over what is happening over their department which has not always been the case to the government level where dhs a can play that roll across departments and agencies hand in hand with omb understanding where they need to make improvements and how they're secure and giving them the feedback and really holding agencies accountable with o & m with whether or not they're effectively managing their cyber risks. >> the federal modernization act gives us the tools that we need to do that. it's twofold. first it establishes and clarifies the role as that government wide for the civilian government measure and motivator of cyber security for departments and agencies and then the second thing it does it helps us move away from this thick binder compliance approach to cyber security to approach where we gather -- we use

computers to measure how secure computers are and that's where we need to be. when you have millions of computers in the federal government going around with a clipboard is not the way. you have to use computers to assess how secure they are, so one of the things we got out of fizz pha is in fact the positive authorization to do continuous diagnostics and 34eu9 tkpwaeugsand they get a tool where they have a dashboard and gives them a status of their own environment and we get a tool where we have a roll-up dashboard where we can help them understand how they stand next to next to each other. whether one department is doing a great job and we have lessons that we can take and share with other departments. this is really a pro foundly important tool for us. >> just as general counsel's from private companies have questions who is this organization that's going to

come in and look at our networks and work with us, agencies have counsel who also ask that question. you have the capability you'll put this on your network. what is this all about? now it's laid out in statute that they have the authority to deploy technologies on to the network of other agencies. so i think that's enormously helpful and makes clear the continuing strong role for omb in these issues. omb and d. s enjoy a very strong relationship here and the statute solidifies that in terms of the working together. want to reference that at all? >> i think that's a great point. ultimately if you've been in the federal government you recognize that departments and agencies are most likely to listen to budgets. so omb has the budgetary hammer that departments and agencies are responsive to. we at dhs will never have that

so we look to omb to be the bad cop and we're the good cop. and that's a more pleasant role for me to be. i hope no one from omb is here, i just called them the bad cop but i think that's valuable role in working together. we're helping agencies secure themselves and they're saying, look this is what is sayable and not acceptable. >> third area we wanted to talk about and we'll talk about briefly is developing the cyber work force. this is obviously a major issue. how do we develop people who know how to do this kind of work long term. so the board of pro troll pay reform act of 2014 actually includes language that are addressed at the sign are workforce. i want to ask how many more you expect to have employed in the n kick but that would take us within the strong direction. it gives within that statute there is a provision that gives

dhs the similar authorities to the defense department in terms of setting pay scale and incentives for cyber professionals. >> maybe we're patrolling the borders of cyber space. i cannot overstate how important this is. we've literally lose people every day who are willing to come to dhs and work long hours in the luxurious office environment we provide them, flickering lights and somewhat dingy carpet but they're willing to do it because they believe in the mission and they know how incredibly important it is. but after a few years they look around and they say, oh my goodness i could make literally six times the salary in the private sector. is one year in the privilege it sector worth six years in the government for me? and we lose them. some of that we recognize.

we'll never have that lifetime career employee at dhs. we recognize we'll always have people going back and forth to the private sector and that's healthy. we have to have the best talent and when the pay differential is so incredibly vast as it is right now and it's -- it's a wonderful compliment to us that the private sector is poaching its employees left and right but not sustainable for us so this is really important to us. >> fourth area, friday the president signed a new executive order. weigh pbtd to address that. a new executive order on the idea of information sharing and designed to try to encourage more sharing of information between the private sector and the government. the executive order builds on the foundation of the n kick legislation that i talked about ef preusly and we need have to the praoeuf et sector willing to

share that type of information and that's what the executive order is going about or trying to tackle and encourages the development of strong association to private sector partners. every company can't have an office here to lobby the hill. you group together and from that grouping you approach the hill or others here. and the same things or needs to happen in information sharing. so this executive order tries to encourage the development of strong associations that will allow this type of information sharing. they're called information sharing analysis organizations which i think we're pronouncing as eye sales. people and groups and organizations, companies can group together and then approach the federal government. there are a number of them now.

there are a number of these already. under the executive order the president is directing dhs to enter into an agreement with a non-governmental organization to identify a common set of voluntary stabbedndards or guidelines that will deal with the creation and functioning of these organizations. essentially non governmental organization establishes standards for these private associations and the thinking is developed and deepened in these organizations. >> do you want to comment on it? >> absolutely. so i mentioned before that there's no way that the government is going to be able to help every company in america to secure itself. we view ourselves as an enabler. we're trying to help companies understand what best practices are and implement them and

effectively respond. we have information sharing analysis right now. they're sector based and great job of helping their members protect themselves against cyber threats. we need more. we need every company in america that has the capability and interest to have an i sal available to them and matches their needs. there are two problems that we were mering from the private sector. one is there were organizations, firms coming to us and saying, look, we want to be a part of an organization sharing, but we don't fit in the sectors where they have those. though are the traditional sector model. we said, look, we're a law firm and there is not a sector for law firms but we face cyber threats.

