please join me in welcoming joel simon and kathleen carroll. [applause] >> thank you sheila. joel why do you start out by talking a little bit about this that this new book. >> i would love to. thank you so much and thank you sheila, thank you to the journalism school for hosting this discussion. "the new censorship" explores fundamental contradictions of our modern global existence. why in an age defined by information are the people who bring us the news dying in record numbers? y. at a time when technology was supposed to make censorship impossible isn't actually on the rise? let's start off with some raw numbers. according to cpj database last two years have been the most deadly and dangerous for journalists in history. a record number of journalists have been killed. a record number are in prison. freedom of expression is on the wane according to independent advocacy core. in "the new censorship" what i try to do is address these issues not in theoretical terms but based on my own experience as executive director of the committee to protect journalism. so the book opens

we are pleased to have kathleen carroll and joel simon for this conversation.ournalism is an increasingly dangerous profession. no one knows this more than our guests tonight. joel simon is director of the committee to protect journalists, organization founded in 1981 by a group of u.s. correspondence to realize they couldn't ignore the dangers around the world are facing. research and advocacy are focused on defending the right to journalists to report. forever in the world journalists are attacked, and present, killed, kidnapped, threatened, censored or her past comest dpj takes action. when journalists can speak for themselves, see p.j. speaks up on their behalf. i know this because before coming to new york as a journalist in the cities and see p.j. is the group that would run to whenever we were in trouble. see p.j. has played a key role in raising awareness about the killings of journalists in my country and elsewhere around the world. journalists need to be positioned to talk about how the landscape of threats have changed in the past two years. his new

ap executive editor kathleen carroll said the revelation -- "doubles our concern and outrage, expressed earlier to attorney general eric holder, about how the agency's unacceptable tactics undermine ap and the vital distinction between the government and the press." the former head of prisons in mississippi has been charged with orchestrating a massive corruption scheme that saw him receive about $1 million dollars in bribes in exchange for state contracts to private prison firms. a newly unsealed 49-count indictment accuses christopher epps of directing contracts to private firms with ties to a former state legislator. a lawsuit filed by the aclu and southern poverty law center describes conditions at a prison operated by one such firm as hellish, calling it "an extremely dangerous facility operating in a perpetual state of crisis." a federal probe has found princeton university violated the gender equality law title ix by mishandling cases of sexual assault. in a rare move, the department of education found princeton violation the law by imposing a standard of proof that favored stude