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CIJ Logan Symposium 2020: Opening the Black Box

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2026-09-28 | CIJ Logan Symposium 2020: Opening the Black Box

Source! All the Conspiracies are True: Speaking Truth to Power in the Age of ‘Disinformation’

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2024-12-12 | How should truth-seeking investigative journalism operate amid the proliferation of conspiracy theories on one side and the rise of a cadre of sometimes censorious “disinformation” experts on the other? Can the slur of conspiracy be used to intimidate and discourage genuine investigative reporting? How does one separate genuine leads from conspiracy fiction, when a few of those conspiracies might be true?

Featuring: Florence de Changy and Mads Brugger
Chair: James Harkin

Filmed live at The Barbican as part of the CIJ Logan Symposium: Source! 2024.

Source! Adapting Investigative Journalism

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2024-12-12 | As journalism changes, so does the way it’s consumed. From serialised podcasts and audio networks to feature films, theatre productions to true crime TV series, our cast reflects on whether these new media enrich investigative reporting and its reach, or get in the way of the truth?

Featuring: Sacha Pfeiffer, Calle Fuhr and Bradley Hope
Chair: Robert Evans

Filmed live at The Barbican as part of the CIJ Logan Symposium: Source! 2024.

Source! Are we all Working for the CIA?

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2024-12-12 | Investigative journalism is expensive. As the cost of paying for it moves from the audience to big foundations, many of whom enjoy close relationships with Western states, how does that change the tone and rationale of what we produce? Is there a danger that we end up doing the bidding of those in power?

Featuring: Frances Stonor Saunders, Matt Kennard, Ștefan Cândea and Nikolas Leontopoulous
Chair: James Harkin

Filmed live at The Barbican as part of the CIJ Logan Symposium: Source! 2024.

Source! Blowing the Whistle on Boeing

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2024-12-12 | In 2019, after a series of fatal crashes involving Boeing’s 737 MAX model, planes were grounded around the world. Accusations of mismanagement, of a terminal decline in standards at factories, and of cover-ups have come in the wake of lawsuits and government investigations which continue today. A conversation between Dominic Gates, who won a Pulitzer for breaking the Boeing story, and Gerry Wagschal, Emmy-winning producer of a documentary on the topic.

Filmed live at The Barbican as part of the CIJ Logan Symposium: Source! 2024.

Source! Welcome from The Reva & David Logan Foundation

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2024-12-12 | A few words from the President of The Reva & David Logan Foundation.

Featuring: Richard Logan

Filmed live at The Barbican as part of the CIJ Logan Symposium: Source! 2024.

Source! After Assange Journalists and the Espionage Act

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2024-12-12 | Julian Assange’s release from a UK prison, the result of a plea deal with the US government, was long overdue. But it leaves in place the prospect of espionage legislation in the US, the UK and Europe being used to threaten and intimidate journalists who work with sources and whistleblowers on national security stories. What can be done?

Featuring: Holger Stark, Rebecca Vincent, Nikolas Leontopoulous and MC McGrath
Chair: Trevor Timm

Filmed live at The Barbican as part of the CIJ Logan Symposium: Source! 2024.

Source! The Cost of Source Protection - Catherine Herridge in Conversation with Trevor Timm

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2024-12-12 | Catherine V. Herridge, an Emmy Award‐winning veteran investigative correspondent, discusses the First Amendment, the U.S.A Press Act and the protection of confidential sources. Following a series of articles she wrote in 2017 about a federal espionage probe, the subject of the FBI case sued the US Government, accusing them of leaking information to Herridge, an alleged violation of the Privacy Act. As part of that case, Herridge was called as a witness and in February this year, a Federal Judge held Herridge in contempt for refusing to disclose her confidential sources. Daily fines of $800 have been stayed, pending Herridge’s appeal. The case is being closely watched by First Amendment advocates because the outcome will impact every journalist in the United States. It has also renewed bi-partisan support for the Press Act, a federal shield law.

Featuring: Catherine V Herridge and Trevor Timm

Filmed live at The Barbican as part of the CIJ Logan Symposium: Source! 2024.

Source! Digital Security Technology, Sources and Safety

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2024-12-12 | Can technology keep journalists safe? What impact have encryption technologies had on investigative journalism, and what are the limitations of these technologies – especially for those who have less access to reliable tech infrastructure and resources and those operating under oppressive regimes?

