Dataharvest 2025 - the European Investigative Journalism Conference

The Investigative Commons is a collaboratively maintained repository of datasets and document archives useful for investigative reporting to ensure long-term access to evidence.

Currently, datasets (evidence) for investigative journalism are maintained by several media organizations and journalism networks; because of changing priorities of newsrooms and the specific funding situation of investigative journalism these cannot be considered reliable long-term partners for accessing the data. Furthermore we do not believe organizations involved in investigative research and publishing stories are the ones to take on the burden of providing access to evidence data long term (though it’s appreciated if they can do that for some time).

We want to launch this new project by showing the various available datasets and how everyone can use them. We will also explain how to contribute to this open, community-driven project, and discuss further plans and ideas from the community.