[Maggie Mulvihill] Journalism and Data

Wednesdays @Hariri / I’ve Got a Data Problem

3:30 PM Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Investigative Journalism Today

Maggie Mulvihill
Co-Director, New England Center for Investigative Reporting

Abstract: The availability of large quantities of digital data is changing the methods of journalism, especially investigative reporting. In turn, this creates new opportunities for journalists and data professionals to work together to provide compelling, powerful investigative stories that can lead to constructive social change. Come find out what’s happening in journalism, how data is transforming the media, and how computer scientists and engineers can join with reporters to find, develop, and present the important stories of our time.

Bio: Maggie Mulvihill is the co-director and senior investigative producer of the New England Center for Investigate Reporting. Mulvihill is an award-winning journalist with more than 20 years’ experience in print and broadcast reporting in New England, specializing in investigative journalism. A former media lawyer, Mulvihill serves on the Steering Committee of the Reporter’s Committee for Freedom of the Press in Washington D.C. She was a 2004-2005 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, focusing on government secrecy and its implications for news organizations. Mulvihill is active in freedom of information and open government issues and serves on the board of directors of the New England First Amendment Coalition. Mulvihill has taught journalism at the Harvard University Summer School and Emerson College and is a clinical professor of Journalism at Boston University.