Featuring: Runa Sandvik, Susan E McGregor and Rowen S
Chair: Harlo Holmes

Filmed live at The Barbican as part of the CIJ Logan Symposium: Source! 2024.

Source! Welcome from the Freedom of The Press Foundation

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2024-12-12 | A few words from FPF’s Executive Director.

Featuring: Trevor Timm

Filmed live at The Barbican as part of the CIJ Logan Symposium: Source! 2024.

Source! War in Gaza

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2024-12-12 | This session is split in two: an individual presentation, followed by a panel discussion.

Gaza: Tallying the Journalist Dead
A first-person presentation from Sherif Mansour, former Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists, on the work to count the numbers of journalists killed in the Israeli invasion of Gaza.

Featuring: Sherif Mansour

Investigating Gaza
Given the difficulties of getting reporters into Gaza, journalists have been using remote methods – like AI and open-source technology – to find out what is going on there. Two reporters talk about the difficulties and opportunities of these methods, and the battle to uncover the truth.

Featuring: Krishna Karra and Abu Bakr Bashir
Chair: Sherif Mansour

Filmed live at The Barbican as part of the CIJ Logan Symposium: Source! 2024.

Source! Who Did Nord Stream?

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2024-12-12 | In September 2022 a series of massive underwater explosions destroyed sections of the two Nord Stream pipelines built to transport natural gas from Russia to Europe via Germany. The investigation found itself in a highly politicised environment, with three schools of thought:

The Russians did it. The CIA did it. The Ukrainians did it. How do you cope as an independent journalist with a case which quickly became the subject of systematic disinformation and ideology? And how can a cross-border collaboration deal with the challenges of a multinational law investigation? Holger Stark, one of Germany’s most garlanded investigative reporters, discusses his and his colleagues’ exhaustive investigation into the incident – and their conclusion.

Featuring: Holger Stark
Chair: James Harkin

Filmed live at The Barbican as part of the CIJ Logan Symposium: Source! 2024.

Source! Reports from the Frontline

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2024-12-12 | Investigative journalism is under threat as never before. From Beirut to Athens, Paris to London, our four journalist partners have been targets of those attacks. In this session, each of those partners talk us through one of their national security stories and its aftermath in the form of harassment from the state.

Featuring: Ariane Lavrilleux, Lara Bitar, Matt Kennard and Nikolas Leontopoulous
Chair: James Harkin

Filmed live at The Barbican as part of the CIJ Logan Symposium: Source! 2024.

Source! Welcome from the Centre for Investigative Journalism

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2024-12-12 | A few words from the CIJ’s Director.

Featuring: James Harkin

Filmed live at The Barbican as part of the CIJ Logan Symposium: Source! 2024.

#CIJSummer: Breaking Horizon: The Post Office Scandal

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2024-08-12 | Over nearly two decades, the UK Post Office prosecuted hundreds of innocent subpostmasters for shortfalls in their accounts caused, in fact, by errors of an IT system called Horizon – one of the biggest and most egregious miscarriages of justice in recent British history. Long before the recent ITV drama popularised it, investigative journalists broke the story. Some of those journalists come to Summer Conference to talk about how they did it.

#CIJSummer: Paul Foot: A Journalist’s Life

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2024-07-24 | As her biography of Paul Foot is launched, Margaret Renn discusses his legacy as an investigative journalist. His notable columns appeared in Private Eye, Socialist Worker, the Guardian, and the London Review of Books. But his page in the Daily Mirror, which ran for 14 years, was perhaps the most significant. No story was too small – a sick child in a damp flat – or too important for his critical eye: the sinking of the Belgrano, the bombing at Lockerbie, the Private Finance Initiative. Some of his stories ran for years – 30 years in the case of Jeffrey Archer. He also published books, ten in total, including three about miscarriages of justice: Who Killed Hanratty (1971), Murder at the Farm: Who Killed Carl Bridgewater? (1986), and Who Framed Colin Wallace? (1989). He never called himself an investigative journalist, and wrote news like it was fiction, everything was story.

Chaired by Christopher Hird.

Margaret Renn’s book Paul Foot: a Life in Politics is on sale now through the publishers Verso.

