Zagreb: Regional meeting of investigative journalists
Event date:
Sat, 2013-11-23 09:00
SEE Media Observatory is organising a regional meeting of investigative journalists on 23 and 24 November 2013 in Zagreb.
The aim of the meeting, host by the Investigative Journalism Center in Zagreb, is to gather two groups of investigative journalists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia to work together with international trainers and with each other on stories aiming to disclose abusive and excessive control of the media by particular interests, and exposing them to corruption, clientelism and other practices that undermine proper functioning of free, independent, pluralistic and viable media.
In the first group there are six journalists, grantees of the SEE Media Observatory sub-granting scheme who are selected by an international jury and already work on their investigative stories.
In the second group there are additional five journalists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia, each selected by the partner organisation in their respective countries. Journalists in that group are going to develop their ideas for investigative stories during the meeting.
In addition to the support provided by the European Commission to the SEE Media Observatory, the regional meeting is supported by the Guardian Foundation which provides two international trainers: David Leigh (investigative journalist of The Guardian, UK) and Jonathan Stoneman (freelance trainer and consultant, former BBC reporter, producer and editor, UK).
The jury members for the SEE Media Observatory sub-granting scheme to investigative journalists – Stefan Candea (Director and Co-founder of the Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism), András Lőke (Chairman of the Board of the SOMA Foundation Budapest, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of ittlakunk.hu) and Sasa Leković (freelance investigative reporter and Director of the Investigative Journalism Center in Zagreb, Croatia) – will also work with the journalists at the meeting.
Agenda of the meeting can be downloaded here.
