at our web site -- studentcam.org. join us in ailhow the top 20 videos on c-span. we will talk to the winner on "washington journal." >> the national press foundation held its 29th annual awards this week in washington, d.c. the foundation provides educational programs for journalists and awards for excellence in journalism. recipients were chris wallace, david newhouse, and iwatch news. the keynote speaker at the dinner was google executive chairman eric schmidt. this is about one hour and five minutes. >> we are delighted and lucky tonight to have eric schmidt, the executive chairman of google. he is quick to talk about the future of mobile communications and the movement of information. this is the first in a series of talks we want to present at our awards dinners for leaders who live at the intersection of technology and media, which is

where we all live now and where we are going to live up for some time to come. eric is a member of the president of a council of advisers on science and the prime minister's advisory council in the united kingdom. he joined google in 2001. eric will speak for about 10 minutes and take questions for about five minutes. there will be some microphones down the center of the ballroom that way. please do not go to the center aisle until he has finished speaking. eric schmidt. [applause] >> thank you. this is a fantastic group i am glad everyone is here to support the foundation. i wanted to talk about what will happen in the next decade, in particular about how so many new people will join the conversation we are part of.

last year the population of the world reached 7 billion. the number of people on-line is still roughly two billion. the world wide web has yet to live up to its name. imagine another 5 billion people on line. more innovation, -- more opportunity. the past decade has taught us that if you connect people with information, they will change the world. a new kind digital divide will emerge. in the next decade, we will see three distinct groups emerge differentiated by connectivity. the first group is for it- connected people. -- ultra-connected people. pretty much everybody here. it is hard to stay off of our smart phones, blackberries, whatever. the will and resources to

embrace the cutting edge of technology. for the most part, we started with huge advantages in life -- education, economic prosperity, a democrat government, a lucky birth. for this group, the future is proscribed only by the limits of what science can deliver and society deems ethical. it will look a lot like science fiction. the people who predicted intelligent robots, a virtual reality, and self-driving cars will be right. some cars have already traveled 2,000 miles in states like nevada and california. they are changing the law to make this possible. it is real. the technological advances will define the way we live and interact with each other, but the ultimate achievement in this future is this technology will actually disappear. i do not mean it will become less relevant, it will become part of everyday life. people will have to spend less time getting to work. wondering which cables work for

each computer. a lot of us spend a lot of time doing that. it will be seamless. the world will be everything, it will be nothing. it will be like electricity. second group -- just below this first group, the privileged few, is a much larger community -- the connected contributors. this generation grew up with increasingly sophisticated technology as part of their daily lives and gathered the skills to use them. they have the same level of technology as these privileged few. this new technology will still give connected contributors new ways to exchange information. for example -- holo-presence technology will allow you to experience activities in places as if you were there. beaming information from phone

to phone. being invested in the common spaces of the web, these connected contributors will speak with a loud voice to defend those shared spaces from attacking freedom of expression and basic rights -- things we care so much about. it will force into the open actions that would otherwise remain hidden. quickly designed to respond to extreme circumstances. a perfect example -- developers and engineers. by combining a passion for this, they create pools that are used by dissidents and activists all over the world to overcome government restrictions. i have always believed that the web is more than a network of machines. it is a network of mines that is evolving a collective conscience, intelligence, and a global conscience. look at the way people came

together last year to help in the japanese earthquake. there are no barriers to our imagination or our compassion. that is the second group. a much larger group is still coming. think of this next future, this connected 5 billion. it is going to be very interesting. in committees all over the world, there are only pockets of productivity, digital oasis in an on-line desert. they are skipping dial-up modems, dsl lines, and broadband and going straight to mobile devices. imagine in the future the world will have a different computer and a smart sidekick rolled into one in their phones. today we are seeing smart

phones successfully converted for scientific capabilities in places that have no electrical power at all. in 2020, the same devices will diagnose medical conditions, a detective are metal hazards, and everything people care about. mashed networking provide connections for all of these new devices and allow the deployment of these wireless networks in the most remote regions of the world, well beyond large data centers and fixed-line infrastructure. in this model, the network becomes a digital watering hole where people meet and hang out. every village will have an internet cafe for people to connect and talk to each other. i want to be clear -- no one is suggesting this technology will suddenly transform the social, political, and economic conditions of communities. technology does not create

miracles. connectivity, even modest amounts, changes lives. in times of war and suffering, it would be impossible to ignore the voices that call out for help. think about the extraordinary pictures coming out of syria every day. assad's brutality online for all the world to see. a high-speed train clutch was shown last year. it was highly criticized. with information comes power and with power comes to toys. the smart the citizens that demand a much better deal for their community, more ethical and responsible behavior from all of us. pretty good. what are some of the problems? this world is not quite yet mixed. there will be some obstacles. the internet is not a utopia.

