The Government\u27s Need for Secrecy vs. The People\u27s Right to Know

When defending our importance to the country, we in the press are fond of quoting Thomas Jefferson: Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I would not hesitate a moment to choose the latter. But only on the rarest occasion do we acknowledge that the father of the Constitution, the sage of Monticello, also said of us: I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it

Data for Cybersecurity Research: Process and ‘Wish List’

This document identifies data needs of the security research community. This document is in response to a request for a “data wish list”. Because specific data needs will evolve in conjunction with evolving threats and research problems, we augment the wish list with commentary about some of the broader issues for data usage

RFK in the Delta, Revisited 2012

Marian Wright Edelman, who helped lead Senator Robert F. Kennedy on a tour of the Mississippi Delta that highlighted hunger in 1967 appears on a panel moderated by Ellen Meacham, journalism instructor at the Meek School of Journalism and New Media. They are joined on the panel by community leaders Owen Brooks and James Figgs as well as George Lapides, who covered the trip for the Memphis Press Scimitar and Nick Kotz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who wrote the definitive book about hunger in America, Let Them Eat Promises