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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!
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Ignacio Gómez

Ignacio Gomez is the deputy director of Noticias Uno, a weekend news show that airs nationally from Bogota. His reports have shown complex relations among drugs and guns trafficking,international corporations, political corruption, oil and conflict minerals, in Colombian wars. He also chairs the Foundation for Press Freedom, FLIP, and teaches Reporting Ways at Rosario University in Bogotá.

His research has been published in El Espectador (1986-2001) and broadcasted from Noticias Uno (2002-). Der Spiegel, The Guardian, Liberation, also took pieces of him. His reports on Chiquita Brands led to the company's judiciary agreement accepting charges of terrorism; his revelations about American military close to the slaughter of Mapiripán (2000) led to a debate in the House of Representatives States and those of British Petroleum guns deals in Colombian at the House of Commons in United Kingdom (2001). His case of Justice Palace, with the team of Noticias Uno, led to a criminal investigation for the murder of two Supreme Court magistrates (2010) and his exposé on Coltan market in Colombia led to a mining ban in 1 million hectares (2012).