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    Tow-Knight Fellow Lori Robinson pitches her startup, VidaAfro, a site focused on illuminating the experience of black Latin Americans, at the Spring 2013 Tow-Knight Entrepreneurial Journalism pitch day.

    Joe Richman (left), executive producer and founder of “Radio Diaries,” discussed his new work, “Teenage Diaries Revisited,” with radio professor Alex Goldmark on May 17. Richman brought a copy of one of the original  “Teenage Diaries” features, which he produced in 1996 on reel-to-reel tape. (Photo by Rachel Bryson Brockmann, ’13)

    Founding Dean Stephen B. Shepard and Class of 2012 alumni Carla Astudillo, Sarah Kazadi, and Taylor Tepper were honored at the Sixth Annual Awards for Excellence in Journalism on May 13. (Photo by Skyler Reid, ’13)

    Google’s Daniel Sieberg demos a Google Glass headset for Divya Verma in the course, “Mobile and Tablet Journalism: Touching the Future of News.” Each student had a chance to test drive a technology not yet available publicly.

    It’s that time of year when seats in the newsroom are hard to find. Here Mikhael Simmonds, ’13, works on an end-of-semester project on a Monday night. (Photo by Skyler Reid, ’13)

    Jennifer Altman’s photo class practices shooting a “weather feature” in Bryant Park. (Photo by Heather Martino, ’13)

    Katie Honan, ’10, poses with her Emmy Award for Breaking News, which she won as part of a team  at WNBC-TV that covered a shooting near the Empire State Building on Aug. 24, 2012.

    Students Jacob Hodes and Lindsay Armstrong, together with investigative instructor Tom Robbins, discuss their Riverdale Press series on political patronage appointments in the Bronx courts with NY1 host (and CUNY Journalism professor) Errol Louis.  The 11-member class reported and wrote a four-part series on how, despite reforms, politically-connected attorneys continue to receive lucrative appointments from Bronx judges. (Photo: NY1)

    Class of 2012 alum Sean Carlson takes a break from his reporter job at public radio station KRBD in Ketchikan, Alaska.

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    Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

    The Pentagon Papers and What They Mean Today


    On Wednesday, June 21, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism students are invited to learn more about the Pentagon Papers and the landmark Supreme Court ruling that allowed The New York Times to continue publishing the top-secret history of the U.S. military involvement in Southeast Asia.

    June marks the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling. Learn about this historic decision and how it continues to affect our political and media climate to this very day in a panel discussion moderated by Jill Abramson, New York Times managing editor and former Washington bureau chief.

    Date: Wednesday. 21, 2006
    Time: 6:30pm — 8:00pm
    Location: 229 West 43rd Street, New York NY 10036
    9th Floor Auditorium

    Guests:

    Jill Abramson: Moderator

    Floyd Abrams: First Amendment lawyer and co-counsel to The Times on the Pentagon Papers case.

    James E. Risen: A New York Times correspondent in the Washington bureau covering national security and intelligence; 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner for national reporting.

    Allan M. Siegal: Former New York Times assistant managing editor and standards editor who was a member of the editing team that worked in secret for months to produce The Time’s coverage of the Pentagon Papers.

    For FREE TICKETS please contact: Juliet Dickey at dickej@nytimes.com