it reflects the good and the bad. i worry about three things i want to briefly mention. the first is the internet was built -- we did not think they would show up. honestly. i know. we were in graduate school, right? the inherent vulnerability is our design will exist for at least another decade. it is a huge task and except for military networks, every single modem on the web will need to be upgraded with new technology. the biggest problem is going to be activity stemming from nations that seek to do harm to others. it is very difficult to identify the source of a cyber criminality. problem number two -- the fact that there is no relief button on the internet as policy

problems we do not understand. andpublic's right to know the very important right of individual privacy. you have a situation were false and accusations used to fade away, but now they remain forever. i certainly hope that ranking and other things like that will emerge that distinguish between truth and falsehood and will allow people to start over on a new footing. finally, i worry about governance filtering information they fear or they prohibit. it is easy to see their logic, but where do you draw the line? last year we saw what happens when a government try to turn off the internet. now many governments are trying to build their own walled- internet -- a web in which you and i do not see the same information and no one knows what has been censored. not only does the offering not

work, it creates dark places where hate, radicalism, and crime can flourish. it is better to find and stop the criminal rather than merely bought his or her's web page. the filtering technology, which i do not like, will never be more effective and we face the possibility we could lose a society where our thoughts and cultures are deleted. i want to conclude by saying this is a struggle. i firmly believe that technology will ultimately be a force for good. and the next decade, we will see a new generation of technology that will extend the frontier of human existence and society. we have a chance to build a truly exclusive global community and technology will be a great leveller. they will not have a monopoly on progress and opportunity.

those with nothing shall have something. we are proud of this and we all should be. some governments are going to try to fight this transition and use technology to suppress and not enhance access to information. i think they will fail. internet and technology are light water. a will find a way through this. no system of censorship can ever be absolute. there were always be chinks for our citizens. as you all know, the truth really will win out. the future can be delayed, but it cannot be denied. let us resolve right now as leaders and journalists -- i think everybody here would agree -- we need to get there faster and to fight for a future where everyone has a chance to be connected and that information is the birthright of everyone, all people everywhere.

this will be a tough fight and a long one, but this is a struggle to achieve the highest principles and greatest qualities of society -- the quest for the inalienable right to let us all share part of this wonderful foundation. in this century, we all have a part to play connecting the world. we will free the world. thank you so very, very much. [applause] >> i think we have time for a couple of questions. comments or questions on this or anything else? we do have 1000 journalists in the room. i assume we are on the record. [laughter] just kidding. there are some microphones in the center aisle. go-ahead. >> hi.

marilyn with npr. today i saw a study that shows content -- a lot of people who have moved to mobile are playing games -- spending their time on games and social media, talking to friends. is there anything we can do to get people more engaged in content so as we move into this more mobile future we are getting the eyeballs on the news and not just on the angry birds. [laughter] >> we love angry birds, too. think about your children. from the moment they are awake till the moment they are asleep they are online. this should be a concern. i think the reality is this is going to be addressed by new forms of content. the gaming paradigms are a new

way of learning and the games have produced some very stellar educational opportunities, just not about the right things. i believe or the next few years, you are going to see a whole new generation of information services and opportunities to be targeted at your age range. i am concerned -- i want to be clear here -- this world that we have all built -- i certainly am a part in that -- is taking us away from reading and deep thinking. we need to fight for that. the best way is to invest more and more in education at every level ultimately, learning how to read, learning how to think is related to that. that is never going to go away. >> i am with c-span. and we are live on c-span2 right now.

>> thank you. >> i am wondering about google+ -- what are your goals for the media? how can we use it and what do you hope we can do with it? what do you hope we can do with it? >> from the standpoint of audience building, google+ has 1 million users. what is interesting, because of its authentication and other technical matters, i get better and more informed comments than i do on anything else. it looks to me like google+ has started with people who are pretty passionate and pay a lot of attention. i think that will be a good differentiator that will serve us well. i think you should talk to all of the audiences.

we are doing what to make it more interesting. hangout where groups of people have an ad hoc video network. i'd like to hang out with my fans. those are probably the two things i would do. >> last question, please. >> i am with china central television. imagine the world's population of 7 billion. about a fifth of that lives in china. i am wondering if you could address what role the chinese population will play in the integration of the world wide web. will it be parallel or do you think china is becoming a part of that? >> we do not know china's future web plans because they do not tell everybody and they certainly are not going to tell google.

