CIJ Summer Conference
26–27
June
2025
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
John Walton
John Walton is a Data Journalism Editor on the BBC’s Visual Journalism team.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.