Join us at The Fund for Investigative Journalism’s 50th Anniversary Dinner featuring a Conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh
Thursday, October 24, 2019
National Press Club
529 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC
We hope you will join us as we celebrate investigative journalism’s achievements over the last fifty years.
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The Fund for Investigative Journalism was founded in 1969 by the late Philip M. Stern, a public-spirited philanthropist who devoted his life “to balancing the scales of justice,” in the words of a friend. Stern was convinced small amounts of money invested in the work of determined journalists would yield enormous results in the fight against racism, poverty, corporate greed, and governmental corruption. Stern’s theory proved true in the Fund’s first year, when a modest-sized grant enabled reporter Seymour Hersh to begin investigating a tip concerning a U.S. Army massacre at the Vietnamese village of My Lai.
And it’s still true today. A grant from the Fund helped author Eliza Griswold win a Pulitzer Prize this year for her book “Amity and Prosperity,” an investigation of the fracking industry.
For further information, contact event planner Ivory Zorich, [email protected].