The European Investigative Journalism Conference

Knowledge sharing and training has value

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Or: Why we decided to claim a fee for an online conference Dataharvest – the European Investigative Journalism Conference 2020 – is going online because of the coronavirus and is now Dataharvest Digital 2020. We hope that the investigative journalism community will join us on these unknown waters! We do this at a time, when … Read more

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We have a winner!

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Thank you for your work on the quiz questions – some were more difficult than they looked! Several hundred took a look at the quiz; in the end, we had to draw lots between a Belgian and a German contestant with 100 per cent correct answers, and we have a winner: Claudia Jentsch gets a … Read more

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Take our “Non-Opening Research Quiz”!

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Win a free masterclass at the next Dataharvest conference! This Friday at 10 am we were supposed to open the 10th Dataharvest conference – but, alas, the coronavirus came in the way. Let’s get together in another way this week – and take a little quiz challenge. Use your research skills, send in your answers … Read more

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Read and listen through the locked-down Easter

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Let’s get something good and useful out of lockdown! Easter holidays are coming up, and we can’t see family and friends to the extent that we would like to. So what to do with all that time? Here are some ideas from the Arena and Dataharvest team: Nils Hanson, chairman of Arena for Journalism in … Read more

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Dataharvest postponed until November 5-8, 2020

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We have decided to postpone Dataharvest – the European Investigative Journalism Conference because of the restrictions on travelling and gathering introduced by European health authorities. We fully support the purpose of these measures: to slow down the spread of the coronavirus.

Instead, the conference will be held in Mechelen from November 5th to 8th, 2020.

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Dataharvest and the coronavirus

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Dear friends and participants of Dataharvest – the European Investigative Journalism Conference, It is two months and two days until the conference is set to open. Right now, more and more countries in Europe are introducing measures to limit the spread of the coronavirus. We are following the situation closely, we have a particular focus … Read more

Meet the FOI fighters

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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

Brush up your data skills with Jonathan Stoneman

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At Dataharvest we have three full tracks of data skills training with great trainers from all over Europe. Meet one of them – Jonathan Stoneman, freelance data and journalism trainer, “based in the UK, but a European at heart”: What are you going to teach at Dataharvest? This year I am teaching R with my … Read more