From my daughter. Women faces these challenges. Women are considered too emotional to have Public Office. I dont have a problem having a tear in my eye when something affects me. In a nutshell, women are helped with very different standard than men, even in 2013. Us is not ok. This is what i have been fighting against my entire career. I know quite well what it is like to be the only woman at the table and it is difficult. I will admit i was hesitant to run for office until i decided it was time for a change. When i was first sworn into the senate in 1993, i was only the 16th woman ever elected to the 1790. Husetts senate since pretty disgusting, isnt it . [laughter] when i was elected resident of the senate in 2007, i was the first woman ever to be elected to lead a legislative body and at massachusetts. In massachusetts. [applause] today only 25 of our legislature is women and in the senate the number has only grown to 13 . This is not just a problem in massachusetts. 18 of the seats in congress are women. There is not enough progress and we need to do everything we can to encourage and support women wet dreams of running for office. Those of us who are female legislatures we need to do everything we can to encourage and support women who have dreams of running for office. Those of us who are female legislatures we need to do everything we can to encourage and support women who have dreams of running for office. Dont close the door behind you. Keep it open. [applause] in office. Ve to be to many women feel they dont have enough credentials to run and resign themselves to be content in the background, often behind man. Several woman web achieved a level of Public Office have begun their careers later in life. Takemore women will not the initiative to run unless they are directly asked too many times. Consider this my official request to you is to get involved. Support a woman candidate, ba woman candidate. Run for school committee, run for mayor, act locally, act nationally. Senator, your congressperson. Weigh in on issues of concern. The time to get involved is not in a few months or years but now. Women make up over 52 . Im sure your member this, gloria. It said women hold up 52 of the sky. [laughter] the stateturn to lead and nation. It is your turn. Well behaved women rarely make history. [applause] so get out there and miss behave. Thank you and thank you all for being here. Good night. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] 1963,ember 25 approximately one Million People lined the road of president kennedys funeral procession. Millions more watched the television coverage. His dates coverage of funeral. On cspan tonight, the the discussion of Digital Technology and journalism. Then an examination of the deal reached with iran and their nuclear program. Later, a look at the future of foreignpolicy challenges facing the u. S. Up on the next washington journal, bart jansen talks about the effect of Airline Mergers on holiday travel. A look at amtrak ridership going into the holiday. Wilner. T is frank get an update on the u. S. Auto industry and a repayment of the auto bailout. Washington journal is live every morning at 7 00 eastern on cspan. Holiday Spending Survey results are released on wednesday. You can see it live on wednesday at 10 00 eastern on cspan. 60s were the different. [laughter] there were a lot of things happening involving race, the breakdown in the structure of society. I was suddenly out of the seminary and in new england. There were no rules. Things were falling apart. Structure, it is very, very different. I was extremely fortunate to still have had a raisedl of the way i was and the structure that the nuns had given me, the seminary had given me. I was also fortunate because i had already been in a predominantly white school. I was the only black kid in my high school in savanna. To a school with i had sort of a jumpstart. I was ahead of the game. I had something. It allowed me to continue to do well even though it was very difficult. Span,hings giving on c hear from two Supreme Court justices, Clarence Thomas at 9 00 p. M. Followed by elena kagan at 9 45 eastern. On cspan three, the 150th anniversary of the eddies burger address. The gettysburg address. It 4 00 and 10 00 p. M. Of the digital disruption of journalism. This is one hour and 15 minutes. Thank you, alex. I will do my best. I want to thank some people. Mostly i want to thank alex jones for making the fellowship the best possible destination for a journalist seeking sanctuary, perspective, re inspiration, and great company. Of uspeaking for both when we say that. It is a great place. For making it work also smoothly. Nancy palmer, janel sims. It feels like a home away from home and all three of us are happy to be home. To explain riptide ever so briefly. Three world where he executives watch up on the shores of harvard university, all looking for a nest on the ground and trying to avoid all the work that would be involved in running to walk right write a 15 page paper. That seemed like too much to us. [laughter] journalism pioneer, paul sagan, a secondgeneration journalist with a background in newspapers, television, and journalism. Me, an old reporter, editor, and recently an escaped publishing executive. What we did is sat around and argued because we did not agree on a whole lot. Were all interested in the same topic and that is the digital disruption of the journalism business. Our question was simple what happened . How do we blow it . Book we have done different . What could we have done differently . We argued for a while and said we would do in the world history. Histpry. History. We googled the topic and we found 77,000 articles on it. We decided to target the key institutions and decisionmakers going back 35 years. The original idea was 10 key moments, 20 key people, we will be in and out in a heartbeat. We met skepticism but found a godfather in nico miller. We went to and he said, this is a great idea. Template fora which, frankly, we stole from vanity fair. We improved on it. In terms of adding video. Wegot some endorsement and ran into a graduate School Student named alex remington. People do still find jobs in the newspaper business from harvard. He led us to josh, who was already been cited, but really the guy who made our fantasy become reality and did a great job. Watching over it all was tom patterson. More importantly than his subtle his wife, lori, give us the video camera that we used to interview all the 60 people. As we learn, we thought harvard with a fabulously wealthy institution. 