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During #GIJC17’s Academic Track Lightning Round on November 18, 10 professors and trainers from around the world offered tips and techniques on teaching data journalism.
Journalism professionals and lecturers from around the world presented research on capacity building, social media, video reporting and new data tools for #GIJC17’s academic track.
The conference will be held in Hamburg in 2019, co-hosted by GIJN and its member Netzwerk Recherche, the dynamic German investigative journalism association that has organized 16 annual conferences of its own.
Winners of the seventh Global Shining Light Awards were announced at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference tonight in Johannesburg, South Africa. Top prizes went to gutsy investigations of missing funds in Iraq and extra-judicial killings in Nigeria, with citations of excellence to exposes of arms trafficking in Eastern Europe and complicity behind anti-Muslim riots in India.
We are happy to share the full schedule for the Global Investigative Journalism Conference, now just 6 weeks away. We’re still tinkering with it, but you’ll find over 150 events. Thanks to you, the conference keeps growing: we now expect over 900 participants from 100 countries. There’s still room if you want to join what will be the muckraking event of the year.
Immerse yourself in cutting-edge visual technology at the 10th Global Investigative Journalism Conference, in a special virtual reality showcase hosted by Emblematic Group and presented by award-winning film producer Cassandra Herrman. Emblematic, a California-based studio pioneering immersive video for investigative journalism, will set up a virtual reality experience at GIJC17 in Johannesburg on November 16-19. The group will demonstrate its work done in collaboration with Frontline, the U.S. Public Broadcasting Corporation’s flagship documentary series. The room-scale walk-around VR experience will place users inside a scene, allowing them to move through, interact, and play with the story. Using state-of-the-art technology such as photogrammetry and volumetric 3D video, the experience pushes the boundaries of immersive storytelling while exploring what virtual reality can bring to journalism.
As we prepare to gather in Johannesburg for #GIJC17, it’s worth noting the many challenges African journalists face. From South Africa to Somalia, July was a particularly ominous month for free expression on the continent.