Holding the powerful accountable: the role of investigative journalism during war
Sat 18 April 2026
15:00
Free
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Investigative journalism has managed to change the discourse around the Israeli assault on Gaza as well as to disclose connections and relationships which powerful actors worked hard to conceal. In this session, the people who made these investigations happen share their process, ethos and why journalism that demands accountability from powerful actors is more urgent than ever.
The investigative work of The Guardian, Haaretz, +972 and Local Call has helped news consumers around the world to understand the genocide as the first AI war. Revelations around tech companies' complicity managed to shame and change the policies of large corporations. Revelations of Israel’s campaigns of influence and intimidation on multiple fronts, from which no one had immunity: neither ICC donors nor donors of the Republican Party.
Moderated by Francesca Caferri.
Organised by +972 Magazine.
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Yuval Abraham
Yuval Abraham is an Israeli investigative journalist writing for +972 Magazine and Local Call. He is also co-director of the documentary No Other Land.
Omer Benjakob
Omer Benjakob is an investigative journalist for Haaretz focused on the intersection of national security, geopolitics and technology. He covers disinformation, cyber and surveillance and has participated in a number of international investigations, among them Project Pegasus, and “Team Jorge”/Story Killers, a groundbreaking global undercover investigation into the private market of disinformation market and the digital mercenaries offering election interference as a service. He was the first journalist to reveal the existence of offensive AdInt firms and the sale of a zero-click ad-based spyware to a state client by Israel's Insanet. His investigation into Intellexa's sale of spyware to a militia in Sudan was shortlisted for the EU's European Press Prize for investigative journalism (2023). He is also a researcher and his writing on Wikipedia has been published in Wired UK, the Columbia Journalism Review and MIT Press, as well as academic journals. Born in New York and raised in Tel Aviv, he lives in Jaffa with his wife and teaches in a local college in Israel. He is also an associate research fellow at the Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (LPI) in Paris, a research institute affiliated with the Université Paris Cité focused on open science.
Francesca Caferri
Francesca Caferri è redattrice della sezione esteri del Venerdì di Repubblica e pluripremiata corrispondente estera di Repubblica. Negli ultimi anni ha lavorato in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israele, Libano, Pakistan, Yemen e Arabia Saudita. È autrice de Il Paradiso ai piedi delle donne. Le donne e il futuro del mondo musulmano (Mondadori, 2012), dell’ebook Oltre il velo. La sfida delle nuove italiane (Mondadori, 2013) e di Non chiamatemi straniero (Mondadori, 2014).
Harry Davies
Harry Davies is an investigations correspondent at the Guardian. In recent years, his work has focussed on stories about surveillance, intelligence, and warfare. He's also spent several years reporting on the International Criminal Court, including uncovering a Mossad operation against its former chief prosecutor. He first joined the Guardian in 2014 as a researcher. In 2015, he was the first to uncover the data misuse at the heart of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica affair. He studied at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo
Il Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo di Perugia è un evento annuale che riunisce professionisti dei media, esperti di comunicazione e appassionati di informazione da tutto il mondo. Si svolge nel centro storico di Perugia e offre conferenze, dibattiti, workshop e opportunità di networking sui temi più rilevanti del giornalismo contemporaneo.