Konferansemagasin GIJC 2015

Global Investigative Journalism Conference

gijc2015.org

Lillehammer, 8th–11th. october 2015

Global network

Ilegally there

Piles of data

Reporting Ebola

14 years, 9 conferences, the global network has been expanding p 6–10

Documenting life on a Russian garbage dump, for 14 years p 18–23

James B. Steele on how punchcards changed the way of investigative reporting p 28–32

Fighting through reporting an unknown and deadly enemy p 36–40

Free Khadija Journalist Khadija Ismayilova has been imprisoned for reporting on Azerbaijan’s First Family p 12–16

EDITORIAL

WELCOME TO GIJC 2015

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Welcome to Lillehammer 2.0 WE AT THE Norwegian Foundation for In-

vestigative Journalism (SKUP) are proud to welcome you to the ninth Global Investigative Journalism Conference.

When SKUP presented the bid of hosting the most important gathering of the world’s investigative journalists two years ago in Rio, our promise was that GIJC15 would be a true global conference with participants from more than 100 countries.

This week close to 900 journalists from a record breaking 121 countries are present here in Lillehammer, Norway. GIJC15 is by far the most global conference in the history of the Global Investigative Journalism Network.

Our program is filled with 160+ workshops, seminars and panels – and we even have our own Investigative Film Festival with evening screenings. Journalists from all corners of the world meet up and will generously share and exchange their knowledge and experiences for the benefit of improving quality of global investigative reporting.

The Lillehammer event is also an important venue ground for journalists who want to find partners for future projects. The last weeks we have sent out a survey and asked most of the GIJC15 participants what kind of topics they want to network on during the conference days. Be sure to join or book your own networking event in one of our free networking rooms.

GIJC15 is a product of a massive joint effort between local SKUP devotees here in Norway, the GIJN staff in Washington and Budapest and input from a huge number of GIJN’s member organizations worldwide.

We also want to thank our generous sponsors of helping us. Hosting such a global conference could simply not have been done without you.

Thanks to these funds SKUP, GIJN and other parts of our wide network have been able to bring in more than 200 people who would not have been able to attend otherwise.

We are living in a time when the business model of traditional media organizations seems to be in crisis almost everywhere.

Thankfully this is met by new start-ups with a lot of creativeness. The need of networks like GIJN and the existence of conferences like GIJC15 is crucial and has never been as important as now.

Investigative journalism is expensive, difficult and often dangerous, but it is needed as a game changer to put focus on wrongdoing, corruption and other sorts of power abuse.

Together we can make a great impact and change!

Jan Gunnar Furuly Chairman, SKUP

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CONTENTS

Publisher Stiftelsen for en Kritisk og Undersøkende Presse (SKUP)

Editor in-chief: Maren Sæbø Design and layout: Alexander Prestmo Contributors David Kaplan, Jan Gunnar Furuly, John Bones, Brant Houston, James B. Steele, Christine Engh, Drew Sullivan, Annemor Larsen, Ashoka Mukpo SKUP GIJC15 organizing committee Jan Gunnar Furuly, SKUP chairman Jens Egil Heftøy, SKUP director John Bones, SKUP vice-chairman/data journalism programmer Committee members Maren Sæbø, Tarjei Leer-Salvesen, Yohan Shanmugaratnam, Christine Engh, Ola Haram and Trond Idås Production and technical support Erlend Våge Alexander Ziegler and his team Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) staff: David Kaplan, GIJN executive director Gabriela Manuli, GIJN deputy director GIJN conference committee Paul Radu, OCCRP/RISE PROJECT Rana Sabbagh, ARIJ Marina Walker Guevara, ICIJ Mzilikazi wa Afrika, Sunday Times Oleg Khomenok, Internews Network Jan Gunnar Furuly, SKUP/Aftenposten Anton Harber, University of the Witwatersrand

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Global Conference, global network – the history of the GIJN

Reporting in the time of Ebola

Khadija Ismayilova – a hero of journalism

Finalists for the Global Shining Light Award

“I was always illegally there” – director Hanna Polak on filming on a Russian garbage dump

MAP: Lillehammer

Fifty years of journalism and data – a brief history

Speakers at the GIJC2015

How piles of records revealed patterns of judgment – in 1972

MAP: Lillehammer Radisson Blu Hotel

Into the future with CAR

Program in full

Open Society Foundations (OSF) Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Fritt Ord Google Ford Foundation Logan Foundation Norsk Journalistlag Adessium Foundation UNESCO Schibsted Media Group International Women’s Media Foundation ABRAJI — Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma Organized Crime and Corruption Project (OCCRP) International Center for Journalists Investigative Reporters and Editors International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Newstapa Free Press Unlimited Scoop International Media Support The Norwegian Helsinki Committee Aftenposten Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Regional Press Development Institute (RPDIPPM) International Renaissance Foundation International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) Grid-Arendal

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Global Conference, Global Network

Enjoying a glass of wine at his modest home in Aarhus, Denmark, Nils Mulvad and guest Brant Houston were celebrating the latest gathering of reporters they had brought together. It was the spring of 2000, and they had just hosted nearly a hundred journalists to talk about investigative techniques BY  David E. Kaplan

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he focus of the gathering that spring had been on the sparking extraordinary collaborations, and helping start dozens of fast-growing field of computer-assisted reporting (CAR). investigative journalism organizations.

Houston had pioneered CAR back home in Missouri, where “I never imagined it would develop into what it is today,” Mulvad he ran Investigative Reporters and Editors, the big U.S.-based says. “This ended up being the most important thing I’ve contributassociation of investigative journalists. IRE’s National Institute ed to in my career. We didn’t know it at the time. It’s just what of Computer-Assisted Reporting – NICAR – was attracting happened.” international interest. Indeed, after Mulvad attended Two years after that first conference, the team held an IRE “boot camp” in 1996, he was bitten by the a second global gathering, again in Copenhagen. The CAR bug. Returning home, he founded DICAR – the 9/11 attacks and a global security crackdown put a Danish International Center for Analytical Reportdamper on participation, making travel difficult, ing – and was busy introducing data journalism but still some 300 came, and the excitement reto colleagues across Europe. His annual events mained. Houston and Mulvad were convinced that were now attracting journalists from a half-dozwhat they were seeing – the skills sharing, the en countries, and he and Houston were thinking hunger for training, the collaborative spirit – was about the future. no accident. “Everybody wanted to stay in touch “Why don’t we invite the world next time?” Houbetween conferences,” Houston says, “and we wantston asked. ed to make sure we had an ongoing network.” They The ground was fertile for such an undertaking. Prodrafted a statement of principles and convened a meeting Nils Mulvad pelled by globalization, investigative reporting was spreading at the conference to launch an informal association. worldwide, boosted by the Internet, mobile phones, and The organizing statement was simple and straightforthe end of the Cold War. There was, as yet, no real hub, ward: They would form a network “of independent no central gathering point, for the growing globjournalism organizations that support the training al community of muckrakers. But Houston and and sharing of information among journalists in Mulvad had no idea if journalists – notorious for investigative and computer-assisted reporting.” being competitive and lone wolves – would even The goals of the new group: to organize conferrespond to such a call. ences and workshops; help form and sustain Backed by DICAR, IRE, and the Danish Assoinvestigative and data journalism organizations; ciation of Investigative Journalists, Mulvad in 2001 support and promote best practices; help ensure booked Copenhagen’s most famous hotel for an access to public documents and data; and provide April weekend and hoped for the best. “We figured resources and networking services for investigative some people would come, but we really didn’t know,” journalists worldwide.

Brant Houston Houston recalls. “It turned out to be the right event at the Membership was limited to nonprofit organizations or right time.” their equivalent around the world. The reason: While commercial media certainly have played an important role in investigative reportA religious revival ing, it is the nonprofits that have done much of the training, teaching, In all, more than 300 journalists from 40 countries descended upon mentoring, and skills-sharing that have spread it around the world.

Copenhagen that weekend, looking for tips, tools, and kindred souls.

The atmosphere at times resembled a religious revival, as hard-boiled Going global muckrakers discovered that they were not alone in the world. “InvesIn all, 35 organizations from 22 countries signed the founding docutigative journalists are so much alike, no matter where they’re from ment. More than two-thirds were from Europe, but the list included and where they work,” says Houston. “There was immediate undergroups pioneering investigative journalism around the world: associstanding and immediate bonding. For many, there was a surprise that ations in Brazil, Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, South Africa, first day how openly people shared their knowledge. By the second and the United States, and reporting centers in Ghana, the Philippines, day, it was an accepted practice.”

Nepal, and Romania. There were a handful of schools and trainThose humble beginnings were the start of the Global Investigaing institutes, a media development NGO, and a then-little-known tive Journalism Conference, now being held for its ninth time here in cross-border consortium called ICIJ. IRE contributed a listserv (which Lillehammer, Norway. Over the years, the conferences have brought remains a vital link in our community) but there was no funding and together and trained more than 5,000 journalists from 100 countries. no central organization.

In the process, they have played a key role in the rapid spread of inThey called themselves the Global Investigative Journalism Netvestigative and data journalism around the world, raising skill levels, work, or GIJN.

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GIJN functioned as a loose-knit support system to the global conferences, which, starting with Amsterdam in 2005, would be held every 18 to 24 months. Sponsored by VVOJ, the Dutch-Flemish Association of Investigative Journalists, the Amsterdam event again attracted hundreds of journalists from around the world. That was followed by successful conferences in Toronto in 2007, organized by the Canadian Association of Journalists; in Lillehammer in 2008, by SKUP, Norway’s investigative journalism association; and in Geneva in 2010, by the Swiss Investigative Reporters Network.

By the sixth conference in Geneva, it was clear the events had grown in size and sophistication. More than 500 journalists from 80 countries now flocked to the big gatherings, many for their third or fourth time. The incipient global community that Houston and Mulvad had foreseen now stretched literally around the world. As commercial media suffered under the double blows of lost advertising and recession, the nonprofits that formed GIJN’s backbone became a model emulated around the world. In 2007, a survey by the Center for

International Media Assistance identified 39 nonprofit investigative journalism centers in 26 countries, and that number would double over the next five years.

Growing demand In 2010, Houston and Mulvad set up an informal board for GIJN, the Volunteer Group, to help deal with growing demands on the looseknit network. Conference organizers needed help fundraising and finding great journalists. As stories increasingly led across borders, reporters wanted to know how to reach colleagues on other continents.

Frustrated editors wanted to know how to set up their own nonprofits.

Others wanted workshops and the latest tips and techniques. And data journalism, once an innovative sideshow, had become red hot; the Global Conferences’ trainers had produced a generation of computer-literate reporters now in high demand.

It was increasingly clear to veterans of the global conferences that more structure would benefit both the global conferences and

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“You know you’ve reached the next stage when it’s hard for people to imagine you not existing.”

the global network. In 2011, with the support of Houston, Mulvad, and others, I proposed the formation of a secretariat to manage the many requests coming to GIJN, to support the global conferences, and to further GIJN’s core mission of strengthening investigative journalism around the world.

In October 2011, at the seventh global conference in Kiev, Ukraine, representatives of GIJN’s membership held a robust debate and approved setting up a provisional secretariat, which was launched in February 2012.

I was privileged to be made director of this new initiative. With US$35,000 in seed funding from the Adessium and Open Society foundations, we spent a year laying the groundwork: creating a website with extensive resources, a global calendar, and news on investigative journalism around the world; setting up multiple networking and social media platforms; and launching an ambitious plan to transform GIJN from a largely European and North American network into a truly global one. Our efforts received a big boost with the 2013 Global Conference in Rio de Janeiro, in which the new secretariat partnered with Abraji, Brazil’s dynamic investigative journalism association, to hold the first Global Conference in the developing world. We combined our conference with both Abraij’s annual congress and COLPIN, the Latin American Investigative Journalism Conference. The impact surprised us all. Hoping for a thousand attendees, the Rio conference attracted a record 1350 people from 93 countries.

In Rio, the GIJN membership gave a ringing endorsement to our efforts and, in near-unanimous votes, decided to make the secretariat permanent, to keep the secretariat in one place (voting down a rival proposal to rotate its office), and to appoint me to a three-year term as GIJN’s first executive director.

Then in May 2014, following a debate on GIJN’s future, members again overwhelmingly endorsed measures giving GIJN more structure and formal legal status. By then, GIJN had grown to 98 member organizations in 44 countries. In an online election, the members voted by margins of more than 90% to make the Global Network a registered nonprofit in the United States and to create an elected board of directors that ensures geographic representation from six regions. A subsequent vote was held to create GIJN’s first elected board of directors; that election resulted in the current board of 15

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journalists from 11 countries.

Today, GIJN has a paid staff of four people and is publishing regularly in English, Chinese, and Spanish. We have more than 60,000 followers on social media, and a lively website viewed by readers in 80 countries a day. Our membership has doubled to 118 groups in 54 countries. Since setting up the secretariat, we have responded to more than 2,000 requests for assistance from around the world. Last year, we co-sponsored Asia’s first Investigative Journalism Conference, attracting 300 journalists from Japan to Pakistan. And our collaboration today with Norway’s SKUP has given the 9th Global Conference – GIJC15 – greater reach than ever before, with journalists heading to Lillehammer from a record 120 countries.

What’s in the future? We are working hard to further internationalize GIJN’s membership. We have initiatives to build up networks tying together journalists worldwide with resources, capacity, and each other. We’re working to strengthen investigative journalism groups across the globe; expand GIJN’s online resource center; increase our capacity to respond to requests for help; and train investigative groups in business skills, fundraising, and revenue diversification. We’re also planning a second regional conference in Asia, and our staff is ready to dive into work on GIJC17 – the next global conference – which our members will soon decide whether to hold in Amman, Johannesburg, or Vancouver. Above all, we are excited about the contribution GIJN and the Global Conferences are making around the world. Every day, we see first-hand the impact our colleagues have by exposing corruption, abuse of power, and lack of accountability. For that, we are grateful to two pioneers who, over a glass of wine a decade ago, had the vision to see what was possible.

“We’ve moved to the next stage,” reflects Brant Houston. “You know you’ve reached the next stage when it’s hard for people to imagine you not existing.” × David E. Kaplan is executive director of the Global Investigative Journalism Network. He previously served as director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, chief investigative correspondent at U.S. News & World Report, and news editor at the original Center for Investigative Reporting. He has worked as an investigative journalist for 35 years, reported from two dozen countries, and won or shared more than 25 awards.

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Khadija Ismayilova

A hero of journalism

An arrest of an Azeri journalist has turned into an investigating project that is revealing the extent of the First family’s hold on economic and political power in Azerbaijan BY  Drew Sullivan

Khadija Ismayilova in Poland

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Ismayilova outside court in Baku in January. Photo: RFE

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he term “courageous journalist” and “hero” are thrown around our business regularly and maybe a bit carelessly. But when a journalist dies on the job or is imprisoned or beaten, the terms are heaped on their name almost indiscriminately. We canonize them as saints and no one questions their courage, their journalism, their fairness or their skills. Often, these journalists are not really deserving of the high praise. They are more victim than hero.

But the case Khadija Ismayilova is markedly different.

In many ways, she is the perfect hero for a new journalism age. First, she is a very good journalist. She is also not a victim but a clear-eyed realist who made hard decisions and is standing by them today in an Azerbaijani jail.

Unfortunately she is not alone. Her colleagues have joined her in a martyrdom of religious proportions.

Reporting on the First family Khadija is known to many in our GIJN community. She made many friends and met collaborators at our conferences and together she was awarded a Global Shining Light Award at the GIJN Rio de Janeiro conference in 2013.

She was a long-time member of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a cross border consortium of investigative centers which grew up alongside GIJN. She learned and worked for and with many GIJN members. She, more than any Azerbaijani journalist,

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Journalists under threat © The opening session on Thursday October 8th will focus on journalists under threat. Journalists are increasingly harassed and arrested and independent media closed. Among cases discussed in this session is the case of Khadija Ismayilova, and the project that has been inspired by her arrest, The Khadija Project.

benefited from international media and development programs.

Her time at as the head of the Azerbaijani service of Radio Free Europe, RFE/TV Liberty from 2008 to 2010, made her aware of the importance of international contacts and reporting worldwide and gave her the time and encouragement to cooperate with other media. But she went back to reporting in 2010 when she started to use her international contacts to get access to records other reporters in her country were not aware of.

Drawing on her many mentors

and influences, she internalized the skills that made a good investigative reporter. But always inside, there was strength of purpose that would be tested often. She started in 2010 with a series of stories on corruption that would shake the country largely because no one had ever dared to write so convincingly and with so much evidence about the First Family.

