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Finding Africa’s Missing Money

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According to the panel: Finding Africa’s missing money, billions of dollars are being smuggled out of the continent every year.

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How To Investigate Disasters

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“The first casualty of war is the truth, but can we say the same about natural disasters?” asked Yohan Shanmugaratnam. The international news editor of Norwegian daily Klassekampen, Shanmugaratnam was introducing the How To Investigate Disasters panel on the third day of 9th Global Investigative Journalism Conference.

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Reporting from the Middle East

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Being a journalist in countries with repressive regimes and limited press freedom can be a daunting task. Countries in the Middle East have been described as some of the most dangerous in the world for journalists to report from. Rana Sabbagh, executive director at Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), shared useful tips for reporting in the region:

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Ten Tips for a Great Documentary

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When documentary filmmaker Hanna Polak arrived in Russia in 1999, she was immediately inspired to help the children. For 14 years, Polak filmed Yula, a young girl living inside the largest junkyard in Europe, 13 miles from Putin’s Moscow. In Polak’s latest documentary, “Something Better to Come,” Yula shares one dream: to escape and lead a normal life.

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Whistleblowers & Journalists: A Complex Relationship

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Journalists and whistleblowers have a tight-knit yet complex relationship. Although both need each other, their exchanges are often tense. In Working With Whistleblowers, an October 9 panel October at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference , both whistleblowers and journalists explained the challenges they face when working together.

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Hands-On Data: Basics of Analysis, Statistics, Visualization

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The second day of 9th Global Investigative Journalism Conference offered data-driven journalist the opportunity to sharpen their skills through sessions focused on training them to identify useful data, extract it, clean it, analyze it, visualize it and finally, tell a story.

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How to Fundraise Your Investigation

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For journalists trying to raise money for investigative reporting projects, three experts offered advice on how to develop relationships with donors, including tracking impact and planning ahead.

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Covering the Migration Crisis: Interview with a Syrian filmmaker

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Award-winning filmmaker Firas Fayyad was twice held by Syrian President Bashar Assad’s fearful intelligence regime for exposing human rights abuses and covering the start of the 2011 “peaceful protests” that turned into civil war. He spoke at the session The Migrants’ Files about his newest documentary, which follows kids under 17 that have flown from the war in Syria towards Europe. “I think these kids will lost their future even if they stay in any of the European countries, because the European NGOs don’t know really what’s going on with these kids, Fayyad,” says. https://youtu.be/uFNdebdsuKE

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Stories from Balkans, Latin America, Ukraine Win Shining Light Award

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Winners of the sixth Global Shining Light Award were announced at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference tonight in Lillehammer, Norway. The prize honors investigative journalism conducted in a developing or transitioning country, done under threat, duress, or in the direst of conditions. The award drew 76 submissions received from 34 countries, for stories published or broadcast between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2014. First place was awarded to two series: “Unholy Alliances,” on Montenegro as a Mafia state, by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project; and “Empire of Ashes,” by Brazil’s Gazeta do Povo, on tobacco smuggling and organized crime in South America. In addition, the judges in their discretion decided to honor a third series with a citation of excellence:  YanukovychLeaks, for the team investigation that exposed the corruption of Ukraine’s fleeing ex-president.