Dataharvest 2015

Learn about the technical tools used for the Lux Leaks and the Swiss Leaks researches: Open documents and data from the two investigations, and private tools used by the team to communicate, coordinate and share documents.

Learning from other professions: Dutch Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, short SOMO, recently unveiled how little tax a Canadian mining company paid in Greece http://www.somo.nl/publications-en/Publication_4177. In this workshop the two researches explain, how they did it, including two methods: 1) Corporate structure mapping (sources: Orbis, Dutch Chamber of Commerce, annual reports and SEC filings) and red flags of tax avoidance and 2) FDI data analysis, identifying the mailbox company percentage in bilateral investment flows (involving the Netherlands, in future this will be possible with more jurisdictions due to changing data collection rules of the OECD). They will provide a step-by-step-guide to journalists.

This manual contains definitions, advice and practical examples connected to the regular activities od media workers and media outlets in extraordinary situations, like reporting from conflict areas, during demonstrations and social unrest, about natural and other disasters, and reporting under internal and external pressures, threats and law suits. It covers basic principles of ethical journalism, including corruption and examines new challenges presented by new technologies.