An inewsource Conversation with Gardiner Harris

Join inewsource and Gardiner Harris for an evening of engaging conversation on his investigative reporting and the current role of journalism in the United States.

• Tickets are $40 and includes tasty bites and beverages.
• Additional guests are encouraged and welcomed.
• Cocktail attire appreciated.
• Free garage and lot parking located under and near venue

**Space is limited, so register today!**

In today’s climate, newsrooms face very real threats to reporting and funding, yet the urgency of our work has never been more important. Come ready for engaging conversation, tasty bites and beverages and to financially support the work of inewsource.

Moderator: Jamie Self, Managing Editor, inewsource

Jamie manages the newsroom and drives our editorial strategy. In 2021, she joined us from her home state of South Carolina, where she led the politics and state government team at The State newspaper in Columbia. Before that, she was an investigative and political reporter, covering First-in-the-South presidential primaries and state elections, and producing award-winning enterprise and investigative reporting on many state issues, including public corruption, child welfare, education, abortion, gun rights and more. She also covered the massacre of African American churchgoers at Mother Emanuel AME in Charleston and the subsequent battle to remove the Confederate flag from the statehouse grounds.

Featured Speaker:

Gardiner Harris

Gardiner Harris is a San Diego writer who spent more than three decades as a daily journalist roaming from the hollows of Eastern Kentucky to the mangrove forests of Bangladesh and to the corridors of power at the White House. In every place, he spurred profound changes in law, lifestyle and outlook.

Harris became a pharmaceutical reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where his investigation of Bristol-Myers Squibb led to criminal charges against three top executives and the dismissal of its chief executive. He became the public health reporter for The New York Times, where his investigations led to the withdrawals of a multi-billion-dollar diabetes medicine and dozens of popular pediatric cough-and-cold drugs. His stories exposing secret payments from drug makers to prominent academics led to the passage of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act requiring pharmaceutical and medical device companies to report payments to physicians and teaching hospitals.

In 2015, Harris returned to Washington DC to become a Times White House correspondent and then a Times diplomatic correspondent. He left daily journalism in 2019 to write “No More Tears.” Harris collected numerous awards for his journalism, including a George Polk Award, and he was part of teams that won a Pulitzer Prize and was a Pulitzer finalist

Event Venue

Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies | University of San Diego, 5555 Marian Way, San Diego, United States