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AIJC 2018

Over 60 sessions, more than 70 speakers in three days of training, learning new skills, sharing stories and networking with most of the continent’s most interesting journalists.
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Lesley Cowling

Wits Journalism
Prof

9:00am SAST

Welcoming and programming outline Auditorium 3Anton Harber

9:15am SAST

Keynote: The Cambridge Analytica Story Auditorium 3Ben De Pear

10:15am SAST

Coffee break Lawn

10:45am SAST

Global Resources: Tips and Tools from GIJN to Take Your Reporting Across Borders WSS105Raymond Mpubani • Tanya Pamplone

12:00pm SAST

#GuptaLeaks: Chasing down the fake sites and bots WSS105Kyle Findlay • Andrew Fraser • Jean le Roux

1:00pm SAST

2:00pm SAST

Kickstarting a data journalism project Lab 1Ron Nixon

5:00pm SAST

Book Launch: Southern African Muckrakers Auditorium 3Anton Harber

6:30pm SAST

Networking braai Wits Club

10:00am SAST

Making Newsrooms Sustainable - money, audiences and commerce (Half-day workshop) WSS207Stefaans Brümmer • Bridget Gallagher • Anne Koch • Indra de Lanerolle • John-Allan Namu • Mohamed Nanabhay • Dapo Olorunyomi • Alec Saelens

10:15am SAST

AFRICAN STORIES: Cracking organised crime in South Africa Auditorium 3Anneliese Burgess • Mandy Wiener AFRICAN STORIES: How cough syrup is creating a generation of addicts in Nigeria WSS103Ruona Meyer Data tools for the non-data savvy Lab 1Ray Joseph

11:15am SAST

Coffee break Lawn

12:45pm SAST

2:00pm SAST

AFRICAN STORIES: Gauteng's Unidentified Dead WSS106Sarah Wild DubaiLeaks: How we did it … and how you can use it WSS105Margot Gibbs Free tools for fact-checking WSS104Ray Joseph

3:00pm SAST

Coffee break Lawn

3:30pm SAST

Making sense of your social media analytics Lab 2Michael Salzwedel

7:00pm SAST

Awards Dinner Marquee

10:00am SAST

Coffee break Lawn Master Class in Following the Money (ends 1pm) WSS207Miranda Patrucic

10:30am SAST

The challenges of being a woman investigative journalist Auditorium 3Juliana Francis • Alaka Motunrayo • Pauli van Wyk

12:00pm SAST

Social media sleuthing: Advanced search tools for monitoring your sources Lab 2Michael Salzwedel

1:00pm SAST

2:00pm SAST

Investigating the South African Criminal Justice System WSS104Ruth Hopkins • Carolyn Raphaely