Freedom of the Press Forum

With reporters under siege everywhere from the streets of Minneapolis to their homes in northern Virginia, ClassACT HR73 will present the second forum in its Freedom of the Press series on May 6 at 7:00 pm ET. Its moderator Richard Tofel ’79, who was the founding general manager of ProPublica and the assistant publisher of the Wall Street Journal, will head a panel of lawyers and reporters to discuss the current physical and legal threats the press faces.

David McGraw, deputy general counsel and senior vice president at the New York Times and lead lawyer for the paper’s newsroom, will join the discussion along with Bruce Brown, president of Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Francia García Hernández, a reporter for Block Club Chicago who covered Operation Midway Blitz, will describe what it is like to cover immigration and ICE operations in a city where nearly one-quarter of the residents are immigrants.