NOVEMBER TRAINING AGENDA

COP27 will be held this year in the Middle East; one of the worst regions affected by climate change. In this context, the role played by journalists is vital in accountability and exposing the negative impact of climate change on people’s lives. They also play an important role in shedding light on positive initiatives.

In this webinar, a group of climate experts and environmental journalists will share their inspiring experiences in covering climate summits, telling stories of climate change, fighting misinformation, access to credible sources, and how can we build on that to create an impactful environmental journalism ecosystem.

What happens behind the scenes of producing investigative reporting in the Arab World? What challenges have journalists faced in 2022? This webinar presents a conversation with a number of investigative journalists who have published their investigations with the support of ARIJ recently.

As the world gathers in Egypt to discuss climate change at COP27, many concepts and ideas are flying around. What’s runaway climate change, net zero, carbon budget, IPCC, CCS, climate justice, offsetting, etc.? Some of the concepts help, some of them lead us deeper into the problem.

Learn from experienced climate experts not only about the damage climate change could do, but also about constructive ways to think, talk and write about these issues, in order to contribute to us all finding a constructive way to deal with the climate emergency.

We will touch upon the science and the impacts of climate change in the region (deadly heat, sea-level rise, dust storms, etc.), the drivers, mainly fossil fuels, and the solutions, mainly a fast energy transition, and discuss “false solutions” which sometimes aren’t easy to tell apart.

Whether it’s a campaign for a new investigation, or a celebration of an international day, what strategy can you follow when designing media campaigns for social media? What elements and content can you include? And how can you make sure to stay engaged with the rest of the community?

This webinar will present the thinking behind planning and executing a media plan to reach out to your audience across different social media platforms.

This webinar will review ten of the most common mistakes in pitches revived by ARIJ. It will also discuss ways to avoid them and submit successful pitches.

This webinar will review ten of the most common mistakes in pitches revived by ARIJ. It will also discuss ways to avoid them and submit successful pitches.

This webinar sheds light on the technical and artistic basics of photography, and the role it plays in storytelling. It also discusses some tips and advice on choosing the best photographs to tell a story, and the impact it has on the story structure. The webinar presents different types of photo storytelling techniques, using examples from artistic and investigative photojournalists.

In this workshop, Global Rights Compliance will discuss the most common factual situations, and peel back the layers of law and politics surrounding starvation. A global food insecurity crisis looming, hunger being driven to famine levels, fields and farm machinery attacked and besieged city civilians drinking snow and looking for animals to cook.

Yet starvation as a war crime still rarely hits the headlines. The use of starvation as a deliberate tactic in today’s conflicts has been on the rise since 2017, affecting especially MENA countries. Accurate reporting is critical, investigations and accountability are demanded.

Pre-publication fact checking is not a luxury. It is the core of good and transparent journalism. This webinar explores best practices to help fact check investigations using a clear methodology to avoid publishing misinformation.

What would you like us to focus on in 2023? Join us in this networking session as Director General of ARIJ, Rawan Damen, and Communication Manager, Samya Ayish, discuss with the ARIJ community members the priorities of 2023.

What would you like us to focus on in 2023? Join us in this networking session as Director General of ARIJ, Rawan Damen, and Communication Manager, Samya Ayish, discuss with the ARIJ community members the priorities of 2023.

Investigative journalists strive to expose wrongdoing and hold the powerful to account. But when the life-changing decisions are made by AI systems, what is the best way for journalists to investigate? Join the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Fellows to discuss the future of AI Accountability reporting. The speakers will take you behind the scenes of their reporting on AI systems used by border control, delivery apps, and social welfare systems. They will talk about their challenges and breakthroughs, and offer tips for anyone interested in covering this urgent, underreported story.

This webinar will help you explore the way journalists deal with sources, how they assess conducting interviews with them, and identify risks as a result of contacting them. Webinar will also discuss some tips and advice on conducting a successful interview.

In today’s environmental reporting, journalists should be equipped with a variety of tools and data to facilitate their mission. This webinar will guide you through a range of free digital tools and data sources for environmental reporting, including Google Earth Engine and NASA’s EO browser.

It will also present a selection of case studies of journalistic projects that benefited from the inclusion of satellite imagery analysis, to provide inspiration and valuable lessons to apply to your own projects.

In partnership with GIJN, Forensics Architecture will present different approaches of how to use open-source tools, community involvement, and design to investigate various topics in the Middle East.

During our second networking session in November, we hear from journalists and fact-checkers their ideas on cross border collaborations. We will also discuss main challenges and opportunities.

This webinar focuses on the standards of writing an investigative report in a robust and stereotype-free style. Linguistic specialists will present the common mistakes made by journalists in writing reports, and how to avoid them.

What are some of the best practices and tools that journalists can use to protect their online presence especially on email and social media accounts? Is the concept of digital privacy a reality? In this webinar, we focus on tips from our experts to protect yourself against hacks and cyber threats.

You might already have a great idea, or looking for one, but you want to make it into a podcast. Where do you start and how do you plan for it? What are the basic recording requirements and how to navigate them? How do you prepare for writing and interviewing? In this webinar, the award-winning podcast producer Ahmad Damen is here to help you. Being one of the founding members and technical supervisors of the ongoing podcast “Fusool”, Damen will demonstrate some essential basic techniques to set you on the right track to produce a great podcast.

“Online violence poses a constant threat to journalists around the world, resulting in serious implications for press freedom, including self-censorship. This abuse disproportionately affects women and diverse journalists who are often reluctant to speak out for fear of jeopardizing their careers.

In this session, the International Women’s Media Foundation will lead digital safety experts and editors in a conversation about promoting a culture of change in newsrooms when it comes to tackling online violence. They will discuss “A Guide to Protecting Newsrooms and Journalists Against Online Violence,” a resource from the IWMF that details policies and best practices that newsrooms can implement to better protect staff members who are targeted simply for doing their jobs.

The guide includes case studies from six months of work with a wide range of newsrooms — from small, specialized outlets covering health in South Africa to established independent newsrooms in the United States.
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Data can be a great ally for journalistic investigations. It can help find leads, drive reporting efforts and be a key connector for cross-border collaborations. Data has been a central part of ICIJ projects. In this session we will explore how to make data accessible to everyone as well as strategies to involve and engage journalists with different skillsets in journalistic projects involving data.

How can data support investigative projects? In this session, Delphine will use examples from ICIJ and from her other freelance work to show how journalists can approach their investigations with a data mindset, using public records (corporate registries, court documents, news clips, museum catalogues). She will offer practical advice – do’s and dont’s when structuring information – for a smoother fact-checking and validation process, especially when working in a team.