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An intensive weekend course with some of the best investigative reporters in the land

This is an intensive course, for anyone interested in holding the powerful to account.

Participants will learn some of the secrets of investigative reporting from an impressive line-up of seven of the most accomplished journalists in the industry.

The weekend of workshops and keynote talks has been carefully curated to give a combination of practical advice and inspiration to anyone interested in 'digging'.

This new course covers the core of investigative reporting: understanding the freedom of information act; cultivating sources; searching company accounts; overcoming libel law; cutting through spin and convincing people to talk.

However the programme places an emphasis on journalism in the digital age. As such, students will learn directly from some of today's pioneers in advanced web searching, data journalism and using social media crowdsourcing.

This course caters for all levels of ability. Previously, similar classes have proved hugely popular, among both journalists looking update their skills and lawyers, charity workers, students, regulators, bloggers, press officers and campaigners.

Tutor Profiles

Paul Lewis is the Guardian's special projects editor and is the award-winning journalist behind major scoops the death of newspaper vendor Ian Tomlinson and undercover policing. He received widespread acclaim for his use of Twitter in coverage of the recent England riots. He teaches and lectures across Europe about the use of social media and crowdsourcing in journalism. Lewis joined the newspaper eight years ago, quickly establishing himself as one of Fleet Street's most tenacious reporters. He is the winner of ten major awards including the 2013 European Press Prize and the 2012 British Journalism Award, both for innovation. He won the Bevins prize for outsanding investigative journalism in 2009 and the prestigious title of reporter of the year at the British Press Awards in 2010. In 2007 he worked at the Washington Post as a Stern Fellow.

Paul Myers first used the Internet in 1978 and has been using the Web since 1993. He became a news information researcher in 1995, and has been involved in journalism training since 1999. Blending his previous career as a computer operator and programmer with the world of journalism, Paul pioneered many of the online research techniques that are now commonplace in the media. He is always developing new strategies to cope with the changing digital landscape. Paul continues to work closely with investigative, current affairs, news and consumer programmes on TV & radio. He combines his time with training, consultancy and web design. Paul runs the Research Clinic website which contains his tools, links and study material.

Helen Darbishire is a human rights activist specialising in the public's right of access to information (freedom of information), and the development of open and democratic societies with participatory and accountable governments. Helen is founder and Executive Director of the Madrid-based NGO Access Info Europe, established in 2006 to promote the right of access to information in Europe and globally. Helen has worked for over 20 years as a human rights professional, focusing on issues of freedom of expression and information, media freedom, civil society development, and democratisation.
Helen has provided expertise to a wide range of non-governmental and inter-governmental organisations, including UNESCO, the Council of Europe, the OSCE, and the World Bank. She is a founder of the global Freedom of Information Advocates Network and served two terms as its chair (2004-2010).

Clare Sambrook exposes official lying, raises public awareness of inconvenient truths, and provides intelligence and ammunition to people trying to achieve policy change. In 2010 she won the Paul Foot Award and Bevins Prize for exposing the government's suppression of medical evidence that children were being harmed in immigration detention. This work grew out of End Child Detention Now, the citizens' campaign co-founded by Sambrook and five friends. At OurKingdom, the UK arm of openDemocracy, her editing and publishing helps community-based activists and advocacy groups to investigate and expose government and corporate wrongdoing. She co-authored (with Andrew Jennings) The Great Olympic Swindle, shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2000. Her acclaimed debut novel, Hide & Seek, now in 13 languages, was a New York Times editor's choice. Click here to visit Clare's website.

James Ball is a journalist at the Guardian working on investigative and data-driven reporting. He was on the core reporting team of the Guardian's Offshore Secrets, Guantanamo Files, and award-winning Reading the Riots projects. Prior to joining the Guardian, he worked at WikiLeaks and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. He was the Laurence Stern fellow at the Washington Post in 2012.

Speaker Profiles

Nick Davies is a freelance journalist, working regularly as special correspondent for the Guardian. He was centrally involved in exposing the phone-hacking scandal in Rupert Murdoch's newspaper empire and the publication of secret US logs and cables obtained by Wikileaks. He was voted the country's top investigative journalist in a recent poll of fellow reporters. In 35 years as a reporter, he has specialised in long-term projects, investigating crime, failing schools, poverty, drugs laws and news media. He has been named journalist of the year, feature writer of the year and reporter of the year in British press awards and has won the special awards for investigative reporting which are given in memory of Martha Gellhorn, Paul Foot and Tony Bevins. He is an honorary doctor of literature at the London School of Economics and an honorary fellow of the University of Westminster and Goldsmiths College, London.

David Leigh is one of Britain's leading investigative journalists, and winner of the 2007 Paul Foot Award for Campaigning Journalism. David is Assistant Editor at The Guardian, with special responsibility for investigations. He has also worked in London at the Observer, where he ran an investigation team, and at The Times. He has won seven press awards, including Granada's Investigative Journalist of the Year, the British Press Awards Campaigning Journalist of the Year, and an award from the UK Freedom of Information Campaign. In 2006 he was Highly Commended for investigations into alleged corruption at BAE Systems. His books include The Liar (an account of the Jonathan Aitken affair); Sleaze (the story of the Neil Hamilton case) and a book campaigning for freedom of information legislation.

To book

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Details

Dates: Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 April 2013
Times: 10am-5.30pm
Location: The Guardian, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU
Price:£500 (inclusive of VAT, booking fees, lunch and refreshments)
Student Price:£450 (ten student discount tickets available. Students must send a scan of their valid NUS student ID to qualify for discount to masterclasses@guardian.co.uk)
Maximum class size: 16 (except during key note talks where 32)

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