37th Annual Law & The Media Seminar

Protecting Access to Information in the Modern News Gathering Landscape

Panel One: The Day-to-Day Challenges Journalists Face

(Moderator) Charley Sharman, member, Law & the Media Committee; associate, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings 
Lomi Kriel, reporter, ProPublica-Texas Tribune investigative unit
Josephine Lee, staff writer, Texas Observer
Lauren McGaughy, investigative reporter and editor, The Texas Newsroom
Eric Meyer, publisher and editor, Marion County Record
Lise Olsen, Houston-based investigations editor, Texas Observer

Keynote: A Survey of the Landscape

Thomas S. Leatherbury, director, First Amendment Clinic at SMU Dedman School of Law

Panel Two: Where Do We Go From Here?

(Moderator) Martin J. Siegel, The Law Offices of Martin J. Siegel
Amy Davis, investigative reporter, KPRC
Kelsey Galbraith, attorney, Jeff Diamant PC
Caroline Hendrie, executive director, Society for Professional Journalists (SPJ)
Katherine Jacobsen, U.S., Canada, and Caribbean program coordinator, Committee to Protect Journalists
Frank LoMonte, legal counsel, CNN