*The keynote will take place in the Aula Z 1/13 (Auditorium Hanswijk, 1st floor) and will be streamed to Aula Donche (on the first floor).As a cross-border community of investigative journalists interested in collaboration, how can we contribute to documenting and telling the story of conflicts with our work? With the wars raging in Ukraine and Gaza, journalists are both victims and witnesses of these conflicts. Israel’s war on Gaza has become the deadliest conflict ever for journalists, and journalists have been threatened, killed, and tortured while documenting Russia’s war on Ukraine.
This year, the Dataharvest keynote conversation is with Laurent Richard, founder and executive director of Forbidden Stories, whose mission is to support and/or continue the work of journalists who are killed, injured, threatened, or whose work is restricted in another way. Laurent will present and discuss Forbidden’s Stories’ work on
the Gaza and
Viktoriia projects.
Laurent will be joined in conversation by Ulla Sätereie, chairperson of the Swedish Association of Investigative Journalism. They'll discuss how the investigative journalism community can engage with the coverage of these wars, how to coordinate collaborative investigations from afar, and how to do so while keeping journalists safe. They will talk about the peculiarities of both projects and the reception they've had in France and beyond. After their conversation, there will be time for questions and discussion
