighted the need for urgent, effective, inclusive, and accountable environmental governance mechanisms based on the following recommendations:

 	Strengthen Regional and International Cooperation
 	Strengthen Institutional Coordination and Capacity
 	Enhance Enforcement of Environmental Regulations
 	Promote Community-Based and Inclusive Governance Models
 	Improve Data, Transparency, and Access to Information

### More OCRI-supported stories published in April

Since the completion of the story-lab workshops in the four OCRI Year 3 regions in December 2024, OCRI have provided extensive post-workshop follow-up support to the participants/cohort with regional partners. By the end of April, 13 of the OCRI-supported stories have so far been published using skills gained from the training. For example in Bolivia - a data-driven climate migration story; Peru - detailing unaccounted monies meant for mitigating deforestation; and Nigeria - a deep dive into how Human-Elephant Conflict (HEC) interlinks with environmental degradation.

More than half (specifically eight) of the supported stories were published in April and we are happy to present them.

Green promises, dark reality: El Salvador lags behind on forestry climate commitments (in Spanish). By Francisco López Otero for GatoEncerrado and CONNECTAS. 1 April.

Cocoa Boom or Forest Doom: As prices rise, farmers encroach on Nigeria’s conservation areas. By Remi Oladayo Adebayo for Premium Times and CJID. 11 April.

How India – and Southasia – fails to count and deal with heat deaths. By Jeff Joseph for Himal South Asia and DataLEADS. 15 April.

Forest fires in Argentina: Broken promises aggravate the problem in Patagonia and the Paraná delta (in Spanish). By Javier Lewkowicz and Nadia Luna for La Nación, Agencia TSS, Aristegui Noticias and CONNECTAS. 15 April.

INVESTIGATION: How Chinese, Nigerian firms destroy miners’ hopes in Benue. By Manasseh Mbachii for Premium Times and CJID. 23 April.

No Relief yet for Bajhang Dalits Devastated by 2021 floods. By Basant Pratab Singh for The Kathmandu Post, Kantipur Daily and DataLEADS. 23 April.

Cooling systems in high demand in Nigeria but regulatory gaps persist. By Kabir Yusuf for Premium Times and CJID. 29 April.

Amidst ineffective regulation, secrecy, mining devastates environment, hurts Gambia’s economy. By Mariam Sankanu for The Republic and CJID. 30 April.

We are optimistic about the influence these stories and more than a dozen others still coming will bring about progressive actions towards dealing with the climate crisis locally and globally.

### Climate Investigations Training Scholarship for 18 Journalists

The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) is delighted to announce the award of climate investigations training scholarships to 18 deserving journalists from 12 countries under its global Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI). The scholarship recipients will have the opportunity to either attend in London the CIJ Summer Conference 2025 holding 26-27 June 2025 including an OCRI Focus Day event on 25 June or fully participate in one of two remaining online Climate Investigations Course (CIC) scheduled training that entails 23 hours of hands-on training in four modules.



Launched in January, the second run of the CIC will hold online on Zoom between July and September while the third will run between October and December. The recipients are from the regions OCRI has reached as we continue to equip journalists with the skills, tools, and techniques needed to conduct deep investigative research into climate change.

### Implementing OCRI 3 Years On: CIJ Commences Climate Investigations Course

The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) London has commenced its new Climate Investigations Course (CIC) launched in January 2025 after months of curriculum development and at the end of the third anniversary of the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) implementation.

The first cohort of participants for the CIC which started March 27 and will run on 14 specific days until 6 June, hail from 14 countries across Europe, North & South America and Asia. The CIC training is a 23-hour long immersive course that teaches various aspects of deep investigative research into climate change and its causes; how to use data and open-source intelligence tools for holistic climate reporting; and how to interrogate climate financing by following the money and actors.

 OCRI's impact continues to grow through the provision of tools and resources to aid the understanding of what reporting climate change really mean towards facilitating real world actions and breaking new ground.

The CIC fulfils OCRI's objective of raising the standard of environmental investigations to enable thoroughly researched public interest reporting and evidence-based advocacy through training and skill-sharing with target audiences. It builds on OCRIs global footprint since April 2022 that has taught practical investigative skills to nearly 750 journalists across 58 countries leading to the publication of more than 145 investigative projects to date. Following a successful pilot in Nepal, three regions were covered for Year 1 (April 2022 to March 2023) of OCRI. They are Latin America (excluding Brazil), Anglophone Africa and Francophone Africa. Brazil & Lusophone Africa, South Asia and the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) were the Year 2 regions (April 2023 to March 2024). The successes recorded have built on the back of 20 esteemed partner organisations driving implementation across the regions.

The relevance of the course is evidenced not only in the available places for the first run being booked up just a few weeks after the launch but in bringing on board a global perspective on how to report the climate crisis. The programme blends the expertise of 12 world-class practitioners from across the CIJ training network who have spent much of 2024 working on the curriculum, plus the contribution of another 19 CIJ trainers who delivered region-tailored versions of the CIC during 4 OCRI story-lab workshops in Nigeria, Colombia (in Spanish), Côte d’Ivoire (in French) and Sri Lanka last year as part of activities for OCRI Year 3's implementation. The 2nd run of the highly sought after CIC will be held during July and September while the final run for 2025 is scheduled for October, November and December.

Look out for an announcement of bookings opening for that in the very near future. If you want to ensure you don't miss them, sign up for our newsletter.

### Breaking new ground: A 2024 OCRI review

What a year 2024 has been! It still feels like yesterday when we shared about the global difference our Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) made in 2023, and just like a flash, we are here again at the end of 2024. Read on for a glimpse to how OCRI is breaking new grounds.

Ending OCRI Year 2 on a high!

We closed out the second implementing year of the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) in March following our collaboration with 10 organisations in 3 regions namely Brazil & Lusophone Africa, South Asia and the Middle East & North Africa (MENA). Key highlights of OCRI Y2 was our ability to nearly double the number trained in Y1 going up from 225 to 444 and the 66 story projects published through OCRI’s support! We took some time to reflect on our 2-year journey by visualising OCRI’s footprints around the world and detailing what reporting climate change really means. Read here.



Developing the Climate Investigations Course (CIC)

Having secured an 18-month extension with Quadrature Climate Foundation (QCF) that will take OCRI until September 2025 at least, we did extensive work with 12 CIJ trainers - from India, Italy, Nepal, Nigeria, Sudan, the United Kingdom and the United States - in developing the Climate Investigations Course (CIC) this year that we hope to continue running into the future as a legacy of OCRI. The CIC is a new 4-module course put together in English that will become part of our scheduled course offerings online from Q1 2025. Over the course of many weeks, we met and discussed with the CIJ trainers who developed training content on Introduction to Climate Investigations, Investigating Climate Finance, Data-driven Climate Investigations (DDCI) and ECOSINT – Digital Tools & Methodologies for Climate Investigations.

OCRI at #CIJSummer2024: And the beat goes on!

For the 3rd consecutive year running, OCRI made visible appearance at the 2024 CIJ Summer Conference held 3-4 July. The climate/environmental theme at the conference was made up of 3 classes and a talk that featured climate investigations. Also, just like last year, we teamed up again with Journalism Fund EU to host some OCRI year two partners alongside other climate and environmental journalists at a pre-summer conference climate networking event called OCRI Focus day. This is in line with one of OCRI’s objectives of building a trusted network of contacts across the globe to do investigations with bigger international impact. The OCRI focus day held July 2 and also in partnership with Bertha Foundation was a huge success. The invitation-only convening focused on the key issues journalists face when investigating climate-related issues: from fighting misinformation to using new investigative tools. You can catch up here about the focus day and OCRI at the 2024 #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference.

Delivering 4 OCRI story-lab workshops

Following the development of the course content, we delivered a core, region-contextualized and translated version (where applicable) of the CIC by working with 4 OCRI partners and 19 regional trainers in Anglophone Africa, Francophone Africa, Latin America and South Asia. The CIC was delivered in French and Spanish for Francophone Africa and Latin America respectively.

With more than 1000 applicants showing interest to participate in the regional story-lab workshops, we are glad to have trained 49 journalists from 24 countries across the 4 regions in 2024. Outside the 53 countries reached at the end of OCRI Y2 in March, we reached 5 new countries in Y3 by December namely Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Guinea, Togo, El Salvador and Sri Lanka.

The full CIC consists of 14 sessions within the 4 modules. We identified 10 core sessions that were delivered during the in-person story-lab workshops in Nigeria, Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire and Sri Lanka by taking into consideration constraints like time and other region-specific needs. The story-lab workshops did not only deliver hands-on training but also provided participants with the opportunity to work on live research projects together in the same space with access to resources and expertise, building frameworks for their investigations, analysing data, and mapping out impact plans for the anticipated publications. We are currently providing extensive post-workshop follow-up support to the participants/cohort with our partners. At least 25 OCRI supported stories are in the works and the projects were carefully selected to achieve an investigative, collaborative and cross-border approach in reporting climate change.



Some wins and looking ahead

We look forward to the impactful stories that will be published and the full launch of the CIC in 2025! We hope that the CIC will become highly sought after as we finetune and prepare for launching as a CIJ scheduled course. We believe we are heading in the right direction as trained OCRI journalists are still reaping benefits from past training. Two examples are from our Climate Change in New Media project with UNESCO that ended in July 2023. Two of the stories published during the project won awards at the 2024 Covering Climate awards and the Annual Sanlam Financial Journalism Awards. It is a testament of OCRI's strides and we look forward to a 2025 full of P-O-S-S-I-B-I-L-I-T-I-E-S!

### Researchers and journalists discuss the use of climate data in Francophone Africa

Researchers from Côte d'Ivoire, journalists from West and Central Africa and other climate advocates met on 13 October, in Abidjan, to discuss a key element in journalistic investigations and climate research: data.

The Abidjan forum brought together actors from these three fields to discuss the best ways of working together to cover climate change in the public interest. This stems from an observed trend of disconnection when it comes to climate change reporting between the players. Scientists often have data that journalists may need for their investigations when it comes to climate change, and NGOs can base their advocacy for the climate on journalists' investigations.

The one-day forum was divided into two panels and group discussions.

The first panel of journalists and researchers during the forum.

A first panel had Professor François Kouamé, University researcher in climate change and biodiversity from Côte d’Ivoire; Madeleine Ngeunga, datajournalist, and CIJ trainer in climate investigation from Cameroun; Stephane Dea, data expert and representative of one of the oldest scientific research centres in French-speaking Africa, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) from Côte d’Ivoire, moderated by Anderson Diédri, environmental journalist and trainer for CIJ, also from the host country. They addressed the importance of data in the fight against climate change. Practical issues such as how journalists can access and exploit researchers' data were discussed among the panelists and with the audience.

A second panel with Bakary Traore, a data and environmental journalist and Marc Kouadio civil society activist and climate data advocate, both from Côte d'Ivoire; Hector Nammangue, a Togolese journalist and founder of a media outlet specialised in environmental journalism, focused on the role of the media and civil society in the analysis and dissemination of climate scientific data.

Second panel of the forum

Later in the day, the participants discussed three themes in working groups: how to improve the quality and accessibility of climate data in West and Central Africa, strategies to improve the communication of climate data to vulnerable populations and decision-makers, and synergies of action to enhance the impact of climate data on public policy.

A series of recommendations emerged from the discussions, highlighting for instance the importance of creating open data platforms for climate data to facilitate their access and exploitation and strengthening links between researchers and journalists.

This forum was followed by a 4-day story-lab workshop during which trainers from CIJ and CENOZO trained a dozen of journalists on tools and approaches for investigating climate change, as part of the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) project.

### Call for Applications: Climate Investigations Story-lab in Latin America

CIJ's Latin America partner, CONNECTAS, has launched a call for applications to select journalists interested in participating in a series of activities as part of year three of the Open Climate Reporting Project (OCRI).

Journalists from Latin America can apply to participate in a four-day story lab workshop to provide journalistic concepts, tools, and techniques for investigating climate change and its impact. Selected participants will also be able to apply and receive a grant + mentoring to develop their investigations.
Closing date: 15 September by 11:59 pm (Colombian time)
Click here to apply and read more on the application process and eligibility criteria

### Call for Applications: Journalists From 8 Francophone African Countries to have Advanced Training in Climate Investigations

CIJ's Francophone Africa partner Norbert Zongo Cell for Investigative Journalism in West Africa (CENOZO) has launched a call for applications for the selection of twelve (12) journalists from French-speaking West and Central Africa to take part in a series of activities as part of the year three of the Open Climate Reporting Project (OCRI).

Journalists from 8 countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal and Togo) can apply and benefit from a series of OCRI-supported capacity-building activities, including a story-lab workshop, mentoring during the investigation and legal editing, all of which implemented together with CENOZO.

Selection criteria for the participants include: proven experience in journalism (written press, online press, radio or television) and in climate investigation; have an investigative story idea on climate change; be motivated by the idea of improving or extending their experience in environmental and climate investigation; have a strong interest in collaborative work on a transnational scale; demonstrate a commitment to investing time and energy in a collaborative investigation.
Closing date: 30 August 2024 at 17:00 GMT

To apply, please click here to read the full call and complete an application form (in French)
 

### Call for Pitches: Open Climate Reporting Initiative in Anglophone Africa

The Centre for Investigative Journalism, London in partnership with the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) is inviting journalists and editors from across West Africa to submit story pitches under the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI).

We are looking for journalists, editors and newsrooms interested in pursuing collaborative cross-border investigations and welcome pitches that reflect cross-border investigations especially in environmental crimes, non-accountability in environmental governance, and climate injustice. This call is open to all formats and mediums of reporting, including electronic, online, and print.



Successful applicants will be invited to a story-lab workshop where their story ideas will be refined by a faculty of experts and seasoned investigative editors. The story-lab will also provide journalists with the knowledge, insights and skills to utilise investigative tools for cross border investigations. Following the story lab, participants will also be inducted into the CJID Cross-border Climate Reporting Network.

Successful applicants will be notified by email if they have been selected. Applicants who do not hear from us on or before 27th August, should kindly consider their application as unsuccessful.
Deadline to apply: 22 August 2024.

Click here to apply and read more on the application process and eligibility criteria

### Call for Applications: Climate Investigations Course for South Asian Journalists

DataLEADS, in partnership with the CIJ, is accepting applications from South Asian journalists for a four-day intensive training workshop on the Climate Investigations Course (CIC), scheduled for November 2024 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

This course is part of the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) activities, designed to help South Asian journalists gain an understanding of how to report effectively on climate change and create compelling cross-border stories through a hands-on practical story lab workshop approach. Following the workshop, some selected journalists will collaborate over several months to produce and publish impactful investigative pieces on climate change.

