Looks at current deaths in america over a 24hour period in his book another day in the death of america a chronicle of 10 short lives. He is interviewed by staff writer for the atlantic. It is not possible to only talk about guns. Societal,oader, filled with people and dehumanizes them and that means when their life is taken, well, they have party been accounted for. Once you start saying well, he is an a student, there agreed you could get where would be worthy to be killed . Go to www. Cspan. Org for the complete we can schedule. Architect of the constitution, and they might be. George washington is the general contractor. If you ever build a house or put an addition on, you know it is different from what the general contractor has in mind from what the architect has in mind. Washingtons role in gratifying the First Federal document in his new book George Washington nationalist. Andhey wanted to recruit washington had talked before about this democracy thing would never work, you would have to be arcane. Washington believed in republican government. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. Panelists from the googleton post, slate, and vice media talk about the latest technologies that serve their audiences and how that ultimately impacts the journalism Business Model. Hosted by the aspen institute, this is about 90 minutes. ,welcome everybody. It is my pleasure as someone who is been a refugee from the world of journalism for 12 years to have a panel to find out what has been going on in the past 12 years. First, i want to thank bob hearst because this is a hearst lecture series. We are also doing it in conjunction with Colorado Mountain college. That is why we have a Product Placement deal with them. Would you stand up . [applause] Colorado Mountain college as you all know has 11 campuses in a 12,000 square mile area. I will give you one important fact it is an Open Access College for everybody in this entire region, which means if you graduate from high school, you get a letter from the president that says you are in. Then they have a president s funds, thanks to a lot of people, that gives 1000 for expenses. It makes it the most Affordable College in america. Thank you for what you are doing. [applause] the wonderful media panel, i will let them each tell a little bit about what they do. I will start with marty baron, who bridges the world between old and new media. Somebody is great editor. We have seen him in the movies the boston globe, and the Washington Post. Marty thank you. Im the executive editor of the Washington Post. Im the old guy from the old media on a new media panel. I may be a little out of place. We have become very much a new Media Company, growing very fast. I have worked at the Washington Post for 3. 5 years. Before that, i was editor of the and before that, the editor of the miami herald. Ive also worked at l. A. Times and New York Times. I am highly transient. Julia i am julia turner, the editor in chief of slate. I have been in that role for two years, but i have been at slate for 13 years. I came upon the culture side, and then was the Deputy Editor for a while. Slate is an online magazine of opinion and commentary. We turned 20 years old this year. Im also an old guy on the new media panel and a way. We are the gray lady of the internet, which puts us in an interesting position. Im happy to talk about it later today. I am the founder of ryot news. It is an Immersive Media Company specializing in Virtual Reality, 360 and augmented reality. We have recently joined forces with the Huffington Post and aol to start a new chapter. Olivia my name is columbia. I oversee partnerships for the my name is olivia. I oversee partnerships for the google news lab, which is googles effort to power innovation at the intersection of technology and media and journalism. Prior to that, i was youtubes numerous manager and oversaw a lot of efforts around news and information. Sterling i am sterling. Im the head of growth at vice media. I one of the born and bred vice employees. I started straight out of school as an intern and work my way up now, where i look after a lot of our Global Digital strategy, distribution, partnerships, and how we grow. Marty, the movie spotlight who plays you . Liev schreiber. Youre better looking. [laughter] [applause] well, hes four inches taller, a lot more fit and better looking. I dont mind if people hear my name and think of him. [laughter] been badly was the only ben bradley was the only person better looking to play doom in a movie, right . Friday anyway anyway, this is all the president s men for our generation. It reminds us of what journalism is all about. Tell us your experience with that movie. With the movie, i never expected it to be made. It does not have superheroes, it doesnt have action scenes, it doesnt have specialeffects. The sex that is in the movie is that typically the kind of sex you go to see. No sex scenes thankfully in the movie. It highlighted an investigation that the boston globe did that i launched on my first day at my first meeting at the boston globe in 2001. The first was republished in january 2002. We had about a year and a half worth of coverage about a coverup of a pattern of sexual abuse within the archdiocese of boston. It obviously went well beyond that to cover up throughout the country and actually throughout the world. I think that it highlights the central purpose of journalism. We have a lot of things that we are supposed to accomplish in journalism, but central to our mission is holding powerful individuals and institutions accountable. That is what we endeavored to do with that investigation. There was evidence of grave wrongdoing on the part of the church and the cardinal himself, and that archdiocese was aware of serial child abuse by not just one priest, but many priests. It turned out to be 200 priests