Transnational collaborations: a model evolving — and ready to be reinvented
Thu 16 April 2026
09:30
Free
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Over the past decade, transnational collaborations have reshaped investigative journalism. Cross-border teams have exposed global scandals, protected threatened reporters, and reached millions of readers worldwide. Far from fading, this model continues to evolve: collaborations are becoming more diverse, storytelling formats are expanding, and impact is being measured more rigorously.
At the same time, significant challenges are emerging. Inequalities in resources between partner newsrooms, growing pressure to prioritise national audiences, an over-reliance on large-scale leaks, rising public expectations, and increasing strain on the philanthropic funding ecosystem all raise questions about the model’s long-term sustainability.
This panel brings together coordinators and partners from recent collaborative investigations working across very different media environments. The discussion will focus on how to build trust across borders, balance contributions more equitably, innovate beyond leak-driven models, and develop methodologies that support both journalistic ambition and financial resilience.
The conversation will also ask whether the field is ready to articulate a shared framework — a kind of Collaborative Journalism Manifesto — built on principles of transparency, equity, impact, and long-term viability. The aim is to celebrate what works, confront what must evolve, and help shape the next generation of transnational collaborations: more inclusive, more agile, and more resilient.
Moderated by Marie Doezema.
Organised in association with Forbidden Stories.
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Marie Doezema
Marie Doezema is Senior Manager of Special Projects at Columbia University’s Global Center in Paris, where she leads journalism and civic engagement initiatives and partnerships. Marie has worked as a journalist and editor in Japan, Qatar, and across the U.S. and Europe producing work for outlets including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and National Public Radio. Awards include a Gabriel García Márquez fellowship to Colombia, a Fulbright fellowship to Germany, and a Robert Wood Johnson Fellowship to Columbia University. Specialized in topics of human rights, gender and science, she has an M.A. in Health & Science Journalism from Columbia University.
Hoda Osman
Hoda Osman is an investigative journalist and editor based in New York. She is Executive Editor at Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), where she oversees international collaborative projects. Most recently, she worked on the Gaza Project, an investigation into the targeting of journalists in Gaza. She is currently working on a film with PBS Frontline about Syria. Previously, Hoda worked with the investigative units at ABC News and CBS News, as a correspondent for France24, and with the Associated Press. For many years, she has trained journalists worldwide in investigative reporting.
Laurent Richard
Laurent Richard is a journalist, executive producer of investigative documentaries, founder and executive director of Forbidden Stories. For more than 20 years he has been conducting international investigations and major stories for television. At the age of 25, he left for the Kashmir valley to film the conflict between India and Pakistan, and for Palestine when the second Intifada broke out. In 2004, he made a resounding investigation for French public television entitled GIs in Iraq: Forbidden Words. In 2016, he was selected by the University of Michigan where he obtained a one-year fellowship during which he developed the idea and concept of a global network of journalists whose mission is to pursue the investigations of reporters who have been murdered, imprisoned or threatened. In November 2017 the Forbidden Stories consortium was born at a launch conference in Washington DC. The first investigation coordinated by Forbidden Stories was the Daphne Project, published in June...
Marina Walker Guevara
Marina Walker Guevara is executive editor at the Pulitzer Center, a global journalism and civic engagement organization. Previously, Walker Guevara was deputy director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. She managed two of the largest collaborations of reporters in journalism history: The Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers, which involved hundreds of journalists using technology to unravel stories of public interest from terabytes of leaked financial data. Walker Guevara was instrumental in developing the model of large-scale media collaboration, persuading reporters who used to compete with one another instead to work together, share resources and amplify their reach and impact. At the Pulitzer Center she started the AI Accountability Network, a multidisciplinary and collaborative community that supports journalists to report on the power behind the current AI boom with skill and nuance. She has won or shared more than 50 national and international awards, including the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. Walker Guevara sits on the board of directors of the Global Investigative Journalism Network and is a co-founder of the Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism.
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.