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The lecture, \u201cFinding the Truth: Investigative Journalism in the Digital Era,\u201d begins at 5 p.m. It is free and open to the public. To register, go to the lecture webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n McGrory and Bedi combine traditional, dogged reporting techniques with data-driven analysis and digital storytelling on in-depth reporting that relies on the freedom of the press rights protected by the First Amendment. In \u201cTargeted,\u201d their series on the Pasco County, Florida, sheriff\u2019s office, they drew on interviews of victims of harassment and body-camera footage of deputies confronting families, along with academic experts and scholars who provided an understanding of the policing initiative and explained privacy issues and potential harms caused by the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before joining ProPublica, McGrory was an investigative reporter and deputy editor for investigations at the Tampa Bay Times, in St. Petersburg, Florida. McGrory, who holds degrees from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Hamilton College, started her career at the Miami Herald, covering breaking news, education and local and state government. She is an adjunct instructor at the University of Florida and trains professional journalists through the Poynter Institute and the University of Southern California\u2019s Center for Health Journalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bedi, who reports on the federal government for ProPublica, covered stories on patient safety, worker safety, criminal justice, and government inaction while with the Tampa Bay Times. Bedi, who studied computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Engineering, was a software developer before shifting to journalism. Along with the Pulitzer, he is a two-time finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, and a winner of the Scripps Howard Award, the IRE Award, the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism, and the National Headliner Award for Journalistic Innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n McGrory and Bedi\u2019s investigation into a Pasco County sheriff\u2019s predictive policing initiative led to an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education into the sheriff\u2019s use of student data and more than 30 national and state organizations to oppose the initiative. Their 2018 series on the Johns Hopkins pediatric surgery center earned the George Polk and IRE awards, along with being a finalist for the Pulitzer. McGrory and Bedi\u2019s work led to the resignation of the center\u2019s chief executive officer and chief heart surgeon and more than $40 million in settlements to families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An award-winning journalist, King joined CNN in 1997 after a dozen years as an Associated Press correspondent, including serving as the wire service\u2019s lead political correspondent for the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections. At CNN, he has served as senior White House correspondent from 1999 to 2005 and reported on the Iraq war and the 9\/11 terrorist attacks. He is the network\u2019s chief national correspondent and anchor of \u201cInside Politics,\u201d the hour-long program featuring a panel of top political correspondents, and is pivotal to CNN\u2019s daily reporting and coverage of major events, such as \u201cElection Night in America.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Taricani Lecture honors Jim Taricani H\u201918, a veteran Rhode Island journalist and nationally respected investigative reporter for nearly four decades with WJAR-TV. A valued member of the 溏心vlog免费B站 family, he was the husband of Laurie White \u201981. Shortly after he passed away in 2019, Taricani\u2019s family endowed the Taricani Lecture Series on First Amendment Rights<\/a> to honor his memory, his work and his courageous commitment to protect First Amendment rights, which are critically important to the news media and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gifts to the Taricani Lecture position 溏心vlog免费B站 as a destination for robust discussion regarding journalism and the First Amendment by providing the resources needed to bring distinguished local, national and international journalists to campus to lend their expertise and perspective to this critically important topic. 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