When the government of Azerbaijan told reporters that the international giant Siemens owned a leading Azerbaijani telecom company, she called the German company who admitted they did not. Later she discovered, by using data from OCCRP, that the real owners were the daughters of the president through a Panamanian offshore.

The price of her reporting was made clear soon after the telecom story. In March, 2012, pictures arrived in the mail one day from Russia that showed her and her then boyfriend being intimate. An accompanying letter told her she was a whore and she would face public humiliation if she didn’t quit. It was a real problem. Azerbaijan is a deeply religious country and women and their families faced deep shame or even stoning from having sex out of wedlock. The letter shook her. She called her close friends and consulted with them before deciding she would continue. Instead, she got ahead of the story by announcing the extortion attempt on her Facebook page. Later, full videos would emerge that were played on television stations owned by state companies.

There has been several protests of support for Ismayilova, here outside the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Washington USA. Photo: RFE

“She said she would rather be arrested than flee because fleeing just meant those reporters left behind would get arrested.”

More threats While she handled the criticism, it caused deep problems for her family. But the threats only made her more resolute she would keep fighting and keep reporting. A slew of stories followed the attack. She mined the Panamanian database for more stories finding that the wife and daughters of the president owned construction companies and mining companies that were being given lucrative contracts and concessions. Government officials would respond by calling her family Armenian spies – a charge that could have led to attacks against them - and even at one point listed her mother’s home address.

Khadija’s work laid bare the hypocrisy and greed of the first family despite the government’s increasing violent responses. Her friends started to get arrested including many of the leading

activists who were protesting, in part because of her stories. In 2014, the government announced charges against her for inciting suicide. A former boyfriend claimed he was not hired at RFE because of Khadija’s influence and that caused him to try to commit suicide. The government took an intense interest in the ludicrous charges. Khadija continued travelling and speaking to international forums about corruption in Azerbaijan embarrassing the government. It became clear she could be arrested at any time.

Khadija herself made a video in October predicting her arrest but it became clear to all by December 2014, that Khadija would be arrested if she returned to Azerbaijan.

I talked with Khadija that December. I offered to support her if she did not go back. I argued she was too valuable as a reporter to lose and she could

do more from abroad. But the arguments fell on deaf ears. She said she would rather be arrested than flee because fleeing just meant those reporters left behind would get arrested. She, at least, had enough friends abroad who would raise a stink and not let her be forgotten.

Arrest This decision was courageous for more than just a willingness to go to jail. She had no illusions about who ran her country. President Ilham Aliyev and Ramiz Mehdiyev, the head of the presidential administration who wrote a 60 page screed

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Azerbaijans First family, here wife of President Ilham Aliyev, Mehriban Aliyeva and daughters Leyla and Arzu. Photo: Azeri Media

about Khadija calling her a traitor, are vicious, vindictive men who have crushed anyone who gets in their way. Reporters have been murdered including a relative’s of Khadija who was especially insulting. They routinely crush lives and have left the people of Azerbaijan ignorant and poor while they steal the nation’s wealth. Their daughter’s carry $160,000 purses they spend $300,000 to drive their huge luxury yachts across the Mediterranean so their 17-year-old son can have lunch on the boat. They own mansions, ride in G6 jets everywhere and have monopolized every aspect of the Azerbaijan economy.

Meanwhile, the average salary is less than $800 per month in an oil rich country.

Khadija knew she would be in their hands in their jail. Yet, she accepted arrest. Eventually, the government, maybe realizing that a charge of inciting suicide was ridiculous even for them – especially given that the complainant had recanted his testimony publicly numerous times, found new charges. They raided RFE’s offices in Baku and seized records. In a moment dripping with Orwellian irony, they charged Khadija, its former director, with abuse of power and other charges.

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“Their daughter’s carry $160,000 purses they spend $300,000 to drive their huge luxury yachts across the Mediterranean so their 17-year-old son can have lunch on the boat.”

She was eventually convicted and sentenced to 7.5 years in jail.

Since then, they have arrested reporters from RFE and Meydan TV, one of the few remaining independent media. When reporters have fled, they have arrested family members on charges of drug smuggling or hooliganism. Khadija’s fellow journalists are scattered but they have not given up.

OCCRP, following Khadija’s words, have continued her work working quietly with Azerbaijani journalists throughout the region. We have continued to report on the first family finding that they also have monopolized the luxury hotel, travel and banking industries.

We are finding more assets abroad and have been helped by reporters from around the world including Sweden, Switzerland, Germany and elsewhere. The reporting goes on and will go on as long as Khadija is in jail. Her colleagues, far from being cowered, are more committed than ever.

The final lesson of the Khadija Project is that while one reporter may be arrested, dozens will fill her place. × Drew Sullivan is the editor of the OCCRP and is based in Sarajevo.

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All photos from the Documentary Something Better to Come, growing up in a garbage dump

“I was always ILLEGALLY there” Hanna Polak on hope, a life changing experience and 14 years of documenting life on Europe’s largest garbage dump.

BY Christine Engh

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nitially, it was all about aid work. But everything changed in Hanna Polak’s life one day in 1999 when she met a group of homeless children on the streets of Moscow.

– It was a powerful shocking experience for me.

I could not simply walk away seeing small children dying, struggling to survive on the streets, abandoned and not needed. It was beyond my comprehension that children could live and die like this, she says.

The children led Polak to the garbage dump named Svalka, where a community of homeless people is living among piles of garbage, wild dogs and huge bulldozers.

– When I visited the garbage dump, a forbidden territory with a tall fence and tight security, where trespassing – and obviously filming – is strictly prohibited, I realized that I have to show this unknown place to the world. I wanted to make a film about people living in garbage dump, and especially

about children living there.

Something Better to Come is the result of 14 years of filming at Svalka. But the film is not only describing life and people at the garbage dump.

– This is a universal story of hope. If someone thinks he is living in hell, then he should spend some time in the place which was Yula’s reality for many years. A place where most people simply give up and die. Most of the people we see in the movie, passed away. But not Yula. She dares to dream, and takes her life into her own hands. It is a fourteen-year journey. I was following Yula from her being a 10 year old child until she became a mature woman with her own family. It is also a film about Russia during Putin’s time. Coincidentally I started filming at Svalka in year 2000, the same year Vladimir Putin was elected for the first time as a president of Russia. And echoes of his presidency and social and political moods over these years are present in the film.

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How did you first introduce your camera to the people in Svalka?

They were very grateful for turning the lens and the attention on them. They eagerly accepted me with and my camera. They felt so much rejected and not needed, that my presence, the presence of the camera, was giving them a feeling of being not only noticed, but important and appreciated. The life at the dump is extremely hard; it is a constant fight for survival. But this is not what hurts the most. The feeling of rejection, of being an outcast, is the deepest pain in the hearts of these homeless people. They wanted to reveal their hearts and share their thoughts, they wanted to be heard and seen, as they really

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are – kind, normal, funny and intelligent. There is unfortunately a stigma many of them have to live with because of the low material status. But the reality is that these extreme conditions often bring what is the best in people, as they share their roof of the small cardboard huts, and the last piece of bread with each other.

The Svalka is forbidden area for journalists.

How did you manage to work there for a period of 14 years?

I used to sneak in on this fenced-in territory.

I was always illegally there. I would come and disappear for some time. I would come irregularly, or on days when the security was least

tight. But it was always very difficult. Every time I went there I was in danger and the camera and materials were always endangered. I was careful, but I also had some luck. The garbage dump is considered to be a military area. It is protected by security with walkie-talkies. The local police protect it too. There is no filming or trespassing allowed. It is a huge multi-million dollar business of illegal recycling, and no strangers are welcome there. It is a type of mafia run place and no one wants what is really going on there documented. For collecting recycle materials work, people are paid with vodka, which in fact is not vodka, but a cheap, poisoning technical spirit. There are also hundreds of wild dogs there, and some criminal activities

going on, heavy machinery in operation. The accidents are frequent. For so many reasons it was simply always so dangerous to go there.

Did you ever get in trouble with the Russian authorities?

Or with someone else?

I was caught many times at the dump by the security, and the police stopped me. I ran away many times.

Sometimes I was simply lucky to get away. In a few circumstances when I was caught, I had to erase the materials. But things could have been much worse: I knew of one journalist who tried to film there and she was beaten up, had her nose broken and her expensive camera smashed. This is a violent place. People get beaten, killed, women are raped, and the ambulance wouldn’t come if one calls for help. I tried to be invisible for the security of the dump as much as possible. I knew it was risky, but I had to document these people and especially the children’s lives. I was delivering medicines to them, smuggled them to hospitals and occasionally I would place some children in the orphanages.

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What were the challenges you met as a filmmaker at the dump?

Shooting was technically complicated: in the small huts or shackles people build on the dump there was practically no light, so I had to light these places myself. I could not bring a tripod to the dump, except for a very few times when I brought it despite the danger of being more easily spotted.

I had to carefully watch my steps to avoid hurting my feet by nails or needles and other dangerous trash, watch out for trucks and bulldozers. It’s hard to do so when you look through the viewfinder. During the winter the camera wouldn’t even work some very cold days, when temperature dropped below –20 degrees Celsius. Sometimes it was just impossible to shoot the illegal activities that were going on there, which I felt was very important to give a context of the place. Still, I managed to film some.

The biggest difficulty was the continuity. Because this place is so inaccessible, because I had to hide myself and couldn’t come to the dump too often not to be noticed, it

“I was caught many times at the dump by the security and the police stopped me. I ran away many times. Sometimes I was simply lucky to get away.” was very hard to follow up with the camera, to keep the continuity of certain situations and people. I also couldn’t film what and how I wanted. Sometimes I saw a situation I would love to film, but I couldn’t come closer and film it. This was very frustrating. Sometimes Yula disappeared on this huge territory of Svalka and I could not find her.

The trash constantly moves and the machinery and people move with it.

Is it possible to stay objective when working with your protagonist for such a long time?

It was impossible not to be partial when I saw people, especially children, suffering. I started knowing and understanding some of them, and I started to care about them personally. One part of me looked at the situation objectively, but another part was simply crying, and I thought more about alleviating someone’s suffering than making a story. On the other hand I knew that the filming and the final result of it, the movie, could ultimately make people aware about the problem and potentially influence policy making process. I knew that to change something on a higher level I had to make an objective work, or a report.

I also wanted the images to speak for themselves. Nowadays there is so much creation in documentaries, authors feel they have to explain everything, write comments and put the voice over everywhere. Together with my co-editor Marcin Kot Bastkowski we simply believed – in contrary to what happens in most of the productions – in the objective truth and strength of the materials and we really wanted to let people experience of “being there”, to enter and stay in this world for 90 minutes. We didn’t want to force things with the editing, with effects, titles, and explanations. We wanted be objective as much as possible in this process and thus made this cinema verite documentary.

Did you ever bring food, clothes or anything else to Yula and her friends?

Yes, of course I did. And one of the biggest help is the one I received from Norway. For many years I have been cooperating with Aktiv Barnehjelp, the charity organization set up to help homeless children. Aktiv Barnehjelp collected funds to buy food, medicines, and other necessities for the homeless children in Russia. It was thanks to

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the kind support of the Norwegian people, that the activities of helping these children could be carried over many years. I wasn’t just making a film. With a group of friends and volunteers, we tried directly help these homeless children. Especially two wonderful girls should be mentioned: Ewa Laxa and Monika Jankowiak. They came with me to Russia and got directly involved in helping children. Aktiv Barnehjelp is still involved in helping children. I encourage everybody who wants to help in our efforts to help Yula and other children, to contact them and find the way how to contribute.

Investigative film-festival at the GIJC 2015

How do you see yourself; activist or journalist? Do you think it is possible to have both roles?

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I think we all wear many hats. I think a good journalist sees what is right and what is wrong. So – I think I am journalist in this respect. But I think I should play an active role in promoting a movement, which could bring better, or what we say “normal” life, for the homeless people, especially children. In that respect I think I am an activist.

What was it like to return to your own life after 14 years in Svalka? That is; if you have returned?

I have never returned to my previous life. I am still working on so many aspects of this film and I care for the film protagonists, especially Yula. I also hope to reach a bigger audience with the message concerning these abandoned children and people.

Right now we’re preparing the promotional campaign of Something Better to Come. I really hope that people in the world will see this amazing story of Yula and as a result they will make efforts toward relieving the plight of homeless children living in extreme poverty in the world.

You were nominated for Oscar with Children of Leningradsky. Now you have started working for Oscar nomination again. How do you consider your chances?

The main reason to make this film and now to promote it is to make people aware about the problem, to influence the policy makers to change the regulations, and finally to help people from the dump, and other homeless, disadvantaged human beings. Oscar campaign for sure will bring this topic to the wider audiences. I think 19 awards, which the film so far received on various festivals, is already a great success. If the film gets nominated for Oscar, this would certainly give the problem more visibility, and increase the importance and urgency of the issue.

And this is why I am so determined to get the film nominated. Yula’s story is a proof, that sometimes impossible becomes possible. So – I owe Yula and other people from the dump this stubbornness. ×

All documentaries will be screened in Lillehammer 1-2 and is free for all participants at the GIJC2015 Wednesday 20.30: Drone by Tonje Hessen Schei.

22:00: Serbia: The fight for truth by Erling Borgen and Tom Heinemann 22:45: Guatemala: Land of Terror by Erling Borgen

20:30: Something Better to Come by Hanna Polak 22:00: Ghana‘s Food for Thought by Anas Aremeyaw Anas for AlJazeera Friday 20:00: Follow the Money by Mike Chinoy. World premiere!

22:30: India‘s Daughter by Leslee Udwin

Hanna polak (48) © Hanna Polak, an Oscarnomi­nated director, grad­uated from the cinematogra­hy division of the Cinematography Institute of the Russian Federation. © She has worked on various movies as producer, director, cinematographer and still photographer. © In 2004 she completed work on the documentary The Children of Leningradsky in collaboration with HBO. The movie received an Oscar nomination (2005), an IDA Award, two Emmy nominations, and the Gracie Allen Award, among others. © Hanna has been advocating the case of homeless children all over the world. She founded and col­laborated with Active Child Aid foundation and collaborates with UNICEF. © Her latest documentary, Something Better to Come (2015), will be screened Friday 9 October at GIJC.

Who is your professional role model?

Hans Jürgen Burkhardt, who works for German Stern magazine, whom I admire for his amazing photographs and great ethics.

Vadim Yusov, a wonderful Russian cinematographer, who was my teacher and an amazing personality. Recently I met Lyse Doucet from the BBC and Simi Jan from TV2 Denmark, and I was greatly impressed by them. They are kind, love people and places they go to, they are brave to report from war zones, they are fun, and they are smart, and intelligent women. I could go on…

Which is the best documentary you have ever seen?

It is impossible to name one. There are so many great documentaries!

While working on Something Better to Come, it was inspirational for me to watch From Mao to Mozart, with Isaac Stern artistic credos and I was obsessed by his music.

Which documentary do you dream of making?

I have several ideas about the next movie, but currently I put all my efforts to make Something Better to Come successful. ×

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Fifty years of journalism and data

A brief history In 1952 a computer was applied to try to predict an US- election. More than six decades later, computer-assisted reporting is at the core of investigative reporting worldwide.

BY Brant Houston

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any practitioners date the beginning of computer-assisted reporting and data journalism to 1952 when the CBS network in the U.S tried to use experts with a mainframe computer to predict the outcome of the presidential election. That’s a bit of a stretch, or perhaps it was a false beginning because they never used the data and it really wasn’t until 1967 that data analysis started to catch on.

In that year, Philip Meyer at The Detroit Free Press used a mainframe to analyze a survey of Detroit residents for the purpose of understanding and explaining the serious riots that erupted in the city that summer. (Decades later The Guardian in the United Kingdom used some of the same approaches to look at racial riots there and cited Meyer’s work.)

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Meyer went on to work in the 1970s with The Philadelphia Inquirer reporters Donald Barlett and James Steele to analyze the sentencing patterns in the local court system and with Rich Morin at The Miami Herald to analyze property assessment records. Meyer also wrote a book called Precision Journalism that explained and advocated using database analysis and social research methods in reporting. (Several revisions of the book have been published since then.)

Still, only a few journalists used these techniques until the mid-1980s when Elliot Jaspin in the U.S. received recognition while at The Providence Journal Bulletin for analyzing databases for stories, including those on dangerous school bus drivers and on a political scandal involving home loans. At the same time, about 50 other journalists

across the U.S. in the late 1980s, often consulting with Meyer, Jaspin, or Steve Doig of the Miami Herald, began doing data analysis for their stories.

