ARIJ's Fourth Annual Conference (2-4 Dec 2011) Landmark Hotel Amman - Jordan | |||||
| FRIDAY December 2nd, 2011 | |||||
| Time | |||||
| Conference Registration at the registration center | 11:30-17:30 | ||||
| Royal Hall | Jerash 2 | Jerash 1 | Rum 2 | Rum 1 | |
Advanced Google search, finding website owners and tracing emails | 12:00-13:30 | ||||
Trainers: Thamer Aiwasheh and Mohmmad Amereh(Jordan) | |||||
| Lunch at "Colors" restaurant | 13:30-14:30 | ||||
Multi-Media Training | 14:30-15:45 | ||||
Attend this session and learn how to use multimedia to enhance the effect of your investigation. Concrete examples will be shown including hands on instructions on how to use the applications. | |||||
Trainers: Henrik Grunnet, (Denmark), award-winning TV journalist and Petter Åttingsberg (Sweden), multimedia specialist | |||||
| Digital source protection | 15:45-17:15 | ||||
| How journalists can work with encryption and other tools to protect sensitive and vulnerable sources. | |||||
| Trainer: Raed Nshweiat (Jordan), information security specialist and Ehab Zalaky (Egypt) | |||||
Official Opening of the Fourth ARIJ Regional Conference Screening of 2011 ARIJ film | 17:30- 18:15 | ||||
| Coffee Break | 18:15-18:30 | ||||
| Plenary session The role of media in Arab countries in transition: Key note speaker: Yosri Fouda (Egypt) Yosri Fouda, editor and presenter of Egypt's leading current affairs talk show "Last Word" on ONTV , former chief investigative correspondent and executive producer for Al Jazeera's top show "Sirri Lilghayah (Top Secret) and ARIJ Deputy Chairman Royal Hall | 18:30-19: | ||||
Prospects and challanges facing Arab media in transition Hamida El Bour, (Tunisia), director of Journalism Depertment at Institue for Press and Information sciences Zuhair Al Barasai (Libya), founding member of Al Hurra TV Ibrahim Yakhour (Syria), veteran TV journalist and ARIJ coach Marie Moukrim (Morocco), journalist and chairperson of Arab Morrocan Investigative Journalists (AMJI) Taher Edwan (Jordan), chairman of Al Arab Al Yawm newpaper former minister of information Khaled Harouji (Yemen), head of investigative reporting depertment at Al Thawrah newspapre and ARIJ coach Ghassan Chehabi(Bahrain), award-winning journalist, columnist and ARIJ coach
Moderator: Yosri Fouda(Egypt)
Royal Hall | 19:15-20:30 | ||||
SATURDAY | |||||
| How to track MP’s abusing budget allocations | Bringing it all together Using multiple data sources to tell the story | Cross-Border networking | 9:00-10:30 | ||
| Heather Brooke (UK) award-winning journalist, campaigner and author of ”The Revolution Will be Digitised: Dispatches from the Information War”. Her recent investigation into the expense accounts of Members of Parliament in Great Britain led to the biggest clear-out of politicians in decades and the first forced resignation of the Speaker of the House in 300 years | Trainer: award winning TV journalists Henrik Grunnet and Søren Klovborg(Denmark) | Follow the results of the first ARIJ cross border investigation that tracked the wealth of Egyptian oil and Gas tycoon Hussein Salem, the right hand of former president Hosni Mubarak. Panelists: Award-winning journalist and advising editor Drew Sullivan(USA) and Paul Radu (Romania) executive director of The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and Egypt’s Al Masry Al Youm journalists Ali Zalat and Abdul Rahman Shalaby along with ARIJ special Diane Jean Schemo, executive editor of 100Reporters.com. | |||
| Moderator: Rana Sabbagh(Jordan) ARIJ Executive director | Moderator: George Hawatmeh (Jordan) Publisher of Sahafi. Jo and former chief editor of "Al Rai", "The Jordan Times" and "Al Ghad" newspapers | Moderator: Walid Batrawi (Palestine) Deputy Chief of Party, Internews Network, West Bank and Gaza and ARIJ coach | |||
| Coffee Break | 10:30-10:45 | ||||
| TV investigations | Timing the investigative story | Tracking Information How to use free websites and online Databases to dig information | Investigative Dashboard | Info-Graphics | 10:45-12:15 |