Journalists from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, and Sri Lanka are eligible to apply for this course.

The application deadline is September 1, 2024.

Apply here!

### Catching up with OCRI at 2024 #CIJSummer

For the third year in a row, the CIJ's Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) featured prominently at the annual #CIJSummer Conference. Notwithstanding the UK general elections that was called in May, the conference was fully booked and a huge success welcoming 190 delegates and 42 speakers!

OCRI hosted an invitation-only event tagged OCRI Focus Day a day to the conference that brought together over twenty climate and environment journalists from all over the world. The event discussed cases, tools and collaborations while also emphasizing the need for journalists to sharpen their skills in data, digital technology and finance for improved climate reportage.

The conference proper featured four different sessions (three classes and a talk). The first class focused on the intersection between natural resource exploitation, exploration licenses and protected area. Specifically,  Alexandre Brutelle the director and co-founder of the Environmental Investigative Forum (EIF) and Juliana Mori, Co-Founder and Editorial Director of InfoAmazonia took participants in a hands-on class about Detecting Oil and Gas Concessions in Protected Areas using GeoJournalism. Interestingly both Alexandre and Juliana previously worked with OCRI partners in Francophone Africa and Brazil in 2022 and 2023 respectively.

The two other classes were a taster to CIJ's new Climate Investigations Course (CIC) to be launched fully in 2025. Tais Gadea Lara, an OCRI-LATAM beneficiary in 2022 took participants on how to prepare and report the annual United Nations Conference of Parties convening. Watch here. On his part, Akintunde Babatunde, OCRI Anglophone regional coordinator delivered a session about Investigating the Climate Crisis. Watch here.

The talk, chaired by OCRI’s Project Manager Adeolu Adekola, was titled Climate Arson and Cover-Ups featuring Emma Howard from Unearthed, Roxanne Joseph from Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism, Sebastián Rodríguez from Climate Home News and Nimra Shahid, an award-winning freelance journalist. It highlighted several methods and tools for investigating climate stories using 3 specific case studies of stories done by hardworking journalists in different parts of the world. Watch here.

### Four organisations to deliver Climate Investigations Course (CIC)

With the third year of the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) in full swing, the CIJ is working with four partner organisations in Francophone Africa, South Asia, Anglophone Africa and Latin America to deliver it's new Climate Investigations Course (CIC) as part of activities for OCRI Year 3. After developing the CIC over the past few months, partners will alongside the CIJ organise and deliver story lab training workshops and provide post workshop support & mentoring towards the execution and publication of OCRI-supported projects that are investigative, collaborative and cross-border.

The CIC is CIJ's new 4-module course made up of 14 sessions that will become part of our scheduled course offerings online from 2025. A region-contextualized and translated version (where applicable) consisting of 10 identified core sessions of the CIC will first be delivered across the four regions during the in-person story lab workshops.

For the Francophone Africa region, the Cell Norbert Zongo for Investigative Journalism in West Africa (CENOZO) will strengthen the capacities of investigative journalists in French-speaking West and Central Africa on climate change challenges and environmental issues coverage in order to promote a better understanding of the inherent issues by populations and leaders for the benefit of better policies. In addition to activities initially mentioned, CENOZO will also host a Climate Data Forum and an Online Public Lecture to achieve the set objectives.

DataLEADS will support journalists from newsrooms across the region to enhance their skills, tools in reporting on climate change and its impact. Specifically, the programme will onboard journalists from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka - seven countries in South Asia that continue to bear the brunt of climate change with rising sea levels, increasing temperatures, heatwaves, melting ice caps, floods and landslides. Two advocacy webinars that brings together journalists, policymakers, and researchers will be also held on the trends in climate change, reporting on the issue, misinformation, policies and their impact.

To address the dearth of knowledge and the spate of inaction that is still being observed despite increasing media scrutiny, advocacy, and agenda setting, the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) will enhance the capacity of the media to report on cross-border climate change issues. It will also hold the government accountable while simultaneously raising public awareness, promoting sustainable practices, fostering public engagement, and supporting the development of policies and strategies for climate change mitigation and adaptation in Nigeria, The Gambia, and Ghana for the Anglophone Africa region.

CONNECTAS known for promoting the exchange of information on key issues for the development of the Americas, will work towards strengthening Latin American journalists’ capacities to understand the climate change phenomenon, and provide them with tools and methodologies to produce high-quality, fact-based investigations, while fighting its associated misinformation and disinformation following the delivery of the CIC.

The CIJ had previously worked with CENOZO, CJID and CONNECTAS during OCRI Year 1 and DataLEADS in Year 2. Alongside regional trainers, CIJ and partners will work towards the successful delivery of the CIC and other activities.

### #CIJSummer 2024 - OCRI Focus Day - Presentations

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### Climate Investigations Course to be delivered in four regions for OCRI Year Three

Following a successful pilot in Nepal and six regions covered in Year 1 and 2, the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) will in its next run cover four regions namely Latin America, Anglophone Africa, Francophone Africa, and South Asia till September 2025. OCRI Year 3 will among other things, witness the development and the delivery in each region of a Climate Investigations Course (CIC). The CIC is a new 4-module course being developed by the CIJ in English that will become part of its scheduled course offerings online from Q1 2025. Region-tailored versions of the course will first be delivered during OCRI Year 3 across the four regions.

OCRI's model of collaborating with partners in each of the region who will work closely with the CIJ to deliver hands-on training will continue. Apart from the development of the CIC and delivery of a region-tailored version of the course, CIJ and OCRI-partners will organise story lab workshops and support the publication of investigative projects towards driving influential change.

The choice of the regions is based on the identified opportunities that will best enable further work following the review of OCRI's Y1 and Y2 partnerships while also taking into consideration other factors and lessons from the previous implementing years.

### What reporting climate change really means: Reflections from the Open Climate Reporting Initiative after two years, six regions and 53 countries

From April 2022 after months of scoping and ground work, the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) of the Centre for Investigative Journalism, London (CIJ) took off with a pilot programme in Nepal. Two years after, OCRI has transferred tangible skills and knowledge by directly training 681 and reaching more than 4000 journalists, researchers, academics, activists/environmentalists, state, and civil society actors in 53 countries. After successfully working in Latin America (excluding Brazil), Anglophone Africa and Francophone Africa for the first implementing year (April 2022 to March 2023), OCRI forged collaborations in Brazil & Lusophone Africa, South Asia and the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) for the second implementing year (April 2023 to March 2024).

 We have compiled some OCRI tools and resources whether you want to learn how to report COP, are searching for reliable datasets on renewable energy projects, or you need guidance on the digital tools you can use to investigate climate change. Find them here.

 

Following the completion of Year Two and as we look ahead to build an OCRI-legacy in the next iteration, we are proud of the many outcomes that OCRI is recording across the world, and it is a testament of our approach in going beyond just the ‘what’ but understanding the ‘why’ and the ‘what next’ about reporting climate change.

For actors within the climate change ecosystem especially journalists and newsrooms, these reflections are practical lessons to take away and elements to take note of in reporting the subject matter.

 

 	The media and the use of investigative tools are crucial for real world actions towards the climate crisis: With 143 OCRI-supported stories published and more than 30 others tracked so far by OCRI-trainees, there continues to be a need to raise the standard of environmental investigations using relevant tools and techniques to tell public interest stories for evidence-based advocacy. However, beyond just publishing stories, we documented at the end of 2023 how this is leading to real world actions. Read here. The media and newsrooms play a massive role to inform, educate and hold power to account on climate change and considering journalists as first responders means investigative tools and techniques must be taught.


 	To hold power accountable, pay attention to the politics and governance of climate change: The climate change subject cuts across virtually all levels of international policy discussion and advocacy. As a science-based concept, journalists also need a foundational level of specialist knowledge to better understand the phenomenon globally and locally from a science, policy and politics perspective. From the structure of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to learning how to report the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) and to tracking Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)​ as well as commitments made by state actors; holding power to account requires knowing what structures exists, where to get the right information and how to use it.


 	Climate change is not a 'specialised topic' or reporting beat: Climate change is an issue with multiple angles and sub-themes that needs to be reported from different perspectives. In two years the stories supported has examined climate change as it affects education, health, food security, women, migration, water scarcity/security to mention just a few. This is in addition to typical climate change related themes like renewable energy, drought,  deforestation, erosion, flooding, mining, climate financing, environmental loss and damage, heatwave/increasing temperature, biodiversity, climate justice & inclusion and carbon credits. It lays credence to our observation that climate change should not be considered as a specialised topic or reporting beat per say in newsrooms. Every journalist across different beats - finance & business, economics, sports, politics, crime, labour and so on - must understand the climate change subject and be able to apply the relevant angle applicable to their focus area.


 	Journalists need certain skills to establish and report the ‘why’ of climate change: The pattern of relevant skills journalists need are similar across the regions. Subjects like Data Journalism, Investigative Journalism Methods, Financial Investigations and Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) have reoccurred. However, working in South Asia and India specifically has also revealed fact-checking as a priority due to the prevalence of climate d/misinformation. It again gives credence to OCRI’s approach of ensuring region/country-specific issues are reflected prominently in the training based on proven needs. From myths around climate change denial to the discourses of delay and to the current trends of greenwashing, misinformation and disinformation on climate change is not only widespread but is also one of the major obstacles inhibiting progress in engaging audiences globally about the issue. The clip below by OCRI's Indian partner DataLEADS says more and our resolution is clear - tackling climate change myths, disinformation and misinformation must be taken head on!



 	Besides reporting the ‘why’, the ‘what next’ must be identified: OCRI has helped journalists understand what climate change is and why it is happening. Beyond these two elements, it is also connecting the dots towards the 'what next'. This is why paying attention to the governance framework of climate change mitigation is key. So, in putting forward renewable energy solutions for example, sub-themes like just energy transition and tracking renewable energy projects are important areas to pay attention to.


 	Both localised and cross-border reporting are two sides of the same coin: In the two years of OCRI, we adopted a cross-border approach for the first year and a more local/in-country delivery of training by OCRI partners in the second. Specifically, in year one, OCRI reached beneficiaries across multiple countries at the same time and widened the reach based on activities carried out with three OCRI-partners out of 10 training participants from a single country. In year two, seven out of our 10 partners held training sessions for participants from one country and it helped to deepen the OCRI footprint in the specific countries. Both approaches are essential in taking on the reportage of climate change.


 	Collaboration and a cross-sectoral approach is needed to break down the walls: The successes recorded on OCRI have been heavy on partnerships and collaborations. In two years, we have partnered with 20 organisations in the six regions who align with our mission and engage highly skilled experts on the different subjects. They have not only acted as trainers but also as mentors in post-training activities allowing for more impactful application of new skills. At least 190 trainers, mentors and experts have been engaged cutting across data & investigative journalism, law & litigation, energy, political science, research & policy analysis, climate justice, agriculture, and urban planning among many other fields. As the African proverb goes: If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together!



 	Conflict and climate change is a double-edged catastrophe: Worthy of a special mention is our work in Sudan amid conflict. We opened conversations in March 2023 with NasActive Network before clashes between the army and the paramilitary in Khartoum escalated in April into what became a full blown conflict thereby slowing things down. It has led to the displacement of many residents including journalists and more hurdles to access information due to the limited access to official resources. The conflict and humanitarian crisis in Sudan made working in the country a very sensitive and complex one. However, the resilience and commitment of journalists to not only get trained but continue to do their work amidst the significant external challenges is commendable (see testimonial in Arabic from a few participants here). A needs assessment report for improving climate change and environmental reporting within conflicts was also done with 94% of the 100 survey respondents agreeing that conflicts have a detrimental influence on climate change and the environment in general.


 	Journalists are not backing down even in tough terrains: For obvious reasons, the constraints relating to press freedom and journalists safety is a threat to reporting climate change especially in cases of holding power accountable. We contended with digital security breaches in the Gulf, delays in securing Government authorisation in Egypt and constraints to the inclusion of female participants from rural and remote areas due to safety and security concerns in Pakistan. Irrespective of these challenges, journalists are standing up to do their jobs while we adopted various strategies to be sensitive to these situations thereby ensuring the safety and security of partners and beneficiaries is not jeopardised.


 	It's not all 'doom and gloom': Gaining expertise in using a solutions journalism approach - which includes both adaptation and mitigation strategies - is necessary for reporting on climate change from another lens. Our partnership with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2023 under the Climate Change in News Media (an OCRI spin-off intervention) went beyond regular news coverage. It strengthened the capacity of the media to hold powerful actors to account, use digital methodologies for news gathering and production, and practise solutions journalism to combat climate change. Working with the Solutions Journalism Network (SJN), we developed an Evidence-based reporting on Climate Change Solution Journalism module that was delivered among others by Adisi-Cameroon for Francophone Africa and the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) for Anglophone Africa. It emphasises how to use a constructive and ethical approach to report climate change effectively.

### More than 60 supported stories published during OCRI Year Two

The second year of implementing the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) by the CIJ has seen the publication of more 60 supported stories across the 3 regions of Brazil and Lusophone Africa, South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

This forms part of the direct translation of the knowledge and skill gained by beneficiaries following series of in-person, online and hybrid activities in the form of train-the-trainer, curriculum development meetings, training workshops and conference sessions. These stories have been able to go deeper into the subjects covered and achieved wider impact by incorporating innovations such as data analysis, open-source intelligence and satellite imagery into their methodologies.

For instance, this report used data to show how 58% of the 26,553 hectares of the native vegetation lost in across Brazil between 2018 and 2022 are from 4 states and another story from Egypt used satellite images, among other tool, to highlight the forced displacement and loss of livelihood of potentially 30,000 fishermen plying their trade in Lake Manzala, located across four Egyptian governorates, due to a government project that commenced 2016.

While most of the South Asia region stories covered different climate change themes (for example the general health implications and women's health specifically due to increasing temperatures/heatwaves as well as interrogating climate change loss and damage themes of flooding in Pakistan), some of the Gulf region (under MENA) stories covered food security, water scarcity/security and even inclusivity-related issues at COP28.