Aiding their efforts were improved personal computers and a program—Nine Track Express— that Jaspin and journalist-programmer Daniel Woods wrote to make it easier to transfer computer tapes (that contain nine “tracks” of information) to personal computers using a portable tape drive.

This allowed journalists to circumvent the bureaucracies and delays involved in using mainframes at newspapers and universities.

In 1989, the U.S. journalism profession recognized the value of computer-assisted reporting when it gave a Pulitzer Prize to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for its stories on racial disparities in home loan practices. During the same year, Jas-

“In 1989, the U.S. journalism profession recognized the value of computer-assisted reporting when it gave a Pulitzer Prize to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for its stories on racial disparities in home loan practices.”

pin established the institute at the Missouri School of Journalism now known as the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR), and in 1990 Indiana University professor James Brown held the first computer-assisted reporting conference in Indianapolis.

In the 1990s through early in the 21st century, the use of computer-assisted reporting has blossomed, primarily due to the seminars conducted at Missouri and throughout the world by Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. (IRE) and NICAR, which is a joint program of IRE and the Missouri School of Journalism. This was aided by the publication of my book in1996, the first on doing CAR, Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Practical Guide,” which is in its 4th edition.

The early part of the 21st century saw the Global

Investigative Journalism Network begin to play crucial part in the movement, starting with its first conference in 2001 in Copenhagen that offered a strong computer-assisted reporting track and hands-on training.

NICAR begins In 1994 NICAR was created, and I and training director Jennifer LaFleur initiated an ambitious on-the-road program that eventually saw as many as 50 seminars a year - and by 1996 word of the successes in the U.S. had reached other countries, and foreign journalists began attending the “boot camps” (weeklong, intense seminars) at NICAR. In addition, IRE, with the support of the McCormick Foundation, had set up a program in Mexico City that oversaw data training in Latin America.

While journalists outside the U.S. first doubted they could obtain data in their own countries in 1990s, the training showed them how international or U.S. data could be used initially for stories in their countries, how they could build their own datasets, and how they could find data in their own countries.

As a result of the training efforts, by 1999 journalists from countries including Finland, Sweden, New Zealand, Venezuela, Argentina, the Netherlands, Norway, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, Bosnia and Canada had produced stories involving data analysis.

Meanwhile, in London in 1997, journalism professor Milverton Wallace began holding an annual conference called NetMedia that offered sessions on the Internet and classes in computer-as-

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sisted reporting led by NICAR and Danish journalists. The classes covered the basic uses of the Internet, spreadsheets and database managers and were well-attended by journalists from the UK, other European countries and Africa.

In Denmark, journalists Nils Mulvad and Flemming Svith, who had gone to a NICAR boot camp in Missouri in 1996, organized seminars with NICAR in 1997 and 1998 in Denmark. They also wrote a Danish handbook on computer-assisted reporting, created the Danish International Center for Analytical Reporting (DICAR) in 1998 with Tommy Kaas as president. They also co-organized the first Global Investigative Journalism Conference with IRE in 2001.

CAR also became a staple of conferences in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Netherlands with Helena Bengtsson from Sweden, and John Bones in Norway.

Through the global investigative conferences, the use of data also quickly spread across eastern Europe. In eastern Europe, Drew Sullivan (who formed the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project), and Romanian journalist Paul Radu were strong proponents and organizers.

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Seminars also were given initially in China through the University of Missouri and in India through the World Press Institute.During same period Steve Doig, a pioneer in CAR and now the Knight Chair in Computer-Assisted Reporting at Arizona State University, traveled internationally to teach CAR as did additional NICAR training directors, Jo Craven McGinty, Tom McGinty, Ron Nixon, Andy Lehren and Sarah Cohen – all now journalists at either the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Visualization of data increases In 2005, the visualization of data for news stories got a big boost when U.S. programmer Adrian Holovaty created a Google mash-up of Chicago crime data. The project spurred more interest in journalism among computer programmers and in mapping. Holovaty then created the now-defunct Every Block in 2007, which used more local data for on-line maps in the U.S., but the project later ran into criticism for not checking the accuracy of government data more thoroughly.

Also, in 2007 the open data movement in the U.S. began in earnest, spawning other such efforts

world-wide. The movement increased accessibility to government data internationally although the need remained to have Freedom of Information laws to get data not released by the government.

By 2009, there was an increasing number of computer programmers and coders in journalism resulted in the creation of Hacks/Hackers that would help more sharing between the two professions and ease some of the culture clash between the two groups.

Aron Pilhofer then of The New York Times and now the Guardian, and Rich Gordon from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, pushed for the creation of “a network of people interested in Web/digital application development and technology innovation supporting the mission and goals of journalism.” At the same time in Silicon Valley, Burt Herman brought journalists and technologists together. The three then joined to create “Hacks/Hackers.” The result has been an increasing technology sophistication within newsrooms that has increased the ability to scrape data from Web sites and make it more manageable, visual and interactive.

Another outcome of the journalist-programmer

mashup was the new respect for knowing how flawed databases are and for ensuring the integrity of the data.

As was well-said by Marcos Vanetta, an Mozilla OpenNews fellow who worked at The Texas Tribune:“Bugs are not optional…In software we are used to make mistakes and correct them later. We can always fix that later and in the worst case, we have a backup. In news, you can’t make mistakes — there is a reputation to take care of. The editorial team is not as used to failure as developers are.”

More breakthroughs The years 2009, 2010 and 2011 also were breakthrough years for using data for journalism. In Canada in 2009, Fred Vallance-Jones and David McKie published “Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Comprehensive Primer” with a special emphasis on CAR in Canada. The European Journalism Centre began its data-driven journalism center that has organized workshops throughout Europe. Journalist Paul Bradshaw became recognized as a pioneer in data journalism in the United Kingdom. Wikileaks released its Afghan War Diaries, composed of secret documents and then the Iraq War Diaries, requir-

ing journalists throughout the world to deal with enormous amounts of data in text.

This was followed in 2011 by the Guardian’s its impressive series on the city racial riots and the first Data Harvest conference, which is organized by the Journalismfund.eu.

Also in the United Kingdom the Centre for Investigative Reporting (led by Gavin MacFadyen), which teamed in its early days with IRE to offer classes in data journalism during its summer school, has continued run a strong program on its own with the assistance of CAR veteran David Donald.

Meanwhile, at Wits University in South Africa Anton Harber and Margaret Renn substantially increased the data sessions at the annual Power Reporting Conference and data analysis has taken hold in Asia and Australia.

As of 2015, and after nearly 50 years of journalists using data, it is clear that data is not only a routine part of journalism, but also a driving force for stories. And the tools and methodology continue to expand.

The use of computers for journalism began by applying social science methods, statistical

and data analysis to societal issues. It has widely expanded over the years into counting instances of incidents and accidents, to using spreadsheets and database managers, to matching apparently unrelated datasets, to mapping data geographically and in social networks, to web scraping, to more efficient data cleaning, to better crowd-sourcing and audience interaction, to multi-media and to text mining with algorithms.

There has been much discussion what to call the use of data for high quality journalism and various branding efforts. But whether it is called “precision journalism,” “computer-assisted reporting,” “data journalism,” ‘data driven journalism,” or “computational journalism,” the good news is that it is here to stay. × Brant Houston is the Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting at the University of Illinois and author of “Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Practical Guide.” Some sections of this article have appeared in Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Practical Guide and in a 1999 issue of Nieman Reports.)

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HOW PILES OF RECORDS REVEALED PATTERNS OF JUDGEMENT – IN 1972

The use of computers to analyze data and strengthen major stories is so thoroughly ingrained in investigative journalism today that we almost forget that it was not always so. In the summer of 1972 two reporters at the Philadelphia Inquirer embarked on a story that would change the way they worked.

BY  James B. Steele

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ot so long ago, you were lucky to find a computer in a newsroom, and some journalists actually frowned upon their use as a reporting tool. In the summer of 1972, Donald L. Barlett and I, then investigative reporters for The Philadelphia Inquirer, embarked on a story that led us to discover the extraordinary capabilities that computers could offer to analyze complex public issues. It enabled us to look more deeply at a controversial public institution and shed light on its inner workings in a way that had never before been done in the city.

This is the story of how that project came about and a reminder of the remarkable tools we now use routinely that make it possible for us to report in depth on issues that were once beyond our grasp.

Here is how it started.

Crime and punishment Philadelphia in 1972 was roiled by charges by some politicians that certain judges were giving light sentences to violent criminals or letting them go free. When we tried to find out if there was any truth to these accusations, we learned there were plenty of anecdotes to support the claims, but no hard data.

Before we interview, we always look for documents to see what data and background information may exist on a subject. Educating ourselves beforehand gives us an advantage when we interview. We know something about the subject and, more importantly, we know whether the people we interview are lying - or, as is often the case, just don’t know what they are talking about.

In this instance the documents were cases of violent crime that had been judged in the city’s criminal courts. These documents were stored in a cavernous, out-of-the-way room located under one of the decorative towers of Philadelphia’s Victorian 19th century City Hall. Called the “closed case room,” it was stacked with decades of files that bulged with stories of the dark side of life in the city. We decided to review cases of murder, rape, robbery and assault during the previous year, 1971.

To be sure we were consistent in gathering the information we drew from the records of each case, we designed a one-page form that we would fill out for each case. It included the names of the victim, defendant, defense attorney, judge and prosecuting attorney; the type of crime; whether a weapon was used; the defendant’s prior criminal record if any; the time and place of the crime; the decision by the judge or jury on the charges; and the defendant’s sentence, if guilty. A total of 42 pieces of information could be entered for each case on our onepage form.

A mountain of data Each morning we showed up at City Hall and made our way upstairs to the seventh floor, and then climbed a steep stairway up two more floors to the closed case archive. With its vaulted ceiling and darkened interior, it looked like the nave of an abandoned church, except for the cluttered shelves filled with case files. Two longtime City Hall political appointees oversaw the room, but we persuaded them to let us work from a table inside the file room itself so as not to badger them continuously to retrieve files for us.

Seated at a table under a round window that we opened for air, the sounds of the city rising from the streets below, we methodically began entering

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James B. Steele © James B. Steele is a Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter and a contributing editor of Vanity Fair. In 1971 he started working with Donald L. Bartlett at the Philadelphia Inquirer, a working relationship that continued across four decades. The pair has written 8 books together.

The last one, The betrayal of the American dream was published in 2012

“Looking back, I wonder what we were thinking as we worked our way through the cases with completed forms piling up beside us day after day.” information from individual cases on the form we had designed. The files contained a wealth of data – indictments, police reports, prior arrest records, probation reports, pre-sentence transcripts, psychiatric evaluations and hospital and health records. For the most serious cases, such as murder and rape, we copied trial transcripts when they were available.

As voluminous as the court files were, we often found that some of the boxes on our data sheet remained blank, the information missing. To find these answers we turned to other public records.

This was especially true in the case of background information on the victims of violent crimes, especially those who’d been murdered. For this we turned to the medical examiner’s office, whose files contained the precise causes of death and graphic descriptions of the circumstances, the ages and races of those involved.

At first, we weren’t sure how many cases we would ultimately review, but we decided early on to try to look at every completed murder and rape case, since those were the two most violent crimes.

We settled on a percentage of the robberies and assaults. Eventually, we would review 1,034 cases –

39 percent of the violent crime cases in the city for that year.

Looking back, I wonder what we were thinking as we worked our way through the cases with completed forms piling up beside us day after day. We were obtaining fascinating information including some startling anecdotes. But what was the big picture? Were judges weak - or tough - or somewhere in between? Was the city’s prosecuting attorney as tough on crime as he had long maintained? Or was he quietly reducing charges in some cases to lighten his caseload? How could we possibly analyze so much information and be able to answer those basic questions? We had previously used statistics and charts in our stories, but the work on those stories was performed by hand, using a small calculator. The mountain of data we were collecting for the court story went far beyond anything we’d done before.

We turned to a colleague for advice. He was Philip Meyer, then a reporter in the Washington bureau of Knight Newspapers, which also owned our newspaper. Phil had been a Nieman fellow at Harvard in 1967, where he became intrigued by the

computerized research methods social scientists used to delve into and quantify some of the big issues of the day. Long frustrated by newspapers’ use of anecdotal stories to illustrate points that he felt were often misleading, Phil was convinced that journalists needed to adopt a more scientific approach in their reporting, and computers offered that potential.

Phil learned programming at Harvard, and when he returned to reporting he helped the Detroit Free Press, another Knight newspaper, win a Pulitzer in 1968 for its computer analysis of those who were involved in the Detroit racial riots of 1967. Phil became the apostle for using sophisticated computing techniques in newsrooms, and his groundbreaking book, Precision Journalism, published in 1973, is a classic for journalists who seek to use social science research methods to look more deeply and accurately into major issues.

Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) has named a national award in his honor.

9618 punch cards When we told Phil that we had compiled data on hundreds of cases, he was ecstatic. The sheer volume of the data we had collected represented a rare opportunity to employ on a large scale some of the methods he had learned at Harvard. Without hesitation, he offered to write a computer program that would allow us to systematically assess what was really happening in Philadelphia’s criminal court system.

What followed was an education for us. The

program Phil wrote used a computer language called Data Text that had been developed at Harvard in the 1960s and which he had learned while a Nieman fellow. The first step in the computing process was to transfer the information on each case that Don and I had extracted from the court files onto paper coding sheets that resembled graph paper. With the help of secretaries and clerks at The Inquirer, we followed the program Phil had written by penciling in certain squares of the coding sheets to correspond to the program. The process of transferring the information to coding sheets was incredibly tedious, but we were spurred on by the belief that the end result would produce something unique. Once the coding sheets were completed, they were turned over to an outside company where keypunch operators converted them to IBM punch cards.

Punch cards? A young journalist accustomed to working on a laptop probably has never seen a punch card. But these cards - 7 3/8 by 3 ¼ -inch sized pieces of stiff paper that resembled index cards – were at the heart of the process because each one was perforated with holes that represented points of data. Once they were fed into a big mainframe computer, they would enable us to tabulate and analyze the vast amount of data we had collected.

By the time all the information had been transferred from the coding sheets onto punch cards, we had 9,618 individual punch cards. Years later, The Newseum, the Washington, D.C. museum dedicated to the history of journalism, asked us to donate

the cards for an exhibit. They remain there today.

With the program written and the punch cards punched, all we needed was a computer. As it turned out, our newspaper, one of the largest newspapers in the U.S., did not have a computer that could handle the amount of data we had collected.

But one day Phil called to say he had some good news and bad news: The good news was that he had found a computer, an IBM 7090, that we could rent for a reasonable price to perform our analysis.

The bad news was that the computer was located in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. – 125 miles from Philadelphia – and we could only use to it from midnight to 5am. We learned later that this huge mainframe was owned by a contractor to track the Navy’s ships.

Once in Maryland, Phil, Don and I spent in the early morning hours running tabulations. It

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was there with the big mainframe humming and a large printer offloading huge volumes of tables that we finally realized what we had.

Because of the program, we were able to pose many questions and then chart trends showing how justice was being administered in Philadelphia. We were able to show, differences in the way cases were decided by white and African-American judges, by Republican and Democratic judges, by white judges presiding over the cases of African-American victims, by African-American judges presiding over cases in which the victim was white, and by white and African-American judges presiding over cases in which the defendant and victim were of the same race. We also compiled conviction rates and tabulated the sentencing patterns of individual judges.

Patterns revealed As hard as it is to believe, all the calculations that were done on the noisy 7080 mainframe with its whirring tape decks could be done on a notebook computer today.

With our cars stuffed with these printouts, we headed back to Philadelphia to interview defendants, lawyers, police and others and to start the writing.

In February 1973, more than seven months after the project started, The Inquirer pub-

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“We were able to show, differences in the way cases were decided by white and AfricanAmerican judges” lished “Crime and Injustice,” a 25,000-word, seven-part series that provoked widespread reaction in Philadelphia, among newspapers elsewhere and in the national criminal justice community. Many local officials who did not fare well in the articles criticized the work, especially the city’s prosecuting attorney who did not like the way his office was portrayed.

But overall the reaction was favorable, in Philadelphia and elsewhere, especially from judges, legal scholars and criminal justice officials across the nation.

What impressed many readers was the level of sophistication in the findings, which of course were only made possible by the computer analysis. One such conclusion showed that 64 percent of African-American murder convicts received sentences of more than five years when their victims were white, but only 14 percent were given such long sentences if the victims were black.

