DIG Festival 2022: 'Stay Gold'. will once again host the DIG Academyour advanced training programme for male and female journalists.

During the festival, to be held in Modena from 22 to 25 September, there will be 12 workshops dedicated to topics fundamental to contemporary journalism.

War reporting will be discussed, content verification from social media and open source surveys.

Space is also given to security and source protection, with meetings dedicated to information security, management of relations with whistleblowers and the psychological well-being of journalists exposed to sensitive contexts and events.

Finally, space for the investigative podcast and the video investigation techniques and key online tools for data journalism and digital information.

All of the Academy's workshops are realised in collaboration with top national and international organisations, such as Bellingcat, Forensic Architecture, Google News Initiative NBC News, Privacy International and Transparency International Italia, among others.

All DIG Academy workshops are free of charge and also open to the lay public. Thanks to the patronage of theOrder of Journalists of Emilia-Romagnaof the Emilia-Romagna Order of Journalists Foundation, of theEmilia-Romagna Press Association (ASER) and the Italian National Press Federation (FNSI), the workshops also offer valid credits for the continuing education of journalists.

Journalists interested in obtaining credits can register now on the platform https://formazionegiornalisti.it.

The events remain free for all and everyone until all available places have been filled. Those who wish to participate without accreditation may attend the events without registration.

All DIG Festival 2022 Academy workshops will take place in the spaces of the Faculty of Law of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in via San Geminiano 3, Modena.

Here are the workshops included in the programme of DIG Festival 2022: 'Stay Gold'. The full Festival programme will be announced in a few days on dig-awards.org.

Thursday 22 September

10.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Conference Hall

'Search, Verification, Investigation and Pinpoint'.

In collaboration with Google News Initiative

14.00-16.00 | Conference Hall

'How to investigate borderline violence with the forensic method: an innovative approach'

With Lorenzo Pezzani (Forensic Architecture) and Alberto Nerazzini (DIG)

16.30-18.30 | Conference Hall

'The envoy inside the conflict and the information war'

With Laura Silvia Battaglia (journalist) and testimonies by correspondents Francesca Mannocchi and Stefania Battistini

Friday 23 September

10.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Conference Hall

'Cyber security and digital hygiene for journalists who think they don't need it'

With Raffaele Angius (journalist), Philip Di Salvo (DIG), Fabio Pietrosanti (Hermes Centre for Transparency and Human Digital Rights)

14.00-16.00 | Conference Hall

'How to investigate the technologies and business of surveillance'

With Antonella Napolitano (Privacy International), Ilia Siatitsa (Privacy International) and Valerio Bassan (DIG) - Workshop in English with simultaneous translation

16.30-18.30 | Conference Hall

"On the Hunt for Voice. Techniques, rules and potential of the podcast'

With Matteo Caccia (journalist) and Alessia Cerantola (Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)

Saturday 24 September

10.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Conference Hall

'Journalists and whistleblowers: an evolving relationship and how to 'gear up' to handle it'

With Giorgio Fraschini (Transparency International Italy), Giulio Valesini (RAI) and Francesco Zambon (whistleblower)

14.00-16.00 | Conference Hall

"The Bellingcat method: open source investigation (OSINT) through geolocalisation".

With Aiganysh Aidarbekova (Bellingcat) and Valerio Bassan (DIG) - Workshop in English with simultaneous translation

16.30-18.30 | Classroom N

'Investigative video journalism in Italy'

With Sacha Biazzo (Fanpage) and Alberto Nerazzini (DIG)

Sunday 25 September

10.30-12.30 | Classroom N

"Verification and fact-checking techniques in social media".

With Matteo Moschella (NBC News) and Valerio Bassan (DIG)

14.00-16.00 | Conference Hall

'Violence, security and trauma: the war on journalists'

With Juliana Ruhfus (Dart Centre Europe), Cecilia Anesi (Investigative Reporting Project Italy - IRPI), Mona Shtaya (7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media) - Panel in English with simultaneous translation

16.00-18.00 | Classroom N

'Data journalism: finding data, using it for a story, visualising it'

In collaboration with Google News Initiative