.
@Wikileaks
is a publisher. Charges now brought in connection with its material, or any attempt to extradite
#Assange
to the United States for prosecution under the deeply flawed cudgel of the Espionage Act 1917, is an attack on all of us. CIJ Statement
Any minute now,
@pritipatel
will decide on the Assange extradition case. Like the vast majority of investigative journalists in the UK and around the world, we hope that the Home Secretary will do the honourable thing and set him free.
Priti Patel approves Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States for publishing information about war crimes in the public interest. An era-defining, disastrous decision for press freedom in the UK and a dark day for journalists everywhere. The fight must go on!
"
@wikileaks
is unique because it's the only media org whose founder & publisher is arbitrarily detained. You may agree, you may disagree, but that's the opinion of the UN body in charge of deciding this."
@SMaurizi
during
#LOGANCIJ
@cijlogan
Delighted to announce the launch of the
#LyraMcKee
Investigative Journalism Training Bursary. Inspired by Lyra's determination and struggle to become a journalist, we want to help more people like her. We knew Lara well. She trained with us too
#diversity
Extradition would set a disastrous precedent: our friend Duncan Campbell (who appears at this year's Summer Conference) on why Priti Patel shouldn't deliver Julian Assange to the U.S.
A huge sigh of relief from investigative journalists worldwide, and a great day for the independence of the British legal system; a UK court has just ruled against the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States.
Re the DCMS’s call for suggestions about how to make media workers “feel safe” – stop arresting them and looking over their shoulders for their reporting material. The continued detention of Assange, too, is an unsightly scar on the UK's rebranding as a beacon of media freedom.
#LOGANCIJ
talks: Spies Like Us. As TV channels and NGOs are asked to register as “foreign agents” and
@Wikileaks
is identified as a “hostile intelligence service”, we ask questions about the relationship between journalism and
#espionage
. Fri 19 Oct.
In India
#BlackLivesMattters
exposes a brazen hypocrisy of our celebrities and public figures who stay silent over the arrest of a pregnant student activist and the attack on Indian minorities. I write here for the
@washingtonpost
#CIJsummer
Conference starts with a keynote by
@poonamjourno
.
She started investigating the Indian electoral bonds story in 2018 and it took her 6 years for the story to really hit the headlines.
Her advice to journalists is to have three Ps:
Patience
Persistence
Perseverance
Delighted to welcome new speakers to
#CIJSummer
Investigative Journalism Conference 2023:
Patricia Delvin
@trishdevlin
will be our keynote speaker and will talk about her investigations into crime and paramilitarism in post-troubles Northern Ireland.
New British investigative outlet
@declassifiedUK
"blacklisted" by flacks at the British Ministry of Defence, which is no way to treat investigative journalists. Read the IPI statement:
Under huge pressure from the Indian state,
@RanaAyyub
persists, setting out the repressive agenda behind criminal proceedings against her, two other Muslim reporters,
@thewire_in
and Twitter.
UK drops to 35th in the RSF World Press Freedom index (beneath South Africa and Trinidad), after the killing of Lyra McKee, threats to other NI journalists, and the detention of Assange.
@rebecca_vincent
@RSF
@AmalClooneyBlog
@mariaressa
Our Symposium ally Patrick Cockburn on Assange, silence over the Yahoo News investigation, and the UK government's worrying plans to update the Official Secrets Act.
When you don't need the Cayman Islands, or to wait for some shady leaks; a great piece in The American Prospect on kleptocracy in Iraqi Kurdistan, and where the Barzanis keep their money: the US.
The level of aggression towards our
#CIJSummer
Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecturer, Indian journalist and author '
@RanaAyyub
is shocking. We stand with you Rana!
An incredible panel of
#women
journalists sharing their survival strategies in journalism and in life. Bravery. Admitting there is so much you can do. Look after your mental health. And yet, go for it!
#GIJC19
#GIJC2019
@gijn
- well done!
Very excited to have
@poonamjourno
at
#CIJSummer
Investigative Journalism Conference tomorrow.
She will deliver our annual Gavin MacFadyen memorial lecture.
💫 NEW! Investigative journalist
@poonamjourno
explains how her reporting six years ago ultimately led to one of the biggest political fundraising scandals in a decade, which played out during India’s elections earlier this year.
Find out more. ⬇️
It's
#JournalismMatters
week and we are delighted to announce the launch of the
#LyraMcKee
Investigative Journalism Training Bursary. Inspired by Lyra's determination and struggle to become a journalist, we want to help more people like her.
#diversity
From
@declassifiedUK
- how MI5 and it's IRD conspired against Gavin MacFadyen, our former Director, and his colleagues at World In Action. . Happy new year!
Delighted to welcome
@natashaloder
,
@RanaAyyub
and
@shadabnazmi
to our
#CIJSummer
panel:
No Country Left Behind? The Indian Covid-19 catastrophe
🔴Mon 5 July at 2pm BST
Online.
#Free
to attend. Bookings open in mid June.
See the whole programme.
Want to be an investigative journalist? Can't afford the training?
Apply for the
#CIJLyraMcKee
Investigative Journalism Training and Mentoring Scheme.
✔️Investigative journalism training
✔️Mentoring
✔️Pitch your story to the UK editors
Deadline: 9 Apr.
Deeply troubling to see the Greek government issuing legal threats to our friends
@reporters_gr
for their fearless reporting into the developing surveillance scandal there. Solidarity!
