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<strong>Beijing</strong> <strong>Olympics</strong> <strong>2008</strong>: <strong>Winning</strong> <strong>Press</strong> <strong>Freedom</strong><br />
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Greg Walton<br />
Asia Editor, Infowar Monitor<br />
He does research on information warfare and cyber-espionage (www.infowarmonitor.net/).<br />
He has worked as a research consultant for a number of NGOs, including<br />
Human Rights in China. His research focuses on the export of surveillance technology to<br />
China, and its impact on social movements. He has also helped develop Internet<br />
circumvention technologies. He has worked as a journalist in India, covering the Tibetan<br />
exile community.<br />
Alain Wang<br />
Director, Asia <strong>Press</strong>e; Editor, Asia Magazine<br />
A Sinologist, Wang is the chief editor of Asia Magazine, the only French-language news<br />
magazine devoted to Asian affairs. He has since 2003 been Secretary General of Asia<br />
<strong>Press</strong>e, the association of French journalists covering Asia, and is a founder of the Centre<br />
d'accueil de la presse étrangère (CAPE), the foreign press welcome center in Paris.<br />
Jon Williams<br />
BBC <strong>World</strong> News Editor<br />
He leads reporting teams in 41 bureaus worldwide, working for the BBC's domestic and<br />
international news services, on radio, television and on-line. As UK news editor, he won a<br />
Royal Television Society award for the BBC's reporting of the July 7 bomb attacks on<br />
London. He was previously deputy editor of Britain's most watched television news<br />
program, The Six o'clock News, during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the 9/11<br />
attacks on the United States. In September 2007, he won an International Emmy Award<br />
for the BBC's coverage of the war in Lebanon.<br />
Steve Wilson<br />
European Sports Editor, Associated <strong>Press</strong>, London<br />
A Washington DC native, he has worked in AP bureaus in Boston, Miami, New York, New<br />
Delhi, Rome and London. He has covered 10 summer and winter Olympic Games and has<br />
covered the International Olympic Committee and the Olympic movement since 1991. He<br />
is a member of the IOC’s <strong>Press</strong> Commission.<br />
Richard N. Winfield<br />
Chairman, <strong>World</strong> <strong>Press</strong> <strong>Freedom</strong> Committee<br />
He served for more than 30 years as General Counsel of the Associated <strong>Press</strong> and<br />
defended AP and other media clients in many hundreds of press freedom cases. Since<br />
2002, he has taught courses in comparative mass media law and American mass media<br />
and Internet law at Columbia Law School and Fordham Law School in New York. He leads<br />
the media law reform programs of International Senior Lawyers Project, which he cofounded<br />
in 2000. He has been Chairman of WPFC since 2006.