what i sack do we join. so that was one of our first realizations is look, trust comes in all shapes and sizes and our job as a government is to encourage the creation of these trust groups, help them share information with each other and then help them if they're interested and willing share information with the government so we can connect them and that an intrusion over here quickly shares the information that helps every inoculate themselves. that was the first recognition. we need to work with organizations beyond just these sector based i sack which have been extraordinarily successful but we need to accept other organizations. geographically based organizations and folks have come together in different seventies. they're asking us why wouldn't we recognize them and we said, why shouldn't we recognize them? we should. that's one thing that this expectative order does. it says, we'll work with you.

did you decide what shape you want to take. we'll work with you. the second problem is companies would come to us and say, we understand information sharing is important. there isn't an organization that fits us so we'll form an organization. let's do it. what do we do? we said, well, you know here's the kinds of things it does. let's connect you with some of the more effective existing i sales. and then it's all on you. you have to do all the work. sorry, we're here for advice and help but we don't have a system set up to build a new organization and we got a lot of companies saying, we're ready to do it. we want to build an organization. don't make us reinvent this wheel every time. again, that was exactly the right thing. so we said okay. we're going to help you come up with best practices that delineate what an effective i sal is.

you don't have to start from scratch and invent the whole theory and come up with it on your own. we'll run a standards process to come up with a set of best practices for i sales. that's going to take some time because want it to be a consult active process. about you that led to the framework which has been a really successful way of promise you will gating best practices and our hope and intent is this will promise you will gate how you'll set up an analysis organization and that will lead to the creation of lots of these organizations that are successfully serving their members. >> the last thing we want to talk about is the president's information sharing legislation proposal. this we could have spent the entire hour on and we'll spend you two minutes and give it you and turn it over to questions.

2015 legislative proposal was sent to congress in january is on information sharing. there were a number of other cyber security reivelated legislative proposals we won't touch on. the relevant one is information sharing. it encourages the private sect tore share appropriate threat indicator information with the n kick and does that through providing targeted liability protection for company that's share that information with the n kick, tick will the proposed language to state no civil or criminal cause of action shall lie or be maintained in any federal or state court against any entity for the voluntary exposure to the n kick or a private information sharing and analysis organization cyber threat indicator. moreover, the federal government would be restricted on how it could use that information.

for example, proposed legislation states no federal entity may use a cyber threat indicator received pursuant to this act as evidence in a regulatory enforcement agency against an entity that disclosed that information. so it's trying to establish a regime of some targeted liability protection. again, we could spend literally an hour on this. we're just going to give you a little bit of it. what does that add to the landscape we've been describing? >> first, dan, i think you called me the braune one earlier but now the long winded 1. companies share information now and that's awesome and great. we have formal agreements with over 110 significant sophisticated companies and i sales. they share information with us every day and that information in turn helps protect other companies and the nation at

large but it's too hard and we need more companies to share. this legislation will accomplish that. i think there are a few key aspects to it. one of those narrowly tailored. they're very broad. they're trying to eat the whole apple at once. this is a bite from the apple but but we think it's the right bite. it's about cyber threat caters. you're sharing an indicator doesn't mean that you're breached a company that's defending itself successfully will learn about caters all day every day. they'll see it attempted intrusions and block them and they'll say that one was a little different let me share the key information so others can protect themselves. sharing an indicator does not mean that a company is having to come forward and say, hey, somebody broke in. i think that's a really key distinction. it helps the company be less nervous about sharing but also frankly it's the information we need. this is the information that

network defenders use all day every day to defend themselves. so it's a right information at the least concern for the company. second, it's not incident information. as i just said, if you have a -- if you need -- if you have an incident and you need to call law enforcement that falls outside the scope of the legislation. if you have law enforcement investigation that's a much more rich and deep interaction with the government than just sharing a threat indicator is. that's one reason why the legislation is very clear to say that existing relationships whether with law enforcement or otherwise are not touched by this legislation. it's only focused by those cyber threat caters and that gives comfort to those who are concerned about privacy and civil liberties. there are a lot of protections in place in this legislation for privacy and civil liberties. we think it strikes the right balance and give us the information we need to help network defenders defend themselves and lower that bar so

that companies are more comfortable sharing. >> we have thrown a lot out. i think we have maybe ten minutes or so for some questions. i don't know if you want to moderate that. throw it open to you for questions. >> bridge the generation gap. i found the last half hour or two not only interesting but understandable. i hope c-span can move this to other times other than 3 o'clock in the morning. we have time for a couple questions and i know we're into billable hours for some of you. question. >> it should shut down actually

occur. i'm assuming most of the operational personnel or essential personnel would remain on the job. is that accurate? what other programs and talk about what would happen in terms of operational versus problematic in our position? >> i'm gravely concerned about the impact on our cyber security efforts if there's a shut down at dhs. roughly half of the personnel were furloughed as a result of the shut down. it would be similar numbers. what does that mean day to day? the people standing watch 24/7 on that watch floor will continue to work there. a number of practice contracts could be disrupted and less timely analysis .

