Sy Hersh, the award-winning American investigative journalist, is to speak at the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) summer school on Saturday 13 July.
His talk, entitled Digging Deeper, will also be open to anyone willing to pay the £5 admission fee at the door of the lecture hall in City University London. It starts at 2pm.
Hersh originally gained international recognition in 1969 for exposing the massacre at My Lai in Vietnam and its subsequent cover-up. He has since been responsible for many investigations (see his Wikipedia entry).
At 76, he is still a contributor to the New Yorker magazine. I understand he will explain how to make news stories more important.
Other notable events include a panel discussion on the media's failures over the Jimmy Savile scandal with Mark Williams-Thomas, Paul Connew and Miles Goslett. It starts at 1.30pm on Friday 12 July and will be chaired by Gavin Millar QC.
Later that day, lawyer Jim Nichol will talk about the Marikana tragedy, the shooting to death of 34 miners by the South African police in August last year.
On the Sunday, Ioan Grillo will deliver a lecture on the perils facing journalists who try to investigate Mexico's drug cartels. Grillo, a British journalist living in Mexico, is the author of El Narco: inside Mexico's criminal insurgency.
Full disclosure: I teach at City. Source (and more information): CIJ To reserve a place: go here