A few more examples

 	Nampula far from renewable energy goals published in more than 5 media outlets x-rayed how Nampula the northern province of Mozambique making up 20.5% of the population are yet to see dividend of promised million dollars and euros renewable energy investments.
 	In Bangladesh, climate change impact has led to the migration of more than 50,000 people from Kutubdia island to other cities in a decade, contributing and perhaps validating projections that the South Asia region will account for the third-most number of Internal Climate Migrants (40 million) by 2050.
 	A gender perspective is brought forward in How climate change doubles the suffering of Sudanese women specifically the Darfur region and the Nile region of Sudan.
 	An exposé detailing how the Jari/Pará Project in Brazil used an area larger than Sweden to raise R$22 million from companies (namely BMW, BTG Pactual and Telefônica) in carbon credits but with unclear plans for community farmers. Read here.

### 2023 OCRI Highlights: Facilitating Real World Actions!

2023 has been a rollercoaster year for the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) at the CIJ! We built on a successful Year One (April 2022 – March 2023) and moved into 3 new regions for Year Two that runs till March 2024. Our big bet on the implementation strategy for the regions, Brazil and Lusophone Africa, South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), is proving to be a valid one with more than 300 directly trained from 16 countries and 1000+ reached indirectly. By the end of Year Two, OCRI would have reached journalists, researchers, academics, activists/environmentalists, state and civil society actors in 52 countries! That is a BIG DEAL and we are proud of how far we have come.

Just to mention a few success in 2023, OCRI facilitated our most diverse #CIJ Summer Conference to date with speakers from Nigeria, Nepal, Cameroon, Spain, Lesotho etc. and increasing from 4 to 6, the sessions focusing on environmental and climate change at the Conference; created a climate club to bridge the information gap for journalists working to cover climate change and environmental issues in Egypt; raised a cohort of climate coaches in India towards demystifying climate change reporting; interrogated the nexus with armed conflict in Sudan; formed a unit of highly skilled journalists examining different themes (e.g climate justice) across Brazil through the use of data and digital tools; and created a database of renewable energy projects in Mozambique. OCRI is going beyond the 'what' to the 'why' and the 'what next' of the climate crisis.



The multi-layered impact of OCRI is what makes it a unique intervention. One of such is seeing the improvements due to the training and skill-sharing nearly instantly within investigative projects numbering more than 80 so far. These projects have been able to go deeper into the subjects covered and achieved wider impact by incorporating innovations such as data analysis, open-source intelligence and satellite imagery into their methodologies.

Beyond receiving an award in South Africa, worthy of mention are the national impacts recorded from the published projects like winning greater data transparency from the Nigerian Meteorological Agency; taking steps to remove illegally constructed structures near river banks by a local authority and relocation of schools affected by floods and landslides in Nepal; reforming laws to curb illegal charcoal trade and better regulate sand mining in Uganda; forcing authorities to implement mitigation programmes around coastal erosion in Senegal; empowering civil society to push for better mechanisms to protect Cameroonian mangrove ecosystems and regulating mining contracts in Burkina Faso, the OCRI project and its partners are influencing a wealth of real-world actions. Not to forget contributing to international action impact such as establishing a loss and damage facility at COP27 and compelling a World Bank intervention to assist climate change affected communities in Burundi, the endless possibilities are clear.

We are not done just yet! We will take things a notch higher and zoom in on critical matters of climate financing and climate data to mention just a few in the coming months. Stay tuned!

### Bilingual resource pack with #PowerTracker Mozambique findings and sources

Under the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI), Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism has launched a resource pack about #PowerTracker: Investigating renewable energy across Mozambique.

The document, in English and Portuguese, brings the sources and findings regarding two webinars about how to investigate renewable energy in Mozambique and three investigations published in 2023. There are also links to the training sessions and lessons acquired by the journalists involved.

Following the first iteration launched in 2022 as part of OCRI Anglophone Africa, the 2023 iteration of the #PowerTracker programme culminated in a series of data-driven investigations by Mozambique journalists after receiving in-depth training. It was created and run by Oxpeckers with the support of the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s OCRI.

### Climate in Arabic Announces Webinar Series for Journalists

Climate in Arabic is organising an insightful series of three webinars for journalists in Egypt. Following the success of the workshop hosted last August, these webinars, starting on November 24th, 2023, mark a continuation of the organisation's efforts to enhance journalists' understanding of climate change and its complex interconnections while implementing the CIJs OCRI project.

In preparation for this series, a constructive dialogue with journalists helped identify topics of current interest, ensuring the webinars address the heart of journalistic concerns and cover key climate challenges in the region:

First webinar: The Intersectionality of Gender Issues with Climate Change

Date: Friday, November 24, 2023
Speakers: Ms. Raneem Al-Afifi, Mr. Nouran Al-Marsafi, Dr. Sawsan Al-Awadi

Second webinar: Climate Migration and the Impact of Conflicts and Wars

Date: Friday, December 9, 2023
Speakers: Dr. Basma Fouad, Mr. Ihab Zidan, Representatives from IOM and the Refugee Affairs Unit

Third webinar: Carbon Markets and Credits - Debt Swaps for Developing Countries

Date: Friday, January 5, 2024
Speakers: Eng. Ayman Al-Rifai, Dr. Saber Othman, Dr. Iman Abdel Azim

These webinars will be an enriching experience for journalists across the Arab region who are seeking to deepen their understanding of climate change issues. The details and registration forms can be found on Climate In Arabic page and the links for each above.

### OCRI feature through five sessions at #CodaBr2023

OCRI is at the 8th edition of the Brazilian Conference on Data Journalism and Digital Methods (Coda.Br) in partnership with Open Knowledge Brasil (OKBR) as part of activities planned for Year Two in the form of four training workshops and a panel talk. The workshops are: Scientific data and research on climate adaptation, Green shields and conflicts in the Amazon: Mapping territories and land use, Maps and climate workshop and Investigating municipal public policies on climate and the environment with the Climate Diary.

The panel talk will bring together voices from science, journalism and civil society to address the challenges for data-driven journalistic coverage and advocacy on climate issues that consider the inequalities in Brazil and the Global South in a larger context.

Known as the main data journalism event in Latin America, the 8th edition of the Brazilian Conference on Data Journalism and Digital Methods (Coda.Br) holds 18 and 19 November 2023 on the Álvaro Alvim Campus, São Paulo. It features tracks of workshops, panels, keynote, flash presentation sessions as well as networking opportunities for participants.

### Handbook on data-driven local coverage of Climate Justice

The Open Knowledge Brasil (OKBR) has created a handbook with tips for data-driven local coverage of climate justice. The document summarises the main lessons learned by the participants of Coda Amazônia, held between 31 August and 1 September 2023 in Belém, Brazil, in partnership with the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI).

Download here.

The material provides information on climate data sources, how to follow the money, as well as the intersection of climate change with other topics such as race and handling safety when executing reports.

### More Journalists Trained as OCRI Year Two Exceed Year One Numbers

We are now halfway into the second implementing year of OCRI which commenced April 2023 and we are glad that 327 beneficiaries have so far been trained directly across the 3 regions: Brazil & Lusophone Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This number already surpasses the total trained in Year One (225), with more training still planned and comes alongside a successful partnership with UNESCO on the Climate Change in News Media project! Working with our 10 partners across the regions, we are excited about the prospects ahead and the other half of OCRI Year Two.



We have continued facilitating collaborative efforts across borders, especially through exchanging knowledge and skills between the parties involved. For example, towards building a trusted network of contacts across the globe to do investigations with bigger international impact, we gladly welcomed some of our Year One OCRI partners, trainees and regional coordinators to a special networking event organised in collaboration with JournalismFund Europe as part of the 2023 #CIJ Summer Conference. The Conference was our most diverse to date with speakers from Nigeria, Nepal, Cameroon, Spain, Lesotho and so on. From 4 different sessions in 2022, the OCRI strand focusing on environmental and climate change at the Conference increased to 6 (in the form of talks and workshops).

The peculiarities of Climate Change within the regions are obviously unique and give credence to OCRI’s approach to ensure region/country-specific issues are reflected prominently in the training based on proven needs. It also explains our localised strategy for Year Two aimed at deepening engagements across board. OCRI did very well reaching Journalists across multiple countries (37) at the same time and widening the reach based on partners activities in Year One. However for Year Two, some of the countries we targeted have bigger populations and sizes than Year One. For instance, Brazil accounts for both 50% total population and land area of South America. Also, India is the most populous country globally with Pakistan being the 5th, Brazil is 7th and Bangladesh is 8th. Nevertheless, the beneficiaries have come from 16 countries across the regions.

As we continue our engagements, we earnestly look forward to use of the knowledge, skills, tools and techniques gained towards the stories that some of the Journalists will publish in the coming months.

### Press Accelerate Empowers Gulf Region Journalists with Intensive Climate Reporting and Research Workshop

Press Accelerate organised and hosted a groundbreaking online workshop on climate reporting and research aimed at early-career and aspiring journalists and researchers in the Gulf states.

The intensive online workshop took place from September 7 to 10 and consisted of three comprehensive modules:

 	Introduction to Journalism in the Gulf
 	Reporting and Research on Climate and the Environment in the Gulf
 	Introduction to Reporting on UNFCC and COP (Conference of the Parties)

The virtual workshop was attended by nine dedicated participants, who were selected through a thorough application process and share a deep passion for advancing climate knowledge in the region. As the next phase of their journalism skill development, these participants have now enrolled in a 15-week intensive mentorship program. Throughout this program, they will receive personalised guidance and support from experienced mentors as they work on creating and publishing their own climate-related stories, thereby contributing to the ongoing discourse on climate issues in the Gulf region.

The combination of the workshop and mentorship program marks the first initiative of its kind in the Gulf, representing a significant leap forward in enhancing access to journalism in the region.

### Investigative climate journalism workshop held in Sudan

The Climate Voice Workshop in Algadarif State, Sudan, was successfully conducted by NasActive, attracting 15 selected participants from a competitive pool of 184 applicants across various states in Sudan. From 20-23 August 2023, the workshop covered a diverse range of topics including introduction to climate change, climate journalism, and investigative journalism. The impactful three-days workshop also provided insights into the Paris Agreement, international climate policies, and open-source investigation tools, along with an exploration of the nexus between climate change and conflict.

The final day was devoted to a hands-on exercise in formulating story ideas, allowing participants to apply their newly acquired knowledge in a practical setting. The journalists are now actively working on their story pitches. A select few will be chosen to further pursue and develop their investigative stories, with mentorship and support, over the next three months.

 

Despite the challenging context, it's worth noting that this workshop was conducted as Sudan continues to navigate a conflict that began nearly five months ago, along with tightened restrictions on journalists. The ability to carry out such an enriching and empowering program under these circumstances not only highlights the resilience and commitment of all involved but also underscores the vital importance of climate journalism in these crucial times.

 

### OCRI sessions at #CodaAmazônia 2023

5 different OCRI sessions will take place during the 2nd edition of the Regional Conference on Data Journalism and Digital Methods (Coda Amazônia) taking place between 31 August and 2 September in Belém and Salvaterra, in Pará Brazil.

First up is a workshop about investigating climate change by interrogating Municipal Public Policies. A 3 data-track workshop consisting of processing climate data with R, using data to set the climate agenda and local data and climate event planning will also hold. Last but not least is an open talk about the challenges of journalistic coverage of climate justice.



#CodaAmazônia is the local version of the Brazilian Conference on Data Journalism and Digital Methods (Coda.Br), Latin America’s leading data journalism event. With more than 40 hours of activities, the event will feature various panels and workshops on topics such as artificial intelligence colonialism, socio-environmental disinformation, data ecosystems and networking in the Legal Amazon.

Free registration to attend the conference sessions is open until 25 August here.

### Training in 5 countries: Busy Summer for OCRI

OCRI partners across the 3 regions will have different forms of engagement in August as more journalists gain knowledge and skills to report climate change in their countries.

First is the #PowerTracker module 2 by Oxpeckers that focuses on Storytelling with data for Mozambican journalists holding August 3 while following a successful call for applications, 20 selected Egyptian Journalists will participate in a 4-day workshop by ClimateInArabic from 17-20 August.

After conducting a needs assessment survey with 100 respondents, NASActive will train journalists in Sudan interrogating climate change and conflict from 21-23 August. In Brazil and specifically Belém, Pará, the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) will host 10 journalists during a 4-day Training in environmental and climate journalism from 21-24 August.

Still in Brazil, OCRI will feature at 5 different sessions during Coda Amazonia from 31 August to 2 September while the Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) will also hold the first of two capacity development workshops targeting Journalists from national news outlets between 1-3 September.

### Call for applications: Climate and Investigative Journalism Fellowship for Egyptian Journalists

ClimateInArabic in partnership with CIJ's Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI), is announcing the launch of its Climate and Investigative Journalism Fellowship for Egyptian journalists who write about climate change and environmental issues. Application is open to Journalists looking for an opportunity to hone their investigative journalism skills and deepen their understanding of environmental and climate change issues.

Selected candidates will participate in an intense, 3-4-day workshop led by top international journalists and experts. This enriching experience will take place in Egypt in August 2023.

ClimateInArabic is looking for committed journalists residing in Egypt, who are eager to explore the complex intersections of climate change, the environment, and investigative journalism. Participants will gain an in-depth understanding of these issues and the opportunity to apply their learning in real time, creating impactful and insightful pieces of journalism.

Following the workshop, participants will be encouraged to develop a proposal for an investigative project. Participants will also be invited to follow-up events and seminars after completing the workshop.

Applications close on the 21st of July 2023 at 23:59 (Cairo time).

Apply here!

### Apply now: Training on investigating and telling climate change stories in Brazil

In partnership with CIJ's Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI), the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) will select ten journalists learn about reporting climate change and environmental issues at a training course in Belém, Pará. The training will take place from 21-24 August 2023.

The selected journalists will participate in a four-day training with sessions on different aspects of climate change, environmental journalistic investigation and the role of environmental defenders within this context.

Participants are encouraged to develop an investigation proposal and two ideas will be selected to receive financial and technical support for their execution and publication.

Applications deadline: 21 July 2023 at 23:59 (Brasília time).

Apply here.

### Three more OCRI partners emerge for year two

The engagement of two more partners in the MENA region and one in South Asia wraps up the inception stage for the implementation of OCRI year 2. This brings the total number of partners in the three regions to ten.

The Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) having received government approval will implement the Journalist capacity on climate change reporting in Bangladesh. Journalists from national and community news outlets will be trained and mentored to produce investigative and in-depth stories separately.

