Investigative reporting is a team sport. Here's how to work together on projects using simple collaborative tools. Not every project needs to be top-secret and ultra-protected. Our veteran trainers will explain how to share sources, documents, data, story ideas, discussions and drafts in collaborative and cross-border projects.
The session will present different ways of approaching internal and external collaborations and identify some of the forms collaborations can take. It will also discuss some of the benefits and challenges one can expect to encounter during a joint project and offer some ideas about how to surmount them.
Note: Data Labs have 38 seats with computers. These workshops may reach capacity quickly, so we recommend you arrive early.
Marcus Lindemann and his team have worked with hidden cameras in various settings since the year 2000, and from there they started playing with other gadgets. While their first GPS tracking project on bike theft failed completely (the bike was gone with all the gadgets and only a video of the theft was kept), they later used GPS tracking for a consumer story on parcel services to show why some parcels were not delivered.
To monitor price changes at petrol stations, his team bought and installed time lapse camera, but before the workflow had been established, monitoring fuel prices became much easier. However, once those cameras were there, they came in handy with another story...
Currently they are working on a long-term project using newer and cheaper GPS tools. Marcus will present the tools and video footage in this session.
Note: Data Labs have 38 seats with computers. These workshops may reach capacity quickly, so we recommend you arrive early.
