Award-Winning Journalist Gerard Ryle to Deliver Camp Lecture in Journalism
7PM
Kinsella Auditorium
McCain Hall
Internationally award-winning journalist Gerard Ryle will speak on “Exposing Wrongdoing in the World” as part of an onstage conversation with CBC Ideas Host Nahlah Ayed at this year's Dalton Camp Lecture in Journalism. The event will take place on Thursday, March 27 at 7 pm in the Kinsella Auditorium and will be recorded to be featured on CBC Radio’s Ideas.
Some of the biggest threats to societies have gone global, stretching the capacities of traditional newsrooms. In an age of disinformation and threats to democracy, the independent work of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism (ICIJ) is even more vital. The ICIJ retains a network of more than 290 of the top investigative reporters around the world. Its core mission is to expose international crime and corruption. Some of its major investigations include Offshore Leaks, Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Pandora Papers and FinCEN Files. They revealed secrets of the rich and powerful and led to multiple arrests and official inquiries in more than 70 countries and to the resignations of the leaders of Pakistan, Iceland and Malta after allegations of corruption.
Gerard Ryle is the executive director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Under his leadership, ICIJ has become one of the best-known journalism brands in the world.
Reporters Without Borders has described Ryle’s work with ICIJ as "the future of investigative journalism worldwide" when naming him as one of "100 information heroes" of worldwide significance.
Before joining as ICIJ’s first non-American director in September 2011, Ryle spent more than 20 years working as an investigative reporter and editor in Australia.
His work as a journalist began in his native Ireland. He was later a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan, and in 2013 he accepted an honorary doctorate from the University of Liege, on behalf of ICIJ.
Ryle is an author and TED speaker and has won or shared in more than 50 journalism awards from seven different countries, including the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, three George Polk Awards, and honors from the Society of Professional Journalists, Overseas Press Club of America, the New York Press Club, the Barlett and Steele Awards, Investigative Reporters and Editors, and Harvard University.
He and his ICIJ colleagues also shared an Emmy Award with the U.S. television program 60 Minutes.