Hillary Clinton will be the keynote speaker at an upcoming journalism awards ceremony, but the press won’t get a chance to ask her about the brewing email controversy dating back to her role as secretary of state.
Clinton is set to speak at the 2015 Toner Prize Celebration on March 23rd. The awards ceremony, named after the late New York Times reporter Robin Toner, will be open to the press but they won’t be able to ask questions.
“She’s doing this one pro bono,” Toner’s husband, Peter Gosselin, told the Center for Public Integrity. But Gosselin also said Clinton has no plans to take press questions, even as the controversy surrounding her personal email use while a member of the State Department dominated cable and digital media.
On Wednesday, Clinton tweeted: “I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.”
The awards ceremony honors “the best national or local political reporting in any medium or on any platform.”