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SPEAKER BIOS WALTER ROBINSON, editor at large at the Boston Globe, has been a reporter and editor there for 43 years. He covered city, state and national politics and government, and was the newspaper’s Middle East correspondent during the First Gulf War. He led the investigation that exposed the Catholic Church’s cover-up of decades of sexual abuse by nearly 200 priests. DIANA JEAN SCHEMO is co-founder and executive editor of 100Reporters, a nonprofit investigative news consortium, and founding director of the Double Exposure: The Investigative Film Festival and Symposium. Ms. Schemo is an author and former national and foreign correspondent at The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. MICHAEL I. SCHILLER is the creative director of Reveal for The Center for Investigative Reporting. His most recent short animated film, The Box, won first prize at the San Francisco International Film Festival and was honored at The Webbys, the New Orleans Film Festival and the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. MICHAEL SHAGOURY is digital media professional and entrepreneur who is currently executive producer and acting editorial lead of AJ+. As a broadcast professional, he produced news and documentaries for CNN, Al Jazeera, BBC, ZDF and NBC. Shagoury spearheaded the establishment of the World Media Academy in Dubai, which trains broadcasting, print journalism and public relations professionals. Please visit our website for more information and program updates 41