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LVR LandesMuseum // Auditorium

Colmantstraße 14-16
53115 Bonn

The event will be held in English.

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The United States of America is the birthplace of democracy, with freedoms of speech and the press safeguarded in the First Amendment. Yet the current presidential administration is threatening to defund public media, exclude newsrooms who ask questions rather than fall in line, and roll back federal protections for journalists that have been in place since the '60s. The world is watching and wondering — will the powers-that-be succeed in shackling the free press, or will the guardrails of democracy hold firm? // This session will be automatically translated in real time and can be followed in the room on monitors in both German and English. Diese Session wird automatisch in Echtzeit übersetzt und kann im Saal auf Monitoren auf Deutsch und Englisch mitverfolgt werden.

Astrid Maier

Astrid Maier

Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)

Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Head of Strategy

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Keri Mitchell

Keri Mitchell

Dallas Free Press

Founder and Executive Director

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Thomas S. Leatherbury

Thomas S. Leatherbury

Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, First Amendment Clinic

Clinical Professor of Law and Director

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