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The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) “Unholy Alliances”, winner of the Global Shining Light Award at the GIJC, unveiled the link between Montenegro’s government and organized crime. “Montenegro is a Mafia state, it is facilitating and helping the organized crime,” said OCCRP’s Miranda Patrucic.
Trainers Mark Lee Hunter and Luuk Sengers offered ways to begin and carry out investigative reporting during two sessions at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference. Their first session was Using Hypotheses: The Core of the Investigative Method and the second was Mastering Timelines: The Road to a Successful Project.
Photos. Friends. Likes. Facebook contains countless amount of information. BBC’s internet investigations specialist Paul Mayers disclose the secret, simple strategies to dig into the world’s most popular social network.
En la sesión plenaria de la novena Conferencia Global de Periodismo de Investigación, que se realizó del 8 al 11 de octubre en Lillehammer, Noruega, se debatió cómo los periodistas están combatiendo los ataques en su contra en todo el mundo. Después de escuchar casos de estudios de colegas en Angola, Azerbaiyán, Malasia y México, periodistas de 121 países aprobaron la siguiente declaración.
Are muckrackers born or made? The question was asked by Sheila S. Coronel, academic dean at Colombia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, in the session Investigative Journalism with Students.
Leslee Udwin, an Israeli-born British filmmaker, was raped when she was 18 years old. Appearing recently at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Lillehammer, Norway, the 56-year-old director and actor recalled how making the 2015 documentary “India’s Daughter” – the story of the 2012 gang rape of a 23-year-old women in Delhi, India – stirred emotions she thought she had processed long ago.
In order to publish or broadcast a piece of journalism that successfully empowers citizens to hold those in power accountable, the work must be, above all, one thing: credible.
Participants in sessions on using data to cover organized crime were exposed to a revealing set of databases on shipping at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Lillehammer last weekend.
As someone who has spent many years discovering, describing, and sharing GIS data and maps, my skills to actually create maps were in need of some help. So, on Saturday afternoon at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference, I attended a two-session, hands-on workshop, “Mapping With Arc.” The session was described in the conference program as an introduction to “analyzing data for stories by using mapping software.”
Tom Heinemann is a Danish independent investigative journalist and filmmaker who focuses on global issues. He has 19 years of experience as a journalist. In his session at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference, Investigating on Foreign Ground, he offered tips on how to do in-depth reporting on foreign soil.
Know how your organization will distinguish itself from the rest, have a business plan that you are passionate about, find what will bring value to your readers, and be courageous. These are some pieces of advice given by Kim Yong Jin of the Korea Center for Investigative Journalism, Christian Humborg, executive director of CORRECT!V and Teun Gautier, owner of Gautier CIMC, in the GIJC15 panel New Models and Startups.
