Dutch born Henk van Ess is obsessed by finding news in data.  European  media houses, like Axel Springer, Persgroep, European Broadcasting Union and Schibsted love his literal and lateral thinking and hire Henk on a regular basis to spill his secrets. He has trained Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists of the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and NBC in open source research: the art of finding information that is in plain sight. Among his many positions are assessor for Poynter's IFCN, trainer for Global Investigative Journalism Network, and instructor for highly regarded worldwide bootcamps.  He combines lateral thinking with literal thinking.