Risk to Democracy: When the fourth estate comes under attack

10 January 2018

Risk to Democracy: When the fourth estate comes under attack

Peter Klein is an Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist. He run the Global Reporting Centre, and is a regular contributor to The New York Times, The Globe & Mail and CBS News 60 Minutes.

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Speaker: Peter Klein, Founder of the Global Reporting Centre

Peter Klein is an Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist. He run the Global Reporting Centre, and is a regular contributor to The New York Times, The Globe & Mail and CBS News 60 Minutes.

Klein is the former Director of the UBC Graduate School of Journalism, where he continues to teach documentary, investigative journalism and global reporting. He was the host of the Canadian news program The Standard, and previously worked for ABC News, National Public Radio and The Christian Science Monitor.

He continues to produce and direct documentaries around the world, specializing in national security and global health.

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