Challenges when Reporting on Human Rights and Governance

 Yevgenia Albats is a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, writer and radio host. She has received global recognition for her work on issues of human rights, corruption and governance. Albats is chief editor of The New Times magazine, and holds a position in the leadership of the Russian Jewish Congress. From 1993 to 2000, Albats served as a member of the Clemency Commission at the Executive Office of the President of the Russian Federation. Albats was the first Soviet journalist to investigate the the KGB when the communist regime was still in control.

 Marc Ambinder is Journalist-in-Residence with Penn Law’s Center for Ethics and Rule of Law (CERL). Ambinder is adjunct professor at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and an editor-at-large of The Week. He is the author, with D.B. Grady, of The Command and Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry. Marc is also a contributing editor for The Atlantic and GQ. Formerly, he served as White House correspondent for National Journal, chief political consultant for CBS News, and politics editor at The Atlantic. 

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