The percentage of the global population living in countries with a free press has declined to just 14 percent, the lowest level in more than a decade, according to Freedom House. Repressive governments now broadly employ technology to spy on, censor, and disrupt those online. Meanwhile, journalists around the world are being murdered and imprisoned at near-record rates. And the killings and jailings are but a fraction of the damage being done. Beatings, kidnappings, and threats are far more numerous, and can be just as effective at silencing the press.
On this panel, a distinguished group of officials from the United Nations and the Organization of American States will describe the growing pressures against freedom of expression worldwide, the challenges and opportunities facing a free and independent press, and the best strategies of how to respond.
Learn how to use Google Fusion to construct maps that reveal stories and tips. The session will take you through the basic steps of doing your first Fusion map. Knowing how to use a spreadsheet is helpful but not required.
Resources: http://www.kaasogmulvad.dk/english/ressources-for-gijc-conference-in-rio-2013/
Learn how to use a spreadsheet, Microsoft Excel, to construct your own small dataset for stories and how to filter and sort data for your investigative stories. There are countless spreadsheets on the Web for any story in any country so this is a basic skill to have as a journalist.
War is deception, as the Chinese general Sun Tzu said—and it’s left to investigative journalists to strip away the deceit. Who’s really commanding the battle, and what do they get out of it? Who’s funding and arming them? What back-door dealings are underway while the country’s in turmoil? Amid the violence and chaos, it takes a cool head and strong gut to make sense of it all, and unpick the details that are truly history-making.
We have three great journalists who have years of experience in doing just that, on many warfronts, and will explain on how to nail down what’s truly important. Jon Lee Anderson (@jonleeanderson) of the New Yorker will talk about how to dig deep and develop a long-range story amid intense danger. Edi Pramono Stefanus Teguh from Indonesia’s Tempo Magazine will talk about how to penetrate the violent underworld in your own city. And Hamoud Almahmoud (@HamoudSy), editor of Aliqtisadi Magazine, will share tips on how to cover the world’s deadliest war, Syria. Moderator: Vivienne Walt (@vivwalt).
Investigative journalism has been through a tough decade, reeling from lack of advertising, a global recession, and changing technology. What are the successful economic models to support in-depth investigations by the news media? Are data-centric projects the answer? A move to a nonprofit model? Niche publishing? State subsidies? A distinguished panel of veteran editors looks at the alternatives.
The amount of criminal money washing around the world each year is estimated at $2 trillion, and it affects everything from health and human rights to democracy and national security. Investigative stories have always led to cases involving corrupt activities and criminal conspiracies. But the nature of corrupt and criminal acts is changing quickly with technology and globalization. How can investigative journalists stay on top of techniques to follow and expose crime and corruption in the 21st Century?
Here are three true experts who will offer tips and tools for following the money and tracking bad guys around the world. The panel will feature the official release by Paul Radu of Investigative Dashboard 2.0, a toolkit developed by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and Google. Also featured: Xanic von Bertrab will share her experience investigating retail giant Walmart's bribery in Mexico, which earned a Pulitzer Prize this year; and veteran investigative journalist and teacher Sheila Coronel will share lessons from years of investigating corruption in the Philippines and worldwide.
Millions are made by the agencies and institutions who say they are doing "development" and "humanitarian aid" or "helping the poor." They can be just as corrupt or misguided as crooks and scammers. But how can journalists in the so-called "beneficiary" countries look into these oft-powerful organizations, who portray themselves as not-for-profit benefactors? What can a journalist do when there is little documentation or no open records laws? How to make arguments that pit the public interest against what some say is "development"?
The panel features journalists Daniela Arbex of Brazil, Lafontaine Orvild of Haiti, and Malou Mangahas of the Philippines. The group will talk about a series of major investigations: one which exposed a "holocaust" at a gruesome hospital-turned-prison and death camp, and another which shed light on how, with the help of the World Bank and the Haitian government, Canadian and U.S. companies are poised to exploit most of Haiti's mineral wealth. In both cases, the victims were or are the poor, the exploited and the cast-offs, those with the least access to journalists and to media outlets. Mangahas will speak about her work at the pioneering Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism investigating corrupt foreign assistance and government contracting. As they talk about they work, the panelists will share some of the tricks, tactics and techniques they used, and they will also make the case for investigative journalism that looks into the so-called "good works" of the powerful institutions and agencies working in the "global South."
