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DESCRIPTION:Join Jodie Ginsberg, chief executive officer of the Committee to Protect 
 Journalists, and Jason Rezaian, director of Press Freedom Initiatives for 
 The Washington Post in conversation with San Francisco Chronicle Editor in 
 Chief Emilio Garcia-Ruiz. Opening remarks by Dean Michael D. 
 Bolden.\n\nTickets: $10\n\nZoom: FREE\n\n5:30 pm Reception\n\n6:30 pm Main 
 Event\n\n\nSPEAKERS:\n\nJodie Ginsberg\n\nJodie Ginsberg is the chief 
 executive officer of the Committee to Protect Journalists. A journalist by 
 profession, Ginsberg joined CPJ in 2022 from Internews Europe, where she 
 was chief executive officer. Ginsberg began her career as a graduate 
 trainee with Reuters news agency and worked as a commodities reporter in 
 London before taking up a posting as a foreign correspondent in 
 Johannesburg, South Africa. She subsequently worked as Reuters’ chief 
 correspondent in Ireland, and then bureau chief for the U.K. and Ireland. 
 In 2014, Ginsberg was appointed chief executive of London-based freedom of 
 expression group Index on Censorship, which she led until 2020.\n\nAn 
 internationally respected campaigner on issues of media freedom and freedom 
 of expression, Ginsberg is a regular speaker on journalist safety and 
 issues involving access to information. She serves on the boards of The 
 Trust for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the John S. Knight 
 Journalism Fellowships at Stanford, and as a Council member of IFEX, the 
 international network for freedom of expression organizations. Ginsberg has 
 a BA in English Literature from the University of Cambridge and a 
 postgraduate diploma in newspaper journalism from City St George’s, 
 University of London.\n\n\nJason Rezaian\n\nJason Rezaian is Director of 
 Press Freedom Initiatives at The Washington Post. From 2018-2024 he was an 
 Opinions columnist and before that he served as Tehran bureau chief for the 
 Post from 2012 to 2016. In July 2014, he was arrested by Iranian 
 authorities and wrongly imprisoned for 544 days until his release in 
 January 2016.\n\nHis memoir, Prisoner was published in January 2019. 
 Rezaian is also a regular contributor to CNN, MS Now, NPR and others and 
 the host of the Spotify limited podcast series 544 Days.\n\nHe was a Nieman 
 Fellow at Harvard University, Class of 2017 and a Fellow at Harvard Kennedy 
 School’s Institute of Politics in 2023.\n\nCurrently he is a teaching 
 fellow at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and 
 Communications and is the Co-Executive Director of the Commission on 
 Hostage Taking and Wrongful Detention and the Center for Strategic and 
 International Studies.\n\n\nMODERATOR\n\nEmilio Garcia-Ruiz\n\nEmilio 
 Garcia-Ruiz is the Editor in Chief of the San Francisco Chronicle, the 
 leading news source in the Bay Area. The Chronicle focuses its coverage on 
 the issues critical to its readers, including health, homelessness, the 
 post-pandemic future of the city, climate change and its deadly 
 consequences and the area’s world-class food and wine 
 scene.\n\nGarcia-Ruiz joined the Chronicle in September 2020 after spending 
 the previous 19 years at The Washington Post. His final role at The Post 
 was as Managing Editor for Digital, where he oversaw the development and 
 execution of digital strategy, supervising more than 350 journalists. He 
 edited the 2000 Pulitzer prize-winning investigation by the St. Paul 
 Pioneer Press that uncovered academic fraud in the University of Minnesota 
 men’s basketball program. His career includes editing at the Orange 
 County Register and Los Angeles Times.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/03/11/18884923.php
SUMMARY:Press Freedom in Peril: 2026 Herb Caen Lecture at UC Berkeley
LOCATION:HYBRID EVENT\n\nIN-PERSON: \nNorth Gate Hall Logan Multimedia Center \nUC 
 Berkeley Campus, Berkeley, 
 CA\nhttps://journalism.berkeley.edu/event/2026-herb-caen-lecture-press-freedom-in-peril/\n\nONLINE: 
 \nZoom RSVP: 
 https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/wL1OZUQOQfWylvXLtM2iNg#/registration
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