30 million or whatever it is does not go to video cameras. [laughter] we got carried away. We did 63 interviews. We wrote a 44,000 word essay. The whole thing, in its entirety, and i dont want to discourage anyone from reading our project or looking at it, but the whole thing totals four 000 44,000 words 444, words which is more than gone with the wind, but less than war and peace. It is doable. Martin and his very distinguished panel were all really grateful not only for the interviews but for coming here tonight to help us explain it. Covertto give you little color from the road with some awards. David bradley of the atlantic media, huge, sweeping views of the potomac. It is what mobile dumb mobildom is supposed to look like in the movie. It is the first and last thing he shows you. We were going to interview eric schmidt. Great electronic equipment. Impossible to find out how to get electricity come out of the wall outlet. [laughter] we had to have a technician come and he said, it happens all the time. [laughter] i think it is one of the largest users of electricity in the world and they cannot lug something into the wall and it to work or it they do not know anything. There is a Vegan Restaurant down the street where a reclusive guy made us meet him for breakfast. The most disruptive workspace award goes to Andrew Sullivans apartment in greenwich village. Two ancient dogs suffering from copd in the interview. If you listen, you can hear [ gasps] [laughter] Arianne Huffington was the only interviewee that refused to be video recorded. He won the got away was rupert more dark Rupert Murdoch who agreed in principle but think things keep coming up. He had a very busy year. With that, i will turn it over to my colleague, martin, to get to the meat of the matter. [applause] [indiscernible] the Newspaper Association of america. Of is the ceo and publisher Washington Post interactive. She placed two very important roles in this history. And of course, Arthur Sulzberger , jr. , publisher of the New York Times. I want to start with a question about the state of journalism. If you are a doctor and the state of american journalism was her patient, how would you assess the diagnosis . If you look at the data, you would be concerned. The number of journalists has gone down by about 30 in the last seven or eight years. Newspaper resonant newspaper down by about 55 . You see a distance between the agile landscape. If you froze things right now, you would say, the patient needs a lot of work and there is a continued progress on that work. If you look forward there are some very exciting things on the horizon. One of the things i am most excited about journalism is that your lists are essentially networks on their own. If you see some of the work that the New York Times has done from a digital standpoint, you see what can be done. Consumers want highquality content and i think there is a big role for journalism in the future. If you froze a right now, that i would think you would have to say there has been a rough. Of time and people need to focus on where the future models are going. I promise you, i would not have my lobbyist hat on. I would say that we are definitely in transformation. Print revenue. The print circulation has since 2006. The revenue is diversified. The audiences have never been larger. Fully 70 of u. S. Adults in any given week read a newspaper online, in print, or on mobile. Audiences not a problem. It is the revenue that continues to be a real challenge. But the stuff that i read, estimates say it is leveling out. About usingnking dentistry instead of doctors. Is that ok . I think we are losing our first teeth and growing our new teeth. It is painful. It is tough to lose teeth. We are seeing that happen. We know that what is coming is to the pointigger of reach, bigger to the point of impact. We are now able to reach impact over on the world. When we started this business, that was impossible to imagine. Following onto to that, one of the folks that we interviewed , we didntf this know at the time, although if you actually read between the lines, particularly in the part that excerpt it at the end in just sold the Washington Post to jeff bezos for 250 million. Paid 350rs ago you Million Dollars for the Huffington Post. It goes to show the relative values out there. Do you think bezos got a better deal than you . [laughter] i think when we bought it, many people western what the value was overall and how much we had paid for it. As we talk to investors, they think that the Huffington Post is worth a tremendous amount more than what we paid. Ariannaon is that realized something distinctive about how information gets transferred and how people it. Ed her in wanted the fact wek at have gone from zero to 100 million video views, it is a migrationn it is a of what we have bought to being one of the best brands in the world. I experience in newspapers and news started right outside this room. I owned one in boston and we bought something all the square deal. It was a free newspaper that we stand out right up the street at cambridge. My viewpoint on where news and news