Pre-conference registration will be available for pre-conference attendees only, at Lindholmen Science Park, on Tuesday 19th (from 08:00h to 11:00h). ⚠️ Important: On Monday, September 18, you will receive an email from gijc23@meetx.se with your personal confirmation barcode. You need this to get in!✍🏽 To collect your name badge, you will need to present your personal confirmation barcode and a valid identification card with your photo (only a passport, national ID or driver's license is accepted). 📛 Attendees will be required to wear their conference badge and bracelet at all times. You will need it for access to all sessions, coffee breaks, lunches, and special events.

This is an invitation-only workshop set up by GIJN. Entry is limited only to those who have been invited and received an email confirming that they have access to it. If you haven't received such a confirmation email, sorry, you won't be allowed into the venue. We will issue a report later based on recommendations of the participants. 

If we follow the headlines, AI is either going to kill us all or solve all our problems. Meanwhile, in the real world, algorithms deployed in hospitals, schools, courts, and even refugee camps are creating new forms of discrimination and exclusion among the most vulnerable citizens. Actual, life-changing harm, not doomsday futuristic scenarios. In this talk, we will reflect on the responsibility of investigative reporters to hold AI and its makers to account and will take inspiration from journalists who are 'co-opting' AI for good to tackle big data investigations.Note: Entry to the pre-conference day venue is limited only to those who have received an email from gijc23@gijn.org confirming that they have access to the pre-conference day. If you haven't received such a confirmation email, you won't be allowed into the venue.For those confirmed for the Pre-Conference: 🪑 All sessions are first-come, first-serve. That means people who arrive first will get seats. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.

The rise of AI-powered chatbots has prompted hot debates about whether these technologies will reshape or unmake our world. But instead of engaging in the hype cycle, journalists can demystify these tools for their audiences by sticking to basic reporting principles: investigate the artificial intelligence models themselves and cover their real-world impact. Burke will discuss her work writing a new chapter for the Associated Press Stylebook filled with best practices for covering AI technologies, aimed at empowering reporters to write about these systems accurately and in-depth. She'll also share how she and her AP colleagues across borders and formats have used public records, digital experiments, and collaborative reporting techniques to uncover bias and community impact tied to AI tools and to promote transparency around their use.Note: Entry to the pre-conference day venue is limited only to those who have received an email from gijc23@gijn.org confirming that they have access to the pre-conference day. If you haven't received such a confirmation email, you won't be allowed into the venue.For those confirmed for the Pre-Conference: 🪑 All sessions are first-come, first-serve. That means people who arrive first will get seats. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.

Collaborative journalism is changing. No longer the preserve of formal networks of professional journalists, collaboration now crosses disciplines, geographies, and topics, demanding new structures and technologies to support this expanding field. In this hour-long discussion, Hazel Sheffield will explore some of the latest developments in collaborative journalism, involving new methods and structures for matchmaking journalists with collaborators across academia, science, and civic tech – and the role of open networks like the Climate, Labor, and Housing networks facilitated by Arena.Note: Entry to the pre-conference day venue is limited only to those who have received an email from gijc23@gijn.org confirming that they have access to the pre-conference day. If you haven't received such a confirmation email, you won't be allowed into the venue.For those confirmed for the Pre-Conference🪑 All sessions are first-come, first-serve. That means people who arrive first will get seats. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly. 

In this interactive workshop, we delve into the fascinating world of Google, exploring its biases, discussing effective solutions, and uncovering the possibilities that lie beyond traditional search engines. Throughout this practical session, you will gain invaluable tips, tricks, and insights to enhance your investigative skills.Note: Entry to the pre-conference day venue is limited only to those who have received an email from gijc23@gijn.org confirming that they have access to the pre-conference day. If you haven't received such a confirmation email, you won't be allowed into the venue.For those confirmed for the Pre-Conference🪑 All sessions are first-come, first-serve. That means people who arrive first will get seats. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.

