Category: Trainers and panelists

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.

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 .

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’.

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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.     

Also in 2013 following another of Meirion’s investigations Jim McCormick was jailed for 10 years for selling $85 million worth of bogus bomb detectors to Baghdad – and probably causing the deaths of 1,000 Iraqis. Meirion’s Newsnight reports on oil trader Trafigura’s illegal dumping of toxic waste in Africa won the Daniel Pearl International Award for Investigative Journalism in 2010. A series of films on Vulture Funds led to these extortionate law suits being banned in Britain. Meirion has investigated everything from the fixing of the 2000 US election, to how Britain helped Israel get the atom bomb, from corrupt politicians to fake cures for AIDS. He has also made films in Bosnia, Kosovo and Montenegro. He currently works for BBC Panorama. 

He has worked for a number of organisations, including the IREX Kosovo media programme, the public relations office of the ministry of communities, and helped to launch the TV station Kohavision.

He is the current director of Internews Kosova, which is a member of Internews International.

Ispahiu is also one of the founders and a manager of the International theatre festival Kosova InFest – the main theatre event in Kosovo.

Ispahiu is TV director and executive producer of the BIRN-organised debates Life in Kosovo.

He was also a finalist for the Pulitzer in public service in 1992. He has published one book, Tankers Full of Trouble, which won the Investigative Reporters and Editors book award for 1994. He has taught interviewing and investigative reporting workshops in five countries, each year adding new techniques learned from journalists, cops, FBI agents, lawyers, social workers and other practitioners. Retired in January and working on another book, he was a journalist for 42 years, last serving as national investigative reporter for the Hearst Newspapers chain (Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, etc). Always based in the Seattle area, his stories have exposed corruption in politics, the legal profession, government agencies, financial institutions, police departments, businesses and sports. He has also examined the dereliction and loopholes that led to massive oil spills, pipeline explosions and oil well disasters. He previously worked for the Seattle Times, Seattle Post Intelligencer and San Jose Mercury News. His jobs usually included investigative team leadership.  He lived during his youth in Norway, France, Lebanon and Afghanistan.

In 2000, after being transferred to central directorate for criminal police in Rome, he was appointed chief of the transnational crime Organisation section of the central operational service of the Italian National Police. In 2004, he was appointed chief of the narcotics section of the central service.

In September 2004, he was appointed liaison officer for the Italian National Police in Washington D.C. in the United States.

In February 2008, he was assigned to the Squadra Mobile (criminal investigative squad) of the Questura of Milan as deputy chief and chief of the narcotics section.

In October 2011, he was promoted and assigned to the Questura of Bari as chief of the Squadra Mobile.

Dyfvermark has been working in radio, TV and film since 1996, first as a news reporter and later as investigative reporter and host on “Kalla Fakta” TV4, before working for Swedish Television.