Journalists are being imprisoned and killed in record numbers. Online surveillance is annihilating privacy, and the Internet can be brought under government control at any time. Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, warns that we can no longer assume our global information ecosystem is stable, protected, and robust. Journalists — and the crucial news they report — are increasingly vulnerable to attack by authoritarian governments, militants, criminals, and terrorists, who all seek to use technology, political pressure, and violence to set the global information agenda.
Join Joel Simon and Kathleen Carroll, executive editor of The Associated Press, in a conversation on Simon’s new book, The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom , published by Columbia Journalism Review Books.
Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014, 6:00pm