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The future of investigative journalism…
The future of investigative journalism? Books, according to ex-WSJ Managing Editor Norman Pearlstine. Pearlstine doesn’t believe the newspaper business model will support the kind of long-form, investigative journalism that many of the top reporters and editors have spent their careers pursuing. Case in point: the Washington Post’s recent 17,000-word, four-part series on IED’s in Iraq.…
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What The Papers Say
Apologies. This is one of those vanity posts where I tell you what a jolly time I had. But hell, it is Christmas. At the What The Papers Say awards lunch today, I found myself sandwiched between two journos called Peter Allen. What are the chances of that? Allen one is the excellent former ITN…
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Seymour Hersh
Seymour Hersh gave today’s keynote at the investigative journalism summer school. His only stipulation? Off the record. Still what I can say is that investigative journalism keeps you pretty spry…and if you want an indication of the way he thinks, this is from the New Yorker in 2005.
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Investigative Journalism
We’re hosting the Centre for Investigative Journalism Summer School from next Friday, 20 July. Seymour Hersh will deliver the keynote. You can go to www.tcij.org for more details and to register for the Summer School. Speakers include David Leigh, Lowell Bergman, Tom Mangold, Sharon Tiller, David Donald, Ali Fadhil, Stephen Grey, Mark Hunter, Tommy Kaas,…