AGENDA
JUNE 21: August Wilson Center
1:30 p.m. Welcome/Overview | Watch Video
Maxwell King, President & CEO, The Pittsburgh Foundation
2:00 p.m. The Artist's Voice | Watch Video
2:15 p.m. Current Threats to the First Amendment | Watch Video
Featured Opening Speaker: April Ryan, Author and Political Analyst for CNN
3:00 p.m. Break
3:15 p.m. Respondents Panel | Watch Video
Moderator: Joel Simon, Executive Director, Committee to Protect Journalists
Mila Sanina, Executive Director, PublicSource
Wasiullah "Wasi" Mohamed, Executive Director, Islamic Center of Pittsburgh and Emgage PA
Robert Rosenthal, Board Member and Executive Producer, Center for Investigative Reporting
4:00 p.m. Q&A
4:15 p.m. The First Amendment on College Campuses | Watch Video
Jonathan Sotsky, Director, Learning and Impact, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, joined by a panel of college students
4:45 p.m. Freedom of Expression - The Artist’s Voice | Watch Video
Jasiri X, Hip-hop Artist and Activist
Vanessa German, Visual and Performance Artist
5:30 p.m. Networking Reception
6:30 p.m. Media Impact Funders Film: “Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press”
An interview by Indira Lakshmanan, Newmark Chair in Journalism Ethics at the Poynter Institute and columnist for The Boston Globe, with award-winning documentary filmmaker Brian Knappenberger, and features selected scenes from “Nobody Speak,” his chilling account of threats to press freedom as viewed through the lens of the Gawker-Hulk Hogan libel case.
East of Liberty: A documentary series by Chris Ivey
Showing throughout the afternoon in the August Wilson Center lobby.
JUNE 22: Pittsburgh CAPA
8:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. CAPA students perform: "A Heart Full of Love" from Les Miserables | Watch Video
8:45 a.m. Welcome | Watch Video
Grant Oliphant, President, The Heinz Endowments
9:15 a.m. Digital Journalism and the New Public Square | Watch Video
Jameel Jaffer, Executive Director, Knight First Amendment Institute, Columbia University
10:00 a.m. Break
10:15 a.m. Freedom of the Press: The Right to Know | Watch Video
Mickey Edwards, Former U.S. Congressman & Professor
10:45 a.m. Interview | Watch Video
Indira Lakshmanan, Newmark Chair in Journalism Ethics at the Poynter Institute and columnist for The Boston Globe, interviews Mickey Edwards, Former U.S. Congressman & Professor
11:00 a.m. Interview | Watch Video
Mila Sanina, Executive Director, PublicSource, interviews Jenni Monet, Journalist
11:30 a.m. Civic Engagement: Freedom to Assert Our Rights | Watch Video
Kristen Cambell, Executive Director, Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement
Matt Leighninger, Vice President, Public Engagement & Director of Yankelovich Center for Public
Judgment at Public Agenda
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:15 p.m. How Threats to Fundamental Freedoms Guaranteed in the First Amendment can Represent a Threat to Democracy in the United States and Globally | Watch Video
Yascha Mounk, Executive Director, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
1:45 p.m. Q&A
2:00 p.m. Technology: Freedom and Responsibility | Watch Video
Dramatic changes introduced by the internet have both threatened and enhanced First Amendment freedoms in recent years. Trevor Timm, co-founder and executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, will provide a framework for considering these sweeping changes, followed by a panel of experts who operate on the front lines of protecting freedoms in the digital age.
Respondents Panel
Moderator: Andrew Conte, Director, Center for Media Innovation, Point Park University
David Greene, Senior Staff Attorney and Civil Liberties Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Bobbie Stempfley, Director, CERT Division, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Stephanie A. Whited, Communications Director, The Tor Project
3:15 p.m. Q&A
3:30 p.m. Interview | Watch Video
Grant Oliphant, President, The Heinz Endowments, interviews Rob Rogers, Editorial Cartoonist, formerly with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
4:30 p.m. Next Steps/Adjournment | Watch Video
Maxwell King, President & CEO, The Pittsburgh Foundation
Ken Gormley, President, Duquesne University