Based in Sudan, the Nas Active Network will interrogate the intersection of conflict and climate change. Specifically, the intervention will target journalists and activists to equip them with knowledge and tools to improve reporting skills in and produce stories related to climate change and environmental challenges in the context of the conflict in Sudan.

With the UN Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP 28) convening from 30 November to 12 December 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Press Accelerate will be empowering Gulf reporters with a deep understanding of climate journalism in the UAE and the broader regional context. Through workshops and mentorship, participating Journalists will gain skills to better report climate change in the UAE.

### OCRI training across regions commence in June

Some partners will kick off training across the three OCRI Year 2 regions. The first training holds 15-16 June in Jordan by the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. More here.

For the South Asia region and following a successful call for application, Media Unlimited holds the first of three regional training for professional and citizen Journalists in Karachi from June 23-24 while DataLEADS will hold a train-the-trainer workshop in New Delhi, same days.

During the 18th International Congress of Investigative Journalism, Abraji will host a Data and digital tools for reporting on climate change workshop on June 30 in São Paulo as part of training within the Brazil and Lusophone Africa region. Details here.

### Investigating and building a network of active Journalists reporting climate change in Egypt

At least 15 journalists from 10 governorates in Egypt will be trained with a handful others supported to execute climate change investigative stories in Arabic as the Centre for Investigative Journalism partners Climate in Arabic under it's Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI).

The partnership is aimed at building the capacities of journalists on investigative journalism in dealing with climate change issues in the Arab Republic of Egypt, with the goal of improving environmental reporting through training, skill exchange, and the production of in-depth, impactful stories that mobilise support for policy change. Also, it will create a network of active journalists, offer technical support, and supply the necessary resources for producing high-quality stories.

Consequently, Climate in Arabic will hold a hands-on practical training workshop for Journalists, select and support the best story pitches for post-training support (financial through a story grant and technical through expert mentoring), and build the "Al-Manakh Club" Network and a online platform of experts and journalists to sustain environmental and climate change reporting.

The partnership becomes the second in OCRIs Middle East and North Africa region following the initial announcement. The intervention in Egypt is an important one as it provides the opportunity to equip Journalists with the knowledge, tools, and resources needed to produce high-quality stories on environmental and climate change issues. It will be recalled that Egypt host the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 27) which OCRI participated in.

### Two partners to implement OCRI in Brazil

The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) is partnering with two Brazilian organisations to implement the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) in year two. The Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) and Open Knowledge Brasil (OKBR) will deliver activities that consist of training, reporting grants and conference workshops for at least 270 journalists, NGO communicators, and researchers.

Abraji is an NGO supporting investigative journalists in Brazil for over two decades. It has more than 10,000 people trained and several projects in different areas, such as advocacy, fact-checking, local journalism, open data and transparency, OSINT, data science, and tools to aid journalistic investigations. With CIJ’s support, the association will implement three activities by January 2024: a training at the 18th International Congress of Investigative Journalism in São Paulo, an in depth training for environmental journalists with a focus on climate change planned to hold in Belém and a post-training support (through a reporting grant and mentoring) for the execution of climate change investigative stories.

Open Knowledge Brasil (OKBR) is a local chapter of the international Open Knowledge network established in Brazil since 2013 to promote the usage of open data, technologies and training materials to handle public data, free software and open-source community in civic technology projects. OCRI and OKBR will carry out a series of activities that includes a track of workshops on climate change at the Coda Amazônia Conference, a Climate Data Lab in partnership with a grassroots organisation in the Northern region of Brazil, as well as five training sessions at Coda.Br Conference.

Both partners aim to improve the quality and quantity of reporting on climate change in Brazil and collaborate to help environmental activists and advocates work more effectively with public data and evidence-driven public policies for the climate, especially in the Legal Amazon region. The announcement of how to engage in those activities will be released soon.

### Climate change training and mentoring for Journalists in Pakistan

Journalists in Pakistan will receive training and mentoring under the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) London following the partnership with Media Unlimited for the South Asia region.

Media Unlimited, will expand the OCRI footprint by first implementing a Training-of-Trainers (ToT) to build a pool of at least 5 trainers who can teach the developed training modules to others. After the ToT, 3 different regional training sessions are planned for professional and citizen Journalists in Karachi, Quetta, and Islamabad.

Applications have now closed for the first regional training in Karachi holding in June. But follow Media Unlimited on Twitter to be notified about the next call for applications. 

The disaggregation of the training into regions is aimed at ensuring that the training is customised to take on the climate change peculiarities locally as well as bringing on board local area experts to add value in sessions. A networking, fellowship and mentorship programme will follow the regional training to build a digital network of journalists who will focus to report on environmental and climate issues as well as guiding 12 selected participants for mentoring to execute data-driven, investigative, and accurate news reporting on climate change. Media Unlimited will also showcase and reward the 3 best stories published based on a set grading criteria.

The CIJ is excited to work with Journalists in Pakistan to interrogate the multifaceted climate change issues in the country. It will be recalled that Pakistan experienced one of the recent climate change disasters following the floods that took place in the summer of 2022. According to the World Bank, the floods affected 33 million people, more than 1,700 lost their lives and it is estimated that 8 million were directly displaced.

### CIJ and Oxpeckers continue PowerTracker partnership in Lusophone Africa

For the second year, the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) is partnering with the Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism in implementing the #PowerTracker programme under the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI). The partnership is building on the successes recorded during the first Year of implementing OCRI in Anglophone Africa by focusing this time on the Lusophone Africa region. Specifically, this iteration of #PowerTracker will focus on task-based upskilling of Mozambique-based investigative journalists to cover climate change and renewable energy.

By leveraging collaboration with the Centro de Jornalismo Investigativo Mozambique, journalists will be trained to use data and investigative journalism techniques in reporting the thematic area in the country, particularly solar and hydro-powered projects. Mozambique is currently developing the five-year 'Energy for All' programme, through the Energy Fund (FUNAE), which aims to ensure that 10 million more people have access to electricity by the end of 2024. The Oxpeckers-OCRI training and professional support plans to ask how the projects around renewable energy are funded and how exactly is the money being used.

Planned activities over nine months include: the delivery of two in-depth virtual training modules, story grants for the production of data-driven investigations, production of one original and exclusive dataset of aggregated and analysed data relevant to Mozambique on climate change, and renewable energy projects, as well as enabling a tight-knit Community of Practice in the country.

The CIJ and Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism partnered during the first year of OCRI, and analysed renewable energy funding across Southern Africa. Apart from liberating new data that details nearly 200 renewable energy investments in Africa thereby tracking energy investments in the first year, the intervention also created a learning kit and resource pack for journalists to track renewable energy financing. With this collaborative effort, the development and deployment of resources will be done in English and Portuguese.

### Training-of-trainers application open for Indian Journalists as CIJ partner DataLEADS

DataLEADS invites applications for a climate reporting training bootcamp as part of activities planned under the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) for Indian Journalists. Successful applicants will be part of a 2-day training-of-trainers workshop holding in June which intends to improve knowledge of the importance of reporting on climate change and the effect that such reporting can have on addressing the urgent questions connected to climate change that have a substantial impact on policy making.

Apply Now! Application deadline is May 29, 2023, by 5 pm IST.

The train-the-trainer workshop is part of activities that will be implemented by DataLEADS in partnership with CIJ's OCRI. Prior to the workshop, a robust curriculum tailored and localised to suit the target audience will be developed. After the workshop, the trainers will organise over 30 training workshops for newsrooms, press clubs, journalism and educational institutes to train the target audience across India using tools and techniques to report climate change holistically.

### CIJ and ARIJ partner on OCRI

The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) is partnering the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) in implementing the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for year two. Through the Strengthening Climate Change Reporting in the MENA Region intervention which targets journalists from all 16 Arab countries, ARIJ will build the capacity of Investigative Journalists by enhancing their skills and knowledge in climate and environmental reporting.

The planned activities that will be implemented over nine months include: thematic training workshop for Arab investigative journalists, facilitating participation at ARIJ’s 16th annual forum and the publishing of quality investigative reports on climate change issues in the MENA region.

 

### OCRI Year two kicks off as impactful Year one ends

The last twelve months of implementing the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) has been an impactful one and has provided the springboard to achieve more as we go into working in three new regions of the world namely Brazil & Lusophone Africa, South Asia and the Middle East & North Africa (MENA).

Following a successful pilot in Nepal where we trained 12 Nepali journalists and supported six investigative stories, we went into the three Year 1 regions: Latin America (excluding Brazil), Anglophone Africa and Francophone Africa. We have so far trained 225 and directly reached more than 2000 journalists, researchers and activists/environmentalists in 37 countries.



The reverberating impact of OCRI is quite breathtaking. Beyond mainstreaming climate change and environmental investigations at regional events in 2022 such as Festival Gabo in Colombia, the African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC) in South Africa and the Conferencia Latinoamericana de Periodismo de Investigación (COLPIN) in Brazil, we also witnessed cross-border investigations in West Africa facilitated by one of our Francophone Africa partners, CENOZO. We have also seen how the trained journalists are putting the skills gained to use by reporting climate change holistically as evidenced in the reports published either on specific subjects like mangrove disappearance or into the financial flows around climate change, such as the PowerTracker project analysing renewable energy funding across southern Africa.

While one of the supported stories drew the attention of Nepali authorities and led to policy change impacts, another which investigated the illegal charcoal trade in the Acholi subregion of Uganda led to the ban on the charcoal trade in the entire sub-region and the cancellation of all trading licenses. A loss and damage-related story titled The ravines are haunting us in Burundi, had the authorities confirm, shortly after the story aired, that a World Bank intervention to assist the area was on the way while a story about coastal erosion in Dionwar Island, Senegal, highlighting the loss and damage that the issue has had on local livelihoods - including a bridge that collapsed six months before the story was broadcast - led to the visitation of the region by the minister of roads three weeks after the story aired. An announcement of a programme focused on rebuilding bridges was made after the visit.



We recorded different commitments from state and non-actors during the course of the year but perhaps the biggest policy change contribution OCRI can point to is the establishment of a loss and damage facility at COP27 in Egypt. One of Anglophone Africa partners, CJID took this as its main agenda to COP seeing that 60% of the stories OCRI supported was about the impact of climate change including the urgent flooding intervention provided to report the devastating flood in Nigeria in a comprehensive way.

In a manner that seems to be replicating itself quickly, we have recorded opportunities to continue the work OCRI started with different partners. The CIJ itself is a beneficiary of this based on its current partnership with UNESCO to deliver investigative training on climate-related issues in Anglophone and Francophone Africa. The initiative is building on OCRI’s first year by continuing work in both regions and working again with CJID and Adisi-Cameroun to deliver the programme in Nigeria and Ghana for Anglophone Africa and Cameroon and Gabon for Francophone Africa.

These days of training helped me delve deeper into journalistic investigation processes about environmental topics. I was also able to create collaboration networks with more colleagues. - Feedback reported by participant (Peru).

It was very gratifying to attend the activities of the Festival Gabo 2022. I believe they refresh the outlook and generate reflection about journalism and its contexts. – Feedback reported by participant (Mexico).

After completing its OCRI intervention, Ajebudi-Yaga secured a partnership with UNICEF to address climate change issues and implement a project on climate change, alongside other topics related to children, such as early childhood development. Similarly, the Center for Data Journalism Nepal also received support from the Earth Journalism Network (EJN) for the Asia-Pacific Media Grants 2023. The project starting April 2023 and related to Geo Journalism and Data for Climate Reporting, aims to train 12-15 mid-career journalists in Nepal on climate/environmental issues following the success of the OCRI pilot.

By December 2022, Oxpeckers commenced phase 2 of #PowerTracker with support from African Climate Foundation and EJN while organisations like Fundación Connectas and AIIJ expect to continue the OCRI-inspired initiatives based on the curriculum developed within the year.

We look forward another impactful second year of implementing OCRI.

### Adeolu Adekola speaks to BBC World Service on OCRI and Nigerian elections

CIJ OCRI Project Manager Adeolu Adekola took part in the BBC World Service Weekend programme on 5 February, discussing among other things the CIJ OCRI Programme and elections in Nigeria. You can hear the discussions below.

Adeolu Adekola on the work of the OCRI project

 

https://tcij.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/BBC_OCRI.mp3

 

Adeolu Adekola on the upcoming Nigerian elections

 

https://tcij.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/BBC_Nigeria-elections.mp3

Listen to the whole programme here.

### Cross-border investigative stories published as conference on climate change in West Africa holds

After months of training journalists, forging partnership with research institutes and climate study as well as investigative stories field work, CIJ's OCRI partner, the Cell Norbert Zongo for Investigative Journalism in West Africa (CENOZO) held a public conference on Friday, 20 January 2023 in  Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

The conference was part of the West Africa facing climate change project implemented by CENOZO in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire and Mali; as part of the global Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) project initiated by the Center for Investigative Journalism (CIJ).

OCRI's Francophone Regional Coordinator, Maxime gave an overview of the initiative while Alexandre Brutelle who served as trainer and mentor to the journalists presented the four investigative stories. The cross-border stories interrogated a number of climate change issues across Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Mali.

A panel discussion about what collaboration is required between journalists and civil society for successful media coverage of climate change then followed with stakeholders agreeing that urgent actions (including regulating mining contracts) to combat the effects of climate change needed to happen.

### Investigative stories presented as stakeholders discuss mangrove disappearance in Cameroun

Stakeholders from Government agencies, Civil Society Organisations, researchers/academics working on mangrove issues as well as the media were present as Adisi-Cameroun held an Investigative stories presentation and roundtable event. Journalists who participated in the OCRI-supported intervention called Open data for environment and Civic Awareness in Cameroon (ODECA) presented their investigative stories which highlighted the disappearance of mangroves on one hand and the challenges of sustainable managing it on the other.

Adeolu, OCRI's Project Manager, gave remarks on behalf of CIJ and following the presentation of the investigative stories, a roundtable discussion followed. The five experts dived into the discussion that examined the causes, manifestations and consequences of mangroves loss as well as assessing the level of threats for an urgent and effective response plan.

The event served as the grand-finale to the ODECA project following months of training focused on data journalism and environmental issues; mentoring of reporters and investigative field work.

Read more.

### Published OCRI supported story draws attention of Nepali authorities

After weeks of field work following the training received in May, the first story supported by OCRI was published in September. The story which was on the Urban Flooding in Kathmandu Valley served as a warning following the devastating effect the Pakistani flood has had, with nearly a third of nearby Pakistan submerged.

