We're holding a workshop for investigative journalists in Budapest, Hungary from April 14-15. The training will empower local journalists to recoup their role as public watchdogs through exercise of their right to freedom of information and to strengthen their ability to protect their privacy, information, and sources.

The specific objects are:
–      Providing journalists with a guide to using their right of to information held by public bodies under the FOI law of Hungary where they are carrying out investigations.

–      Training journalists on the laws and procedures for filing freedom of information requests including training on how to integrate filing of access to information requests into their research strategies. Journalists will be shown how even the filing of an access to information request or the failure to get a response can be turned into a news story.

–      Journalists are trained in transnational access to information request strategies making use of access to information laws in other countries through networks of journalists and following the training file such requests.

Partners are the center for Independent Journalism, the Soma Foundation and the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union.  The training is funded by the Open Society Institute.

download programme (pdf)


download programme in Hungarian (pdf)