Lorie Hearn founded inewsource, an investigative nonprofit housed in the KPBS newsroom, in 2009, after decades of reporting and editing in newspapers on both coasts. inewsource has won scores of awards
locally and nationally and was nominated for a national Emmy. Lorie breaks down her career path through poignant storytelling and makes the case for society's dire need for truthful, honest journalism. Lorie Hearn is a life-long news-aholic and truth seeker. Her passion is
investigative, accountability journalism, the type that holds powerful
people to answer to the public.
Lorie founded inewsource, an investigative nonprofit housed in the
KPBS newsroom, in 2009, after decades of reporting and editing in
newspapers on both coasts. inewsource has won scores of awards
locally and nationally and was nominated for a national Emmy.
Lorie retired from The San Diego Union-Tribune, where she had been
a reporter, Metro Editor and finally the senior editor for Metro and
Watchdog Journalism. Reporters and editors on her staff were part of
the Pulitzer Prize-winning stories that exposed Congressman Randy
“Duke” Cunningham and led to his imprisonment for taking bribes from
government contractors. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]
