EIJC18 & Dataharvest: Full Schedule

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.

9:00am CEST

Follow the EU money

EU finances and EU regulated spending can appear complex. But once you understand the model, it's your starting point for covering European politics and the EU as well as large parts of national spending in a meaningful way. Sigrid Melchior is a Brussels correspondent for Swedish media and author of a handbook on covering the EU. She will give you an introduction to where the EU budget gets its money from. But also - and prominently - an understanding of the structures of EU's own spending, EU-spending via member states and EU-regulated spending of national funds - for example via public tender legislation.

Speakers

Sigrid Melchior

freelance journalist

Swedish journalist based in Brussels since forever it feels like. Reports on EU and European affairs, teaches EU journalism, does investigations with the European network http://investigate-europe.eu and has a gossipy bi-weekly podcast: https://brysselbubblan.libsyn.com... Read More →

Saturday May 26, 2018 9:00am - 10:15am CEST
C125

Cross-border Journalism, Workshop

1:00pm CEST

Cross-border journalism - the necessary tools

Every cross-border team needs digital tools to coordinate, communicate, share documents and so forth. What are the tasks, what are the options? And what should journalists know about tech to find the best solutions? Meet coordinators responsible for tech solutions from the OCCRP, the EIC and the ICIJ networks.

Moderators

Brigitte Alfter

Managing Editor, Journalismfund.eu

Co-founder and Managing Editor at Journalismfund.eu, a support structure for in-depth, innovative and independent journalism in Europe. Brigitte is a senior Danish-German journalist, she has won multiple awards and is proud that these awards were always granted to her and team members.Having... Read More →

Speakers

Stefan Candea

co-founder, coordinator, European Investigative Collaborations

Currently I am the coordinator of the EIC network.My work started with covering organized crime across borders in România at the end of the 90’s. Mid 2015 I co-founded EIC as a network_by_agreement between media organisations and currently I coordinate the editorial and technological projects between @derspiegel @destandaard... Read More →

Stephen Grey

Special Correspondent, Reuters

Stephen Grey is special correspondent on the global investigative team at Reuters. He has previously worked as a foreign correspondent and head of investigations at the Sunday Times in London, and has reported and made both films and broadcasts for the New York Times, Guardian, BBC... Read More →

Friedrich Lindenberg

Data Librarian, OpenSanctions

Friedrich Lindenberg is a coder and data journalist working on web technology for new narrative and investigative techniques. He's currently building OpenSanctions, a global database of persons of journalistic interest.

Cécile Schillis-Gallego

Data journalist and researcher, ICIJ

Cécile Schilis-Gallego is a data journalist and researcher for ICIJ. She graduated in 2014 from Columbia Journalism School (US) and Sciences Po Journalism School (France) with a master's degree in investigative reporting. She is a 2014-2015 Brown Institute Magic Grantee, working on a investigative data project aiming at making financial statements of public companies more transparent and more accessible to journalists. She previously contributed to the French webzine Slate.fr... Read More →

Saturday May 26, 2018 1:00pm - 2:15pm CEST
C229 Zandpoortvest 60, 2800 Mechelen

Cross-border Journalism, workshop

2:45pm CEST

How to deal with security in high risk cross-border teams - the example of the Daphne Project

A journalist is killed, and a crossborder team of journalists sets out to finalise the story, she was working on. Obviously everyone is aware of digital security – but what about the physical threats? What to consider in order to work as securely as possible in a high risk crossborder team.

Speakers

Anuška Delić

founder, Oštro

Based in Slovenia, Anuška Delić is an investigative reporter and founder of Oštro, a non-profit center for investigative journalism in the Adriatic region. In 2021, Oštro established a sister center in Zagreb, Croatia, effectively creating a unique two-headed micro-regional entity... Read More →

Stephen Grey

Special Correspondent, Reuters

Laurent Richard

Founder and Executive Director, Forbidden Stories

Laurent Richard is a journalist, executive producer of investigative documentaries, founder and executive director of Forbidden Stories. For more than 20 years, Laurent Richard has been conducting international investigations and major reports for television. At the age of 25, he... Read More →

Saturday May 26, 2018 2:45pm - 4:00pm CEST
C113 Zandpoortvest 60, 2800 Mechelen

Cross-border Journalism, workshop

11:15am CEST

Cross-border journalism for all - step by step

Cross-border journalism is not only just for the star journalists at the major media or in existing networks, cross-border journalism is a mindset. Everyone can learn the method by understanding the process. Brigitte Alfter, the author of the Handbook on Cross-border Journalism, will give her step-by-step introduction to the method and develop potential story ideas based upon datasets presented during the conference. You are welcome to bring story ideas to discuss in this workshop.

Moderators

Tabea Grzeszyk

Journalist and Founder, Hostwriter

Tabea Grzeszyk is a freelance journalist (German National Radio) and co-founder & CEO of Hostwriter.org, an open-source network that helps journalists to easily collaborate across borders. The platform connects more than 5,400 colleagues from 150+ countries for mutual support and... Read More →

Speakers

Brigitte Alfter

Managing Editor, Journalismfund.eu

Sunday May 27, 2018 11:15am - 12:30pm CEST
C113 Zandpoortvest 60, 2800 Mechelen

Cross-border Journalism, workshop

11:15am CEST

Get started with project management for teams of journalists

We know that we need it, but how do we get started? Meet Project Management pro Anne-Lise Bouyer, who has long experience of managing data and crossborder journalism projects. Since 2017 she works with German non-profit journalism centre Correctiv, before she worked at Journalism++, the European data journalism entrepreneurs in their Berlin-Paris unit. Anne-Lise will introduce to the AGILE method for project management.

Speakers

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 →

Sunday May 27, 2018 11:15am - 12:30pm CEST
C201 Zandpoortvest 60, 2800 Mechelen

Cross-border Journalism, workshop