Trainers and panelists – Page 12

Helen Darbishire

Helen Darbishire, Executive Director of Access Info Europe, is a human rights professional specialising in access to information, freedom of expression and media freedom

Helen has extensive experience of working to promote the right to information globally, including by assisting drafting and promoting implementation of access to information laws in Europe, Latin America, and Africa.

She is a founder and current chair of the Freedom of Information Advocates Network.

Helen’s human rights experience spans 20 years. She has worked with Article 19 (London and Paris, 1989-1998) and the Open Society Institute (Budapest and New York, 1999-2005) and as a consultant with inter-governmental organisations (including UNESCO, the Council of Europe, the OSCE, and the World Bank).

She has published and lectured widely on freedom of expression, access to information, human rights and democratisation. She holds a degree in History and Philosophy of Science (Psychology and Philosophy) from the University of Durham, in the UK. She speaks English, French and Spanish. Helen is based in Madrid, Spain.

http://www.access-info.org/

Stephen A. Salmieri

Stephen Salmieri worked as Chief of Undercover Operations within the FBI for 29 years.

In this role, he managed FBI undercover operations nationally and internationally, and was a member of the International Working Group on police undercover operations and liaison with CIA and NSA.

He formulated the FBI’s undercover agent selection and training programmes, designed and implemented training programmes for Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.

He was the coordinator of terrorist task force and informant programmes.

One of the FBI’s original undercover agents, his projects included organised crime, biker gangs, corruption, insurance fraud, narcotics, money laundering, murder for hire, property theft, terrorism, white collar crime.

He was also an inmate at a maximum security prison, and utilised the witness protection programme for organised crime top-echelon informants.

Salmieri is trainer for Investigative Techniques Unlimited, and senior police adviser on organised crime, undercover operations, narcotics and terrorism to the Republic of Serbia.

He is a consultant to the FBI, the State Department, the US Departments of Justice, Food & Drug Administration and Police.

He has lectured in the Caribbean on undercover operations, money laundering and terrorist financing.

He also worked as a consultant for National Geographic Television’s July 2013 series ‘Inside the American Mob’.

Mark Schoofs

Mark Schoofs is a senior editor at ProPublica. Before coming to ProPublica in 2011, he had worked for more than 11 years at The Wall Street Journal, where he was a foreign correspondent and an investigative reporter for Page One.

Schoofs played a key role in investigations ranging from abuse and fraud in Medicare to the international methamphetamine trade. He contributed to the Journal’s coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks, which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News. Prior to the Journal, Schoofs was a staff writer at The Village Voice, where he won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his eight-part series on AIDS in Africa. He has also written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Esquire, Out, and many other publications. He teaches journalism at Yale University and holds two U.S. patents.

Sasa Mirkovic

Sasa Mirkovic is one of the founders of Radio B92, one of the first independent broadcasters in Serbia, which began production in 1989

Between 1989 and 2003 he worked as music editor, director of programmes and general manager of Radio Television B92.

He served as president of B92′ s board of directors and a member of the board from 2003 until 2007.

Since 2007 Mirkovic has been the president of Trust B92 Ltd. (the biggest shareholder in B92) and the broadcaster’s director for external communications.

Sasa Mirkovic was one of the founders of ANEM (the association of independent electronic media) in 1993.

Since 2006 he has been the president of ANEM.

Sasa Mirkovic graduated from the law faculty at the University of Belgrade. He was born in 1967.

Katrin Adams

Katrin is a senior advisor in the Regional Project on Social Protection and Prevention of Human Trafficking (SPPHT) implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on the Western Balkans.

After Katrin studied law in Gießen, Valencia (Spain) and Berlin, she completed a Master of Laws at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, Galway. Her post-graduate legal service traineeship included assignments to the International Criminal Court Task Force of the German Foreign Office and to the German Embassy in Nairobi. She qualified as “Volljuristin” in 2006.

Katrin started her professional career in an international law firm in Berlin. From 2007 to 2008 she was the Executive Director of a German Federal Alliance against Trafficking in Women and Violence against Migrant Women (KOK e.V.). She joined GIZ (formerly GTZ) in 2008 and since worked on various rule of law, governance, human rights and gender issues. She has advised, inter alia, projects in Cambodia, Uganda, Latin America and on the Balkans from Eschborn (Germany) before she moved to Belgrade to join the team of the Regional Programme on Social Protection and Prevention of Human Trafficking (SPPHT) in 2012.

