Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) has won a grant from International Media Support (IMS) to cover the participation of two Egyptian and two Tunisian journalists in the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Kyiv, 13 – 16 October 2011 The grant is open to the journalists who attended the first ARIJ media training workshop on how to cover financial and political corruption which was held in Cairo in May. The two Egyptian and two Tunisian journalists with the best in-depth reports submitted by 30 September 2011 will be selected by ARIJ for participation in the Global Investigative Journalism Conference. The Cairo workshop was funded by ARIJ’s two main foreign donors, the IMS and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) under an emergency funding programme to support professional media in Tunisia and Egypt. “Follow the money” workshop A total of 20 journalists from state-run and independent media attended the Cairo workshop. Participants were coached by three top global award-winning investigative journalists specialising in investigating financial and political corruption; Drew Sullivan (USA), Paul Radu (Romania) and Fredrik Laurin (Sweden). ARIJ will choose the best investigations on corruption published by the Tunisian and Egyptian journalists between June and 30 September 2011. The winning journalists will take part in the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Kyiv sponsored by IMS.. The Global Conference on Investigative Journalism in Kyiv gathers hundreds of investigative journalists and methods from the whole world and is a unique opportunity for all participants to network across borders and learn from eachother. “IMS applauds ARIJ for organising the first workshop for Tunisian and Egyptian journalists on how to carry out fact-based investigations dealing with corruption,” said Mr. Henrik Grunnet, IMS media specialist. “These journalists were introduced to new methods by three of the world’s top trainers on how to “follow the money” trail,” he added. “At the workshop, they were given free access to advanced international databases containing tonnes of relevant information on potential culprits”. ARIJ hopes the Cairo training will pave the way for Arab investigative journalists to work with their European counterparts on tracking cross-border corruption.