Rainey Reitman says, "This Friday, the Freedom of the Press Foundation is hosting a panel discussion at Noisebridge on WikiLeaks and the movie The Fifth Estate. It will be at 5:30 PM. It will be EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn, Wired Senior Reporter Kim Zetter, Forbes senior online editor Kashmir Hill, and me. We're going to talk about what the Fifth Estate gets right and wrong, and also just talk about the future of journalism." For those unable to attend, the discussion will be filmed and posted to the Freedom of the Press Foundation website.
To do in SF: 'WikiLeaks v. the Fifth Estate,' a panel at Noisebridge hacker space on Fri., Oct. 11
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