Siim Kallas
EU-Commissioner Siim Kallas is Vice-President for Administrative Affairs, Audit and Anti-Fraud. Mr Siim Kallas has been an active participant in the restoration of Estonian statehood and has served in Estonia as Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of the Central Bank. He has been elected to the Estonian Parliament three […]
Paul Myers (English)
Paul first used the Internet in 1978 and the Web in 1993. He joined the BBC as a junior researcher two years later and was employed in the complex task of cutting up newspapers with a big pair of scissors. Later, progressing to the role senior information researcher, Paul would find information for dozens of […]
Dick van Eijk (English)
As a reporter at NRC Handelsblad, a national newspaper in the Netherlands (circulation 240,000), Dick van Eijk spent much of his time on projects involving data analysis, as well as on stories that deal with demography or society as a whole. After having started as a general reporter, he covered the beat of transport and […]
Tricia Bots (English)
Tricia Bots (1949) is lecturer at the Fontys Hogeschool Journalistiek in Tilburg, Netherlands. Since 1997 she teaches Online Journalism and Online Research. She also writes freelance about the internet and which impact online journalism has on mainstream media.
Margo Smit (English)
Margo Smit studied journalism in the United States. In 1989 she began working as a news and features reporter for a Dutch commercial TV station RTL4 and later as a political correspondent. In 1997, Margo transferred to KRO Reporter, an investigative television documentary series on Dutch public TV. She has investigated the Dutch monarchy, nuclear […]
Andrew Jennings
Andrew Jennings has been chasing bad men around the world for three decades. The 1980s was spent pondering the relationship between London’s top gangster and the city’s top detective, making a one-hour documentary the BBC will still not show. He quit and with Paul Greengrass remade it for the BBC’s biggest rival. He spent a […]
Tracks
The program contains several special ‘tracks’. If you follow a particular track, you will be able to participate in all the important workshops and training sessions on the subject of your interest. The track subjects are: ‘Project Europe’ Want to learn everything about Europe in just two days? During these sessions, you will be immersed […]
Science
A discussion about investigative journalism and science. Moderator: Peter Aldhous Where? Erasmushogeschool, Room 3.18 When? Friday November 21st, 03.45 PM
Round table sessions: Wobbing
Friday November 21st Round table: Wobbing(*) in Europe 1 – 11.15 AM (!) Among the participants are invited some of the most active wobbers in Europe. They’ll present their stories and recent cases. The aim is to compare situations, what are the obstacles, what are the possibilities, what were the good stories. 1st round of […]
Plenary sessions
Friday morning, the European Investigative Journalism Conference will kick off at the Olympia Bourse Ballroom of the Marriott Hotel Brussels. Our key note speakers will focus on the profession of journalism as a whole, and on the special object of our two-days-stay in Brussels: Europe. • Siim Kallas is the EU’s vice-president for the “triple […]
