Media Panel: “Muzzled Media - The Global Challenge”

Tuesday, June 21, 2011 7:00 PM EDT (UTC–04:00)
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CIGI’s annual foreign correspondents panel will focus on the current risks to journalists working abroad, the murder and imprisonment of reporters, as well as access to information issues and censorship. This free public event is co-sponsored by CIGI and the Canadian International Council.

Event Speakers

Michelle Shephard is the National Security Reporter at the Toronto Star and author of Decade of Fear: Reporting from Terrorism's Grey Zone (2011) and Guantanamo's Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr (2008).

Allan Thompson is a CIGI senior fellow and head of the journalism program at Carleton University in Ottawa.