Conference highlights
Data Harvest Conference: What You Missed
Some 150 investigative and data journalists and programmers from all across Europe took part in a great harvest of ideas and digital research methods. Europe
Some 150 investigative and data journalists and programmers from all across Europe took part in a great harvest of ideas and digital research methods. Europe
Lessons From a Fledgling Investigative Reporting Center
The first nonprofit investigative reporting center has just been set up in Italy. Long-time ICIJ member Leo Sisti explains how it all came about and what lessons might be there for reporters in other countries. Tags:
Data journalism
How To Cultivate a 'Data State of Mind'
Mar Cabra is one of ICIJ's data journalism gurus and is at the forefront of investigative journalism and journalism education in Spain. Here she discusses data journalism: its role in investigative reporting and the essential tools and skills for this field. Tags:
EU study
How To Fight Fraud in Europe
Can investigative journalism be instrumental in the detection of and fight against corruption and fraud with EU funds, and if so, how? Tags:
Great work
Can Journalists Really Investigate Dictatorships?
How to work stories in oppressive regimes: sometimes the answer is less complicated than you might think.
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IRE Conference highlights
Secrets of Investigating a CIA Rendition in Italy
ICIJ member Leo Sisti shared how he finds sources and information in Italy as part of the Covering Justice in Europe and the US panel at the 2012 IRE conference. Tags:
Education
We’re Pioneering a Masters of Investigative Journalism in Spain
There is no watchdog culture in Spanish newsrooms, nor even a Freedom of Information Act. Now a group of journalists will train a new generation to investigate corruption. Spy novel style
Creating an Investigative Reporting Best-Seller
Update October 8: Blaž Zgaga and Matej Surc have won the CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism 2012 for their investigative work on arms dealing in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, which led to the bestselling trilogy In the Name of the State. Read more about Creating an Investigative Reporting Best-Seller
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Exploiting the statute of limitations
Criminal Justice, Italian-Style
Leo Sisti’s new book delves into the mysteries of Italian criminal trials and finds that 23 years after the new code of criminal procedure was enforced, the result has been disastrous.
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Press freedom in Azerbaijan
An Exceptionally Brave Journalist
When you report on crime and corruption in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics, you can expect to get your fair share of grief or threats. But this hasn’t stopped Khadija Ismayilova in Azerbaijan. Read more about An Exceptionally Brave Journalist
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ICIJ Member Stories
Finding the victims of surveillance
Behind the groundbreaking expose by Swedish ICIJ members Sven Bergman, Joachim Dyfvermark and Fredrik Laurin on the cooperation between Swedish-Finnish telecommunications company Teliasonera and oppressive regimes in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
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Media moguls
A St Patrick’s Day prank on Irish investigative journalism
Ireland’s most powerful politician and one of its wealthiest oligarchs were ringing the New York Stock Exchange bell on Ireland Day, the Monday after St Patrick’s Day. Read more about A St Patrick’s Day prank on Irish investigative journalism
Data journalism
Against All Spanish Odds
‘Spain is different’ has been the tourism slogan for the Southwestern European country for years, since dictator Francisco Franco’s regime used it in the 60’s. I’d argue Spain is different for something else too: its lack of transparency.
Mar Cabra presenting at NICAR 2012. Photo: Ben Welsh Read more about Against All Spanish Odds
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