Other stories published from the Nepal pilot has examined climate change as it affects public schools, the real estate sector and health institutions in Nepal.

We are glad to see that one of the supported stories has prompted steps to address the problems raised from the authorities responsible. The Kathmandu Valley Development Authority (KDVA) gave an ultimatum for the removal of structures constructed illegally near the river banks within the valley.

### OCRI-IPYS Grants for the Best Proposals of an Investigation on Climate Change

Two of the 10 journalists who joined the Advanced Course on Investigative Journalism (CAPI in Spanish) at COLPIN 2022, prepared by IPYS as part of OCRI and focusing on different aspects of covering Climate Change, were awarded with a 1,000 USD grant each to pursue the proposals they discussed during the course.

The two journalist selected to receive the grants are:

 	Omaya Sosa (Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Puerto Rico), for her project focusing on public politics in responding to climate change.
 	María Laura Molina (La Data Cuenta, Costa Rica), for her project that will interrogate climate financing and specifically how international funds received for her country to face climate change are being utilised.

### Investigative stories presentation and roundtable in Cameroun

OCRI's Anglophone Africa partner, Adisi-Cameroun is hosting an official presentation of the results from the investigative stories and a roundtable on the dangers of mangrove destruction and the consequences as it relates to Climate Change. The event follows months of training and mentoring of 10 journalists about Investigating mangroves’ destruction in Cameroon as part of the Open Data for Environment and Civic Awareness intervention in Cameroon implemented under OCRI.

The event holding 12 December 2022 will have journalists, the media, NGOs, CSOs, researchers, administrations and development partners of Cameroon attend. It will among other things bring forward the causes, manifestation and consequences of disappearing mangroves in Cameroon while also evaluating the threats for an urgent and effective action plan.

### OCRI at COP27

The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 27) was held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt from 6 to 18 November 2022. Prior to the conference, one of OCRI's Anglophone Africa Partner, the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID)  on November 2, launched a COP reporting handbook for Journalists. The handbook was put together to fill the gap in the knowledge and capacity for reporting COP.

Download here.

Akintunde Babatunde, OCRI's Anglophone Africa Regional Coordinator was also present through out the Conference writing and analysing different perspectives on Climate Change. He also spoke about the 'technicalities of climate change reporting and OCRI's footprint in Africa.

### #PowerTracker: Tips and tools webinar on investigating renewable energy and launch of data

Following the training and publication of stories under the PowerTracker OCRI intervention, our Anglophone Africa partner, Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism is hosting a webinar where the grantees will share tips, tools and advice on investigating renewable energy in Southern Africa.

New and unique data around renewable energy will also be launched at the event. Click here to download the data.

Date: Thursday, 24 November 2022

Time: 12pm SAST

Register for free here to join the webinar.

### OCRI at Climate Change Media Summit and AIJC2022

At this year's African Investigative Journalism Conference #AIJC2022 which ran from October 31 to November 2, our partners from Anglophone and Francophone Africa shared lessons on working with the CIJ as a partner and reaching about 200 journalists, researchers and activists/environmentalists across 19 African countries under OCRI.

The 60-minute session had Arnaud Ouedraogo from CENOZO, Nompumelelo Mtsweni from the Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism and Marie Louise Mamgue from ADISI-Cameroun as panellists with Akintunde Babatunde OCRI, Anglophone Africa Coordinator moderating the session on Climate Change Reporting in Africa: Myths and Facts.

In a similar fashion, OCRI’s Project Manager, Adeolu Adekola, spoke on flooding and environmental disaster in Nigeria during the Centre for Journalism Innovation Development's maiden Climate Change Summit in Abuja, Nigeria on October 27. Watch here.

### Stories and documentary published as OCRI supports CJID on flooding in Nigeria

As part of effort to quickly respond to the flooding crisis that has left devastating effect in Nigeria, the OCRI project supported one of its Anglophone Africa partners, the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) working in the country.

Through an urgent flooding intervention, the support provided is aimed at facilitating the reporting of the crisis by bringing to the fore the multifaceted impact the floods is having in 10 of the over 25 states affected. Seven of the reports published cover the flooding impact on trade (industrial, textile, food and gas), education, agriculture, vulnerable persons in IDP camps as well as children and women.

In a related manner, a documentary that highlights the “loss and damages” the floods caused was also released. Read more here and watch the full 3 minutes documentary here.

The recent floods in Nigeria, the worst in a decade has killed more than 600 persons, displaced another 2.4 million others and damaged over 650,000 hectares of farmland across the country according to data from national authorities.

### Up to 50 Journalists Receive OCRI Training During COLPIN 2022

As part of the OCRI programme, at least 50 journalists received training during the Conferencia Latinoamericana de Periodismo de Investigación (COLPIN) 2022. The conference which is one of the most prestigious conferences on investigative journalism in the region was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between 9-12 November.

Organisers of COLPIN and CIJ's OCRI partner Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS) held two activities for training. The first one was an open training on Covering Climate Change and Cities. Edilana Damasceno from DataLabe and Shyrlei Rosendo from Direitos Urbanos Socioambientais were the speakers, and the talk for up to 40 attendants was chaired by Cristina Serra. This session took place at Favela de Maré, in the north of Rio de Janeiro.

The second activity was an Advanced Course on Investigative Journalism (CAPI in Spanish) prepared by IPYS and focusing on different aspects of covering Climate Change. The course took place an 9 and 10 November, having recognised journalists and specialists working on the subject, such as André Trigoso, from Globo Televisión; Rafael Radke, UNESCO advisor on Climate Change; Mac Margolis, journalist  from think thank Igarape; Lise Olsen, journalist of The Texas Observer; and Gustavo Faleiros, InfoAmazonía’s founder. 10 journalists benefited from this intensive programme, from which two of them will be selected to receive a grant to complete the projects they presented during this event. Read more about the participating the 10 journalists here.

### Workshop on Reporting Climate Change Takes Place in Mexico City

From 31 August to 2 September 2022, 13 reporters and editors who cover environmental and/or climate change issues in Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America participated in a 3-day training workshop organised by Fundación Gabo.

Participants were experienced professionals with a proven record of high-quality publications on environmental issues from 11 countries.

The workshop was led by Glòria Pallarès, journalist and Fellow 2021-2022 of the Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) at the Pulitzer Center, and had  the participation of other guest speakers, such as Thelma Gomez from Mongabay, and Joseph Poliszuk from ArmandoInfo. Participant’s experience was also put to use — they were asked to share their knowledge with others as much as possible in a horizontal conversation .

This activity will be followed by an OCRI panel on Climate Change reporting during the Festival Gabo, to take place in November, in Medellin, Colombia.

### CONNECTAS concludes online workshop on how to investigate and tell climate change stories

The 3-day online workshop on how to investigate and tell stories about Climate Change ran from 6-8 September 2022, with more than 70 participants from 15 countries in Latin America on the first day alone.

This workshop’s content was put together by CONNECTAS’ editorial board, in collaboration with scientists and experts on Climate Change under the CIJ's Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) project. The curriculum included:

 	Mapping and Satellite Tracking Tools
 	OSINT Methodologies
 	Follow the Money of Programmes Tackling Climate Change
 	Accountability for Extractivist Industries
 	Communicating Science through Journalism

All of the participants were asked to develop an investigation proposal. The best proposal will have the chance to receive editorial advice from CONNECTAS and will be invited to the 2022 Festival Gabo, in Bogotá, Colombia.

### Apply now: Free training on how to investigate and tell stories about Climate Change by CONNECTAS

As part of the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) activities, one of CIJ's partners, CONNECTAS, is carrying out a free online workshop on how to investigate and tell stories about Climate Change. The training will take place from 6-8 September 2022, and it will include:

 	Mapping and Satellite Tracking Tools
 	OSINT Methodologies
 	Follow the Money of Programmes Tackling Climate Change
 	Accountability for Extractivist Industries
 	Communicating Science through Journalism

This curriculum was put together by CONNECTAS’ editorial board, which includes experienced investigative journalists from all over the continent, in collaboration with scientists and experts on Climate Change.

During the training sessions, participants will develop an investigation proposal. The best proposal will have the chance to receive editorial advice from CONNECTAS and will be invited to the 2022 Festival Gabo, in Bogotá, Colombia.

Dates worthy of note are listed below:

Applications Close: 28 August 2022 at 23:59 (Colombia time).

Apply here.

### Participants from 11 countries for workshop on Climate Change Investigative Journalism announced

One of CIJ’s LATAM partners on the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI), Fundación Gabo, has announced the 14 journalists participating in the three-day workshop on ‘Investigative Journalism on Climate Change’, taking place from 31 August to 2 September 2022, in Mexico City.

The workshop will be led by Glòria Pallarès, journalist and Fellow 2021-2022 of the Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) at the Pulitzer Center.

The 14 participants from 11 Latin American countries were chosen out of 160 applications submitted, and will be receiving training and sharing their own experiences. The cohort is composed of reporters whose capabilities in reporting environmental issues and public policy is already very promising, and with a great potential to have a wide impact.

Meet the participants here.

### Journalists from five countries for #PowerTracker

One of CIJ's Anglophone Africa partners on the OCRI project Oxpeckers Center for Investigative Environmental Journalism has announced the #PowerTracker journalists participating in its latest project aimed at investigating financing of renewable energy projects.

The participants were chosen out of more than 50 applications submitted, and are receiving training and support to produce data-driven investigations. Their investigations will deal with a range of green energy-related topics, and they are tasked with collecting and analysing data on the status of projects, the costs involved, who is funding them, their carbon footprint and whether they have had – or will have – any impact.

Meet the team:

Sharon Tshipa, Botswana

Phathizwe Zulu, Eswatini

Sechaba Mokhethi, Lesotho

Thabo Molelekwa, South Africa

Debra Matabvu, Zimbabwe

Learn more here.

### Investigating climate change and environmental crime in Uganda

CALL FOR PITCHES!

OCRI Anglophone Africa partner, African Institute for Investigative Journalism (AIIJ) invites Journalists based in Uganda with investigative story ideas on climate change and environmental crime to apply and send in their story pitches.

Interested applicants are expected to submit their story pitch alongside its budget, their CV and a letter from their Editor to info@africanaiij.org.

Application deadline is 5 August 2022!

 

### Second webinar on Investigative Journalism about Climate Change takes place

Fundacion Gabo & CIJ – Second OCRI Webinar

The second webinar, organised by the Centre for Investigative Journalism and Fundacion Gabo as part of the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI), took place on Thursday 21 July, on ‘Digital Tools for Investigations on Climate Change’.

Gustavo Faleiros, a journalist with a long experience on environmental reporting and co-founder of InfoAmazonia , was in charge of delivering the last of two open Webinars hosted by Fundacion Gabo. He focused on Satellite data (e.g. NASA's Earth Observatory and Worldview, as well as Resource Watch), and on environmental data (e.g. IPCC Interactive Atlas).

At least 90 people watched this Webinar on YouTube live, and the recording is available online.

The first open Webinar, ‘Planning an Investigation on Climate Change’, took place on 19 July 2022.

Both Webinars served as preparation for the in-person Workshop that will be carried out in Mexico City for 14 journalists, between 31 August and 2 September, about ‘Investigative Journalism on Climate Change’ and will delivered by Glòria Pallarès.

### Climate change media fellowship in West Africa

The Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID), in partnership with The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ), is hosting its climate change media fellowship.

The fellowship features training and mentorship opportunities, access to data and resources, and media appearances on topical climate change issues.

Small grants are available for participants at the end of the training.

Interested applicants must be journalists from an English-speaking West African country: Ghana, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, Liberia, or Nigeria.

The deadline is July 25.

Apply here

### First of two webinars on Investigative Journalism about Climate Change takes place

Fundacion Gabo & CIJ - First OCRI Webinar

The first of two open Webinars, organised by the Centre for Investigative Journalism and Fundacion Gabo as part of the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI), took place this Tuesday 19 July, on ‘Planning an Investigation on Climate Change’.

Speaking during the first webinar was Glòria Pallarès, journalist and Fellow 2021-2022 of the Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) at the Pulitzer Center. Pallarès will also be leading an in-person Workshop in Mexico City between 31 August and 2 September, about ‘Investigative Journalism on Climate Change.’

At least 195 people watched this Webinar on YouTube live, and the recording is available here.

The second open Webinar will take place on 21 July 2022 online.

### Journalists from 7 Anglophone African countries to now participate in OCRI

The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) is delighted to announce a third partner in the Anglophone Africa region for OCRI.

The African Institute for Investigative Journalism (AIIJ) will be implementing a project titled: Leveraging investigative journalism for environmental accountability. Targeted towards Journalists in Uganda, this project will develop curriculum on investigating climate change and environmental crimes where journalists will be trained in investigating climate change and environmental crime.

Prior to now, the Anglophone Africa region had two partners working with Journalists in at least seven countries namely - Nigeria, Ghana, The Gambia, Liberia, Sierra Leone and South Africa as part of activities lined up for the delivery phase for Year 1 of OCRI.

### IPYS and CIJ partner to train up to 30 journalists in LATAM

The CIJ and Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS) have teamed up to deliver training on climate change reporting for up to 30 journalists in Latin America (except Brazil).

There will be two types of training: First, we are planning to convene, develop and support a new edition of IPYS' Advanced Course on Investigative Journalism (CAPI 2022), now focused on environmental reporting. This is a highly qualified programme that, for three days, will put 10 journalists with proven investigative experience in contact with topics that are usually difficult for journalism to address. This will take place during the Latin American Conference of Investigative Journalism (COLPIN), to be held this year from the 9th to the 12th of November in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Following the course, there will be some support and funding of stories that will be published to bring forward climate change issues in the region.

Second, also during the Latin American Conference on Investigative Journalism, CIJ and IPYS will organise a practical workshop for 20 journalists attending the conference. The objective is to provide tools and techniques to improve coverage of climate change issues.

More details coming soon...

### Investigative journalism on climate change workshop in Mexico City

As part of the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) activities implemented by Fundación Gabo, 14 reporters and/or editors who cover environmental and/or climate change issues in any Spanish-speaking country in Latin America will be selected from applications received to be part of the 3-day training.

Dates worthy of note are listed below:

 	Open call: From Thursday 7 July to Monday 1 August.
 	Publication of selected journalists: Friday 12 August.
 	Workshop in Mexico City: Wednesday 31 August, Thursday 1 September and Friday 2 September, 2022.

