Social Justice and Investigative Reporting: Exposing Corruption and InequalityDo you want to:
- Help make the world a better place?
- Shed light on inequality?
- Reveal stories of the disenfranchised?
- Engage people in public issues that affect them?
- And earn a living doing it?
If so, investigative and social justice reporting may be for you. Come hear from professionals in the business about possible career paths, how to break in and what to do now to prepare.
Julie Patel Liss is a journalism professor and a national Emmy award-winning journalist. She previously worked at the Better Government Association and the Center for Public Integrity, two investigative journalism nonprofits. She also worked as an investigative reporter for WAMU-FM 88.5, the National Public Radio affiliate in Washington, D.C., where she co-authored a multimedia project that won nine journalism awards and honors in 2013 and 2014. She spent most of her career at newspapers: The South Florida Sun Sentinel and the San Jose Mercury News. Julie was born in India and raised in Chicago. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago and a master’s degree from Stanford University.
