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The Guardian's editor, Alan Rusbridger, is to talk about freedom of the press at the 2014 Benjamin Franklin House annual symposium at the British Library on Monday (8 September).

Doubtless, he will draw on the paper's high-profile battles over press freedom in publishing the NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden and the revelations contained in the files made available by Wikileaks.

Going back a little further, he might well mention the 2009 Trafigura case. And looking back further still, he could well highlight his experiences following the reporting of misbehaviour by the politicians Neil Hamilton in 1996 and Jonathan Aitken, jailed for perjury in 1999.

The event, organised by the Eccles Centre for American Studies in collaboration with the Benjamin Franklin House, begins at 6.30pm (until 8pm). Tickets, priced from £8 to £5, can be bought online at the library box office.