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Mar Cabra is the head of the Data & Research Unit, which produces the organization's key data work and also develops tools for better collaborative investigative journalism. She has been an ICIJ staff member since 2011, and is also a member of the network.Mar fell in love with data while being a Fulbright scholar and fellow at the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University in 2009/2010. Since then, she's promoted data journalism in her native country Spain, co-creating the first ever masters degree on investigative reporting, data journalism and visualization and the national data journalism conference, which gathers more than 500 people every year.She previously worked in television (BBC, CCN+ and laSexta Noticias) and her work has been featured in the International Herald Tribune, The Huffington Post, PBS, El PaĆs, El Mundo or El Confidencial, among others. In 2012 she received the Spanish Larra Award as the country's most promising journalist under 30.
OVERVIEW: The Changing Landscape of Watchdog Journalism: Threats and OpportunitiesThis overview panel will provide a broad sweep of the challenges and possibilities for doing watchdog journalism in the US and the rest of the world. Charles Lewis, founder of a nonprofit investigative reporting center that has done groundbreaking trends in US investigative reporting as well as the legal and other threats faced by investigative journalists in the US. Sheila Coronel, founder of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, will speak on global trends in investigative reporting. Charles Lewis, founder of the Center for Public Integrity and president of the Fund for Independence in Journalism: U.S. Overview Sheila Coronel, director, Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University: Global Overview
OVERVIEW: The Changing Landscape of Watchdog Journalism: Threats and OpportunitiesThis overview panel will provide a broad sweep of the challenges and possibilities for doing watchdog journalism in the US and the rest of the world. Charles Lewis, founder of a nonprofit investigative reporting center that has done groundbreaking trends in US investigative reporting as well as the legal and other threats faced by investigative journalists in the US. Sheila Coronel, founder of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, will speak on global trends in investigative reporting. Charles Lewis, founder of the Center for Public Integrity and president of the Fund for Independence in Journalism: U.S. Overview Sheila Coronel, director, Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University: Global Overview