Do you have too little time to do investigative stories? Try L-ai-la, the new AI research assistant, trained to find news fit to print. (You may be both lazy & forgetful, but Laila never misses a story.)Is this about GPT4? Generative AI? No, forget about it. We are talking about LHF (the LowHangingFruit AI strategy).Data editor Rune Ytreberg will demonstrate how journalists at the small local newspaper iTromsø use AI to empower their research. He will reveal the secret Arctic AI strategy Data First: Get the data! & Use simple AI models to gather, analyze, summarize and detect news.If we can do it, you can too – and we are open to cross-border cooperation. Ready for the next domain-specific large language model?Note: Entry to the pre-conference day venue is limited only to those who have received an email from gijc23@gijn.org confirming that they have access to the pre-conference day. If you haven't received such a confirmation email, you won't be allowed into the venue.For those confirmed for the Pre-Conference🪑 All sessions are first-come, first-serve. That means people who arrive first will get seats. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.

In 2022-2023, the Forever Pollution Project looked into the magnitude of the contamination of Europe by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), aka "forever chemicals." With the ingredients of Teflon or Scotchgard, PFAS don't degrade in the environment and today are found in rain, rivers, tap water… and blood. To build the first-ever map of PFAS pollution in Europe, the team collected about a hundred studies monitoring data in water and soil and adapted a scientific methodology developed to locate PFAS contamination in the United States. The project ultimately revealed more than 17,000 contaminated sites and 21,000 presumptive contamination sites across the continent. In an unprecedented experiment of "peer-reviewed journalism," all major decisions and choices on the mapping work were discussed and validated with a group of seven experts (social scientists, environmental scientists, and environmental lawyers).  Note: Entry to the pre-conference day venue is limited only to those who have received an email from gijc23@gijn.org confirming that they have access to the pre-conference day. If you haven't received such a confirmation email, you won't be allowed into the venue.For those confirmed for the Pre-Conference🪑 All sessions are first-come, first-serve. That means people who arrive first will get seats. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.

During this double session, you will get a peek into the toolbox of the internationally acclaimed investigative team from Mission Investigate at Swedish Public Television (SVT). What methods have they tried, what were the benefits – and what were the pitfalls? They will also share clever tricks used by others that they wish they had cracked themselves.Note: Entry to the pre-conference day venue is limited only to those who have received an email from gijc23@gijn.org confirming that they have access to the pre-conference day. If you haven't received such a confirmation email, you won't be allowed into the venue.For those confirmed for the Pre-Conference: 🪑 All sessions are first-come, first-serve. That means people who arrive first will get seats. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.

Unleash the power of AI in journalism with Henk van Ess's workshop on human-machine collaboration. Learn how to improve your Google searches with AI. Compare documents without the computer getting confused, and take your research to the next level. Accelerate mundane tasks, leverage #ai for geolocation, and streamline audio and video processing.Note: Entry to the pre-conference day venue is limited only to those who have received an email from gijc23@gijn.org confirming that they have access to the pre-conference day. If you haven't received such a confirmation email, you won't be allowed into the venue.For those confirmed for the Pre-Conference🪑 All sessions are first-come, first-serve. That means people who arrive first will get seats. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.

Housing crisis, traffic collapse, heat waves in summer. The most pressing challenges of the present hit Cities especially hard. Investigating urban problems yields incredible chances for journalism: If you can break down a general problem in a way that readers understand the effects for their own city, they will read the story. With our Urban Journalism Network „Deep Cities“ we use this potential.We started from investigation corporate landlords in Europe in the „Cities 4 Rent“ that was lead by Arena for Journalism in Europe. The investigation won the European Press prize 2022. We continued this work since by investigating the investment flows into student housing and micro apartments and the trade with unpaid loans in our „Ghost Debts“ investigation. And we developed smaller regular data stories comparing capital cities in Europe. They reached very large audiences.Yet, we especially learned how to coordinate and publish cross-border stories across capital cities in a way that combines the diverse skills of the network, at the same time reaching large audiences.In this talk I’ll showcase great urban investigations and visualizations, summarize our main research results, explain our workflows and methods and give some hands-on tips what to avoid when investigating together. Note: Entry to the pre-conference day venue is limited only to those who have received an email from gijc23@gijn.org confirming that they have access to the pre-conference day. If you haven't received such a confirmation email, you won't be allowed into the venue.For those confirmed for the Pre-Conference🪑 All sessions are first-come, first-serve. That means people who arrive first will get seats. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.

