A three-day summer school is to be held later this year for anyone wanting to learn more about investigative journalism.

Organised by journalists from the BBC, Granada TV, the Guardian, Tv stations PBS, Canal Plus and CBS, and the Mail on Sunday, the Observer and New York Times, the event will include workshops and seminars on computer-assisted reporting and media law.

It will also examine topics such as reporting terrorism, medical malpractice, people smuggling and women as investigative reporters.

Some of the world's leading practitioners are being lined up to attend, including Lowell Bergman of CBS's 60 Minutes.

The event follows the success of the first UK-based summer school on investigative journalism in London last year, where Pulitzer Prize winner and New Yorker writer Seymour Hersh spoke "off the record" to a crowded meeting.

This year's summer school will be held at Westminster University's Marylebone campus on July 16, 17 and 18.

For more information, contact Gavin MacFadyen at registration@investigativereporting.org.uk or visit www.investigativereporting.org.uk.

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