we are not on the phone call list. [laughter] technically the way the internet works in china is something called the "great firewall." a series of proxies that censor content. it has the packet inspection. they look at the packet to see if it contains printed words or so forth. they do it that for all information services. it is also the case in china that if you run a site where you published information which is on an actively policed censorship list, you are ordered to take it down and to do so pretty brutally -- under threat of criminal prosecution. it is censorship at its worst. of course, google does not like this. the next thing china can do is begin to close off access to all the sites, not as part of the information. to do so would expose their censorship more directly to their citizens. they run the risk of annoying

their citizens more than they already have. my guess is they are going to go down this very tight censorship model or they are actively prosecuting bloggers, but not shut down the entire internet. we do not know how far they will go as information seeps into the country. the more they shut off that barrier, the more they hurt themselves. one thing we have learned about the internet is if you want to run a global economy, you need access to what is going on in other countries. we are critically dependent on that. the countries that try to shut down the internet because it is a source of free information, audibly discovered the cannot run their countries without it. i hope the country will sort of stay there and that the citizens will say enough is enough, we really want free speech. thank you so much. [applause]

>> talk about a tough act to follow. our next award is the berryman award for editorial cartooning. this year it goes to nick anderson of the "houston chronicle." >> thank you. i feel like obama with these teleprompter is up here. a little joke for the conservatives in the audience. do not get too comfortable. first of like to thank my editor, jeff cohen. he asked me to recreate the role of the editorial cartoonist in the newspaper. a lot of newspapers are eliminating them.

i feel very thankful i have one that believes in what i do. second, i like to thank rick perry, governor of texas, for providing me so much fodder over the last year. third -- i cannot remember the third. sorry. i cannot let it go. i am still in mourning that he dropped out. one of the ways jeff has inspired me to do different things -- i do full-page cartoons and i do animation. a lot of cartoons are getting into flash animation. i was too lazy to learn to do that. i decided to go retro and get into a clay-mation. when my son brought home clay and said he wanted to learn how to do this and i started helping him and i thought this was pretty fun. i can try this. i found that i can get them done pretty quickly. i have got this first one that is on rick perry, as a matter of fact.

can we take the lights down and show the first animation? >> we have all lost our train of thought before, but not many have done it on national tv. if you want a slick debater, i'm not your guy. if you want to clean house in washington with a balanced budget amendment, a flat tax, and a part-time congress, i am your man. i am rick perry and -- what is that line again? i am rick perry and i approve of this message. >> that was just one day. i can crank these out pretty quickly. i tell jeff it takes me a week so i take a week off. i have got one dozen cartons as well to show you tonight -- still cartoons. with campaign season in full swing, it seems like early on there was a new player of the week every week. this first cartoon -- it is a good thing you finished eating.

the next flavor of the week was newt. there have been 28 gop debates. donald trump wanted to have his own, as if we needed another one. the main issue they are going to talk about is donald trump, i am sure. here is the trump debate. first, i depicted gingrich as a newt. romney is a bit of a chameleon. go-ahead and show the next slide. the voters say i want anyone but mitch and mitch says i could be that. sex scandals are always really challenging. the jokes are easy, but most of them are unpublishable. that is where my editor comes in. he likes to trim my cartoons.

when i do inappropriate ones, and i do. anthony weiner -- here is my anthony wiener cartoon. twitter trouble. incidentally, i think that was my favorite cartoon last year. it shows you my maturity level. the next cartoon is a little more cerebral. the first one is federal spending -- some security, defense, etc. the second is federal spending as viewed by the average american. things that benefit me personally and waste is everything else. thank you. most people when you talk to them do not know what government spending really is. where am i? the tea party has been a big theme for cartoonist. here is the tea party

congressmen drawing us into the debt ceiling issue. i do pick on obama sometimes. i want to show you both cartoons i did on obama last year. the first one is on solyndra. taxpayers cleaning up the solyndra scandal. obama has a penchant for pushing difficult issues into the future. go ahead and show the next slide. we constructed the pipeline to push the local issues out past the 2012 election. it's the keystone x.l. pipeline. it was popular in houston. most of my cartoons are not very popular in houston. i cannot imagine why. social issues -- cannot ignore social issues. the death penalty is a big issue if texas, as you know. we execute people for not using their turn signals in texas. be careful when you are driving there. the texas justice system is saying raise your hand if you

think race played a part in your death sentence. there is another texas one that will ring true for those of you who have been following along -- what is the other thing in my uterus? the state of texas. this will ring pretty true to you. you can substitute the word "virginia" for texas right now. here is an old cartoon we republished on the 10th anniversary of september 11. it says missing towers. it is a little more subtle. you can see the shadows of the people who did not come home on september 11. i did a cartoon on the 10-year anniversary, but it was not as good as this. this is the one i did on the first year anniversary. we reran it again this past year. to lighten the mood a little bit the last cartoon is the raid on bin laden's compound. a stash of pornography. he says know your enemy.