Philipp Grüll

Philipp Grüll was born in 1982 and studied communication science, politics and law in Munich and Venice, Italy.

During his studies he worked as a freelance journalist for Süddeutsche Zeitung and the news agency DDP. Since 2010, he has reported for the public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR). He focuses on political issues for the magazines “Kontrovers” (BR) and “report München” on the nationwide ARD-channel “Das Erste”. He co-authored the documentary “Tito’s Murder Squads – The Killing of Yugoslav Exiles in Germany” alongside Frank Hofmann. He has received several awards for his journalistic work.

Nevena Ruzic

Nevena has been working as the Head of Cabinet of the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection since May 2009

She previously worked for the Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights – YUCOM and then for the OSCE Mission to Serbia as Freedom of Media Coordinator. She was a research assistant for DiploFoundation in information society and online freedom of expression issues.

Nevena is a founding member of the International Media Lawyers’ Association.

Nevena graduated from the School of Law at the University of Belgrade in 2002 and holds an MA in Contemporary Diplomacy from the University of Malta and an LLM in International and European Human Rights from the University of Leeds.

She is currently doing her doctoral studies at the Legal Studies Department of the Central European University. Her thesis is about the liability of ISPs for freedom of expression vis-à-vis copyright and constitutional justification.

Crina Boros

Crina Boros is a watchdog reporter specialised in data journalism, transparency laws and cross-border reporting.

She is known for Swiss Leaks, her cross-border reporting on women’s rights, lobby and war compensation, and for taking the European Parliament to court over denial to release public interest information. A Computer-Assisted Reporting trainer and member of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE). https://uk.linkedin.com/in/crinaboros

Paul Bradshaw

Paul Bradshaw is a visiting professor in online journalism at City University London and Course Leader of the MA in Online Journalism at Birmingham City University, which he established in 2009.

He has a background in magazine and website management, has contributed to a number of books about journalism and the internet and speaks about the subjects in the media regularly both in the UK and internationally.

Paul is best known as the publisher of the Online Journalism Blog, described by UK Press Gazette as one of the country’s “most influential journalism blogs” and by the Telegraph’s Shane Richmond as “The UK’s Jeff Jarvis”. He is also the founder of the investigative journalism crowdsourcing site Help Me Investigate, which was shortlisted in 2010 for Multimedia Publisher of the Year.

In 2008 Paul was ranked the UK’s 4th ‘most visible person on the internet’ by NowPublic, and in 2009 ranked 36th in the ‘Birmingham Power 50’. In 2010 he was listed on both Journalism.co.uk’s list of leading innovators in media, and the US Poynter Institute’s list of the 35 most influential people in social media. In 2011 he has been ranked the UK’s 9th most influential UK journalist on Twitter by PeerIndex.

Paul’s ‘Model for the 21st Century Newsroom’ and ‘BASIC Principles of Online Journalism’ series have formed the basis for newsroom operations and journalism education around the world, where they have been translated into a number of languages.

In addition to teaching and writing, Paul acts as a consultant and trainer to a number of organisations on social media and data journalism.

You can find him on Twitter @paulbradshaw.

Sheila Coronel

Director and Professor of Professional Practice at Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism

Sheila began her reporting career in 1982, when she joined the staff of Philippine Panorama, a widely read magazine. As Ferdinand Marcos gradually lost political power, Sheila reported on human rights abuses, the growing democratic movement, and the election of Corazon Aquino as president. She later joined the staff of The Manila Times as a political reporter, and also wrote special reports for The Manila Chronicle. As a stringer for The New York Times and the Guardian (London), she covered seven attempted coups d’etat against the Aquino government.

In 1989, Sheila and her colleagues founded the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) to promote investigative reporting. The PCIJ trains journalists in investigative skills, and has provided an environment for in-depth, groundbreaking reporting. The Center has investigated and reported on major social issues including the military, poverty, and corruption. Under Sheila’s leadership, the Center became the premier investigative reporting institution in the Philippines and Asia.

Sheila is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including “Coups, Cults & Cannibals,” a collection of reportage; “The Rulemakers: How the wealthy and well-born dominate Congress;” and “Pork and other Perks: Corruption and Governance in the Philippines.” She has received numerous awards and widespread recognition of her work.

She received an undergraduate degree in political science from the University of the Philippines, and a masters in political sociology from the London School of Economics