BBC Panorama’s distinguished producer Tom Giles will share his knowledge on the production of long form investigative TV documentaries. Browsing through his extensive portfolio of stories, Giles will take participants through the process and pitfalls of producing a story in compelling images and gripping storytelling. There will be plenty of room for questions from the audience.
The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin will present the preliminary finds of an online survey that has just been applied to analyze the practice and teaching on investigative journalism in Latin American countries. The survey asks journalists, journalism students and journalism professors in Latin America about their perceptions related the the practice and the pedagogy of investigative journalism in the region.
Professor James Hollings presents a paper on how to teach investigative journalism and have students actually produce and present an investigation during the time allowed when taking a class.
How to investigate some of the most important issues on our globe. Strategies, methods, techniques and sources for breaking the untold environmental stories in our near future. Gustavo Faleiros will talk about digital mapping and geojournalism. Subhra Priyadarshini broke the story on the world's first “vanishing islands” by digging into satellite images, scientific papers and reports. And she did the footwork talking to affected climate refugees in the Ganges delta. Mark Schapiro is an expert on carbon markets and fraud in the age of climate change.
Giannina Segnini will lead a special session in using maritime databases to track shipments of cargo around the world.
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Come join us for Hack in Rio, a data journalism hackday focused on developing visualizations, apps, tools and web projects about government corruption, sports corruption and environmental issues.
Hack in Rio is part of the activities of the Global Investigative Journalism Conference, an event that combines the 8th Global Investigative Journalism Conference, the annual Latin America Investigative Journalism Conference (COLPIN), and the International Congress of ABRAJI (Brazil’s investigative journalism association).
Following the conference theme, Hack in Rio will be focus on advancing quality investigative journalism using technology on the 3 tracks before mentioned: government corruption, sports corruption and environmental issues.
The whole purpose of this hack day is to work on teams to:
-Find, extract and analyze data using existing tools to tell data driven stories.
-Build data journalism apps, visualizations, tools or web projects.
Hack in Rio é uma das atividades da Conferência Global de Jornalismo Investigativo, um evento que agrega o 8º Congresso de Jornalismo Investigativo da Abraji, a 8ª Global Investigative Journalism Conference e a Conferencia Latinoamericana de Periodismo de Investigación (COLPIN).
Seguindo o tema da conferência, Hack in Rio terá como objetivo o avanço do jornalismo investigativo de qualidade usando tecnologia para trabalhar com os três temas antes mencionados: a corrupção no governo, a corrupção nos esportes e questões ambientais.
O principal propósito do Hackday é promover o trabalho de equipes para:
-Achar, extrair e analisar dados usando as ferramentas existentes de jornalismo de dados.
-Construir aplicativos de jornalismo de dados, visualizações, ferramentas e projetos web.
Embora a conferência seja fechada a convidados, o Hack in Rio é aberto a jornalistas, desenvolvedores, designers, hackers cívicos, estudantes e todo tipo de profissional interessado em descobrir e construir coisas interessantes.
:::Ven y súmate a Hack in Río, una jornada de hackeo de periodismo de datos, enfocado a desarrollar visualizaciones, aplicaciones, herramientas y proyectos web sobre corrupción gubernamental, corrupción en el deporte y temas medioambientales.
Hack in Rio es parte de las actividades de la Global Investigative Journalism Conference, un evento que combina la 8va Global Investigative Journalism Conference, la Conferencia Latinoamericana de Periodismo de Investigación (COLPIN) y el Congreso Internacional de ABRAJI (Asociación de Periodistas de Investigación de Brasil).