the little movies say "debbie does dubai," torabora score-a" and "blond bombshell." i have one more animation to show you. herman cain was probably more fun than rick perry. herman cain was the former ceo of godfather's pizza. i brainstormed to pull this together when he was making excuses about his alleged affairs. i spent about eight hours going through video footage and splicing little pieces of it together and i came up with this animation. >> i can only recall one thing i was aware of that was called sexual harassment. i was not even aware of it. i am unaware of any sort of settlement. i was aware an agreement was reached, yet there was some sort of settlement or termination. no, i just started to remember more.

twirling around in my head. here we go again. this individual is going to accuse me for an affair for an extends period of time. no. no. not going to do that. no. no. no. no. no. you are the same height as my wife. >> thank you very much. >> all right. congratulations. >> thank you very much. >> there we go. ladies and gentlemen, mr. knight kiplinger, editor in chief of kiplinger publications.

>> talk about the ridiculous to the sublime. our next honoree is a remarkable organization. the reporters committee for freedom of the press. equally remarkable director, lucy dalglish. for more than 40 years, the reporters committee has been the go-to organization, the 24/7 defender of our first amendment rights. the committee was born of crisis in 1970 when our profession struggled with the fate of subpoenas seeking to disclose confidential sources. that year a group of distinguished and concerned journalist from all media met in washington and decided to form a posse, a quick response team that could ride to the the

defense of beleaguered journalist, especially those without the funds to defend themselves. to this day, thousands of journalists have been held by the reporters committee and none of them has ever been sent a bill of this valuable legal advice and counsel the committee's help covers the waterfront, a small-town paper hit by a baseless libel suit. filed by well-healed local business interests. reporters pressing action against the secretive government agency for fighting subpoenas from local police and judges. there is even a 24-hour hot line when there is no time to spare. this entire list commando squad was built by the committee's courageous early director, jack landau, and they continued to grow and prosper under his successor. for the past decade, it has been headed by a woman who is

uniquely suited to this task because she is both a journalist and a lawyer. lucy dalglish's knowledge of a media law is rich, but happily for us, she writes as a journalist and not a lawyer. her editorials in the committee's magazine are a model of legal wisdom and journalistic clarity. if our profession needed the reporters committee in 1970 -- and it certainly did -- we need it even more today. to quote lucy, "in these days of a dwindling legal budgets in traditional news rooms, it is and nonexistent legal budgets for all other journalists, important that we teach journalists to be knowledgeable about their rights and confident enough to engage in self-help to defend them.

reporters working in traditional news rooms were long accustomed to having attorneys on call via in-house counsel or special relationships with a local media lawyer. but now that many of these journalists are on their own, they need a free alternative. that is usually the reporters committee. we are ready and willing to help." let me add that ready and willing is one thing, and able is something else. the committee is able to do its work because of generous donors to the reporters committee for freedom of the press -- both from the media world and corporate america. if you are not already a contributor to the reporters committee for freedom of the press, it is high time you were. i cannot think of a finer recipient of the kiplinger

award for distinguished contributions to journalism than the reporters committee for freedom of the press and its wise guiding light, lutzy daglish. lucy, come on up. >> thank you so much, mr. kiplinger. i would like to thank the national press foundation for its wonderful education services for journalists and for the recognition of both the reporters committee and myself. the reporters committee has been very proudly providing free legal, educational, and advocacy services to journalists all across america for 42 years.

we exist to serve you and we are committed to ensuring we provide comprehensive, up to the minute services to you for years to come. we try very hard to stay on top of your needs and development. like most of you, we are trying to do more with your resources. we have never been so busy. in many states, we are picking up cases that local publishers and broadcasters no longer have the discretionary dollars to pursue. we are fighting access to public access and meetings and again court closures, frivolous libel suits, and subpoenas. you can call our hotline 24/7. you can find us on the internet. every year brings a new challenge. this year it seemed to be the bewildering number of reporters and photographers are arrested across the country, while covering protests, demonstrations, and typical crime stories.

