VVOJ conference: register today!
The registration for the VVOJ’s festive jubilee conference has begun. All journalists, members and non-members, can register for the special international edition of the association’s conference, labelled the European Investigative Journalism Conference, due to take place on November 16 and 17, 2012. This year, the Plantijn Academy in Antwerp is hosting the Dutch-Flemish Association for […]
Travel to Antwerp
Antwerp is located in the northwest of Belgium. It is easily accessible by boat (United Kingdom), car (Netherlands, Belgium, Germany) or train (Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom [Eurostar]). [google-map-v3 width=”500″ height=”500″ zoom=”12″ maptype=”roadmap” mapalign=”center” directionhint=”false” language=”default” poweredby=”false” maptypecontrol=”true” pancontrol=”true” zoomcontrol=”true” scalecontrol=”true” streetviewcontrol=”true” scrollwheelcontrol=”false” draggable=”true” tiltfourtyfive=”false” addmarkermashupbubble=”false” addmarkermashupbubble=”false” addmarkerlist=”Plantijn Hogeschool, Meistraat 5, 2000 Antwerp{}1-default.png” bubbleautopan=”true” showbike=”true” […]
Conference 2012 hotels
Looking for a hotel in Antwerp during the VVOJ 2012 conference in November 2012? Please browse through the following list. For more information and more hotels to choose from, go to Antwerp City Information. Hotel IBIS Antwerpen Centrum *** Meistraat 39 2000 Antwerpen Tel: +32 (0)3 3939002 Fax: +32 (0)3 2342921 E-mail: H1453@accor.com 2 minute […]
Statistics for journalists
Hands-on. Learn about the power of statistics and begin using them for story tips. Reporters comfortable with spreadsheets will find that many stats can be done using Excel. In this session, David Donald (Center for Public Integrity) takes participants through difficult sounding techniques such as cross-tabulations and regression analysis using a spreadsheet, and shows how […]
Travelling to Eindhoven
By air International participants to the VVOJ Conference may fly to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport or Eindhoven International Airport. From Schiphol, you may take a direct train to Eindhoven central station (approximately one hour travel time). From Eindhoven Airport, buses 103, 145, or 401 will take you directly to Eindhoven Central Station. Check the Eindhoven Airport […]
How to use the Freedom of Information Act
Saturday, November 20 will highlight the latest trends and techniques in ‘Wobbing’, the use of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Several sessions will cover starters tricks, the use of unorthodox ways to gain access to documents and the broad use of environmental information within the EU. (Inter)national experts will train beginners and experienced wobbers […]
Foto’s presentatie WOB-boek ‘Een muur van rubber’
Presentatie van ‘Een muur van rubber: de WOB in de journalistieke praktijk’ en discussie met zaal, woensdag 16 december in perscentrum Nieuwspoort. (Foto’s Robert Oosterbroek)
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 […]
Marleen Teugels (English)
Marleen mainly publishes investigative stories in the Flemish weekly news magazine Knack. She does a lot of research on health and well-being. She was the first journalist in Belgium that used the freedom of information act, and she went with the Flemish Association of Journalists (VVJ) to the Council of State in a case dealing […]
Arjan Dasselaar (English)
Arjan Dasselaar (1975) is a regular contributor to Elsevier, the largest opinion weekly in the Netherlands; quality broadsheet NRC Handelsblad; broadsheet Algemeen Dagblad; business magazine Quote; Internet civil rights magazine Netkwesties.nl; and the Dutch edition of Men’s Health. He is also a columnist for Personal Computer Magazine. Since late 2004, he has been a member […]
