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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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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.
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Covering China: The Invisible Elephant in the Room
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“China is the invisible elephant in the room. Investigative Journalism for China is also important. It can be done. It’s being done. It’s very challenging, ” says Ying Chan, moderator of Covering China: Tips and Practices and founding director of the Hong Kong University’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre.
How to Teach Computer Assisted Reporting
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In the past decade the demand for data journalism courses around the world has spiked. Universities at both graduate and under-graduate levels offer training and specialized courses that equip journalists with the necessary technical skills they need to find, sift through and interpret databases. The outcome are new stories, innovative visualizations and a bridge between the world of data and that of story telling.
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Investigative Journalists Under Attack: Fighting Back
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44 journalists were killed this year. One journalist each week. “Today we will show you that journalism is not a crime”, says Margo Smit, the moderator of the Keynote Panel: Investigative Journalism Under Attack. In this panel, four courageous investigative reporters talked about their experiences with prosecutions, dirty tricks, and violent attacks.
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Grants for Environmental Investigative Journalism
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GRID-Arendal, the Center Collaborating with UNEP, and SKUP (Stiftelsen for en Kritisk og Undersøkende Presse) are offering 2 grants of NOK 25,000 for environmental investigative journalists working globally on the issues of organized environmental crime for the year of 2016.
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GIJC15 Declaration on Journalist Safety
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The plenary session of the 9th Global Investigative Journalism Conference, opening today in Lillehammer, Norway, focused on how journalists are fighting back against the extraordinary level of attacks against them worldwide. After hearing case studies about their colleagues in Angola, Azerbaijan, Malaysia, and Mexico, journalists from 121 countries approved the following declaration.
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Telling the Human Stories From Both Sides of the Drones
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After a year of calling the Pentagon and the U.S. Air Force and getting nothing, all that changed when former drone pilot Brandon Bryent agreed to share his story to Tonje Hessen Schei and her documentary team. Her film Drones was shown Wednesday night at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference.
Started packing for Lillehammer?
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We’re just a few days away from the 9th Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Lillehammer, Norway. You’ve probably started packing already. The weather forecast tells us we can expect a typical Norwegian autumn. Daytime temperatures will be around 6 to 8 degrees Celsius (44F), with some light wind. The forecasts don’t mention rain, but we suggest you bring a raincoat to be sure.
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A Guide to the Global Conference
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Welcome to the Global Investigative Journalism Conference! Our co-host SKUP, Norway’s Foundation for Investigative Journalism, put together this magazine packed with information on this unique event. Inside you’ll find a guide to GIJC15’s more than 170 sessions, plus tips on logistics, networking, and special events. There’s plenty of great reading material, too. The cover story features imprisoned journalist Khadija Ismayilova, and shows how her arrest sparked an investigative project exposing the ruling family’s hold on economic and political power in Azerbaijan.