Global Investigative Journalism Conference begins

A four-day ‘Global Investigative Journalism Conference’ is set to begin on Thursday (8 October) at Radisson Blu Lillehammer Hotel, Olympic Village of Lillehammer, Norway.
The Global Investigative Journalism Conference is the world's largest international gathering of investigative reporters.
The ninth instalment of the conference will end on 11 October.
Since its inception in 2001 in Copenhagen, the conference is being held in every two years.
The conference is hosted by SKUP, in cooperation with Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN).
According to the GIJN, the conference would host many of the world’s top investigative reporters, editors and producers as well as key resource people on freedom of information, media law and security. There would be a total of more than 100 panels, training sessions, keynotes and workshops.

The SKUP chairman Jan Gunnar Furuly told Prothom Alo on Monday that the SKUP is very proud to be the host of this great gathering of the best investigative journalists in the world.

With 875 journalists from 121 countries, this will be the most global conference in the history of Global Investigative Journalism Network, said Jan Gunnar Furuly, chairman of the SKUP and head organiser of the event.

The conference would consist of more than 170 workshops, seminars and panels. The organisers are also working hard to map the interests of the participants and facilitate a networking among them, Furuly added.

“The conference will be the starting point of a vital investigative journalism cross border projects in the future. Together we will make a huge impact and change,” Furuly also added.

Two staff reporters from Daily Prothom Alo are taking part in the Global Investigative Journalism Conference. They are Mosabber Hossain and Kuntal Ray.

Mosabber is selected as a global speaker for the session ‘Lightning Rounds Great Stories You've Never Heard of’.

Previous conferences were held in Copenhagen (2003), Amsterdam (2005), Toronto (2007), Lillehammer (2008), Geneva (2010), Kiev (2011) and Rio de Janeiro (2013).