Birkbeck Institute for Social Research
in collaboration with the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom and Media Reform Coalition present Journalism, Whistleblowing and the Security State at 6pm on 20 November at Birkbeck College (room B04), Malet Street, WC1.
This unique event brings together a group of whistleblowers from the US national security state to address UK academics, activists and journalists. Panellists will discuss recent threats to independent journalism and whistleblowing on both sides of the Atlantic, placing developments in the context of massive surveillance and the on-going War on Terror.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Matthew Hoh, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and former US embassy representative in Afghanistan who became the highest-ranking U.S. official to publicly renounce policy in Afghanistan in 2009.
- Coleen Rowley, an attorney and former FBI special agent who was among the first to expose some of the agency’s pre-9/11 failures, and was one of three whistleblowers named as Time Magazine’s persons of the year in 2002.
- Norman Solomon is the coordinator of ExposeFacts.org and the author of a dozen books on media and public policy including *War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death*.
- J. Kirk Wiebe is a retired National Security Agency whistleblower who worked at the agency for 36 years until October 2001. Since then, he has made several key public disclosures regarding the NSA’s massive surveillance programmes.
The event is hosted by the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research in conjunction with the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom and the Media Reform Coalition. It will be chaired by Dr Justin Schlosberg from the Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck.
This event is free and open to all, but booking is essential – book your place here
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