we and our local volunteer lawyers who will be at the nato summit in chicago and at the political conventions in charlotte and tampa in coming months to make sure those journalists who will inevitably be swept up in mass arrests are back on the street covering the news as quickly as possible. we survived on contributions by media related companies, foundations, and folks like you. many of our supporters are in this audience tonight thank you. we are appreciative and grateful for every tax deductible nickel you give us. in addition to thanking our wonderful 30 member steering committeefor their support, there are a couple of staff members who share this award with me.

with me tonight are our freedom of information director and the jack-of-all trades behind our legal defense work, our publications, and our internet services, greg lesley. i thank them for all of their hard work and i thank you for this wonderful award. >> sadly, the national and international journalism community lost many colleagues since we met here a year ago. many of these people have joined us at this dinner. many of them were friends of mine -- many were friends of yours. we would like to recall them now tonight. andy rooney, the popular essayist for "60 minutes."

tom wicker, "new york times" columnist, bureau chief and author. christopher hitchens. columnist and social critic. tony blankley, who headed the editorial-page of the "washington times." bill rechin, the cartoonist who created the cartoons "out of bounds" and "croc." charles waldo bailey, the former editor of the "minneapolis star tribune." and a novelist whose works included "seven days in may." joseph e. mobatt who served as press secretary to the national democratic committee. frank jamman, a newspaper man for more than 50 years, jeffrey saslo, "wall street journal" columnist and book author.

lane vernados, former cbs news producer. richard threlkeld, a cbs news correspondent. earl h. voss, his daughter martha voss of toyota is with us tonight and has been a supporter of the n.t.f. for many years. 3 correspondents many of you knew who died covering the conflicts in the middle east. anthony shabbib, most recently with the "new york times." back at home, andrew breitbart, the commentary and political provocateur. finally, cbs correspondent

robert peerpoint, a distinguished reporter and one who didn't takements all that seriously. they all made an indelible mark on their profession. thank you for letting us honor them tonight. >> our next award is for excellence in online journalism. it is given to iwatchnews.org. receiving the award is christina montgomery, chief digital officer for the center. christine. >> hi. i am absolutely honored and humbled to be standing up there accepting this reward on behalf of the center for public integrity and especially for our executive director, who

really has the vision and the courage to come out last year, completely transform the center for public integrity. 22-year-old non-partisan investigative news group. i think 22 years in nonprofit years is like 100 in journalism years. they have the courage to say we need to leap headfirst into the 21st century. we launched iwatch news. a new brand, a new content model. we tried some new revenue models. we completely upended the newsroom and survived. this award recognizes that risk. to me, i think that is the most important thing we can do right now. we talked about the future of news, mobile news, global news -- i think the biggest sin a journalist can do is not adapt. i am proud to represent the center. thank you for this award.

>> nick, can i say i am not using the teleprompter? just in case there's any doubt about that. our next award is the benjamin bradlee editor of the year award, the oldest award for editorial leadership in the united states. this year, the award goes to david newhouse. editor of the patriot news in harrisburg, pennsylvania. he broke the story of the sexual abuse scandal at penn state university and stayed with the story for many months. he was criticized for looking at the activities of a beloved football coach, his team, and his coaches. after we selected david for this award, we called ben bradlee's office to tell him about our choice. he immediately dashed off the following note.

"dear david newhouse, i turned 90 last summer. to tell you the truth, i had forgotten there was such a thing as this award. this is just to tell you i am glad you won it. better to win these things than to lose them, i always say. it was a hell of a story, was it not, with meaningful reverberation. congratulations and best wishes." david, we are happy to have this note for you tonight as well as your well-deserved prize. >> thank you. thanks. thank you. i am trying to figure out how i will get that thing in my carry-on. may i have the first slide, please?

i like to thank the national press foundation for this truly unexpected honor. my father, norman newhouse, was editor of the long island press. he died many years ago, but he was certainly my inspiration. i would like to think that this is for him. this honor belongs not to me, but to all the journalists at patriot news. our publisher, john kirkpatrick, who is been a personal mentor to me. my partners in crime and, of course, our lead reporter on the sandusky story. sarah ganum. at the age of 24 she has as much drive and integrity, she's videotaping me, as much drive and integrity as any journalist i've ever met. is a joy to work with her. may i have the next slide, please? i want to show you a few pages

