April 2007 Program
What: The Great Balancing Act: Our Right to Know and Everything Else
Join AWC-DC members and guests on Thursday, April 26, to network and to examine Freedom of Information.
*Freedom of Information:
What does it mean today?
*What are the current challenges facing reporters, news media and others
regarding FOI?
*How best to deal with FOI challenges?
*How do privacy rights affect access to information?
*What does all this mean to the average person and/or business?
Tonda F. Rush, president, American PressWorks in Arlington, VA, is an
attorney and expert on the First Amendment and open access matters on
behalf of the press, since her time as director of the Freedom of Information
Center of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in the early
1980s. She is the former CEO of the National Newspaper Association and
the former associate general counsel of the American Newspaper Publishers
Association. Her company provides association management, postal affairs
consulting and public policy services. She is a director of the Virginia
Coalition of Open Government. Tonda is a graduate of the University of
Kansas School of Law and the William Allen White School of Journalism,
and presently serves on the advisory board of the William Allen White
Foundation and the board of directors of the Student Press Law Center.
When: Thursday,
April 26, 2007
6:00
p.m. Registration, Networking & cash bar
6:30
p.m. Dinner
7:00
p.m. Program
Where: Tivoli Restaurant
1700
North Moore St.
Arlington,
VA 22209
Tivoli is above the Rosslyn Metro, available from the street exit or from
the Rosslyn Metro Center Mall. Complimentary parking, with Tivoli validation,
next door at Marc parking garage on North Moore and Wilson Boulevard.
Cost:
$45-Members
$55-Non-members
$35-Students
and AWC Retired Members
No cancellations after Wednesday, April 25 at noon. No shows will be billed.
RSVP:
Pay below through AWC-DC's PayPal account or contact Elaine Graves, 202-863-0256,
or egraves@hers.com.
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