ProPublica, PolitiFact, Investigative Reporter Leaders on Panel, 9 am May 17

ProPublica Managing Editor Stephen Engelberg, PolitiFact Editor Bill
Adair and Charles Lewis, executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop, will discuss how to excel in journalism amid a new media environment at 9 a.m.,
Monday, May 17, in the First Amendment Lounge.

There is no charge, but reservations are required at [email protected]

The panelist of Pulitzer Prize-winners is the first in a yearlong series
at the National Press Club that will explore investigative reporting.

Engelberg formerly served as managing editor of The Oregonian, and prior to that worked for the New York Times. Under his leadership, ProPublica’s reporters have been awarded journalism’s highest honors, including the Pulitzer Prize and the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting.

PolitiFact won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, honoring its innovative coverage of the 2008 election. Adair has worked in Washington since 1997, and also serves as the bureau chief for the St. Petersburg Times.

Lewis, who founded the Center for Public Integrity in 1989, is now a professor at the American University and the executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop.

The second panel is “Turning Investigations into Stories” at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, June 3, and includes Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporters Sari Horwitz and Scott Higham.

Horwitz and Higham will discuss long-form enterprise journalism and how to turn investigations into narratives. Their investigation into the murder of one-time intern Chandra Levy will be published as a book in May.

The panel is in the Club’s Bloomberg Training Center.

The series is underwritten by grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation and is sponesored by EFNJL.