Fri 19 Oct
Sat 20 Oct
Friday 19 October
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19 October
2018
09.30–10.30
- 19 October 2018 09.30–10.30
Symposium Event
— Talk
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.
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19 October
2018
09.45–10.45
- 19 October 2018 09.45–10.45
Symposium Event
— Seminar
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.
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19 October
2018
10.30–10.45
- 19 October 2018 10.30–10.45
Symposium Event
— Talk
Schedule 7 And The Development Of The Uk’s Border Surveillance Regime
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19 October
2018
11.15–12.15
- 19 October 2018 11.15–12.15
Symposium Event
— Panel
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.
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19 October
2018
11.15–12.15
- 19 October 2018 11.15–12.15
Symposium Event
— Seminar
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?
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19 October
2018
13.30
- 19 October 2018 13.30
Symposium Event
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.
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19 October
2018
14.30–14.45
- 19 October 2018 14.30–14.45
Symposium Event
— Panel
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.
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19 October
2018
14.30–14.45
- 19 October 2018 14.30–14.45
Symposium Event
— Talk
The Secrets Of The Macedonian “fake News” Industry
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19 October
2018
14.45–15.45
- 19 October 2018 14.45–15.45
Symposium Event
— Panel
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 […]
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19 October
2018
16.00–17.00
- 19 October 2018 16.00–17.00
Symposium Event
— Seminar
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.
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19 October
2018
16.15–17.15
- 19 October 2018 16.15–17.15
Symposium Event
— Panel
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.
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19 October
2018
18.00–19.00
- 19 October 2018 18.00–19.00
Symposium Event
— Panel
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?
Saturday 20 October
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20 October
2018
10.30–10.45
- 20 October 2018 10.30–10.45
Symposium Event
— Talk
The Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Award
Presented by Compassion in Care and The Whistler.
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20 October
2018
10.45–11.45
- 20 October 2018 10.45–11.45
Symposium Event
— Panel
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?
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20 October
2018
10.45–11.45
- 20 October 2018 10.45–11.45
Symposium Event
— Seminar
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.
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20 October
2018
12.15–12.30
- 20 October 2018 12.15–12.30
Symposium Event
— Panel
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.
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20 October
2018
14.30–15.30
- 20 October 2018 14.30–15.30
Symposium Event
— Panel
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.
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20 October
2018
14.30–15.30
- 20 October 2018 14.30–15.30
Symposium Event
— Seminar
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?
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20 October
2018
14.30
- 20 October 2018 14.30
Symposium Event
— Screening
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.
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20 October
2018
15.45–16.45
- 20 October 2018 15.45–16.45
Symposium Event
— Talk
Counting the Dead in Iraq
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20 October
2018
16.15–17.00
- 20 October 2018 16.15–17.00
Symposium Event
— Panel
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.
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20 October
2018
17.00–18.00
- 20 October 2018 17.00–18.00
Symposium Event
— Panel
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?
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20 October
2018
17.00–18.00
- 20 October 2018 17.00–18.00
Symposium Event
— Seminar
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?
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20 October
2018
18.00–19.00
- 20 October 2018 18.00–19.00
Symposium Event
— Panel
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?
Ongoing
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16 August
2019
10.00–11.00
- 16 August 2019 10.00–11.00
Symposium Event
— Exhibition
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.