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Beijing Olympics 2008: Winning Press Freedom 122 Watson Meng Founder and Editor, Boxun News Boxun is the first (2000) and most popular Chinese on-line news site (boxun.com) based on citizen journalism. Meng's previous positions include commercial manager at Unilever, Zhangjiakou, China, and accountant and project manager at Motorola, Tianjin, China. He holds an MBA from Duke University, an MA in economics from Nankai University, China, and a BA in electronic engineering from Hebei Technology Institute, China. He has served as a technical consultant for Human Rights Watch’s Chinese web site and for Human Rights in China’s web project. Julien Pain Editorial Director, the “Observers” web site, France 24 TV The site directed by Pain (www.observers.france24.com) is dedicated to viewer-submitted materials, such as photos and amateur videos, subjected to professional editing. He worked at Reporters Sans Frontières 2003-2007 as head of its Internet Freedom Desk, devoted to monitoring and lobbying against Internet censorship and supporting cyberdissidents. He edited a widely translated Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents. Peter Scheer Executive Director, California First Amendment Coalition A lawyer and journalist, Peter Scheer has since mid-2004 headed the California First Amendment Coalition, a public interest group to advance free speech, open and accountable government, and public participation in civic affairs. Since its founding in 1988, the coalition has worked against government censorship and excessive secrecy. The coalition organized legal defense of wikileaks.org, a whistle-blower web site silenced by a US Federal judge's order in early 2008. The coalition has also initiated a challenge to Chinese Internet censorship, as a violation of its international treaty commitments under the World Trade Organization. The coalition is the lead plaintiff in a test case on public access to government data bases. Scheer has argued before the US Supreme Court. He was publisher of Legal Times, a Washington DC weekly on law and lobbying. Paul E. Steiger Editor-in-Chief, President, Pro Publica Created in January 2008, Pro Publica is a non-profit, non-partisan group doing investigative journalism in the public interest. He was for 16 years Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal. He was on the Pulitzer Prize Board 1998-2007 and its Chairman in his final year. Steiger is also the Chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists and a trustee of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Per Toien Chief of Information, Norwegian Olympic and Para-Olympic Committee & Sports Confederation He is a senior adviser on sports policy at the Confederation and has been a teacher, journalist and public relations advisor. He directed sports programs in Zambia and Zimbabwe. He was head coach of Norway’s basketball team.
Beijing Olympics 2008: Winning Press Freedom 123 Greg Walton Asia Editor, Infowar Monitor He does research on information warfare and cyber-espionage (www.infowarmonitor.net/). He has worked as a research consultant for a number of NGOs, including Human Rights in China. His research focuses on the export of surveillance technology to China, and its impact on social movements. He has also helped develop Internet circumvention technologies. He has worked as a journalist in India, covering the Tibetan exile community. Alain Wang Director, Asia Presse; Editor, Asia Magazine A Sinologist, Wang is the chief editor of Asia Magazine, the only French-language news magazine devoted to Asian affairs. He has since 2003 been Secretary General of Asia Presse, the association of French journalists covering Asia, and is a founder of the Centre d'accueil de la presse étrangère (CAPE), the foreign press welcome center in Paris. Jon Williams BBC World News Editor He leads reporting teams in 41 bureaus worldwide, working for the BBC's domestic and international news services, on radio, television and on-line. As UK news editor, he won a Royal Television Society award for the BBC's reporting of the July 7 bomb attacks on London. He was previously deputy editor of Britain's most watched television news program, The Six o'clock News, during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the 9/11 attacks on the United States. In September 2007, he won an International Emmy Award for the BBC's coverage of the war in Lebanon. Steve Wilson European Sports Editor, Associated Press, London A Washington DC native, he has worked in AP bureaus in Boston, Miami, New York, New Delhi, Rome and London. He has covered 10 summer and winter Olympic Games and has covered the International Olympic Committee and the Olympic movement since 1991. He is a member of the IOC’s Press Commission. Richard N. Winfield Chairman, World Press Freedom Committee He served for more than 30 years as General Counsel of the Associated Press and defended AP and other media clients in many hundreds of press freedom cases. Since 2002, he has taught courses in comparative mass media law and American mass media and Internet law at Columbia Law School and Fordham Law School in New York. He leads the media law reform programs of International Senior Lawyers Project, which he cofounded in 2000. He has been Chairman of WPFC since 2006.
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