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Jailing the Messenger: Leaks, Sources, and Freedom of the Press
Ronald Dworkin, Vanessa Leggett, Anthony Lewis, Norman Pearlstine, and Helen Zia examine the question of how to balance the great importance of nurturing a vigorous free press and ensuring public access to information against competing values such as the rights of criminal defendants, privacy rights, and national security. >> Listen
PEN Conversation: James Risen & Philip Gourevitch
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist James Risen speaks with PEN Board member and Paris Review editor Philip Gourevitch on the importance of a free press, the demagoguery of 9/11, the greatest strategic failure in American history, and breaking the NSA spy story. >> Listen
Protecting Privacy, Challenging Secrecy & Standing Up for the First Amendment
The Campaign for Reader Privacy presents this program in celebration of the 25th observance of Banned Books Week, an annual reminder that we can never take our freedom to read for granted. >> Listen
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PEN American Center today expressed concern over reports that Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist has been issued a subpoena in an effort to compel him to reveal confidential sources for information published in his 2006 book State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration. 
