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...

Hacking the newsroom. How hackers and journalists are working together to change the shape of journalism to come. Hackers, coders and programmers are more and more frequently embedded in journalist...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Sourcing and verifying eyewitness media from the social web is now a standard requirement for many journalists, whether reporting breaking news events or investigating atrocities. In this workshop, ...