Dataharvest—the European Investigative Journalism Conference will take place from 28 to 31 May 2026.

We are looking forward to new pitches for the remaining time slots in the programme. Please check out the published version of the preliminary programme before sending your proposal. We will not be able to accept your proposal if it is too similar to the sessions that are already in the programme.

What type of pitches are we looking for at this point?

New cross-border investigations, big and small, published since our last call for applications, closed in January, or are yet to be published before the conference.

We are especially interested in the investigations on topics that reflect the urgent topics of our times, such as climate/environmental investigations, ongoing wars, and enablers of war crimes and genocide.

We are also looking forward to unconventional storytelling examples, proposals on how to investigate lobbying systematically, and interesting stories based on a (creative) use of freedom of information requests. We'll also welcome your pitches about interesting data journalism stories and skills, and useful or experimental methods of collecting or analysing data.

If you pitched after the initial call and we didn’t include your pitch in the programme, please refrain from pitching again unless you have new revelations about your investigation/methods/tool that you’d like us to reconsider.

Also, please check out our general pitching guidelines before submitting your pitch.

It is OK to use generative AI to check grammar or help you make your proposal more concise. However, please don't let AI write your proposal. Simple, less-than-perfect English is fine, as we want to hear about your ideas.

If you have any questions, send us an email at info@dataharvest.eu.

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Please submit your proposal form by 10 April 2026, 5 pm CET.

This Call for Papers closed on 2026-04-10 17:00 (CET).