A career roundtable featuring leading national security journalists who have reported extensively on global conflicts, intelligence operations, and U.S. military affairs. Discussion will explore pathways into national security reporting, covering conflict zones, and reporting on the intelligence community.
From the Panama Papers to China Targets, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gerard Ryle has overseen investigations that exposed how the powerful exploit opaque systems across borders — from tax havens and shell companies to international law enforcement mechanisms.
Ford School professor of practice Ambassador Susan D. Page and Gerard Ryle will discuss what global investigative journalism reveals about the limits of public policy — particularly when laws fall short, enforcement fails, and bad actors innovate faster than the systems meant to stop them.
