Name: Lightning Talks: Great Stories You've Never Heard Of
Start: 2016-09-25T10:45:00+0545
End: 2016-09-25T12:00:00+0545

Welcome, everyone, to Uncovering Asia: The Second Asian Investigative Journalism Conference. From September 23 to 25, we are bringing together top investigative reporters, data journalists, and media law and security experts from across Asia and around the world.

Below you will find more than 60 sessions and special events. There are panels on digging out hidden facts online, the environment, business, and how to fund your project; seminars on security and tracking dirty money; data journalism workshops by the best in the business; and much more.

You can follow us on Twitter at #IJAsia16. On behalf of your hosts — the Global Investigative Journalism Network, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, and the Centre for Investigative Journalism, Nepal, we wish you a big hello! Namaste!

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Lightning Talks: Great Stories You've Never Heard Of

In this popular session, journalists present favorite investigative stories in a short format -- just five to seven minutes per presentation. Come hear about gutsy investigations your colleagues have done across Asia. Have a story you want to present? Write us at hello@gijn.org.

Moderators

Sheila Coronel

Stabile Professor, Columbia University Journalism School, MDIF Board

Sheila Coronel is Dean of Academic Affairs at Columbia University’s School of Journalism, Toni Stabile Professor of Professional Practice in Investigative Journalism, and Director of the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. She began her reporting career at the Ph... Read More →

Speakers

Syed Bin Amir

Magic Grantee, BazarWatch

I'm Bangladeshi born and raised, but spent half a decade in the US for college and grad school becoming a techie who likes journalism and data science. Working on a data journalism project called BazarWatch as a Magic Grantee of the Brown Institute for Media Innovation right now... Read More →

Zyma Islam

Person/ Magic Grantee, The Brown Institute for Media Innovation

Developing a data journalism project on food frauds/ food adulteration for The Brown Institute at Columbia Journalism School. Interning at National Public Radio Visuals was the best internship ever. Previously covered crime, riots, cops for The Daily Star in Bangladesh

Sreenivasan Jain

Managing Editor, NDTV

Sreenivasan Jain is Managing Editor of NDTV, India's most respected 24hrs news and current affairs broadcaster. He presently anchors an award-winning weekly ground reportage and investigative show, Truth vs Hype, which focuses on political corruption, conflict zones and untold... Read More →

Jungseok Park

Reporter, KCIJ / Newstapa

Park is an editor and a senior reporter at Newstapa, a news site run by the Korean Center for Investigative Journalism. He covered high officials corruption and wrongdoings as a reporter at Korean Broadcasting Service (KBS) for 13 years before joining Newstapa in 2012. His investigative... Read More →

Mukesh Pokhrel

Investigative Journalist, Himal Khabarpatrika

Mukesh Pokhrel is an investigative journalist with Himal Khabarpatrika, a weekly magazine in Kathmandu. His stories include this report -- Guilty Until Proven Innocent -- with Nepal's Centre for Investigative Journalism... Read More →

Gemini Cheng Pui Shan

Journalist, Ming Pao

Gemini Cheng Pui Shan is an investigative reporter at Ming Pao Newspaper, Hong Kong. She participated in the reporting of the Panama Papers leak as part of the paper's investigative reporting team. Cheng and her team also wrote a feature series on a loophole in voter registrations... Read More →

Sunday September 25, 2016 10:45 - 12:00 GMT+0545
Regal 1 1st Floor

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