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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.
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.
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.
“The skill of digging into complex wrongdoing is required for both my day job and my evening job,” said Jim Mintz, founder of the Mintz Group, of his days as a private investigator and his nights teaching investigative reporting at Columbia University.
Pirate Fishing, an interactive investigation by Al Jazeera, exposed the world of illegal fishing in Western Africa to an internet audience using elements of an online computer game.
GIJC17 Votes
Johannesburg 31
Amman 13
Vancouver 13
Board Member Votes: At Large
Paul Radu 34
Jan Gunnar Furuly 31
Marina Walker Guevara 29
Brant Houston 29
Mzilikazi wa Africa 23
David Schraven 14
Eva Jung 16
Attila Mong 9
Cecil Rosner 9
Board Members Seats: Regional
Latin America: Fernando Rodrigues (unopposed)
Middle East/North Africa: Rana Sabbagh (unopposed)
North America:
Marina Walker Guevara 7
Brant Houston 3
Cecil Rosner 3
Note: Under GIJN’s election rules, a seat on the board is reserved for the highest vote- getter from each designated region. Therefore, Fernando Rodrigues was re-elected as Latin American representative, Rana Sabbagh as Middle East representative, and Marina Walker Guevara as North America representative. Another four board seats are filled by at-large representatives who receive the highest vote totals. Therefore, the at-large seats went to Paul Radu, Jan Gunnar Furuly,
Brant Houston, and Mzilikazi wa Africa — all current board members. For more on the election results, see our story here.
Global Investigative Journalism Network members have voted to hold the next Global Investigative Journalism Conference for the first time in Africa. GIJN’s member groups also voted to re-elect the current seven board members who were up for election this year.
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.
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
According to the panel: Finding Africa’s missing money, billions of dollars are being smuggled out of the continent every year.