More details for the requirements to apply and application form can be found here.

### Masterclass webinars on climate change with Fundación Gabo: Dates Announced

The CIJ and Fundación Gabo have opened call for applications and preparations for interested investigative journalists towards 2 masterclass webinars planned to teach good practices, techniques and key tools to investigate climate issues.

The aim will be to equip journalists and editors from Latin America (except Brazil) with state-of-the-art tools for research on issues related to Climate Change as part of the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) project. Here are some of the dates of interest:

 	Open registration for webinars: Thursday 7 July, 2022
 	How to plan an investigation on climate change (webinar #1): Tuesday 19 July, 2022
 	Digital tools to investigate climate change (webinar #2): Thursday 21 July, 2022

The webinars will be open for those who register.

Read more on the webinar and register to attend here.

### OCRI trainers in Cameroon head to a planning workshop

In Cameroon, trainers who will be involved in the implementation of the Open Data for Environment and Civic Awareness project under OCRI are meeting for a planning and curriculum development workshop on July 4 and 5, in Douala, the economic capital of the country.

Under the supervision of the Centre for Investigative Journalism's partner ADISI-Cameroun, the trainers and local project management team will work together on the materials to be used during the training and mentorship of selected journalists from Cameroon's most popular media. This will be done by identifying skills and modules needed by fellows to do better climate change and environmental investigative stories to serve as training content. The fellows will then receive grants in order to produce investigations on the phenomenon of mangrove disappearance across three major coasts of Douala, Kribi and Limbe and help civil society to advocate for saving what remains.

The planning and curriculum development workshop is coming after a successful public call for applications from eligible journalists to apply for a chance to be selected for the ODECA project that closed on Wednesday June 20.

### OCRI now covers 8 countries in Francophone Africa

The CIJ's Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) will now be implemented across 8 countries in Francophone Africa.

Joining the initial three partners covering 7 countries is Ajebudi-Yaga, a leading innovative and young-led media organisation in Burundi. They now join the OCRI project as the 4th Francophone Africa partner, adding the East African country as the 8th beneficiary country.

Ajebudi-Yaga with experience in innovative media approaches to advocacy, will focus its action in capacity building of the media, community media, on the theme of climate change, in order to improve and increase the treatment of topics related to climate change with the aim of raising national awareness which will place this theme at the center of the public debate.

 

### Investigating climate change: First OCRI training for journalists in Francophone Africa held

CIJ's partner and West-Africa-based investigative journalism network CENOZO, organised its first climate change reporting training on June 23 and 24, under the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) project.

This two-day online training brought together twelve journalists from four countries - Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, and Mali, and stands as the first part of a two-round training planned by CENOZO.

The participants of this training, who were selected after an open call and a selection process, will also meet in an in-person workshop to be held from 25 to 29 July 2022, in Abidjan. The participants will later benefit from grants and coaching in order to produce cross-border investigative stories.

CENOZO is one of the four OCRI regional partners in Francophone Africa implementing a programme that is aimed at strengthening media and civil society organizations’ capacity to report climate change. The online training is the very first OCRI activity in Francophone Africa.

### Training and grant opportunity for journalists in Senegal, Niger and Côte d'Ivoire to investigate climate change

The Centre for Investigative Journalism's partner on the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) project, Institut Panos Afrique de l’Ouest, has launched a call for applications to journalists in Senegal, Niger and Côte d'Ivoire who are interested in investigative reporting on climate issues.

Twelve (12) journalists (men and women) will be selected in each of the three countries. They will participate in a series of in-person capacity building workshop on investigative journalism techniques and climate challenges, scheduled for mid-August 2022, in their respective
respective countries.

Once trained, the journalists will have the opportunity to apply for a grant to conduct an investigation on a topic related to climate change in their country or in Africa, with the support of a mentor.

Application deadline: Friday, July 08, 2022, at 23:59 GMT

More details here (in French)

### Call for applications to participate in the PowerTracker programme

Following a successful introductory module session, applications are now open for interested journalists in Southern Africa to participate in the PowerTracker programme of the Oxpeckers Center for Investigative Environmental Journalism. Under the CIJ's OCRI project, PowerTracker will offer training and professional support that focuses on task-based upskilling of investigative journalists to use collated data in their work.

The programme is aimed at collating data on renewable energy projects in Southern Africa being funded by corporations, governments and other parties. Successful applicants will receive in-depth training and support to produce a data-driven investigation on the climate crisis in the region.

Application closes on Thursday 30 June 2022.

Apply here.

### Latin America Partners to improve journalism tools and methodologies for investigating climate change issues

Fundación Gabo and Fundación Connectas are partnering with the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) in strengthening the capacities of journalists in Latin America under its Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI). The partnerships will focus on improving the use of tools and methodologies to help them adequately investigate and cover issues related to climate change.

Fundación Gabo, an institution created by the Colombian journalist and Nobel Prize winner for literature Gabriel García Márquez, will implement masterclasses, workshops for journalists in Latin America and a public discussion during the Gabo Festival to be held in-person by October 2022.

With Latin America named as one of world’s region that is most affected by climate change by the United Nations (UN), Fundación Connectas will work on consolidating its Planeta Connectas initiative. This will be through replicating and adjusting successful methodologies of pedagogical editorial support that have been implemented in the last ten years culminating into a roadmap on climate change coverage.

Earlier in the year, the CIJ identified Latin America (excluding Brazil) as one of 3 regions for the delivery phase for Year 1 of OCRI running from April 2022 to March 2023.

### CIJ and CJID collaborate across 5 Anglophone West Africa countries

The Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) is partnering the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) in implementing a programme that is aimed at strengthening media and civil society organisations’ capacity to report climate change in 5 West African Anglophone countries namely: Nigeria, Ghana, The Gambia, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Across the identified countries, the CJID will implement a skill survey, hold workshops to build the capacity of journalists and CSOs to report and advocate for positive responses to climate issues and carry out fellowships for journalists reporting climate change to produce in-depth reports on climate change mitigation, and adaptation and resilience.

The partnership is part of activities earmarked for the year one delivery phase of Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) and makes CJID the second organisation working with the CIJ across the Anglophone Africa region.

### Training and Mentoring on climate change reporting for Journalists in 7 Francophone Africa countries

The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) is delighted to announce partnerships with 3 organisations to train and mentor Journalists in 7 Francophone Africa countries under its Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI). This is a result of several weeks of building a coalition of partner organisations within Francophone Africa - one of 3 regions identified for Year 1 of OCRI.

The Cell Norbert Zongo for Investigative Journalism in West Africa (CENOZO) will strengthen the capacities of investigative journalists from Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire and Mali on the coverage of climate change to promote a better understanding of climate issues by populations and leaders through collaboration between journalists, researchers and civil society actors.

Under the intervention named Open Data for Environment and Civic Awareness in Cameroon (ODECA), ADISI-Cameroun will train and mentor Journalists to produce investigations on mangrove disappearance across three major coasts of Douala, Kribi and Limbe as well as their riversides being threatened by this occurrence.

Similarly, the Institut Panos Afrique de l’Ouest will equip media professionals with new approaches and tools for investigative journalism to better address climate change issues in Senegal, Niger and Côte d'Ivoire.

All 3 partners will undertake several activities working with the CIJ in meeting the objective of OCRI - raising the standard of environmental investigations to enable thoroughly researched public interest reporting and evidence-based advocacy.

### Now open: Registration for data-driven reporting on Green Energy in Africa training

Registration is now open for the first training of the PowerTracker programme implemented by the Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism under the Centre for Investigative Journalism's (CIJ) OCRI project.

The virtual event being held on 9 June 2022, will equip journalists in Southern African countries with knowledge on specific tools and techniques that can be used in reporting climate and environmental issues in the region.

Register here.

### Nepal: Applications open for climate investigations using OSINT and data workshop

Applications are now open for Nepali journalists interested in honing their skills for climate investigations using open source intelligence and data. The Centre for Investigative Journalism under it's Open Climate Reporting Initiative is delighted to announce this opportunity in partnership with the Center for Data Journalism Nepal (CDJN).

Successful applicants will after the workshop acquire skills on new and innovative tools/techniques that would enable them produce/publish in-depth investigative pieces for their respective media outlets on climate change.

Application closes on Wednesday 4 May 2022 by 5.00pm Nepal Time (NPT).

### CIJ partners Oxpeckers on OCRI

The Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism is partnering the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) in implementing PowerTracker, a new programme that will collate data on renewable energy projects in Africa being funded by corporations, governments and other parties. The partnership is part of activities earmarked for the year one delivery phase of Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI).

The planned activities for the implementation of PowerTracker in the Anglophone Africa Region over nine months include: training for investigative journalists, tracking of green energy projects (source, collate, aggregate, analyse and make data public that tracks information on the ambitions of green energy projects, their status, costs, who is funding them, their carbon footprint and mitigation value), publication of investigative stories, media campaign and community engagement.

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## OCRI Events

### Tools and Techniques for reporting Climate Change in Latin America

CIJ's Latin America partner CONNECTAS is hosting an online panel discussion x-raying how to tell holistic climate change stories from a journalistic perspective, based on facts, data, and collaboratively in Latin America.



The panel features editors and journalists from three countries - Venezuela, Uruguay and Colombia, who were involved in the training of ten reporters and oversaw the execution of six investigative stories by journalists from Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Peru, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.

The webinar will hold on Zoom. For more details and to register for free, interested participants should sign up here.

### Advocacy Webinar from South Asia’s climate frontlines

DataLEADS is organising a webinar as part of the Open Climate Reporting Initiative in South Asia. The session will offer insights about the vital role journalism plays in shaping public discourse and influencing policy on climate change.

Duration: 1 hour

Subhra Priyadarshini will share stories and reflections from her years of reporting on climate change across South Asia. The webinar is open to students, researchers, policymakers, environmentalists, and anyone concerned about climate change.

Interested participants should sign up here. Details of the webinar (including the Zoom link) will be shared to all registered participants.

 

### OCRI Story Lab and Climate Investigations Workshop in South Asia

DataLEADS, OCRI's South Asian partner, is conducting a four-day intensive training and story-lab workshop for journalists from five South Asian countries. Participants will learn concepts, tools, and techniques to develop and refine their climate investigation story proposals.

Duration: 4 days

The workshop is a regionally adapted version of CIJ's new Climate Investigations Course (CIC). It consists of four modules covering climate science and reporting, investigation of public agencies and corporations, deep-data dive, ECOSINT (Digital Tools & Methodologies for Climate Investigations that includes Satellite Imagery & Mapping and Fighting Climate D/Misinformation).

Participants will benefit from both hands-on practice and theoretical learning, developing their story pitches under expert guidance during story lab sessions. After the workshop, they will receive editorial guidance and mentorship throughout their investigation process.

### Investigative story-lab workshop in Côte d'Ivoire for Francophone Journalists

12 journalists from eight West and Central African countries selected out of more than 500 applicants, are participating in an intensive story-lab workshop, organised by the Norbert Zongo Unit for Investigative Journalism in West Africa (CENOZO), with the support of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ).

Duration: 4 days

Journalists who possess some advanced investigative experience, will learn advanced techniques and tools for conducting climate investigations. The sessions range from the fundamentals of climate investigation, with the key differences from environmental journalism, through to ECOSINT (Digital Tools & Methodologies for Climate Investigations), techniques for investigating the actions of governments and companies; the collection, processing and effective use of data, as well as digital security.

The workshop, which features a hands-on practical approach, will enable the participants, supervised by a team of trainers from CIJ and CENOZO, to leave with fairly well-calibrated story pitches for execution.

All of this intense work will be preceded (on 14 October) by a one-day Forum on ‘the production and use of data in the fight against climate change’, that will bring together journalists, scientists and civil society players to explore among other things the challenges and opportunities of accessing open data in the region.

### OCRI Story Lab and Climate Investigations Workshop in Latin America

OCRI partner in Latin America, CONNECTAS, is hosting a four-day on-site training story-lab workshop in which journalistic concepts, tools, and techniques will be offered to develop investigations of climate change and its impacts for selected journalists.

Duration: 4 days

Through a theoretical and practical methodology, the selected journalists will learn how to develop in-depth content with the advice of editors and journalists who are experts in environmental issues. The best projects will have the opportunity to receive funding and editorial support for their implementation and dissemination.

The workshop with is the region contextualized version of CIJ's new Climate Investigations Course (CIC) is divided into four modules, in which trainers will share knowledge in climate science and investigative reporting, how to investigate climate finances, climate investigations with data and ECOSINT - Digital tools and methodologies for climate research.

### OCRI Story Lab and Climate Change Media Workshop in Anglophone Africa

The story-lab workshop of the Open Climate Reporting Initiative project of the Centre for Investigative Journalism will be hosted in Lagos, Nigeria, by the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID). The workshop will feature 15 investigative journalists from Nigeria, Ghana, and the Gambia.

Duration: 4 days

This workshop aims to enhance the capacity of media professionals to report on cross-border climate change and environmental issues, hold governments accountable, raise public awareness, promote sustainable practices, and foster public engagement. Additionally, it will set an agenda for climate change mitigation and adaptation across West Africa.

Some of the sessions that will feature at the workshop include:

 	Climate Change Science and Concepts
 	Global Climate Governance, Rights, and Environmental Justice
 	Environmental Journalism and Climate Investigations, Solutions Approach to Climate Reporting
 	Climate Finance - Investigating governments and corporations
 	Africa in Global Climate Negotiations
 	Data Driven Climate Investigations
 	Introduction to Digital Tools & Methodologies for Climate Investigations (ECOSINT)
 	Fighting Climate Mis/Disinformation

 

### Webinar: Carbon Markets and Debt Swapping in Developing Countries

The third webinar in the series hosted by OCRI MENA partner, Climate In Arabic is titled "Carbon Markets and Debt Swapping in Developing Countries". This engaging webinar, led by esteemed journalist Amro Khan, delves into the significance of Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCMs) in reducing emissions and their impact on the sustainability of developing nations.



This session is designed to equip participants with insights into how VCMs aid companies in environmental responsibility and the role of debt swapping in supporting developing countries.

Duration: 120 minutes

Key topics include:

 	The role and challenges of VCMs in environmental sustainability.
 	Debt swapping mechanisms for developing countries.
 	The future and regulation of voluntary carbon markets.

You can register for the webinar here or follow Climate In Arabic on social media for updates.

