Global Investigative Journalism Network

In chilling testimony before an Oslo criminal court last week, confessed mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik told of how his original plan focused on attacking the spring 2011 conference of Norway’s Foundation for Investigative Journalism (known by its Norwegian acronym SKUP). Breivik said he considered the SKUP conference a “more legitimate target than Utoya,” the island [...]

Lots of activity this past weekend by our colleagues in northern Europe.  Two of the largest and oldest investigative journalism associations held their annual conferences in Norway and Sweden, while the German association held a state-of-the-art data journalism conference. In Tønsberg, Norway, more than 600 journalists gathered for the annual conference of SKUP, the Stiftelsen [...]

Three European groups have organized conference on data driven journalism that will be held in Brussels May 6th-8th 2012 and offer sessions from journalism experts in data analysis and visualization, freedom of information, and cross-border reporting. The Journalismfund.eu, Wobbing.eu, and FarmSubsidy org have put together a conference with tracks of sessions on farm subsidies in [...]

More than 400 journalists from five continents attended the cutting-edge Annual Computer-Assisted Reporting conference in St. Louis, Mo. in the U.S.A.  that went from February 22 through Feb. 26. Participants crowd a room to listen to lightning talks – 5 minutes for each speaker. The conference, which offered more than 150 panels and hands-on classes, [...]

The Volunteer Group, which conducts the business of the Global Investigative Journalism Network between conferences, has worked out a memo of understanding in which a new center will act provisionally as the Network’s secretariat. The Global Center for Investigative Journalism, which has been created by long-time investigative journalist David Kaplan, will help coordinate Network activities [...]

By Nils Mulvad, Danish School of Journalism – Storify is right now perhaps the best content management system to integrate elements from social media to a story.

The conference will take place at Plantijnhogeschool in Antwerp, Belgium on November 16th and 17th.  Focus will be on European Investigative Journalism, datavisualisation and methodology.

More than 300 journalists from Morocco to Iraq joined Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism for its fourth annual conference December 2-4 in Amman, Jordan. The inspiring gathering showed that investigative journalism is vibrant, expanding, and pushing the limits across the Arab world. 

The African Media Initiative (AMI), the continent’s largest association of media owners and operators, has announced a $1 million fund to spur innovation in the news industry.