Our networking sessions are just that: informal meet-ups where you can introduce yourself, talk about your work, brainstorm, and find colleagues to collaborate with. Here is a chance to meet colleagues from across Sub-Saharan Africa in a relaxed atmosphere and help strengthen the region's investigative networks.🪑 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.

Our networking sessions are just that: informal meet-ups where you can introduce yourself, talk about your work, brainstorm, and find colleagues to collaborate with. Here is a chance to meet colleagues from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and around the world -- and help strengthen Chinese investigative networks.🪑 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.

What does it take to succeed as a woman in the world of investigative journalism? In this lightning session, leading women from 10 countries in the investigative journalism community will present strategies they use in their professional work. They will offer advice on a range of challenges, including managing, leading and inspiring diverse teams, working in difficult conditions, dealing with uncertain job security and pressure, coping with imposter syndrome, online harassment, coping with burnout, and developing resilience to balancing work and family. We aim to inspire current and future women investigative journalists, and to continue strengthening the network of female reporters worldwide.🪑 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.

Our focus here is on outstanding journalism being produced on East Asia. Alison Killing will report on her Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation for Buzzfeed of Muslim detention camps in China's Xinjiang Province. Citra Prastuti, chief editor of KBR, Indonesia's largest radio network, will talk about its innovative podcast series exposing an epidemic of child marriages across that country. And Sherry Lee, editor of Taiwan's online The Reporter, will speak on her nonprofit newsroom's groundbreaking investigations. 

In this session, four papers will be presented.Dr. Olunifesi Suraj from University of Lagos will present his paper "Valiant or Vulnerable Press: The discourse analysis of investigative journalism dichotomy in Nigerian ‘autocratic-democracy’";Francis Nyonzo from JamiiForums will present his paper "Tanzania's Investigative Journalists: A Look at the Difficulties of Exposing the Truth";Dr. Sandra Pitcher and Dr. Nicola Jones from University of KwaZulu-Natal will present their paper "Culture wars: Balancing ubuntu and ukuhlonipha in South African investigative journalism";Komi Aziadouvo from Groupe de Presse Liberté will present his paper "Investigative journalism and its obstacles in French-speaking African 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.

Lightning rounds are among the most popular sessions at our global conferences. The presentations are short -- about five minutes -- so we fit in as many as a dozen speakers, one after another. Data Lightning Talks will feature leading data journalists on their favorite tools, apps, and stories. Have a great idea for this? There's still room to sign up. Write us at speakers@gijn.org.🪑 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.

Take the next step after spreadsheets. Using SQL makes it possible to handle large amounts of data, safely share data with others, and combine tables together by joining. In this session and Joining Tables with Structured Query Language, you will understand how relational databases work, how to use SQL to ask your database questions, and how to summarize and filter data. Before the session: Download DB Browser SQLite from https://sqlitebrowser.org (for both PCs and Macs)🪑 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.

Ever been able to find the exact information you want online only to discover that it isn't available to download into a usable dataset? Scraping - the process of gathering information from the internet using automationIn - is the answer! In this class we will demonstrate how you can use the Python programming language to take your unstructured data and pull it into a dataframe. Please note that basic knowledge of Python or participation in the first session (Introduction to Python) is highly recommended. Laptop required.🪑 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.

NOTE: Participating in the first part of this session, The Power of R, is strongly recommended.Working in a spreadsheet can be messy and cluttered. Especially if you have a very large data set and need to perform many operations. You have to document every step to be able to repeat your analyses later (for verification or with new data). Fortunately, there's R. With a few simple lines of code, you can do the same things in R as you would in a spreadsheet: scrape, cleanup, sort, filter, group (pivot tables), create statistics and graphs, but now in an uncluttered workflow that can be easily modified, repeated and shared. Experience why R (freeware) has quickly captured the hearts of many data journalists. A comprehensive workbook with sample scripts and exercises accompanies the workshops.🪑 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.

Lightning rounds are among the most popular sessions at our global conferences. The presentations are short -- about five minutes -- so we fit in as many as a dozen speakers, one after another. Great Stories You've Never Heard Of showcases investigative projects that may have escaped your notice. It's impossible to fit all the compelling  pitches we get into our regular panels, so here's a chance to hear some of the extraordinary range of work being done out there. This year's session features prominent journalists from China, France, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Ukraine, 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.

Our networking sessions are just that: informal meet-ups where you can introduce yourself, talk about your work, brainstorm, and find colleagues to collaborate with. Here is a chance to meet German-speaking colleagues from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and around the world in a relaxed atmosphere and help strengthen German investigative networks.🪑 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

Our networking sessions are just that: informal meet-ups where you can introduce yourself, talk about your work, brainstorm, and find colleagues to collaborate with. Here is a chance to meet Russian-speaking colleagues from around the world in a relaxed atmosphere and help strengthen investigative networks across Eurasia.🪑 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.

Our networking sessions are just that: informal meet-ups where you can introduce yourself, talk about your work, brainstorm, and find colleagues to collaborate with. Here is a chance to meet colleagues from across South Asia -- Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and more -- and help strengthen the region's investigative networks.🪑 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.

Our networking sessions are just that: informal meet-ups where you can introduce yourself, talk about your work, brainstorm, and find colleagues to collaborate with. Here is a chance to meet Spanish-speaking colleagues from around the world in a relaxed atmosphere and help strengthen investigative networks across Latin America and Spain.🪑 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.

