Brigitte Alfter

Another week to pitch your ideas for sessions at the Dataharvest 2026!

An update card for Dataharvest 2026 conference that reads: 1st round of tickets sold out, ticket sales reopen in February.

🎟️ Our first round of Dataharvest tickets is sold out! But don't worry if you haven't got your ticket yet...

🗓️ The second round of tickets opens again in mid-February | Visit dataharvest.eu for all details.

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A full auditorium for the keynote speech by Richard Laurent at Datarharvest 2025.

📣 Pitch a session for Dataharvest 2026! We're looking for proposals on:

📊 Data skills
🔎 'Behind-the-scenes' investigation methods
🌍 Cross-border investigation presentations
💼 FOI efforts

...and much more. 🗓️ Deadline 18 Jan

Read what we're looking for and apply here: dataharvest.eu/2025/11/21/w...

📆 It's time for the #ClimateArena conference! This week, we will be meeting climate journalists, activists & scientists in Budapest for #CA25.

If you haven't yet got your tickets, there are still a handful left.

🔎 Programme: climatearena2025.sched.com
🎟️ Tickets: climatearena.eu/register/

[2/3] #GreenToGrey, a groundbreaking data journalism collaboration between Arena and 11 news teams across Europe, reveals the scale of nature and cropland loss across the continent.

Today we’re publishing this investigation initiated by Arena and NRK 🇳🇴, the first of its kind in Europe, alongside:

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Datadista 🇪🇸
De Standaard 🇧🇪
Die Zeit 🇩🇪
Facta 🇮🇹
Gazeta Wyborcza 🇵🇱
Le Monde 🇫🇷
Long Play 🇫🇮
Reporters United 🇬🇷
The Black Sea 🇹🇷
The Guardian 🇬🇧
And our scientist partners at NINA 🇳🇴

Read more and find out how to take action at greentogrey.eu | #GreenToGrey

🚨 NEW: By the end of this video, Europe will have lost 2850m² of land to construction. That’s almost half a Premier League football pitch.

This rate of loss, amounting to 600 football pitches a day, is 1.5 times higher than official EEA estimates.

This is the #GreenToGrey project. [1/3]

Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day Investigation shows extent of green land lost across UK and mainland Europe to development from 2018 to 2023 * The Santa Claus effect: how expanding tourism ate into Lapland’s green space Europe is losing green space that once harboured wildlife, captured carbon and supplied food at the rate of 600 football pitches a day, an investigation by the Guardian and partners has revealed. Analysis of satellite imagery across the UK and mainland Europe over a five-year period shows the speed and scale with which green land is turning grey, consumed by tarmac for roads, bricks and mortar for luxury golf courses and housing developments. Continue reading...

Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day

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📣 Arena experts will be at #iMEdDIJF25 in a few days!

Come and meet our director @hackette7.bsky.social in the Media Village, and/or book a slot (Sep 26 only) with our digital security expert @demkodo.bsky.social: forum.imedd.org/en/journalis...

📆 September 25, 26 and 27
📍 Piraeus 260, Athens

📣 Tickets for Climate Arena #CA25 are now on sale!

🌍 10-11 October, Budapest

🕊️ 50 early bird tickets - get them before they're gone!

climatearena.eu/register/

Court attacks and defunding NGOs: a growing pattern of silencing protest in Europe This week, Greenpeace had its first hearing in a Dutch court to use the EU’s new protections against these types of spurious lawsuits to shut down free speech – the first time this EU law will be put ...

Highly interesting test case in the Netherlands and of interest across Europe:
Can the new EU anti-SLAPP directive protect EU citizens against malvolent court action, the so-called strategic lawsuits against public participation?
euobserver.com/rule-of-law/...
www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

6 Tips for Launching an Investigative Podcast A Dataharvest session with podcast veterans from Poland and Portugal offered advice for journalists considering audio storytelling — from narrative tricks to business models.

"The podcast format is well suited to #InvestigativeJournalism, because there is room to delve deeply into complex stories with few limits on length."

@gijn.org distils a Dataharvest 2025 session on podcasts into 6 tips for getting started:

gijn.org/stories/6-ti...