| TV is a very powerful media for Investigative story telling. How to bring it all together and tell a compelling investigative TV story. | Now you need to plan for getting the story out on different media platforms. Timing and monitoring tools of great help. | Get an introduction to the Investigative Dashboard; a digital space for mining information and finding resources. | How graphics can be used to tell your story in print media. The latest trends in using interactive graphics on the web to explain your investigations. | ||
| Trainers: Kenny Adersjo and Marcos Hellberg(Sweden), executive producers at the Department of Current Affairs, The Swedish Broadcasting Company (SVT) | Trainer: Dr. Mark Lee Hunter(France), Professor of Media at INSEAD, and principle author and editor of the ARIJ Manual for Investigative Journalists “A Story-Based Inquiry”. | Trainers: Ehab Zalaky and Mohammad El Sayyed(Egypt) | Trainer: Paul Radu (Romania), award-winning journalist, Executive Director for Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project(OCCRP) and founder of Investigative Dashboard | Trainer : Ahmed Mahmoud (Egypt) Cheif Info-Graphics designer at Al Masry al Youm and media professors at Cairo University | |
| Moderator: Mohammad Fadel (Bahrain) ARIJ coach | |||||
Coffee Break | 12:15-12:30 | ||||
Plenary session Keynote speaker: David Kaplan (USA) Moderator: Daoud Kuttab (Jordan), ARIJ chairman of the board and founder of Ammannet, Jordan's first online community radio | 12:30-13:30 | ||||
| Lunch at "Colors" Restaurant | 13:30-14:30 | ||||
| Crowd sourcing | Safety of journalists covering pre-and post-Arab revolutions | ARIJ Digital File | Fraud and Anti-Money Laundering | Nuclear Troubles | 14:30-15:30 |
| Cowdsourcing can be an effective investigative tool if used in the right way. This sessions discusses when and how to use crowdsourcing for investigative stories. | Arab journalists have often found themselves managing their way through angry mobs and jittery security men. | ARIJ has developed a digital file that can be used for planning and keeping track of investigations. Learn how to use the file to manage your own investigative project. | Arab Countries are opting for nuclear energy. How can journalists mentor the situation to ensure that new nuclear technology and Uranium enrichment plants will be environment and resident friendly? | ||
| . | Live testomnies: Hisham Allam(Egypt) reporter for Al Masry Al Youm, Waheeb Nosari, editor at Yemen News Agency (Sabaa) and Rashad Sharaabi , freelance reporter (Yemen) Fadhel Tayyachi (Tunisia) reporter at Al Chorouk newspaper and Yasser Abu Helah(Jordan), Al Jazeera TV beurue cheif | In this session, Aghavani Haroutiunian(Armenia) investigative journalist for the Daily AZG and Kateryna Ivanova (Ukraine), head of Rivne Investigative Reporting Agency, will share their working methods on how they investigated wrong-doings at nuclear plants back home. | |||
| Head of the investigative team at the daily Berlingske and award-winning journalist Morten Frich shares how Denmark's second largest newspaper uncovered crime across Denmark, relying on software and residents. Bahaa El Taweel(Egypt) talks about ONTV’s experience in encouraging citizens to tip-off the media. | Trainer: Abeer Al Saadi (Egypt), member of the Egyptian Press Syndicate | Trainers: Mohammad El Sayyed (Egypt) and Thamer Aiwasheh(Jordan) | Rowan Bosworth-Davies(UK) accomplished author and broadcaster, has spent his career dealing with financial crime, both as police detective and as legal consultant. Now he spends his time working with financial institutions. In this session, he shares his investigative tools with journalists eager to uncover money-laundering | ||
| Moderator: Pia Thordsen (Denmark) ARIJ board member and member of Danish Association For Investigative Reporting(FUJ) | Moderator: Mohammad Fadel(Bahrain), ARIJ coach | Moderator: Osamah Shareef (Jordan) columnist and former chief editor of Ad-dstour daily | Moderator: Suleiman Al Khaledi (Jordan), Thomson Reuters correspondent in Amman | ||
