Are We All Working for the CIA?
Investigative journalism is expensive. As the cost of paying for it moves from the audience to big foundations, many of whom enjoy close relationships with Western states, how does that change the tone and rationale of what we produce? Is there a danger that we end up doing the bidding of those in power?
Chaired by James Harkin
Frances Stonor Saunders
Frances Stonor Saunders is a writer, broadcaster and documentary maker. Her first book, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War won the Royal Historical Society’s William Gladstone Memorial Prize, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and is now published in fifteen languages.
Matt Kennard
Matt Kennard was co-founder and former chief investigator at Declassified UK, a news outlet investigating British foreign policy. He was a fellow at the CIJ in 2014-2016. He has worked as a staff writer for the Financial Times in Washington, D.C., New York, and London.
James Harkin
James Harkin is the director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism. He is a journalist who covers social change and political conflict and whose work appears in Vanity Fair, Harper’s, GQ, The Smithsonian, Prospect and the Guardian.
Nikolas Leontopoulos
Nikolas Leontopoulos is a Greek journalist based in Athens. He is the co-founder of Reporters United, a new centre for investigative journalism and a network of reporters in Greece. Leontopoulos worked for ten years for the Athens daily Eleftherotypia.
Ștefan Cândea
Ștefan Cândea, a Romanian journalist, is the co-founder and coordinator of the European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) network and teaches an investigative collaborations clinic at the University of Coimbra.
- 15 November 2024 10.40–11.40 GMT
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Location: Frobisher Auditorium 1, The Barbican
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