In this session, Hanson, Swisher and Zamost will cover the entire track of producing investigative stories for television. The topics will range from tips for pre-publication quality control (a methodological approach to fact checking and bulletproofing the story. Participants will get tools to avoid being the subject of investigations themselves) and production in the field, to successful collaboration and turning what is essentially a great print investigation into compelling television. While showing their own clips (Zamost will for instance show parts of "Rehab Racket," a recent yearlong investigative series that CNN did with The Center for Investigative Reporting which aired on AC 360), speakers will explain some of the challenges, detail their paper trail, share tips on surveillance, and on how to get insiders to talk and track down key characters. This panel could be summarized as showing the anatomy of a TV investigation.
Tipsheet here.