As the largest computer-assisted reporting project of its time, the series had wide influence in journalism. James Aucoin, in his book, The Evolution of American Investigative Reporting, said Crime and Injustice “set a new standard for other investigative reporters embarking on investigations of local criminal justice systems.”

The series won major journalism awards and was cited by the University of Missouri School of Journalism for its “pioneering use of computers.” We learned later that it had apparently provoked a controversy among Pulitzer deliberations in 1974 after it was entered in the Pulitzer competition. During the selection process, a juror or board member – it was never clear who - was apparently disturbed that a computer had been used in the reporting, and declared to one of his fellow Pulitzer participants that no story using a computer would ever win a Pulitzer if he had anything to do with it.

We’ve all come a long way. ×

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Into the future with CAR This year, the Global Conference offer the most comprehensive track in computer assisted reporting (CAR) ever. This should provide you with the skills for the newsroom of tomorrow.

BY Maren Sæbø

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“- If you know some of the data tools, you can make unique stories every day.”

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ohn Bones of the Norwegian daily Verdens Gang, and a board member of SKUP, is the main programmer behind the data track. We asked him about the highlights -Every session is a highlight! There will both be newbie’s and veterans at the Conference, and there are multiple sessions for all groups, depending on their interests and skills. Participants not familiar at all with the data tools should attend the basic Excel courses.

For those who have taken the first steps, there will be five sessions in web scraping with Python, introduction courses in statistics and database building, different mapping courses and different methods for cracking PDF files.

So, put another way, what should one absolutely not miss?

-A difficult question, but when I am thinking about it, the most important part of our work is to find and retrieve information. We have some courses in advances internet search, and we have also some sessions where the people behind «Verification Handbook» will tell the audience how to validate the information they have found. There are also courses in how to get access to public information around the world.

How can these new skills be used in the newsroom of tomorrow?

-They can be used in all departments in a newsroom.

What are sports about? Numbers! What is economy about? Numbers! What is entertainment about? Money!

What is politics about? Money! You can use your data skills to handle huge amounts of information, and you can see patterns you will not notice without these tools.

You can map your findings, and you can use statistics to control what you have found.

Teamwork between journalists and developers seem to be catching on a lot of places. What are the benefits for journalists and developers working together?

-Even if the journalists get used to working with different data tools, most of us will need to work together with a programmer when we are doing the complicated stuff. A journalist that know something about programming and a programmer that know something about journalism will be a strong team. And if you add a designer, the team will be perfect. The programmer and the designer will take your information to a higher level.

But still, some of us are going about it, alone. Are there still opportunities for the “lone wolf”?

All photos by Annemor Larsen/VG

Computer assisted reporting at GIJC2015 © There are classes in data driven reporting running throughout the programme, these will be marked at “data-track”. Notice that some of these classes have limited space as they are hands-on computer-classes. You can sign up for these in the programme online.

It is necessary that you bring your own computers for these classes.

- If you know some of the data tools, you can make unique stories every day. You do not depend entirely on your sources or spin doctors; you make your own stories based on the analysis and calculations you have made. Instead of people telling you what to

write, you ask your sources to comment the findings you have made. You are the king, or the queen, of your own data.

After the revolutions in North- Africa and Ukraine, and considering the revelations of Edward Snowden, there seems to be a lot of people watching us do our work. There are new challenges in security, what must everyone be aware of, and is there anything we can do to protect ourselves and our sources?

-Everybody should attend some of the security courses at the Conference. The Snowden-case was an eye-opener for journalists, and all of us should learn techniques for encryption and secure communication.

There are people out there listening to what you are doing, and if you don’t think that’s OK, learn some skills to protect your communication and your devices. ×

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Reporting in the time of Ebola Reporting on an unseen and deadly enemy, the work of local and international journalists helped fight Ebola in West Africa.

BY Maren Sæbø

Workers in protective gear disinfect a courthouse after a case is reported Photo: Ashoka Mukpo

Patients and relatives waiting outside the Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) run by Doctors without borders outside Monrovia. Photo: Ashoka Mukpo

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n the spring of last year, signs were that an epidemic of the deadly and largely unknown Ebola- virus was getting out of hand in West-Africa. By June- July the virus created havoc in the Liberian capital of Monrovia. As was fear and misinformation about the virus.

– There was a lot of information spreading like wildfire, it was not easy to know what was true, lot of the rumors said that Ebola was some kind of conspiracy that was brought by the West, we had to do the research, find out about the virus, the history, says Edwin Gemoway, one of the reporters at local paper Frontpage Africa.

From the outset there was an information gap, people could not get through to the Hospitals, and if they did, there were no ambulances to send. In August the Liberian capital had two of them. Reporters, especially those working in radio, became a link between people and the overwhelmed health-system.

– They would call and tell us where the sick people were, or if there was a body. Sometimes bodies was left for days, if we reported it, it forced the ambulance to appear and take it away Gemoway tells of mistrust, between people and government, between the press and government. A driver in all this was fear. Among stories that made the rounds was tales of Ebola turning people into zombies, stories of poor neighborhoods singled out to die. In mid-August riots broke out in the densely populated slum of West Point in the centre of Monrovia. More than 60.000 people were quarantined. Left on their own. Getting out reports on how to protect one self, debunking rumor became a matter of life and death. Local radio stations were the key.

For Gemoway and his colleagues, reporting on an epidemic also changed the focus of their work. Journalists in Liberia, like in many other countries tend to focus on politicians and other people in high places, on scandal, corruption and power. But the disease hit high and low in Liberian society, and even inside the ministries. In early August an adviser for the finance minister traveled to Nigeria, in Lagos he fell sick, and later died – The death of Patrick Sawyer – a prominent person that had interacted with a lot of people, including ministers, they quarantined important people.

This was when a lot of people realized this was for real.

At the same time, reporters realized they were putting themselves at risk, going to hospitals and holding areas without protective gear, witnessing mass cremations. At least four journalists died Gemoway reckons.

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Staying safe Freelancer Ashoka Mukpo arrived in Monrovia in early September; he was impressed by the important job done by his Liberian colleagues at the time.

-The local press generally did an excellent job. In fact, it was photographs of biohazard-suited medical teams conducting "safe burials" that were partially responsible for the widespread denial of the disease's existence starting to reduce. They were published in a local daily and a video was shared on facebook. It was a major point where people started to recognize that the danger was real.

By the time Mukpo showed up, international press had been arriving in all greater numbers for about a month. By August Ebola was the big story, and hotels in Monrovia were filled up with major news outlets, as well as aid workers. Previously a resident of Monrovia, Mukpo got to work as a fixer an cameraman for international news outlets, from that vantage point he observed both the international and local press in action.

– The main difference I saw between international and local reporters was that the internationals tended to focus on the most upsetting scenes outside of treatment units, as well as the need for an international response. Local journalists were much more focused on the shortcomings of their own government in dealing with the outbreak, and were more adept at communicating with Liberians about the impact that the disease was having on their lives and families Among the reporters filing for the international press, Mukpo and other freelancers was amongst the most exposed.

– There was a tremendous demand for freelance content. Many journalists were afraid to be in such a dangerous and unpredictable environment, where the rules were far different than that in war. I was paid relatively well for shooting assignments and most-

Alpha Senkpeni Grand Bassa-correspondent for the national newspaper Frontpage Africa, and a local radio station interviews Stella Lymas (22) who lost her father, a local doctor to the virus. Photo: Maren Sæbø

ly found it easy to pitch stories. It was dangerous, obviously. Many of the other freelancers I knew didn't have adequate insurance, nor any assurance that the outlets they were dealing with would help them if they became sick.

Mukpo questions the ethics of some of the reporting he witnessed. The nature of the disease, much less known at this time last year than now, prompted some sensational reporting. CNN called Monrovia a “war zone” – while most of the city was functioning as always.

– The international press was a mixed bag. There were obviously some journalists and outlets that were just concerned with getting the most shocking or simplistic footage, but others were doing a good job of getting in-depth with the story, trying to under-

Safety for journalists © Safety for journalists is the focus for several seminars during the conference.

There will also be a seminar on the coverage of the Ebola crisis on Saturday at 14.30.

See program for further details

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“We wore large rubber boots and gloves, carried backpack sprayers full of chlorinated water solution, and above all - didn't come close to infected patients.”

stand the full context and portraying as nuanced a view as possible. The New York Times stands out, their coverage was excellent, it captured the political situation as well as the way the disease was unraveling the fabric of Liberian life.

As for the local press, staying safe and alive was a pressing issue for the international press corps throughout the epidemic. As his colleagues, Mukpo followed advice he got from health workers and wore protective gear.

– We wore large rubber boots and gloves, carried backpack sprayers full of chlorinated water solution, and above all - didn't come close to infected patients. The sense was that if we kept our distance from people who were obviously sick and continuously sprayed chlorine, we would be fine, Mukpo says.

Staying alive But by early October, Mukpo knew that something wasn’t right, when his fever rose, he had to raise the alarm, and get to an Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) set up on the outskirts of Monrovia. There he tested positive for Ebola. Mukpo was attached to NBC by the time he got sick, and was covered by

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their insurance. Catching the virus further showed Mukpo the difference between him, and his local colleagues.

– Many of the local reporters were in a very difficult situation, if they got sick they'd have no chance of being evacuated, but they were out in the field most of the time anyway. Obviously there was a disparity there. I got sick and was airlifted to the US, but my Liberian colleagues could never have expected that to happen. As a source of information they were invaluable and also broke stories before the international press in many cases, although they rarely received credit for that, says Mukpo Ashoka Mukpo was lucky, after being airlifted from Monrovia, he got treatment in Nebraska in the US. Weeks later he could walk out on his own feet. Later, he has had time to reflect on the coverage, he says too much of the focus was on the international response. While in fact, it was local efforts that curbed the spread of the virus, with the international community entering the scene after the so-called peak of the epidemic.

– Obviously international resources were desperately needed, but when you look at the timeline of when cases started to fall, it's hard to say that

it was international support that caused that to happen. In particular, I don't think the US deployment of troops had much of an effect at all. It was important that new treatment units and testing capacity were given to Liberia, but I think the essential reason why the outbreak ended was that Liberians at a very grassroots level began to change their behavior and cooperate with health authorities. The reason they denied Ebola's existence in the first place wasn't because they were ignorant- it was because they don't trust their government, and for good reason. Respectful partnerships between local health officials and community organizations, often led by the communities themselves, has much more to do with Ebola coming under control in Liberia than any deployment of international resources, in my opinion.

For Gemoway and his colleagues the situation

by September 2015 is back to normal. Every now and then they do a follow up story on the health system, still in crisis, and the survivors. But power, corruption and scandal are back on the front-page.

But the reporter thinks that the epidemic has left some changes in the way Liberian reporters do their job.

– Ebola brought media to the human interest stories; it represented a shift from covering prominent people, to most people. We had no options but to report on what happened, all normal politics were suspended. We continue doing human interest stories now but of course, we are dependent on advertising, so we also need the political scandals.

Gemoway, who among other things witnessed mass cremations at Monrovia’s beaches, says that none of his colleagues has had any counseling after the epidemic. He admits it hasn’t been easy, but that trauma is not really discussed among Liberian press professionals. After all, these are reporters that up to 2003 lived in a country at war with itself.

– During the civil war in Liberia, we could see what was killing us. But this killer cannot be seen, that was scary, he says. ×

Vinner av SKUP-prisen 2014

DE SISTE SEKS ÅRENE HAR DAGBLADET VUNNET MER ENN 40 PRISER OG UTMERKELSER FOR SITT JOURNALISTISKE ARBEID. FOR ANDRE ÅRET PÅ RAD VANT VI SKUP-PRISEN!

Dagbladet-journalisten Kristoffer Egeberg vant SKUP-prisen 2014 for prosjektet ”Nigeria-båtene”. SKUP-Prisen deles ut til den beste undersøkende journalistikken i året som gikk. Egeberg tok i bruk både tradisjonelle og utradisjonelle metoder for å avsløre hvordan salgene av skipene har foregått.

Artikkelserien om Nigeria-båtene avslører hvordan Forsvaret har solgt marinefartøy til paramilitære i Vest-Afrika.

Blant disse er seks tidligere norske missiltorpedobåter solgt til krigsherren Tompolo. De er bevæpnet på nytt med maskinkanoner og mitraljøser, og har gitt krigsherren makt over hele den nigerianske oljeeksporten.

Avsløringene har ført til flere politietterforskninger i Norge og Storbritannia. Flere er siktet. Og Stortingets kontroll- og konstitusjonskomite har åpnet kontrollsak mot Forsvarsdepartementet og UD. Les den prisvinnende artikkelserien på db.no.

Den store journalistprisen 2010

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Vinner av SKUP-prisen 2013

European Press Prize 2013

World Media Digital Award 2013

International Reporter 2015

Magasinet-reportasjen “Den Usynlige”

Mediebedriftenes Landsforening

22.juli-dokumentaren “Tomrommene”

“Null CTRL”-serien om sviktende datasikkerhet i Norge.

“Null CTRL”-serien om sviktende datasikkerhet i Norge.

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Artikkelserien “Nigeria-båtene”

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GLOBAL SHINING LIGHT AWARD FINALISTS

12 Finalists Named for

Global Shining Light Award T

welve extraordinary stories from 12 countries are finalists in the sixth Global Shining Light Award, a unique prize which honors investigative journalism in a developing or transitioning country, done under threat, duress, or in the direst of conditions.

The winners will be announced and presented at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference this October 10 in Lillehammer, Norway. The winners will receive an honorary plaque and US$1,000.

Finalists were selected from among 76 submissions received from 34 countries, for stories published or broadcast between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2014. Judging was done by a prestigious international panel of journalists.

The award is sponsored by the Global Investigative Journalism Network, an association of 118 nonprofit organizations in 54 countries.

And the 12 Finalists Are

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GLOBAL SHINING LIGHT AWARD FINALISTS

19 Disappearances, 1 City, 2 Weeks

THE NEW AGE, BANGLADESH, (2014) Team: David Bergman and Muktadir Rashid.

The Graft of General Gu Junshan

CAIXIN, CHINA (2014) Team: Wang Heyan and Xie Haitao

This series investigated the disappearances of 19 opposition activists in Bangladesh’s capital city. The stories found substantial evidence that law enforcement officials were involved in picking up all of them before they vanished.

A two-year investigation into former People’s Liberation Army deputy logistics chief Gu Junshan found that he personally benefitted from military real estate deals and building projects. The series, regarded as China’s first media investigation into military top brass, caused a major stir.

Egypt-Italy Death Trip

Unholy Alliances

ARAB REPORTERS FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM (2014) Team: Mohammad Al Kazaz

ORGANIZED CRIME AND CORRUPTION REPORTING PROJECT, MONTENEGRO (2014) Reporters: Miranda Patrucic; Dejan Milovac; Stevan Dojcinovic; Lejla Camdzic.

Editors: Drew Sullivan, Jody McPhillips, Rosemary Armao

ARIJ’s Mohammad Al Kazaz spent months to tell the inside story of families and brokers smuggling children on “boats of death” to Italy. He documents harrowing stories at sea, hard times in Italy, and a broken immigration system.

This year-long investigation exposed how Montenegro’s once-untouchable Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic and his family bank are at the center of an unholy alliance of government, organized crime, and business. Far from a model candidate for the EU, Montenegro in effect functions as a mafia state.

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GLOBAL SHINING LIGHT AWARD FINALISTS

Empire of Ashes

GAZETA DO POVO, BRAZIL (2014) Team: Mauri König with Albari Rosa and Diego Antonelli (Brazil); Martha Soto (Colombia); and Ronny Rojas (Costa Rica) A five-month investigation revealed how cigarette smuggling is overtaking marijuana and cocaine as the most profitable racket in parts of Latin America. The illicit trade is reshaping the geopolitics of organized crime in South America, and is covertly led by Paraguay President, Horacio Cartes.

Call the Executioner

KENYA TELEVISION NETWORK, KENYA (2013) Team: Mohammed Ali; John-Allan Namu; Kassim Mohamed; Sam Munia This eight-month investigation by Kenya TV revealed the brutal tactics of an elite anti-terrorism police unit. The team traveled to Kenya, Somalia, and Uganda, documenting the unexplained deaths of men accused of being “Al-Shabaab recruiters.”

