Top Tools & Techniques
Top Tools & Techniques for Online Investigations On this session, participants will discover the online tools & techniques that will help them investigate websites and the organisations or individuals behind them. Much of this is esoteric, almost forbidden knowledge used by just a handful of computer bores with no social life. Some of the techniques […]
Going deep: Investigative method and management
Mark L. Hunter will provide managers at the European Investigative Journalism Conference with an introduction into the training program he developed to give journalists cutting-edge tools and processes to create independent, exclusive content that builds value for readers, viewers ánd enterprises. His Friday afternoon session is part of the so called ‘managers track’, open to […]
Caspio Bridge® – demonstration
Caspio is provider of the leading do-it-yourself database platform for rapid web application creation and publishing without programming. Hundreds of new organizations around the globe use Caspio Bridge on a daily basis to publish interactive databases and to do map mashups. Attendees to this panel will learn how to leverage the Caspio Bridge framework in […]
Connecting the dots
Introduction to Microsoft Access More and more journalists discover the possibilities of doing their own data analysis, from the very simple to pretty advanced. Usually, Microsoft Excel is the tool of choice. That is a good choice, because Excel is available on most office computers, is easy to learn and quite powerful for those who […]
Online Polling
Journalists are always very keen to use data in news stories. Indeed, it is thanks to statistical information that political predictions and dramatic statements about the number and motives of ‘binge drinkers’ seem to make sense. However, two problems exist when using statistical information in news articles. The first one is the problem of misinterpretation. […]
Digging for global data
Food prices are rising steep; unemployment in the EU is going up, Sub-Sahara developing countries are doing well in ICT development. How do you check these statements, or find the data to sustain these statements? If you use Google keyword search je will miss 80% of the fun. Google indexes not more than 20% of […]
Stay tuned
RSSfeeds in all forms are a powerful instrument for journalists to cover a subject during a longer period of time. There are stand-alone RSSfeeds, like Omea Reader, or integrated readers, like the one Google offers. Both are useful in their own way, and you will learn how to successfully let them do boring and time-consuming […]
Build your own website
JOURNALIST 2.0 Make yourself findable and searchable on the web. Marie-José Klaver will explain how you can use free tools and programs like WordPress, tagging, LinkedIn and Twitter to present yourself and your work on the internet. Trainer: Marie-José Klaver When? Friday November 21st, 3.45 PM Where? Erasmushogeschool, Room 1.09 (1st floor)
CSI Internet
Find hidden data in websites, documents and photo’s and learn more about authority & reliability of any given web source. Trainer: Henk van Ess When? Friday November 21st, 2.00 PM Where? Erasmushogeschool, Room 1.09 (1st floor)
Go get it, Google!
Learn how to formulate clever instructions for Google and endhance your chances that ‘the thing’ reports back with all the right answers. Trainer: Luuk Sengers
