Summer Conference
3–4
July
2024
Adeolu Adekola
Adeolu joined the CIJ to manage its Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI). The initiative has reached beneficiaries in 53 countries and still 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.
Akintunde Babatunde
Akintunde Babatunde 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.
Alexandre Brutelle
Alexandre Brutelle is the director and co-founder of the Environmental Investigative Forum (EIF), a global consortium of environmental investigative journalists. He is a senior journalist with 10 years of experience as a freelancer (Mediapart, Inkyfada, Daraj) and 7 years as an investigative project coordinator, trainer and mentor for a large range of organisations including IMS, […]
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.
Bill Goodwin
Bill Goodwin is Computer Weekly’s investigations editor. He is an award-winning journalist, who has written for national newspapers, magazines and has worked as a researcher on investigative television documentaries
Cara McGoogan
Cara McGoogan is the award-winning author of The Poison Line: Life and Death in the Infected Blood Scandal, and Bed of Lies, a documentary podcast series that investigates major British scandals. She is the Telegraph's first Narrative Audio Journalist and published her debut book last year.
Charlie Northcott
Charlie Northcott is a documentary maker and investigative journalist, specialising in organised crime. His films have been nominated for 3 Emmys and won multiple international journalism awards. He was previously listed in Forbes Magazine’s 30 under 30 in the media.
Christopher Hird
Christopher Hird founded Dartmouth Films in 2008, to pioneer new ways of funding, producing and distributing documentaries. A former investment analyst in the City, he worked as a journalist on the Economist, Daily Mail, New Statesman and Sunday Times (as the editor of Insight), before becoming a television reporter and producer.
Claire Miller
Claire Miller is an award-winning investigative data journalist. She has worked across national and regional newspapers in the UK, with more than a decade's experience of using data skills to dig out data, find stories, and create visualisations.
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.
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.
Emma Howard
Emma Howard is a reporter for Unearthed, the investigative journalism outfit launched by Greenpeace UK. Her recent work has focused on plastic, climate change and offsetting. In 2023 her investigation into the burning of England's peatlands won Investigation of the Year at the Association of British Science Writers' Awards.
Gill Phillips
Gill Phillips is a lawyer 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.
Helen Spooner
Helen Spooner is an award-winning documentary producer/director with a focus on stories about people overcoming adversity. Her work has led her to cover a wide range of topics around the world from the climate crisis to corruption, terrorism and sexual abuse.
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.
Jenna Corderoy
Jenna Corderoy is a reporter for openDemocracy’s investigations team. She specialises in obtaining documents under the Freedom of Information Act, and has brought several successful FOIA challenges at tribunal.
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.
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.
Joshua Olufemi
Joshua Olufemi is a media development practitioner, entrepreneur and the Founder of Dataphyte, a media and data analytics company. Since its establishment, Dataphyte has pioneered several data access, data journalism and AI-powered products, including Nubia AI, Goloka, and Anfani.
Juliana Mori
Juliana Mori is an award-winning journalist from Brazil, specialising in audiovisual productions and visualisation of geospatial data. She is Co-Founder and Editorial Director of InfoAmazonia, an independent media outlet that uses maps, data, and geolocalised reports to tell social environmental stories about the tropical forest over the nine Amazon countries.
Karl Flinders
Karl Flinders is chief reporter at Computer Weekly, where he helped to expose the Post Office scandal. He is also editor of several regional ezines for Computer Weekly: CW Nordics, CW Benelux, CW Middle East and CW Europe.
Kelsey Farish
Kelsey Farish is a media solicitor specialising in the legal, ethical and practical implications of generative AI (genAI) content like deepfakes. She advises media companies, individuals, industry bodies, and policymakers on genAI challenges and opportunities, including those surrounding copyright, reputation, and public trust.
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.
Margaret Renn
Margaret Renn is a writer and journalist. She worked alongside the investigative journalist Paul Foot on Socialist Worker and then at the Daily Mirror from the early ‘80s until 1993. She has since worked at the BBC and produced radio documentaries for Radio 4 and the World Service, including programs on Lockerbie and on corruption.
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.
