Glenn Greenwald to present Media@McGill’s
2014 Beaverbrook Annual Lecture
For its flagship event, the 2014
Beaverbrook Annual Lecture, Media@McGill is excited to announce the speaker
as Glenn Greenwald, journalist, constitutional lawyer, commentator, and
bestselling author. Mr. Greenwald, who recently broke the NSA surveillance
story, joins an impressive roster of speakers who have taken part in this event,
which includes luminaries such as Al Gore, Angela Davis, Seymour Hersh, and
Peter W. Singer, among others.
The Lecture will take place on Thursday,
October 23, 2014, at 6 p.m. at Pollack Hall, McGill University,
Montréal, Quebec. As always, the Lecture is free and open to the
public.
Seats will be available on a first-come,
first-served basis. No tickets or preregistration will be
done.
In addition, the Lecture will be
livestreamed.
Glenn Greenwald is best known for his 2013 National
Security Agency reporting during which he was a columnist for the
Guardian US (the latter is the 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner along with the
Washington Post). For his reporting he received the George Polk award for
national security reporting; the Gannett Foundation award for investigative
journalism and the Gannett Foundation watchdog journalism award; the Esso Premio
for Excellence in Investigative Reporting in Brazil (the first non-Brazilian to
win); and the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award. Along with Laura
Poitras, he was named by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the top 100
Global Thinkers for 2013. His fifth book, No Place to Hide, is about the
US surveillance state and his experiences reporting on the Snowden documents
around the world. His book will be released in May 2014. He has recently
developed, along with Laura Poitras, Jeremy Scahill and others, a new media
venture funded by Pierre Omidyar called First Look Media.
Media@McGill is a hub of research,
scholarship and public outreach on issues and controversies in media, technology
and culture, based in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies,
McGill University, Montréal, Canada. It was created and has been sustained by
generous funding from the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation.
