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====== Gavin MacFadyen ====== | ====== Gavin MacFadyen ====== | ||
- | == **“Go out and tell the truth. . .More power to you all.”** == | + | (USA 1940 - UK 2016) |
+ | === “Go out and tell the truth. . . More power to you all.” === | ||
+ | (Gavin MacFadyen welcomes students to the Centre for Investigative Journalism Summer Conference, July 2016) | ||
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- | (USA 1940 - UK 2016) | ||
Gavin MacFadyen was an American filmmaker and investigative journalist living in the UK. | Gavin MacFadyen was an American filmmaker and investigative journalist living in the UK. | ||
- | A curious mind, a benevolent heart, a radical optimist with insolent | + | A curious mind, a benevolent heart, a radical optimist with ireverent |
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+ | He liked to quote that the duty of journalism is to " | ||
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+ | According to some documents released by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the FBI had been [[https:// | ||
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+ | In 2003, he founded and directed the [[https:// | ||
- | He founded and directed the Center for Investigative Journalism in London https://tcij.org | + | {{ :external-content.duckduckgo.com.jpeg? |
- | He became a close friend of Julian Assange, his mentor and ally. With his wife Susan Benn and John Pilger, another journalist, they had formed | + | Gavin MacFadyen also co-founded [[http:// |
- | Gavin MacFadyen | + | In 2014 Gavin MacFadyen |
- | Indeed he was always an ardent defender of whistle-blowers and of all who tell truth to power. | ||
- | In the later years, he started the Logan-CIJ symposiums, where investigative journalists, | ||
=== Why Investigative journalism matters === | === Why Investigative journalism matters === | ||
- | Gavin MacFadyen, 2006 | + | //by Gavin MacFadyen, 2006// |
Serious, in-depth journalism may be unwell but it is still alive in Britain despite an almost complete lack of institutional support in television, and limited resources in print and radio. | Serious, in-depth journalism may be unwell but it is still alive in Britain despite an almost complete lack of institutional support in television, and limited resources in print and radio. |