Siguiendo la temática central de la conferencia, Hack in Río se centrará en promover la investigación periodística de calidad, usando tecnología en los tres temas mencionados anteriormente: corrupción gubernamental, corrupción en el deporte y temas medioambientales.
El objetivo principal de este hack day es trabajar en equipos para:
-Encontrar, extraer y analizar datos usando herramientas para realizar investigaciones periodísticas de datos.
-Construir aplicaciones, visualizaciones, herramientas o proyectos digitales de periodismo de datos.
With near-record numbers of attacks on journalists, widespread and growing surveillance, and governments going backwards on free expression, what can journalists do to fight back? What resources are available when we face physical assaults, harassment, lawsuits, and more? Representatives from the Committee To Protect Journalists, Media Legal Defence Initiative, and Organization of American States give practical and needed tips for journalists facing threats of all kinds.
This panel will take you inside the Offshore Leaks investigation, a massive and ongoing cross-border reporting effort that has involved more than 115 reporters in 60 countries. It’s considered one of the largest collaborations in journalism history. ICIJ director Gerard Ryle will talk about the origins of the data and how he handled sources and dealt with media organizations all over the world; ICIJ deputy director Marina Walker Guevara will discuss how the team cracked 260 gigabytes of financial information and coordinated reporting in dozens of countries; and CBC reporter Frederic Zalac will talk about how his team found and investigated stories relevant to Canada in the rather intricate leaked document trove.
Rosemeri Laurindo: Jornalismo investigativo e as especificidades da cobertura policial sobre um assassinato no Jornal de Santa Catarina.
Edgar Patricio: O conceito de ética e a produção do Jornalismo em tempos de tecnologia.
Marcelo Träsel: Aprendendo a se deixar guiar por dados: a formação dos jornalistas da equipe Estadão Dados.
From its first gathering in Copenhagen in 2001, the Global Investigative Journalism Conference has been a catalyst for collaboration. Journalists from around the world have come to network, brainstorm, and ultimately work together on stories that have made headlines around the world. Sometimes the stories are inspired by panelists who arrive full of tips and leads. Other times it happens in the hallways and the bars, over drinks or coffee.
This year, for the first time, we're adding a bit of structure to all the brainstorming. We'll be running a series of collaboration workshops led by experienced editors with proven records for getting award-winning stories off the ground.
With the World Cup and Olympics coming to Brazil, match fixing scandals spanning the globe, widespread doping, and plenty of fraud and waste in stadium contracting, there's no shortage of hard-hitting stories to do on the sports industry. Leading the sports workshop will be Andy Lehren of The New York Times and Rob Rose of South Africa's Sunday Times.
Our editors will start with a brainstorming session, and then, as needed, will break up the workshop into groups to focus on individual stories and projects.
RESOURCES: The workshop team has assembled an extensive list of resources, including the best Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) tipsheets and contest entries on international sporting events and doping. Also, you can find a historic Olympic medal data.
Long-time journalist and data trainer Nils Mulvad of Denmark will show you how to use Helium software to scrape data from the Web when governments or businesses will allow you to download or copy only record at a time.
Resources here
Journalists are part of a larger ecosystem of investigators who track and document wrongdoing. We’re familiar with the investigative journalist’s toolkit. But how do other investigators prove wrongdoing? And can journalists learn from them? Learn from Patrick Alley how Global Witness digs into corruption. Jim Mintz will share tips from the world of private investigators and Manfred Redelfs will talk about how Greenpeace uncovers wrongdoing that harms the environment.
In this session, Hanson, Swisher and Zamost will cover the entire track of producing investigative stories for television. The topics will range from tips for pre-publication quality control (a methodological approach to fact checking and bulletproofing the story. Participants will get tools to avoid being the subject of investigations themselves) and production in the field, to successful collaboration and turning what is essentially a great print investigation into compelling television. While showing their own clips (Zamost will for instance show parts of "Rehab Racket," a recent yearlong investigative series that CNN did with The Center for Investigative Reporting which aired on AC 360), speakers will explain some of the challenges, detail their paper trail, share tips on surveillance, and on how to get insiders to talk and track down key characters. This panel could be summarized as showing the anatomy of a TV investigation.
