Adding this modernization and reform. This is an hour. Good afternoon, and welcome to the National Press club. Worlds leading organization for journalists. My name is Michael Friedman and i am the 113th president of the National Press club. Im a journalist in residence at university of maryland grover. An executive producer of the public broadcasting series the report. The an Excellent Program ahead. We invite you to listen watch or follow along on twitter using the mpc life. For cspan and public radio viewers andd listeners, pleasee aware that in the audience today, members of the general public so any clause or reaction you mean here, is not necessarily from the working press. Lets begin by introducing our head table. We ask thatuc you please hold yr applause until all the head table guess have been announced. Beginning to my far left, john oshea, col. U. S. Army retired, and number of American Legion post 20 which is based here at the National Press club. Kevin, captain u. S. Navy,
Good afternoon. Welcome. I am deputy manager editor and politico and president of the National Press club and board member of the journalism institute. For todays headline or event, we are pleased to welcome any parker. Hopefully joining us by phone is the director of the Georgetown Universitys civil rights clinic. They are here to discuss and his campaign to get google to tape video off of its platforms and to take your questions. I will take as many questions as time permits. Please wait for the handheld and when i call on you, state your name and affiliation prior to asking the question. And his daughter thousand parker was a an Award Winning journalist tragically murdered reporting the morning news from a live location august y 6, 2015. Her father has been advocating for changes in gun laws and lately and tech policy. His efficacy can be found in his book and his oped testimony before congress and state houses. To tell us where things stand in his battle with google and what future
Jeff ballou good afternoon, everybody. Im sure the gavel woke you up. Welcome to the National Press club, the worlds leading professional organization for journalists. My name is jeff ballou, news editor with al jazeera media network, where my colleague has been unjustly imprisoned by the government of egypt for 957 days. We have called for his immediate release, along with other detained journalists. I am particularly grateful to my fellow members to pitch hit for our 112th president , alison kodjak, who is getting welldeserved rest while she prepares for her new duties leading the Investigations Unit at the Associated Press, having just Left National public radio. Thanking the members as always for putting their trust in me to have served as their 110th president in 2017. Today, we welcome our headliner, elijah cummings. Democrat from the state of maryland and chairman of the House Committee on oversight and government reform. Before i get into the formal introduction, we will introd
Im sure the gavel woke you up. Welcome to the National Press club, the worlds leading professional organization for journalists. My name is jeff ballou, news editor with Al Jazeera Media Network network, where my colleague has been unjustly imprisoned by the government of egypt for 957 days. We have called for his immediate release, along with other detained journalists. I am particularly grateful to my fellow members to pitch hit for our 112th president , alison kodjak, who is getting welldeserved rest while she prepares for her new duties leading the Investigations Unit at the Associated Press, having just Left National public radio. Thanking the members as always for putting their trust in me to have served as their 110th president in 2017. Today, we welcome our headliner, elijah cummings. Democrat from the state of maryland and chairman of the House Committee on oversight and government reform. Before i get into the formal introduction, we will introduce to head to table and a coup
Good afternoon. Welcome to the National Press club. I am deputy manager editor and passed past president of the National Press club and board member of the journalism institute. For todays headline or event, we are pleased to welcome any andy parker. Hopefully, joining us by phone is the director of the Georgetown Universitys civil hts clinicnic rig and Voting Rights institute. They are here to discuss and his campaign to get google to tape video off of its platforms and to take your questions. During the q a portion, i will take as many questions as time permits. Please wait for the handheld microphone that will be brought to you, and when i call on you, state your name and affiliation prior to asking the question. Andy parker and his daughter andy parkers daughter, allison parker, was an Award Winning journalist tragically murdered reporting the morning news from a live location in august of 2015. Her father has been advocating for changes in gun laws and lately and tech policy. His