Julian Sher is an award-winning investigative journalist
in print, TV, radio and on the Web.
He is a writer for The
Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper, a veteran TV
documentary writer and director, a newsroom trainer and the
author of six widely-acclaimed books.
His latest book is Somebody's
Daughter: The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and
The Battle to Save Them.
Publisher's Weekly called the book "a thorough,
deeply affecting study … [that] strikes a rare balance between
revealing trauma and hope."
His previous book, Caught
in the Web: Inside the Police Hunt to Rescue Children from Online
Predators has been hailed by reviewers as "riveting"
"eye-opening and "gripping." His writings on child
abuse have appeared on the front page of the New
York Times, the cover of Maclean's
magazine and the OpEd page of USA
Today.
Julian wrote and directed a New York Times-CBC TV
investigation called "Nuclear
Jihad" which won the duPont-Columbia University Award,
the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, in 2006.
He created and now contributes to JournalismNet,
a comprehensive guide to mastering the web as an investigative tool.
He speaks at conferences around the world and can be contacted
here for appearances.