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Tunisia’s Quranic Kindergartens

REALITES MAGAZINE, TUNISIA (2013) Team: Hanene Zbiss Following its 2011 revolution, Tunisia saw the spread of “Quranic kindergartens” – radical Islamist schools dedicated to creating a Wahhabi elite in Tunisian society. After reporter Zbiss went undercover to document the extremist teaching, the state closed 100 kindergartens.

Goldfinger

M-NET & DSTV, SOUTH AFRICA (2014) Team: Graham Coetzer (producer); Susan Comrie (journalist); Devi Sankaree Govender (presenter).

This investigation exposed how thousands of tons of illegal gold are laundered into the legal trade every year, disguised as second-hand jewelry. So lucrative is this VAT scam that it has drawn sophisticated and dangerous organized crime gangs into the trade.

GLOBAL SHINING LIGHT AWARD FINALISTS

Kimberly’s Illicit Process

WORLD POLICY JOURNAL, ANGOLA, DRC, UNITED STATES (2013) Team: Khadija Sharife and John Grobler.

YanukovychLeaks

YANUKOVYCHLEAKS.COM, UKRAINE (2014–15) Team: Dmytro Gnap; Anna Babinets; Vlad Lavrov; Oleksandr Akimenko; Katya Gorchinskaya; Natalie Sedletska; Oleh Khomenok; Mariya Zemlyanska; Olesya Ivanova; Maksym Opanasenko; Kateryna Kapliuk; Denys Bigus.

The investigation exposed how US$3.5 billion in illicit diamond revenue flowing from Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo was laundered using the legitimacy of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme.

In the chaotic days of Ukraine’s 2014 revolution, an impromptu team of journalists banded together to rescue 25,000 documents nearly destroyed by the country’s fleeing president. Their work documented an extraordinary history of corruption and became evidence in criminal cases against Yanukovych and his cronies for stealing millions of dollars.

The President’s ‘White House

Cyprus Troika

HETQ.AM, ARMENIA (2013) Team: Edik Baghdasaryan; Kristine Aghalaryan; Ararat Davtyan.

ARISTEGUI NOTICIAS, MEXICO (2014) Team: Rafael Cabrera; Carmen Aristegui; Daniel Lizarraga; Sebastián Barragán; Irving Huerta.

The ownership of a US$7 million mansion for Mexico’s president was hidden, registered under a group owned by a businessman whose enterprises grew along with the president’s political career.

Four months after the story’s release, all the journalists involved in this story were fired.

Armenia’s HETQ exposed the murky dealings of an offshore company registered in Cyprus, revealing how the country’s state, church and business sectors cooperate in pursuing their economic interests. The story implicated the Prime Minister, who resigned in April 2014.

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Birkebeineren Hotel & Apartments

Clarion Collection Hotel Hammer

Mølla Hotell

Scandic Victoria Lillehammer

Lillehammer Railway Station

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Speakers and participants There are more than 840 participants at GIJC2015, from 121 countries.

These are just a handful of the colleagues you’ll meet and learn from during the conference. For a full list of speakers and participants, visit our homepage at gijc2015.org

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MUSIKILU MOJEED

is member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, is an award-winning journalist and Managing Editor at Nigeria’s multimedia newspaper, Premium Times. He was until 2011 Investigative Editor at Nigeria’s NEXT newspaper where he directed the groundbreaking investigative work of that newspaper. He also coordinated the paper’s WikiLeaks coverage.

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MARGO SMIT

is an independent investigative journalist and journalism teacher.

She is currently the ombudsman at Dutch public broadcaster NOS. Till august 2015, she was director of the Dutch-Flemish Association of Investigative Journalists VVOJ. In 2012, she lead a team of over 80 European journalists to compile the report ‘Deterrence of fraud with EU-funds through investigative journalism in EU-27’. Smit is a member of IRE, GIJN and ICIJ.

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KHADIJA SHARIFE

is a forensics financial researcher and writer based in South Africa.

She works with the African Network of Centers for Investigative Reporting (ANCIR), is a fellow with the World Policy Institute, and author of Tax Us If You Can: Africa.

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CECILIA ANESI

is a reporter with Correct!v, the German centre for investigative journalism and a member and founder of the Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI), a centre for investigative journalism in Italy. Before creating IRPI, she co-authored the investigative journalism documentary Toxic Europe which won the Best International Organised Crime Report Award 2011

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HELENA BENGTSSON

is Editor, Data Projects at the Guardian in London, UK. She previously worked as the database editor at Sveriges Television, Sweden’s national television broadcaster. In 2006 and 2007, she was database editor at the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C. In 2010, she was awarded the Stora Journalistpriset (Great Journalism Award) for Valpejl.se, a website profiling every candidate in that season’s Swedish elections.

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FIRAS FAYYAD

is a from Syria. 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, offers tips to foreign journalists investigating the trail of Europe’s biggest immigration crisis in decades.

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BRANT HOUSTON

is the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Chair in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting and teaches investigative and advanced reporting in the Department of Journalism at the University of Illinois. He is a founder and chair of the board of Diretors for the Investigative News Network, a consortium of nonprofit investigative news organizations

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MARGOT WILLIAMS

is research editor for investigations at The Intercept, previously at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), NPR, The New York Times and the Washington Post.

She has pursued jihadists online and detainees who died in U.S. immigration detention, investigated war contractors and followed the money (and private jets) of mayors, governors, senators, presidential candidates, and ex-presidents.

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SASHA CHAVKIN is a reporter for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

He was ICIJs lead reporter for the Evicted & Abandoned investigation, which explored forced displacement and human rights abuses in development projects funded by the World Bank.

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MAR CABRA

is the head of the Data & Research Unit, which produces the organization›s key data work and also develops tools for better collaborative investigative journalism. She has been an ICIJ staff member since 2011, and is also a member of the network.

Mar fell in love with data while being a Fulbright scholar and fellow at the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University in 2009/2010. Since then, she’s promoted data journalism in her native Spain, co-creating the first ever masters degree on investigative reporting, data journalism and visualization and the national data journalism conference, which gathers more than 500 people every year.

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SAMI AL-HAJJ

is originally from Sudan. He was arrested by the Pakistani Army while working for Al Jazeera in Afghanistan in 2001.

After six years and seven months as a prisoner of the United States at Guanatanamo Bay, he was released as a free man. Today he heads Al Jazeera’s Public Liberties and Human Rights Centre and a board members of International Press Institute (IPI).

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ANDREW FEINSTEIN

is a former ANC Member of Parliament from South Africa. He is the author of “After the Party: The ANC, Corruption & South Africa’s Uncertain Future” and “The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade”. He is currently working on a full-length documentary feature of ‘Shadow World’ with director Johan Grimonprez. He is the Executive Director of Corruption Watch in London.

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UMAR CHEEMA

is an investigative reporter for the Pakistani newspaper The News. In 2008, was a fellow for Daniel Pearl Journalism Fellowship, and was the first to work for The New York Times. Cheema was also a fellow for London School of Economics by Chevening Scholarship, where has a master’s in Compared Politics.

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ROSEMARY NWAEBUNI

is an investigative reporter with the POINTER newspaper in Delta State, Nigeria. Among her stories is Corruption Paid for in Lives in Nigeria’s Delta State, her investigation into the sorry state of health care in her region of Nigeria. She has a knack for getting to the root of issues by digging deep through thorough investigation; holding corrupt officials and criminals to account for their actions. Her passion for exposing societal ills and bringing perpetrators to justice as her driving force led her into several investigative works such as Corruption Paid in Lives in Delta State Nigeria; and Nigeria, a though Place for a widow (Disinheritance: A cultural tool of Violence against Women) funded by Forum for African Investigative Reporters (FAIR).

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ANDREW LEHREN

is a Reporter at The New York Times, and has worked on a range of national, international, and investigative stories. He was one of the newspaper’s lead Reporters analyzing the Wikileaks trove of diplomatic cables, Afghanistan and Iraq war logs, and Guantanamo detainee dossiers. Highlights from those stories were compiled into a bestselling book, Open Secrets.

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IMMANUEL LIU

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is an Oscar-nominated director, graduated from the cinematography division of the Cinematography Institute of the Russian Federation. She has worked on various movies as producer, director, cinematographer, and still photographer. In 2002, she was awarded Best Producer of Documentary and Short Fiction Movies in Poland for Railway Station Ballad. In 2004 she completed work on The Children of Leningradsky in collaboration with HBO. The movie received an Oscar nomination (2005), an IDA Award, two Emmy nominations, and the Gracie Allen Award, among others.

Hanna has been advocating the case of homeless children all over the world. She founded and collaborated with Active Child Aid foundation and collaborates with UNICEF.

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RAFAEL MARQUES DE MORAIS

is the editor of Maka Angola. Hes an investigative journalist and anti-corruption activist from Angola.

Educated at Oxford he began his career in journalism in the state-owned newspaper “Jornal de Angola” but was soon fired for his articles critical of president Jose Eduardo dos Santos. In 1999 his articles also landed him in jail for the first time.

ANA ARANHA

is an investigative reporter based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She frequently covers the Amazon, her last stories followed the impacts of large power plants, illegal logging and indigenous population. She collaborates with national and international media and has written for the Guardian Weekly, El Mundo and the Brazilian branches of Marie Claire, Rolling Stones and GQ. From 2004 to 2011

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is an investigative reporter with China’s Southern Weekly newspaper. She formerly worked for the business publication Caixin, and was honored with Reporter of the Year for her coverage of the envrionment.

Most recently she reported on the recent explosions in the city of Tianjin. | For the last 7 years, Liu Yiman has reported many environmental issues in China.

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HANNA POLAK

MARINA WALKER GUEVARA is deputy director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, an independent network of reporters headquartered in Washington, DC. A native of Argentina, her investigations have won and shared more than 25 national and international awards

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JULIANA RUHFUS

began reporting and investigating for the BBC in 1997. The following years she produced investigations for the BBC and Channel 4 from as diverse places as Somalia, Yemen and Haiti, before joining AlJazeera in 2006 as a chief reporter on the People and Power-program. She is today a senior presenter at the network.

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PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY 7th OCTOBER

THURSDAY 8th OCTOBER

14:00–15.30 › Safety and security [S] New Insights into Trauma and Journalism Venue: Troll Moderators: Trond Idaås The old model of PTSD suggests that trauma trouble starts when a sense of overwhelming threat breaks down people’s natural defences. This discussion will look at recent research and ask what relevance it has for working journalists.

09:00–10:30 Opening Ceremony Venue: Lillehammer 1–2 Speakers: Jan Gunnar Furuly, Brant Houston & David E. Kaplan Welcome to the ninth Global Investigative Journalism Conference! Please join your hosts SKUP and GIJN as we convene an extraordinary gathering of journalists from around the world and launch more than 160 panels, workshops, and special events.

15.30–16.00 Break

16:00–17:30 › Safety and security [S] Spreading Trauma Awareness Venue: Troll Moderators: Trond Idaås We’ll be looking at old and new approaches to spreading trauma awareness both in journalism schools and professional contexts.

17:30–18:00 Break

09:30–10:30 › Cross border investigations [R] Investigative Journalism Under Attack Venue: Lillehammer 1–2 Moderators: Margo Smit Speakers: Clare Rewcastle Brown, Umar Cheema, Rafael Marques de Morais, Drew Sullivan & Marcela Turati Reporting in many countries is getting more dangerous than ever. Journalists are increasingly harassed and arrested and independent media closed. Even family members of reporters are being arrested. In this panel, five courageous investigative reporters from four continents talk about their harrowing experiences with prosecutions, dirty tricks, and violent attacks.

Speakers: Alex Gimson This session is about extracting data from webpages without using any code.

11:00–12:00 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Email Encryption 1 Venue: Messanin 1–2 Speakers: Ola Haram & Fredrik Laurin This session will give you hands-on training with Mailvelope and other email clients.

11:00–12:00 › Data Presentation [T] data track: Internet Search - How To Find People 1 Venue: Birkebeiner 2 Moderators: Eva Jung Speakers: Henk van Ess In this Facebook and Twitter extravaganza you will learn the best tricks to find people fast.

11:00–12:00 › Non-profit track [F] How To Support Investigative Newsrooms Venue: Weidemann 3 Moderators: Günter Bartsch Speakers: Leila Bicakcic, David E. Kaplan & Valer Kot There are at least 150 nonprofit organizations in over 50 countries teaching and promoting investigative journalism. Here are invaluable tips from veterans in the field, with lessons from both successful nonprofits and for-profits.

18:00–21:00 Barbeque Dinner in the Garden 10:30–11:00 Coffee break 20:30–22:00 › Investigative Film Festival [I] Drone Venue: Weidemann 5 Moderators: Christine Engh Speakers: Tonje Hessen Schei Inside the secret CIA drone war. Intimate stories from the war on terror. People living under drones in Pakistan and drone pilots struggling with killing through joysticks in the US. 22:00–22:45 › Investigative Film Festival [I] Serbia: The Fight for Truth Venue: Weidemann 5 Moderators: Christine Engh Speakers: Erling Borgen & Tom Heinemann Brankica Stankovic is the editor and journalist of the most well-known documentary programs, the “Insider” on the TV-station B92. For five years she has been under constant police protection because she does her job as a critical investigative journalist.

22:45–23:30 › Investigative Film Festival Guatemala: Land of Terror Venue: Weidemann 5 Moderators: Christine Engh Speakers: Erling Borgen & Tom Heinemann Jose Ruben Zamora owns the newspaper El Periodico in Guatemala. The media exposes cocaine cartels and the country’s political corruption. He is threatened on his life and has been kidnapped. But Zamora refuses to remain silent.

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11:00–12:00 › Academic track [A] Approaches in Teaching Investigative Reporting Venue: Troll Moderators: Ying Chan Speakers: Wang Shiyu (Vincent) & Mark Lee Hunter The session will explore different ways of teaching investigative reporting.

11:00–12:00 › Cross border investigations [R] How To Investigate a Bank Venue: Lillehammer 1–2 Moderators: Gerard Ryle Speakers: Mar Cabra, David Leigh & Oliver Zihlmann Here’s the inside story of a collaborative investigation that exposed how the Swiss branch of one of the world’s biggest banks, HSBC, profited from doing business with tax dodgers and criminals around the world.

11:00–12:00 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Basic Excel 1 Venue: Birkebeiner 1 Moderators: Crina Boros & Yolanda Jinxin Ma This session will teach you the basics you need to turn tabular data into headlines and to edit your spreadsheet for user-friendly team work.

11:00–12:00 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Webscraping without Programming 1 Venue: Weidemann 4

11:00–12:00 › Safety and security [S] How Can We Better Protect Investigative Journalists?

Venue: Weidemann 5 Moderators: Vivienne Walt Speakers: Chris Elliott, Xianhong Hu, Thorbjørn Jagland, Abeer Saady, Rana Sabbagh, Anna Schiller & Bruce Shapiro Investigative journalists experience threats and violence against themselves, their family and colleagues. This session adresses what strategies that are most effective to stop persecution and violence against journalists doing their jobs.

12:00–12:30 Break

12:30–13:30 › Academic track [A] A Sustaining High Quality Journalism Venue: Troll Moderators: Chuck Lewis Speakers: Anya Schiffrin Chuck Lewis will moderate and offer his observations from more than three decades of work in the nonprofit sector on how high quality journalism has been sustained and could be sustained.

12:30–13:30 › Corruption and organized crime [C] Investigating the Italian Mafia in Africa Venue: Weidemann 3 Moderators: Wilfried Ruetten Speakers: Cecilia Anesi, John Grobler, Giulio Rubino & Khadija Sharife

PROGRAM

In this session the speakers will discuss how they worked with complicated cross-border issues.

12:30–13:30 › Cross border investigations [R] Revealing Kremlin money Venue: Lillehammer 3 Moderators: Oleg Khomenok Speakers: Roman Anin & Stephen Grey Roman Anin and Stephen Grey will tell you how they set up a multinational team at Reuters to discover the money trail from the taxpayer to Putin’s friends.

12:30–13:30 › Cross border investigations [R] The Migrants' Files Venue: Lillehammer 1–2 Moderators: Sheila S. Coronel Speakers: Anne-Lise Bouyer, Firas Fayyad & Sylke Gruhnwald “The Migrants’ Files” is a consortium of journalists from over 15 European countries. It is focused on examing the human and financial cost of 15 years of “Fortress Europe.”

12:30–13:30 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Basic Excel 2 Venue: Birkebeiner 1 Moderators: Crina Boros & Yolanda Jinxin Ma This session will teach you the basics you need to turn tabular data into headlines and to edit your spreadsheet for user-friendly team work.

