Program

For three days, journalists will meet other knowledgeable mediators of information from different regions of the world in Innsbruck. In conversations with colleagues and other experts, visitors find out what is going on behind the scenes of the information on international events, which is often hastily and superficially conveyed, and can contribute.

Current social, political and cultural developments are the focus of the debates, from book presentations, exhibitions, doc-films and audio features. The Journalismusfest Innsbruck opens a window to the complex present in which we live.

The Journalismusfest Innsbruck opens a window to the complex present in which we live.

Stadtbibliothek

Undercover Research

Unmasking a Shady Espionage Firm with Tyrolean Roots

Conversation

This investigation started with a massive dataset: over one million location requests, thousands of individuals observed in over 160 countries, including investigative journalists, public prosecutors and ministers. The data shows that surveillance company First Wap, founded by a Tyrolean, marketed their espionage system even for dictatorships and ignored or red lines. Towards the end of the investigation, the team sent an undercover reporter to infiltrate a surveillance fair as a potential client interested in First Wap. What he discovered there, and which leads lead back to Austria – for example to Red Bull and Wolfgang Ambros – are the subject of this conversation.

Laurin Lorenz
Investigative Journalist, Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard

Bastian Obermayer
Investigative Journalist, Founder of paper trail media, Munich

Maria Retter
Investigative Journalist, paper trail media, Munich

Moderator
Barbara Tóth
Historian and journalist, Austrian weekly newspaper Falter

German

Free admission

This event is part of the professional training programme of the Journalist’s Register of Trentino-South Tyrol.

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Die Mitwirkenden

Wir freuen uns auf Journalist*innen, Wissenschaftler*innen und NGOs aus verschiedenen Regionen der Welt.

Die Schauplätze

Die Veranstaltungsorte des Festivals liegen im Zentrum von Innsbruck. Sie sind zu Fuß gut zu erreichen.

Info

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