#CIJSummer: Climate Arson and Cover-Ups

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2024-07-24 | Discover a variety of innovative investigative methods put to good use uncovering environmental harms and greenwashing. From mapping fossil fuel projects in conservation sites, to cross-border collaborations digging through hidden harms buried within ‘green’ hydrogen investments, to using drones to expose the deliberate burning of the UK’s largest natural carbon store, you’ll hear from a range of the best environmental investigations around the world.

With Emma Howard (Unearthed), Nimra Shahid (freelance, formerly the Bureau of Investigative Journalism), Sebastián Rodriguez (Climate Home News) and Roxanne Joseph (Oxpeckers).

Chaired by Adeolu Adekola.

#CIJSummer: COP Reporting – How to Prepare and Keep Focused

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2024-07-24 | The UN Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC is one of the biggest news events for international climate change negotiations each year, but it can be difficult to navigate as a journalist without the right preparation. Whether you are attending as accredited media or trying to make sense of the negotiations for your readers from afar, it is essential to understand the way the conference works and do your groundwork ahead of time, so you can get meaningful stories.

#CIJSummer: Investigating the Climate Crisis - Beyond Reporting the What

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2024-07-19 | In the midst of an unfolding global crisis, climate reporting is an urgent and necessary field, but there is a corresponding need for journalists to go further than reporting on what is happening due to climate change and investigate deeper questions: why it is happening, who is responsible, who is profiting and how the much-vaunted solutions are being undermined to the point of futility.

This talk is part of our Open Climate Reporting Initiative.

#CIJSummer: The AI Revolution - Should We Issue Warnings or Welcomes?

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2024-07-19 | From the potential to erode trust through deep fakes and AI-powered misinformation, to dangers around undermining job security and creative innovation, there are genuine threats and challenges that this technology poses to both journalism and wider society.

However, generative AI also brings the promise of empowering journalists and citizens alike towards deeper investigative research and improved transparency, accountability and justice. From automated monitoring and analysis of datasets, images or videos, to assistance in coding or identifying connections, there are a range of applications for AI that can help in our investigations. But what flaws, biases and dangers do we need to be aware of as we incorporate these new technologies?

This panel will discuss all the ways in which generative AI will impact investigative journalism – whether positive, negative or potentially unforeseen.

#CIJSummer: Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture: Poonam Agarwal

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2024-07-19 | The Electoral Bonds scheme was introduced by the Indian government as a tool to make political donations through banking channels. It was subsequently used by individuals within that government, according to Poonam Agarwal’s investigation, to take bribes in the form of donations. Agarwal exposed the hidden unique alphanumeric codes embedded in the bonds, opening a Pandora’s box of corruption.

This is the Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture 2024.

#CIJSummer: Making It Count - Using Data to Tell Stories from the Climate Crisis

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2023-07-12 | We are already seeing the impacts of the climate crisis, and many are so wide-ranging and devastating that they are difficult to comprehend. Many journalists are taking the skills and techniques of data journalism and applying these to the disastrous ramifications of climate change.

Much of the time, it is only through this work to bring forward the human stories that lie behind the numbers that we, as readers, are able to truly understand the ecological collapse our exploitation of the planet is causing. Four journalists talk through the methods they use to find, understand and tell these stories.

Michèle Ebongue (Cameroon) – looks at the data which shows devastating destruction of mangroves and what it means for the local community and for the environment.
With area losses estimated at 6.2% per year, or 31% over the last 5 years, Douala-Bonabéri has experienced the highest rate of destruction of mangroves in the Wouri Estuary. The socio-economic crisis in the North-West and South-West regions, the carelessness of populations and State projects are among the major causes of pressure on the mangroves in the Douala 4th district.

Arun Karki and Basant Pratap Singh (Nepal) – write about the schools washed away by floods in Nepal – and look at pupils and communities behind the numbers.

Gianluca Liva (Italy) – uses data and maps to tell the story of PFAS – compounds with unique properties that do not degrade in the environment. This is why they are called “eternal pollutants”. He was responsible, together with French and German colleagues, for the big map and the hundreds of datasets that were used to create it. Gianluca also did the first comprehensive scientific overview (published in Le Scienze – Scientific American) of what PFAS – actually – are.

Chaired by the CIJ OCRI Project Manager Adeolu Adekola.

This talk is part of the CIJ Climate OCRI Networking event at #CIJSummer Conference. Supported by Journalimsfund EU.

