Category: Trainers and panelists

Before coming to The Post, she directed a short documentary about the historical inaccuracies of gender roles. As an NBC/NAHJ fellow, she reported, produced and wrote stories about science, tech and Latino culture. Cahlan has also covered health and the environment in California. 

Honors and Awards: 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service; 2021 Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia University Award; 2020 Webby Award for Best Individual Feature ; 2020 Online Journalism Award Features finalist; 2020 International Fact Checking Network for Best Format; 2019 North Gate Award for Excellence in Documentary Production; 2018 National Association of Black Journalists, Salute to Excellence; 2018 Excellence Award, Robert Whittington Award for Exceptional Reporting

Professional Affiliations: National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

Simon Bowers is based in London. He joined Finance Uncovered in November 2020 after four years as European Co-Ordinator at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).

Before that he spent 19 years at The Guardian in the UK, where he was a senior reporter working on tax and financial investigations. Simon’s reporting has featured in some of the world’s most prestigious news media.

He has also given a TEDx talk on a collaborative investigation into Nike’s pan-European tax avoidance activities. He has been part of collaborative reporting teams that have won several awards, including three George Polk awards for Financial Journalism (Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, LuxLeaks) and a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting (Panama Papers).

The team focuses on projects where visual elements play an essential role in communicating the story, working on everything from investigations to explainers across the spectrum of news and features. Alexandra was previously a reporter at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, where she won the Private Eye Paul Foot Award for Investigative Journalism for her series on domestic abuse by police officers and also reported on Brazilian deforestation for soya and beef in collaboration with Reporter Brasil and The Guardian.

Previously, she produced video and reported for The Post’s Fact Checker and covered the 2016 election for NPR as a visual producer. As Fulbright Scholar in India, she produced a multi-media exhibition and oral history project that explored the structure of Dharavi’s informal political and economic sectors. She has also reported on local politics, development and urban agriculture in New York City. 

She has received a number of honors and Aawards: Honorable Mention, Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, 2019; Fulbright-Nehru Scholar, 2010; U.S. State Department Critical Language Scholar for Punjabi, 2009

Meg Kelly has also written a book Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth: The President’s Falsehoods, Misleading Claims and Flat-Out Lies.

 

Before coming to The Post, she directed a short documentary about the historical inaccuracies of gender roles. As an NBC/NAHJ fellow, she reported, produced and wrote stories about science, tech and Latino culture. Cahlan has also covered health and the environment in California. 

Honors and Awards: 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service; 2021 Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia University Award; 2020 Webby Award for Best Individual Feature ; 2020 Online Journalism Award Features finalist; 2020 International Fact Checking Network for Best Format; 2019 North Gate Award for Excellence in Documentary Production; 2018 National Association of Black Journalists, Salute to Excellence; 2018 Excellence Award, Robert Whittington Award for Exceptional Reporting

Professional Affiliations: National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

Leone Hadavi is an open source investigator and analyst. He has an MA in War and Security Studies and an LLM in International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law of Armed Conflict. He worked as an intern analyst at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, ECCC, and at the International Criminal Court, ICC. At the ICC, he first started applying OSINT techniques to investigate the use of technicals by the Seleka armed group.

He is best known for his contribution to the Lighthouse EUArms project, where he has led the tracking of arms and services provided by European companies and states to dictatorships, conflict zones and controversial actors. He is a Bellingcat contributor, and among his most notable collaborations are Libya’s ‘Game of Drones’ with the BBC and The Killing of Muhammad Gulzar with Forensic Architecture. He is also a race bike rider and cinema enthusiast.

 

 

Maximilian Popp was born in Passau Maximilian Popp in 1986. He graduated from the Henri Nannen School of Journalism in Hamburg and studied political science in Istanbul. He has been working for Der Spiegel since 2010, initially as an editor in the Germany department in Dresden, Hamburg and Berlin, and, since 2016, as a correspondent in Istanbul. He has also been the Deputy Head of Foreign Affairs since April 2019.

For his reporting on Turkey, he was awarded the South East European Society’s Journalism Prize.

Lise Witteman is an independent EU-correspondent who specialises in following paper trails of the European decision making processes from the interests of (national) politicians and lobbyists and their influence on EU policy to the ways EU taxpayers’ money is being spent.

After having worked as a political reporter for about eight years in The Hague, Lise quit her job and moved to Brussels in 2018 as an independent correspondent to investigate EU-policy and write in-depth stories on EU-matters. She mostly writes for the Dutch investigative platform Follow the Money and the weekly magazine De Groene Amsterdammer. She also cooperates with international journalism projects such as those of Lighthouse Reports.

In september 2021, her book ‘Sluiproute Brussel’, Shortcut Brussels, on the hidden EU-agenda of the Dutch government will be published. At the same time, she launched the EU-media desk, Follow the Money. With two other EU-specialised journalists, its purpose is to continuously set up and coordinate investigative projects on EU-matters.

He has pioneered many new collaborative investigations with Europe’s leading media. He has won the Citigroup Excellence in Journalism award and has been nominated for several Prix Europa awards.

Ludo Hekman is an investigative journalist, editor and founder of Lighthouse Reports. He started his career as a freelance foreign correspondent working for print and online media as well as TV covering countries like Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. His current focus is on collaborative newsrooms, with investigations on arms tracking, surveillance technology and industrial farming.

He is one of the founders of Lighthouse Reports, a non-profit based in the Netherlands that leads complex transnational investigations blending traditional journalistic methods such as freedom of information requests with emerging techniques like open source intelligence and specialisms like data science.

Lighthouse’s collaborative newsrooms pioneer new formats and pay particular attention to fresh ways of framing complex issues that will capture public attention and challenge misconceptions.

One of his projects – the arms tracking newsroom – challenges the status quo of EU arms exports. A European wide investigation covered over a 100 arms deals and documented a long list of EU and international violations. Most of the evidence was gathered with OSINT methods and while working in short sprints with temporary teams. These investigations triggered response in the EU parliament, campaigns by NGOs across Europe and legal cases against governments and companies.

Hekman won the Citigroup Excellence in Journalism award and has been nominated for several Prix Europa awards.

Maud Jullien worked for the BBC as a correspondent for 7 years based in Dakar, Senegal, and Kinshasa, DR Congo, producing short and long-form radio and TV reports on West and Central Africa. She has produced reports for the BBC’s investigative programmes Africa Eye, Newsnight and crossing continents.

In 2018 she moved to France to study documentary cinema and has since been working as a freelance investigative journalist, editor-in-chief and filmmaker collaborating with the BBC and French channels Arte, France 24 and TV5 Monde. She began working as an open source investigator on the EUarms project with Lighthouse in 2019, and has since taken part in workshops on arms exports in France and in Spain.