### Combating climate misinformation virtual workshop

DataLEADS is organising a virtual workshop for Indian journalists and editors interested in learning about relevant tools and strategies to combat climate misinformation.

Duration: 2 hours

The workshop will cover the following:

 	The need for watchdog reporting in climate change
 	Stellar climate reporting and tips to generating ideas for big story
 	Using data to add a broader context to climate stories
 	Misinformation narratives about climate change

Interested participants should sign up here.

### Webinar: Climate Migration and the Impact of Conflicts and Wars

The second webinar in the series by OCRI MENA partner Climate In Arabic, is titled "Climate Migration and the Impact of Conflicts and Wars". This insightful session is tailored for journalists in Egypt and the broader Arab region who are interested in the critical intersection of climate migration, conflicts, and wars.



This webinar is focused on equipping journalists with a comprehensive understanding of how climate migration is intertwined with conflicts and wars, and how these factors exacerbate climate change issues. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with leading experts in the field, gaining valuable insights into climate migration and conflict-sensitive reporting.

Duration: 120 minutes

Key topics to be explored:

 	The dynamics of climate migration in the context of conflicts and wars.
 	The role of journalism in highlighting the impacts of climate migration.
 	Case studies: Analysing the effects of conflicts and wars on climate-induced migration.

Sign up for this webinar here or stay updated by following Climate In Arabic on social media.

### Webinar: The Intersectionality of Gender Issues with Climate Change

OCRI MENA partner, Climate In Arabic, is hosting a webinar focusing on "The Intersectionality of Gender Issues with Climate Change." The session is designed for journalists in Egypt, and the broader Arab region, who are keen to explore the nuanced interplay between gender and climate change.



This webinar aims to provide journalists with a nuanced understanding of how gender issues intertwine with climate change and will provide participants with an opportunity to hear from experts in the field while gaining valuable insights into gender-sensitive and climate reporting.

Duration: 90 – 100 minutes

Key topics to be explored:

 	Understanding the gendered impacts of climate change
 	Enhancing gender sensitivity in climate reporting
 	Case studies: gender perspectives in climate change

Sign up for the webinar here or by following Climate In Arabic social media here

### Workshop: Scientific data and research on climate adaptation

During the Coda.BR Conference, Open Knowledge Brasil is holding a workshop about Scientific data and research on climate adaptation as part of the CIJ's Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI).

The workshop will take an approach to intersections in the context of eliminating inequalities in global carbonisation cycles, based on data collected by the Iyaleta Research Association, a scientific institution in the north and north-east of Brazil recognised as a permanent observer of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Class duration: 1.15 hours

Attendees will learn how to consider data collection committed to humanity, with attention to the lives of people in urban centres and the challenges of constructing journalistic narratives to promote the elimination of racial, ethnic, territorial, gender, generational and social inequalities in the world.

With the 28th UN Conference of the Parties (COP28) approaching, each participant will develop a story focused on their local journalism context.

Referred as the main data journalism event in Latin America, the 8th edition of the Brazilian Conference on Data Journalism and Digital Methods (Coda.Br) is held on 18 and 19 November 2023 at the Álvaro Alvim Campus, São Paulo. It features tracks of workshops, panels, keynotes, flash presentation sessions, and networking opportunities for participants. The Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) will be present at five activities.

Register here.

### Investigating municipal public policies on climate and the environment with the Climate Diary

During the Coda.BR Conference, the Open Knowledge Brasil (OKBR) is holding a workshop to teach how to use "Diário do Clima". It is a tool capable of scrutinising texts in municipal official gazettes in search of projects and public policies that impact climate and environmental issues. This activity is part of the partnership with the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI).

Class duration: 1.30 hours

With Diário do Clima, it is possible to make a new database available for consultation and monitoring environmental issues. Six organisations in the ecological and transparency fields including OKBR are responsible for the tool.

Referred as the main data journalism event in Latin America, the 8th edition of the Brazilian Conference on Data Journalism and Digital Methods (Coda.Br) is held on 18 and 19 November 2023 at the Álvaro Alvim Campus, São Paulo. It features tracks of workshops, panels, keynote, flash presentation sessions as well as networking opportunities for participants. The Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) will be present at five activities.

Register here.

### Green shields and conflicts in the Amazon: Mapping territories and land use

As part of Coda.BR Conference, Open Knowledge Brasil is holding a workshop about green shields and conflicts in the Amazon as part of the CIJ's Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI).

Class duration: 1.30 hours

This workshop will explore how to search for, collect and analyse geospatial data to identify levels of preservation inside and outside the territories, land use and deforestation.

Referred as the main data journalism event in Latin America, the 8th edition of the Brazilian Conference on Data Journalism and Digital Methods (Coda.Br) holds 18 and 19 November 2023 on the Álvaro Alvim Campus, São Paulo. It features tracks of workshops, panels, keynote, flash presentation sessions as well as networking opportunities for participants. The Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) will be present at five activities.

Register here.

### Maps and climate workshop

As part of Coda.BR Conference, Open Knowledge Brasil is holding in partnership with the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI/CIJ) a workshop about maps and climate change.

Class duration: 1.30 hours

This workshop will explore geographical data on agriculture and visualise environmental indicators, such as deforestation rates and greenhouse gas emissions, using Python and online tools to analyse the data and create maps.

Referred as the main data journalism event in Latin America, the 8th edition of the Brazilian Conference on Data Journalism and Digital Methods (Coda.Br) holds 18 and 19 November 2023 on the Álvaro Alvim Campus, São Paulo. It features tracks of workshops, panels, keynote, flash presentation sessions as well as networking opportunities for participants. The Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) will be present at five activities.

Register here.

### Panel: Data for Climate Justice

Data is fundamental to understanding climate change and the paths to action, from identifying problems to mitigation and adaptation measures in cities. But what data is available for this, and which realities and people does it apply to?

In this panel at the Coda.Br Conference, Open Knowledge Brasil is bringing together voices from science, journalism and civil society to address the challenges for data-driven journalistic coverage and advocacy on climate issues that consider the inequalities in Brazil and the Global South in a larger context.

Class duration: 1.30 hours

Referred as the main data journalism event in Latin America, the 8th edition of the Brazilian Conference on Data Journalism and Digital Methods (Coda.Br) holds 18 and 19 November 2023 on the Álvaro Alvim Campus, São Paulo. It features tracks of workshops, panels, keynote, flash presentation sessions as well as networking opportunities for participants. The Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) will be present at five activities.

Register here.

### Investigating renewable energy investments in Mozambique

In partnership with the Open Climate Reporting Initiative, Oxpeckers is hosting a webinar panel session to discuss how local journalists harness a cutting-edge tool to monitor renewable energy investments in Mozambique.

Session duration: 1 hour

Mozambican journalists Nelsa Nomade Pedro, Amade Ababucar and Buanamade Assane Buana will share their experience using PowerTracker and share pieces of knowledge from investigations that they conducted under an Oxpeckers/OCRI grant received this year. The stories Nampula far from renewable energy goals; Solar powers up lives in northern Mozambique; and Solar’s not shining for all in Cabo Delgado have covered different layers renewable energy in Mozambique with relevant data now available for journalists to engage with further.

Amade will discuss renewable investments in the country and the region of Nampula, Nelsa will share information about Mozambique’s solar power plan, while Buanamade will provide insights about the environmental impacts of renewables in Cabo Delgado.

Register here.

### Climate Data Laboratory

The Open Knowledge Brasil (OKBR) is holding a two-day hands-on laboratory focused on interrogating climate change data under the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) partnership with the CIJ. At least 15 journalists from Alma Preta, a media outlet focused on presenting the possibility of a less violent and unequal society through objective information, will be trained in how to gather, analyse and visualise data as well as how to generate datasets from the territory and with intersectional cut-outs.

Class duration: 7.5 hours x 2 days

Participants will learn the basics of climate justice, how to use spreadsheets and the challenges of working with data. They will also learn how to connect the environmental questions with Alma Preta's editorial line.

After the two-day lab, participants will be mentored for three weeks to develop a final project.

### Dhaka: Climate Change Reporting for Community News Outlets

The Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) is conducting a three-day training in Dhaka, Bangladesh, aimed at enhancing climate change reporting skills for 15 journalists from community news outlets.

Class duration: 3 days

This comprehensive training equips journalists with the skills and knowledge necessary to effectively report on the complex landscape of climate change, ensuring their stories resonate with accuracy and impact. Participants will be introduced to climate change concepts, dispelling myths, and mastering the essentials of climate reporting. The sessions will be focused on sharpening interview techniques, crafting compelling pitches, utilising Right to Information (RTI) for investigations, understanding climate justice, and harnessing mapping tools. The participants will also learn about the intersection of gender in reporting with climate change, investigating the climate trust fund, scrutinising global projects, and the opportunity to pitch their ideas to mentors.

### Dhaka: Climate Change Reporting for District Correspondents

The Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) is conducting a three-day residential training in Dhaka, Bangladesh, aimed at enhancing climate change reporting skills for 15 district correspondents.

Class duration: 3 days

This comprehensive training equips journalists with the skills and knowledge necessary to effectively report on the complex landscape of climate change, ensuring their stories resonate with accuracy and impact. Participants will be introduced to climate change concepts, dispelling myths, and mastering the essentials of climate reporting. The sessions will be focused on sharpening interview techniques, crafting compelling pitches, utilising Right to Information (RTI) for investigations, understanding climate justice, and harnessing mapping tools. The participants will also learn about the intersection of gender in reporting with climate change, investigating the climate trust fund, scrutinising global projects, and the opportunity to pitch their ideas to mentors.

### Workshop on Climate and Environmental Journalism in Egypt

Training workshop by ClimateInArabic and led by expert trainers is dedicated to providing 20 journalists in Egypt with a deeper understanding of climate change and environmental issues as well as more journalism tools for in-depth reporting.

The primary focus of this workshop is to refine the journalists' investigative skills and elevate their climate and environment reporting beyond surface-level reporting by providing crucial insights and expertise, shedding light on pressing climate topics that impact both Egypt and the MENA region at large.

Duration: 4 days

Workshop Focus:

 	Day 1: Insightful sessions on the basics and concepts of climate journalism
 	Day 2: Sessions on the challenges of climate change specific to the Arab region, deep dive into International climate policies, outcomes of the COP27 summit, and comprehensive investigative journalism training
 	Day 3: Open-source tools, modern software for data visualisation, scientific research and publications relevant to the field
 	Day 4: Story idea formulation, pitching ideas and collaborative reporting tips

### Training in environmental and climate journalism

A four-day, in-person training by the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) on the coverage of climate and environmental advocacy issues holding in Belém, Pará, the Brazilian city that will host the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 30) in 2025.

Duration: 6hrs x 4 days

Ten journalists will have a total of 24 hours of training on aspects of climate change, environmental journalistic investigation and the work of environmental defenders. The programme includes classes about risks for local populations and local coverage in the context of climate change, techniques for collecting, follow the money of supply chains that benefit from or aggravate climate change (for for independent journalists covering the Amazon), interviewing and presenting data for environmental reporting projects. Other modules include data and digital tools for climate change reporting such as satellite analysis, analysing data on deforestation in Brazil (Prodes and Deter) and land use data tools (Mapbiomas), impact of climate change on indigenous territories, as well as greenwashing strategies and the ESG concept to mention just a few.

At the end of the training, two story ideas will be selected that will receive financial and technical support for execution and publication with a deadline of January 2024.

### Workshop: Investigating municipal public policies through the 'Climate Diary'

The Open Knowledge Brasil will run a workshop during Coda Amazonia about investigating climate change by interrogating Municipal Public Policies. The activity is one of the first actions of #DiárioDoClima, an initiative of OKBR with seven other organisations, that will help journalists and communicators follow climate-related actions by monitoring publications in the official gazettes of municipalities.

Duration: 2 hours

The workshop, in which participants will learn how to use the tool, integrates the Conference on Data Journalism and Digital Methods, Coda Amazônia, the local version of the Brazilian Conference on Data Journalism and Digital Methods (Coda.Br), Latin America's leading data journalism event.

Coda Amazônia takes place between 31 August and 1 September in Belém (Pará), and on 2 September on Marajó Island, also in the state of Pará. The Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) will be present at five activities.

Registration can be done here until 25 August.

### Talking circle: Challenges of journalistic coverage on climate justice

The Open Knowledge Brasil will run a talking circle about the challenges of journalistic coverage of climate justice. The session will hold during Coda Amazônia on Marajó Island, in Pará, with local journalists who conduct investigations related to climate justice, territorial conflicts, and environmental crimes.

Duration:  2 hours

In this discussion, two experienced investigative journalists will share their tactics to overcome challenges in producing great stories about climate justice, such as the lack of data and transparency from public bodies and the influence of prominent businessmen in land conflicts and illegal mining.

As a result of the conversation, a guide will be produced with practical tips on planning and initiating local climate justice investigations.

Coda Amazônia takes place between 31 August and 1 September in Belém (Pará) and on 2 September on Marajó Island, also in the state of Pará. The Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) will be present at five activities.

Registration can be done here until 25 August.

### Data track on Climate Change Reporting: Local Data and Climate Event Planning

The Open Knowledge Brasil is holding a three track training session of Climate Change reporting using data during Coda Amazonia, the local version of the Brazilian Conference on Data Journalism and Digital Methods (Coda.Br), Latin America's leading data journalism event.

The third is on Local data and climate event planning. In this workshop, participants will take lessons on how to gather local data to predict impactful weather events and how these serve as inputs for public socio-environmental planning.

Duration:  2 hours

Coda Amazônia takes place between 31 August and 1 September in Belém (Pará) and on 2 September on Marajó Island, also in the state of Pará. The Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) will be present at five different sessions.

Registration can be done here until 25 August.

### Data Track on Climate Change Reporting: Using Data to Set the Climate Agenda

The Open Knowledge Brasil is holding a three track training session of Climate Change reporting using data during Coda Amazonia, the local version of the Brazilian Conference on Data Journalism and Digital Methods (Coda.Br), Latin America's leading data journalism event.

The second is on how data can inform relevant discussions while reporting to set the climate agenda. In this workshop, participants will learn how databases become the source of significant investigations to set the agenda on climate and influence public opinion.

Duration:  2 hours

Coda Amazônia takes place between 31 August and 1 September in Belém (Pará) and on 2 September on Marajó Island, also in the state of Pará. The Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) will be present at five different sessions.

Registration can be done here until 25 August.

