Half-day symposium on press freedom, April 19 at 9 a.m.

The challenges to journalists are coming fast and furious: Access denied, outright falsehoods, alternative facts and sources afraid to talk.

The National Press Club Journalism Institute, the Club’s professional training affiliate, will join forces with another non-profit dedicated to journalism education, the National Press Foundation, to host a half-day symposium on Wednesday, April 19, from 9 a.m. to noon in the Club’s Murrow Room.

Panelists will include beat reporters and industry leaders. The goal is to help the working press learn to navigate the treacherous landscape facing us today.

The symposium, “When Journalism Becomes the Story: How Does the Press Respond?”, is open to the public and requires registration. Tickets are $5 for Club members and the general public. Please click here to register.

For more information, please email Kathy Kiely at [email protected]

The panelists include:

Panel I: When journalism becomes politicized: How is access being denied? Are reporters being threatened? What are beat reporters seeing -- or not seeing? What differs from past practice?

Moderator: Barbara Cochran, president, NPC Journalism Institute board of directors
Margaret Talev: Bloomberg and White House Correspondents Association incoming president
Coral Davenport, New York Times
Kevin Johnson, USA Today
Caitlin Emma, POLITICO
Travis Tritten, Washington Examiner and Military Reporters and Editors association VP
Matt Lee, Associated Press and State Department Correspondents Association president

PANEL II: What journalists can do: How should we react when colleagues are excluded, sources refuse to identify themselves? Do boycotts or group actions make sense? How do we counter accusations and false charges against us, or fake news? We will share workarounds.

Moderator: Sandy Johnson, president, National Press Foundation
Carrie Budoff Brown, Politico
Terry Murphy, C-SPAN
Chris Isham, CBS bureau chief
David Lauter, LA Times bureau chief
Rachel Smolkin, CNN digital executive editor of Politics
Mark Memmott, NPR standards editor