Lecture on the cross-border collaborative journalism work process
For inspiration – lecture (in pptx format with notes and in pdf format).

Reading material for lecturers:

With annotations based upon the CJC experience.

Alfter, Brigitte (2019). Cross-border Collaborative Journalism. A Step-By-Step Guide. Routledge. Part II.
* Part II deals with the cross-border collaborative journalism practice and has served as shared material for the CJC project.

Grzeszyk, Tabea (2019). Diversity matters! How cross-border journalism calls out media bias. Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies.
* Grzeskyk combines a background in culture studies with journalism practice. She argues we can apply intercultural understanding to journalism in order to overcome biases.

Hird, Christopher (2017). Investigative Journalism Works: the Mechanism of Impact, a report for the London Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
* Christo Hird looks into the reactions to investigative journalism publications. Do they actually contribute to “making the world a better place” as he puts it, and if so, how? In four in-depth case studies he describes what happened between the first big publication and the moment when actual change happened (court cases, legal changes etc).

Horel, Stéphane (2023). Expert reviewed journalism. Mapping PFAS pollution across Europe.
* In this methodology description, Stéphane Horel, who lead the PFAS mapping collaboration, describes the close collaboration with scientists.

Horel, Stéphane, et. al (2024). PFAS Contamination in Europe: Generating Knowledge and Mapping Known and Likely Contamination with “Expert-Reviewed” Journalism.

* In this methodology description, Stéphane Horel, who lead the PFAS mapping collaboration, describes the close collaboration with scientists in the Environmental Science and Technology journal.

Luyendijk, Joris (2018). Journalism in a Post-Truth World. Key-note speech at the 2018 Dataharvest European Investigative Journalism Conference.
* Luyendijk asks an investigative crowd the provocative question whether investigative journalism in the wrong context it counter productive in that it creates more frustration than public discourse leading to solutions.

Meyer, Gitte (2019). Essay: Varieties of cross-border journalism. Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies
* Meyer has studied the philosophy of science to understand journalism cultures and practices. In this essay she argues that investigative journalism is born out of a specific cultural background and we need to be aware of this.

Trusting News handout
* The Trusting News initiative in this hand out has collected a number of relevant links and thoughts useful for discussion.

More reading material:

Regularly updated collection of academic and practitioners’ publications by Arena for Journalism in Europe.

Arena Papers on collaborative journalism practice in Europe