Investigative Journalism: Holding the Corrupt and Powerful Accountable

Join us on for this LUNCHEON LECTURE which features an exclusive presentation and Q&A session with JULIE K. BROWN, author of the New York Times’ Bestseller, Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story, and DAVID BOARDMAN, Dean, Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University...

Julie K. Brown has been credited with re-opening the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case with a series of stories published in the Miami Herald in November 2018. Brown’s investigation began in 2017 -- almost a decade after Epstein had sexually abused young girls at his Palm Beach mansion. Brown discovered that he and his lawyers had successfully pressured the U.S. Attorney’s Office to cover up the scope of his crimes, resulting in a secret deal of immunity that led him to serve very little jail time. Brown reached out to 80 victims (many of whom were as young as 13 and 14 years old…