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IBA interview with George Freeman, Assistant General Counsel of the New York Times
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George Freeman spoke to the IBA on topics including: how media outlets and journalists can uphold standards when using social media; phone hacking; wikileaks and the law and the Arab spring and democracy. Watch all clips
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Event: A Public Right to Hear and Press Freedom in an Age of Networked Journalism (Talk by Mike Ananny, Berkman Center Fellow)
22 May 2012 -
Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University
Massachusetts, USA
Mike Ananny is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School. He researchers social uses of digital technologies, concentrating on how technological, institutional and normative forces both shape and reflect the networked press and a public right to hear. Read more
Blog: news-roundup
12 March 2012 - Freedom of Expression in the News: Weekly round-up 3- 9 March 2012.
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The Impact of Online Social Networking on the Legal Profession and Practice
 9 February 2012 - The IBA Legal Projects Team publishes a benchmark report presenting the findings of their global survey on OSN. The survey represents a first attempt to shed light on the above issues on an international scale. The IBA Legal Projects Team felt that the IBA was best placed to undertake a study of this magnitude, as it currently includes over 45,000 lawyers and over 200 bar associations and law societies worldwide. More
Event: Censorship in an age of freedom
29 February 2012 -
London School of Economics
London, UK
Speakers: Charlie Beckett, Heather Brooke, Nick Cohen
We will be talking about the paradox that we live in an age when the Internet should make information more available than ever and yet secrecy still abounds. New media should facilitate better democratic debate than ever before, and yet, some fear that open, honest discussion is being drowned out. Read more
Resource added by member: Human Rights Education Association Freedom of Expression Study Guide
17 February 2012 - Freedom of expression is essential in enabling democracy to work and public participation in decision-making. Citizens cannot exercise their right to vote effectively or take part in public decision-making if they do not have free access to information and ideas and are not able to express their views freely... continue reading
Blog: news-roundup
13 February 2012 - Freedom of Expression in the News: Weekly round-up 4- 10 February 2012.
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Filmed interview with Anurag Bana, senior staff lawyer of the IBA Legal Projects Team, and Mark Stephens CBE, media law specialist
13 February 2012 - The Impact of Online Social Networking on the Legal Profession and Practice survey - filmed interview with Anurag Bana, Senior Staff Lawyer of the IBA Legal Projects Team, and Mark Stephens CBE, media law specialist and Vice-Chair of the IBA Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Law Committee, on the survey and its findings. Watch
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