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!
Investigative reporting has often acted as the R&D department of journalism. Data journalism came about because in the 1980s investigative reporters began tinkering with big mainfrain computers to do their own analyses of government data. Here's a look at how enterprising journalists are pioneering two new fields for the media: the use of environmental sensors and drone aircraft.
IndiaSpend, India's first data journalism center, has won acclaim for installing the country's first low-cost air quality monitoring system, the #Breathe network. The project -- with stories based on data from 55 air-quality sensors in 11 cities--recently won the mBillionth award national award by the Digital Empowerment Foundation, which recognises mobile innovations in developmental technology. It was also an honourable mention at the global Data Journalism Awards 2016 in the open-data category.
Drones have caught on with the Philippine TV news media, led by GMA News' Raffy Tima, a senior news producer and news anchor. Tima is considered a pioneer in drone journalism in Asia, and will have video examples to show how drones can take journalists places they've never been before.
Great story projects, investigative techniques, and collaborations have come out of GIJN conferences since our first meeting in 2001. We know that good networking is key to this. To better connect people, we have arranged several informal networking sessions. Here’s a chance to talk about your work, meet your colleagues covering similar topics, share contacts and ideas, and find your next great story.
Our hosts, Stevan Dojcinovic and Drew Sullivan, are two of the world's leading journalists covering organized crime. Through the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, they have run cross-border investigations reaching into dozens of countries. OCCRP's projects have resulted in US$ 2.8 billion in assets frozen or seized, 55 criminal investigations launched, and 115 arrest warrants issued.
War is deception, as the Chinese general Sun Tzu said—and it’s left to investigative journalists to strip away the deceit. Who’s really commanding the battle, and what do they get out of it? Who’s funding and arming them? What back-door dealings are underway while the country’s in turmoil? Amid the violence and chaos, it takes a cool head and strong gut to make sense of it all, and unpick the details that are truly history-making.
We have three great journalists who have years of experience in doing just that, on diverse warfronts, and will explain on how to nail down what’s truly important: Kunda Dixit, whose trilogy on the Nepal civil war is a landmark work; Malini Subramaniam, just honored with CPJ's International Press Freedom Award for her gutsy work on India's Maoist conflict; and veteran Afghan correspondent Mirwais Jalalzai.
Google News Lab is a global project aimed at supporting quality journalism through education, training, and innovative digital and mobile tools. Since its launch earlier in 2015, the Google News Lab has partnered with news organisations to map the world’s response to the Nepalese earthquake, unearthed which fashion trends people really care about in the US, detected hints of a Conservative Party victory in the Britain’s election, and tracked the ups and downs of the US’s wild primary season.
Mojo Masterclass – As journalism becomes increasingly competitive, professional and community journalists need a broader digital storytelling skill set particularly built around mobile (mojo) literacies.
Journalists need to know how to mojo and more specifically how to transform user generated content (UGC) into complete user generated stories (UGS) that are developed, shot, edited and published from location using a smart device.
The Smartmojo 101 Guerrilla Workshop is a three-hour fast track introduction to mobile journalism where participants will:
- define mojo praxis- be introduced to SCRAP (a digital storytelling language), - receive an overview on copyright issues- learn about the various hardware (smartphones, lights, cradles, microphones, tripods and a basic mojo kit)- learn about a series of functional apps for shooting, editing, post producing and transferring content- shoot a basic video sequence on a smartphone- learn about basic lighting using natural light- learn how to record clean audio - be introduced to principles of recording a video interview- record and edit narration- edit media into a short UGS using their smartphone- learn how to use and edit music- how to transfer material between devices- how to publish a story from their smart deviceGo Mojo!
Note: This is a two part workshop and is mandatory to attend the first part to be able to join the second one.
How minorities and the disenfranchised are treated tells much about a given society. Growing inequality in the world affects such key issues as economic opportunity, political and cultural participation, education, insurgency and terrorism. Here are three remarkable journalists who have dedicated themselves to getting at the root of these issues and, in the process, dig into some of their country’s most stubborn and hidden problems.
Mojo Masterclass – As journalism becomes increasingly competitive, professional and community journalists need a broader digital storytelling skill set particularly built around mobile (mojo) literacies.
Journalists need to know how to mojo and more specifically how to transform user generated content (UGC) into complete user generated stories (UGS) that are developed, shot, edited and published from location using a smart device.
The Smartmojo 101 Guerrilla Workshop is a three-hour fast track introduction to mobile journalism where participants will:
- define mojo praxis- be introduced to SCRAP (a digital storytelling language), - receive an overview on copyright issues- learn about the various hardware (smartphones, lights, cradles, microphones, tripods and a basic mojo kit)- learn about a series of functional apps for shooting, editing, post producing and transferring content- shoot a basic video sequence on a smartphone- learn about basic lighting using natural light- learn how to record clean audio - be introduced to principles of recording a video interview- record and edit narration- edit media into a short UGS using their smartphone- learn how to use and edit music- how to transfer material between devices- how to publish a story from their smart deviceGo Mojo!
Note: This is a two part workshop and is mandatory to attend the first part to be able to join the second one.
