SKUP organizes an annual weekend conference for investigative reporters and editors in Norway.

 

The SKUP conference has the last years been attended by 500-600 reporters and editors.

 

The 2007 conference in Tønsberg had 654 registered participants.

 

 

SKUP has previously introduced names like John Pilger, Gunther Walraff, Robert Fisk, Charles Lewis and the BBC-team which exposed the model business and the Chelsea supporters.

 

In 2003 we introduced Sacha Pfeiffer of The Boston Globe, who two days later received a Pulitzer prize for exposing the catholic church's way of dealing with its child molesting priests.

 

 

One of the conference highlights is the SKUP award ceremony. The competition to get the prestigious SKUP prize is extensive. Every year SKUP awards a prize of 50.000 NOK to last year's best investigative story, as well as diplomas to a number of further stories - for excellence in investigative reporting.

 

 

SKUP regularly offers workshops and training in various investigative methods. The foundation's website offers documentation on a decade of investigative journalism and projects in Norwegian media.

 

 

SKUP is an NGO, and receives no funds from governmental organizations.

 

 

The 2007 conference took place in the oldest Norwegian city, Tønsberg, on the coast south-west of Oslo - only a couple of hours away from the capital.