#CIJSummer: Ukraine - Investigations in the Shadow of Invasion

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2023-07-12 | The Russian invasion of Ukraine changed many of the topics covered by Ukrainian investigative journalists, though the key investigative techniques have often remained the same.

Elena Loginova speaks about an investigation by the OCCRP, The Banality of Brutality. Using interviews, Telegram message groups, geolocation and in-person verification, Elena and her colleagues pieced together the experiences of residents in one apartment block in the occupied Kyiv suburb of Bucha.

She also discusses another project – Russian War Criminals – where journalists undertook painstaking research to analyse and cross-check official and open-source information to gather evidence of crimes committed by individual soldiers.

#CIJSummer: The Prepayment Meter Scandal

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2023-07-12 | In different ways, the i newspaper’s Dean Kirby and Paul Morgan-Bentley from The Times forced the pre-payment meter scandal into the open, their investigations leading to substantial industry change. Both come to Summer Conference to talk about their methods, which in the case of The Times involved undercover video, and the impact of their work.
Moderated by Emma Youle.

#CIJSummer: The Keys to the Algorithm - Inside an AI System

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2023-07-12 | Across Europe, secretive algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of welfare recipients. An international team of journalists led by Lighthouse Reports gained unprecedented access to an AI system designed to predict which welfare recipients were committing fraud. This access enabled them to analyse the algorithm from the inside out and prove ethnic and gender discrimination. The result was a four-part series co-produced with WIRED magazine.

Lighthouse Reports’ lead reporter Gabriel Geiger takes us through the methodology of the two-year investigation, how they obtained the algorithm using public records laws, and the steps taken to run an academic-reviewed experiment to demonstrate bias.

#CIJSummer: Patricia Devlin - Investigating Crime and Paramilitarism in Northern Ireland

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2023-07-11 | Patricia Devlin’s investigations into crime and paramilitarism in post-Troubles Northern Ireland have left her with powerful enemies on all sides. At the CIJ she talks about how to investigate in sometimes hostile territory, and how to deal with the abuse and intimidation that follows.

#CIJSummer: Flash Floods - How to Report when Climate Disaster Strikes

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2023-07-11 | Disasters triggered by climate change are many years in the making, but when they reach critical points the effects can unfold fast. If journalists are to capture and show the impacts of such events on affected communities, they too must act fast. That is exactly what staff of the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) in Nigeria had to do when unprecedented floods swept across Nigeria.

In this session, CJID Director Dr Tobi Oluwatola explains the tools, techniques and the preparations that allowed them to stay on top of one of Nigeria’s fastest developing news stories of the past year. Chaired by CIJ's OCRI Regional Coordinator for MENA, Lina Yassin.

Part of the CIJ Climate OCRI Networking event at #CIJSummer Conference. Supported by Journalimsfund EU.

#CIJSummer: Undercover in Lagos

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2023-07-11 | A fearless Nigerian investigative journalist who has gone under cover on numerous occasions to expose corruption, ‘Fisayo Soyombo is best known for spending several days in a police cell and a prison to expose corruption within the country’s criminal justice system.

At the CIJ he talks about his work and methods, and the huge challenges of investigating the Nigerian state.

#CIJSummer: Broken Promises: Greenwashing Uncovered

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2023-07-11 | Recent years have seen significant improvement in both recognition and rhetoric from those in power around the need for action to address the looming impacts of the climate crisis. However, in too many cases, positive words have served only to obscure inaction at best and continued harm at worst.

Furthermore, the role of holding those responsible – whether governments, international bodies or corporations – to account has too often been neglected by regulatory authorities, leaving investigative reporters to perform the role of watchdog. This session brings together three such instances where only the hard work of journalists has stopped large-scale corruption and malfeasance from going unchecked.

Case study 1:
Gone with the wind: Lesotho’s $15-billion energy pipedream
by Sechaba Mokhethi (Lesotho)
A $15-billion wind farm project that would have given Lesotho bragging rights to Africa’s largest renewable energy project, slashed electricity prices and created thousands of jobs has vanished from the country’s planned projects, leaving behind unanswered questions and politicians who don’t remember the detail.
the story was produced as part of the the 2022 Oxpeckers #PowerTracker professional support and training programme, supported by the CIJ’s Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI).

