Sources and Secrets; A Conference on the Press, the Government and National Security
Live now stream 9am EDT just 165 viewers right now - 9:27 am ET & those not viewing are missing great stuff. -- Just sayin' --
March 21 a free conference centering on the divide between the government and the press over national security. A wide range of speakers and panel members. Presented by the George Polk Awards Program -- In cooperation with CUNY TV and the Media Law Resource Center and the Media Law Resource Center Institute.
Live tweets on this tournament as it happens can be seen here at Results for #sourcesconf
10:38 am ET update: skyping live now are Laura Poitras, Barton Gellman, and Glenn Greenwald. See it with 368 other viewers. 11:21 ET update: outstanding panel now is finished. It was really good. Next panel about to begin. Senator Schumer and panel discuss the PROSPECTS FOR A FEDERAL SHIELD LAW.
SOURCES AND SECRETS – BACKGROUND BRIEF: A Forum on the Press, the Government and National Security By Josh Meyer, Medill National Security Journalism Initiative for March 21, 2014, at TheTimesCenter in New York City ---- The Brief here has linkage to a longer version that cites many specific data. Check it out.
The unabridged version of backround brief is here in this coded very hot hotlink! So click here. ;-)
Btw -- Online version of #AttacksOnPress available here
12:03 pm ET update: The panel on now is about PROSPECTS FOR A FEDERAL SHIELD LAW: discussion of the proposed Free Flow of Information Act
Bill Keller, editor in chief, The Marshall Project, with Kurt Wimmer, Newspaper Association of America; Quinn Norton, freelance journalist, activist; Jonathan Landay, McClatchy; Scott Horton, reporter, Harper’s Magazine; and Kenneth L. Wainstein, former assistant attorney general for national security and homeland security advisor. And a tweet just appeared that said this: Office of the DNI @ODNIgov 39s
ODNI General Counsel Robert Litt appearing shortly at the Sources & Secrets conference. Live stream: http://bitly.com/... #sourcesconf"