The first New Zealand Centre for Investigative Journalism Conference
Investigative journalism conference to be held in Wellington 28-29 June 2014

Press Release
1 May 2014

The recently established New Zealand Centre for Investigative Journalism will hold its first conference on 28 and 29 June this year, at Massey University in Wellington. Details of the conference, including the speakers and programme, can be found at http://cij.org.nz.

The conference, like the centre, is open to people who are doing investigative journalism or would like to be doing it. The conference will bring together working journalists, filmmakers, authors and other specialists who are interested in or involved in investigative journalism. It is also expected to attract a range of students.

Annual Conference 28-29 June 2014 - Programme ( as at 1 May 2014 )

The first New Zealand Centre for Investigative Journalism conference will be held on 28 and 29 June 2014 at the Massey University campus, Wellington (see programme below).

Registration cost: $20 for teas and lunches, students $10 or negotiable. Please register on this website’s contact page, with your name, contacts and the title and description of any sessions you would like to run. We will send you details.

Who? Like the NZCIJ itself, the conference is open to a wide range of people who are or would like to be doing investigative journalism.

Programme:

SATURDAY 28 June 2014

9 am Welcome to conference and NZCIJ

9.10 – 10.10 am First presentation and discussion on methods: Locating people and other tricks of trade by long-term private investigator Trevor Morley

10.10 – 10.40 am MORNING TEA

10.40 – 11.40 am Second presentation and discussion on methods: developing and protecting sources (Nicky Hager and others)

11.40 – 12.30 pm Workshop streams on self-selected subjects (there will be three of these sessions where any of us can request a subject — technical, issue based, skills and so on — and the subjects will be discussed in parallel rooms) One of these streams will be on technical security for investigative journalists.

12.30 – 1.30 pm LUNCH

1.30 – 2.30 pm Third presentation and discussion on methods: Simon McArley (former acting head of the Serious Fraud Office) on investigating companies and studying business fraud

2.30 – 3.30 pm Fourth presentation and discussion on methods: Tim McKinnel (www.zavest.co.nz/aboutus/directors.asp) talking on investigating crime and justice issues

3.30 – 4.00 pm AFTERNOON TEA

4.00 – 5.00 pm Workshop streams on self-selected subjects

5.00 – 6.00 pm Drinks at Massey venue (BYO)

7.00 pm Dinner together at nearby restaurant

SUNDAY 29 June 2014

9.30 – 10.30 am Fifth presentation and discussion on methods: Ukrainian investigative journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk will join us by Skype to tell the story about how an impromptu team of Ukrainian investigative reporters rescued thousands of documents thrown in a lake by their fleeing ex-president.

10.30 – 11.00 am MORNING TEA

11.00 – 11.45 am Workshop streams on self-selected subjects

11.45 – 12.15 pm Plenary about where NZCIJ will go from here and formal farewell

12.15 – 1.45 pm LUNCH

1.45 – 3.45 pm A tour of political Wellington: lobby organisations, political parties, government agencies, sites of historic intrigue! (if enough people indicate in advance that they want to go)

ENDS

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