Case study 2:
How TotalEnergies oil pollution forced host communities to engage in illegal crude oil mining
By Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi (Nigeria)
A 17-year-old Ike and his elder brother of 24 years old in September 2022 visited their family farmland in Oduoha Nvakohia in Rivers State to harvest cassava, only to dig out crude oil in the course of uprooting their farm produce.

Case study 3:
‘Gone wrong’: Doubts on carbon-credit program in Peru forest
In Peru, Kichwa tribe wants compensation for carbon credits
By Ed Davey (UK for AP)
An analysis by independent experts and reporting by The Associated Press raises doubts about whether the Cordillera Azul Project (Peru) has delivered on its promise to counter-balance emissions by oil companies such as Shell, TotalEnergies and others. And the tree loss has more than doubled, according to satellite analysis.
At the same time as millions of dollars in oil money began flowing into former tribal territory, after the creating of the Cordillera Azul Project, members of the local Kichwa tribe found themselves with no livelihood and no compensation.

Chaired by Akintunde Babatunde, CIJ OCRI Coordinator.

Part of the CIJ Climate OCRI Networking event at #CIJSummer Conference. Supported by Journalimsfund EU.

Case Study 3 was delivered under Chatham House Rules and was therefore not recorded.

#CIJSummer: Olga Rudenko: How to Run a Successful Media Start-up in Times of War

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2023-07-11 | The Kyiv Independent, an English language start-up in Ukraine, was only a few months old when Russia invaded. When – in one of the biggest media scandals of the Zelensky’s presidency – the editorial team of an older English language publication, the Kyiv Post, were fired for defending editorial independence, they came together to form the Kyiv Independent in November 2022. Olga Rudenko was elected by the team to be its new chief editor.

Olga came to #CIJSummer Conference to talk about running a media start-up while Russia was amassing troops on the Ukrainian borders; reporting on the full-scale invasion; conducting investigations, including into their own side, in times of war; and their drive to succeed, “because if we don’t, then the bad guys win.”

#CIJSummer: Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture: Meera Jatav

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2022-07-05 | Meera Jatav, a journalist based in Uttar Pradesh in India came to London and the CIJ to deliver the annual Gavin MacFadyen memorial lecture. The co-founder of the award-winning, grassroots feminist media organisation Khabar Lahariya, Jatav has won a reputation for her courageous investigations into gender-based violence and caste in India.

Translating from Hindi will be Meera’s colleague Priyanka Kotamraju, from the University of Cambridge.

This is the Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture 2022.

#CIJSummer: Wood for the Trees: Data-Driven Environmental Journalism

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2022-07-05 | This session, led by an expert in leveraging the techniques of data journalism to produce deforestation and climate change investigations, takes attendees through the practice and pitfalls of covering the environment. Using case studies and real life examples, the session is full of tips, tricks and advice for finding, cleaning and interpreting data on environmental and forest governance issues.

This session is part of our Open Climate Reporting Initiative

#CIJSummer: Lifting the Veil on Financial Secrecy and Tax Havens

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2022-07-05 | This session delves into the Tax Justice Network‘s work and tools that set out to tackle financial secrecy, tax abuse and illicit financial flows. It focuses on how to use the Financial Secrecy Index, with the most recent edition released in May 2022. It also covers how to use the Corporate Tax Haven Index, the Illicit Financial Flows Tracker, and the State of Tax Justice for reporting on the enablers of money laundering, corruption and corporate tax abuse.

#CIJSummer: Chris Mullin - Protect Sources!

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2022-07-05 | Chris Mullin, journalist and former MP has won his fight against being forced to hand over material that would identify confidential sources relating to his investigations into the Birmingham Six. He is joined by the veteran crime journalist Duncan Campbell and Gill Phillips, Director of Editorial Legal Services at the Guardian to discuss the case and the importance of source protection.

This Talk is part of the CIJLogan Source Protection Programme

#CIJSummer: Investigating the British Army: The Murder of Agnes Wanjiru

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2022-07-05 | In 2012 a Kenyan called Agnes Wanjiru was murdered by a serving British soldier and her body hidden in a septic tank, a crime which was subsequently covered up. Winner of the 2022 Paul Foot award with her Sunday Times colleague David Collins, Hannah Al-Othman talks about how they worked with sources to bring the story to light, and their dealings with the police and the Ministry of Defence as they worked to investigative and publish it.

