Today, reporting on the most important topics – from the pandemic to finance and almost everything else – requires data skills and cross-border collaboration. Launching a cross-border investigation can be daunting: setting up the appropriate team, dealing with media outlets in different countries, deciding on methodologies, getting the funding, coordinating the project… Not to mention getting or building the required datasets, and working on the data analysis and visualisations. But it can be done, and this master class will help you get started.
In this masterclass, we'll use as an example a topic that could realistically lead to a cross-border project. We'll use a potential investigation into labour issues to walk the required practical steps to plan, launch and coordinate such a cross-border project, including the data work that would need to be done. The masterclass aims to be practical and similar to a series of editorial meetings in which teams of journalists are planning an actual investigation.
The masterclass will start with two more general sessions:
- General considerations when planning a cross-border investigation
- General considerations when planning cross-border data work
And then it will continue with four practical sessions, in which we'll use a potential investigation into labour issues as an example. During these sessions, participants in the masterclass will also work in small groups to start designing their own potential cross-border investigation:
- From preliminary research to investigative hypotheses and questions.
- Designing and managing a cross-border investigation
- How to go about the data and visualisation
- Going beyond the data to report human stories
Participants will be able to download and keep the materials used during the masterclass, which may function as guides and checklists when planning an investigation, and which include a bibliography to find additional content about planning and managing cross-border investigations.
A separate ticket is required to attend a masterclass. If you would like to attend but haven't yet purchased a ticket, please contact us at media@journalismarena.eu