12:30–13:30 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Email Encryption 2 Venue: Messanin 1-2 Speakers: Ola Haram & Fredrik Laurin This session will give you hands-on training with Mailvelope and other email clients.

12:30–13:30 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Webscraping without Programming 2 Venue: Weidemann 4 Speakers: Alex Gimson This session is about extracting data from webpages without using any code.

12:30–13:30 › Data Presentation [T] data track: Internet Search – How To Find People 2 Venue: Birkebeiner 2 Speakers: Henk van Ess In this Facebook and Twitter extravaganza you will learn the best tricks to find people fast.

12:30–13:30 › Lightning rounds [L] Visualization Venue: Weidemann 5 Moderators: Jennifer LaFleur Speakers: Islam Alzeny, Rodrigo Burgarelli, Dan Kåre Engebretsen, Govindraj Ethiraj, Deborah Nelson & Natalia Viana 12:30–13:30 › Networking [N] Environmental Reporting Venue: Meetingroom Laagen

13:30–15:00 Lunch

15:00–16:00 › Data Presentation [T] data track: 100 Best Databases for Internet Research Venue: Birkebeiner 2 Moderators: Andrew Lehren Speakers: Gary Price & Margot Williams Take home tips for backgrounding people and companies, tracking planes and ships, finding elusive documents, and more.

15:00–16:00 › Academic track [A] Teaching Computer-Assisted Reporting Venue: Troll Moderators: David Donald Speakers: Brant Houston, Nils Mulvad & Giannina Segnini This session will incorporate decades of experience in teaching students, faculty and professionals how to use data for journalism.

15:00–16:00 › Environmental [E] Investigating Environmental Crime: Illegal Logging Venue: Lillehammer 1–2 Moderators: Subhra Priyadarshini Speakers: Ana Aranha, Patrick Dunagan, Paul Radu & Stefano Wrobleski This panel will take you through the growing capability of satellite imagery at Skybox and other service providers, combined with and advanced “follow the money” and other reporting techniques.

15:00–16:00 › Corruption and organized crime [C] Finding Africa’s missing money Venue: Weidemann 5 Moderators: Derek Thorne Speakers: Rex Chikoko, Musikilu Mojeed, John Reynolds & Khadija Sharife The session will feature participants in the Wealth of Nations programme which works with Africa’s leading journalists and media houses to report on illicit finance and tax abuse.

15:00–16:00 › Networking [N] Cross-Border Projects (Latin America) Venue: Meetingroom Laagen Moderators: Carlos Eduardo Huertas, Fabiola Torres Lopez & Marcela Turati Here’s a chance to meet your colleagues interested in similar topics To better connect people, we have arranged a dozen networking sessions, based on interests noted by our attendees in a pre-conference survey.

15:00–16:00 › Cross border investigations [R] How to Investigate the World Bank (and Other Aid Orgs) Using Their Own Data Venue: Lillehammer 3 Moderators: Sheila S. Coronel Speakers: Sasha Chavkin, Lourdes Ramírez & Cecile Schillis-Gallego The panelists will offer tips on how to investigate development aid, drawing on the lessons of the World Bank project.

15:00–16:00 › Safety and security [S] Protecting Your Health While Covering Human Tragedy Venue: Weidemann 3 Moderators: Gavin Rees Speakers: Cait McMahon & Juliana Ruhfus This panel will offer practical advice, drawing on personal experience and the latest scientific insight into self-care and trauma.

Moderators: Nils Mulvad & Subhra Priyadarshini Here’s a chance to meet your colleagues interested in similar topics To better connect people, we have arranged a dozen networking sessions, based on interests noted by our attendees in a pre-conference survey.

15:00–16:00 › Cross border investigations [R] Step-by-Step Cross-Border Journalism Venue: Weidemann 4 Speakers: Brigitte Alfter Brigitte Alfter presents a step-by-step description of the process from idea to publication and beyond.

15:00–16:00 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Introduction to Access 1 Venue: Birkebeiner 1 Speakers: Helena Bengtsson & Luuk Sengers Introduction to databases. Take the next step in data journalism and learn how to work with MS Access.

15:00–16:00 › Data Hands-On [D] How To Create a Secure Leaks Platform Venue: Messanin 1-2 Moderators: Emilia Díaz-Struck Speakers: Cecilia Anesi & Micah Lee

15:00–17:30 › Social event [V] Data Pub Venue: Bagler'n Data-Pub Every day after lunch you can meet colleagues ready to help with your data journalism ideas, data problems, data security, program installation, data challenges, data journalism opportunities… And, yes, it's a pub!

16:00–16:30 Coffee break

16:30–17:30 › Corruption and organized crime [C] Reporting on Organized crime Venue: Lillehammer 1–2 Moderators: Drew Sullivan Speakers: Cecilia Anesi & Stevan Dojcinovic Learn about the latest trends in organized crime and how it is changing its face and blending even more seamlessly into politics and the financial industry

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16:30–17:30 › Cross border investigations [R] Covering China: Tips and Best Practices Venue: Lillehammer 3 Moderators: Ying Chan Speakers: Immanuel Liu, Christine Spolar & Wei Zhou China is now the world’s second largest economy.

This poses unique challenges for investigative journalists. Here are three perspectives from veteran journalists both inside and outside of China.

16:30–17:30 › Cross border investigations [R] How To Investigate Development Issues Moderators: Diana Lungu Speakers: Eva Belmonte Belda, Gilles van Kote & Stefano Liberti This panel will discuss how their investigations came about and what challenges they have faced in covering development and how to overcome these.

16:30–17:30 › Cross border investigations [R] The New Cold War Venue: Weidemann 3 Moderators: Kristof Clerix Speakers: Nataliya Gumenyuk, Per Anders Johansen, Bård Wormdal & Mikhail Zygar What is happening behind the scenes after the Russian Federation annexed Crimea and the start of the war in Eastern Ukraine? How to report on the real life, cyber and satellite battlefields? In this panel, four journalists shed their light on these questions from different points of view.

16:30–17:30 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Basic Coding for Journalists Venue: Messanin 1-2 Speakers: Adriana Homolova & Tommy Kaas In this session you’ll get an introduction to the fundamentals of programming. If you have no prior knowledge of programming you might want to start with this session.

16:30–17:30 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: DocumentCloud, analyzing huge text amounts Venue: Weidemann 4 Speakers: Rob Gebeloff & Nils Mulvad Here’s how to organize your document trail. DocumentCloud is a good first step into this world. And with just an hour of practical training, you’ll be up and running with this free tool.

16:30–17:30 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Introduction to Access 2 Venue: Birkebeiner 1 Speakers: Helena Bengtsson & Luuk Sengers Introduction to databases. Take the next step in data journalism and learn how to work with MS Access.

16:30–17:30 › Data Presentation [T] How to Become an Instant Expert through Google Venue: Birkebeiner 2 Moderators: Margot Williams Speakers: Daniel Russell

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You need to do a story on a topic that’s completely outside of your experience. In this mini-course I’ll show you the strategies and tactics I use to learn a domain as rapidly as possible.

16:30–17:30 › Manage your investigations [M] The Magic and Power of Audio Storytelling Venue: Troll Speakers: Sandra Bartlett & Huub Jaspers In this session you will get the tools you need to produce an audio version of your print or video investigation, or to produce radio and podcast stories.

16:30–17:30 › Networking [N] New Models & Nonprofits Venue: Meetingroom Laagen Moderators: Govindraj Ethiraj & Teun Gautier Here’s a chance to meet your colleagues interested in similar topics To better connect people, we have arranged a dozen networking sessions, based on interests noted by our attendees in a pre-conference survey.

16:30–18:00 › Data Pub [P] Download software for SQL Venue: Bagler'n Data-Pub Speakers: David Donald Andrew Lehren Microsoft Access is the way to start. Of course, it’s only available on Windows. Here you will get tips on how to get started with SQL with various types of applications on different operating systems.

18:30–20:00 Dinner (Restaurant)

20:00–21:00 Welcome Reception (Lillehammer 3)

20:00–23:00 › Social event [V] CryptoParty Venue: Bagler'n Data-Pub Moderators: Ola Haram This event is dedicated to sharing the art of encryption to anyone interested in learning how to install and use tools to help secure their online communications and exchange public keys.

21:00–22:30 › Investigative Film Festival [I] Something Better To Come Venue: Weidemann 5 Moderators: Christine Engh Speakers: Hanna Polak Ten-year-old Yula, has but one dream—to escape the largest garbage dump in Europe and lead a normal life. Hanna Polak follows Yula as she grows up for 14 years in this universal story of hope, courage, and life.

22:30–23:0 › Investigative Film Festival [I] Ghana's Food for Thought (Al Jazeera) Venue: Weidemann 5

Moderators: Christine Engh Speakers: Anas Aremeyaw Anas Following the discovery of oil in 2010, Ghana is on the road to becoming one of Africa’s more economically successful countries. But it is not quite there yet and still ranks 138th out of 187 countries in the 2014 Human Development Index. Ghanaian journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas undercover investigation reveals how officials of the Ghanaian Health Service are stealing and selling it for their own gain.

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FRIDAY 9th OCTOBER 09:00–10:00 › Cross border investigations [R] Telia Sonera: How To Track Corruption Across Borders Venue: Lillehammer 1–2 Speakers: Sven Bergman, Joachim Dyfvermark & Fredrik Laurin This case study in international cooperation was a collaboration between Swedish Public TV and numerous journalists abroad, revealing how telecom giant Telia Sonera bribed hard-line dictatorships to get access to new virgin markets in Eurasia. The panelists will explain their methods and the tricks and trade of international cooperation.

09:00–10:00 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Cleaning Dirty Data Venue: Weidemann 4 Speakers: Crina Boros & Rob Gebeloff We’ll use real data sets to teach you how to track problems, how to clean dirty data, and how to format it for a confident analysis.

To participate in this class, you must be familiar with spreadsheets and have some experience with SQL. 09:00–10:00 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Encryption of Your Laptop and USB Sticks 1 Messanin (Data Hands-On) Speakers: Ola Haram & Runa Sandvik 09:00–10:00 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Pivot Tables in Excel Venue: Birkebeiner 1 Speakers: Anuska Delic & Megan Luther Learn how to summarize data in minutes rather than hours on your spreadsheet with pivot tables.

09:00–10:00 › Data Presentation [T] data track: Visualize Your Findings Venue: Birkebeiner 2 Moderators: Linda Larsson Kakuli Speakers: Jennifer LaFleur & Jodi Upton In this session you will see different ways of working with data, with examples from USA Today, ProPublica, and the Center for Investigative Reporting.

10:00–10:30 Coffee break

10:30–11:30 › Academic track [A] Investigative Journalism with Students Venue: Troll Moderators: Mark Horvit Speakers: Sheila S. Coronel & Deborah Nelson These veteran journalists and professors will share the lessons learned in producing high quality and often award winning stories with students on both local and international stories.

10:30–11:30 › Cross border investigations [R] How To Expose a Tax Haven

Venue: Lillehammer 1–2 Moderators: Kristof Clerix Speakers: Simon Bowers, Marina Walker Guevara & Edouard Perrin LuxLeaks exposed in a systematic way how Luxembourg operates as a tax haven in the heart of the continent. Team members explain how with the help of digital tools, data mining, and tax experts they transformed 28,000 pages of nearly incomprehensible accountancy lingo into stories that triggered a “tax storm” in Europe and beyond.

10:30–11:30 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Encryption of your Laptop and USB Sticks 2 Venue: Messanin Speakers: Ola Haram & Runa Sandvik 10:30–11:30 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Investigative Dashboard 1 – Follow the Money Worldwide Venue: Weidemann 3 Moderators: Nils Hanson Speakers: Miranda Patrucic Join us for this two-part, hands on-session and learn how to investigate complex business structures and access offshore records from your home computer.

In part one we will talk investigations and how-to.

10:30–11:30 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Lookup Functions/Advanced Functions in Excel Venue: Birkebeiner 1 Speakers: Anuska Delic & Megan Luther Learn about advanced tricks in Excel that will blow your mind and give you control over your data like never before. We’ll conquer common data-cleaning issues and much more.

10:30–11:30 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Tableau 1, Beginners Session Venue: Weidemann 4 Speakers: Florian Ramseger & Sophie Sparkes earn how to create beautiful, interactive data visualizations on short deadlines. No programming required. Please bring your own laptop with Tableau Public already installed. (Please visit https://public. tableau.com/s/ to download the free Tableau Public Desktop application.)

10:30–11:30 › Data Presentation [T] data track: 10 Ways To Deal with PDFs Venue: Birkebeiner 2 Moderators: Nils Mulvad Speakers: Rob Gebeloff When it comes to liberating data from PDF files, there are many options. But a solution that works great for one project might not be the best fit for your next story. In this session, we’ll walk through a number of different software packages, including many that are free or inexpensive, and demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of each.

10:30–11:30 › Data Presentation [T] Metadata and Mobile Spying Venue: Weidemann 5 Moderators: Brigitte Alfter Speakers: Andreas Bakke Foss, Fredrik HagerThoresen, Per Anders Johansen, Eva Jung & Lars Nørgaard Pedersen Snowden revealed how the American and British intelligence services systematically intercept metadata from the world’s population. Danish project #Sporet (in English #Tracked) made the debate concrete and demonstrated how detailed one can identify peoples’ thoughts and living patterns solely by using so-called metadata. A team from daily Aftenposten wanted to find out how often this technology was used in Norway, and whether its use was legal. Here is the first story they broke.

10:30–11:30 › Masterclass [1] Documentary Film Making Venue: Meetingroom B (Under reception desk) Moderators: Helene Skjeggestad Speakers: Hanna Polak “Something Better to Come,” is a documentary that shows us life on Europe’s largest garbage dump.

Hanna will talk about the process of developing a story and developing the hypothesis to prove it.

This is a Masterclass with a maximum capacity of 40-45 participants.

10:30–11:30 › Manage your investigations [M] Working with Whistleblowers Venue: Lillehammer 3 Moderators: Leon Willems Speakers: Daniel Lizárraga, Yasmine Motarjemi & Anna Myers Whistle Blowers are becoming increasingly important sources for investigative journalists. What is the realm of responsibility that journalists have for source protection? How can we improve the fate of whistleblowers? Those are some of the questions this panel will address.

10:30–11:30 › Networking [N] Conflict Reporting Venue: Meetingroom Laagen Moderators: Vivienne Walt Here’s a chance to meet your colleagues interested in similar topics To better connect people, we have arranged a dozen networking sessions, based on interests noted by our attendees in a pre-conference survey.

11:30–12:00 Break

12:00–13:00 › Academic track [A] Studies of Cross Border Investigations Venue: Troll Moderators: Chuck Lewis Speakers: Anas Aremeyaw Anas & Evelyn Groenink Chuck Lewis explores the efficacy and potential of

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increased journalistic and academic data, research and reporting collaboration, in the context of credible, accountability information. Evelyn Groenik and Anas Aremeyaw Anas will explore how get African investigative journalism on international platforms.

12:00–13:00 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Advanced Access Venue: Birkebeiner 1 Speakers: Helena Bengtsson & Luuk Sengers We continue to work with MS Access, learning how to upload spreadsheets and text files into your database. For this session you need to bring your computer with a locally installed version of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access. If you dont have that, go to the Data-Pub and get it installed before you join us.

12:00–13:00 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Investigative Dashboard 2 – Follow the Money Worldwide Venue: Weidemann 3 Speakers: Miranda Patrucic & Paul Radu Join us for a two-part hands on session and learn how to investigate complex business structures and access offshore records from your home computer.

In part one we will talk investigations and how to.

12:00–13:00 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Tableau 2, Advanced session Venue: Weidemann 4 Speakers: Florian Ramseger & Sophie Sparkes In this session you will learn how to break away from the default formatting in Tableau Public to create interactive data graphics that match your style guides and engage your readers. Tableau Public is a free tool for journalists. Some familiarity with the product is recommended; a beginner session earlier in the day should prepare you enough for this session. Please bring your own laptop with Tableau Public already installed. (Please visit https://public.tableau.com/s/ to download the free Tableau Public Desktop application.)

12:00–13:00 › Data Presentation [T] Building Your Own Research Database Venue: Birkebeiner 2 Moderators: Crina Boros Speakers: Hamoud Almahmoud, Eva Constantaras & Khadija Sharife In this session, Hamoud Almahmoud, in charge of setting up the Arab world’s first data and research center, shares his drive to collecting on-line/offline records in 18 Arab countries where the right to access information is non-existent.