#CIJSummer: Talking Sources: How to Find Them and Get Them to Talk

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2022-07-05 | Jane Bradley, an award-winning investigative journalist at The New York Times, has tracked down some of the world’s most wanted terrorists, Russian dissidents and spies, human traffickers, shadowy business figures and whistleblowers and convinced them to talk. This session gives practical advice on how to find sources and get them to talk.

#CIJSummer: The London Laundromat: The Influence of Oligarchy and the Role of the UK

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2022-07-05 | Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland, Butler to the World and Coda Story’s Oligarchy Newsletter, speaks to The New York Times‘ Jane Bradley about Russian oligarch money and its relationship to the war in Ukraine, the role of London and other international financial centres in enabling oligarchs, money-launderers and criminals from all over the world to hide their money – and what can be done about it.

#CIJSummer: Ukrainian Investigative Journalism In Times of War

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2022-07-05 | Before the start of the war, Ukraine had a thriving investigative journalism scene, both on the national and local level.

How did the war change it?

What do Ukrainian journalists investigate now, especially when many were forced out of the country by the war?

#CIJSummer Workshops: Financial Journalism - How to Get the Most of Companies House

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2021-08-02 | Companies House website contains a wealth of useful information – for those who know how to use the site. The aim of this class is to show how to get the most information from the official website, as well as highlighting what information can’t be found there. The class is an absolute must for anybody who does not feel confident in using this vital tool for investigators.

#CIJSummer Workshops: Trase.earth - Deforestation and Supply-Chain Investigations

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2021-08-02 | In this workshop, you’ll learn about the importance of covering forest-risk commodity trading, the impacts of the production of key commodities, such as soy, beef and palm oil, on deforestation of tropical forest regions, in particular of the Amazon and Cerrado, and how to use the Trase platform to conduct your own investigations into environmental and other impacts of corporate supply chains.

The session included a live demo of the platform, as well as covering how to use Trase and the data behind it for journalistic research. Global Canopy’s Andre Vasconcelos will be joined by The Economist’s Brazil Correspondent, Sarah Esther Maslin, to discuss the ways she used Trase in her research for a 2020 investigation into the soya and beef firms responsible for Amazonian deforestation and their supply chains.

#CIJSummer: Investigating Africa

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2021-07-08 | What’s it like trying to do in-depth reportage on a government deeply intolerant of criticism?

British author Michela Wrong, who has published a controversial new book on Rwanda, and Tanzanian journalist Erick Kabendera, jailed under the presidency of John Magufuli, discuss the challenges of working in sub-Saharan Africa with fellow writer Rosalind Russell.

#CIJSummer: Reporting Poverty: Narratives Around Need

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2021-07-07 | Poverty and inequality sit at the heart of a huge range of issues in both the US and UK and yet so much of journalism features at best a superficial view, at worst exploitation and condemnation of people experiencing poverty.

As these toxic narratives have become widespread, the problem of poverty has itself been increasing, through years of austerity and the thinning of social support. This has been taken to new extremes by the shocks of the global financial crisis and now the Covid-19 pandemic – the economic impact of which we have barely begun to witness.

This talk brings together two of the foremost chroniclers of inequality in both countries to discuss these issues, look ahead to future prospects and problems, and give advice on telling stories with authenticity and empathy.

Mary O’Hara is an award-winning journalist, author and producer. Her journalism appears in publications including the Guardian and Mosaic Science. She is the author of two books: The Shame Game: Overturning the toxic poverty narrative (2020) & Austerity Bites: A journey to the sharp end of cuts in the UK (2014) and is founder of the multi-platform anti-poverty initiative, Project Twist-It. She is a contributor to the book, The Violence of Austerity (Pluto Press 2017) and others including Council Skies by the artist, Pete McKee and Vulnerable Consumers and the Law, Routledge (2021).

Dale Maharidge is the author of non-fiction Pulitzer Prize-winning And Their Children After Them, and eleven other books. Among them is Journey to Nowhere/The Saga of the New Underclass, which inspired Bruce Springsteen to write the song “Youngstown.” His most recent book is Fucked At Birth/ Recalibrating the American Dream. He has written for the Nation, Smithsonian, Harper’s, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, and others. He was a 1988 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and is a professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

#CIJSummer: Reporting Russia: Independent Journalism Under Putin

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2021-07-07 | Doing investigative journalism in Russia has never been an easy task, but now it is harder than ever. Following the arrest of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the crackdown on media critical of the Kremlin and of President Putin himself has started in earnest.

