Our way through like every other News Organization. We have done something truly impressive and made a real commitment to hardhitting and investigative groundbreaking journalism and im grateful for that and i thank you. [applause] ladies and gentlemen chairman and editorinchief of kiplinger publications. [applause] good evening. I am from the kiplinger letter and i will be referred. I am not related in any way to the other nights, including john and james. I wish that i were but i am not our honorary this evening is the first kipping letter award who has never worked as a professional journalist. Paradoxically he is one of the most influential figures in this totally reshape the journalism profession too adapted to the new realities of the digital age. And because beneath the guise of the lawyer, a newspaper publisher and a Foundation Executive while he was never a professional journalist, he was once a student journalist in 1965. A busload of students went down to alabama from connecticut that spring for the montgomery to selma march and alberto at six of his fellow students to call them with firsthand accounts. And he gave each of them a dime to place they collect call from the phone. So ask someone at your table what they collect on the phone was, a payphone. He told the students that when you are arrested not if but when you are arrested do not use this time to call your parents or your lawyer or the dean call me. And that is a tough editor. A few nights later he sat by the phone with four empty pages in his layout for the next days work. He waited and then the collect calls started coming in with vivid Police Attack accounts on the peaceful marchers. We had one guy, he recalls who is being beaten while he was on the phone in a phone booth. Well, alberto ville. That night, scooping the papers in connecticut that had already gone to press. After an experience like that why didnt he choose this for a career. He had other ideas for helping his idle man as a peace corps volunteer and then an attorney working in activism and other state government. But the siren song ended him up in management, first at the hartford current and then add Long Island Newsday and finally the miami herald as a publisher he was passionate about editorial quality, Community Engagement and connecting with readers. On his watch at the herald, the paper one numerous pulitzers. As good of a publisher as he was, it was the leadership of Alberto Ibarguen of the James Knight Foundation that has made him such a force in american journalism today. The past 10 years he has remade this foundation to become the leading supporter in funder and cheerleader for journalistic innovations. To create new techniques and new Business Models for the news media to better serve the public. As he said in a recent interview his mission is not to save newspapers or Television News or radio news but how to figure out how to meet the information needs in every way possible. So the foundation today funds new ventures to help journalists use the internet to find citizen sources for their reporting and their research. Including nonprofit News Organizations to create privacy protecting methods for whistleblowers to contact journalist online and create a comprehensive database of donors to federal campaigns across america. The Knight Foundation is also new Media Training for print and broadcast journalist and this is a mission that at the Kiplinger Foundation we also support through the Kiplinger Program for journalists at ohio state university. It is all about teaching old dogs and some young dogs some valuable new tricks. As they Company Magazine recently said by reinventing the Knight Foundation, Alberto Ibarguen help to reinvent the news. It is for these contributions creative and financial that the National Press foundation bestows upon us visionary leader the William Kiplinger award for lifetime contributions to journalism. Ladies and government Alberto Ibarguen. [applause] [applause] thank you. I think that i have died and gone to heaven. I do not deserve that generous introduction, but thank you loretta. Congratulations to all the other winners, particularly my friend gilbert for the extraordinary work that you always could have done in dallas and lots of other places and happen to have been there at the right place at the right time and across multiple media platforms as we say these days. I was surprised when Sandy Johnson called and told me about this award since most of the winners in the past have been editors and journalists. Including Abe Rosenthal at the paper that i grew up with or gene roberts, one of the great editors. Including al newhart and katharine graham. Its the very definition of an honor. I dont know if this will give many props at, there was a family story that began when our son who is now a First Amendment counsel at hearst, not that his father is too proud to mention a. [laughter] but he was then a reporter for the Associated Press and stuck on a story he called to talk about it and he mentioned that he was stuck on the story and she said why dont you call your father thinking that we were stuck in the same business. And he said mom pop is a lawyer that runs a newspaper. I dont pretend to be a journalist, i never have, and i do admit to a lifelong passion for journalism and Free Expression and the fascination with a faith and wisdom of a wellinformed crowd. I have Something Else in common with my distinguished predecessors and many here tonight