David Leigh and Nick Davies present The One-Day Masterclass in Investigative Reporting
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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.
A masterclass for anyone who ever wanted to know how to bring down a government with a notebook.
Two of Britain's most experienced investigative reporters join forces to tell the tales and teach the tricks of their trade - for student journalists and veteran reporters; print and broadcast; local and national; media lawyers, teachers and academics.
"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 21st 2009
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
- Child prostitution in British cities
- 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