from november, but i will not talk about how we landed the stories because i think it would be boring. there is no magic formula. long hours and shoe-leather journalism by sarah and her colleagues. the funny thing was how the national media kept describing us. they called us the "small patriot news." the tiny "patriot news." i heard somewhere someone marveled the story was coming from the microscopic, subatomic "patriot news." it is true that with 19 full-time news reporters, our staff is not large, but it is equally true that this story did not come out of nowhere. last summer, as you all know, we had an earthquake here on the east coast. when the news room stopped shaking, all of us being earthquake illiterate, we rushed outside. in the 45 seconds or so it took us to reach the parking lot, we

learned the following -- the quake was relatively harmless, it stretched not only across pennsylvania, but all the way from new york to virginia. we learned all that not from any other journalist, up from facebook and twitter. much later, we have the information posted on our own digital platform. next slide, please. what does that have to do with our coverage of penn state? everything. today, information is instantaneous and ubiquitous. or as one of my daughters who is actually here tonight used to say, information is icky-biquitous. if information is everywhere, having information is no longer enough. a public that is stuffed to the gills with information is starving for real reporting, including real local reporting

for reporting that digs, that eliminates, that makes connections. i know that can be a challenge even for the great news organizations represented in this room. on behalf of all of the small news rooms in america, it can be a huge challenge when you have 19 news reporter to cover five counties. there are days when i look up and say, lord, if you did not want my staff to spend most of their time covering meetings, why did you create zoning boards? next slide, please. seriously, the tragedy is that at this exact moment when the public is desperate for a real local reporting, budget cuts are leaving many newsrooms to choose the opposite -- to cut back on enterprise and to chase the exact same information that everybody else has and increasingly our readers already know anyway. years ago we made the decision to hop off of that merry-go-round's.

though our reporters have to master their beats, they have to report information -- preferably first. that is not their job. that is the precursor. it is the context of their job. if someone asked you what did you do on your vacation, you probably would not say in what dishes. what did you do? next slide, please. our reporters gather, post, and tweet plenty of information, but that is not what they do. they have one assignment above all -- bring us the stories that no one else has. bring us the stories that no one else has. of course, here in new sarah would take me seriously, right? my kids never do. next slide, please. people have responded. in november, our digital leadership tripled to about 6.5

million unique visitors. we have retained many of them. we now have readers in all 50 states and 223 foreign countries. a story like this one does not come along every week. that is probably not a bad thing. i received an e-mail last fall from a reporter who said "keep up the great work, you can sleep with you are dead." next slide, please. but when a news organization with a circulation of 67,000 can continue to attract 4.5 million unique visitors per month, mostly in central pennsylvania thanks to our advertisers, it says something that makes me optimistic about our industry. it says that even with the digital information, what readers want more from journalist is what we do best. for recognizing that kind of

effort in harrisburg on behalf of our entire staff, i thank you very very much. >> this dinner tonight marks the end of my tenure as chairman of the national press foundation. i have been happy to contribute to the work of an organization that does something important for our industry at a time when news organizations cannot necessarily do for their own what they used to do -- provide institutional support, training for professional journalist in the field. we step up and try to do that and succeed more often than not. i am leaving npr in great hands. john walcott will take over. john? >> thank you, sir.

thank you, gery. let me just say a brief word about gery's leadership of the foundation. i do not need to tell anyone in this room that this has been a time of transition and, in some ways, a difficult time for the news business. we have had to cope not only with the business side but also with some of what dr. schmidt bought about. gery has provided extraordinary leadership for the foundation as we try to make the transition towards a new age of information. the best i can promise is i will try to continue in your footsteps. that is what i will endeavor to do. our next award is the award for excellence in broadcast journalism. this year, the judges have selected chris wallace of fox news.

i am pleased to tell you that chris had donated his award winnings back to the national press foundation to help us continue our educational work. chris, thank you is very much. here is a brief video about chris and then we will hear from him live and in person. >> the white house admits it. >> nbc nightly news with chris wallace. >> good evening. you said the u.s. had nothing to do with israeli arm shipments to iran when you knew that was not true. what would you say that? >> chris, i am glad you asked

that. >> are you saying the precedent give you a fair shot temperature >> i'm not saying that, chris. >> i'm totally not saying it. >> from washington, nbc news presents "meet the press" with chris wallace. >> how much allowance do you get? >> $7. >> each? >> yes. >> a week? >> yes. >> what do you have to do to get the allowance. ? >> make our beds and clean our rooms. >> i under the game. please don't let him win. please don't let him win. that would be "dog" would it not? >> weren't we playing horse? >> i have known chris wallace since we were together in the house of representatives nearly 35 years ago. he was a terrific correspondent then and he is gotten better since. he is brought an enormous strength to fox news in every

way, especially in hosting "fox news sunday per "he is the king of sunday morning. in terms of being the best, most precise and toughest interrogator. fair, too. >> why did you not do more to put bin laden and al qaeda out of business when you were president? >> you did the fox video on the show. you did your little conservative hit job on me. what i want to know. >> i asked the question and -- >> i want to know how many people in the bush administration you asked this question. >> what do you make of the basic charge that pre9/11, this government, the bush administration largely ignored the threat. all the talk about aluminum tube was wrong. >> you never feel far away from the job wherever you go but feel somewhat out of the bubble. >> thank you for having me. >> long time no see.

