Seminars in English

Here’s a list of seminars that will be held at Gräv 2014. Please note that not all of these will be held in

English or be translated. The seminars that we now know will be available in English are marked with

an (E), and more will be added when we move closer to Gräv 2014.

Snowden, NSA and The Guardian (E)

The European answer to journalist Bob Woodward. David Leigh was recently rewarded with the only

”Lifetime achievement award” as one of the best investigative journalist in the world.

The man without a face (E)

Meet Putin’s nightmare, the Russian-American writer and journalist Masha Gessen.

The ABC of investigative journalism

Nils Hanson, project manager for Swedish Television’s Mission Investigate, gives you sharp and

effective tools for you to start using when you get back to the news room.

Everyday digging

How to tranform your everyday report into a investigative scoop, with journalist Marja Grill.

How to increase interest

Journalist Nicke Nordmark on how you create a buzz around your scoop.

How to get your idea going

Micke Grill Pettersson on how you lower the threshold and get your idea going.

Investigate your local politician

Britt-Marie Citron’s best tips on how to investigate your local politician during election.

The difficult interview with a politician

Top politicians are media trained and often hard to interview. Björn Häger shows examples on how to

get pass counterquestions and routine answers.

Become a better EU reporter

Hands-on tips on how EU is best covered, with freelance journalist Sigrid Melchior.

Why are there so few investigative reports about the EU?

Panel discussion with Sigrid Melchior, Staffan Dahllöf among others.

Changing side – from rewarded journalist to politician

Isabella Lövin won a Guldspade. The she became a politician and thinks she should be investigated

more.

Consumer journalism

Mr. Plus, Sverker Olofsson, gives you the tools to succeed when investigating products, services and

businesses.

Consumer journalism – panel discussion

Panel discussion med Sverker Olofsson, Åsa Avdic och Björn Häger.

The satellite war that shook Norway

Norwegian satellite stations is used for military purposes and had great importance in the NATO-led

war in Libya, even though Norway pledged not to use Svalbard and Antarctica for warfare. Lecture

with norweigian journalist Bård Wormdal from NRK.

Mine diggers

Talk about digging deep. About gruesome revelations and dirty business, with journalists Arne Müller

and Magdalena Martinsson.

”But I had a password!”

Umeå Hackerspace demonstrates how green padlocks and ”secure” connections will not necessarily

protect your sources, or even yourself. A demonstration of how you do not always know who is sitting

on the other side of the wire.

Investigative journalism in Lukashenko’s Belarus – is it possible? (E)

How do you survive as a investigative journalist in Aleksandr Lukasjenko’s Belarus? Natallia Radina,

Jauhien Valoshyn och Iryna Khalip knows everything about the conditions for investigative journalists

in the dictatorship. Moderated by Terje Carlsson.

Corruption, crime and aids, or what? Challenges for journalists in South Africa (E)

Under what conditions does an investigative journalist in South Africa work? What challenges are

journalists facing today and tomorrow? Sam Sole, Stefaans Brümmer and Mzilikazi wa Africa, all three

experienced journalists, share their experiences. Moderated by Terje Carlsson.

Key signing party

Bring your computer and get help installing and using software to secure your data and

communications. Take the opportunity to fill your USB with encrypted keys! With Umeå Hackerspace.

How to protect your computer (and your sources)

NSA, FRA etc. shows how surveillance society intrudes. A seminare on how to protect yourself and

your sources.

Interviewing the responsible

Sophia Dijobaroidis reveals her best tricks on how to succeed with the difficulties when interviewing

responsible power holders.

Investigations in corrupted Russia (E)

Meet Grigory Pasko, investigative journalist in Moscow, who has been imprisoned for his revelations of

the Russian navy’s dumpings of radio active waste into the ocean. Now Pasko is leading an

organisation that helps investigative journalists in Russia.

Book publication with obstacles

The publication of the book about the controversial Finnish-Swedish billionaire financier Björn ”Nalle”

Wahlroos, became turbulent. Meet journalists Tuomo Pietiläinen and Sanna Raita-Aho.

Masters of social reporting

Hear the masters of social reporting ”live”. With Katarina Gunnarsson, Daniel Velasco, Josefin

Hökerberg and Randi Mossige Norheim.

To investigate your own

Local journalism and Sami journalism have similarities in the sense that the areas of interest are rather

limited when it comes to the ratio of people living there. How does this affect the investigative

journalism locally and the publishing of your findings? Thomas Sarri and Anna Sunna from the Sami

radio and Anna-Karin Niia from Oddasat will give you their view on these matters.

Mapping people through public sources

The principle of public gives us unimagined possibilities when it comes to the investigations of people.

But how is it done? Linda Kakuli will show us the way to success.

Public documents and the digitalization

Nils Funcke takes us on a ride into the digital world of the public domain, with a focus on

the somewhat fuzzy ways to deal with e-mail correspondence by the public authorities.

See through the myths online

Jack Werner about his investigations of urban legends, new phenomenons and fake individuals in

social media.

The man who stopped lying

Is it okay to lie to get to the truth? Dan Josefsson on his somewhat different approach when working

with the biggest legal scandal in Swedish history – the Thomas Quick scandal.

How to win a golden spade – the road to success

A classic seminar. Experienced and awarded foremen giving you their best advice on how to stimulate

employees to start investigate. With well known journalists such as Åsa Nicander and Hans Peterson

Hammer.

Investigation through the camera lens

Joakim Roos has been following the life of Romani people living in Gothenburg for 10 years. But how

do you win someone’s trust to the extent that you can start documenting said person from 1,5 meters

away?

Profit and loss in the wellfare system

How do you investigate businesses from the fast growing, privately owned school sector? With Kristina

Lagerström.

From investigation to book

Journalist Johanna Bäckström Lerneby about her work with her book Commodity: Woman, an

investigation about trafficing from Eastern Europe.

Slow-investigations

To investigate the health care through the form of documentary.

Journalist and activist

How to balance objectivity and your own personal beliefs as a journalist.

How to win – the jury explains

What is valued the most when deciding who should win a prize for investigative journalism?

Data journalism (several lectures)

Helena Bengtsson, Linnea Heppling, Lotta Sima, Lotta Holmström and Jens Finnäs will teach you the

methods and give you the tools to succeed with your data journalism.