Dana Priest on Backlash from Uncovering CIA Secret Prisons April 28, 2010

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/17/Logan_Symposium_Consequences_of_Investigative_Reporting

Washington Post journalist Dana Priest describes death threats and backlash she received after reporting on the CIA's use of secret prisons to detain terrorism suspects.

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A panel of journalists discuss the personal, professional, and collateral consequences of investigative journalism. From subpoenas to libel suits, they explore the toll investigative journalism takes, and discuss why they keep at it.

Reporters include: Omoyele Sowore from the Sahara Reporters, Ari Berman from The Nation/Medill Innocence Project Dana Priest from The Washington Post, Diana Washington Valdez from the El Paso Times, and John Smith from the Las Vegas Review Journal. This panel is moderated by Brian Ross from ABC News. - Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

Dana Priest is a two-time Pulitzer prize winning investigative reporter for The Washington Post. She spent three years as the Post's intelligence reporter and was Pentagon correspondent for seven years before that. She covered the invasion of Panama (1989), reported from Iraq (1990), covered the Kosovo war (1999), and has traveled widely with Army Special Forces in Asia, Africa and South America and with Army infantry units on peacekeeping duty in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan.

Priest has received numerous awards, including the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for "The Other Walter Reed" and the 2006 Pulitzer for Beat Reporting for her work on CIA secret prisons and counterterrorism operations overseas. Other honors include the Robert F. Kennedy Award, George Polk Award, American Society of Newspaper Editors, Annenberg School of Communication's Selden Ring Award, the Overseas Press Club Award for interpretation of international affairs and the American Academy of Diplomacy's Award for Distinguished Reporting and Analysis on Foreign Affairs.