Robert Mahoney,
Deputy Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists for a lecture on Threats to the Press Around the World
Around the world journalists face threats, false arrests, and violence. Here in the United States high-ranking government officials and politicians attack the press in increasingly strident terms. Join us as we welcome Robert Mahoney of the Committee to Protect Journalists to discuss the state of press freedom around the world and how rhetoric in the United States imperils journalists in other nations and emboldens their critics.
Tuesday, April 15, 2020 at 4:00 pm
First Floor Function Room
Sargent Hall
120 Tremont St., Boston, MA 02108
Reception to follow
About our speaker
Robert Mahoney is the Deputy Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide. Mr. Mahoney joined CPJ in August 2005 as senior editor and became CPJ’s deputy director in January 2007. He has worked as a journalist in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. He reported on politics and economics for Reuters news agency from Brussels and Paris in the late 1970s, and from Southeast Asia in the early 1980s. Mahoney covered South Asia from Delhi for three years from 1985, reporting on the aftermath of Indira Gandhi’s assassination, the civil war in Sri Lanka, and the fallout from the Soviet presence in Afghanistan. In 1988, he became Reuters bureau chief for West and Central Africa, based in the Ivory Coast and spending considerable time in Liberia covering the civil war. He served as Reuters Jerusalem bureau chief from 1990 to 1997, directing print and, later, television coverage of the Palestinian intifada, the Iraqi missile attacks on Israel, the Oslo peace process, and the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Mahoney worked as chief correspondent in Germany from 1997 to 1999 before moving to London to become news editor of politics and general news for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. In 2004, he taught journalism for the Reuters Foundation in the Middle East, and worked as a consultant for Human Rights Watch.
About the Masterman Speaker Series
Some of the most polarizing and provocative issues of our time involve matters rooted in the First Amendment. Edward I. Masterman, JD ’50, LLD ’90 and his wife Sydell, established the Masterman Speaker Series on the First Amendment and the Fourth Estate to provide a forum for robust debate and exchange of ideas on freedom of the press and its attendant responsibilities. The Speaker Series brings together representatives from government, the legal profession, and the press for the purposes of informing, educating, and engaging those who care deeply about these issues.
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
