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30 October 2026

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Friday 30 October
  • 30 October 2026 08.30–09.00
Symposium Event

Registration

Please join us early to collect your pass, programme and caffeine.
  • 30 October 2026 09.00–09.15
Symposium Event

Welcome from the Centre for Investigative Journalism

A few words from the CIJ’s Director.
People
  • 30 October 2026 09.15–10.15
Symposium Event

The Legal Assault on Investigative Journalism

From the brazen surveillance of journalists in Northern Ireland by MI5 and the PSNI, to the growing legal intimidation of journalists by lawyers, to the narrowing of the Freedom of the Information Act and the new National Security (State Threats) Bill which threatens to criminalise journalist conversations with their sources, investigative journalism is getting hard to do, and to publish, all the time.
People
  • 30 October 2026 10.15–10.45
Symposium Event

COFFEE BREAK

Grab some refreshments in the Garden Room and have a wander around the Barbican’s Conservatory.
  • 30 October 2026 10.45–11.45
Symposium Event

Command Shift Kill: AI and the Future of War

Katrina Manson has spent years reporting the story of how the US military brought artificial intelligence into the business of finding and hitting targets. At Symposium she talks about how automated targeting has moved from experiment to routine in Ukraine, Gaza and wider counter-terrorism campaigns - and at how little of it is disclosed.
People
  • 30 October 2026 12.00–13.00
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Independent Media, Strongmen and Foreign Interference: The Case of Hungary

What does it mean to be independent media amid the rise of authoritarian politicians at home and the dangers of foreign interference from abroad? How can an independent sustain itself financially in its home country amid domestic pressure, and who should it take money and support from?
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  • 30 October 2026 13.00–14.00
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LUNCH

Join us for sandwiches and refreshments — on the house!
  • 30 October 2026 14.00–15.00
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Spies Like Us: The Rise of London’s Private Intelligence Industry

The now-infamous dossier on Donald Trump by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele shone rare light on the meteoric rise of London’s shadowy and largely unregulated private intelligence industry, one staffed largely by former spies and investigative journalists.
People
  • 30 October 2026 15.00–15.30
Symposium Event

COFFEE BREAK

Grab some refreshments in the Garden Room and have a wander around the Barbican’s Conservatory.
  • 30 October 2026 15.30–16.30
Symposium Event

The Epstein Files

We don’t know the full extent of the Jeffrey Epstein story because of U.S. government transparency: it was forced out, page by page, by investigative reporters. Khadeeja Safdar's Wall Street Journal investigation (with Joe Palazzolo) uncovered the 2003 "birthday book" and exposed the government's handling of the Epstein files — Pulitzer-finalist work that helped trigger the release of more than three million Justice Department documents and drew a $10 billion defamation lawsuit from President Trump.
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  • 30 October 2026 16.30–17.30
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Knock, Knock: When the FBI Comes for Your Sources

In January 2026 FBI agents raided the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson and seized her phones, laptops and other devices, the first time the US government has raided a journalist's home in a national security leak investigation.
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  • 30 October 2026 17.30–20.00
Symposium Event

DRINKS RECEPTION

All attendees are invited to have some drinks on us in the Barbican Conservatory.