Bookstores Wanted to Host Free Expression Events

The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) is looking for bookstores to host reporters' talks about growing efforts to force journalists to reveal confidential sources.

ABFFE is working with the MLRC Institute, a not-for-profit educational organization focused on the media and the First Amendment, to choose reporters who have worked on major stories based on confidential sources. Bookstore events are expected to focus on a reporter's specific case, as well as the history of the fight over confidential sources, dating back to colonial times.

In the first series of programs in 2006, "17 bookstores hosted some of this country's leading journalists and were very pleased with the results," said ABFFE President Chris Finan. "This year's programs will occur against the background of the dramatic fight to pass a reporters' shield law in Congress."

Booksellers who are interested in hosting a reporter's talk should contact Finan at [email protected] or (212) 587-4025, ext. 15.