2007 Free Speech and Open Government Assembly, USC/Annenberg School for Communication, Oct. 25 & 26

CFAC’s 12th Annual Free Speech and Open Government Assembly brought together the best and brightest of law, journalism and public policy.  New Yorker magazine writer Jeffrey Toobin was be there, discussing secrecy and the US Supreme Court and Newsweek columnist Stuart Taylor duscussed the rush to judgment in the Duke rape case. 

More than a dozen debates and panels on topics ranging from confidential sources (with Judith Miller, Josh Wolf and Lance Williams) to "place blogging" (with Dan Gillmor and Kevin Roderick). The assembly also included forums on social networking, national security secrecy, immigration reporting, cameras in the courtroom, tribal secrecy, access to police records--and more, all featuring leading lawyers, journalists, new media maivens, policy wonks and other experts. 

Check out the newly finalized Assembly Program

Assembly Sponsors
CFAC would like to thank the Free Speech and Open Government Assembly sponsors for their generous support:

First Amendment Hero
Rowland Rebele

First Amendment Defender
Copley Press
Davis Wright Tremaine
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Sheppard Mullin Richter Hampton
Yahoo!

First Amendment Guardian
California Newspaper Publishers’ Association
McClatchy, Inc.
ANG Newspapers
Orange County Register
San Francisco Chronicle

First Amendment Watchdog
Best, Best & Krieger
The Press-Enterprise
Los Angles Times
San Jose Mercury News

First Amendment Advocate
Associated Press
Bakersfield California
Calaveras Enterprise
Cal Press
Capitol Weekly
Daily Republic
Los Angeles Newspaper Group
Levy, Ram, Olson
Palo Alto Weekly
Paradise Post
Reid & Hellyer
San Francisco Bay Guardian
Santa Barbara Independent
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Capitol Weekly

Video podcast from CFAC's 2006 Free Speech and Open Governement Assembly

National Security Secrecy: Featuring: Daniel Ellsberg, former NSA General Counsel Robert Deitz, John Sims, Electronic Frontiers Foundation attorney Lee Tien, and CFAC General Counsel Roger Myers.

Protecting Confidential Soucres: Featuring: Judith Miller, SF Chronicle managing editor Robert Rosenthal, Wen Ho Lee attorney Brian Sun, and others.

Overview of the 2006 Free Speech and Open Government Assembly at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.[click here]