over 40 years. They were essentially engaged in a coverup. That is central to the purpose of journalism is to try to expose that wrongdoing, and that is what we endeavored to do and that is what we accomplished. You went to one of the survivors recently . You go to a lot of the survivors, but one recently . They invited me there is a group referred to in the movie called snap the Survivors Network for those abused by priests. Not the greatest name, but it had been a small and ragtag group before the movie. Since the movie and our investigation at the globe, they have acquired a lot of new members, and i was invited to chicago to address with a keynote speech their annual convention. There were 300 abuse survivors at that convention. It was a remarkable thing, because it was gratifying. I kept getting stopped and people wanted to thank me for the work at the boston globe in the work of exposing this abuse. A lot of people were people who said that after the movie came out, prior to the movie they had never spoken about their abuse. They had not told their friends, they had not told their families. They had not done anything at a anything. They had kept it secret. Because of the movie they felt it was critical that they talk about it. It was the first time they had attended a convention of that organization and wanted to be active in ensuring that that kind of abuse did not continue in the church or any other institution. My last question to you before we move on that must have cost a lot of money to do a very long investigation like that with a whole lot of people in it, and it was not the type of story that aggregates eyeballs for clickbait for advertisers. It happened because you had the resources of the great paper. Talk about the need of those resources, and now that jeff bezos at the Washington Post has launched strong investigative teams. How do you keep that going . I think the investigation highlights what takes to do Investigative Journalism and do it right. I hope that is one of the lessons that people brought from that movie is that it takes a lot of time and effort. It is not glamorous in any way. Youre going through documents, knocking on peoples doors. People are shunning those doors on your face. It is very hard work, particularly when it involves an institution that was to keep this kind information secret. I would say that over the course of the first year, it probably globe to doton 1 million that work, given the legal work that was required. We went to court to unseal documents that had been kept confidential by the church that would help expose the truth. We had to do a sort of streetlevel reporting investigation as well. There were a lot of reporters ultimately involved in that investigation, well beyond the spotlight team featured in the movie. It is probably 1 million in the first year. This requires a lot of work. Since it is core to our mission, we want to continue to do that kind of work at the Washington Post, and they have always done that kind of work. Fortunately with the new owner, we have a guy who has some Financial Capital as you may know, which has been very helpful. He has also brought intellectual capital, and i think both of those are very important to us. He has spoken quite passionately with us that the post about how he sees journalism shedding light and dark places, and that democracy dies in darkness, and the role of journalists and the role of the Washington Post is to make sure we bring wrongdoing to light, and to hold Public Officials and powerful institutions accountable. He can be viewed as a powerful individual, and he said we should feel free to cover him and his institution, amazon, the way we would cover any other Business Executive and any other business. Julia, enlightened billionaire owners are one Business Model that may work, but that cannot work for everybody. When late was founded by slate was founded by Michael Kinsley, it wavered from being something where you charged to try to get consumer revenue, there was a pay wall, then you went off of that, now you have a membership model to some extent how do you see other than advertising revenue . Aising julia we were founded by Michael Kinsley under the auspices of microsoft. We had our own billionaire helping us in the beginning. One thing that we have been thinking a lot about over the last few years is the relationship we have with our audience. People come to slate because they trusted to interpret the world for them in a very smart, quick, funny, colloquial, conversational way. That voice that comes through from our writers and our writing creates trust. I read the paper in the morning, but then i go to sit to figure what has been made in the paper. We have more competition these days from news shops and papers themselves are starting to do more analysis along the reporting that they do. We still have a stronger core group of people that come to us and count on us for that. We launched 2. 5 years ago a Membership Program which is distinct from the paywall we launched in the late 1990s. Successful pay walls tend to be for information that people need to make Business Decisions of a sort, so you want access to market news and information to access your portfolio. You access to the micro traits within sports teams so you can control your fantasy team. Those are Companies Like espn that have had success with pay walls. For us, because of what we are offering is ancillary and a second rate, we have had better luck with a model where we provide people at extras and deeper engagement. Slate members pay 50 a year or 5 a month. They get bonus segments of the podcasts that we do, an extra 30 . Most of them run weekly and about our one hour long. They get early access to some of our enterprise reporting. They get a special commenting space where they can chat with other commenters. They get discounts off of