CIJ Summer Conference
25–26
June
2026
Abi Whistance
Abi Whistance is an editor and investigative reporter at The Liverpool Post. In 2024, she won Young Journalist of the Year, and in 2025 and 2026 she was shortlisted for Private Eye’s Paul Foot Journalism Award.
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.
Anna Bureiko
Anna Bureiko is an International Communications Manager at YouControl. She has more than eight years of experience as a Ukrainian journalist. During the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Anna used her expertise in information and fact-checking to raise international awareness about Ukraine.
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.
Catrin Nye
Catrin Nye is an investigative journalist with the BBC. She specialises in long-form documentary journalism and her career has seen her investigate financial exploitation, the chemicals industry and sexual abuse.
Connor Plunkett
Connor Plunkett is an investigator at Bellingcat, where his work has focussed on organised crime.
Danylo Mokryk
Danylo Mokryk is a reporter with the War Crimes Investigations Unit of the Kyiv Independent. He has previously worked as an investigative journalist with Bihus.Info. His 2022 investigation into Russian acts of genocide in Ukraine won the “Honor of the Profession” Ukrainian journalism award.
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 […]
Fola Folayan
Fola Folayan is a communications strategist, media entrepreneur, and cross border journalism advocate who designs audience-centered storytelling systems that help newsrooms grow reach, trust, and sustainability.
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.
Harry Shukman
Harry Shukman is a researcher at HOPE not hate, an anti-fascist organisation. He spent more than a year infiltrating far-right groups, working with a Channel 4 documentary. Harry has been a reporter for The Times in London and a writer/editor at Mill Media, including its websites in Manchester, Liverpool and Sheffield.
Helena Bengtsson
Helena Bengtsson is the data journalism editor at Gota Media and Bonnier News Local, two regional publishing companies in Sweden with 55 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 […]
Henk van Ess
Henk van Ess is an investigator, tool builder, and trainer with two decades in online research and OSINT — and one of the first to integrate AI into investigative methods that hold up under scrutiny.
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.
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.
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.
Jim Waterson
Jim Waterson had his dream job as media editor of the Guardian, reporting on what information people were consuming — and why. Then, disturbed by the news industry's failure to appreciate the shift in public consumption, he quit to found a local news start-up.
John Mooney
John Mooney is an investigative journalist with The Sunday Times whose work spans politics, organised crime, terrorism and the malign activities of hostile states. He is also an academic researcher and the author of several books on crime and violent republicanism.
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.
Lucas Amin
Lucas Amin is an award-winning investigative journalist at Democracy for Sale, the newsletter on dark money and hidden influence. An expert in making FOI requests, he has used information law for more than 15 years to support his investigations.
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 2025) and the recipient of many awards for his reporting.
Marta Portocarrero
Marta Portocarrero is a multimedia producer at Investigate Europe,. Marta studied Digital Journalism in London (2014). Since then, she has been working as a multimedia journalist in the UK and Latin America.
Max Harlow
Max Harlow is a data reporter at Bloomberg News. He also runs Journocoders, a community group for journalists to develop technical skills for use in their reporting.
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.
Pamela Duncan
Pamela Duncan is the former editor of the Guardian's Data Projects team, an occasional award-winning journalist (#humblebrag) and a self-confessed data nerd. She is at her happiest (professionally at least) when 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.
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.
Pierre Leibovici
Pierre Leibovici is the Environment Editor at Disclose, a non-profit investigative newsroom based in France. He manages the investigations into the climate crisis and pollution, and is also responsible for impact strategy.
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.
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.
Sirin Kale
Sirin Kale is an investigations correspondent 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.
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.
Thomas Barlow
Thomas Barlow is founder of the Independent Media Association, Real Media and Strategic Director at Impress Media Services. He does business development consultancy for independent media and civil society organisations, alongside sectoral initiatives like building aggregators, lobbying key decision makers and negotiating with Big Tech.
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.