Three-day teach-in on investigative journalism

A summer school for investigative journalism is being held at London's City University next weekend (Friday to Sunday, 21-23 July). The speakers include Alf McCoy, who exposed the complicity of the CIA in the international drugs trade; Anna Politkovskaia, a Russian journalist who has suffered attacks and threats for her work on the prosecution of the war in Chechnya; and Charles Lewis, the founder of the Centre for Public Integrity in Washington. There will also be an intensive three-day course under the guidance of trainers from the US-based National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting. (The American journalist Seymour Hersh was due to appear but has pulled out due to a family illness). Further details available on the website or from Margaret.renn.1@city.ac.uk. (Via investigativereporting.org.uk)