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WHEN: 2:45 pm

WHERE: Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, 2950 Broadway (at 116th Street), The Lecture Hall, 3rd floor, New York, NY.

DESCRIPTION: Amy Goodman joins a panel of experts for a live taping of Al Jazeera English’s Empire entitled Information Wars.

Information is power and controlling the flow of information in the age of globalization is the ultimate power. AJE’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara will explore how governments will deal with the information revolution and if social networks really lead to social revolution with Democracy Now! host and executive producer Amy Goodman; Carl Bernstein, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of All the President’s Men; Evgeny Morozov, author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom; Emily Bell, Director, Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism; and Clay Shirky, author of Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age.

TICKETS: Event will be filmed for broadcast on Al Jazeera English and is free and open to the public.

MORE INFO: TBD