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Meet the team
The European Investigative Journalism Conference is running to an end when I meet Joachim Willems, a 3rd year student in public relations at the Erasmushogeschool, where the international conference takes place. He was part of the organizing team of this two-day event, together with three fellow students.
“The overall feeling is positive”, he tells me. It was the first time that the conference was organised in Brussels. Last year it was held in the Netherlands and the participants were only Dutch-speaking investigative journalists. The idea to organize a conference for a broader and more international audience was conceived some time before this event and the project began for the four students with the promotion of the event since last year’s conference, held in Groningen.
Thanks to the excellent cooperation between this young team of students and the Dutch-Flemish Organisation of Investigative Journalists (VVOJ), the idea became reality. Whereas the binational journalism organisation is in charge of the program’s content, the students, who have to organise an event for one of their PR courses, are rather busy with the logistical and organisational aspects of the conference.
There are journalists from all over Europe at the conference, with a majority of Dutch-speaking journalists. Dutch, German and Italian are the languages that I hear most. Apart from the working language, English, of course. All the funding was found by the students, mostly from private sponsors like the Pascal Decroos Fund, which promotes investigative journalism in the written and audio-visual media in Flanders.
Posted in | 14.12.08
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