Seymour Hersh joins Global Investigative Journalism Conference line-up

World-renowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh is to speak at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference 2010.

It is the first time that Hersh will have spoken at GIJC and he will open the morning session in Geneva on Friday 23 April, it has been announced.

Hersh is best known for breaking the story of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and its cover-up in 1969, and the Abu Graib scandal in 2004, over the US military's treatment of detainees.
 
Other speakers at this year's GIJC include Montazer Al Zaïdi (Al Bagdadhia, Iraq), famous for throwing his shoe at George W. Bush; the Guardian's David Leigh, behind the BAE Systems investigations; Stephen Engelberg, managing editor of ProPublica; and Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez, who investigates violence and corruption in Mexico. 

The wide range of topics to be covered include libel tourism, crowdsourcing, going undercover and radio techniques. Specific stories to be examined include waste dumping and Trafigura; organised crime in Mexico; and human trafficking from Pakistan to the Middle East and Europe.

More details about the sixth GIJC can be found at this link; it takes place at Lake Leman, Geneva from Thursday 22 April to Sunday 25 April 2010.

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