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The Mediterranean Institute for Investigative Journalism (MIIR) participated in the Climate Arena Conference 2025 in Budapest which each year unites journalists and scientists from across Europe to collaborate in investigating the climate crisis.

It’s been a week since our colleague Konstantina Maltepioti presented the methodology & tools behind MIIR’s “Troubled Waters” investigation.
During the session “From space to spreadsheet: Analysing flood impact using Copernicus satellite data”, along with Jonathan Stoneman (BBC, Arena for Journalism in Europe), Konstantina Maltepioti discussed how “Troubled Waters” explored and analysed the damaging impact of floods in Europe.

The session introduced participants to the methodology developed by the “Troubled Waters” project to retrieve, clean, and structure Copernicus flood data from 2023-2024.

 “Troubled Waters” was organised and coordinated by Kostas Zafeiropoulos & the MIIR – Mediterranean Institute for Investigative Reporting, with the collaboration of the EDJNet.

Read the investigation here
Check out the scrollytelling here

 

 

 

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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! 

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EDJNet works as a collaborative community, news aggregator, and learning hub.

• The content produced is available for free in several languages. It can be syndicated or reused by anyone within and outside the network under a few simple conditions.
• Original tools and curation services are provided to journalists, enabling any newsroom to take advantage of the opportunities offered by data journalism.
• EDJNet helps its members reach out to new audiences by translating all the articles in several languages and disseminating them through its channels.
• A collaborative infrastructure makes it easier for EDJNet members to analyse and explain relevant phenomena affecting the European societies.

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Just a few of the admittedly quite numerous interesting addresses were the talk by Jerome Pesenti, Facebook’s vice president of ΑΙ, and the shared experiences of fact-checking teams from India, Argentina, South Africa and Iran. Also, the presentation made by Judy King, Director of Innovation at BBC Monitoring, and the speech by the director of the Reuters Institute, both conveyed the latest developments and challenges in the field of news verification, while Anja Belz, academic at the University of Bristol, sounded the alarm about the challenges that automation already brings to the newsroom.

MIIR had the chance to present its investigation on automated political propaganda on Twitter. We would like to thank everyone who passed through our “booth” and showed interest in our work, as well as the organizers of the conference for their kind collaboration.

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How does it function and what kind of political content is being disseminated? Thousands of accounts have been analyzed, and annotated while the relations between them have been mapped and visualized with the aid of custom-build algorithmic tools.

Not all seeds germinate, but this one led to MIIR’s first investigation. Automated political propaganda features quite heavily in Greek political twitter, with political content from both of the main political parties being amplified by bots.

You can read the investigation here and also find a print version in today’s “Efimerida ton Syntakton” newspaper. 

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Till later,

MIIR team

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