Leading Russian investigative journalists and editors join us to discuss the current dangers and future prospects of investigative reporting in Russia.

Roman Badanin is the founder and editor-in-chief of Proekt, a non-profit investigative media organisation based in Russia. One of Proekt’s most famous investigations was into the private life of Vladimin Putin, a taboo subject for the Russian media. It showed how a former cleaner and reportedly the mother of the Russian President’s illegitimate child became the owner of a luxury ski resort and a stakeholder in the Kremlin-friendly Bank Rossiya.

Roman Dobrokhotov is founder and editor-in-chief of The Insider, an independent online magazine focusing on investigations and debunking misinformation in Russia. His most famous works includes an investigation into the Salisbury Poisoning Suspects and most recently his key role in unmasking the people behind the poisoning of Alexei Navalny.

Roman Shleynov – a legendary Russia investigative journalist, who worked for Novaya Gazeta, one of the very few opposition publications in the country. He now writes for iStories (Important Stories), an online publication with a specific investigative focus. iStories’s offices have been recently raided by the Russian authorities and its editor Roman Anin taken in for questioning.

Moderated by Jane Lytvynenko – Senior Reporter, online investigations at BuzzFeed.

#CIJSummer Keynotes: Associated Press’s Global Investigations Editor Ron Nixon

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2021-07-06 | An award winning investigative journalist, editor and data journalist, Ron Nixon talks about his investigative career, moving from press to news agency, and about a year on the job conducting global investigations.

Ron was in conversation with Sheila Coronel, director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and Stabile professor of professional practice at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

#CIJSummer: Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture: Wa Lone

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2021-07-06 | In 2017, Wa Lone, a journalist in Myanmar for Reuters, was arrested with his colleague Kyaw Soe Oo while reporting on military abuses of the Rohingya people in Rakhine State. Their ordeal included eighteen months in prison; for their investigation, they were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2019. At the CIJ, Wa Lone discusses their investigation, his time in prison, what it’s like to be a journalist in Myanmar, and how he finds time to write children’s stories as well as investigative journalism.

Wa Lone will deliver this year’s Gavin MacFadyen’s Memorial Lecture. He will be in conversation with our director James Harkin.

Gavin MacFadyen was CIJ’s founding director. An investigative journalist of courage and integrity, he died in October 2016.
Past Gavin MacFadyen lectures have been delivered by Anabel Hernández, Rana Ayyub, Maria Ressa and Can Dündar.

#CIJSummer: Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture: Wa Lone

#CIJSummer: No Country Left Behind? The Indian Covid-19 catastrophe

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2021-07-05 | With the desperate Covid-19 situation in India continuing to dominate the headlines, our panel examines what went wrong.

Supriya Sharma, Executive Editor at scroll.in will talk about covering the Covid-19 crisis on the ground and the work journalists have to do to to show what the situation is like in hospitals and in the community.

Shadab Nazmi, Visual and Data journalist at BBC South Asia will share what the numbers tell us. Data journalism has been key in understanding the pandemic.

Natasha Loder, Health and Policy Editor at the Economist will focus on the global vaccination programme, vaccine nationalism and what it means for India and the rest of the world.

Moderated by Lou Del Bello.

#CIJSummer 2021 Welcome

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2021-07-05 | CIJ Director James Harkin welcomes delegates to #CIJ Summer Investigative Journalism Conference 2021 - tcij.org/summer-conference/cijsummer-summer-conference-2021

Reuters Special Correspondent Stephen Grey also launches the 2021 CIJ Masterclasses Programme - tcij.org/initiative-event/applications-open-for-ciijmasterclasses-2021

#CIJSummer Workshops: OpenCorporates API for Beginners

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2021-07-02 | Need to search for companies and their directors at scale to support your investigations? Simply use the OpenCorporates API.

This free beginners' tutorial is designed to equip you with the basics you need to access company data across 140 jurisdictions as structured data. You don’t need technical skills – all you need is an internet browser or Excel.

#CIJSummer 2017. Anabel Hernandez. Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2021-06-27 | ...

CIJs Lyra McKee Journalism Training Bursary

The Centre for Investigative Journalism 2021-05-13 | Welcome speech by Lyra McKee's sister Nichola Corner to the winners of the Lyra McKee Journalism Training Bursary Scheme of 2021.