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21 October 2023

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Saturday 21 October
  • 21 October 2023 10.30–11.45 BST (UK time)
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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.
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  • 21 October 2023 10.30–11.45 BST (UK time)
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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.
People
  • 21 October 2023 12.00–13.15 BST (UK time)
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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.
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  • 21 October 2023 12.00–13.15 BST (UK time)
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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.
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  • 21 October 2023 14.00–15.15 BST (UK time)
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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.
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  • 21 October 2023 14.00–15.15 BST (UK time)
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Regional Conference Event
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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.
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  • 21 October 2023 15.30–16.30 BST (UK time)
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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 […]
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