European Investigative Journalism Conference concluded
For two days Brussels housed hundreds of investigative journalists that attended the European Investigative Journalism Conference 2008, organised by the VVOJ. The conference offered a packed programme of panel sessions, management tracks and computer classes. Keep in touch with this website, as we’ll publish workshop reports, video recordings and presentation handouts as soon as we […]
Jeroen Trommelen (English)
Jeroen Trommelen (1956) started as a journalist at daily De Stem in 1977, switching to national daily newspaper De Volkskrant in 1979. There he held positions at almost all newsdesks (perhaps except the sports desk…). From 1992 to 2000, he covered developments in the former Dutch colony Suriname. Since 2005, he is a full time […]
Patrick Pouw (English)
Patrick Pouw worked as general reporter for the Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad before he became a fulltime investigative journalist. At the paper he already gravitated towards investigating the Islamic community in his hometown Utrecht, a focus that has sharpened with the publication this year of his book ‘Salaam’. In it, he describes his year […]
Paul Goossens (English)
Paul Goossens (Belgium) studied economics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven from 1964-1968. After graduating, he became a freelance journalist for the weekly Vrijdag. In 1973, he became an economics reporter at the newspaper De Standaard, and was the editor in chief of De Morgen from 1973 to 1991. This was an era of change and […]
Els Diekerhof
Els Diekerhof is docent aan de School voor Journalistiek (SvJ), onderzoeker bij de Kenniskring Crossmedia Content van de Hogeschool Utrecht en coördinator van het internationale onderwijsprogramma European Culture and European Journalism. Ze was van 1991 tot 1997 directeur van de Utrechtse School voor Journalistiek. Ze werkte ook bij het wetenschappelijke instituut SISWO, als scholingsmedewerker bij […]
Gerard Smit (English)
Gerard Smit is philosopher and teacher at Hogeschool Utrecht, department of Communication and Journalism. He teaches media ethics and communication theory. On the side, he teaches classes in how to deal with integrety issues to civil servants. Links: Gerard Smit on Twitter book by Gerard Smit weblog by Gerard Smit
Round table: sustainable investigative journalism
Making investigative journalism sustainable and visible – How to develop cross-border marketing for freelance reporting? Moderator: Stefano Valentino When? Saturday November 22nd, 09.00 AM Where? Erasmushogeschool, Room 3.17
Stefano Valentino (English)
Stefano Valentino is a Brussels-based freelance reporter covering both EU issues through his own newswire www.EuroReporter.eu and global issues through field reporting worldwide. He contributes to the major Italian newspapers such as such as il Sole 24 Ore, il Giornale, Panorama, Famiglia cristiana, il Venerdì (La Repubblica) as well as to some foreign media. Currently, […]
Jacqueline Wesselius (English)
Jacqueline Wesselius (1943) is the deputy editor of the Dutch trade magazine De Journalist and has been so from January 2001 on. She has been active as a journalist since late 1965. The first twenty years of her career she was a Paris-based correspondent for Dutch media. She learned the trade at the weekly De […]
Aldhous, jewel of research journalism
According to Flemish scientific journalist Kim De Rijck, American research journalist Peter Aldhous is the jewel in the crown of research journalism. At the conference in Brussels she will act as moderator during a conversation with her American colleague. ‘I can’t wait to ask him how he got the idea to immerse himself precisely in […]
