The First Amendment in the 21st Century
Speaker:
Gene Policinski
20 Apr 2015
7:00 PM
Dolezal Auditorium, 127 Curtiss Hall
Gene Policinski, CEO of the Newseum Institute and senior vice president of its First Amendment Center, will discuss how new technologies, recent court decisions, theocrats and thugs are the latest challenges to our core freedoms. A veteran journalist, Policinski has worked in newspapers, radio, television and online. He was Washington editor of USA Today when it launched in 1982 and held several news executive positions at the paper. Policinski is a contributor to the recent American Bar Association book Whistleblowers, Leaks and the First Amendment and co-writes the weekly, nationally distributed column "Inside the First Amendment." First Amendment Day Series Keynote
Gene Policinski is an adjunct faculty member at Winthrop University in South Carolina and a member of the Board of Advisors for the Institute for Media, Culture, and Ethics, at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky. He is a member of the national board of trustees for the National Academy of Television and Arts and Sciences (NATAS) and a past trustee of the United States Sports Academy and the Newspaper Association of America Foundation. He was co-chair of the 2012 national convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.