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Deets: LA Press Freedom Week is a week-long slate of events in collaboration with the Committee to Protect Journalists, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press that will spotlight conversations around the protection of the First Amendment and engage the public and the journalism community in and around Los Angeles. With three anchor events amid a series of satellite ones, leading experts, top journalists, and supporting partners, LA Press Freedom Week will highlight the threats to a free press — and show what we can all do to defend it.
Monday, Sept. 16, 2019 | Press Freedom and Elections
Moderator: Ramzy Malouki (West Coast News Bureau Chief, French Canal+ Group)
Panelists: Kathleen Carroll (Chair of the Board, Committee to Protect Journalists), Maria Ressa (CEO, Rappler), Blanka Zöldi (Investigative Journalist, Direkt 36), Terry Tang (Deputy Op-Ed Editor, Los Angeles Times)
Location: Paley Center for Media
This year saw elections unfolding around the globe in places like India, South Africa, Guatemala and Tunisia, while in the United States, primary season began to heat up. This conversation will explore the particular challenges for journalists and threats to press freedom and democracy that emerge around elections both globally and in the United States. Meher Tatna, of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, will offer opening remarks.
Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019 | Press Freedom and Diversity: Whose Voice Gets Included?
Moderator: Lester Holt (Anchor, “NBC Nightly News” & “Dateline NBC”)
Panel discussion moderated by Dale Cohen, director of the Documentary Film Legal Clinic at the UCLA School of Law, and legal experts who explore the ways that weak legal protections for press freedom in one country can spill into another. Lorenzo Soria, President of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, will offer closing remarks.
Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019 | Unsealed: A New State of Transparency in Police Conduct
Moderator: Megan Garvey (Managing Editor, Southern California Public Radio)
Panelists I: Jeff Glasser (General Counsel, Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union-Tribune), Katie Townsend (Legal Director, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press)
Panelists II: Dana Amihere (Data Editor, Southern California Public Radio), Jeremiah Dobruck (Breaking News Editor, Long Beach Post), Alex Emslie (Criminal Justice reporter, KQED-FM), Jack Leonard (Senior Editor, Investigations, Los Angeles Times)
Location: KPCC + LAist | The Crawford Family Forum
Press freedom and the public’s right to know go hand in hand. Until this year, California had some of the most secretive laws in the country when it came to police records. Senate Bill 1421 helped unseal information about police misconduct and deadly use of force. The California Reporting Project, a statewide journalism coalition of more than 30 newsrooms, has been reporting on police conduct in their communities based on these records. Hear from representatives of the Los Angeles Times, KPCC + LAist, KQED News, the Long Beach Post and the Reporters Committee who fought for the legislation and have published several investigations since the law passed in January.
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