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Join us at our conference, participate in a workshop for digital security, network with practitioners and politicians, and learn about the impressive investigations of the IJ4EU grantees.

We will assess the challenges that investigative journalism faces in Europe today and the conditions – political, legal, and financial – that are necessary for investigative journalism to flourish. Find out why investigative journalism is in everyone’s interest – and how we can protect it in a climate where economic needs and political interference are the new normal.

Two years ago, the European Parliament initiated a special fund to be spent exclusively on cross-border investigative journalism, the #IJ4EU. The grants from this fund, launched by the ECPMF and managed by International Press Institute (IPI), were awarded to twelve transnational teams from across Europe. The UNCOVERED conference will give a stage to grantees to present the results of their work.

The event takes place under the patronage of the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Mr Michael Müller.

Places are limited! Please register and please cancel your registration if you can’t come to free up your seat.
Please note: We will take photos and videos of the speakers and audience, which may be posted on our website and social media channels.
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Thursday, January 31 • 3:30pm - 5:00pm
DISCUSS: How to Create an Enabling Environment for Investigative Journalism

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What do we need to create and ensure an enabling environment for (cross-border) investigative journalism and free media in Europe?

- how do we create the necessary political conditions, many of which need to be guaranteed by the EU and its member states
- what legal frameworks are in place and where are we lacking legal safety for investigative journalists and whistleblowers
- how can we ensure the physical and psychological safety of investigative journalists
- what other measures need to be taken or can be created?

The panel discussion will be moderated by an investigative journalist and representative of international networks, Margo Smit.

Moderators
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Margo Smit

ombudsman, GIJN/ICIJ
Margo Smit is news ombudsman since August 1, 2015, overseeing the journalistic output of the Dutch public broadcasters at NPO since january 1, 2017.Smit has been working in journalism since 1989. She was successively a desk editor at commercial and public broadcasters, parliamentary... Read More →

Speakers
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Margit Stumpp (tbc)

Spokesperson for Education/Media Politics /Digital Infrastructure, German Bundestag
Margit Stumpp (born 13 April 1963 in Mengen, Upper Swabia) is Member of the German Bundestag for the Green Party (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) since 2017. For her faction she is spokesperson for education and media politics as well as for digital infrastructure. She studied precision... Read More →
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Jeanny Gering

Network Director, Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma Europe
Jeanny Gering is Network Director at Dart Centre Europe. She is a TV-News and Documentary Film producer in Germany. She has worked with international broadcasters like the BBC, CBS and Arte. She’s also a screenwriter. Jeanny has worked with Dart Centre Europe since 2012 in diverse... Read More →
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Dr Justin Borg-Barthet

EU law senior lecturer, University of Aberdeen
Justin is a Senior Lecturer in EU law and private international law at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Since the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, Justin's research has focused on the identification of gaps in EU private international law which result in the suppression... Read More →
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Tabea Grzeszyk

Journalist and Founder, Hostwriter
Tabea Grzeszyk is a freelance journalist (German National Radio) and co-founder & CEO of Hostwriter.org, an open-source network that helps journalists to easily collaborate across borders. The platform connects more than 5,400 colleagues from 150+ countries for mutual support and... Read More →

Thursday January 31, 2019 3:30pm - 5:00pm CET
Europäisches Haus (European House) Unter den Linden 78, 10117 Berlin, Germany
  Session/Panel, panel discussion