| Coffee Break | 15:30-15:45 | ||||
| ARIJ expose | | Best tools and Web apps for journalists | The 7 traps of investigative journalism | Questioning techniques | 15:45-17:15 |
| Salah Abbadi (Jordan, reporter at Al Rai newspaper, shares his working methodology on how to uncover exploitations against workers in mechanics workshops Imad Rawashdeh (Jordan), reporter at Farah Annas Radio, shares his working methodology in exposing environmental and health risks caused by Jordan’s oil refinery Saba Abu Farah (Jordan), freelance reporter, exposes how Jordanian middle men abusing Egyptian workers rights using legal loopholes in the bilateral labor agreement Hadeel El Bess (Jordan) shares her working methodology in exposing how Thalessimia patients are excluded from employment in the public sector Ibtissam Daher (Syria) shares her experience in uncovering negligence at government shelters caring for the elderly. | Online tips to make your work more effective. | What to give up in order to produce better watchdog reporting | How to nail down the culprit and make sure he/she never runs away spotless clean! Learn how to insist on getting answers. | ||
| Trainer: Ehab Zalaky(Egypt) and Shaden Abu Al Haijaa(Jordan) | Trainer: Nils Hanson, chief editor of Swedish TV’s Investigative Team, “Uppdrag Granskning” and ARIJ board member | Trainer: Tim Sebastian (UK) award-winning journalist, writer, chairman and presenter of The Doha Debates and ARIJ board member | |||
| Moderator: Daoud Kuttab (Palestine/Jordan), ARIJ chairman of the board and founder of Ammannet, Jordan's first online community radio | Moderator: Anders Jerichow( Denmark) ARIJ board member, editor and columnist at the Copenhagen daily 'Politiken' | Moderator: Saad Hattar ( Jordan) ARIJ’s head of investigative journalism department | |||
ARIJ Website ARIJ has developed a new website for the use of its journalists, coaches and trainers Shaden Abu Al-Haijaa, ARIJ new media manager takes us through the main features of the platfrom Royal Hall | 17:30-18:15 | ||||
| Free Dinner | |||||
SUNDAY | |||||
Follow the money trail
Petra Hall | 9:00-17:00 | ||||
| Advanced methods to track people on the web | ARIJ expose in Tunisia, Lebanon and Palestine | How to investigate closed militant groups and security services | 9:00-10:30 | ||
| Omar Wehbeh (Lebanon) reporter at pan-Arab newspaper Al Hayat investigated how Turkish and Syrian human traffickers exploits the plight of Palestinian refugees selling them fake dreams to a better new life. Ali Ibrahim(Tunisia) is trying to uncover how a local cement factory was granted exclusive licenses under the previous regime. Fadhel Tayyachi(Tunisia) reporter for Al Chorouk newspaper is trying to investigate in how lax hospital laws encourage swapping of newborn infants Mohammad Othman (Palestine) exposed how Israeli theft and lack of proper sewage System have turned natural reserve area into a waste land turned water pollution Bassam Abu Eid and Karim Assakreh (Palestine) share their experience in revealing the abuses against Palestinian workers in Israeli settlements | We look at the Russian FSB, al-Qaeda and Hezbollah; Panel: Oleg Khomenok (Ukraine) journalist and SCOOP coordinator Ukraine and Belarus, Milad Jbouri (Iraq)reporter at Aswat Iraq , Hisham Allam (Egypt) reporter at Al Masary Al Youm and Khaled Hrouji (Yemen) head of investigative reporting department at Al Thawra newspaper | ||||
| Trainers: Ehab Zalaky and Mohammed Al Sayyed(Egypt) | Moderator: Bissane Cheikh (Lebanon), senior corresponant pan-Arab newspaper Al Hayat and ARIJ coach | Moderator: Hazem Ameen (Lebanon), head of feature department at pan-Arab newspaper Al Hayat and ARIJ coach | |||
Coffee Break | 10:45-10:30 | ||||
| Going undercover | ICFJ/ARIJ’s successful: Investigative journalism units at Arab Media | Digital source protection | 12:15-10:45 | ||
