Dataharvest 2015: Full Schedule

Dataharvest/EIJC, the European Investigative and Data Journalism Conference organised by Journalismfund.eu, is the most relevant networking event for investigative and data journalists in Europe. Dataharvest/EIJC15 will take place on Friday 8, Saturday 9 and Sunday morning 10 May 2015, with a pre-conference Hackaton on Thursday 7 May. Like the previous years, the conference will take place in the centre of Brussels.

12:00 CEST

LuxLeaks and how to unveil tax havens in Europe

From LuxLeaks and onwards: the impressive and award-winning LuxLeaks revelations carried out by the ICIJ pointed out the problem of access to tax avoidance in the heart of Europe. But Luxembourg is not the only country with such provisions. Also other EU countries assist companies to avoid paying taxes in the country of activity, as recent research by Dutch think-tank SOMO shows. While LuxLeaks had a leak as starting point, SOMO started from scratch. Hear the methodology of both examples and learn how to unravel tax avoidance schemes.

Moderators

Margo Smit

ombudsman, GIJN/ICIJ

Margo Smit is news ombudsman since August 1, 2015, overseeing the journalistic output of the Dutch public broadcasters at NPO since january 1, 2017.Smit has been working in journalism since 1989. She was successively a desk editor at commercial and public broadcasters, parliamentary... Read More →

Speakers

Mar Cabra

Member, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)

Mar Cabra, is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Until last year, she was the head of the Data & Research Unit which produces the organisation's key data work and also develops tools for better collaborative investigative journalism. She... Read More →

Kristof Clerix

Journalist, Knack

Kristof Clerix (°1978) works as a reporter for the Belgian weekly news magazine Knack . He is specialized in security reporting and long term investigative projects.Clerix is member of ICIJ and collaborates with OCCRP, Forbidden Stories and Lost in Europe. Together with Belgian daily Le Soir he broke the EU Parliament corruption scandal ("Qatargate... Read More →

Minna Knus-Galán

Yle, Finnish Broadcasting Company

Katrin McGauran

Senior Researcher, SOMO

Katrin McGauran is a member of SOMO’s Economic Justice and Production & Consumption teams and coordinates SOMO’s Tax Justice Programme. Before joining SOMO as a researcher in 2009, Katrin worked for a number of NGOs on issues ranging from human rights to EU justice and home affairs... Read More →

Friday May 8, 2015 12:00 - 13:00 CEST
1.19 Erasmushogeschool, 70 Zespenningenstraat, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Cross-border, Panel

Audience all
Subject tax, finance, tax avoidance, tax evasion
Tags cross-border

14:00 CEST

SwissLeaks: How to turn a big leak into game-changing journalism

A collaborative investigation that exposed how the Swiss branch of one of the world’s biggest banks, HSBC, profited from doing business with tax dodgers and criminals around the world. Team members talk about how they reconstructed and mined the leaked financial data to find the patterns of wrongdoing that made headlines around the world and triggered official inquiries in several countries. Also: why the French journalists who obtained the data decided to share it with colleagues around the world rather than scoop them?

Speakers

Lars Bové

Journalist, De Tijd

Lars Bové has been a journalist for the newspaper De Tijd since 2003. As a justice and investigative journalist, Lars has already exposed countless scandals, for which he has been awarded several times. Bové is a member of the international network ICIJ, which brings together the... Read More →

Mar Cabra

Member, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)

Alexandre Léchenet

Data Journalist

Journaliste spécialisé dans l'analyse de données, la réflexion sur de nouveaux formats ainsi que sur les sciences, les données personnelles et les nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication (réseaux sociaux, données personnelles, données publiques... Read More →

Roman Shleynov

Julia Stein

Chairwoman / Editor, Netzwerk Recherche / NDR

Julia Stein ist Leiterin der trimedialen Redaktion Politik und Recherche im NDR Landesfunkhaus Schleswig-Holstein. Bis 2016 war sie stellvertretende Leiterin im NDR Ressort Investigation. Sie hat die internationalen Rechercheprojekte PanamaPapers, Luxleaks, Offshoreleaks und Swissleaks... Read More →

Friday May 8, 2015 14:00 - 15:00 CEST
1.21 Erasmushogeschool, 70 Zespenningenstraat, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Cross-border, Panel

Host Organization ICIJ
Audience all
Subject tax, finance, tax avoidance, tax evasion
Tags cross-border, data