David Leigh and Nick Davies present The One-Day Masterclass in Investigative Reporting
Two veteran reporters present The One-Day Masterclass in Investigative Reporting: David Leigh, investigations editor of The Guardian and professor of reporting at City University, London; and Nick Davies, special correspondent of The Guardian and author of Flat Earth News.
For working reporters in search of more powerful technique and for anybody else who wants to make real news.
Two of Britain's most experienced investigative reporters join forces to tell the tales and teach the tricks of their trade - for working reporters from print and broadcast, local and national; media lawyers; campaigning NGOs; academics, teachers and students;and anybody else who wants to know about reporting.
"The press? What you can't square, you squash. What you can't squash, you square." - David Lloyd George
"Neither of us ever takes No for an answer." Carl Bernstein on his partnership with Bob Woodward.
Saturday February 27th 2010
10am to 6pm
City University, London
with a free bar to follow
Techniques including:
- Finding stories
- Handling human sources
- Dealing with legal problems
- Exploiting the public domain
- Using the Freedom of Information Act
- Working with whistleblowers
- Answering ethical questions
- Dealing with leaks inquiries
- Undercover work
Based on their work investigating:
- The arms deals of former cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken
- The phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World
- Trafigura dumping toxic waste in Africa
- The tax affairs of Britain's richest man, Hans Rausing
- Police corruption
- Bribery and Britain's biggest arms company, BAE
- Miscarriages of justice
- The cash for questions of former MP Neil Hamilton
- Abuse of power by the security services
- Smuggling by British American Tobacco
- Racist injustice in the deep south of the USA
- Murder and negligence in the NHS
