Welcome, everyone! Here’s the program for the 8th Global Investigative Journalism Conference, (#GIJC13), scheduled for October 12-15, 2013, in beautiful Rio de Janeiro. It’s the first time we’re holding the GIJC in the global south, and we’re combining it with two other key events in journalism: the annual Latin America Investigative Journalism Conference (COLPIN), and the International Congress of ABRAJI, Brazil’s investigative journalism association. Panels and workshops will be available in languages as marked: English (Eng), Portuguese (Port), Spanish (Span). Plenary and showcase panels will be translated into all three. There will be streaming video available for all plenary and showcase panels and all those held in the RDC auditorium (C1). We look forward to seeing you in Rio!
Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting, University of Illinois
Brant Houston is the Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting at the University of Illinois where he teaches and works on projects and research involving the use of data analysis in journalism. He is co-founder of the Global Investigative Journalism Network and the Institute for Nonprofit... Read More →
Sibylla has spent more than 20 years as a journalist writing about Latin American politics, human rights and social issues. She has worked and lived in Venezuela, Chile, France and the Dominican Republic and currently is based in Colombia as a freelance journalist, writing regularly... Read More →
Social News Editor, Korea Center for Investigative Journalism
Kihoon Choi is the social news editor at Korea Center for Investigative Journalism(KCIJ). Before coming to KCIJ in 2013 he had worked as a reporter at YTN(called CNN in Korea) since 1996.He exclusivly reported about the systematic interference of National Intelligence Service (NIS... Read More →
Dmytro Gnap is a Ukrainian journalist at Slidstvo.Info and Hromadske.TV. His work focuses on corruption and crime. In 2014, he and other journalists collaborated to preserve documents found at the Mezhyhirya residence after President Viktor Yanukovych fled Ukraine. Gnap won the... Read More →
Stephan Hofstatter is a member of the investigations team at the Sunday Times newspaper in South Africa. His recent investigations into government corruption and police hit squads, conducted with two colleagues, led directly to South Africa’s police chief and several cabinet ministers... Read More →
Director & Assoc. Professor, International Reporting Program, University of British Columbia
Peter Klein is the director of University of British Columbia's School of Journalism and International Reporting Program. He is a producer with CBS News 60 Minutes and has produced projects for programs like Frontline, Nightline, 20/20 and 48 Hours. His program's most recent project... Read More →
Martín Rodríguez Pellecer (1982) is Guatemalan. He runs Nómada.gt, an online investigative and lifestyle media that is one year old and is already the most read political native digital in the country. It is experimenting with business models. Before that, he founded Plaza Pública... Read More →
Reporter, Center for Investigative Reporting in Sarajevo
Mahir joined Center for Investigative Reporting in December 2008. He started his career in journalism in the year 2000 on Radio Q (from Visoko, Bosnia), after which he joined Visoko Radio/Television where he worked as a radio and TV reporter until 2006. In March 2006, he joined NTV... Read More →
