Documents have long been a mainstay of the best investigative reporting around the world. This session will explore how to find obscure reports and documents on persons, institutions, companies and programs – valuable information that is often otherwise unattainable. It will also offer practical guidelines on how to analyze documents and reports to unleash their full investigative power.
How do journalists avoid pitfalls and mistakes when making investigative stories? The answer is a system of pre-publication quality control.
Together with his investigative team, Nils Hanson has developed a methodological approach to fact-checking and "bullet-proofing" investigative stories that is now being adopted in other newsrooms. Participants will be taught tools to avoid becoming the target of investigations themselves.
From idea to publishing – this classic session gives you important tips on how to make sure your investigative project becomes a success.
It will give you important tips on how to examine your own idea, how to convince human sources to cooperate with you, how to get the evidence you need, how to demand accountability and how to make sure that everything you publish is accurate, fair and relevant.