The Centre for Investigative Journalism

9.15

Welcome and Introduction Lecture Theatre 2

9.30

Media law

Libel and Defamation

Contempt

Qualified Privilege

Privacy, Protection of Sources and Data, RIPA

Q&A session

Presented by Philip Conway, senior partner with leading media lawyers Davenport Lyons, and Justin Walford of Express newspapers

Breaks as decided by speakers

12.30

LUNCH

13.00

Lunchtime talk in Lecture Theatre 3

Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist. He has written for the New York Times, New York Review of Books and currently writes for New Yorker magazine

14.15

Business: Reading Accounts - and Spotting Rogue Companies

Raj Bairoliya, chartered accountant and managing director of Forensic Accounting

16.00

Covert Technology

Alan Harridan (Oztex)

17.30

How to Get Freedom of Information Materials

Maurice Frankel and Rob Evans

19.00

Screening I.F. STONE'S WEEKLY

Print provided by the British Film Institute.

A rarely seen documentary, made in 1973, about the extraordinary career of America's foremost investigative reporter, Izzie Stone. Stone launched a legendary one-man venture, which he edited and published for 19 years from 1953, while also writing for The Nation and The New York Review of Books. His last book was an investigation into the Trial of Socrates, published in the late 1970s.

20.15

End of day one sessions

Saturday 19 July

09.00

Business: Following the Paper Trail

Jack Ewing and Martin Welz

10.15

Break

10.45

Business: Where are the Documents?

Jeffrey Katz and Martin Tomkinson

11.45

Proprietary Databases

Lexis Nexis

12.30

How to Make Quick Investigations

Brant Houston, executive director, and Other Issues Investigative of Reporters and Editors

13.30

LUNCH

14.00

Working Abroad

Including a break at 15.00

Alf Jacobsen, Gunnar Lindstedt, Jack Ewing, Luc Hermann and Martin Welz

16.00

Screening THE UNDER CLASS

Gunther Wallraff's German classic.

17.15

Spooks and The Secret State

Duncan Campbell, David Leigh and Robin Ramsay

19.00

Debate: Who's Killing Investigative Journalism?

With Phillip Knightley and Duncan Campbell

20.30 - 23.00

Party to end day two sessions

Sunday 20 July

09.00

The Police, Customs and Organised Crime

Martin Short and Paul Lashmar

10.15

Break

10.30

Terrorism

Mark Hosenball and David Leigh

12.30

Sport

Andrew Jennings and Kevin Mousley

13.00

LUNCH

14.00

The Spinmeisters - The PR Menace

Luc Hermann, Melvyn Marckus, Robert Miller, Eveline Lubbers and George Pitcher

16.00

How to Make Quick Investigations and Other Issues

A repeat of Saturday's session

Brant Houston, executive director, IRE

17.00

War Reporting No More Heroes - the end of war correspondents as we knew them

John Laurence, Robert Fox, Phillip Knightley and Luc Hermann

20.30

Open Forum

Patrick Masters announced the formation of a whistleblowers' assistance group. Anyone interested should contact him at the Evening Standard

Isabel Hilton on 'Women in investigative journalism' and the lack of women speakers at the Summer School