and kiplinger himself and certainly with jack knight, we all grew up and became successful in a principles driven hierarchical media world and we have enjoyed few competitors, a highly profitable business and a Public Service mission to inform given the space of 10 years, newspapers went from cash cow monopolies to other cost cutters, struggling to make a profit so they could continue to serve. As always, it is opportunity for some and for others to inform and reach and rouse the people so they can determine their own interests. And across the country i see a lot of fear in newsrooms as we work with many of them. But this really should be A Howard Beale moment. Im mad as hell and im not going to take it anymore. When he began that way and ended that way he said he didnt know the solution but he knows that he is not going to sit around and mope, hes mad as hell and so should we be. Because the best of selfgovernance, that selfgovernance, it is just not possible without an informed citizenry and its impossible without good journalism. This new digital age of communication is profoundly changing our economy and our community and our live. And if you care about journalism you have to do care about technology. That includes producing and distributing news. Journalists and news people must care about the devices that people use and about how they will use them and about how they will value the information depending upon the platform or device. You can wring your hands and pray for time to freeze so that the this will never change and this could return to full print or you can look with hope and goodwill as the current leadership works to find a way that fits the times. So often is the case and you have two choices, you can curse the darkness or light the candle and a night we choose to light the candle. We are mad as hell and we are doing something about it. So i would like to tell you a little bit of that. Values matter training matters, and we maintain training in person and online, we have funded literally hundreds of experience to realtime news open source Community Engagement platforms and we have turned to the media lab and the Pew Research Center to help us understand how people use information technology. We do not protect a have a matter what the work with journalists that [inaudible] in the short term we have also given breathing space to 27 online news sites around the country like funding 15 of the annual budgets, they have to survive in this includes tools such as document cloud and now we are in the middle of a project to creative platform with others as well. We are still experimenting as a slide that shows how we have moved from smaller products from left to right and it represent about 90 million in active grants during this for your period of time which is a drop in the bucket compared to microsoft or what facebook might on development. And sure, i wish that News Companies had spent money on this when we were making 20 or 30 profit, but that was then and this is now and we should be as mad as hell in finding and figuring out what to do next. Two of the people who helped to do that and help me do that are here tonight and i would like to recognize them. This includes the director of our Journalism Program and marty, who is the chairman of our journalism advisory committee. [applause] most newsrooms sadly are not particularly experimental what youve heard tonight, i wish it were common, but i think it is extraordinary and i congratulate the other winners again. If you dont experiment, you can wave your future goodbye. If you are experimenting, please do more, push your boundaries and let us know what you are learning. Just know that there is no roadmap your path is made by walking with an open mind and the will to change, to serve the audience as well as hammering the true north star of journalism is fair and accurate contextual search for truth. That never changes. [applause] thank you for that clarion call. We want to thank our Dinner Committee and are two very successful cochairs. Thank you all. [applause] [applause] im going to take forever. Nothing is important its done without the work of a lot of people. I would like to start by thanking you all for being here tonight. Sandy johnson and the National Press foundation have done Amazing Things to get this dinner off the ground. As cochair with a mess i would like to thank the committee for all of their hard work and please hold your applause until we recognize all the Committee Members and then please if you are on the committee stand when i mention your name. [applause] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] bob thank you. Now that i have given him all of the hard names come i would like to thank six more people. Jeffrey, greg, linda smith, roger with eta she has a fan base here. As where is julie. I would like to give a shout out to her, she made a very big contribution this year and three weeks ago welcomed a new baby into this world. She made the dinner tonight and so thank you. Thank you to everyone at the Dinner Committee and thank you to everyone for answering our calls. Thank you. [applause] thank you amos and bottom. It provides the largest source of unrestricted funds for journalists. This year we are going to have a trip to a place where we can educate journalists in our Retirement Program funded by prudential. In every program we are adding an element of digital storytelling work two blocks training to keep our journalists