We are happy to offer a number of grants to help reduce financial barriers for journalists wishing to attend the conference. If selected, you’ll receive a lump sum to cover your travel and accommodation costs and a complimentary conference ticket to attend Dataharvest – the European Investigative Journalism Conference on 28-31 May in Mechelen, Belgium. … Read more
Ticket sales for Dataharvest – the European Investigative Journalism Conference 2026 are now open. Get your ticket here and join us in Mechelen! This year, we’ll once again welcome over 500 investigative and data journalists in Mechelen, Belgium, for three days of learning, networking, and collaboration. The conference runs from Friday, 29 May 2026, to Sunday, … Read more
Dataharvest is a great place to learn from experienced journalists and to network. On the day before the official programme of the conference starts, you have the opportunity to dive deep into a topic and acquire a new set of skills by participating in our three different full-day, hands-on masterclasses. The masterclasses take place on … Read more
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