Master on how to get things to happen. Her grandfather was, is the legendary bob strauss who probably was one of the legends of politics in america. Before i asked mark to kick it before i ask mark to kick it off, a book is out that i just watched called the death and life of american journalism. The book is dedicated to bill moyers. There is a quote at the beginning that says this is a crisis for journalism that is also a crisis for american democracy. You are experiencing it now. Thank you. Great to be here. I have met so many wonderful people already in this room. Thank you to tom for encouraging me to come, and to you for being here. Im afraid i might have been oversold a little bit in the sense that i cannot tell you what the future of news is. I guess i would challenge anyone in this world to say what the future of news is. It is in flux. There is a thinker about journalism, clay sherkie, who wrote a blog post several years ago in which he says memorably, compared the phase were
You can only focus on a few things. There is the question of what are you going to focus on at your company . Focused. Have to stay sorting through the good ideas is sometimes hard. Other questions . Do you see yourself as you evolve as a Media Company getting to other things like conferences and events that you states stage . We do some of events. We interview people. And it is an interesting way to generate media. It is a trend of live event plus live content. Do one more here. Just say it. I will repeat it. First of all, i want to tell you that i respect your model and how you went and asked studies of the real media companies. You are right. It wasnte nothing if for a guy by the name of read old illed read chef sheffiled. In his book, reed was the one who recruited all the people from new york and they lived in a fleabag hotel while they founded cnn. It is a great story. I read the book called cnn the inside story with lots of inside stories with schonfeld being a major player whil
All the data as creepy as it sounds, is being accumulated. There is different ways to bundle it and look at anomalies and trends. It gives us information that we used to have. The Atlanta Public School story started out as a discovery that test scores had dramatically turned around in a short time. Data allowed us to discover it was statistically impossible for that to happen. That was what the team uncovered. Putting those scores together paint a picture that was impossible. They had dated different from data different from the data of others that you recall. I would Say Something about families. The Sulzberger Family owns the New York Times. Those families have maintained their commitment to quality. That is an exception in an america today. So many families, for many reasons, tax reasons, sold their companies. Thank god for the sulzbergers and the coxs. I cant tell you how many few owners would make the statement that alex just made. We understand the role of the watchdog in our new
Just say, we are thinking about those people like certain muslim religious leaders in this country, the wonderful imam from Catholic University that is certainly not meant to be an oxymoron but others who could serve as individuals, who could relate messages, create understanding, build bridges, be part of what we would call the unofficial, but now much more employment put it this way universe of diplomacy that we could use in that particular fashion. I think it makes a lot of sense. Retirees are fine, but maybe active individuals in their own area who know the problem very well from a religious angle want to now be part of the official quotient in moving the question ahead. Thank you. Thank you very much. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] coming up on cspan, a look at the government and the media. First, a discussion from the National Association of black journalists conference. And then, the fut
Doingrnalists had been that work we would have known about it. These are disclosures that are important for the public to know about. Spoke earlier about how many different Media Outlets there are out there now. They are all covering the same story. The things that are exclusive and distinctive are important. There is no better way to set yourself apart. To become somebody who breaks news that editors can get from any other source. Was a great conversation. Want to thank each of you we are going to take a short break. We have the newsmaker with the dnc chair scholz. Thank you. [applause] thank you. It was a pleasure. Coming up, views of the obama administrations fiscal policies. Then a discussion on the 45th anniversary of the woodstock music festival. Then the changing demographics of the 65 years old and older population. Washington journal is live. Friday, a look at the continuing conflict between russia and the ukraine. The center for the National Interest on cspan. Here are highli