Journalists in Jeopardy: The Hazards to Freedom of the Press
A Panel Discussion
Thursday, 19 Apr 2007 at 2:00 pm – 102 Science I
Featured panelists include Dan Ehl, managing editor and writer for the Daily Iowegian in Centerville, Iowa, who was assaulted by a local business owner over editorials he wrote; Dennis Chamberlin, assistant professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist who worked in Poland and Russia; and John Carlson, columnist for the Des Moines Register who spent a month in the fall of 2005 reporting on Iowa troops stationed in Ramadi and Tikrit, Iraq. Part of the First Amendment Day Celebration.Cosponsored By:
- Greenlee Excellence Fund
- Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication
- Lee Enterprises
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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