### Data Track on Climate Change Reporting: Processing Climate Data with R

The Open Knowledge Brasil is holding a three track training session of Climate Change reporting using data during Coda Amazonia, the local version of the Brazilian Conference on Data Journalism and Digital Methods (Coda.Br), Latin America's leading data journalism event.

The first is on how to process climate data with R. Participants will gain knowledge on how and why to use programming in a news story and a step by step approach to applying the basic concepts of data analysis in R by answering questions as well as debating the "hows" and "whys" with climate data.

Duration:  2 hours

Coda Amazônia takes place between 31 August and 1 September in Belém (Pará) and on 2 September on Marajó Island, also in the state of Pará. The Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) will be present at five different sessions.

Registration can be done here until 25 August.

### Islamabad: Training on climate change storytelling

The last of 3 regional two-day training workshops in Pakistan by Media Unlimited will hold for professional and citizen journalists in Islamabad following the successful completion of the first and second workshops in Karachi and Quetta respectively.

Class duration: 2 days

Participants will be taken through several modules that builds their capacity in understanding climate models to guide reporting, executing climate investigations, data-driven storytelling, as well as telling the story for hyperlocal, local, regional and international audiences. Trainers will also explore the multilayered areas of climate change reporting that includes human safety, food security, impact on livelihoods, disaster preparedness, adaptation and mitigation, innovation and technology, resilient infrastructure, climate finance, climate and gender, climate refugees and migrants, disease burden and policies and practice.

### Quetta: Training on climate change storytelling

Following the successful completion of the first regional two-day training workshop held June 23-24 in Pakistan and a call for application, Media Unlimited will hold the second of 3 regional training programmes for professional and citizen journalists in Quetta.

Class duration: 2 days

Participants will be taken through several modules that builds their capacity in understanding climate models to guide reporting, executing climate investigations, data-driven storytelling, as well as telling the story for hyperlocal, local, regional and international audiences. Trainers will also explore the multilayered areas of climate change reporting that includes human safety, food security, impact on livelihoods, disaster preparedness, adaptation and mitigation, innovation and technology, resilient infrastructure, climate finance, climate and gender, climate refugees and migrants, disease burden and policies and practice.

### Mozambique #PowerTracker module 2: Storytelling with data

The second #Powertracker module training is a practical hands-on session that will take participants through the full bouquet of data story telling which includes data collection, cleaning, analysis and visualisation.

Class duration: 2 hours

### Mozambique #PowerTracker module 1: Investigating green energy initiatives in Mozambique

As part of the #PowerTracker programme, the Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism and the Centro de Jornalismo Investigativo Mozambique are holding a two-module training focused on task-based upskilling of Mozambique-based investigative journalists to cover climate change and renewable energy.

Class duration: 2 hours

During the first module, journalists will learn how to use the #PowerTracker mapping tool, be equipped with knowledge about the impact of green crimes on climate change, and the ins and outs of financing renewable energy projects in Mozambique.

### Train-the-Trainer climate reporting bootcamp in New Delhi

DataLEADS is organising a comprehensive two-day, in-person training bootcamp aimed at improving the understanding of the criticality of climate change reporting and its influence on addressing urgent climate-related inquiries with significant ramifications on policy-making. This workshop will bring together a diverse group of 16 participants from various parts of India.

Class duration: 2 days

Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the environmental and climate change and how to report and communicate it to others using different investigative tools and techniques such as cross border reporting, data verification, artificial intelligence (AI) and factchecking. issues and the significance of understanding the climate crisis. Once trained, the trainers now called 'Climate Coach' will organise training workshops for newsrooms, press clubs, journalism and educational institutes to train the target audience across India.

### Karachi: Training on climate change storytelling

Following the successful completion of a two-day virtual training-of-trainers workshop held June 12-13 and a call for application, Media Unlimited will hold the first of 3 regional training programmes for professional and citizen journalists in Karachi.

Class duration: 2 days

Participants will be taken through several modules that builds their capacity in understanding climate models to guide reporting, executing climate investigations, data-driven storytelling, as well as telling the story for hyperlocal, local, regional and international audiences. Trainers will also explore the multilayered areas of climate change reporting that includes human safety, food security, impact on livelihoods, disaster preparedness, adaptation and mitigation, innovation and technology, resilient infrastructure, climate finance, climate and gender, climate refugees and migrants, disease burden and policies and practice.

### Workshop on Climate Change Reporting

An advanced training workshop by the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) on climate and environmental reporting for Arab journalists providing both theoretical and practical hands-on training on various environmental issues within the MENA region. The workshop is divided into two components. The first part tackles climate change topics while the second part of the workshop focuses on developing hypotheses about climate journalism and developing the stories on which the participants are working.

Class duration: 3 days

The training will provide participants with relevant climate change literacy knowledge and solutions from the region as well as analysing practical examples on several themes such as exporting solar energy and green hydrogen, reducing gas flaring, managing water scarcity and so on. Participants will also learn how to explore databases and sources as a technique in executing climate change investigative stories under topics such as finance, humanitarian and political.

### Data and digital tools for reporting on climate change

As part of the OCRI initiative the CIJ and Abraji are hosting a workshop on data and digital tools for reporting on climate change at the 18th edition of the International Congress of Investigative Journalism. The event, the one of the largest gathering of journalists in Brazil and one of the most important in Latin America will occur between June 29 and July 2, in a hybrid manner, at ESPM in São Paulo.

Class duration on 30/06/2023: 1.5hrs x 2 sessions

Participants will learn how to report greenhouse gas data and search for information on climate change at the municipal, state and national levels and by biome. In addition, they will be introduced to the SEEG (System for Estimation of Emissions and Removals of Greenhouse Gases - an initiative of the Climate Observatory).

The instructors will also show international tools for carbon counting, highlight how to identify what used to be forest and have become agriculture and cattle-raising, and explain how to research and analyse data on the temperature and elevation of the oceans.

To participate in both sessions and the Conference, registration is required on the website.

### OCRI learning and sharing for Francophone Africa Trainers

After a series of training of trainers in Francophone Africa, the session will provide a knowledge exchange between the various trainers trained within the framework of OCRI. Furthermore, the session facilitators who have vast experiences covering climate change and environmental data/investigative journalism will help participants to share their experiences, relay the challenges they have faced, deepen their knowledge of data journalism, review some practical cases, and build relationships between themselves.

### OCRI Talk in Festival Gabo: Uncovering the Corruption Behind Climate Change

As part of the OCRI initiative the CIJ and Fundacion Gabo are hosting the talk "An Investigative Challenge: Uncovering the Corruption Behind Climate Change", on Sunday 23 October at 2 pm in Cartagena, Colombia. This will be part of Festival Gabo, one of the most important journalism events in Latin America.

The panelists will be Gloria Pallares (journalist and Fellow 2021-2022 of the Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) at the Pulitzer Center and main trainer of the OCRI workshop on Investigative journalism on climate change that took place in Mexico City this year), Dora Montero (Colombian journalist and vice president of Consejo de Redacción) and Laura Sofía Mejía (Co-founder and director of Baudó Agencia Pública, an agency conducting environmental and peace journalistic projects).

The session will focus on good practices in climate change coverage.

### Burundi: Investigative And Environmental Data journalism Training

The Centre for Investigative Journalism's partner in Burundi, Ajebudi-Yaga, is organising an in-person workshop for 15 reporters coming from different parts of the country, in the northern town of Ngozi.

A specialised course designed for participants who are starting their journey in data and investigative journalism under the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) in Burundi.

Class duration: 6hrs x 5 days.

Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, assignment of training trials, screen shares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

Participants will come away with the skills to conduct in-depth investigative journalism as well as relevant techniques to start gathering, interviewing, and presenting data for environmental reporting projects.

### Data Journalism Training for Climate Reporting

A specialised course designed for Journalists whose story pitches were selected for support following two trainings held by the Centre for Journalism, Innovation and Development (CJID) as part of the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) project.

Class duration: 1.5hrs x 4 days

Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, assignment of training trials, screen shares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, participants come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for environmental reporting projects as well as relevant techniques to engaging environmental and climate data for impactful reporting.

### Burundi Train the Trainer on Investigative & Environmental Data Journalism

A specialised course designed in partnership with Ajebudi-Yaga for participants who are starting their journey in data and investigative journalism under the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) and will emerge trainers of the subject in Burundi

Class duration: 6hrs x 2 days

Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, assignment of training trials, screen shares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

Participants will come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for environmental reporting projects as well as relevant techniques to transfer knowledge to others.

### Climate Change Media Training for West African Journalists (online)

The Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID), in partnership with The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ), is hosting its second climate change media training for journalists and researchers in Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and The Gambia. This is the second training as part of its climate change media fellowship. The fellowship features training and mentorship opportunities, access to data and resources, and media appearances on topical climate change issues including:

The training will run virtually from Wednesday, August 24th, and Friday, August 26th, 2022.

### Climate change media training - Nigeria

Participants will be taken through several modules that include: Understanding Climate Change concepts, causes, evidence and impacts in Africa, Introduction to Climate Finance: Contexts and Instruments, Using Technology and Social Media for Climate and Environmental Advocacy and Social Mobilisation, Environmental Crimes and Climate Change and Understanding Nigeria’s Climate Change Act, Nationally Determined Contribution and other local climate policies to mention a few.

### Introduction to Following the Money behind Fossil Fuel Projects

In partnership with Inclusive Development International (IDI), editors working with Fundacion Connectas will be taken through follow the money techniques in a train the trainer format using case studies.

### PowerTracker Module 3: Storytelling with data

Following a second module held 28 July 2022, this third module is a practical, two-hour session on sourcing, cleaning, formatting and analysing data, using data that the journalists have already started collecting towards the execution of data-driven investigative stories on green energy in Southern Africa.

### Investigating climate change and environmental crimes training

Following a call for pitches, 10 journalists will be taken through an in-depth course with modules such as introduction to environment crime and environmental law, Introduction to climate change, investigative journalism and the environment and the cause-effect relationship: Does climate change lead to environmental crime or vice versa?

The best 5 story pitches will be selected to receive story grant. Each group (5 teams of 2 journalists per team) will be assigned a mentor relevant to their pitches to offer guidance on their investigative work. Supportive tools will also be provided to journalists during their investigative work.

### Environmental Data Journalism Training in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire and Niger

OCRI's partner Institut Panos Afrique de l’Ouest is delivering four-day trainings across 3 countries namely Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire and Niger on a needed skill in Francophone Africa: environmental data journalism. The schedule is as follows:

 	Senegal: Wednesday 10 to Saturday 13 August
 	Côte d'Ivoire: Wednesday 17 to Saturday 20 August
 	Niger: Monday 22 to Thursday 25 August

The reporters will be trained by a variety of experienced trainers, including environmental specialists, a trainer on environmental data journalism assisted by two other trainers in each country on investigative journalism, whose capacities have been recently built in data journalism.

The reporters will improve their theoretical knowledge of the climate change issues in West Africa and the stake in their own country, and build their capacity in practical environmental journalism as well as data journalism.

Following the training, the beneficiaries will have the opportunity to pitch stories related to the training theme. The best pitches will receive grants and also editorial support from Panos and the trainers.

### Uganda Train the Trainer on Environmental Data Journalism

A specialised course designed for Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) trainers who will train journalists in Uganda, in partnership with the African Institute for Investigative Journalism (AIIJ).

Class duration: 3hrs x 3 days

Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, assignment of training trials, screen shares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for environmental reporting projects as well as relevant techniques to transfer knowledge to others.

### Investigative journalism on climate change workshop

Through this 3-day in-person workshop, resources and tools will be offered that allow journalists to strengthen their capacities with a view to incorporating investigative journalism techniques into the coverage of climate change, bearing in mind that it is a phenomenon that It marks our times, affects people's daily lives and cuts across all spheres, from politics, economics and society, to culture and sports, to mention just a few.

### PowerTracker Module 2: Investigating green energy initiatives

Following an introductory module held 9 June 2022, this second module focuses on the training and upskilling of select journalists in climate change science, renewable energy statistics, financial sleuthing, data sourcing and analysis towards the execution of data-driven investigative stories on green energy in Southern Africa.

### Mapping techniques and tools for climate data journalism

A three-day in-person training in the Ivoirian capital Abidjan following a first online session held 23 and 24 June 2022 for twelve journalists from four West-African countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Côte d'Ivoire).

Participants will learn about cartography, geo-journalism, Geographic Information System (GIS), remote sensing, and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). thereby building their capacity in how to use mapping and open sources tools in data climate journalism.

### Masterclass: Digital tools to investigate climate change

In this master class, useful digital tools for research and coverage of climate change will be presented, as well as advice on how to navigate some of these platforms and examples of journalism carried out with interactive maps.

### Masterclass: How to plan an investigation on climate change

This master class will address questions such as: What do we mean when we talk about research on climate change? How to plan an investigation in this field? What are the areas of research in climate matters? How to 'sell' a climate story? What results are expected? What works can be taken as a reference in investigative journalism on climate change?

### Investigating mangroves' destruction in Cameroon

OCRI's partner in Cameroon, Adisi-Cameroon, is holding from July 18 to 20, its first training to empower journalists selected from three major cities, Douala, Kribi and Buea, in producing investigations on the phenomenon of mangrove disappearance and to help civil society to advocate for saving what remains. Following this training and a second session later during the year, participants will work for several months under the mentorship of trainers with a grant from OCRI funding.

### Train the Trainer on Environmental Data Journalism

A specialised course designed for Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) trainers who will train journalists in Senegal, Niger and Côte d'Ivoire, working with mainstream media (television, radio, print and online press) in partnership with Institut Panos Afrique de l’Ouest.

Class duration: 5hrs x 3 days (Saturdays)

Level of participation: very high. Hands-on, assignment of training trials, screen shares, regular Q&As and participants contributions.

Guided by one of our data trainers, with decades of experience pushing the frontiers of data-driven investigations, you’ll come away with the skills to start gathering, interviewing and presenting data for environmental reporting projects as well as relevant techniques to transfer knowledge to others.

### Data-driven reporting on Green Energy in Africa

An introductory online training module that will equip journalists from Southern African countries on how to use some environmental and climate reporting tools and techniques for better reportage of related issues.

### Climate Investigations Using OSINT and Data workshop

Participants in Nepal will after the workshop acquire skills on new and innovative tools/techniques that would enable them produce/publish in-depth investigative pieces for their respective media outlets on climate change.