Join us for the 2017 Investigative Journalism Conference

When: 12-13 August 2017

Where: AUT University, Auckland

Tickets: Waged $85, Unwaged $30

The Venue

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There’s a great line-up for this two-day event, including:

• The live launch of Dr James Hollings’ new book: A Moral Truth: 150 Years of Investigative Journalism in New Zealand

• Tony Wall on the Art of the Door-knock. Wall is a master of fronting those he is writing about, as he showed when he went into one of the remotest parts of New Zealand to meet now-convicted stop-go killer Quinton Winders

• Mihi Forbes, Annabelle Lee and Adrian Stevanon on The Hui’s work with the Ngā Mōrehu state care abuse survivors, and how they supported the men who spoke out.

• New Zealand Herald sport editor-at-large Dylan Cleaver on exposing rugby’s dark concussion secret – and challenging the sacred cow of New Zealand sport

• Master storyteller and former Metro editor Simon Wilson on the art of long-form writing and what it is that lifts a story beyond ordinary

• NZ Herald journalist Kirsty Johnston on freeing Ashley Peacock – “how the state imprisoned a man guilty of nothing”
• Author and investigative journalist Nicky Hager on how the book Hit & Run: The New Zealand SAS in Afghanistan and the Meaning of Honour came together and its aftermath – how to deal with the attacks on the story you have published

• Independent journalist Anke Richter on the anguish of getting too close to the story during her painstaking investigation into the Centrepoint community and her work on  the “Circle” pyramid scheme

• Author Steve Braunias (Spinoff/NZ Herald) on the importance of investigative journalism and why doing what we do matters so much

• Human Rights Lawyer Deborah Manning on lawyers as sources – how to make it work when their obligation is to their client and your is to the public interest

Workshops are on offer too:

• Prof Thomas Lumley, author of StatsChat, on calling bullshit on numbers: statistical first-aid
• Insomnia Security Consultants Chris Smith and Adam Couper on JournoSec – How to Protect Yourself, Your Data and Your Sources
• David Fisher and Greg Treadwell on 10 Things You’re Doing Wrong With Your OIA Requests and How To Fix Them

The Venue

Check out the programme

Or get in touch with Julie if you have a question.