The Mediterranean Institute for Investigative Journalism (MIIR) is participating in the 7th annual International Journalism Forum, which, as every year since 2019, features dozens of distinguished speakers from around the world.
This year, our team is represented on two different panels.
– On Friday, September 26, 2025 (12:00-13:00) our colleague Konstantina Maltepioti, a data journalist specializing in open source research, web scraping, and data analysis, will participate in a journalism workshop on: How to use free satellite imagery and data to investigate natural disasters.
This is a practical introduction to the use of satellite data for investigative journalism. We will present the methodology we developed during our months-long investigation Troubled Waters: The multiple impacts of catastrophic floods in Europe, which was organized by MIIR, coordinated by journalist Kostas Zafeiropoulos, in collaboration with the European Data Journalism Network (EDJNet). In this session, you will learn how to analyze satellite data to investigate natural disasters (using floods as an example), as well as how to download and use images to create maps suitable for publication.
-On Saturday, September 27, 2025, investigative journalist and founding member of MIIR, Nikos Morfonios will participate in one of this year’s most timely panels: Reporting of the Tempi train crash: A constant challenge for journalists.
The panel, which also includes journalists Eurydice Bersi, Yannis Souliotis, and Tasos Telloglou (moderated by Fotini Kokkinaki), will examine how journalists can balance defending the truth and their independence with their ethical responsibility, when their investigations encounter human loss and the weight of social pressure.
We look forward to seeing you there!