About Trevor
I am a…
Activist, Blogger, Journalist, Lawyer, Writer/Editor
Bio
Trevor Timm is the co-founder and executive director of Freedom of the Press Foundation. He writes a weekly column for The Guardian on the intersection of privacy, free speech, and national security, as well as a monthly column on the media and press freedom for Columbia Journalism Review. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Boing Boing, Politico, Al Jazeera, and Harvard Law and Policy Review,
Areas of expertise
digital security, First Amendment, free speech, national security, privacy
The TED story
I was a TED Fellow in 2016 and did a five minute TED Talk on how to protect press freedom in the age of mass surveillance, which you can watch here: ted.com/talks/trevor_timm_how_free_is_our_freedom_of_the_press
I am a Senior TED Fellow in 2017-18.