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EIJC & Dataharvest is an annual, four-day conference, organised by Journalismfund.eu, which brings together journalism heavyweights, data specialists and coding whiz-kids to exchange skills and story ideas. EIJC18 & Dataharvest will take place on Thursday 24, Friday 25, Saturday 26 and Sunday morning 27 May 2018. Like last year, place to be is the charming city of Mechelen, 20 minutes outside of Brussels and very easily accessible! Address is Zandpoortvest 60, 2800 Mechelen at Thomas More University College - Campus De Vest. 

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Journalismfund.eu vzw is an independent non-profit organisation under Belgian law that aims to promote quality in-depth and cross-border journalism by giving working grants to journalists, by providing networking opportunities and by organising training sessions.
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Sunday, May 27 • 9:30am - 10:45am
Who owns our cities?

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Housing prices are skyrocketing in European cities, journalists are beginning to look into the field. Investigative journalist Hans-Martin Tillack of Stern magazine keeps a critical eye on the implementation of the anti-money-laundering legislation that demands transparency about beneficiary owners - including of property. London based Private Eye has established their 'Selling England and Wales by the pound' database linking land registry data to specific addresses and generates stories. German investigative centre Correctiv has teamed up with Hamburger Abendblatt for a crowd sourcing campaign on who owns the city of Hamburg. Cat McShane is an investigative journalist who has collaborated with social scientists tracking the developments for tenants throughout Europe.

Moderators
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Lisbeth Kirk

Lisbeth founded EUobserver in 2000 and is responsible for the organisation's editorial strategy, including cross-border and investigative journalism. After graduating from the Danish School of Media and Journalism, she worked as a journalist, analyst, and editor for Danish media... Read More →

Speakers
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Anne-Lise Bouyer

Tech & data team lead, CORRECTIV
Anne-Lise heads the technical & data team at the nonprofit investigative newsroom CORRECTIV . Prior to that, she co-founded Journalism++, an agency for data-driven storytelling where she where she worked for 4 years as a project manager and coordinated the Migrants' Files project... Read More →
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Christian Eriksson

Private Eye
Christian Eriksson is a Private Eye journalist, freelance hack.
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Cat McShane

Documentary Filmmaker and Journalist
Documentary filmmaker and journalist, making work for British broadcasters including the BBC and Channel 4. Enjoy creating alliances with e.g activists, social scientists, trade unions when developing stories, which ideally have a campaign or social impact element. Recently directed... Read More →
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Hans-Martin Tillack

Investigative reporter, Welt
Hans-Martin Tillack works as an investigative reporter for the newspapers "Welt", "Welt am Sonntag" and the TV magazine "Report München" (public broadcaster ARD). Until 2021 he was an investigative reporter for the weekly magazine "Stern". From 1999 to 2004 he was the EU correspondent... Read More →


Sunday May 27, 2018 9:30am - 10:45am CEST
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