www.vvoj.eu
 
Our Norwegian colleagues have now opened a new website where you can register for the Lillehammer Global Investigative Journalism Conference, 11-14 septembre 2008.
Lillehammer is online

Representatives from 42 countries have already registered. The organisers are working on the issue of simultaneous translations.
www.gijc2008.no/
 
Roger de Diesbach's digest, a life as an investigative reporter
A new book on investigative reporting

Roger de Diesbach, one of the leading investigative reporter of his generation in Switerland, wrote his digest of stories, entitled "Presse futile, presse inutile". The book, a living and exciting compilation of 35 years of top investigative journalism, is available in French and is edited by Slatkine in Geneva, www.slatkine.com
www.slatkine.com
 
September 10-14 2008
Next Conference in Norway

Skup, the Norwegian association of Investigative journalists will organise the 5th Global Conference in Lillehammer, Norway.
www.caj.ca/events/conf-2007/Lillehammer.html
 
A yearly report by the Dutch
a data bank of european investigative projects

This databank presented for the first time in Amsterdam, although very impressive, has raised questions from the Swiss network to the authors. There is no mention of any projects in the French or Italian regions. And no mention of media outside of the Zurich area. In their reply, the authors promised to be more curious of the rest of our country.
www.vvoj.org/
 
Play the Game writes to Blatter

The Play the Game Conference held in Copenhaguen last November called Sepp Blatter, the president of FIFA, to speak louder when football journalists are threatened or attacked or sanctioned because of their stories.
www.playthegame.org/News/Up%20To%20Date/Letter%20to%20FIFA.aspx#