Event overview
The CIJ Summer Conference is the UK's only training investigative journalism event with an emphasis on teaching investigative skills.
This year we will be focusing on data skills: from hands-on workshops to case studies. As always, we will be teaching core investigative techniques, including how to conduct financial investigations, covert filming, investigative methodology and much more.
Keynote speakers:
NEW! Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier of Süddeutsche Zeitung, the two journalists who broke the Panama Papers story.
US investigative journalist, author and double Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Steele
Editor-in-chief of The Intercept Betsy Reed
Speakers:
NEW: Hajo Seppelt - German journalist and author and a specialist on doping in German and international sport.
NEW: The Ferret - Scottish investigative journalism cooperative. As part of our new models for investigative journalism programme.
NEW: Joe Plomin - BBC Panorama journalist will talk about covert filming.
And many more.
The topics covered:
- Data journalism (formerly computer assisted reporting)
- Web scraping
- Open Data
- Financial journalism, including tax evasion
- Libel and privacy law
- Story-based inquiry with new hands-on classes
- Access to information laws, including FOIA
- Covert filming
- Corruption in sport
And much more.
www.tcij.org/summer-conference
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Jul 2016 | 9:00am - 5:00pm | |
| 15 Jul 2016 | 9:00am - 5:00pm | |
| 16 Jul 2016 | 9:00am - 5:00pm |
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