Charlie Beckett
director Polis London School of Economics
Janine Gibson
editor FT Weekend
Dan Gillmor
co-founder News Co/Lab Arizona State University (via video)
Taylor Owen
founding director The Center for Media, Technology and Democracy
In the age of heightened surveillance, the need for - and threat to - watchdog journalism has intensified, with Edward Snowden’s 2013 leak of classified documents signaling what may become a new norm in national security coverage. Journalism After Snowden: The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State, edited by Emily Bell and Taylor Owen and published by Columbia University Press, examines the changing power dynamics between reporters and government.
