The European Investigative Journalism Conference

A life of holding government, military and secret services to account

Veteran investigative journalist Nicky Hager is going to be our keynote speaker at the opening of Dataharvest – the European Investigative Journalism Conference 2022! Nicky Hager is a New Zealand investigative reporter with a decade-long track record  of researching and exposing hard-to-document subjects such as the military, intelligence agencies and the unseen sides of politics. … Read more

Pop-up: The making of the Pandora papers

Join us to hear how the largest cross-border collaboration to date exposes the hidden riches of the elite The biggest leak about tax havens to date, an unprecedented journalistic collaboration spanning across the globe and a number of important revelations showing how a shadowy financial system benefits the world’s most rich and powerful. Join us … Read more

Dataharvest Pop-Up: Meet the people behind “Cities for Rent”

Are rents constantly rising in your city? Has it been increasingly difficult to find adequate and affordable place? Has home ownership become only wishful thinking? High demand for flats across European cities has made housing a very attractive investment. While many people can’t find an affordable flat to live in, reports of a huge increase … Read more

Oh, the places our clothes go

INSTANT INSPIRATION is a new concept at Dataharvest 2021 – an investigation that you can use for inspiration or just plainly copy in your own country. First, we follow the journeys that our clothes make – both the used clothes donated to charity and the clothes bought online and then returned to the vendors. Finnish … Read more

How to use AI and maintain your journalistic ethics

Robots write articles, select news, edit pictures. They research, they personalize our front pages and target them to the individual. How can we put robots – or artificial intelligence – to the best use and make sure that our ethical standards in journalism are still respected and maintained? Danish digital journalist Andreas Marckmann Andreassen has … Read more

Meet the FOI fighters

The laws on access to information, often called FOI (Freedom of Information) for short, are some of our most important tools as investigative journalists. Following the paper trails is an art in itself, and many important investigations have reached their results through systematic – and creative – use of FOI. We have several sessions that … Read more