Michael Gillard
Michael Gillard is a freelance journalist and author of three books on policing and organised crime in the UK. In a 30-year career he has worked on the Guardian investigation team, The Sunday Times Insight Team and across TV and radio supplying investigations and dealing with in-house lawyers.
Nimra Shahid
Nimra Shahid is an award-winning freelance journalist. Her recent work has focused on climate change, greenwashing and how money flows into the fossil fuel industry. She has worked with Bloomberg, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Global Witness and the Guardian.
Omar Ferwati
Omar Ferwati is the Head of Research Management at Forensic Architecture where he is involved in developing and applying spatial methods for human rights investigations. His investigations have ranged from airstrikes and colonial violence in Palestine to environmental racism in Namibia.
Paul Bradshaw
Professor Paul Bradshaw is an online journalist and blogger, who leads the MA in Data Journalism at Birmingham City University. He manages his own blog, the Online Journalism Blog (OJB), and was the co-founder of Help Me Investigate, an investigative journalism website funded by Channel 4 and Screen WM.
Paul Lynch
Paul Lynch is a multi-award-winning journalist who cut his teeth in local newsrooms in Derbyshire and Northampton before helping to establish Johnston Press’s Investigations Unit and more recently, the BBC’s Shared Data Unit.
Poonam Agarwal
Poonam Agarwal is an award-winning Independent Senior Investigative Journalist with over 20 years of experience in journalism. She is also a legal advocate. She started her career as a TV journalist in 2005 and worked with the BBC, NDTV, Times Now, and The Quint among others.
Raj Bairoliya
Raj Bairoliya is a well-known expert forensic accountant and has been teaching Understanding Company Accounts at the CIJ for 15 years. Raj frequently helps journalists and broadcasters to decipher the accounting/business aspects of a story.
Rebecca Thomas
Rebecca Thomas is the Independent’s Health Correspondent. A health journalist for eight years, she has a particular focus on patient safety. In 2022 Rebecca won the Health and Science Journalism award at the British Media Awards for her “proper revelatory journalism” in her coverage of the worsening A&E crisis in the NHS.
Richard Brooks
Richard Brooks is an investigative journalist for Private Eye magazine. He covers financial and political scandals and has written two books: Beancounters and The Great Tax Robbery.
Rosamund Urwin
Rosamund Urwin is the media editor at The Sunday Times. She previously wrote about Brexit for the paper and has broken stories including the Yellowhammer leak of papers about a no-deal Brexit and the Martin Bashir scandal at the BBC.
Roxanne Joseph
Roxanne Joseph is a data journalist and project manager at Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism. Based in Cape Town, South Africa, she manages several Oxpeckers tools, #WildEye and #PowerTracker, and has trained journalists in Africa, Europe and Asia to map, track and report on wildlife, green energy and other environmental crimes.
Sarah Cammarata
Sarah Cammarata is an OSINT practitioner and corporate intelligence analyst, investigating white collar crime. Before moving to London from Washington, DC to pursue a Master’s 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.
Sebastián Rodríguez
Sebastián Rodríguez joined Climate Home News in 2022 as special projects editor, coordinating international investigations with a focus on climate accountability. He has reported on climate for Reuters, The Verge, DW and Mongabay.
Tais Gadea Lara
Tais Gadea Lara is a climate journalist from Argentina. She has been covering the climate negotiations and international politics since 2014. She has just completed the Climate Explorers' Program at the Constructive Institute (Denmark), with the goal of helping the media improve climate reporting.
Tristan Kirk
Tristan Kirk has been a dedicated court reporter for more than a decade and the Evening Standard’s courts correspondent since 2016. He reports each day on the high-profile, important, and unusual cases coming out of London’s criminal and civil courts, as well as chronicling parts of the justice system that exist under a veil of secrecy.
Youmna El Sayed
Youmna El Sayed is an award-winning Egyptian-Palestinian journalist. She was based in the Gaza Strip and has been covering the war in Gaza. Over the past 8 years, she has worked as a journalist for different international news outlets, including TRT Digital, TRT World, RT, Kuwait English Channel, CNA, the AP and now as an Al Jazeera English Correspondent.