10:00 – 11:30

Cooperation of the National Corruption Prevention Agency and investigators on Improving Transparency of the Political Parties

We’ll cover the launch of e-reporting on political parties’ finances, look into the ways to identify fake party donors and present POLITDATA system new features.

Speakers: Maksym Opanasenko, Bihus.info (Ukraine); Ihor Feshchenko, Chesno (Ukraine); Viktoriya Kozachenko, Integrity Development Office, NCPA (Ukraine); TBC, Political Corruption Prevention Office, NCPA (Ukraine)

Moderator: Liudmyla Pankratova, RPDI Executive Manager (Ukraine)

12:00-13:30

Track 1

Investigative Centers and Initiatives Institutional Sustainability Support

How to provide sustainable development of investigative centers? Where to look for partners and support in investigation implementation?

Speakers: Hanna Babinets, Slidstvo.info (Ukraine); Kseniya Bizenkova, Bihus.info (Ukraine); Henrik Kaufholz, Danish Association for Investigative Reporters (Denmark); Henrik Grunnet, MediaBridge (Denmark); Brigitte Alfter, Dataharvest (Denmark)

Moderator: Kateryna Laba, Institute for War and Peace Reporting (Ukraine)

Track 2

Master class: New YouControl Tools for investigators

YouControl will show its new features for real investigators: (1) how to find data from UA, RF, GB, Cyprus, (2) new capacities of YouControl People module, (3) looking for links in different levels, (4) possibility to create lists and share them and (5) other life hacks and treats.

Speakers: Serhiy Milman, YouControl (Ukraine); Anzhela Pidkhomna, YouControl (Ukraine)

Moderator: Olena Romaniuk, Behind the News (Ukraine)

13:30 – 14:30

Lunch

14:30-16:00

Discussion Panel: Aggression, Threats and Attacks towards Journalists:  surveillance, wiretapping, discredit

Why Ukrainian journalists face threats more and more often? What can be done to make journalism safer, when law enforcement agencies fail to provide not only the safety of the profession but also the inevitability of punishment for those threatening and attacking journalists, precluding their work and using other illegal methods?

Speaker: Volodymyr Torbich, Chetverta vlada (Ukraine); Liubov Velychko, freelance journalist (Ukraine); Oksana Romaniuk, Institute of Mass Information (Ukraine); Oksana Maksymeniuk, media lawyer, Regional Press Development Institute (Ukraine); Liudmyla Opryshko, media lawyer, Human Rights Platform (Ukraine)

Moderator: Liudmyla Pankratova, RPDI Executive Manager (Ukraine)

16:30 – 18:00

Track 1

Investigating Money Laundering on FinCen data

Last year the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists received a large leak of the Financial Investigation Bureau documents. They describe more than 200 thousand suspicious transactions for 2 billion dollars. Which stories did the journalists find in these files?

Speakers: Tetiana Kozyrieva, freelance journalist (Ukraine); Andrew Lehren, NBC News (USA); Roman Shleinov, Vazhnyie Istoriyi (Russia)

Moderator: Vladimir Thorik, Rise.Moldova (Moldova)

Track 2

Master Class: Working with Foreign Registries

Where we can find information on the companies from Italy, France, and Spain? How to work with the registries of these countries?

Speakers: Alina Stryzhak, Nashi hroshi (Ukraine); Roman Romanovskyi, Transparency International (Russia)

Moderator: Olena Romaniuk, Behind the News (Ukraine)

19:00-20:00

LIVE session with ARIJ: Opportunities, challenges and resources – Eastern Europe and the Middle East

Where can you find partners for transborder investigations? Who can help with gathering information and verifying data in a foreign country? Which resources are available in different regions of Eurasia? This session will help to find answers to these and other questions.

Speakers: Olha Simanovych, Global Investigative Journalists Network (Ukraine); Aubrey Belford, OCCRP (Ukraine); Mohammad Sameh, Co-founder and Advisor for International Relations, Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (Egypt); Hoda Osman, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism

Moderator: Oleg Khomenok, Global Investigative Journalists Network (Ukraine)

10:00-11:30

Round Table: Using Information from unreliable/questionable sources (expose, intentional and unintentional leaks): ethical and legal risks. Editorial principles for using this information

Investigative journalists receive very different information, including the data from whistleblowers and leaks. We will discuss how to use this information, and whether it is worth using at all. How do journalists verify this information? How do they prevent being used by third parties? How do they evaluate and minimize risks? 

Speakers: Hanna Babinets, Slidstvo.info (Ukraine); Denys Bihus, Bihus.info (Ukraine); Bektour Iskender, KLOOP (Kyrgyzstan); Vladimir Thorik, Rise.Moldova (Moldova)

Moderator: Fedir Sydoruk (Ukraine)

12:00-13:30

Track 1

Investigating financial reporting by political parties

Candidates are never as close to perfection as during the election time. However, elections are the time when the most manipulations, wrong-doing and law violations occur. We will discuss political parties’ finances, both official and “non-official", as well as interfering in the elections by third parties. You will learn how to investigate such stories.

Speakers: Volodymyr Thorik, Rise.Moldova (Moldova); Bektour Iskender, KLOOP (Kyrgyzstan); Yuriy Horbach, Syla pravdy (Ukraine); Maksym Opanasenko, Bihus.info (Ukraine)

Moderator: Lesia Ivanova (Ukraine)

Track 2

Master class: Mobile Journalism in Investigations

Tools, necessary applications, life hacks and everything you need to improve your skills of mobile journalism.

Speaker: Ivo Burum (Australia)

Moderator: Inna Gadzynska (Ukraine)

13:30 – 14:30

Lunch

14:30-16:00

Track 1

Investigating COVID-19 pandemic

Countering pandemic is the rich soil for corruption, thefts and various violations. Journalists will share the stories of how they investigated their authorities’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic and which wrong-doing they found.

Speakers: Ana Poenariu, OCCRP (Romania); Alexandra Li, KLOOP (Kyrgyzstan); Olesia Shmahun, Vazhnyie Istoriyi (Russia); Maryna Ansiforova, Nashi hroshi (Ukraine); Atanas Tchobanov, Bureau for Investigative Reporting and Data (Bulgaria)

Moderator: Maksym Opanasenko, Bihus.info (Ukraine)

Track 2

Master class: Finding People on Facebook and Instagram

You will be surprised to learn how much information about people you can find on Facebook and Instagram. Open Source Search Jedi will teach you to find information about people and сonnections between them.

Speaker: Paul Myers, The Research Clinic (Great Britain)

Moderator: Bektour Iskender, KLOOP (Kyrgyzstan)

16:30-18:00

Track 1

Presentation of “n-ost” project: collaboration between IT and IJ

International media NGO “n-ost” presents its ongoing project IJ MEETS IT, a platform for a joint collaboration between information technology and investigative journalism, as well as research projects from the project teams.

Speakers: Natalie Sablowski, n-ost (Germany); Yevheniya Motorevska, Slidstvo.info (Ukraine); Liubov Velychko, freelance journalist (Ukraine); Petro Bodnar, Texty.org.ua (Ukraine); Madalin Necsutu, Balcan Investigative Network (Moldova)

Moderator: Liudmyla Pankratova, RPDI Executive Manager (Ukraine)

Track 2

Teaching  investigative Reporting to Students

The speakers will share their methods and teaching experience.

Speakers: Mark Lee Hunter, INSEAD (France); Mark Horvit, Missouri School of Journalism (USA); Jeff Kelly Lowenstein, Grand Valley State University (USA)

Moderator: Oleg Khomenok, Global Investigative Journalists Network (Ukraine)

18:00-18:10

Closing of the Conference