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SUMMARY:Investigative Journalism Panel Discussion with Seymour Hersh
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DESCRIPTION:Seymour Hersh to speak on investigative journalism panel?Nati
 onal Press Club\, November 6In what will be an especially timely panel a
 t the National Press Club in Washington\, DC\, long-time investigative j
 ournalist Seymour M. Hersh will talk about how he has thrived during a c
 areer spent mostly as an independent journalist.Thousands of journalists
  have been laid off in the past two years and investigative reporters ar
 e seeking new ways to continue to their work.  Some investigative editor
 s and reporters are free-lancing\, forming non-profit investigative grou
 ps\, or becoming professors and working with students.Hersh will offer h
 is insights into how to do investigative work without a full-time job in
  a traditional newsroom and will review 40-plus years of freelance and c
 ontractual work during the afternoon panel on Friday (Nov. 6).The sessio
 n will run from 4-5:30 p.m.\, and Hersh will field questions from co-pan
 elists Brant  Houston\, the Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting in t
 he College of Media at the University of Illinois\, and Mark Feldstein\,
  journalism professor at George Washington University and biographer of 
 investigative journalist Jack Anderson.Seating is limited and a spot can
  be reserved at https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/5647573.?Hersh?s work has be
 en an inspiration for more than 40 years\,? said Houston\, a former exec
 utive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors. ?How he has manag
 ed to get his scoops and publish his groundbreaking stories?and pay the 
 bills at the same time?will be of great interest to journalists.?Hersh w
 ill also be asked to talk about his reporting methods and dealing with t
 he controversy his stories and remarks stir?and to share his thoughts on
  how journalism will reshape itself in the coming years.Hersh?s work has
  spanned five decades\, ranging from disclosures of the development of c
 hemical and biological weapons in the 1960s to uncovering torture of det
 ainees by military police at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. He has writt
 en books on President John F. Kennedy Jr.\, diplomat Henry Kissinger\, t
 he Iraq War\, the shooting down of a Korean airliner\, and the illnesses
  suffered by Gulf War veterans. He currently publishes his stories in Th
 e New Yorker magazine.The panel is sponsored by the Knight Chair in Inve
 stigative Reporting\, Investigative Reporters and Editors\, and the Fund
  for Investigative Journalism. The fund provided financial support for H
 ersh when he was working on his 1969 exposé of the massacre of civilians
  by U.S. soldiers in My Lai during the Vietnam War\, for which Hersh won
  a Pulitzer Prize.The panel is in conjunction with an awards dinner on S
 aturday (Nov. 7)\, at the National Press Club\, where Hersh will be  pre
 sented with the Illinois Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism by
  the College of Media at the University of Illinois. 
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LOCATION:National Press Club in Washington\, DC
ORGANIZER:sdolinar@illinois.edu
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