Lawrence Wright: Reporting as craft

Pulitzer-prize winner Lawrence Wright’s career as a staff writer for The New Yorker has taken him from in-depth, narrative reporting of Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State to developments within America’s neglected heartlands. Lawrence Wright is the author of Going Clear and The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda’s Road to 9/11. To coincide with the 15th anniversary of the Centre of Investigative Journalism, he came to talk about reporting as craft, his career as a writer and his new book God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Future of America.

Chair: James Harkin, Director, CIJ

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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.

Lawrence Wright

Lawrence Wright is an American author, screenwriter, staff writer for The New Yorker, and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. Wright is best known as the author of the 2006 nonfiction book Going Clear and The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda’s Road to 9/11.

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16 May 2018 13.00–14.30

Location: Goldsmiths, University of London

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