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!

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.

Adeolu Adekola

Adeolu joined the CIJ to manage its Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI). The initiative has reached beneficiaries in 53 countries (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.

Akintunde Babatunde

Akintunde is a Programme Manager with extensive experience in international development, public policy, civic technology, climate change, and media innovation. He is the Director of Programs at the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) and the OCRI regional coordinator for Anglophone Africa.

Lina Yassin

A Sudanese climate journalism and development consultant, Lina has 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dr 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.

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.

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.