12:00–13:00 › Environmental [E] How to Turn your Reporting into a Game Venue: Lillehammer 3 Moderators: Reg Chua Speakers: Ivan Giordano & Juliana Ruhfus Pirate Fishing is a groundbreaking interactive web game that allows users to act as journalists

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exposing the multi-million dollar illegal fishing trade affecting West Africa’s poorest people. By watching clips, the user follows the process of evidence gathering: destroyed nets, photos of ships with hidden names, and snapshots of crew members. At the end of each clip the user must enter the evidence into the right section of the notebook to score points and to advance in status.

12:00–13:00 › Manage your investigations [M] How To Handle Documents Venue: Lillehammer 1–2 Moderators: Mark Horvit Speakers: James B. Steele This session will explore how to find obscure reports and documents on persons, institutions, companies and programs – valuable information that is often otherwise unattainable. It will also offer practical guidelines on how to analyze documents and reports to unleash their full investigative power.

12:00–13:00 › Networking [N] Reporting on Poverty & Development Venue: Meetingroom Laagen Moderators: Sasha Chavkin & Diana Lungu Here’s a chance to meet your colleagues interested in similar topics To better connect people, we have arranged a dozen networking sessions, based on interests noted by our attendees in a pre-conference survey.

12:00–13:00 › Non-profit track [F] Fundraising for your Investigation Venue: Weidemann 5 Moderators: Kunda Dixit Speakers: Bridget Gallagher, Algirdas Lipstas & Leon Willems Despite more than 150 nonprofits engaged in investigative journalism worldwide, most groups are struggling for money. Many fail to apply their own reporting techniques to finding donors and to invest in “development.” There’s money out there, and our field continues to grow. but you need to have a solid strategy and a strong commitment. Here are three experts who can help guide your way.

12:00–15:00 › Cross border investigations [R] Exposing International Wrongdoing with Code and Journalism Venue: Meetingroom B (Under reception desk) Speakers: Mar Cabra, Rigoberto Carvajal, Emilia Díaz-Struck & Giannina Segnini If you ever wondered how can journalists and programmers work together to produce brilliant investigations, this is your workshop. We will use shipping data – coming sometimes from obscure websites – to find unknown patterns and interesting stories.

13:00–14:30 Lunch

14:30–15:30 › Academic track [A] Studies on Data Journalism Venue: Troll Speakers: Oscar Parra Castellanos & Ivonne Rodríguez Castellanos and Rodriguez will describe the data methodology behind Rutas del Conflicto, a project created in 2014 that collected information from more than 700 massacres committed in Colombia.

14:30–15:30 › Corruption and organized crime [C] Reporting on Money Laundering Venue: Weidemann 3 Moderators: Paul Radu Speakers: Roman Anin, Miranda Patrucic & Leonida Reitano What are the signs of money laundering and how do you report on it? What makes something money laundering? Here’s a look at some of the most significant cases proven by journalists.

14:30–15:30 › Cross border investigations [R] How To Investigate the Arms Trade Venue: Lillehammer 3 Moderators: Tarjei Leer-Salvesen Speakers: Kristoffer Egeberg, Andrew Feinstein & Paul Holden Two of the central people behind exposing South Africa’s big arms and corruption scandal share their insights. They are joined by Kristoffer Egeberg from Norway’s daily Dagbladet, who investigated how the Norwegian Defence Ministry illegally sold an entire fleet of naval ships to paramilitary forces in Nigeria. Egeberg this year won SKUP’s top award for his reporting on the story. Paul Holden and Andrew Feinstein played important roles in exposing the South Africa’s big arms and corruption scandal.

14:30–15:30 › Cross border investigations [R] Investigations in the Middle East: Focus on ISIS/ Daesh Venue: Lillehammer 1–2 Moderators: Terje Carlsson Speakers: Joakim Medin, Rana Sabbagh & Hanene Zbiss A panel discussion with focus on the latest developments in the Middle East. How are journalists able to find reliable sources when investigating extremist groups such as ISIS/Daesh? How can reporters increase their knowledge about ISIS/ Daesh? What stories are not being told, now that refugees and spectacular acts of violence are dominating the news?

14:30–15:30 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Basic Math for Managing Data Venue: Weidemann 4 Speakers: Brant Houston This session will look at basic calculations for overview analysis of data, showing ways to quickly find stories through ratios, rates, percentage change, and summarizing data with pivot tables.

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14:30–15:30 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Security Apps for Text and Voice Venue: Messanin Speakers: Ola Haram & Runa Sandvik How can you secure your smartphone communications? This session will teach you how to establish encrypted mobile voice and text communication.

14:30–15:30 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Stats for Stories 1 - Descriptive Statistics Venue: Birkebeiner 1 Speakers: David Donald & Andrew Lehren This session introduces using statistics for stories. It will cover a more systematic way of thinking about your approach to data and then applying your new understanding through descriptive statistics with an emphasis on storytelling. Familiarity with spreadsheets is necessary but no experience with statistics is assumed.

14:30–15:30 › Data Presentation [T] data track: Are the Rumors True? Learn How To Check Them!

Venue: Birkebeiner 2 Moderators: Rina Tsubaki Speakers: Henk van Ess There is new pope appointed. How can you validate in just 30 minutes connections with dictator Videla, if any? A Syrian reporter claims Gadaffi is killed. Your mission, if you accept it, is to prove he is wrong or right that night. A prototype of a new plane lands secretly in Amsterdam. Everyone denies. How do you proof it’s true?

14:30–15:30 › Lightning rounds [L] My Favorite Data Tool Venue: Weidemann 5 Moderators: Henrik Bergsten Speakers: Helena Bengtsson, Crina Boros, Anuska Delic, Rob Gebeloff, Sylke Gruhnwald, Tommy Kaas, Linda Larsson Kakuli, Jennifer LaFleur, Megan Luther & Chan Ka Wai Data journalism on steroids! Some of the best trainers in the world have got five minutes each to present their favourite data tool.

14:30–15:30 › Networking [N] Cross-Border Projects (Europe) Venue: Meetingroom Laagen Moderators: Brigitte Alfter, Rachel Oldroyd & Andras Pethö Here’s a chance to meet your colleagues interested in similar topics To better connect people, we have arranged a dozen networking sessions, based on interests noted by our attendees in a pre-conference survey.

14:30–16:00 › Data Pub [P] Investigating Budgets Venue: Bagler'n Data-Pub Speakers: Adriana Homolova Quantitative approaches to investigating pub-

lic budgets and spending: what works and what doesn’t. You will get examples of best practices on reporting on budgets, basically how to report big numbers, what you can and can’t compare.

14:30–18:30 › Social event [V] Data Pub Venue: Bagler'n Data-Pub Every day after lunch you can meet colleagues ready to help with your data journalism ideas, data problems, data security, program installation, data challenges, data journalism opportunities... And, yes, it's a pub!

15:30–16:00 Break

16:00–17:00 › Academic track [A] A Case Study of Investigative Training in Mongolia Venue: Troll Moderators: Mark Lee Hunter Speakers: Munkhmandakh Myagmar How do you structure an investigative journalism training program in a country with no tradition of it? Here’s what the Deutsche Welle Akademie did by partnering with the Mongolian Press Institute and veteran trainers from the global investigative journalism community.

16:00–17:00 › Cross border investigations [R] TV Investigations in the Arab World Venue: Lillehammer 1–2 Moderators: Rana Sabbagh Speakers: Ahmed Soliman Nawar, Ahmed El Shamy & Musab Shawabkeh “Egypt’s Environmental Crime” Journalist Ahmed Soliman Nawar, senior ARIJ multimedia editor, documents how primitive charcoal industries are harming the health of residents of Ahgour and endangering the environment in the absence of state measures to relocate this thriving industry amid official procrastination.

16:00–17:00 › Cross border investigations [R] Understanding Global Tax Dodging Venue: Weidemann 5 Moderators: Guilherme Alpendre Speakers: David Cay Johnston How multinational corporations literally turn a profit off taxes. How eliminating the corporate income tax will hurt developing countries (which depend on it).

16:00–17:00 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Cleaning Data with Open Refine Venue: Weidemann 4 Speakers: Rob Gebeloff & Nils Mulvad Open Refine is the best tool to clean really dirty data – the kind of data in which the same name might be spelled in 30 different ways. It has built-in cleaning tools for analysts and journalists.

16:00–17:00 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Python for Scraping 1 Venue: Messanin Speakers: Tommy Kaas & Tom Meagher An introduction to webscraping with Python: This two-part, hands-on workshop will teach basic newsroom programming concepts using the Python language. Prerequisites: Attendees should be familiar with HTML and the command line and be comfortable with databases and SQL. If you’ve ever written a string function in Excel (“=left(A2,5)”), you’ll be fine. Python has to be installed at your laptop before the training. Somebody can help you at the “Data Pub” on Thursday.

16:00–17:00 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Stats for Stories 2 - Statistical Significance Venue: Birkebeiner 1 Speakers: David Donald & Andrew Lehren This session builds on skills learned in Stats for Stories 1. Now that you have a familiar way to thinking statistically about your data, this session introduces the notion of statistical significance and how to use it to back up findings from cross tabulations. In a sense, it helps answer the questions: Is what I’m finding in my data worth reporting?

16:00–17:00 › Data Presentation [T] data track: Best Practices for Using Data in News Stories Venue: Weidemann 3 Speakers: Mark Horvit & Megan Luther In this session, we’ll take a global tour of the latest in investigative and data-based stories, highlighting innovations in analysis and presentation.

16:00–17:00 › Data Presentation [T] data track: Investigating Organized Crime with Open Data 1 Venue: Birkebeiner 2 Moderators: Helena Bengtsson Speakers: Giannina Segnini This session will show you all the amazing treasures you can find digging into international databases available online. Every commodity and commercial transaction in this world, from shoes to military weapons to ivory or chemical products can be tracked using online data, sometimes even in real time.

16:00–17:00 › Manage your investigations [M] How Other Investigators Do It Venue: Lillehammer 3 Moderators: Margo Smit Speakers: Joe Davidson, Anne Koch & Jim Mintz 16:00–17:00 › Networking [N] Cross-Border Projects (Global) Venue: Meetingroom Laagen Moderators: Marina Walker Guevara & Paul Radu Here’s a chance to meet your colleagues interested in similar topics To better connect people, we have arranged a dozen networking sessions, based on

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interests noted by our attendees in a pre-conference survey.

17:00–17:30 Coffee break

17:00–20:00 GIJN Membership Meeting Speakers: Brant Houston & David E. Kaplan Venue: Weidemann 5 The Global Investigative Journalism Network, our conference co-host, is a global association of 118 nonprofit organizations in 54 countries dedicated to the support, practice, and promotion of investigative journalism. Now a registered nonprofit with an elected board, GIJN has grown quickly since the secretariat was created in 2012, doubling its membership and drawing journalists to its website from 80 countries each day. Here in Lillehammer, GIJN is holding its every-two-year membership meeting.

There will be reports and discussion on its past and future, and presentations on where to hold the next global conference, GIJC17.

NOTE: Admission is limited to GIJN member organizations. For more information, contact secretariat@gijn.org.

17:30–18:30 › Academic track [A] Teaching Journalism and Trauma Venue: Troll Speakers: Trond Idås & Bruce Shapiro Crime, accidents, and crises are often covered by young journalists without training or working experience. For first responders, handling human tragedies and coping with stress reactions are part of one’s basic training. Some universities have experience giving these kinds of lessons. How they do it will be presented at this seminar.

17:30–18:30 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Python for Scraping 2 Venue: Messanin Speakers: Tommy Kaas & Tom Meagher This two-part, hands-on workshop will teach basic newsroom programming concepts using the Python language. Prerequisites: Attendees should be familiar with HTML and the command line and be comfortable with databases and SQL.

Venue: Weidemann 4 Moderators: Jodi Upton Speakers: Lena Groeger During this session, we’ll cover the fundamentals of good presentation, layout, and design, looking at lots of examples (both good and bad).

17:30–18:30 › Data Presentation [T] data track: Investigating Organized Crime with Open Data 2 Venue: Birkebeiner 2 Speakers: Giannina Segnini This session will show you all the amazing treasures you can find digging into international databases available online.

17:30–18:30 › Data Presentation [T] Google Search Methods – How To Find What You Didn't Know Existed Venue: Weidemann 3 Moderators: Margot Williams Speakers: Daniel Russell In this session, Daniel Russel will demonstrate many different methods and techniques for finding things you didn’t think could be found.

17:30–18:30 › Data Presentation [T] Journalists & Programmers: A Crucial Partnership Venue: Lillehammer 3 Moderators: Sanne Terlingen Speakers: Helena Bengtsson, Mar Cabra, Rigoberto Carvajal & Xaquín G.V Meet members of data teams who have worked together in successful investigations. They will talk in very practical terms about the key aspects of their relationship.

17:30–18:30 › Safety and security [S] What's Happening in Russia?

Venue: Lillehammer 1–2 Moderators: Valeria Helander Speakers: Roman Anin, Andrei Soldatov, Galina Timchenko & Mikhail Zygar Russia is one of the most powerful countries on earth and yet it is also one of the least understood.

Find out from three long-time reporters from Russia exactly what is happening in that country.

18:30–20:00 Dinner 17:30–18:30 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Stats for Stories 3 - Regression Analysis Venue: Birkebeiner 1 Speakers: David Donald & Andrew Lehren This final stats session, again building on skills learned in Stats for Stories 1 and 2, introduces one of the most powerful statistical procedures in the investigative reporter’s toolkit. We’ll cover regression analysis and the power it can add to your storytelling.

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20:00–21:15 › Investigative Film Festival [I] World Premiere – Assignment China: Follow the money Moderators: Christine Engh Venue: Restaurant Lillehammer 1–2 Speakers: Mike Chinoy “Follow the Money” is the final episode of Assignment China, a 12-part series chronicling the history of American correspondents in China from the 1940s to the present day produced by the U.S.-China Institute at the University of Southern California.

21:15–22:30 › Investigative Film Festival [I] India's Daughter Venue: Lillehammer 1–2 Moderators: Christine Engh Speakers: Leslee Udwin ‘India’s Daughter’ is the story about the gang-rape that hit our TV screens around the world in mid December 2012.

22:00–23:30 › Social event [V] The Muckrakers Live!

Venue: Park Dancing If you’ve been to any of the four last GIJCs, chances are you saw GIJN’s own band, The Muckrakers.

Formed at a jam at the first Lillehammer conference in 2008, the R&B group went on to play to packed crowds from around the world in Geneva, Kiev, and Rio. The international band — featuring Ana Simonovska on vocals (Macedonia), Mark Hunter on guitar (France/US), Dave Kaplan on harmonica (US), and Geir Aage Vollan on bass (Norway) — will return with its original cast to where it all began.

Bring your dancing shoes and come party as The Muckrakers burn through a set list of great R&B, boogie woogie, and rockin' blues, from Aretha and Ray Charles to Dylan and The Stones.

SATURDAY 10th OCTOBER 09:00–10:00 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Chat Encryption 1 Venue: Messanin Speakers: Ola Haram & Runa Sandvik This session will teach you how to establish encrypted chat. We will create a DuckDuckGo account, install Pidgin (PC) or Audium (Mac) and the Off The Record (OTR) plugin. Finally, we will exchange fingerprints and talk about general security surrounding the use of encrypted chat.

09:00–10:00 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Mapping with CartoDB 1 Venue: Weidemann 4 Speakers: Tommy Kaas In the two CartoDB sessions you’ll learn how to create interactive maps for the web. Carto DB is a free online tool so you don't need to install anything on your computer prior to the session. Bring your laptop to the session.

09:00–10:00 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Structured Query Language (SQL) for Reporters 1 Venue: Birkebeiner 1 Speakers: David Donald & Luuk Sengers This course introduces SQL with an emphasis on how it can help reporters manage data for deeper

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investigative dives into that data. Familiarity with spreadsheets is helpful but no experience with SQL or databases is assumed.

09:00–10:00 › Data Presentation [T] data track: MH17 : The Truth at Last?

Venue: Birkebeiner 2 Moderators: Rina Tsubaki Speakers: Eliot Higgins In this session award winning investigative journalist Eliot Higgins reviews the open source evidence of who was responsible for downing Flight MH17, 09:00–10:00 › Safety and security [S] Investigative Reporting in Repressive Regimes Venue: Lillehammer 1–2 Moderators: Patrick Butler Speakers: Rafael Marques de Morais Angolan investigative reporter and anti-corruption activist Rafael Marques de Morais is editor of the newssite MakaAngola and author of the book “Blood Diamonds; Corruption and Torture in Angola.”

