Event overview
The CIJ Summer Conference is UK’s only investigative journalism training event with an emphasis on teaching investigative skills.
The CIJ Summer Conference is UK’s only investigative journalism training event with an emphasis on teaching investigative skills.
This year we will focus on the skills needed to counteract the world of 'alternative facts' and plain lies: from fact checking, holding the strong and powerful to account to grassroots journalism projects with hands-on classes, case studies and talks.
Why attend #CIJSummer?
Are you a journalist, editor, activist, student or simply not sure? Find your answer!
Keynote Speakers
Aron Pilhofer - James B. Steele Chair in Journalism Innovation at Temple University, University of Minnesota and former Executive Editor of Digital at the Guardia and before that Associate Managing Editor for Digital Strategy at The New York Times. Aron will share his expertise of bringing digital and data journalism into newsrooms.
How to fight 'Alternative Facts'? - a panel discussion with Natalia Antelava (Coda Story), Jessikka Aro (A Finnish journalists who investigated Russian internet trolls), Jasper Jackson (Assistant Media Editor of The Guardian), Alastair Reid (journalist, formerly from First Draft News). Chaired by Dr Yemisi Akinbobola (Birmingham School of Media).
Michelle Ye Hee Lee - is a reporter at The Washington Post's famous Fact Checker:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/?utm_term=.79c06a50d355
'Been fact-checking before it got cool'. See her experience of fact-checking the US Presidential campaign:
Anabel Hernández - is a Mexican journalist who has confronted head-on – at significant personal risk to her and her family – corruption and the narcotics trade in Mexico. She will deliver the inaugural Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture:
http://www.tcij.org/about-cij/news/anabel-hern%C3%A1ndez-deliver-gavin-macfadyen-memorial-lecture
Others - TBC
Topics covered:
- Fact-checking techniques
- Counteracting propaganda
- Data journalism
- Data visualisations
- Financial journalism
- Access to information laws, including FoIA
- Covert filming
- Story-based inquiry method
And much more.
In this year's conference we will remember and honour our late director Gavin MacFadyen:
http://www.tcij.org/about-cij/news/gavin-macfadyen
and legendary data journalism trainer David Donald:
http://www.tcij.org/about-cij/news/remembering-david-donald
Both died of lung cancer last year.
Dates & times
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22 Jun 2017 | 8:15am - 5:30pm | |
23 Jun 2017 | 8:30am - 5:45pm | |
24 Jun 2017 | 9:00am - 8:00pm |
Accessibility
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