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CNBC cameraman ejected from cybersecurity speech

A camera operator working for CNBC on Tuesday was ejected from a financial conference in Brussels before a speech on cybersecurity by the CEO of the group that runs the electronic financial messaging program, reports Eamon Javers of CNBC.

Javers writes, “CNBC was permitted to bring a camera to the conference by event organizers, and Swift had earlier sent a news release advertising the CEO’s upcoming speech on cybersecurity.

“But before Leibbrandt’s speech, CNBC’s camera operator was told to leave the event.

“A spokesman for Swift later apologized and attributed the ejection of the cameraman to a miscommunication. He dismissed a suggestion that the ejection shows an extreme level of anxiety within Swift about the cybersecurity issue.

“‘It does no such thing,’ the spokesman wrote in an email to CNBC.

“According to text of the speech released by Swift, Leibbrandt announced a five-part plan to tighten cybersecurity of the financial system, including improving information sharing among banks, hardening security requirements for bank customer software, encouraging banks to use payment pattern controls and introducing certification requirements for third-party providers.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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