Tipsheet here.
For “Histórias de Arcanjo” documentary (subtitled in English) exhibition, at Estacao Vivo Gavea theater (walking distance from PUC).
This panel revolves centers on the presentation of Kevin Davis, CEO of the Investigative News Network, an association of 90 North American-based nonprofit news organizations. Kevin will present sustainability strategies used successfully by U.S. nonprofit newsrooms, including revenue diversification, fundraising techniques, and business planning. The panel of respondents – with broad experience in East Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America -- will offer comments on how well these strategies can be adapted around the world.
The world's biggest thieves are not shady looking characters lurking in dark alleys, but con artists, bankers and executives who wear designer suites, work out of offices in the financial districts and dine with prime ministers and presidents. Some of the crooks don't even break the law. During this session you will learn how to mine the public record and investigate white-collar crimes.
Some data analysis requires smart and straightforward use of statistical tools. Sarah Cohen of the New York Times will show you what tools to use and how to interpret statistics correctly.
Jorge Benítez Cabral presentará su trabajo “Método alternativo eficaz para la enseñanza del Periodismo de Investigación en una sociedad con educación periodística universitaria incipiente”. Luis Alarcón aborda la experiencia de enseñanza del periodismo de investigación en la Escuela de Ciencias de la Comunicación de la Universidad Señor de Sipán en Perú y la formación de jóvenes periodistas en la lucha contra la corrupción. Paul Mena explora cuáles son los primeros pasos que deben adoptar los periodistas y medios de comunicación para impulsar el periodismo de datos en medio de un ambiente de pugna constante del gobierno con la prensa, mediante el análisis del caso ecuatoriano.
Since June 2013, Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald has broken a series of extraordinary stories on the scope of electronic eavesdropping by the U.S. National Security Agency and its allies. In this showcase talk, Greenwald will talk about his work uncovering the NSA's global surveillance programs, Washington's war on whistleblowers and the press, and what the new age of surveillance means to journalists worldwide.
Greenwald writes on civil liberties and US national security issues for The Guardian. A former constitutional lawyer, he was until 2012 a contributing writer at Salon. He is currently working on a book based on his NSA reporting, which, according to its publisher, will “contain new revelations exposing the extraordinary cooperation of private industry and the far-reaching consequences of the government’s program, both domestically and abroad.”
The FBI defines a criminal enterprise as a group of individuals with an identified hierarchy, or comparable structure, engaged in significant criminal activity. These organizations often engage in multiple criminal activities and have extensive supporting networks. In this panel, we look at criminal enterprises with this broad definition, using case studies of public corruption, contracting fraud and bribery, black market entrepreneurs, and other criminal conspiracies.
DocumentCloud from IRE is a simple to use package of software that will allow you to upload PDFs or Text to the Cloud so you can look for patterns in documents. It also allows you to annotate documents and share them with the public. Mark Horvit and Jaimi Dowdell of IRE will show you how to use it.
On June 14, 2013, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) released a web application with ownership information on more than 100,000 entities incorporated in 10 offshore jurisdictions, partially stripping away the secrecy associated to tax havens. The ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database reveals the directors, shareholders and when possible, beneficial owners of secret companies in the British Virgin Islands, Cook Islands and Singapore, among other offshore locales. Three members of the cross-border team that built this application will explain how they brought it to life –starting with a maze of leaked databases with no roadmap and no explanation and turning it into an online database that allows users to explore the offshore networks of tens of thousands of people around the world. They will also explain how to best use this tool and how to combine it with the real treasure trove of the Offshore Leaks investigation: 2.5 million files that already have produced hundreds of stories worldwide.
The environment is rich with possibility for trans-national investigations—money, power and environmental damage, of course, show no respect for national frontiers.
