Noted US Author/Journalist To Talk On Investigative Journalism

 Noted author and journalist Ms Anya Schiffrin of the United States is scheduled to give a talk on investigative journalism at Wisma Bernama on Monday.

Schiffrin, 51, who is the director of the media and communications programme at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, has spent 10 years working as a journalist in Europe and Asia.

The luncheon talk, hosted by the National Press Club (NPC) Malaysia in collaboration with the Embassy of the United States in Kuala Lumpur, will be held at Bernama’s  Centre for Excellence, said NPC president Mokhtar Hussain.

Schiffrin, who is the editor of the recently published book, 'Global Muckraking - 100 Years of Investigative Journalism from Around the World', will also take questions from the floor, he said.

Mokhtar said guests at the talk would include senior and junior journalists and students of journalism from a number of universities.

Schiffrin is also the editor of 'Bad News: How America's Business Press Missed the Story of the Century' as well as a co-editor, with Eamon Kircher-Allen, of 'From Cairo to Wall Street: Voices from the Global Spring'.

-- BERNAMA