Bart van Eldert (English)
Bart van Eldert (1966) works as a health & science reporter for the Dutch national newspaper AD. He writes mainly in the field of health, medicine, nutrition and genetics, writing features on various items like humanoids, cloning, the human brain and probiotics. Recently he wrote a dossier on the future of personalized medicine. For this […]
Robert Sikkes (English)
Robert Sikkes (1958) works as managing editor for het Onderwijsblad (Education Magazine), that is published every fortnight in a circulation of 75,000 by the teachers union AOb. The magazine is the number one in education news in the Netherlands and invests much in research. Het Onderwijsblad revealed the shortage of teachers, researched the financial position […]
Mark Kranenburg
Mark Kranenburg (1954) works at Dutch daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad. In 1986, Kranenburg successfully applied freedom if information laws to get his hands on the paperwork that surrounds the formation of a new Dutch cabinet, a ground breaking success. He was chief of the parliamentary desk and correspondent in Brussels. In 1996, Kranenburg received the […]
Ad van Liempt (English)
Ad van Liempt (1949) is a Dutch journalist, publicist and producer of TV series. He started out at newspapers Het Centrum and Utrechts Nieuwsblad before he moved to the NOS Journaal to become chief of the national desk. In 1988, he contributed with Dutch historian Lou de Jong on the tv-series ‘De Bezetting’. In 1989, […]
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 […]
Peter Verweij (English)
Drs Peter Verweij (1949), is working as a senior lecturer at the School of Journalism in Utrecht, The Netherlands. He teaches courses in ‘new media and journalism’, and is director of the New Media Lab of the school. Most of his courses are covering subjects like ‘research and finding sources on the web’, or ‘multi […]
The biggest Global scams
Everything investigative reporters could ever dream of: Sex, drugs and sleazy billionaires, murderous dictators, money launderers, globalisation, class war and endless corruption. And much more! Andrew Jennings will show how to penetrate the rackets run by FIFA and the International Olympic Committee, the scamsters who have stolen the peoples’ passion. He will trace the links […]
Arlen Poort (English)
Arlen Poort (1971) is an editor and CAR-specialist of the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. He often works with spreadsheets, relational database applications and GIS-software like Excel, Access and MapInfo. He has been active in the VVOJ since its foundation in 2002. On all six conferences, he has given courses in CAR-related subjects. Like Excel, mapping, […]
Eric Hennekam (English)
Eric Hennekam (1955) has his own company Eric Hennekam Agora (*). He teaches archive and Internet research. He regularly teaches at almost every single journalism school in the Netherlands, as well in at the new graduate programme investigative journalism in Mechelen, Belgium. Hennekam had published widely on archival matters, both for specialists and for a […]
