A group of 20 journalists from different parts of the world will be taking part in the face-to-face and online panels at Abraji's 19th International Congress of Investigative Journalism, which will be held from July 11 to 14 at ESPM-SP in São Paulo. The event will be attended by professionals from Argentina, Bahrain, Colombia, the United States, the Netherlands, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, the United Kingdom and Venezuela. The debates, the panels and the workshops will be covering topics such as Artificial Intelligence, misinformation, open source mapping and sustainability in journalism.
Among those invited are programming expert Jonathan Soma, data journalism professor at Columbia University, Guardian journalist Maya Wolfe-Robinson and Ebony Riddell, director of the slavery legacies project at The Scott Trust (which owns the Guardian Media Group). Aiganysh Aidarbekov and Youri van der Weide, from Bellingcat, an independent data-driven journalism group, Garance Burke, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and Emmy winner, and Doreen Wainainah, from PesaCheck, fact-checker in 15 African countries, will also be attending.
Get to know the work of the guests invited to the 19th on-site Congress
Aiganysh Aidarbekov is the lead of Bellingcat's TechTeam project which specializes in data driven investigations and tool development. Conducting Bellingcat’s workshops, Aiganysh has trained hundreds of journalists and activists around the world on the methods of open source research. Check out her activities at the event.
Amy Mitchell is executive director and founder of Center for News, Technology & Innovation. She has previously served as Managing Director of News and Information Research at the Pew Research Center. She has also helped put out the journalism research program and worked as its managing director. Check out her activity at the event.
Andrew Fishman is president of the Intercept Brasil, which he co-founded and was editor-general of until the end of 2020. He worked at the US Intercept as a reporter from 2013 to 2022. His reporting has been focused on security, technology, human rights, Brazil and the documents leaked by Edward Snowden. Check out his activity at the event.
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Daniela Castro is a Colombian investigative journalist. She joined the OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project) in 2017 as a reporter and is now editor for South America, coordinating investigations, covering and editing stories alongside journalists from the region. Check out her activity at the event.
Daniel Suárez is a Colombian journalist. He has experience in armed conflict research and journalism projects investigating violence against local leaders and communities in Latin America. He has also been working in data journalism. Check out his activity at the event.
Doreen Wainainah is editor of PesaCheck, Africa’s largest fact-checking organization, debunking misleading claims and deciphering the often confusing numbers quoted by public figures in 15 African countries. Check out her activity at the event.
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Ebony Riddell is director of the slavery legacies project at The Scott Trust, the British company that owns the Guardian Media Group. She has over 20 years' experience in social justice advocacy and policy, with expertise in human rights, gender-based violence, community engagement and grassroots activism. Check out her activity at the event.
Garance Burke is a data journalist. Her public interest journalism has sparked federal investigations, ministerial resignations and congressional hearings. Burke's stories about the treatment of migrant children were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Check out her activity at the event.
James Kleinfeld is an award-winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker working for Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit. In 2016, he spent five months undercover infiltrating the US Israel Lobby, exposing Israeli espionage in the United States. Check out his activity at the event.
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Jonathan Soma is a programmer and data journalism professor at Columbia University, who focuses on making unapproachable data accessible. He has made maps, processed data, and crowdsourced stories with ProPublica, WNYC, The New York Times, and others. He co-founded the Brooklyn Brainery in 2010. Check out his speeches and workshops.
Maya Wolfe-Robinson is editor of Cotton Capital, journalist at the Guardian for 13 years. She has covered legal affairs, worked as an editor on the opinion desk, and a reporter, focusing on the north of England. Check out her activity at the event.
Nikita Roy is a Knight Fellow at the ICFJ, focusing on AI literacy in the news industry. Additionally, she leads the AI Journalism Lab at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Check out her speeches and workshops.
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Vanina Berghella is the Regional Director for Latin America & the Caribbean at the International Fund for Public Interest Media. From 2019 to 2022, she was director of Velocidad, the media accelerator of SembraMedia and International Center for Journalism (ICFJ), which helped a group of ten media outlets in Latin America strengthen their sustainability. Check out her activity at the event.
Youri van der Weide is an open source researcher and trainer for Bellingcat. He has worked on a wide variety of topics, including human rights abuses in Africa, migration in the Eastern Mediterranean, arms exports and research into open source research methods. Check out his workshop at the event.
Get to know the work of the online guests invited to the 19th Congress
Benjamin Toff is the author of "Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism". He is an assistant professor at the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication and an academic member at the Center for the Study of Political Psychology and the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Check out his masterclass planned for the event.
Colin Pereira is a HP Risk Management director and co-founder and director of RiskPal - Riskpal.com. He works to advise and mitigate risk assessments in film and TV production, journalism and geopolitical situations in all fields. Check out his masterclass planned for the event.
Ela Stapley is a digital security consultant at CPJ and works with the Emergencies team as part of HP Risk Management. Check out her masterclass planned for the event.
María Teresa Ronderos is director and co-founder of Centro Latinoamericano de Investigación Periodística. She is a columnist for the El Espectador newspaper and runs workshops for journalists at the Gabo Foundation, where she is also a member of the executive board. Check out her masterclass planned for the event.
Nilesh Christopher is a journalist working on technology, business, culture and society. He has published in media such as WIRED, BBC, Vice, Rest of World, South China Morning Post, The Economic Times and others. Check out his masterclass planned for the event.
Sherif Mansour is a journalist and former coordinator of CPJ's Middle East and North Africa Program. He holds a master's degree in international relations and is experienced in defending human rights and democracy in Egypt. Check out his masterclass planned for the event.
New activities are yet to be announced. Keep up to date with the Congress at: congresso.abraji.org.br
The 19th International Congress of Investigative Journalism is organized by the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism and the Journalism school at ESPM-SP.
The 19th Congress is sponsored by: Google, Luminate, Grupo Globo, JSK Journalism Fellowships, Fundação Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal, Jusbrasil, Artigo 19, Atricon, Abracom, Alright, Fogo Cruzado, Fundo Brasil, Poder360, Internews and Serrapilheira.
Institutional sponsors: Agence Française de Développement (AFD), Agência Mural, Alma Preta, Abert, ANJ, Fórum de Direito de Acesso a Informações Públicas, Oboré, Textual Comunicação, Transparência Internacional - Brasil and Vida de Jornalista.
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19th International Congress of Investigative
Place: ESPM - Álvaro Alvim Campus Rua Doutor Álvaro Alvim, 123 - Vila Mariana - São Paulo
Dates: July 11-14, 2024
Register at: https://congresso.abraji.org.br/inscreva-se
