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Surveillance, Undercover Reporting and Source Protection: Dónal MacIntyre in conversation with Harlo Holmes 

Veteran TV investigative journalist Dónal MacIntyre joins Summer Conference to discuss a career of undercover work, protecting the identities of sources and his recent request to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) to confirm that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) placed him under direct surveillance.

He will be talking to the Director of Digital Security at Freedom of the Press Foundation Harlo Holmes.

Part of the CIJ Source Protection Programme.

Dónal MacIntyre

Dónal MacIntyre is an Irish investigative journalist, specialising in investigations, undercover operations and television exposés.

Harlo Holmes

Harlo Holmes is the Director of Digital Security at Freedom of the Press Foundation. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organisations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large.
  • 27 June 2025 17.20–18.10
Location: LG 02
Keynote
Talk
All levels
Freedom of the press
Infosec
Undercover