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A thoroughly rewritten and extensively updated sixth edition of “The Investigative Reporter’s Handbook” can be ordered online in time for the fall academic semester.
Since its debut, the book has been viewed as the definitive guide for investigative journalists. It’s been used widely in journalism classrooms and newsrooms for decades as essential reading and reference.
In this four-part series, IJEC provides an overview of the presentations and tip sheets available online from the conference, which was attended by 440 journalists from 48 countries.
From making public information requests in Indonesia to the craft of web scraping, Uncovering Asia 2018 had many sessions on how to strengthen reporting by more and better use of data and documents. This second part of this series gives an overview of public information requests, leak platforms, finding documents and doing data analysis.
The largest ever gathering of investigative journalists in Asia took place in Seoul, Korea in October 2018 and now many of the tip sheets and presentations are available online.
The sold-out conference had more than 60 sessions and more than 400 investigative and data journalists attended from 48 countries.
The talks ranged across many topics and the conference included a track of sessions of hands-on data journalism training.
In case you missed the 2017 European Investigative Journalism Conference and Dataharvest, or simply want to go over what you saw there, many of the presentations and tip sheets are available online.