Uncovering Truths: Pulitzer Prize Winner Clare Baldwin on the Challenges of Investigative Journalism
📅 Wednesday 3 September, 6.30-8.30pm
📍 American Women’s Association (AWA), Arion Commercial Centre, 11/F Office No. 5, 2-12 Queen’s Road West, Sheung Wan (Maps link)
🎟️ Members: HK$150 | Non-members: HK$200 | Students: HK$100
(Attendees: Get $50 off a July to December membership ($300) when you join WiPS as a members before 10 September)
About the event:
Writing an emotionally charged story? How do you transform difficult truths into a compelling narrative?
Our speaker:
Join us as investigative journalist Clare Baldwin talks to Treena Nairne about how she crafts Pulitzer Prize-winning reportage out of the fascinating, sometimes dangerous work in exposing difficult truths in jurisdictions under authoritarian rule in Southeast Asia.
Our moderator:
Treena Nairne, a former journalist herself, will lead the discussion, during which Clare will depict the challenges faced uncovering Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly anti-drug campaign, as well as the dangers involved in exposing military units responsible for the expulsion and murder of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar.
Why this matters:
Journalists perform a critical role in society, and as any independent journalist will attest, their most fundamental obligation is to the truth. It is not often that WiPS has the good fortune to hear from such a celebrated news reporter as Clare Baldwin. Do join us in this exclusive and illuminating event.
Event structure:
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6:30 – Registration
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7:00 – Interview of Clare Baldwin by Treena Nairne
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8:00 – Q&A from the audience
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8:30 – Close
More about our guests:
Clare Baldwin has won two Pulitzer Prizes for International Reporting with her colleagues: in 2018 for investigations into the brutal Philippine drug war under President Rodrigo Duterte; and in 2019 for exposing the Myanmar military’s expulsion and killing of Rohingya Muslims. Clare studied poetry and biology at Stanford University and has written for a variety of publications, most recently the global news agency Reuters. She was born and raised in Alaska.
Treena Nairne is a writer, editor and communications coach. Based in Hong Kong, she has clients around the world. Treena started her profession in bustling newsrooms in Canada, covering everything from crime to politics to the AIDS crisis in East Africa. Her work in Hong Kong has spanned book publishing, media relations and leadership development for global organizations. WiPS president in 2004-05, Treena is now an advisor and coach for TEDxTinHauWomen, and host of the podcast, Technology-Powered Growth at Ping An.
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