AP CEO to speak on seizure of AP phone records, the way forward

 Associated Press President and CEO Gary Pruitt will outline ways to protect newsgathering against government interference, in the wake of the Department of Justice’s sweeping seizure of AP phone records, in a speech on June 19 at the National Press Club in Washington.

Pruitt’s speech, set for 1 p.m., comes a month after AP revealed that the Justice Department had obtained records of the work and personal phone numbers of individual AP reporters, general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery. In all, the government gathered records for 21 phone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. 

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