Summer Conference Events

Award winning investigative journalist and author of The Sarawak Report, Clare Rewcastle Brown talks to Martin Tomkinson about her three-year long investigation, which exposed the theft of $8billion from a Malaysian development fund by corrupt officials accused of working for the country’s then prime minister Najib Razak.

In June 2019 federal police raided NewsCorp journalist Annika Smethurt’s home and seized material for her story about government plans to increase surveillance of the Australian people. All charges against Smethurst have since been dropped; the raid appears to have been a naked attempt to uncover her source.

Special correspondent Emma Youle and executive editor Jess Brammar discuss how investigative journalism plays a key role in HuffPost UK’s newsroom and the challenges and opportunities of pursuing investigative stories in the age of 24/7 rolling news and multi-platforms.

Katherine Eban, an award-winning New York-based investigative journalist, reports on public health and pharmaceuticals for Vanity Fair and is the author of the New York Times bestseller Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom.

Can Dündar will deliver our annual Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture. Can Dündar is a distinguished Turkish journalist with over 40 years of experience writing, editing and making investigative documentaries.

A hugely successful church, lauded by politicians for its work on knife crime, was used as cover by some pastors within its ranks for financial fraud leaving many vulnerable followers in serious debt. Nadine White and Emma Youle pursued this story in what was Nadine's first major investigation with HuffPost UK while completing the CIJ's Investigative Journalism Masterclass series last year.

Leading data journalists Helena Bengtsson of STV (Sweden), John Burn-Murdoch of the Financial Times (UK), and Pamela Duncan of the Guardian (UK), explain how data analysis plays a crucial part in the coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Duncan Campbell, in conversation with Zubeida Malik talk about why crime reporting is so vital and how it has changed - both for the better and the worse - in the last fifty years. The following excerpt from the introduction to his latest book: We’ll All Be Murdered In Our Beds!

A Filipino-American journalist and author and co-founder of the innovative news site Rappler.com, Maria Ressa delivers our annual Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Lecture. Maria has been fearlessly reporting on the extrajudicial killings and human rights violations occurring in the Philippines under the Duterte regime.

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