Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book TV 20140623 : vimarsana.com

To the policies. Of course we want to thank ellen bernstein. We are to have you as the library family. We look forward to this event. I want to acknowledge and thank karen is that librarian and continues to coordinate this event. Where are you . [applause] amazing finalists are with us fred kaplan, jonathan asked unable to join us tonight is david. David was with us last night for an amazing program. The first time we had a Public Program discussion associated with this event for the public could enjoy the talent and insight of our final guest. The library is honored to be the heart of the award integrated journalistic award and the awardwinning group g. Of the soldiers struggling with ptsd we all know in this day in which the delivery platforms and Business Models of journalism and of the kind of work that so many of us in the room are engaged in our transforming. That means the societys need for the kind of work that this award recognizes to inform the body politic to make informed decisions to have a citizenry that can to the ideals of democracy that rests upon the work that you are engaged in at our finalists are engaged in and that this award certifies. The award itself comes out of an elaborate process initially. We have Library Staff across the Research Spending countless hours reading many books. The committee then select the five finalists out of in this case 100 submissions and i want to thank the review committee for their great work. Elizabeth, ken johnson and richard babylon. The Selection Committee and its regulations in its final Selection Committee. I want to thank them all especially james for their Great Service for this award i stepped on my own applause line. James and henry louis professor of journalism at the Columbia Journalism School and staff writer at the new yorker into the pulitzer prize. But in 1985 and 2005 there was a reporter for a a correspondent d Senior Editor at the Washington Post where he covered wall street, served as the south asia correspondent and wa was opposed First International investigative correspondent based in london. He served as the managing editor of the post from 1998 to 2004. The following year he joined the new yorker. Hes the author of seven books including. He goes to the afghanistan and bin laden and bin laden and the arabian family and the american century. It was exxon mobil and American Power for 20 Financial Times Goldman Sachs award as the best business book of 2012. While at the post steve one another till it surprise for his reporting on the securities and exchange commission. The new America Foundation of the Public Policy institute at washington, d. C. Between washington 20th and 2012 is honored to have him at the college and im particularly grateful for his discretion because it confirmed this evening that our apartment window actually look into each other. Investigative journalism u. S. Withdrawal the line. [applause] i want to start by thinking this is bernstein for continuation and involvement in this award. My hits have about six weeks leftparen hobbling. I really want to complement the review committee for this years work because these are actually five really fine books and i hope that you have time to take them to the beach this summer and read them. They are all really distinctive. They do have something in common which is i think an engagement with the public issues that the award is intended to honor. But they do so from multiple perspees