Saviano to open Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Geneva

Italian journalist and best-selling author Roberto Saviano will open the 6th Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC) in Geneva on Thursday 22 April, the organisers announced on Tuesday. Saviano, who has been living under police protection for more than four years, will deliver the opening keynote at 9:00 am.

Saviano is an Italian investigative journalist who has written and published extensively on the Camorra, a Neapolitan organised crime ring deeply entrenched in Italian business and politics. After he published his best-seller Gomorrah in 2008, he was threatened by several Neapolitan ‘godfathers’. The Italian government subsequently granted him police protection.

The GIJC organisers have said the conference will go ahead despite the disruption to air traffic in much of northwest Europe. Besides Saviano, other keynote speakers include Seymour Hersh, Stephen Engelberg of Propublica, Spanish prosecutor Baltazar Garzon, and Iraqi journalist Montazer al Zaïdi, who spent time in jail for throwing a shoe at US President George W. Bush in 2008.

The GIJC programme includes a total of more than 60 sessions over four days. As a partner, the European Journalism Centre, will provide a live video stream. Go to www.livestream.com/ejcnet to find out more.

Follow the conference on Twitter via www.twitter.com/gijc2010

For the conference website: www.gijc2010.ch

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