Trainers and panelists – Page 13

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

Marcus Lindemann

Marcus Lindemann is an executive producer and journalist from Germany that is responsible for TV reports mainly broadcast on ZDF, Europe’s largest TV station.

Since 1998, he has trained journalists to use the Internet, while he has been “online” since before the Internet launched by writing reports via a 2400-baud modem for a local newspaper after he finished school.

He teaches at universities and trains journalists from different departments and media to more efficiently use the Internet. He also trains abroad in Asia and Africa. Lindemann has written manuals and published research for the last decade that explores how to best use the Internet in investigative journalism. He was also a speaker at the 2011 Global Investigative Conference in Kiev, Ukraine where he presented strategies for conducting online research and how to create online profiles for individuals.

Lindemann has a background in TV journalism and political economy. At the age of 17, he began to work for a local newspaper while still in school and ultimately obtained a Master’s degree from the UK. He later became involved in television production.

Due to his international involvement and training, Lindemann bridges the gap between what journalists do online everyday and what is feasible if they more effectively use the Internet.

You can find him on Twitter: @MarcusLindemann.

Rosemary Armao

Rosemary Armao is an assistant professor of journalism/communication at the State University of New York at Albany and a consultant and member of the board of directors of the Center for Investigative Reporting in Bosnia and the Organized Crime and Corruption Project based in Bucharest

In a career of nearly 40 years she has written and edited at a number of US newspapers, taught in several universities and worked on reporting and media development projects in Africa, Asia and eastern Europe. She is a former executive director and member of the board of directors of Investigative Reporter and Editors and a former Knight International Press Fellow.She’s served as a bureau chief for the Baltimore Sun, managing editor Sarasota , Fla. Herald Tribune, and state and investigative editor of the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel. She holds degrees from Syracuse University and Ohio State University .

Miroslav Jankovic

Miroslav was born in Belgrade in 1975 and is a lawyer specialising in the field of human rights. He is the author of a number of publications, including ‘Implementation of Transitional Laws in Serbia’ (2005), ‘Implementation of the Law on the Access to Official Documents in Kosovo’, ‘Minority in Montenegro – Legislation and Practice’, ‘Implementation of Transitional laws in Serbia’ (2006), ‘Political Violence in Serbia’, and ‘Media Freedom in Serbia’

Until 2007, he worked at the Youth Initiative for Human Rights as a human rights programme regional coordinator. Since then, he has been employed with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe as a legal adviser working in the field of media freedom. In March 2007, he received an award as one of the ’10 best young lawyers in Serbia’.

http://www.osce.org/serbia

Martin Kaiser

Marty Kaiser is a nationally recognized journalism media consultant specializing in leadership, digital innovation, ethics, investigative reporting and editing. He has worked in the United States, Canada and Europe.

He was Editor/Sr. Vice President of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel from 1997 to 2015. Under his leadership, the Journal Sentinel earned a national reputation for its investigative journalism and digital innovation. Kaiser led the creation of the company’s digital vision and the development and implementation of multiple digital products. His passion for anticipating the changing needs of readers and advertisers better positioned the Journal Sentinel to grow digital advertising and readership, and strengthen its relevance to the community.

Kaiser’s newsroom won Pulitzer Prizes in 2008, 2010 and 2011 and was honored as a finalist six other times from 2003 through 2014. While he was editor, the Journal Sentinel won awards in almost every major U.S. journalism contest. Columbia Journalism Review wrote that the Journal Sentinel had one of the most acclaimed watchdog teams in the country, period.

In 2010, he was named a Vice President of Journal Communications, the parent company of the Journal Sentinel.

Editor & Publisher magazine named Kaiser its Editor of the Year in 2009 – recognizing his ability to increase investigative and enterprise reporting while developing one of the most respected newsroom cultures in the nation. In 2011, the Milwaukee Press Club honored him with its Headliner Award for leadership in Wisconsin, only the second time a journalist had been selected in the 55-year history of the award.

He joined the Milwaukee Journal, predecessor to the Journal Sentinel, as Managing Editor/Vice President in 1994. Before arriving in Milwaukee, Kaiser was Associate Managing Editor of the Baltimore Sun. He previously served in editing and reporting positions at the Chicago Sun-Times, and at Florida newspapers in Sarasota and Clearwater.

He is a member of the board of the American Society of News Editors Foundation, the advisory board of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Journalism Advisory Board of the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, the Colby College (Me.) Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award board and has been a Pulitzer Prize judge three times.

In 2010, Kaiser completed his term as president of the American Society of News Editors. During a tumultuous time, he was instrumental in refocusing the almost century old organization on a digital future, revitalizing the organization’s finances and reinstating the editors‘ annual convention.

Kaiser was honored in 2009 at the University of Georgia by being selected to give the school’s annual Ralph McGill Lecture. In 2010, Penn State University chose him to give its annual Oweida Lecture on journalism ethics.

He earned his B.A. from The George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., and completed the Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Management Executive Program.