BISS Berlin Investigative Summer School

Our 2nd Berlin International Summer School (BISS) offers you the chance, to learn important skills and discover strong tools that will open up new possibilities for successful research. You will work with some of the best investigative researchers and trainers. We asked the best speakers at international conferences – such as the Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC) – if they would like to train participants for a day or two, rather than just speak for a maximum of 90 minutes at a conference. They all agreed, and so we are delighted to present the second Berlin Investigative Summer School (BISS).

The host,  Berlin Journalism School (BJS), is a non-profit organisation that has been training journalists since 1989. With Berlin as an international hub for investigators in journalism and NGOs, we are offering this programme in English. It is open to investigative journalists from around the world, the seminars will be held in presence.

You will find the data and topics of our program below. Details about the trainers and the individual topics. 

Booking: 

Please  use ANMELDUNG or SIGN UP NOW, scroll to your BISS-seminar and fill out the form.

Members of Netzwerk Recherche please send us also a short notice to info@berliner-journalisten-schule.de.

Costs (10 days): € 2.660.         Members of Netzwerk Recherche: € 1760.

Single seminar:  € 280.            Members of Netzwerk Recherche: € 180.

A seminar of the BJS Berliner Journalistenschule gUG. Please read our terms and conditions here and our data protection information here.

• 7. / 8. Juli: Story-Based inquiry (Luuk Sengers)
• 9. Juli:        Investigativ interviewing (Jim Mintz / angefragt)
• 10. Juli:      Mastering Investigative Research: Combining Data, OSINT, and Storytelling for                        impactful Journalism (Christina Brause)
• 11. Juli:     Verification (Jan Ludwig)
• 12. Juli:     Investigating the darknet (Daniel Moßbrucker)
• 14. Juli:     OSINT - Open Source Intelligence - essentials (Paul Myers)
• 15. Juli:     OSINT - Open Source Intelligence - deeper dive (Paul Myers)
• 16. Juli:     Finding Things with AI using Generative AI for Journalistic Research (Jan Eggers)
• 17. Juli:     Investigating Crypto. (Rebecca Zinke)

• Christina Brause       Investigative data-journalist. Former Deputy Investigations Editor at Die Welt.
• Paul Myers:               BBC, open source intelligence specialist and research trainer.
• Marcus Lindemann:  Expert for online- and investigative research, factchecking, search of persons.
• Jim Mintz:                  Lifelong investigator and trainer of investigators. Director on SEEK (Berlin).
• Daniel Moßbrucker:   Expert on surveillance, data protection, specialises in darknet research
• Luuk Sengers:           Investigative journalist. Subjects f.e: data-journalism, climate, pollution.
• Rebecca Zinke:         Expert on IT-Forensic and Investigations.
• Jan Ludwig:               Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), Head of  OSINT-Team.
• Jan Eggers;               Digital journalist for German public broadcasters and trainer for generative AI.