Fighting Back: First Amendment Lawyers on the Front Lines of Press Freedom

[NOTE LOCATION CHANGE: UC Berkeley Journalism, Logan Multimedia Center]

The federal government is restricting journalists’ access to the Pentagon. Congress has moved to defund NPR and PBS. Defamation threats are being wielded to silence critical reporting. In this session sponsored by the Student Press Law Center, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and Mass Media at Berkeley Law, three of the country’s leading First Amendment litigators will discuss the cases they are actively fighting, the legal strategies they are deploying, and what these battles mean for the future of a free press.

Panelists:
Katie Townsend, Partner, Gibson Dunn
Katie Fallow, Deputy Litigation Director, Knight First Amendment Institute
Matthew Cate, media and First Amendment lawyer at the Law Office of Matthew S.L. Cate

Moderated by:
Jonathan D. Glater, Professor, UC Berkeley Law

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