abreast of the digital wave trade we have a good amount of webinars coming up to make use of our brandnew studio and we will look at the latest research on addiction and bring in experts to explain the Measles Outbreak and we will provide a full day of training from the Paul Miller Fellowes in our studios. I would now like you to meet the hardworking staff. Linda, programs director. [applause] jenny studio and Program Monitor reyna, Digital Media manager, and are in turn this semester and jessica, director of authorizations and the diligent correspondent of this years dinner details. [applause] until we began. We are making great use of the studios, it is available now for commercial rental. We produce the content every week from this studio thanks to a generous gift from evelyn davis and her foundation. You can rent this stateoftheart studio and produce your own highquality video for your newsletters and websites. Bring your content live just as we are doing here at nts. Our studios are a few blocks away in the heart of dc. There is a poster brochure on your placesetting and take it home and contact us. Studio at National Press. Org. [applause] ladies and gentlemen. Kevin goldberg of fletcher and hildreth, as chair of the National Press foundation. Thank you we have a couple of awards left and youre not going to want to miss them. The word captivating is one that i rarely use when writing about Energy Policy issues. But that is before i red a project of Bloomberg News which takes a hard look at issues facing our energy grid. The grid hasnt changed much since Thomas Edison invented the lake on, but quickly opining this as well. Read on and youll see why the judges were so enthusiastic about their toys of our candidates as the winners of the 2015 award for energy writing. [applause] thank you. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you particularly to the judges and the National Press foundation. If i woke up five years ago and thought that i would have been honored by a News Organization are writing about utilities come i wouldve killed myself. [laughter] i am a storyteller in my view is what is the story there. Well, its an amazing story and im old enough, im in the San Francisco bureau and i remember when they were buying up cell phone rides and then we saw was the size of the suitcase, the first cell phone. And everyone said who the heck wants one of those. And now almost everyone in america has one. I had the privilege of interviewing George Mitchell who is the grandfather of tracking them for 25 years everyone said that nobody will ever be able to squeeze oil and gas out of those tight shale formations and George Mitchell got the recipe right essentially change this. This is where we stand at this moment in my opinion. We have reached this crossing and Tipping Point where suddenly this is coalescence of things sooner than we recognize that will change our entire world in the way we see the energy world. We are lucky at Bloomberg News because we have very smart reporters to go out and write about stuff that is breaking. But we finally did it obvious connection, [inaudible] verizon and others in this we understood there were winners but we recognize that the losers could be the utility industry, and this is phenomenal because this is the most interesting thing that has happened since Thomas Edison. So what we did and took a helicopter up 5000 feet and began to see these connections and then we begin to see this report and we said we look like the Airline Industry in the Telecom Industry in 1975 and remember what happened to them. So if you want to go on and beat it, i think we have done a pretty good job of looking forward. I go home and i tell my family oh my gosh, im writing about energy and they say get another live. [laughter] but it is the story of the next decade and hats off to my colleagues and editors for doing this. Thank you very much. [applause] [applause] even those who dont speak a word of french, we have become familiar with this phrase after the january 7, terrorist attack at Charlie Hebdo left three people dead. All because of some pictures. Of course not. Because political cartoons are so much more. In part because of the strong and effective message that they can convey to anyone in an instant. A strong and effective message describing the cartoons of clay bennett, the individual from the chattanooga press his work is clean and concise and to the point. Able to understand, but not simple. The judges panel thought that elegant simplicity, clear drawings and messages his style is disarming and charming with a strong bite underneath. The humor is subtle and witty. Ladies and gentlemen, its an honor to present the winner of the 2015 award for editorial cartoon. Mr. Clay bennett. [applause] thank you very much for that. First, let me thank the National Press foundation for this wonderful recognition of my work. I feel very honored that its not a place to be included in such a distinguished group of journalists. Maybe i will see more dignified if only by association. Next i should confess that i always get a little bit nervous on occasions like this and i think my anxiety all stems from my experience i had when i was asked the before the end here is the dramatization of actual events. When i went to fort worth, i guess i was expecting a group of liberal reporters and editors. I knew it was texas but it was the Texas Press Association and instead i was faced with a room full of very conservativ