Ed Moloney
Ed Moloney is a journalist and film-maker who has made the Troubles in Northern Ireland his speciality. The former Northern editor of The Irish Times and The Sunday Tribune, he is the author of three books: ‘A Secret History of the IRA’, ‘Voices From the Grave’ and ‘Paisley – From Demagogue To Democrat?’. He has also co-produced two major documentaries on the Troubles: ‘Voices From the Grave’ and ‘I, Dolours’. He was voted Irish journalist of the year in 1999 and now lives and works in New York.
Symposium Event
— Seminar
Winning the Trust of Sources – On and Offline
The slow, careful art of soliciting a trustworthy source is one of the exciting and overlooked skills in the investigative journalist’s toolkit. But how does it work when the source can only be reached via digital means, or presents only an anonymous identity in the first place?
Symposium Event
— Panel
Reporting The Troubles: Then and Now
From official British censorship during the Troubles to the “chilling effect” involved in navigating the peace, getting to the truth about the conflict in Northern Ireland has never been easy, and may even be growing more difficult.