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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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Challenges Faced When Reporting on Development Issues
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In a discussion about the challenges journalists face when reporting on development stories, three reporters showcased their multimedia projects as an innovative way to translate complicated and overlooked issues, into compelling stories.
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Visualizing Investigative Journalism
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Investigative journalists in the “Lighting rounds: Visualization” had five minutes each to present their projects which use different visualization techniques. Below, a recap of some of the highlights.
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Tips For Protecting Your Health While Covering Human Tragedy
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While reporting on war can be traumatic for a journalist, covering topics such as human trafficking, sexual violence and migration can be equally harmful.
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Tips on Journalism Security
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Reporta, a new app, has been launched to help protect journalists and whistleblowers. Every week a journalist worldwide loses his or her life for bringing news and information to the people.
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Facebook Graph: A Swiss Army Knife for Journalists
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The new searching tool Facebook Graph -meant to find details about your friends- makes it now possible to dig deep into details about people you’ve never met. At his two conference sessions, Internet search expert Henk van Ess refers to it as a brilliant tool for journalists. How does this work? Henk will guide us.
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Evicted & Abandoned: Behind ICIJ’s World Bank Data Investigation
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Development projects launched by the World Bank have displaced thousands of people physically or economically from their home. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalist’s project, Evicted & Abandoned, proved this. They found 969 projects with resettlement issues in over 100 countries, dismantling 3.4 million people physically or economically, based on reconstructed World Bank open data. The ICIJ adopted a “peeling the onion” strategy to conduct the investigation. According to ICIJ’s reporter Sasha Chavkin, they approached the civil rights groups first, then the Bank’s consultants, former employees and finally two current employees; most of the World Bank’s staff feared they would lose their jobs if they told the truth after many had already been laid off.
Finding Creative Ways To Fund Investigations
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Money is not a bad thing. Doing great journalism is not enough. Two assumptions that boost the discussion on finding new ways to support investigative researches.
“You Are Not Alone” — SKUP, GIJN Open Global Conference
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In front of a crowd of over 900 journalists and tech-savvy investigators, footage from some of the year’s most compelling and heart-wrenching stories gave way to start of the 9th Global Investigative Journalism Conference, held in the small Norwegian town of Lillehammer.