Our networking sessions are just that: informal meet-ups where you can introduce yourself, talk about your work, brainstorm, and find colleagues to collaborate with. Here is a chance to meet Turkish-speaking colleagues in a relaxed atmosphere and help strengthen Turkish investigative networks.🪑 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 Aljazeera Media Institute's "Media for Development" initiative is pleased to host this invitation-only reception.Here is a chance to meet the AJMI staff, enjoy a refreshment, and learn more about their work with journalists, press organizations, and media development groups. AJMI hopes to find partners interested in supporting and developing media in the Global South.For your inquiries and questions please contact Ahmad Abu Hamad from AlJazeera Media Institute on this email: Abuhamada@aljazeera.net

This workshop might just emerge as the one that changes your life as a watchdog journalist. Misinformation and disinformation on “closed” social media networks -- such as WhatsApp and Telegram – have already had devastating consequences for democratic processes in places like India, Nigeria, Russia, and Brazil. At first glance, some platforms may seem impenetrable, while others are becoming harder to access. But there remain ways in -- and we'll show you how. This session features three of the world’s leading experts on how to dig deeply into this supposedly closed world – and to do it ethically, and without cost.🪑 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.

This is the 20th anniversary of the Global Investigative Journalism Network (sponsor of this conference since 2003). Come meet our board members and staff, say farewell to GIJN's Executive Director Dave Kaplan, and say hello to our new ED, Emilia Diaz-Struck. We'll give a brief report to our member organizations on GIJN's rapid progress since becoming a nonprofit in 2015, and talk about what's next for the global network. 

If you’ve been to any of our last seven Global Conferences, chances are you’ve seen GIJN’s own band, The Muckrakers. Formed at a jam at the Lillehammer conference in 2008, the R&B group has gone on to play to packed crowds from around the world in Geneva, Kyiv, Rio, a rockin’ reunion back in Lillehammer, and then great gigs in Joburg and Hamburg. The international band will feature most of the original cast — the incomparable Ana Simonovska on vocals (Macedonia), Mark Lee Hunter on slide guitar (France/US), Dave Kaplan on harmonica (US), and Freddy Schaal on drums (Norway), joined by Gothenburg's own Lars Mellqvist on bass (Sweden).Join us for The Muckrakers on Wednesday night from 9pm to 12am. For this fun night, we’ve booked the nearby Brewhouse, one of Gothenburg’s top night spots. Dubbed a “culture factory,” the Brewhouse features concerts, artistic acts, and films in a retro industrial space. Come early at 8pm when the doors open for drinks.❗ 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.

Programs to train and teach investigative reporting have spread worldwide, but how effective are different methods and styles? For this panel, we bring together educators and trainers from diverse environments in France, Slovenia, South Korea, and the United States for a look at both traditional and innovative techniques.🪑 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.

This is the second of two introductory classes on using Python to scrape data from the Web.The first 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.This 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.

Math should be a journalist's friend. Learn from Pulitzer Prize-winner David Cay Johnston how to harness the power of numbers in your reporting.🪑 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.

Think there's no data in your story? Create your own. Journalists can use polls, physical surveys, documents, or even monitoring devices to create their own data. We'll give you examples of how these techniques are used and some best practices for doing it yourself.🪑 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.

With the end of the Cold War, intelligence agencies brainstormed about what the next great security threat would be.  It turned out they didn't have to look far: the global advent of kleptocracies and criminal states now threatens democracy and accountable government almost everywhere. Kleptocracies -- government by theft -- now dominate in much of the developing world. Outright mafia states -- in which governments essentially operate the government as a criminal enterprise -- are growing in number. Come hear from four veteran journalists on how to report on one of the greatest challenges to good governance in the 21st Century.🪑 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.

The impacts of climate change everywhere. But how to do in-depth reporting on the widespread human costs -- both immediate and longer-term? Speakers from Asia, Africa, and Europe will discuss how to cover topics such as sea level rise, heat, drought, and extreme weather with an eye to the impact on humanity and the environment. They will discuss how to delve into the consequences, such as greater migration, worsening health, increasing poverty, and much more, including the costs of adaptation to global warming.🪑 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.

A raft of new tools are helping journalists track shipping and aircraft around the world. The numerous ways to track ships and planes open a whole new range of stories for journalists to investigate, from following billionaires' private planes to uncovering the details of refugee boats capsizing.🪑 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 a groundbreaking cross-border project, Nordic public service journalists exposed the names and faces of over 20 Russian spies at embassies in Scandinavia. By combining intelligence sources and leaked Russian databases, the project exposed the shadow war by Putin's agents, ranging from industrial espionage to dark vessel-surveillance of critical infrastructure at sea.In this session, journalists from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark will talk about how the cooperation started, how they verified intelligence sources and spying on the spies, and how databases from inside Russia opened up new possibilities.🪑 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.

Reporting on China has never been more important. China has emerged as a major global player, taking its place as the second largest economy and leading trading nation worldwide. Contributing a fifth of the world’s economy, China’s actions in fields such as international trade, pandemic control, and climate change have a significant global impact. Chinese funds flow into investments worldwide, the country leads the world in manufacturing, and its future is increasingly tied up with other nations from Southeast Asia to North America.To offer tips for reporting on China, we have sought the expertise of three specialists who will share their recommendations and tools for understanding this influential nation.🪑 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.

Since the Covid-19 pandemic, working realities for journalists around the world have changed drastically. Rising authoritarianism and political polarization have led to increased hostility and direct threats against journalists. How can we cope with stress, trauma, and burnout in the face of mounting pressures while doing our jobs? At this workshop the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma will offer concrete guidance, strategies, and techniques for enriching one's coping skills and mental wellbeing, and for building resilient news teams. Katherine Porterfield, PhD, a consulting psychologist for the Bellevue Program on Survivors of Torture, will deliver this workshop.🪑 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.