Keynote address: Why are you telling me this?

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 10:50 - 11:30

Hakan Tanriverdi (Bayerischer Rundfunk)

The good thing, for journalists at least, about professional hacking campaigns is that they almost always leave behind traces. While that doesn't necessarily mean the hackers will be found out or stopped, it does mean that somewhere out there, stories are waiting to be researched and written trying to explain to a wide audience what happened, why and how that might (or even should) influence geopolitics. But the process of finding, corroborating and then presenting that information online or on TV can seem like a black-box to people not working in media.

In this keynote I will walk the audience through examples of following up on vague hints, public reports and simple techniques to report out stories. And above all, there's always the question of why information gets passed on to reporters. Some answers might be obvious, but others are counter-intuitive. You'll learn why.

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Hakan Tanriverdi Hakan Tanriverdi works as a reporter at the German public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk. He covers information and cyber security, mainly focusing on hacking groups and trying to find out who they're working for. His investigations tend to be on the more technical side and assisted by scripts, scrapers and databases. @hatr

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