_The New Yorker_’s Jane Mayer was presented with the “John Chancellor Award”:http://www.cjr.org/audio/on_the_importance_of_cultivati.php for Excellence in Journalism last week. Mayer was honored for her reporting on the use of torture by the Bush administration. (Andrew C. Revkin of _The New York Times_ is the other recipient, for his coverage of climate change.)
Mayer and Revkin spoke at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, and we’ve got “audio”:http://qtstreaming.jrn.columbia.edu/CJR/2008/mayerrevkin1119.mov. After some minor A/V difficulties, it’s a very interesting discussion about reporting from two people who know a great deal about it.
Also, “Floyd Abrams”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Abrams gets mentioned. Floyd Abrams rocks.