Spotlight: The Hunt for Truth: Michael Rezendes & Sreenivasan Jain

Michael Rezendes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The Boston Globe and was played by Mark Ruffalo in the Oscar-winning movie Spotlight. He is also a co-author of two books, Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church and Sin Against the Innocents: Sexual Abuse by Priests and the Role of the Catholic Church.

Sreenivasan Jain is the Managing Editor of NDTV. He currently anchors the award-winning weekly ground reportage and investigative show, Truth vs Hype. He also presents Reality Check, a daily show that aims at debunking official myths and government propaganda in a post-truth environment. Jain was selected as Journalist of the Year by the Ramnath Goenka Awards in 2014, by the Red Ink Awards in 2015 and Anchor of the Year at the 2016 ENBA Awards. He was a recipient of the Eisenhower Fellowship in 2000.

Spotlight: The Hunt for Truth
Portuguese -American journalist Michael Rezendes won a Pulitzer Prize for his investigative work as a member of The Boston Globe 's legendary Spotlight Team. In conversation with Sreenivasan Jain, he speaks of the power of traditional and local reporting, the values, veracity and commitment required for investigative journalism as well as the changing definitions of news in the current media landscape.
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THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL
Described as the 'greatest literary show on Earth', the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas.

The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access.

Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world's greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue.

Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur.

Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Beatty and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, Benjamin Moser, Colson Whitehead and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary luminaries including Amish Tripathi, Chima¬manda Ngozi Adichie, Vikram Chandra and Vikram Seth. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai.

The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 33 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally.

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