Join us for a critical conversation about the future of investigative journalism and the pivotal role that new technology plays in shaping it. Drawing upon the themes of today's sessions, the focus will be on how journalists are adapting, innovating, and confronting the complexities of an increasingly digital and interconnected world. Our distinguished panelists will share their experiences and expertise, offering a comprehensive view of the evolving landscape.Note: Entry to the pre-conference day venue is limited only to those who have received an email from gijc23@gijn.org confirming that they have access to the pre-conference day. If you haven't received such a confirmation email, you won't be allowed into the venue.For those confirmed for the Pre-Conference🪑 All sessions are first-come, first-serve. That means people who arrive first will get seats. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.

Registration will be available at the conference venue on Tuesday 19th (from 16.00 to 19.00h) and Wednesday 20th (from 08:00h to 17:00h).⚠️ Important: On Monday, September 18, you will receive an email from gijc23@meetx.se with your personal confirmation barcode. You need this to get in!✍🏽 To collect your name badge, you will need to present your personal confirmation barcode and a valid identification card with your photo (only a passport, national ID or driver's license is accepted). 📛 Attendees will be required to wear their conference badge and bracelet at all times. You will need it for access to all sessions, coffee breaks, lunches, and special events.

Join your colleagues from around the world for a drink and appetizers as we celebrate the start of GIJC23. We're kicking off the main conference with this informal get-together, where you can greet old friends, drink a toast, and relax a bit. Your hosts will briefly say hello, but there's no formal program tonight -- this evening is just to share drinks and jump-start what promises to be an extraordinary week.❗ NOTE: For security reasons, only registered attendees are allowed to participate in the conference and the special events. Please leave your spouses or plus-ones at home.

Registration will be available at the conference venue on Tuesday 19th (from 16.00 to 19.00h) and Wednesday 20th (from 08:00h to 17:00h). To collect your name badge, you will be asked to present a valid identification card with your photo on it (such as a passport or driver’s license) and your Eventbrite ticket, either printed or on your phone/computer.Attendees will be required to wear their conference badge and bracelet at all times. You will need it for access to all sessions, coffee breaks, lunches, and special events.

Join us as we officially convene GIJC23! Expect a warm welcome from your hosts -- both local and global -- plus tips on how to get the most out of the conference and announcements about event highlights, networking, security, and more.🪑 All sessions are first-come, first-serve. That means people who arrive first will get seats. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.Interpretation available in Armenian, Georgian, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian.

Our keynote speaker this year is Ron Deibert, director of the groundbreaking Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Deibert was among the first to sound the alarm about a global information security crisis -- warning that the digital revolution would spark a new era of surveillance, censorship, and disinformation. Deibert's interdisciplinary team at Citizen Lab, based at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, is today a key player in the battle against widespread surveillance of journalists and dissidents, and against digital assaults on truth and the free press. Citizen Lab investigations have exposed information warfare and cyber espionage from Mexico and China to the UAE and Ukraine, and played a key role in revealing the global proliferation of privatized spyware like Pegasus.Are you confident that you and your sources are well protected? You may no longer think so after listening to Ron Deibert. In his keynote, Deibert will warn that we've entered a new stage in cyber threats to independent journalism, and that the world now faces "a perfect storm for democratic institutions."Deibert has brought his team from Citizen Lab to do mobile phone security checks for GIJC23 attendees. Look for them -- along with a team from RSF -- at five Digital Security Clinics during the conference.🪑 All sessions are first-come, first-serve. That means people who arrive first will get seats. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.Interpretation available in Armenian, Georgian, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian.

