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One good news tonight: the French Airport Lyon is reopening tonight Monday , just an hour drive from Geneva!

As you know, we will not reschedule the Geneva Conference as we do not have an "act of God's" clause and have engagements we cannot cancel.

On April 24th, Marleen Teugels and Conny Vercaigne will chair the seminar in Geneva "Burn-out in the newsroom: Are you next?". To understand better what burn-out is exactly, and if you are a potential victim of this pathology, we invite you to make the test on line.

After all the work we have done for the conference, we are concerned that the European airline grounding may affect our conference in Geneva. We hope that flights will start before Tuesday 2Oth and alternative routes will be offered. We have decided to hold the conference as scheduled, whatever the situation.

After several weeks of suspense, the GIJC team can finally reveal who will officially open the Conference. It is Italian journalist, Roberto Saviano, who will launch the debates, with an intervention in Geneva, on Thursday 22 March, at 9:00 am.

It's a historical choice. The 2010 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting has been awarded, with the Daily News, to the association ProPublica. This organisation, financed by charitable foundations, offers investigative reports to conventional media who were in the financial impossibility of carrying them out.

The participants to the 2010 Global Investigative Conference will have a chance to collect their badges, registrations and Conference material already upon arrival at Geneva Airport from Wednesday the 21st, from 7.30 am to 6.30 pm!

The Spanish antiterrorist judge Baltazar Garzon will be a speaker at the 6th Global Investigative Journalism Conference, 22-25 april 2010.

A strong focus will be put on new business models and financing the future of investigation at the GIJC 2010 in Geneva, 22-25th april 2010.

One of the most awarded investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh has accepted the invitation made by the GIJC 2010 to be a keynote speaker in Geneva.

Known as early as 1969 to be the journalist who broke the My Lai scandal in Vietnam, Seymour Hersh has more recently exposed the Abu Graib scandal. Hersh has published eight books, including, most recently, "Chain of Command" which was based on his reporting on Abu Ghraib for The New Yorker.

It is the first time that Seymour Hersh will speak at a GIJC and he will open the morning session on Friday the 23d april.

Do register now on www.gijc2010.ch/registration.

Our preliminary program is online ! Still two weeks to register before early bird deadline !!! 72 panels and close to 120 speakers, a strong focus on financing the future of investigative journalism, sport and finance. Have a look to our menu for April 22. We will add more speakers and panels to the Conference. The traditionnal and much expected CAR sessions will be added too.

Register now: our early bird discount last for only two more weeks, until february 28th.

Guylaine Locquet is deputy editor and producer at the French production company Capa. She is well known to have produced "Les Infiltrés" ("The Infiltrated") a prime time television program for the public channel France 2. Another prestigious guest will be the mexican journalist Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez. He is the author of two breathtaking books on the violence spreading in Mexico, the killing of women in Ciudad Juarez and the practice of beheading.

Swiss International Air Lines becomes the Official Carrier for the GIJC Conference. All participants are offered special reductions of up to 25% depending on the fare type, route and space availability. Congress fares are valid on the entire Swiss route network for flights to Switzerland.

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A new exciting speaker has confirmed his presence. Simon Cox has had a long and varied career at the BBC. After starting out in local radio, Simon moved to BBC Radio 4's "The World at One". He now presents “The Investigation” on BBC Radio 4 and is also a regular presenter of the "5 Live Report".

Three more speakers have confirmed they will be coming to the Conference. Awarded investigative reporter Mark Shapiro, about climate change. And Somali intrepid reporters Kassim Mohamed and Fatuma Noor, about piracy.

We are pleased to offer a very interesting package to the Conference at 550 CHF (450 for local journalists) including entrance fees, lunches, coffees and receptions (gala dinner excepted). Early birds registrations are opened until 28th February 2010. Our travel agent has booked as well hotels in all prices range in Geneva.

Registration and booking here: link

Our first panels are online. The Geneva Conference will have three strong thematic axes: investigating the financial crisis, investigative journalism in sport and new business models for investigative journalists.

The first confirmed speakers are: William Karel, Stephen Engelberg,Zhao Hejuan,Claude Angeli,Arturo Torres,Montazer al Zaidi,David Kaplan,David Barstow,Morten Frisch,Morten Krone,Thomas Olukayode,Eric Mwamba,Vittorio Malagutti,Klaus Ott,Irina Borogan,Andrei Soldatov, Myret Zaki, Lukas Hässig,David Leigh.

New media partners have accepted to contribute to the 6th Global Conference in Geneva. Two Swiss publications "Der Beobachter" and "La Liberté" will be associated with the Global Shining Light Award. The French daily "Liberation" will send us a few moderators and offer travel expenses and accomodation to some of his speakers.

The City of Geneva has accepted to contribute to the GIJC 2010 with an amount of 25'000 CHF.

The Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs, led by Minister Micheline Calmy Rey has offered fro free the International Conference Center in Geneva to host our Global Conference in April 2010.

The Tamedia Group becomes a sponsor of the Conference.