We’ve compiled a list of some potentially valuable sources of information on environmental topics. This list is divided broadly into sources relating to climate change and the battle underway for cleaner energy; toxic chemicals impact on the environment and human health; the mining and oil industries; the illegal trade in wildlife and logging; and fracking.
You are invited to the upcoming workshop on transnational environmental collaborations, where we hope this document kick-starts some thinking on future investigations. The aim of the workshop is to have a discussion on these and related topics, to see where the most fruitful collaborations may lie. We are the facilitators of the discussion amongst us all: Our hope is that this list of sources provides not only some valuable future links for your investigations, but also may suggest some broad areas for collaborative investigations in the future.
We consider this a list to built upon and developed over time, starting with the upcoming workshop, and to act as a jumping off point for far more detailed discussion—based on your own experiences, interests, hunches. Hopefully, we’ll identify some common areas of journalistic interest, and set the process in motion to kick off some investigations.
Look forward to seeing you in Rio!
Solidarnosc,
Nils Mulvad & Mark Schapiro
Powerhouse singer Ana Simonovska’s musical skills were honed at the Conservatory and Faculty of Music Arts in her native Skopje, Macedonia. After graduation she played and recorded her own songs with a Macedonian rock band before going solo. After years as a TV journalist in Skopje, she now lives with her husband in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Mark Lee Hunter, slide guitar and vocals
Ace guitarist Hunter has toured with Fontilla Timmons, studied with Bob Brozman, learned licks at the feet of John Lee Hooker, performed with musicians like the great Mexican guitarist Gil Gutierrez, and recorded with disco artist Kim Dorell and harmonica virtuoso Richard Hunter. Based in Paris, Hunter teaches journalism at INSEAD, one of the world’s leading business graduate schools.
Dave Kaplan, harmonica
Acclaimed harmonicist Dave Kaplan learned to play blues in his native Chicago. He’s spent over 30 years playing in blues, rock, and jazz bands. Known for blazing fast runs on the harp, Kaplan has performed worldwide. His work as an investigative journalist, meanwhile, has won more than 20 awards. Based in Washington, D.C., he now works as director of the Global Investigative Journalism Network.
And our special guests:
Igor Araujo, bass
Bruno Bade, drums
Drummer and architect Bruno Bade, 26, plays in the band Hover, an original music project. Prior to that, he played in many different styles, but mainly rock music. He is considered by many music producers the most talented drummer of his generation.
Peter Klein, keyboard
Peter studied music theory at the University of Miami, and learned from some of the top jazz pianists in America. Throughout the '90s he was a fixture in hotels and restaurants in Miami and Philadelphia, tossing in Thelonious Monk among sets of schmaltzy background music. He is a producer at 60 Minutes and director of the University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
Bruno Sponchiado, DJ
Journalist and broadcaster Bruno Sponchiado studied at UFRJ, works at TV Globo, producing articles and other stuff for local newscasts. Nowadays, he collects information about what happens in Rio metropolitan area. During his free time, he likes to write analysis about the Brazilian automotive market for websites.
This roundtable features five of the top project managers in investigative journalism. With a focus on best practices, the group will offer and discuss the most important guidelines and goals needed to build and manage a successful investigative project.
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Learn how to download or enter data into a spreadsheet and then filter and sort the information to find stories.
Producing investigative stories on radio can be difficult but the results can be powerful and compelling. Learn the practical elements that make good radio – how to interview for radio – how to get the sounds and scenes you need to take the listener to the location – different equipment for different situations. Sandra Bartlett has worked in radio for more than 20 years – from news reporter to documentary producer.
This panel features journalists working to build investigative journalism networks in Africa, Europe, Latin America, and North America. What are the best practices in building and sustaining networks across cultures and borders? What structures are most effective? What tech tools are most useful in collaborating and linking people together? How do you find, check out, and work with journalists around the world? This panel will feature a lengthy question-and-answer period.
Learn how to use a Database Manager, in this case Microsoft Access, to analyze with simple searches data that filter, with sorting and by summing or counting information. Knowing how to use a spreadsheet is helpful but not required.
Resources here