| Maha Bahnasawi and Marwa Yassin (Egypt) reporters at Al Masry Al Youm, went underground to expose how mortadella factories use expired meat to produce tasty sandwich fills consumed by the rich and the poor. Hanan Khandakgy (Jordan) went undercover to expose mental and physical abuses at private centers caring for handicapped. | ARIJ has in cooperation with ICFJ been setting up investigative units at newspapers, radio and TV-stations in the Middle East. It has created a new way of working in local newsrooms. Hear what they have achieved. Alaa El Ghatrifi (Egypt) Al Masy Al Youm newspaper Majdoleen Allan (Jordan) Al Balad Radio Nihad Jariri (Jordan), Radion Farah Annas Seham Basha (Egypt) Youm7 Newspaper Special guest: Morten Frich (Denmark), shares the experience at the Danish daily Berlingske of benefits of setting up an investigative unit. | How journalistsHow journalists can work with encryption and other tools to protect sensitive and vulnerable sources. can work with encryption and other tools to protect sensitive and vulnerable sources. | |||
| Moderator: Mohammad Daraghemeh (Palestine) ARIJ coach | Moderator: Elisa Tinsley(USA), Director of ICFJ Knight International Journalism Fellowships | Trainer: Raed Nshweiat (Jordan), information security specialist and Ehab Zalaky (Egypt) | |||
| Coffee Break | 12:30-12:15 | ||||
Plenary session
Prospects and challenges for media in Maghreb in the wake of the Arab Spring. How can and will the media live up to its role and manage public expectations Moderator: Tim Sebastian (UK) award-winning journalist, writer, chairman and presenter of The Doha Debates and ARIJ board member Royal Hall | 12:30-14:00 | ||||
Lunch Break at "Colors" Restaurant | 14:00-15:00 | ||||
| ARIJ expose in Egypt, Bahrain and Iraq | Google search, looking up Website owners and Email tracing | Tracking Information | Ten Tips for successful business investigations | 15:00-16:30 | |
| Ali Zalat and Mohammad Kholy (Egypt), reporters at Al Masry Al Youm, share their experience in exposing how locally manufactured fabrics and clothes treated with imported chemical dyes cause cancer and skin diseases. | Trainers: Thamer Aiwasheh and Mohmmad Amereh (Jordan) | Trainer: Ehab Zalaky (Jordan) and Mohammad El Sayyed(Egypt) | Trainer: Dr. Mark Lee Hunter(France), Professor of Media at INSEAD, and principle author and editor of the ARIJ Manual for Investigative Journalists “A Story-Based Inquiry" | ||
| Moderator: Yassmine Dabbous(Lebanon), Director of the Institute for Media Training and Research and ARIJ board member | Moderator: Pia Thordsen (Denmark) ARIJ board member and member of Danish Association For Investigative Reporting(FUJ) | ||||
Coffee Break | 16:30-16:45 | ||||
| Google Fusion | Roundtable The future of Media in post-Ghaddafi Libya | Telling the investigative story | 16:45-18:00 | |
| . | How to merge tables with maps to create a visual presentation of data | Over 120 radio stations, televisions, newspapers and news websites have seen the light since the liberation of the country. But will new Libyan media be able to engage in investigative reporting before journalists and editors undergo a revolution to Speakers: | Storytelling is a crucial part of any investigation. This workshop on advanced writing skills will give you tools that can help you organise your writing as an integrated part of the investigation and tips on where to look for narrative inspiration. | ||
| Trainers: Ehab Zalaky (Egypt) and Shaden Abu Al Haijaa (Jordan) | Moderator: Salameh Nematt (Jordan), media consultant, columnist and former bureau chief for the pan-Arab Al Hayat newspaper in Washington and Amman | Trainer: Dr. Mark Lee Hunter(France), Professor of Media at INSEAD, and principle author and editor of the ARIJ Manual for Investigative Journalists “A Story-Based Inquiry”. | |||
Wrap up | 18:00- 18:45 | ||||
Gala Dinner Taher Masri, head of the Jordanian senate, and ARIJ award ceremony patron since 2008. | 20:00-23:30 | ||||
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