Date: November 12, 2015 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: Portland Press Herald, One City Center, Portland, Maine
The New England Center for Investigative Reporting is hosting a one-day watchdog reporting workshop on Thursday, November 12 at the Portland Press Herald offices in Portland, Maine. The instructors, Beth Daley and Jenifer McKim, are veteran investigative reporters who will help attendees take the methods they’ve learned and apply them to their own work.
Topics covered include:
- The big picture of investigative reporting
- Brainstorming story ideas
- Mining the Internet to investigate individuals, businesses and nonprofits
- Digging deep into the environment
- Anatomy of a story
- Computer-assisted reporting
- Using public records law
- The art of the interview
Faculty will include:
Jenifer McKim is a Senior Investigative Reporter and Senior Trainer at The New England Center for Investigative Reporting. Her stories on child fatalities and the state Department of Children and Families were awarded a 2014 “Publick Occurrences” award from the New England Newspaper and Press Association. Before joining NECIR in September, 2013, McKim, worked as a social issues and business reporter at the Boston Globe, where she started in 2008. There she received a 2011 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism for a story on domestic sex trafficking of minors and a 2nd place nod for the 2013 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism chronicling a federal investigation into a global child pornography network. Prior to joining the Globe, McKim worked on the Investigative Team at the Orange County Register in California where she led a group of reporters to write about lead-tainted imported Mexican candies. The six-part series was a nominated finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. McKim is a 2008 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and a graduate of Wesleyan University in Connecticut. She started her journalism career at the San Juan Star in Puerto Rico and speaks fluent Spanish.
Beth Daley, a Senior Investigative Reporter and Senior Trainer at NECIR, joined the center in November 2013. Daley covered the environment, science and education for almost two decades at The Boston Globe and won numerous awards for her work including being named a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Among her many stories--a two-year investigation on mislabeled fish in Boston area restaurants that won three awards from the Society of Business Editors and Writers along with additional awards from the National Press Club, the Society for Features Journalism and the National Headliner competition. Daley spent the 2011-2012 academic year as a Knight fellow at Stanford University, a program designed to foster journalistic innovation and entrepreneurship. There, she became deeply interested in new journalism models and created EnviroFact, a collaborative clearinghouse to check environmental claims in the news. From 2001-2003, Daley was the Globe’s science and 9/11 reporter covering the anthrax scare, the war in Afghanistan and the U.S. space program. From 1997-2001, she was the newspaper’s education reporter. On that beat, she wrote a series of award-winning stories on shoddy school construction and covered urban education in Boston and across the nation. Prior to joining the Globe in 1994, Daley worked as a reporter for the Newburyport Daily News and as an English teacher in Sri Lanka and Thailand. She is a graduate of Northeastern University.
Cost: $95
For more information and to register, call NECIR at 617-353-5391 or email jsaftel@bu.edu. Payments can be made via check or credit card.