One of our
#CIJSummer
speaker's home has been raided today by the Russian authorities. Roman Badanin, editor-in-chief of
@wwwproektmedia
and at least two of his colleagues have been targeted.
Proekt is one of Russia's leading investigative outlets. 1/n
In less than two weeks this fantastic new book comes out. It charts our friend
@SMaurizi
dogged use of Freedom of Information tools to expose the state campaign against Wikileaks. You can pre-order it below.
@glendamgloria
@bakaung
@SheilaCoronel
"Disinformation is not a product of digital age." Gustavo Gorriti at
#GIJC19
. "But with [modern] digital possibilities [disinformation] can do much more. The only way to fight it is to fight intelligently."
#DaphneCaruanaGalizia
must have touched the nerve as even after her murder she continues being persecuted.
#DaphneProject
keep up the good work and put more pressure on the corrupt.
Yesterday we were delighted to welcome 11 young journalists who received the
#LyraMcKee
Investigative Journalism Training Bursary. Here r most of them with Lyra's sister Nichola Corner & our director
@James__Harkin
. Thank you to the Lorana Sullivan Foundation & Lyra McKee family.
Applications for the
#CIJLyraMcKee
Investigative Training Bursary Scheme are now open!
The aim is to train people who want to be journalists or are journalists at the early stages of their career, but who can't afford to pay for training conferences.
What can journalists do, from inside the system?
@aiww
- Those inside, cannot do much, because there are too many levels of control discouraging them from writing anything deeper that might challenge that system.
Speaking with
@Snowden
at
#CIJLogan2020
Duncan Campbell (x2) describe disturbing new moves by the government and argue why the proposed secrecy law is a bad thing. For everyone.
Both Duncan’s spoke and taught at our events
#CIJSummer
and
#logancij
#Whistleblowers
are not 'attention seekers', they simply cannot live with the knowledge of wrongdoing, crime or abuse. Stress, alienation, loss of jobs and financial security are just a few examples of the price they pay.
We're looking for early-career investigative journalists for part-time paid research placements. You'll work with a local newspaper to dig into issues affecting local London communities. Interested? Click here:
Come to Goldsmiths on Wednesday to hear
@kennardmatt
and
@claireprovost
talking about their excellent new book Silent Coup, a course of investigation which had its origins at the CIJ under Gavin MacFadyen.
"The premise of facial recognition operates on the same basis as mass surveillance and it shouldn't be left to under-resourced NGOs to bring legal scrutiny to the decisions to implement these."
@silkiecarlo
of
@bbw1984
at this fascinating discussion
@OpenRightsGroup
#ORGCon19
Greek crime journalist George Karaivaz assassinated in Athens and the home of Roman Anin, an
@istories_media
and
@occrp
journalist, raided in Moscow. A bad day for journalism!
@suigenerisjen
The indictment against Assange can't really distinguish between Wikileaks and the New York Times. They are saying it's a crime to receive and publish that classified information. That would mean the end of national security journalism. "New legal territory."
Our first
#OCRI
partners, participants and regional coordinators are arriving in London to attend
#CIJSummer
Investigative Journalism Conference and a pre-conference
#OCRI
/ Climate Networking, co-organised with
@journalismfund
.
On this photo L-R: CIJ's Minal Da Gama Rose,
Eleven days ago
@OCCRP
source was shot dead in Istanbul cafe. Since then, they have been working day and night to get his story out.
#MoneyLaundering
#Kyrgyzstan
"People can change things."
Maybe alone, they can't change a whole system, but one person with a camera or a pen can change other people's minds, & that's how system change has always started.
@Snowden
discussing dissent w/
@aiww
at
#CIJLogan2020
on
Romanian journalist
@emiliasercan
at
#CIJSummer
: Investigating plagiarism in Romania.
"You must hear of how dangerous it is for journalists to investigate the military or the corruption.
Today I am going to tell you how dangerous it can be if a journalist goes to a library".
Hard work pays off. Young journalist and
#CIJMasterclass
alumna
@Nadine_Writes
spent weeks both working on this huge investigation AND attending our masterclasses. The investigation into financial fraud at SPAC Church was published today.
@StephenGrey
#CIJLyraMcKee
Investigative Journalism Bursary Scheme 2021
"Anyone who gets picked for this bursary is sure to feel life changing confidence to achieve their journalistic aspirations." Recipient feedback 2019
🔴Application deadline: 4 April 2021.
Interesting article on Britain's huge anti-Assad aid and propaganda budget in Syria under the CSSF
@declassifiedUK
, a slush fund for shady British-led cut-out organisations working to combat Russian and Syrian "disinformation".
The
#FinCENFiles
:
- took a year to extract data from the leaked documents
- took 7 months to fact-check it
- on top of the original leak, journalists obtained over 17600 reports, FOIA requests replies and other documents to supplement the research.
Thread from
#ire20
👇🏿👇🏽👇🏾👇🏻
If you missed the excellent
@gijn
panel at
#IFJ19
full of practical advice and tips on securing funding for your journalism you can catch the whole thing here -
Newsflash: Lyra, the fantastic documentary about Lyra McKee by
@ericastarling1
, has won Human Interest doc of the year at the prestigious
@theaibstv
awards in London this evening. Accepting the award on behalf of Ali and Lyra’s family, our Director
@james__Harkin
talked about