Dataharvest 2026 - the European Investigative Journalism...

Dataharvest 2026 - the European Investigative Journalism Conference

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9:00am CEST

Coffee Mediaforum

9:30am CEST

Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service data buffet: find stories in the data 3.09 How to use Earth Index, an AI tool for finding leads in satellite imagery 3.02 Gambling on the beautiful game: Following the money and suspect sponsorships in European football Z1.15 - Aula Donche How to investigate AI border surveillance in Europe Z0.10 How the hell did they make that?: Creating a collaborative inventory of data viz tools 1.04 AI-Assisted OSINT: Automating the investigative workflow 3.05 Scraping with a browser emulator 3.04 Showcase your work online: Build a portfolio with GitHub pages Z0.15 Reclaiming the (old) public square: from data and digital to journalism with and for our communities 2.03 How we uncovered an international rapist network through undercover online research Z1.13 - Aula Hanswijk Investigating arms producers 1.16 R and AI - so many options. What works for you? Z2.01 - Mediadrôme Handling leaks and source protection in a changing technological environment 2.02

10:45am CEST

Coffee break Mediaforum

11:15am CEST

50 shades of the housing crisis – in data 1.04 Cancer Calculus: Investigating big pharma's dirty tricks 3.09 Designing stories on maps: A practical guide to map-driven scrollytelling 2.03 Choosing the right web scraping strategy 3.04 Embracing agents with Pydantic AI 3.05 From data projects to pipelines Z0.15 Lean, not broken: How independent newsrooms adapt to uncertain funding 3.13 How to investigate China 101 Z1.13 - Aula Hanswijk How to spot a bot: Practical techniques and investigation ideas 3.02 Look what's flying there 1.16 The “perfect” MoU: an invitation Z2.01 - Mediadrôme Behind closed doors: Exposing human rights violations in prisons and psychiatric facilities Z1.15 - Aula Donche Risky research - protect yourself in high-risk investigations 2.02

12:30pm CEST

Lunch Mediaforum

12:35pm CEST

Budgeting café 2.02 Cross-border café 2.03 Data helpdesk Z0.15 EU/FOI café 1.04 Safety and Security café 1.16

1:45pm CEST

Climate data for non-data journalists 1.04 Copernicus climate change service data buffet: find stories in the data 3.09 How to pitch biodiversity stories in a news ecosystem that rarely has space for them 2.04 How to save the planet with nerds Z0.15 The Fueling Ecocide project: how we handled a mapping exercise of epic proportions 3.02 Naming the Unsaid: How to navigate the power dynamics in collaborative investigations 2.03 How to use court decisions to build multimedia narratives that enhance human rights 2.02 Data Magic made simple: three ways to crunch numbers in spreadsheets How to manage mass FOI projects using AI, vibe coding and verification 3.05 Turning raw data into reliable sources: Python for journalists 3.04 Tourism on stolen land: How we found tourist accommodations on Israeli settlements Z1.13 - Aula Hanswijk How to investigate conflicts of interest in science 0.10 Who's behind this website? Z1.15 - Aula Donche How to FOI in difficult contexts 3.13 Digital security networking roundtable Z2.01 - Mediadrôme Not a chatbot: A hand-drawn case for putting primary sources first in designing AI tools for investigative journalism 1.16

3:00pm CEST

Coffee break Mediaforum

3:30pm CEST

Tracking fire in a hotter Europe: Methods for long-term wildfire data 3.09 Hack your CMS (and the rest of the web!): Tampermonkey 101 3.05 Make a publication-ready static map with QGIS 2.03 One template, many stories: Parameterized reports with Quarto 1.04 I tracked how the EU’s €26 billion Just Transition Fund is really being spent (saunas! axe-throwing!) – find stories for your country, too 2.04 Bad practice: investigating medical malpractice across borders Z0.10 Old trade, new playbook: Investigating transnational narco-trafficking 1.16 Uncovering the organized economy of image-based sexual abuse 3.02 When numbers are missing: Building your own datasets to investigate the police Z1.15 - Aula Donche So…you want to investigate crypto? Z1.13 - Aula Hanswijk FOI meet-up: presentation of a cross-border guide Z2.01 - Mediadrôme Crossing the borders safely: securing devices, data and sources 2.02 You received a leak, now what? A hands-on OPSEC simulation 3.13

4:15pm CEST

Beyond data cleaning: Enhancing OpenRefine with LLM 1.04 From 007 to n8n - build your own no-code AI Agents 2.03 No download button? Getting web data without writing a scraper 3.05

4:45pm CEST

Coffee break Mediaforum

5:15pm CEST

"The Mechelen Connection" (Escape Room) 3.04 How to look up named entities in text – fast Mining data from unstructured documents 3.05 No data, no story? Generate them. Citizen science and social research for investigative data journalism 1.16 Which schools are the most exposed to pesticides in your country? How to investigate with data, maps and scientists Z1.15 - Aula Donche Academic complicity on Palestine: Crowdsourcing and maintaining an actionable database 2.02 Darcula Unmasked: Investigating Chinese cybercrime and scam operations Z1.13 - Aula Hanswijk Investigating algorithms by land, sea and air 3.02 Reporting from space: Using satellite images for investigations when access is limited 0.10 Investigative journalism on health: networking roundtable Z2.01 - Mediadrôme

6:00pm CEST

"The Mechelen Connection" (Escape Room - 2nd session) 3.04 Bluetooth Trackers for Investigations Modern document processing with Natural PDF 3.05