>> it takes me about 172 days to prepare for the question. but i think there was a leap year in there so it's only 717. >> for all the excitement about barack obama they said there was talk of inexperience. they said that about your brother john in 1960. >> first of all, my brothers are my heroes and are in a category by pms. by themselves. >> we are talking to chris wallace. we thought she would sit down and shut up. >> where do you stand on the return? >> the return? >> palestinian right of return. >> first of all, i am proud to exercise my right of return. >> i'm making a political comment. >> you think that's a political comment? >> yes. >> you're insane. >> i think your agenda is out there and you're pushing more

agenda than you intend to. >> and you don't retire because? >> because i love he -- it is not work what i do. i love what i do. i get up in the morning and i think i am going to have the opportunity to -- i wasn't happy about waking up this morning and -- >> i felt the same way. >> congratulations, chris, winning an award is an amazing thing. fox news, you have done it. we're all proud of you in the news division. you're a great questioner. you're a great journalist. and frankly, every guest that comes on hates you, which is good because that makes people watch. president cline, for instance, said you made him angry and president obama and many republicans won't even go near you. but that means you're really, really good at what you do. you've been here since 2003, it's possible you'll make it to 10 years, the jury is out. only occasionally you have a case of diva-itis.

by the way, you married well. but when you did the cookbook and started hustling that on our shows, that was sort of irritating. >> thank you, all. i have to say watching some of those early videos from literally 30 years ago was kind of interesting. it is like seeing a sign you never knew you had. i want to thank our great staff at fox news sunday for putting together that wonderful and an overly generous a video. you put it together just the way i wrote it. i also want to thank the national press foundation for giving me this award. as has been made clear earlier, you do a great job in providing educational programs for young and aspiring journalist for this country and around the world. i am honored to receive this.

as you mentioned, as john mentioned, i want to donate the money comes with it to the press foundation to continue your programs. thank you. i want to note that this is the the sol taishoff award, named after the founder and editor of "broadcasting mag zone. sol was a dear friend of my stepfather bill leonard. and it moons a great deal for me to receive an award especially in his name and his grandson rod here on the dais. waved to the crowd. i want to thank my dear wife, lorraine, aka mrs. sunday. she feeds me soup on sundays after the show.

she also feeds me chicken on saturday nights before the show as all of you will learn in her new book "mrs. sunday's saturday night chicken," which will be available in may. i am not kidding. she said if i didn't thanker she should not come home and i can't think of anything worse in the world than not being able to come home to my dear lorraine. i want to talk briefly about three men who are giants in broadcasting and have meant so much to me most in my life and career. first of all, roger ailes, the chairman of fox news. to put it simply and he's not here and i'm not just blowing smoke. he is the best boss i have ever worked for. think about it -- this is a man who has created an enormously influential source of

information from the american people out of nothing. 15 short years ago fox news did not exist. now it is, whether you like it or not, a central part of the national conversation. roger also communicates a sense of mission more effectively than any other boss i have worked for. the highest professional standards and unrelenting drive to win and a continuing sense that we are the little guys. but when people come to fox news, what surprises them most is not any of that. it is what a nice place it is to work. roger likes to say that negative people like to make positive people sick. no one, well, almost no one is a jerk because roger won't allow it. i don't have to tell you that's not an easy thing to pull off in television news. as roger once wrote to the staff, we contribute to the most exciting profession in the

world and we live in america. that is the house roger has built and i'm so proud to be a part of it. the second thing i want to talk about is my late stepfather bill leonard. most of you don't know who he was but is the single most important person in my life and it's all because of tv news. back in 1952, my mother was watching coverage of the democratic national convention on black and white on television when she saw a handsome man reporting the natalie stevenson from the place where he was staying around the corner from our apartment. she used me as bait. all of 4 years old. she put me on my tricycle for a ride around the block to see the excitement. five years later, they married and bill leonard became my stepfather. any of you who knew him remember what an absolutely wonderful man he was, what a kind man, in a business filled

