Dataharvest 2024 - the European Investigative Journalism Conference

In this panel, investigative journalists will share their experiences of using FOI requests in cross-border investigations. They will explain the outstanding opportunities that strategic use of FOI requests in several EU countries can offer. Participants will learn about the challenges involved. The panelists will also share successes and failures from their day-to-day work. We will pay special attention to the practicalities of asking for information/documents in a cross-border setting - who makes the requests in a cross-border research and when? How does one keep track of a large number of requests in different countries, and what can one do when an authority refuses to release documents?