CIJ Summer School

The Centre for Investigative Journalism's Summer School in London Runs July 17-19, 2009 The CIJ Summer School 2009, http://tcij.org/, is for anyone who needs to upgrade their investigative skills, in finance, business, politics, protecting sources and using the Freedom of Information Act. The School will also bring together the world’s leading trainers for one of the most valuable cutting edge investigative research techniques: Computer Assisted Reporting (CAR) For more information click here. Come to the European Investigative Journalism Conference, November 21 and 22, 2008 in Brussels, Belgium. The conference, organized by the Dutch-Flemish Association of Investigative Journalists VVOJ, hosts a range of international speakers, and covers every angle of the investigative journalism trade. You'll hear from writers like Nick Davies (UK), Loretta Napoleoni (Italy), Geert Mak (Netherlands), and Derk-Jan Eppink (Belgium); researchers such as Mark Schapiro (USA), Peter Aldhous (USA), Brigitte Alfter (Denmark), and Mark Hunter (France); internet gurus Mike Schrenk (USA), Paul Myers (UK) and Henk van Ess (Netherlands); and investigator and stand-up comedian Mark Thomas (UK). See www.vvoj.eu for the latest program schedule. The program features a number of tracks, designed so you won't have to miss any of the workshops important to your specific beat. Tracks such as 'Project Europe', 'Data on a platter', 'Inside the Internet' and a special track for managers and editors in chief cater to your specific needs on a certain subject. Go to http://www.vvoj.nl/cms/brussels2008/tracks for all the information you need to draw up your own path through the many sessions in the program. Participants travel from all over Europe, so the conference will also provide you with new international contacts for possible future cross-border investigations. The program contains a few inspiring examples of such cooperation initiated at earlier conferences. Registration fee for two days of workshops, trainings and plenary sessions is €195, including coffee, lunches, a welcome reception at Brussels Stadhuis, and a celebration dinner at one of the finest Brussels restaurants. Register here, http://www.vvoj.nl/cms/brussels2008/register/registration for two days that will inspire you till the next European Investigative Journalism Conference comes along. Global Investigative Journalism Conference in 2008 The fifth Global Investigative Journalism Conference will take place Sept. 11 through Sept. 14 in Lillehammer, Norway and will be packed with 80 inspiring and learning seminars and panels, where the conference will focus on investigative journalism methods and networking between jounalists from around the world. Please see details at http://www.gijc2008.no/. Grants for investigative reporters and journalists from Russia (and the former U.S.S.R), Eastern Europe, The Balkans, Caucasus, Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America are now welcome to apply for grants that will cover their travel and stay at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference 2008. The conference especially invites journalists who are willing to show and share their experiences and work, through presentations at the conference. If you are able to demonstrate how you worked with your life's best investigative story, you might pick up free tickets and stay at the conference in the Olympic city of Lillehammer, Norway. Our goal is to gather some of the world's best examples of investigative journalism in recent years. Between 400 and 500 investigative reporters are expected to participate at the conference. The main focus during seminars will be journalistic work methods, how journalists are using their skills, patience, eagerness to dig up dirt and neat techniques to get in touch with sources, better research material and in the end, good stories that makes a difference. Netzwerk Recherche Conference - June 13th and June 14th, 2008, in Hamburg Meet some of the best journalists in Germany for a two-day conference in Hamburg organised by German organisation Netzwerk Recherche -- Network Research www.netzwerkrecherche.de on June 13th and 14th. This year the conference is co-organised with http://www.reporter-forum.de/, an organisation funded by the foundation of former Spiegel editor, Rudolf Augstein. The idea is to combine share experiences and thoughts about how to do good research and how to present it. The conference will mainly be held in German language. Global conference set for Toronto in 2007 The fourth Global Investigative Journalism Conference will be held in Toronto, May 24 to 27, 2007. Hundreds of investigative reporters from all over the world will gather to discuss the stories behind their stories. Journalists from Canada and more than 30 countries will work with award winning investigative documentary makers like Lowell Bergman, Neil Docherty, Julian Sher, Martin Smith, and Peter Klein as well as investigative writers such as Carol Off, Stephen Grey, Kim Bolen and Terry Gould, who have investigated topics as diverse as the true human costs of the War on Terror, the current state of the Taliban, child labour in the chocolate industry, CIA involvement in US renditions, the Air India bombing and why journalists risk their lives to do this kind of work. Brazilian Journalists for National Congress in May 2007 The Brazilian Association for Investigative Journalism (Abraji) will hold its Second International Congress from May 17-19, 2007, in São Paulo. The event will cover a broad range of topics, including principles of investigative reporting, access to public information, reporter safety, and workshops in Computer Assisted Reporting (CAR). More information is available at Abraji's web site.