Roxana Saberi, the Iranian-American journalist who was sentenced to eight years in prison when an Iranian court convicted her of spying for the United States, will join veteran broadcast journalist Daniel Schorr for a discussion of press freedoms Saturday at 7 p.m. at Rowland Hall St. Mark's, 720 S. Guardsman Way in Salt Lake City.

Saberi was released after 100 days by an appeals court after complaints from news organizations and the U.S. State Department, and urging from Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for the prosecutor to review the case,

Schorr is a news analyst for National Public Radio. During his 60-plus years as a journalist, he has covered the infamous Sen. Joseph McCarthy hearings of 1953, as well as the Clinton impeachment hearings in 1998 and 1999. He covered the Geneva meeting between Eisenhower and Krushchev and the Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Moscow in 1988.

Saturday's lecture, titled "Freedom of the Press: At What Cost?" is free to the public. It is part of a yearly lecture series on journalism presented by the McCarthey family, former owners of The Salt Lake Tribune .

 


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