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After Assange: Journalists and the Espionage Act

Julian Assange’s release from a UK prison, the result of a plea deal with the US government, was long overdue. But it leaves in place the prospect of espionage legislation in the US, the UK and Europe being used to threaten and intimidate journalists who work with sources and whistleblowers on national security stories. What can be done?

Chaired by Trevor Timm

Trevor Timm

Trevor Timm is a co-founder and the executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. He is a journalist, activist, and legal analyst whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Guardian, USA Today, The Atlantic, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Harvard Law and Policy Review, and Politico.

Holger Stark

Until 1991 Holger Stark studied journalism in Munich and Berlin before he started working as an editor for the Berliner Zeitung. From 1993 until 1998 he studied political science at the Otto-Suhr-Institute at the Free University of Berlin and besides his studies he continued working as a journalist for Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg and Radio Fritz in Babelsberg.

Rebecca Vincent

Rebecca Vincent is the Director of Campaigns for Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which acts globally to defend the freedom, pluralism and independence of journalism. She is an American-British human rights campaigner and former diplomat with nearly two decades of experience.

MC McGrath

M C McGrath is a member of Julian Assange's legal team who worked as a legal researcher on his extradition case. M C is also the founder of Transparency Toolkit, a non-profit organization that creates open source software to help journalists, researchers, and human rights groups collect, analyze, search, and understand data.
  • 14 November 2024 16.05–17.00 GMT
GMT
Location: Frobisher Auditorium 1, The Barbican
Panel
Collaborative Journalism
Freedom of Information
Freedom of the press
Infosec
International
Journalism
Whistleblowing
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