Symposium 2025
April 11, 2025
20 Cooper Square

The 2025 Collier Symposium featured winners from all of our categories, in conversation. Read the recap article here.

10:00–11:00am

Sharing Your Decision-Making with Audiences and How Transparency Can Build Trust

The Washington Post: ”Abused by the Badge,” an investigation of criminal cases against law enforcement officials charged with sexually abusing children

The New Yorker: In the Dark, an investigative podcast examining the killings of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq

NBC News, The Guardian, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism: “‘Kill Us or Send Us Home’: Amazon workers in Saudi Arabia say they were exploited by labor supply and recruiting firms”

11:15am–12:15pm

Fairness in Accountability Reporting

Mississippi Today: Continued coverage of state officials’ alleged misuse of federal welfare funds

Garrett Shanley: “‘Oath of Fealty’: How the University of Florida Forced Faculty Cooperation with a GOP-backed Civics Center”

Cathy Wang: An investigation into Johns Hopkins’ controversial real estate holdings

12:15pm–1:00pm

Lunch

1:15pm-2:15pm

Minimizing Harm When Working With Vulnerable Sources

The Baltimore Banner: “This megachurch warned of hell. Then it concealed its own sins.”

Documented: “Fear Across Borders: Chinese Americans and the Shadow of Surveillance”

Helen Benedict, advisor to Ariane Luthi: “‘They Promised to Take Out Our Families’: The Afghans America Left Behind’”

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