with sharp elbows and even sharper words, he was a truly gentle man. here is also a great journalist. he invented exit polls. he invented election night projections. he was largely responsible for the the creation of "60 minutes" and "cbs sunday morning." but the broadcast that i remember the best of the ones that we did in our oldsmobile whenever the car would reach a milestone -- 10,000 miles, 25,000 miles -- riding in the car, we would do a cbs news report. true story. he would be the anchor in the driver's seat and throw it to me sitting in the back seat as the white house correspondent reporting on what the success of our car meant to the u.s. auto industry, or i would be on the assembly line in detroit with the car, the autoworker who had put together our oldsmobile.

yes, the specials were overproduced and they always came in over budget, but i thought they were just grand. finally, i want to talk about my father, mike wallace. you know, it is funny. i spend so much of my early life trying to get out from under his shadow. now, as my father nears his 94 birthday and is slipping away, i don't want you to forget him. he was not easy. any of you who knew him could testify to that. but he was a vibrant and funny and demanding and a truly great reporter. as someone once said, he had an underdeveloped sense of other people's privacy. can you imagine coming home as a teenager from a date and mike wallace is sitting up waiting for you? where did you go? what did you do? how would you like to explain these hidden camera videos?

maybe one of the reasons that fox has been such an easy fit for me is because he was such a contrarian. i remember one classic story he did for 60 minutes back in the 1960's at the height of the busing controversy. he came to washington to see where all the liberals, the folks that were telling all the people were to send their kids, where all liberals were sending their kids. ted kennedy, private school. jesse jackson, the same. the only democrat he could find who sent their kids to d.c. public schools and you did it because it was the right thing to do was a so-called conservative democrat henry scoop jackson. my father taught me so much about this business. he told me to always pursue two sides of the story. to prepare so thoroughly for an

interview and make clear to the subject there's no use trying to spin you because you know too much. all these men did was to teach me what a great way it is to make a living. but a big responsibility is, how hard we must push ourselves to meet the highest standards of professionalism, but also -- and never forget this and i think i speak for everyone -- how lucky we are. the opportunity to travel around the world, to meet key players, to ask questions that all americans would like to ask, and to be an eye witness to history. i've had the opportunity to travel with the great cold warrior ronald reagan to moscow to meet with mikhail gorbachev. to conduct presidential debates. to play horse with michael jordan, or dog, and yes, to even interrogate the olsen twins. as roger ailes likes to say, it sure beats laying pipe in ohio.

never forget that. thank you so much for this very special evening. >> i hope this program and the award-winners up here have helped provide some answers of their own to the question we were asking, why journalism matters? please join us in the lincoln room where you can dance to music of my friends in nobody's business. i promise you that if you hear them, you will not be disappointed. see you next year. [applause]

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passed away tuesday and weekly addresses by president obama and jack dalrymple. after that a hearing for the budget question for the hearing agency for u.s. development. tomorrow on "washington journal" former shell oil president joe hofmeister talks about the u.s. tom baxter looks at the influence of southern politics in presidential elections. kalev se p, p,, former secretary of deputy defense talks about the training of special operation forces. "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c chance. -- 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> fire j. edgar hoover? i don't think the president would have gotten away with it. >> tim weiner details the f.b.i.'s 100 year history and hoover's fight against terrorists, and spies.

>> hoover stands alone. he's like the washington monument. he stands alone like a statue encased in grime. as one of the most powerful men who ever served in washington's 20th century. 11 presidents, 48 years. from woodrow wilson to richard nixon. there's no one like him. and a great deal of what we know, or we think we know about jay edgar hoover is myth and legend. >> tim weiner on enemies, a history of the f.b.i. sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's "q&a." >> c-span's 2012 local content vehicle city tour takes our book tv and american history tv program on the road the first weekend of each month. march featured shreveport, louisiana, with book tv at the nole library. >> mr. nole was a local man

that was born here and lived here most of his life and started accumulating books when he was a teenager and continued in his 80's. over his lifetime he accumulated over 200,000 volumes. if we have a gem in the collection, it is probably going to be this one. it's one of the books we're most proud of. it's in the original binding from 16 , and it was once owned by a very famous scientist. you can see he's written his name, i.-newton and we're not pulling it out so much because it's starting to flake away on the title page. >> then we look at american civil war. >> pioneer medicine is a long stretch from what it is today. you consider the things we take for granted today when we go to the doctor, things like the instruments being as germ-free as possible or the doctor has wash