Jim Schaefer a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist visiting from from the USA, is to deliver a special talk for students of the Middlesex University Dubai.
Jim is visiting the UAE as part of a tour organised by the International Center for Journalists and Impact Hub Dubai and we are delighted that he will offer his experience to UAE students.
Jim Schaefer, holder of the United States’ highest honor in journalism, led a yearlong investigation into the synthetic drug fentanyl that had caused hundreds of deaths, Schaefer traced the drug to a lab in Mexico and the chemist that made it. The resulting 12-page project won the Nancy Dickerson Whitehead Award for Excellence in Reporting on Drug and Alcohol Problems.
Schaefer and a colleague exposed corruption in the administration of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, proving the mayor had lied in court and improperly paid people with public funds to obscure his misdeeds; they won eight journalism awards including the Pulitzer for Local Reporting in 2009. His blogging about the former mayor’s trial helped the newspaper win the Edward R. Murrow Award for best website.
Schaefer has also worked for the Free Press as a night police reporter, page designer, copy editor and video game reviewer. As a television journalist, Schaefer worked for the TV station WXYZ as an investigative producer with the station’s special projects unit, reporting, writing and directing in-depth video stories. Schaefer teaches investigative reporting and copy editing as an adjunct professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and the University of Detroit Mercy.
This event is exclusively for students of the Middlesex University Dubai.