The International Free Expression Project co-sponsored with the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette a press-freedom forum April 11, 2019 dedicated to the memory of Jamal Khashoggi. It was titled The War on Truth: Journalism Has Never Been More Vital Nor More Imperiled. The forum featured Fred Hiatt, editorial page editor of The Washington Post, who oversees the Opinion section of the paper for which Khashoggi wrote; Emilia Diaz-Struck, Latin American coordinator for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the organization that brought together hundreds of journalists from around the world to produce The Panama Papers project; and David Shribman, Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist, executive editor emeritus of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and scholar-in-residence at Carnegie Mellon University. Their lively and insightful conversation was enthusiastically received by an audience of about 250 at the University of Pittsburgh's Clapp Hall Auditorium. The forum was financed by The Pittsburgh Foundation, for which IFEP and the other organizers are most grateful. Here are some photographs of the event.
Illustration by Daniel Marsula