Arrival: Sunday, August 18, 2019
Venue: Hotel Herceg Novi Iberostar
DAY 1
August 19th, Monday
9:00 – 9:30 Opening session and introduction with an outline of the training programme - Marija Ristic, regional director Balkan Investigative Reporting Network; Hendrik Sittig, head of the Media Programme South East Europe, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung; and Blake Morrison, lead trainer, investigative projects editor at Reuters
10:00 – 11:30 Imagining the story – Blake Morrison
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee
12:00 – 13:30 How to investigate big data and verify leaks – Frederik Obermaier, Süddeutsche Zeitung
13:30 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 16:30 Case study: Strache video investigation – Frederik Obermaier
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee
17:00 – 18:00 Investigative story fund: proposals and discussion
18:00 - 19:30 How to track ships and planes online – Ivan Angelovski, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network
20:00 Dinner at the hotel
DAY 2
August 20th, Tuesday
9:30 – 10:30 The burden of proof: An interactive exercise that explores the difference between supposition and proof – Blake Morrison
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee
10:45 – 12:00 The burden of proof: An interactive exercise that explores the difference between supposition and proof – Blake Morrison
12:15 – 13.45 Visualising your investigation: introduction to visual storytelling - Andrew Baker
13: 45 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00- 16:30 Visualising your investigation: practical tips - Andrew Baker
16:30 – 17.00 Coffee
17:00 – 18:30 Tracking hidden offshore companies – Dragana Peco, KRIK & OCCRP
20:00 Dinner at the hotel
DAY 3
August 21st, Wednesday
9:30 – 11:00 The art of interviewing – Blake Morrison
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
11:30 – 13:00 Open source investigations – Benjamin Strick, BBC Africa Eye and Bellingcat
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 Open source investigations – Benjamin Strick
16:00 – 16.30 Coffee
16:30 – 17:30 How to fact-check your story – Ivana Jeremic, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network
17: 30 - 18:30 Collaboration between filmmakers and investigative journalists - joint session by Blake Morrison and Andrew Baker
20:00 Dinner at the hotel
21:00 Screening of the Bellingcat documentary “Truth in a Post-Truth World”
DAY 4
April 22nd, Thursday
9:30 – 11:00 Pitching your idea: How to get buy-in without overpromising; conceiving and organising an investigative project – Blake Morrison
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
11:30 – 13:00 How to use open source. Case study: Anatomy of a Killing – Benjamin Strick, BBC Africa Eye and Bellingcat
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Investigative documentaries: organised crime and political extremism – Olaf Sundermeyer, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg and ARD
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee
15:30 - 17:00 Investigative documentaries: organised crime and political extremism – Olaf Sundermeyer
17:00 - 18:30 Investigative journalism, technology, and data Scraping - Christo Buschek
20:00 Dinner at the hotel
DAY 5: Workshops
August 23th, Friday
9:30 – 13:00 Workshop: story proposals. Groups present their story ideas; participants critique and discuss the proposals in terms of relevance, significance, feasibility, methodological rigour and public interest.
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 19:00 Field trip
21:00– 23:00 Farewell dinner and award ceremony
DAY 6
August 24th, Saturday
10:00 Departure