Seminar

Health authorities across the globe have failed to protect millions of patients from poorly tested implants, the first-ever global examination of the medical device industry reveals. For their annual Fonds National Suisse (SNF) seminar, the SNF has thus invited reporters from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism (ICIJ) working on the Implant Files. ICIJ partnered with more than 250 journalists in 36 countries. Participants of this seminar will learn the methodologies and tools used for the global investigation. Funding and the future of such cross-border collaborative (science) journalism will also be discussed.  

Support for cross-border collaborations

Our managing director, Ides Debruyne, will join the seminar to discuss our different grant programmes that support cross-border journalism. 

Buy your ticket here. Find the programme below:

9h: WELCOME & COFFEE

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9h20-10h: Presentation of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and example of crossborder collaboration with the “Implant Files”  

Speaker: Simon Bowers, Senior Reporter and European Partner Coordinator for the ICIJ 

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10h-10h40: Collaboration on a national level and in a swiss newsroom: working together on the “Implant Files”  

Speaker: Oliver Zihlmann & Catherine Boss, Journalists at Tamedia Investigative Unit, Partners of ICIJ and other crossborder collaborative networks of Journalists.  

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10h40-10h50: Coffee break 

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10h50-11h30: How to finance international collaborative networks and investigations?

Speaker: Ides Debruyne, Co-founder and since 2001 Managing Director of Journalismfund.eu, an independent non‐profit organisation with the purpose of stimulating in-depth cross-border journalism in Europe. Co-founder of the Dutch-Flemish Association of Investigative Journalists (VVOJ). 

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11h30-12h15: ROUND TABLE: The future of large scale international collaborations 

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12h15 - 14h00: LUNCH BREAK

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14h-15h30: WORKSHOP: Hands-on overview of the tools used by the ICIJ to achieve collaborative international investigations on big data in a secure network: PGP Keys, Signal and Semaphor messaging systems, and Datashare, a new open-source document analysis tool.

Speaker: Soline LeDésert, Product developer and owner at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Social media video journalist

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Bring your computer and download Datashare from https://datashare.icij.org/

Guide: https://icij.gitbook.io/datashare/

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15h30-16h00: Presentation of the brand new European Federation of Science Journalism (EFSJ) and discussion with SKWJ members for guidelines and ideas.

Speaker: Viviane Thivent, scientific journalist, president of the future EFSJ (European Federation of Science Journalism)  

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16h00: WRAP UP & END

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Organisation:

Barbara Reye, Tages-Anzeiger, and Christophe Ungar, RTS

Moderation:

Christophe Ungar, RTS

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