Investigative Journalist Series

Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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Wednesday night at the Botanical Garden of Cleveland a series of talks begins that will feature some the nation's most prominent investigative journalists. Case Western Reserve University is putting on these sessions which are free and open to the public. Kicking off the series is Lawrence Wright, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his book, The Looming Tower, widely deemed to be one of the best accounts to date about what gave rise to 9-11. He spoke here with ideastream Executive Editor, David Molpus

Case Western Reserve University Journalism and Media Lecture Series

February 10, 7:00 pm: Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, which won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and is one of the small handful of indispensable books about the origins of Islamic terrorism.

March 3, 7:00 pm: Howard Schneider, former Pulitzer-Prize winning editor of Newsday and dean of the School of Journalism at Stony Brook University.

April 7, 7:00 pm: Paul Steiger, former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal and founding editor of ProPublica, the path-breaking, non-profit website for investigative journalism.

April 14, 7:00 pm: Harold Evans, former editor of The Times of London and the Sunday Times, former president of Random House, author of the best-selling memoir My Paper Chase.

All events presented in the Garden Room at the Cleveland Botanical Garden,11030 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106. Light refreshments and a book signing will follow each talk. There is no admission charge and free parking is available.