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Sy Hersh to address investigative journalism summer school | Sy Hersh to address investigative journalism summer school |
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Sy Hersh, the award-winning American investigative journalist, is to speak at the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) summer school on Saturday 13 July. | Sy Hersh, the award-winning American investigative journalist, is to speak at the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) summer school on Saturday 13 July. |
His talk, entitled Digging Deeper, will also be open to anyone willing to pay the £5 admission fee at the door of the lecture hall in City University London. It starts at 2pm. | His talk, entitled Digging Deeper, will also be open to anyone willing to pay the £5 admission fee at the door of the lecture hall in City University London. It starts at 2pm. |
Hersh originally gained international recognition in 1969 for exposing the massacre at My Lai in Vietnam and its subsequent cover-up. He has since been responsible for many investigations (see his Wikipedia entry). | Hersh originally gained international recognition in 1969 for exposing the massacre at My Lai in Vietnam and its subsequent cover-up. He has since been responsible for many investigations (see his Wikipedia entry). |
At 76, he is still a contributor to the New Yorker magazine. I understand he will explain how to make news stories more important. | At 76, he is still a contributor to the New Yorker magazine. I understand he will explain how to make news stories more important. |
Other notable events include a panel discussion on the media's failures over the Jimmy Savile scandal with Mark Williams-Thomas, Paul Connew and Miles Goslett. It starts at 1.30pm on Friday 12 July and will be chaired by Gavin Millar QC. | Other notable events include a panel discussion on the media's failures over the Jimmy Savile scandal with Mark Williams-Thomas, Paul Connew and Miles Goslett. It starts at 1.30pm on Friday 12 July and will be chaired by Gavin Millar QC. |
Later that day, lawyer Jim Nichol will talk about the Marikana tragedy, the shooting to death of 34 miners by the South African police in August last year. | Later that day, lawyer Jim Nichol will talk about the Marikana tragedy, the shooting to death of 34 miners by the South African police in August last year. |
On the Sunday, Ioan Grillo will deliver a lecture on the perils facing journalists who try to investigate Mexico's drug cartels. Grillo, a British journalist living in Mexico, is the author of El Narco: inside Mexico's criminal insurgency. | On the Sunday, Ioan Grillo will deliver a lecture on the perils facing journalists who try to investigate Mexico's drug cartels. Grillo, a British journalist living in Mexico, is the author of El Narco: inside Mexico's criminal insurgency. |
Full disclosure: I teach at City. Source (and more information): CIJ To reserve a place: go here | Full disclosure: I teach at City. Source (and more information): CIJ To reserve a place: go here |
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