Conferences

2018 Regional Conference on Investigative Journalism

Under the Investigative Reporting Initiative in the Americas (IRIA) project, ICFJ, in partnership with Connectas, invites bilingual Caribbean journalists to apply to attend a regional conference program on investigative reporting and digital security practices. Since 2013, IRIA has encouraged and strengthened independent and quality journalism in Latin America by offering support to investigative journalists.

Deadline to apply: October 28

Annual Forum for Investigative Journalism

ARIJ Annual Forum is one of the largest and most influential gatherings for investigative journalists and editors in the Middle East and North Africa region.

More than 450 media professionals and investigative reporters will meet in Jordan 30 November- 2nd December, 2018, to recharge their skills, learn new tools, get acquainted with latest trends in investigative reporting, and network with TV broadcasters, technology companies, leading media companies and universities from around the globe.

Special guests will include award winning pioneers in the fields of investigative and data journalism, storytelling and technology. This year’s forum topic will examine the role technology plays in investigative reporting: “The future of Investigative Reporting: Trends, Tools and Technologies”.

Data Press Conference

The “Towards In-depth Data Journalism” conference, organized by the Arab Data Journalists’ Network, was launched in partnership with the Danish Egyptian Dialogue Institute”. The conference will organize around 30 sessions with almost 300 participants and 50 lecturers from different nationalities. The sessions will discuss the concept of in-depth journalism; data collection, cleaning, extraction and verification; how to use Google spreadsheets and present press topics in an interactive way. Other subjects are to be discussed such as the principles of statistics, mathematics, coding and other related topics.

GIJN Conferences

The Global Investigative Journalism Conference is the world’s largest international gathering of investigative reporters. The conferences are held every two years. Since the first gathering in Copenhagen in 2001, they have brought together more than 6,000 journalists from 130 countries. The next global conference, GIJC19, will be held in Hamburg, Germany in late September 2019. GIJN also co-hosts an Asian regional conference, Uncovering Asia, which was held in Manila, Philippines (2014) and Kathmandu, Nepal (2016) and Seoul, South Korea (2018). For the most up-to-date information, see this page.

International Congress of Investigative Journalism

Abraji organizes yearly the International Investigative Journalism Conference, an event that gathers around 900 people with several lectures and practical courses in São Paulo at the end of June.

Workshop on Investigative Journalism

As part of the “In depth Journalism” training being held this year at the Danish Egyptian Dialogue Institute DEDI, the media club organized two workshops on investigative journalism from the 11th to the 15th of April and from the 18th to the 22nd of April. The workshop included four daily sessions dealing with several aspects such as: different types of deep journalism, differences between traditional and investigative journalism, how to find ideas for investigative reporting, building hypothesis in investigative reporting, investigative journalism ethics, the legalities of using hidden cameras, the process of the planning and implementation of an investigative report and risk measurement.

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