Julian Sher is an award-winning investigative journalist in TV, print, radio and on the Web. He is the Senior Producer of CBC's the fifth estate, Canada's premiere investigative TV program. Further Julian Sher is a veteran TV documentary writer and director as well as an accomplished newsroom trainer and the author of six widely-acclaimed books. His latest book is Somebody's Daughter: The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and The Battle to Save Them. His writings on child abuse have appeared on the front page of the New York Times, the cover of Maclean's magazine and the OpEd page of USA Today. Julian Sher has been an investigative journalist for Canada's two leading newspapers, The Toronto Star and the The Globe and Mail. He has filmed, written and produced major documentaries across the globe. He covered scandals, wars and corporate intrigue in South Africa, Somalia, Holland, France, England, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico and the United States and Canada. He is a three-time nominee for a Gemini (Canada's equivalent of the Emmys for TV), and won a Gemini for Best Documentary in 1997. As a newsroom trainer, Julian has taught journalists at CNN, the BBC, and in newspapers and TV networks across Canada. He has also trained in Kosovo for the Canadian International Development Agency, and in the African countries of Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, Ghana and Nigeria for the World Bank. He also consulted for the OECD in Paris and UNICEF in New York
| 09:30 - 11:00 | SUN Room : From child prostitution to the mafia: complex investigations from A to ZModerators
Salameh NehmattAward-winning Chief Editor, "Jordan Governance Reporting", a year-long project launched by ARIJ and Thomson Reuters Foundation and funded by the British Foreign Commonwealth Office. Speakers
Julian Sher / CanadaJulian Sher is an award-winning investigative journalist in TV, print, radio and on the Web. He is the Senior Producer of CBC's the fifth estate, Canada's premiere investigative TV program. Further Julian Sher is a veteran TV documentary writer and director as well as an accomplished newsroom trainer and the author of six widely-acclaimed books. His latest book is Somebody's Daughter: The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and The Battle to Save Them. His writings on child abuse have appeared on the front page of the New York Times, the cover of Maclean's magazine and the OpEd page of USA Today. Julian Sher has been an investigative journalist for Canada's two leading newspapers, The Toronto Star and the The Globe and Mail. He has filmed, written and produced major documentaries across the globe. He covered scandals, wars and corporate intrigue in South Africa, Somalia, Holland, France, England, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico and the United States and Canada. He is a three-time nominee for a Gemini (Canada's equivalent of the Emmys for TV), and won a Gemini for Best Documentary in 1997. As a newsroom trainer, Julian has taught journalists at CNN, the BBC, and in newspapers and TV networks across Canada. He has also trained in Kosovo for the Canadian International Development Agency, and in the African countries of Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, Ghana and Nigeria for the World Bank. He also consulted for the OECD in Paris and UNICEF in New York |