live events. They get these slate academies that we do. This is our version of an online course where we take a really deep dive into some topic that is may be connected to the news, but a little more evergreen, and that content is only available to our members. The first one we did was a history of slavery. It was a podcast series, interviews with all sorts of historians, covering the historiography of slavery and how it has changed over the years since you are target in school or maybe if you arent target in school. That unleashed a whole set of fascinating and interesting context that our members could use to understand racial dynamics in america. We have had a lot of luck with it. When we launched it, we knew there would be a lot of our diehard fans that would sign up in the month or so, but what we first werent sure of was the longerterm growth trajectory. We are seeing growth yearoveryear. You are part of a very distinguished line of editors, starting with Michael Kinsley. Jake weissberg, david potts and then yourself, i may be missing someone. Julia that is it. Every one of them added to a voice that has become almost the internet voice, which is intimate, smart, a little bit sassy. In your case, and in the case of the people who do it right, also well reported, analytic, and trustworthy. How you see the voice of the internet evolving . Slate started it, is it getting out of control now where snarkiness and meanness have replaced with slate did . Less i think our voice is distinctive than it used to be because a lot of people have adopted the second person of address, the kind of casual nature use of slang as a way of connecting with lead readers. I think that makes it important for us to retain the immediacy of speaking a language that people use. Sometimes my metaphor for slate is that it is like any email from your really smart friend. It is like youre smart friends s favorite website. The thing i emphasize to her to our journalists and in the newsroom is that we are setting out to do is change minds. You could only do that if you are using rigor in your analysis, intellectual honesty, seeing the other side of the argument youre making. I think the colloquialness of i think we had dialed back the colloquialness of our a few instances where we have done that more responsibly. I went on ryot, which was truly amazing having been with some of the Colorado Mountain college new media people, and seeing immersive videos. 360 video. Is that the future . Explain how you produce that type of news. Thank you for having me here. It is a great honor to be on this panel. We have been exploring Virtual Reality and 360 degree for longtime. How many people have seen Virtual Reality here . That is a lot, great. For those of you who dont know it, you film it with a camera that has multiple cameras all over, kind of like a soccer ball with lenses all over it. Showtitch it together and it would a headset so you feel at your standing in the middle of the stories. If youre looking on your phone you can move your phone around everywhere. Lets make clear that people can go to your site and not put on goggles. I was until i got a little bit scared diving off a cliff with olympic divers. You should do it tonight. It is all on ryot. Huffingtonpost. Com. Or you can follow us on facebook, ryot with the y. We have recently launched capabilities in all editions of the Huffington Post, creating the largest 360 Virtual Reality news network. I think when you ask about it as a wave of the future, we could debate that for a wild. For a while. What is not debatable is that the way you are able to consume video on your phone or on your computer changed in the last six months, because you are now able to look all around or move your phone. That to us is a significant moment. This video is kind of running the internet, and that means there should be serious investigations into what that means for journalism, for documentary, for news. For music video, and across all of that, there is an opportunity to create new language, storytelling techniques, and certainly our journalists who are running all over the world shooting in this new tech nology, are very proud that they can be a part of the historic moment. When you imagine your user, do you imagine that person sitting at a desk on a computer or using a mobile device and smart phone . If the latter, how does that change journalism . I think now it is on the mobile phone. That is where we see most of our views, on youtube 360 or facebook 360. Soon, more headsets will be available as sony launches a headset. Many others launched headsets toward we will see more christmas time, so i think we will see more adoption. What has been interesting is that Companies Like oculus that was recently acquired by facebook have been surprised at how much video is being consumed. I think people thought this was going to be for video games, and people see that 60 of the content that is watched in the headset is linear videos or 360 videos. We see it as a step toward immersive content. Right now, when you put on the headset, you kind of look around and then around you. In the next couple of years, you will be able to walk around and environment. For instance, im wearing my headset in an empty room and see this panel, i can walk around the panel and be able to see and eventually interact with the environment. We feel it is another step forward when we will be augmented reality, which we think will have major implications, or complete implications on a most everything. Augmented reality meaning . Overlays. Some of you have seen pokemon go. It is like a consumer version. Not a pretty sight watching all of our members of society wondering campus and doing pokemon go. Pokemon go is a very crude version of augmented reality where it imposes a pokemon on the environment in front of you. What is coming with augmented r