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 James Harkin
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 International Campaigns for Reporters Without Borders, known internationally as Reporters sans frontières (RSF), which works to promote and defend press freedom around the world.
- 14 November 2024 15.15–16.00 GMT
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Location: Frobisher Auditorium 1, The Barbican
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