points were going, i went down to m. I. T. And saw mosaic. I saw the information coming up on the screen and getting electricity electronically transferred. I walked back down and said to my partner, i dont know what the internet thing is, but i am doing it. I have never seen information be able to transfer that easily. A was able toarrian do that in a disruptive way. Harry john henry from the boston globe in the front row. I think the future is bright because that dna will be plugged in and transferred. I dont know how many subscribers the New York Times has now, but i think i got a great deal on the object and post. I think jeff got a great deal depending on what he does with it. On thet to stay Washington Post for a minute. You ran the Digital Division at the post and that it was integrated back into the parent. In retrospect, do you think it was a inevitable that the graham family would sell to someone like bezos or was or something that couldve been done at some stage that would change that future . I dont think it was inevitable. I am probably not answering it is too hard to say. I think it is quite wise to sell to him. They have been friends for quite a time and have similar values. Think understanding the technology and having to understand an audience, which is something that newspapers didnt have to traditionally do but now really have to do it, is quite wise. Os understands the subscription model and putting it into a private place. They will not have the pressure of being part of a public company. I dont know that it was inevitable. I admire the grams for doing it. Ms. Graha it took a lot of courage, in my view. Arthur, the idea of a paper has changed dramatically over the last century. Creators and the dominant Distribution Channels are company like google, facebook, and twitter. We have sometimes chatted about the nature of an authoritative source in a highly fragmented world. If there is any one News Organization in the United States that still probably has that as part of its dna, it is the New York Times. What is the nature of authority in a world where there are literally tens of thousands of highly vertical eyes verticalized publications on every topic . I think the nature of authority have not changed. I think authority is about eadth. Cy, brett br it is about calling at euro mistakes when you make them and having experienced people on the. Round they dont perish you to the ground but, knowing the landscape of the story. I dont think that is less important i think it is grown in importance. How many News Organizations bureaus around the country or the world where people actually work and live, in egypt or other places . I think that has not changed. Era is of the digital the speed of information, the joy is the reach and the ability to take in points of view very quickly and bring that into some story slot. It is a remarkable opportunity for us all. Of downside is clear all everyone is looking at the photo of the boston bomber. Everyone knows its the boston bomber. He has been clearly identified except it is not him. Theuse it is swept through Digital World so fast and is picked up. That kind of accuracy is critical. Especially at a time when decisions are being made so fast. Lets go back to riptide for a moment. During your interview, tim, you spoke quite enthusiastically about a wells local journalism local journalism effort. Since the interview, several things have been announced but you have decided to downsize the operation. Do you talk about why . What is the nature of local journalism and why is it so hard . Those of you who do not know, is a product that we rolled out in 900 communities across the u. S. The theory on it is what arthur just talked about it. It is the authoritative nature of local journalism. From a platform platform perspective, you had the receding nature of publications and news not getting invested at the same level. Aggressivevery stance on our standpoint that local People Living in local communities will want to local information and it is important to them. Patch has basically gone from zero earnings to about 18 million unique visitors. Its expansion was very rapid. We took a risk of the company to do it. Patch has been looked at from the Investment Community as something you should do privately. Was aeory was that there massive disruption going on in news and information locally. There would be lots of consumer interest, lots of business interest, and from a bold standpoint we should not do a land grab, essentially, after that audience. What we announced over the summer was basically taking the models. Have business there are 400 that have traffic where we dont have the Business Model where the sales there fast enough. We are going to partner with other companies. Since we announced that, we have 10 or 15 companies, large companies, that have offline newspapers, television stations around those areas where we have patches. The patches are in 900 of the best gdp communities of the United States. Traffice equal or more from the large Media Properties in those regions. There is a lot of interest on patch. I would say from a standpoint of an investment that matters, not a feature, but an investment, patch is probably the best single biggest investment in journalism and the United States and local communities. I think fatter the fact is that patch will continue to go on. Need forh an acute information locally. Looking forward on patch, youll probably see a few partnerships. Aol will probably own some of the patches the partnerships. Audience and and energyrs what a lot of into patch which i think was very good for the country. I have had more newspaper people stop me saying, the patch is in our city. They were afraid that you are going to get more aggressive. Im not talking about some of the Bigger Companies that did that. Localk patch helped fuel