Journos:
Want to meet the director of the European Ombudsman (half of the cases there concern transparency) – and want to meet two lawyers, who are among those who win cases for more transparency at the European Court of Justice?
Then come to Brussels to the Dataharvest.
Of course you can also meet investigative journalisms grand old in Europe, David Leigh, investigative editor at the Guardian. He recently got an – indirect – award for his work: The OECD experts praised his and his colleagues’ work in their big report about tax evasion Adressing Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (page 13).
And then there will be lots of fresh data and good coders to help you make stories out of them. For example the award winning journalist Nils Mulvad @nmulvad (European journalist of the year 2006) will help with fresh Farmsubsidy data, and Friedrich Lindenberg from the Open Knowledge Foundation/Der Spiegel @pudo.
Interested in research in social media? Meet Paul Myers, researcher at the BBC and excellent speaker and trainer @researchclinik. Interested in combining a lot of new research methods? Meet Paul Bradshaw from Birmingham University @paulbradshaw. Meet Per Anders Johansen from Norway, who makes a living on wobbing for excellent stories.
And many, many others! Have a look at the program (as of today – to be updated further).
There will be four tracks:
- Farmsubsidy – EU spending on agricultural policy @farmsubsidy
- Crossborder – reporting following the story, not the national borders
- Wobbing – using freedom of information legislation to get good, original information for journalistic work @wobbing_europe
- Data – cooperating with coders to make better journalism
Much looking forward to seeing you there!
Brigitte Alfter 