Every year, we receive a great number of creative, high-quality pitches for the conference, and we build the conference programme in collaboration with our community. The Dataharvest team is small but passionate. We are all first and foremost (working) journalists, and not professional conference organisers, embedded in the investigative, cross-border, and data journalism community in … Read more
We are eager to read your ideas for the Dataharvest 2026 programme – from the presentations of investigations you’ve been working on, to the (nerdy) skills you’d like to share with the community. The call for proposals is now open – please send us your ideas via this form! You can send us your session … Read more
The tradition of capturing Dataharvest via live illustration lives on! This year, Brussels-based illustrator Pieter Fannes returned to the conference to deliver his beautiful snapshots of our community. Conference-goers can see Pieter’s works in progress as he sits among them in sessions and, throughout the conference, as he completes drawings, drafts are displayed on the … Read more
At another sold out Dataharvest, 500 journalists from around the world arrived in Mechelen, Belgium to launch or continue collaborations, hear each other’s stories and understand each other’s work, and share the skills that make contemporary investigative journalism so powerful. But we know many of our friends and colleagues were not able to make it this year. So, … Read more
Dataharvest preliminary programme is out – and we have just opened another call for proposals! At this point, we are only able to accept a very limited number of pitches (for approximately ten time slots left to complete the programme). We kindly ask you to check out the published version of the preliminary programme before … Read more
Do you consider yourself a beginner when it comes to data? Would you like an overview of how data journalism is done and try your hand at it? We no longer run beginner sessions at the Dataharvest conference, but over the coming months, you can join us as we show how to analyse data using … Read more
Dataharvest – the European Investigative Journalism Conference is happy to offer a (limited) number of grants to help reduce financial barriers for journalists wishing to attend the conference. The grant is aimed towards applicants from low(er)-income countries in Europe, especially members of small, independent newsrooms and freelancers. We define as European all the Council of … Read more
Tickets for the 15th edition of Dataharvest have officially sold out in less than two months. This year’s conference has reached capacity earlier than ever before, with all tickets gone four months ahead of May 22. We know many of you are eager to attend, and we’re truly sorry we can’t welcome everyone this year. … Read more
Pitching a session for our conference shouldn’t feel like a big gamble. If you have something you’d love to share at Dataharvest, we want to ensure you have all the information and support you need to develop a great session. We’ve provided some guidelines on what makes a great pitch and now we’re hosting a … Read more
Dataharvest – the European Investigative Journalism Conference is an opportunity to learn from your peers, network, and pick up a new skill. However, conference sessions are only 75 minutes long, and participants often wish they had more time to practice a newly acquired skill. This is why we’re offering four different full-day, hands-on masterclasses on … Read more