Monday, September 29 at 7:00 pm
Join us at Hallwalls for a conversation between author/journalist Jim Shultz and investigative journalist Jim Heaney, founder and editor of Investigative Post. Publication of Shultz' Lessons from Lockport provides an occasion for two seasoned journalists to talk about the politics of journalism and the journalism of politics, especially in this historical moment. This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase and signing courtesy of Talking Leaves Books. Purchasing your book from Talking Leaves is the best way to show your support.
Jim Shultz is the Founder and Executive Director of the Democracy Center and a longtime advocacy advisor to UNICEF. He has been a contributing writer at The New York Review of Books, and has authored five previous books, including The Democracy Owners’ Manual: A Practical Guide to Changing the World and Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia’s Challenge to Globalization.
Jim currently resides in Lockport, NY, where his community reporting and opinion writing have sparked civic dialogue and cultural introspection. You can find him online at jimshultzthewriter.com
Jim Heaney is editor and executive director of Investigative Post, a non-profit investigative reporting center focused on issues of importance to Buffalo and Western New York. He was an investigative reporter with The Buffalo News from 1986 to 2011 and a reporter and editor with The Orlando Sentinel from 1980-86. His coverage over the years has focused on economic development, local and state government, politics, education, housing and transportation, and he was an early practitioner of computer-assisted reporting. Heaney has won more than 20 journalism awards and was a finalist for the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting.
A long-time liberal activist gets a crash course in conservative America when he becomes a newspaper columnist in a small, rust-belt town. The result is a surprising, humorous, and thought-provoking exploration of America\'s political and cultural divides from ground zero of the working-class rebellion.