Holtzbrinck Lecture

In Search of Truth: A Journalist’s Journey

In this talk, veteran journalist Mona El-Naggar offers a close look at her career as a reporter and storyteller, exploring the nuances of how journalists gather information and strive for the elusive goal of objectivity. She discusses the often intimate, complex relationships journalists build with sources and how facts can sometimes fall short of fully capturing the truth. El-Naggar also explores the interplay between what we understand with our minds and what we perceive with our hearts, revealing the challenges that shape a journalist’s quest for meaning in the stories they tell.