Piercing the Wall: How to report on sexual abuse in schools

Learn how to uncover serious educator misconduct inside often insular academic institutions. From finding sources, obtaining documents, earning trust, interviewing trauma survivors, unlocking key stakeholders and holding educators and administrators accountable, award-winning reporter Matt Drange will walk through how he pieced together, “The predators’ playground: Unraveling 40 years of sexual misconduct at a single California high school.”

Matt will share tips and lessons learned from years of reporting on this tragically pervasive issue. Many of the approaches he’ll outline can be applied to a variety of subjects where the focus of your reporting is behavior that is kept secret by design.

Presented by The Student Press Law Center.