Following Ron Deibert's keynote, we have an all-star panel of journalists on the front lines of the digital war being waged against watchdog media. Moderator Sheila Coronel will lead an hour-long discussion about what it's like to have your newsroom invaded, your sources exposed, and your actions tracked every day. We've asked noted journalists from four countries -- Azerbaijan, El Salvador, Jordan, and France -- to talk about what happened, and how journalists can fight back.Carlos Dada is a pioneer of investigative reporting and online journalism in Latin America. He is co-founder and director of El Salvador news outlet El Faro, where 22 team members were infected with Pegasus, from editors and reporters to administrative staff and the board of directors.Rawan Damen leads Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, which does training and reporting across the Middle East and North Africa. Shortly after becoming director general of ARIJ in 2020, she faced a crisis with revelations of widespread Pegasus spying of the network's journalists across the region.Khadija Ismayilova is a long-time investigative reporter for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. For years, the Azerbaijan regime harassed and then imprisoned her. Her phone, Citizen Lab found, was infected with Pegasus spyware for three years from 2018-21.Laurent Richard leads Forbidden Stories, a global network that pursues investigations by murdered or threatened reporters. In 2021, the group worked with Amnesty International’s Security Lab and Citizen Lab on a leak of over 50,000 phone numbers tapped for surveillance by Pegasus clients in more than 50 countries.🪑 All sessions are first-come, first-serve. That means people who arrive first will get seats. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.Interpretation available in Armenian, Georgian, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian.

Organized crime today is fluid, transnational, enterprising, and an estimated trillion-dollar industry. Criminal syndicates have embraced globalization and high-tech, fueled by the global spread of corruption and kleptocracy. Entire nation states and multinational corporations function as what anti-racketeering laws refer to as a "continuing criminal enterprise." Issues ranging from the environment to human rights depend on curbing organized crime's reach and impact.To talk about the state of 21st Century organized crime, we have an extraordinary panel of journalists with deep experience reporting on Mexico's cartels, Italy's mafias, and Asia's Golden Triangle. Tying it together is OCCRP's Paul Radu, whose reporting on Eurasian crime and cross-border "laundromats" has earned global acclaim.🪑 All sessions are first-come, first-serve. That means people who arrive first will get seats. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.Interpretation available in Armenian, Georgian, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian.

This hands-on session will cover the basics of using a spreadsheet -- from entering data, to sorting and filtering data, and doing calculations. Participants will need to have Excel on their laptops.🪑 All sessions are first-come, first-serve. That means people who arrive first will get seats. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.💻 For best results, be sure to bring your own laptop if you want to follow the workshop.

In this demo session, we will talk about the concept of coding. What are the building blocks of a script? What is a variable, a loop or a list? How are they used? What should I think about when scraping a document or a website? This is not a hands-on class; it will talk about and demonstrate for the beginner how to think when you want to start coding.  🪑 All sessions are first-come, first-serve. That means people who arrive first will get seats. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.💻 For best results, be sure to bring your own laptop if you want to follow the workshop.

This is the first of two introductory classes on using Python to scrape data from the Web.This session will demonstrate the basic elements of using Python to scrape data, download it to database, and use that data to do analysis for stories.The second class will demonstrate how to use the requests module to scrape structured data from the web. We will also introduce the BeautifulSoup module.Important Advisory: These sessions will be in the form of demos. If you bring your own laptop, and if Python and various libraries are installed, you can follow along on your own machine as we go. Before the session starts: install Python 3.6.8 (or later version). You should also be sure to have downloaded and installed the following libraries (aka packages): requests, bs4 and jupyter notebook.Unfortunately, we won't have time to assist with individual laptops, installations, error messages, and the like.🪑 All sessions are first-come, first-serve. That means people who arrive first will get seats. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.💻 For best results, be sure to bring your own laptop if you want to follow the workshop.

