How to identify the best sources for a difficult investigation. Then how to get even unwilling sources to co-operate. The best sources are often people with something to hide. But how do you convinc...
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The Juncker plan aims to create jobs and growth through targeted investments in the most important sectors of the European economy, which is now emerging from the crisis. What does this mean in prac...
Tips and tricks for data-driven journalism starters with Hacks/Hackers Dublin. Data is now an indispensable part of investigative work and storytelling. This workshop provides an overview of Data J...
We live in a golden age of television, but not of television news. Television entertainment thrives “beyond the box” on an internet that has embraced video and where we see the rise of on-demand...
Latest developers: how engineers and editors can work together to create an innovative newsroom. Should journalists and developers sit together in newsrooms? Does every journalist need to know how ...
With the rise of automation in journalism, we have seen that automated tools can be used to write texts from structured information. But what about fact checking itself? We've seen a few high-profil...
Learn how to use Advanced Search and search operators in order to improve your chances to find the right informations on the web: lower the background noise, choose the proper archives, reduce the s...
In the beginning there was gonzo journalism, with the desecrating irruption of the not-neutral-at-all first person onto the journalistic scene. Then, with the advent of the web and digital reality c...
This hands on session will teach users how to scrape websites using the WebScraper Chrome extension, a point-and-click tool to automatise data extraction from websites. WebScraper allows multi-level...
It is estimated that each year up to 2,000 billion dollars are recycled, much of it through companies that allow the identity of the beneficiaries of the money to be kept secret. Tracking financia...