Are you coming to Dataharvest for the first time? When you see these signs, you are in the right place! #dataharvest #EIJC25

JX Fund Seeks Managing Director The JX Fund supports exiled media from countries where independent reporting is no longer possible and helps to maintain a diversity of voices. Without exiled media, censorship, propaganda and disinfo...

Interesting and important #job #journalism #exile jx-fund.org/newsroom/new...

Want to #comment on #EU legislation BEFORE it is passed?
Follow the tracker to alert you when there is a public hearing in your field of interest:
notificationtracker.eu

By @corporateeurope.bsky.social

So happy and proud that Le Monde and the Groundwater investigation, co-initiated and coordinated by ARENA for Journalism in Europe, wins the Sigma data journalism award! Wonderful team at Arena and the partners: You rock!

🚨 Journalists in Western Balkans and Türkiye: The #EUAward2025 is open for applications!
Did your 2024 investigation make waves? Now’s the time to enter - submit your stories with national or regional impact.

💶 €10,000 per category
📅 Deadline: 16 June 2025
👉 Apply: bit.ly/4kHrV4L

✨The multi-award-winning Under the Surface investigation, co-ordinated by Arena, is now nominated for TWO 2025 Sigma Awards!

This crucial cross-border investigation, typical of Arena's projects, is based on data every EU member state reports on the condition of their groundwater. Thanks @gijn.org!

See you in Budapest in October for the Climate Arena Conference?

What makes a great Climate Arena session Our tips on how to craft a great session to pitch for the Climate Arena Conference…

⏱️ The deadline for proposals for the Climate Arena Conference is coming up! 5th May, 11:59pm CET

📝 Find out what we are looking for, and how to submit a proposal HERE: pretalx.com/climate-aren...

Plus, here's our guide to what makes a great session: climatearena.eu/what-makes-a...

See you in Budapest in October?
Climate Arena Conference call for proposals out now!
Dataharvest style conference for journalists covering or wishing to cover climate and environment: Climate Arena Conference has opened its call for proposals for 2025.
pretalx.com/climate-aren...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Have you ever published an article or a book? Check out whether it's been used to train Meta's AI via The Atlantic's search page
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Based on a leaked dataset, The Atlantic looks into Meta's training of its AI
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

SPD, keine Koalition ohne Informationsfreiheit! Die Union plant, das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz auszuhebeln. Fordere die SPD auf, keine Koalition ohne Transparenz einzugehen. Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️​

German journalism organisations and others call for signatures: In the ongoing negotiations to shape a new government in Germany, one point on the agenda is to abolish people's right to information about public proceedings weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...

Let's meet and reflect and discuss our journalism in Europe! New series of practice oriented papers launched by @journalismarena.eu today with contributions from
@hazelsheffield.bsky.social @alessia81.bsky.social
More papers are lined up - stay tuned.

REFLEKT Cross-Border Investigation Grant REFLEKT ist das erste unabhängige und gemeinnützige Recherche-Team der Schweiz. Um Missstände aufzudecken und Transparenz zu fördern, konzentrieren wir uns auf mehrmonatige, investigative Recherche-Pr...

New Swiss work grant for cross-border collaborative journalism by @reflektch.bsky.social

reflekt.ch/crossborder/

Big Techs AI-stjernestund er ved at udvikle sig til et mareridt: En kinesisk startup er årsagen | Radar Deepseek AI er ikke kun en udfordring på teknologisiden for Big Tech. Den kinesiske AI-chatbots kan snigløbe størstedelen af USA's komparative AI-fordele i forhold til Kina. Er USA's guldalder inden f...

Deepseek AI er ikke kun en udfordring på teknologisiden for Big Tech. Den kinesiske chatbots kan snigløbe størstedelen af USA's komparative AI-fordele i forhold til Kina. Er USA's AI-guldalder aflyst?

(åbent link)

radar.dk/artikel/big-...

What are we talking about when we say the “ethics” of AI and journalism? There are three broad paths in ethics. Image by pfly CC BY-SA 2.0 Many people — including me — are quite uncomfortable with generative AI. Most of this discomfort can be traced to the various ethic…

Are your anti/pro-AI arguments about duties, virtues or consequences?
onlinejournalismblog.com/2025/01/24/w...