10:00–10:30 Coffee break

10:30–11:30 › Academic track [A] roundtable: Creating and Maintaining an Investigative Journalism Curriculum Venue: Troll Moderators: Anton Harber Speakers: Rosental Alves, Ying Chan & Zhan Jiang This roundtable will explore how to create and maintain investigative journalism curricula in universities. It is expected to not only offer examples and experiences but to also be a wide-ranging conversation with all those in attendance.

10:30–11:30 › Cross border investigations [R] How To Investigate Modern Slavery Venue: Lillehammer 1–2 Moderators: Sidsel Wold Speakers: Tobore Ovuorie & Sean O’Driscoll The aim of this talk is to instruct others, to learn from our successes and failures and to alert them to the best ways of reporting the issues realted to modern slavery.

10:30–11:30 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Chat Encryption 2 Venue: Messanin Speakers: Ola Haram & Runa Sandvik Here’s how to securely communicate with sources and colleagues around the world. This session will teach you how to establish encrypted chat.

10:30–11:30 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Mapping with CartoDB 2 Venue: Weidemann 4 Speakers: Tommy Kaas In this second of two sessions you’ll learn to use more features in CartoDB. You will see how to

create a cloropleth map like this, and we will style the polygons so the different colors reflect different values in the dataset, we are visualizing. To join this session you must attend session 1 or have a basic knowledge of CartoDB. Bring your own laptop to the session.

10:30–11:30 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Structured Query Language (SQL) for Reporters 2 Venue: Birkebeiner 1 Speakers: David Donald & Luuk Sengers This session builds on skills learned in Structured Query Language for Reporters 1. Now that you’ve written your first SQL queries, expand you analytical power by learning to summarize and aggregate your data through SQL queries.

10:30–11:30 › Data Presentation [T] data track: Trust Your Data? Learn How To Evaluate It! Venue: Birkebeiner 2 Moderators: Rina Tsubaki Speakers: Giannina Segnini This session will show you how to fully capture the value of data and to evaluate its quality.

Moderators: Reg Chua Speakers: Teun Gautier, Christian Humborg & Kim Yong Jin Teun Gautier will talk about the results of a new study on new models, drawing on his own extensive experience with startups. Kim Yong Jin will explain the success of Newstapa, Korea’s video-based investigative nonprofit, which has more than 30,000 dues-paying members.

10:30–11:30 › Masterclass [1] Smartmojo 101 Guerrilla Workshop Venue: Meetingroom B (Under reception desk) Speakers: Ivo Burum The Smartmojo 101 Guerrilla Workshop is a threehour fast track introduction to mobile journalism.

Participants will learn how to shoot a basic sequence, use natural light, receive tips on recording clean audio, and learn how to edit this into a short UGS—all on their iPhone. This is a practical mojo workshop and you’ll need an iPhone loaded with the iMovie app.

11:30–12:00 Break

10:30–11:30 › Data Presentation [T] data track: Viz for Journalists Venue: Weidemann 5 Moderators: Megan Luther Speakers: Lena Groeger During this session, we’ll cover the basics of how to visually tell a clear, honest, and compelling journalistic story with data. We’ll learn how to think about presenting data visually, how and why it works, and how to do it the right way.

12:00–13:00 › Academic track [A] New Approaches in Teaching Journalism and Stories Venue: Troll Speakers: Werner Eggert & Marcel Metze In this session Eggert will discuss training consists of ‘attendance’ phases and ‘e-learning’ phases and proposing that blended learning can enrich continued training for working journalists and make it more efficient.

10:30–11:30 › Manage your investigations [M] Fact Check Your Story – Before It's Too Late Venue: Lillehammer 3 Speakers: Nils Hanson In this session Nils Hanson tells about his methodological approach to fact-checking and “bullet-proofing” investigative stories that is now being adopted in other newsrooms that he has developed. Participants will be taught tools to avoid becoming the target of investigations themselves.

12:00–13:00 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Mapping with Arc 1 Venue: Weidemann 4 Speakers: Jennifer LaFleur & Andrew Lehren This class will introduce you to analyzing data for stories by using mapping software. This class is divided into two parts. No prior mapping skills needed.

10:30–11:30 › Networking [N] Reporting on Corruption Venue: Meetingroom Laagen Moderators: Oleg Khomenok, Fredrik Laurin & Christine Spolar Here’s a chance to meet your colleagues interested in similar topics To better connect people, we have arranged a dozen networking sessions, based on interests noted by our attendees in a pre-conference survey.

10:30–11:30 › Non-profit track [F] New Models and Startups Venue: Weidemann 3

12:00–13:00 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Simple Visualizations with Datawrapper Venue: Messanin Speakers: Anuska Delic Do you crave a visualization tool that won’t take much of your time on a busy election night? Datawrapper is a simple yet effective tool for creating interactive charts. Participants should create a free account at datawrapper.de prior to the session.

12:00–13:00 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Structured Query Language (SQL) for Reporters 3 Venue: Birkebeiner 1 Speakers: David Donald & Luuk Sengers This final SQL session, again building on skills

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learned in Structure Query Language for Reporters 1 and 2, shows how to write SQL queries that join separate data tables and databases together for more powerful investigative analysis.

Germany to an investigative center in Brazil and an online publisher in Malaysia.

13:00–14:30 Lunch 12:00–13:00 › Data Presentation [T] data track: Web Search under Pressure Venue: Birkebeiner 2 Moderators: Eva Jung Speakers: Henk van Ess The news broke that Jihadi John, ISIS-executioner, is Mohammed Emwazi and lived in a normal house in London. How do you find his family? How do you find videos from inside his house? Henk van Ess will show you actual research he did for the Daily Telegraph and Die Welt.

12:00–13:00 › Environmental [E] How to Investigate Disasters Venue: Lillehammer 1–2) Moderators: Yohan Shanmugaratnam Speakers: Natalia Antelava, Kunda Dixit & Yoichiro Tateiwa Three investigative reporters presents how to investigate disasters.

12:00–13:00 › Investigative Film Festival [I] Documentary Filmmaker and Activist Venue: Weidemann 5 Speakers: Leslee Udwin Documentary filmmaker and activist Leslee Udwin tells about her work in producing India’s Daughter.

In her own words: 12:00–13:00 › Manage your investigations [M] The ABCs of Investigative Journalism Venue: Lillehammer 3 Moderators: Terje Carlsson Speakers: Nils Hanson From idea to publishing – this classic session gives you important tips on how to make sure your investigative project becomes a success.

12:00–13:00 › Networking [N] Data Journalism Venue: Meetingroom Laagen Moderators: Brant Houston & Giannina Segnini Here’s a chance to meet your colleagues interested in similar topics To better connect people, we have arranged a dozen networking sessions, based on interests noted by our attendees in a pre-conference survey.

12:00–13:00 › Non-profit track [F] Crowdfunding: Projects, Stories, and Startups Venue: Weidemann 3 Moderators: Gabriela Manuli Speakers: Nigel Aw, Sebastian Esser & Natalia Viana Crowdfunding is the process of convincing typically a large group of people to contribute small sums of money toward a specific project, usually via the Internet. Here are journalists with first-hand experience in the field – from a million- Euro startup in

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14:30–15:30 › Academic track [A] Studies on how investigative journalists do their work Venue: Troll Speakers: James Hollings, Brant Houston & Peter Klein This session will look at how investigative journalists approach their work from the ethics of involving “fixers” to help with work in foreign lands 14:30–15:30 › Cross border investigations [R] Investigating Health Issues: Ebola Venue: Lillehammer 1–2 Moderators: Maren Sæbø Speakers: Ashoka Mukpo, Rosemary Nwaebuni & Rodney Sieh What kind of lessons can the coverage of an African epidemic teach us about covering the next health emergency?

14:30–15:30 › Cross border investigations [R] Investigating on Foreign Ground Venue: Weidemann 3 Speakers: Tom Heinemann How do you conduct a critical investigation on foreign soil? Award-winning documentarian Tom Heinemann shares practical examples in this session.

14:30–15:30 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Creating Timelines 1 Venue: Birkebeiner 1 Moderators: Megan Luther Speakers: Lena Groeger In this workshop, we’ll take a tour of current timelines in the wild and walk you through three opensource tools to help you make your own.

14:30–15:30 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Mapping with Arc 2 Venue: Weidemann 4 Speakers: Jennifer LaFleur & Andrew Lehren This class will introduce you to analyzing data for stories by using mapping software.

14:30–15:30 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Python for Scraping 3 Venue: Messanin Speakers: Adriana Homolova & Tom Meagher We’ll cover how to deconstruct a common reporting task – gathering a table of data from a public website – and assemble a solution from useful Python libraries that you can use again and again.

14:30–15:30 › Data Presentation [T] data track: Top Online Techie Tools Venue: Birkebeiner 2 Moderators: Kristoffer Egeberg Speakers: Paul Myers

BBC’s Internet investigations specialist, Paul Myers, goes through his favourite online research tools.

14:30–15:30 › Environmental [E] Investigating Environmental Crime: Pirate Fishing Venue: Lillehammer 3 Moderators: Syed Nazakat Speakers: Eskil Engdal, Juliana Ruhfus & Kjetil Sæter The Longest Chase is a story about the outlaw sea, big money, tax havens, fraud, exploitation of the poor and the emptying of the seas.

14:30–15:30 › Lightning rounds [L] Great Stories You've Never Heard of Venue: Weidemann 5 (Presentations/Panels) Moderators: Yohan Shanmugaratnam Speakers: Nisrin Ajab, Suchit Chávez, Mosabber Hossain, Shin Inbo, Huub Jaspers, Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson, Jón Bjarki Magnússon, Rachel Oldroyd, Tobore Ovuorie, Sanne Terlingen, Estacio Valoi & Natalia Viana Meet the people behind ten exciting projects from around the world and learn how they broke their stories.

14:30–15:30 › Social event [V] Data Pub Venue: Bagler'n Data-Pub Every day after lunch you can meet colleagues ready to help with your data journalism ideas, data problems, data security, program installation, data challenges, data journalism opportunities... And, yes, it's a pub!

15:30–16:00 Break

16:00–17:00 › Academic track [A] Tool Kits for Teaching Venue: Troll (Academic track) Moderators: Mark Horvit Speakers: Anya Schiffrin In this session we will review the many journalism toolkits for various beats and topics that are offered

by Investigative Reporters and Editors and the methodology behind them.

16:00–17:00 › Cross border investigations [R] FOIAs, RTIs, & Access to Information Venue: Weidemann 5 Moderators: Brigitte Alfter Speakers: Sheila S. Coronel, Helen Darbishere & Kevin Goldberg In this session you will learn tips and tricks to get information from various parts of the world.

16:00–17:00 › Cross border investigations [R] Search for Data in 200 Countries Venue: Weidemann 4 Moderators: Jennifer LaFleur Speakers: Ed Long & Margot Williams This session will look at tools to overcome the chal-

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lenges of cross-border investigations and uncover an entity’s global footprint.

16:00–17:00 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Creating Timelines 2 Venue: Birkebeiner 1 Speakers: Lena Groeger In this workshop, we’ll take a tour of current timelines in the wild and walk you through three opensource tools to help you make your own.

16:00–17:00 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Python for Scraping 4 Venue: Messanin Speakers: Adriana Homolova & Tom Meagher We’ll cover how to deconstruct a common reporting task – gathering a table of data from a public website – and assemble a solution from useful Python libraries that you can use again and again.

16:00–17:00 › Data Presentation [T] data track: Facebook Tricks, Tips and Secret Hacks Venue: Birkebeiner 2 Moderators: Helena Bengtsson Speakers: Paul Myers BBC’s Internet investigations specialist Paul Myers goes through the dynamic, esoteric techniques for conducting investigations on the world’s largest social network.

16:00–17:00 › Manage your investigations [M] Using Hypotheses: The Core of the Investigative Method Venue: Weidemann 3 Speakers: Mark Lee Hunter & Luuk Sengers In this session participants will learn how to use their imaginations to construct a hypothetical chain of events (timeline), which can be used to guide investigators toward sources and documents with a high degree of accuracy.

16:00–17:00 › Networking [N] Reporting on Organized crime Venue: Meetingroom Laagen Moderators: Kassim Mohamed & Drew Sullivan Here’s a chance to meet your colleagues interested in similar topics To better connect people, we have arranged a dozen networking sessions, based on interests noted by our attendees in a pre-conference survey.

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17:30–18:30 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: PDF Cracking with CometDocs Venue: Birkebeiner 1 Speakers: Anuska Delic & Nils Mulvad mporting PDFs and getting structured data out of the files is a challenge. We’ll train you to use CometDocs and structuring in Excel.

17:30–18:30 › Data Hands-On [D] data track: Python for Scraping 5 Venue: Messanin Speakers: Adriana Homolova & Tom Meagher We’ll cover how to deconstruct a common reporting task – gathering a table of data from a public website – and assemble a solution from useful Python libraries that you can use again and again.

17:30–18:30 › Data Hands-On [D] Going Creepy: Fishing for Geotags in Social Media Venue: Weidemann 4 Moderators: Minna Knus-Galan Speakers: Ioannis Kakavas In this practical session you will learn to use the geolocation OSINT tool cree.py, created by Greek software developer Ioannis Kakavas. Learn how to trace people’s movements throughout the day through social media.

17:30–18:30 › Manage your investigations [M] Knowledge Management Venue: Troll Moderators: Jonathan Stray Speakers: Friedrich Lindenberg & Smari McCarthy Reporters are good at collecting data – both paper and digital – and some even know how to scrape or access databases. But then what do you do?

Most let their data sit idle and rarely use it to their full potential. Find out how you can better manage your information. Learn what some organizations are doing to better use their data. Discuss how your organizations can structure a system in which they can access all their data safely and easily.

17:30–18:30 › Manage your investigations [M] Mastering Timelines: The Road to a Successful Project Venue: Weidemann 3 Speakers: Mark Lee Hunter & Luuk Sengers In this session, participants will learn how to use their imaginations to construct a hypothetical chain of events, which can be used to guide investigators toward sources and documents with a good degree of accuracy.

17:30–18:30 › Networking [N] Cross-Border Projects (Asia) Venue: Meetingroom Laagen Moderators: Sheila S. Coronel & Syed Nazakat Here’s a chance to meet your colleagues interested in similar topics To better connect people, we have arranged a dozen networking sessions, based on interests noted by our attendees in a pre-conference survey.

17:30–18:30 › Safety and security [S] When Journalists Are Targets Venue: Weidemann 5 Moderators: Erling Borgen Speakers: Sami Al-Hajj & Emin Huseynov Sami Al-Hajj knows from personal experience more than anyone would ever want to know about hu-

man rights abuses and threats to journalists.

During his six years at Guanatanmo, the Al Jazeera Cameraman was interrogated more than 200 times. His Crime? Journalism. He joins us to speak about how Al Jazeera cover today’s conflicts in North Africa and The Middle East.

Emin Huseynov is an Azerbaijani journalist and human rights activist. He was the chairman of the Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety. After he was forced into hiding at the Swiss embassy in Baku to avoid arrest for six months, Huseynov fled Azerbaijan and has now asked for political asylum in Switzerland.

20:00–22:30 › Social event [V] Banquet and Awards Dinner Venue: Lillehammer 1–2 Join your colleagues from around the world at the GIJC Banquet and Awards Dinner. This is the final night of the conference and it's time to party!

The gala evening will feature special entertainment arranged by SKUP, plus GIJN's announcement and presentation of the Global Shining Light Awards.

All participants at the GIJC15 are welcome to the Banquet and Awards dinner. The food and wine are included in your hotel package.

SUNDAY 11th OCTOBER 10:30–11:30 › Cross border investigations [R] award winners: A Discussion with the New Global Shining Light Recipients Venue: Lillehammer 1–2 Moderators: David E. Kaplan The Global Shining Light Award is the only journalism prize that honors investigative journalism done in developing and transitioning countries while under threat or duress. It is given out only once every two years by the Global Investigative Journalism Network, and is now in its 6th year. Come hear the winners of this year’s awards, chosen from 76 entries from 34 countries.

11:30–12:00 Coffee break

12:00–12:30 Farewell and Thank You! Venue: Lillehammer 1–2 Join us for a final gathering before our community returns to more than a hundred countries. We will have some important announcements, including the site of the next conference (GIJC17) and the results of the GIJN board election.

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«Aftenposten’s journalism is knowledge-based and hard-hitting.

We aim to scrutinize everything and everybody with power» Espen Egil Hansen, editor-in-chief