GIJC21 Sessions

Flourish is one of the most popular visualization tools of recent times. It offers easy-to-use and very rich visualization methods, especially for newsrooms engaged in data journalism. In this session, you will get to know Flourish’s rich data visualization library and learn how to make basic types of charts, projection maps, heatmap, and hierarchy maps. Case studies will also be included in the session. Those who want to practice in the session can create an account here https://app.flourish.studio/login. You can access the datasets in the presentation or you can download the datasets from the Github page.

Leading women investigative journalists from around the world will share concrete leadership tips and tricks that helped them along their careers. Each will cover a different aspect, such as imposter syndrome, to how to succeed in a male dominated environment, adapting your personal leadership style, and balancing work and family. Come, get inspired, and build your own personal leadership toolkit.

While fact-checking organizations have done a good job of telling fact from fiction amid the waves of disinformation, the task facing investigative journalists is different, and even harder: to identify and expose those responsible for coordinated disinformation. This panel features two investigative journalists who have used their cutting-edge expertise in media manipulation to expose scamsters, far-right propagandists, and secret troll farms. Attendees will hear about powerful open-source tools that can track digital footprints, free resources for content verification — and the kind of tips that might just change your reporting life.

It’s not enough to simply have a great idea or great reporting. You need a team, you need travel, and you need support — and, increasingly, that means you need fundraising. Whether you run a nonprofit, produce documentaries and podcasts, or are a freelancer, knowing how to fundraise is a survival skill for investigative journalists. We’ve brought together groundbreaking media donors from Australia, Europe, India, and the US to tell you what they’re looking for and how to navigate the sometimes arcane world of grants and donations.

Slavery is not a vestige of the past. There are today an estimated 40 million victims of modern slavery, mostly women but also men and children, according to UN data. The perpetrators gain some $150 billion a year in illicit profits, according to the International Labour Organization. We’ve assembled an all-star team of journalists who have investigated and exposed extraordinary cases of modern slavery and forced labor, including members of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams from Associated Press and their groundbreaking colleagues from Thomson Reuters Foundation and The Guardian.