Flourish is one of the most popular visualization tools today. It offers easy-to-use and rich visualization methods, especially for newsrooms engaged in data journalism. In this session, you will get to know Flourish's data visualization library and learn how to make basic types of charts, projection maps, heat maps, and hierarchy maps. Case studies will also be included in the session.Those who want to practice in the session can create an account here: https://app.flourish.studio/login.You can access the datasets in the presentation or you can download the datasets from my GitHub page: https://github.com/pinardag.🪑 All sessions are first-come, first-serve. That means people who arrive first will get seats. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.💻 For best results, be sure to bring your own laptop if you want to follow the workshop.

Covering elections as a political “horse race” has never been enough. This approach to campaign reporting is even more inadequate today, as autocrats and would-be autocrats use electoral systems to seize and dismantle the guardrails of democracies. Independent media and watchdog journalists have a vital role to play. It is key to dig beneath the surface of elections, while also protecting themselves, their sources, and free expression itself from assault by anti-democratic forces. To do this, journalists need tenacity, planning, collaboration, good sources, and the latest tools and techniques.In this panel we bring together four veteran reporters who have investigated political campaigns and elections around the world. They will offer tips on cutting-edge tools, investigating candidates, developing sources, tracking disinformation, and more.🪑 All sessions are first-come, first-serve. That means people who arrive first will get seats. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.

Perhaps the toughest assignment for climate change reporters -- following the trail of accountability -- will be addressed by some of the most provocative writers on the topic. Hear from the founder of the podcast called Drilled, who dissects oil company claims and actions. Another speaker -- one of the true veterans covering climate change -- is author of the books A Life Stripped Bare, The Final Call, and Will Jellyfish Rule the World? He runs Carbon Brief, a key source for information about government promises and action. Also hear from a long-time environmental reporter who writes the STEAL THIS (Climate) STORY column, and from editors at The Guardian, a continuous font of reporting on the climate crisis.🪑 All sessions are first-come, first-serve. That means people who arrive first will get seats. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.

Scared, traumatized, and suspicious. Or people who just hate journalists. Does getting them to talk seem impossible? It’s not. Everyone wants to talk to you, if only you can break the code. Find the interviewee’s fears, get the interview. Come hear Åsa Erlandsson, a veteran crime journalist at Sweden's Dagens Nyheter, who has a knack for high-profile interviews with people who have never spoken publicly before.🪑 All sessions are first-come, first-serve. That means people who arrive first will get seats. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.

Newsrooms and freelance journalists can utilize the internet to find extraordinary levels of detail about people of interest. By ferreting out these data, journalists can begin to map social networks and establish connections that are useful in their investigations. This workshop will be led by one of GIJN’s most popular trainers, Paul Myers, who has worked for the BBC at the sharp end of online research for over 25 years, pioneering online research techniques that are now commonplace in the media. He will share the latest effective tips and techniques for digging up information on people of interest.🪑 All sessions are first-come, first-serve. That means people who arrive first will get seats. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.

Russia matters. A generation after the Cold War, Moscow still has thousands of nuclear weapons. By land mass, Russia is the world's largest country, stretching from Europe to Asia and the Arctic, and it has influence over regional conflicts around the world -- not just its disastrous invasion of Ukraine but in the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Africa. Russia is rich in resources, particularly oil and gas, and its oligarchs have invested and hidden wealth around the world.The current regime in Moscow has driven out or silenced the country's independent journalists, but many remain in the fight, operating from exile. And there are myriad ways they use to keep reporting on the country. Come hear from two of the best at digging out what's really happening in Putin's Russia.🪑 All sessions are first-come, first-serve. That means people who arrive first will get seats. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.