fewer people available and fewer resources available to disasepl mr. and less timely in information sharing and slow down in the operations that need to be happening. it enables agency cio's to know it it. we're currently working right now with departments and agencies to select senseers and then roll them out and that would not happen at all during a shut down. we also roll a program called eye stein and we're rolling out einstein three. think about it as a guard house and the guard house checks the traffic come into the government and stops malicious traffic and attacks.

we plan to roll that out over the next few weeks. moving our coverage to 20% to almost half of the government trouble. that would be delayed and there would be no action taken on it during the shut down. now, you might say well, the government hasn't had this protection in place for a while what does the few extra months hurt? and i'll say well, honestly we suffer attacks and intaougsz every day in the government. and you never know which attack will take the critical piece of data and remove it from the government and give it to a foreign nation state. >> law firms or organizations

have tremendous amount of information that directly relates to clients whom we're trying to protect. what group do they fall in or does it cut in? >> we have talked here to this committee about that issue and we need to continue to talk about that issue. it's not just law firms but i think accounting firms as well. firms are we're trying to develop more awareness in that area, maybe even an i sal for law firms and accounting firms. currently law firms don't fit in one of these sectors.

>> what i would add law firms are absolutely a target of the most sophisticateded a saeurryes. what i would watch each and every one of you is go back to the firm and ask what they're doing because you are very much a target. >> please join me in thanking mike and mike and mike for a terrific presentation. >> thank you for coming out. that concludes our breakfast program. thank you. here some of our featured program for this weekend on the c-span networks. saturday morning starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern live on c-span our nation's governers

get together. guests include danny myier, ceo of union square hospital it pat group. we continue our live coverage of the national governor's association meeting 2350e67 featured speakers include homeland security speaker and epa administrator gina mc carthy. on c-span two, book tv is on the road experiencing the literary life of greensboro, north carolina part of the 2015 c-span cities tour and on sunday wes moore retraces his career choices. choices to time his life's purpose. and on american history tv, saturday night just after 7:00 the 1963 interview of former nation of islam minister malcolm x discussing race relations and

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joined by elise from "huffington post". your article in "huffington post" talked about the stand still on the measure the department of homeland security spending measure including the court order. what's latest as the senate comes back? >> well, so, they've been at an impasse for weeks and they still are over this funding bill. basically the problem is that republicans say they won't support funding the department of homeland security unless there is a component to end these actions taken by the president that would give work permits and the ability to stay to undocumented immigrants. republicans say they can't support anything that doesn't block those and democrats say they don't support anything that includes blocking these actions. both sides have dug in their heels and stuff to say. the likeliest thing is that they

end up kicking it down the road and doing another continuing resolution and we have this fight again later this year. >> they halted the implementation of some of those executive orders and late this week the white house saying this they will seek a stay of that. the department of justice. how does the texas order complicate the debate in the senate? >> i think there is potential that could be used to break the stalemate so if republicans were to say, okay, these things aren't going forward anyway, maybe we could support some sort of bill that would fund the department. while these orders aren't taking play. the fact that the obama administration is seeking a stay that would allow these programs while this whole thing gets sorted out sort of complicates things because it it would make it if they succeeded the programs would continue to go into effect. it's exactly what the republicans don't want. at the moment it appears that

it's not necessarily going to help matters. this injunction won't change much. >> remind us of the deadline congress faces >> the deadline is february 27th. they need to do something by then or they face a shut down. on monday the senate will vote again on this bill that already passed the house. it failed multiple times before because the democrats blocked it. they're going to block it it again. i don't think anything has changed. the idea is to continue showing the house that the senate can't pass the house's bill so ultimately they're going to have to come up with some type of of plan b. >> let's look at a big priority.

the nomination of loretta lynch to be attorney general. we understand a vote is likely in the committee next week. how many republicans will it take to pasture and what does that look like in terms of passage in the senate? >> there are cell republicans who have indicated support for lynch. the problem is whether republicans would try and block her on the floor. you have people like ted cruz and jeff sessions the issue of immigration they won't allow loretta lynch nomination to move forward. there is potential that if they wanted to pasture and confirm her in the full senate they would have to do that and mcconnell would have to do that on relying mostly democrats rather than mostly republicans

and that would be awkward. it's looking like there are a decent number that do not support her. >> a look at what's ahead on congress of the you can read more at huffing post.com. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> keep track of the republican led congress and follow its new members. >> earlier this week the national press foundation honored u.s. journalists for its work covering the ferguson, missouri shooting and protest. other honorees were george stephanopoulos and this is an hour and a half.

>> good evening and thank you for being with us here tonight. we have an incredible group of award winners. so let's begin. the award for career long excellence in broadcast journalism is awarded this year to george stephanopoulos, abc news chief anchor. [applause] >> good morning, america. hello again. >> welcome to election night 2014. >> we are coming on the air right now because president obama is about to speak. >> welcome to an important night here in washington. >> thank you for honoring our george. i don't have to tell you how deserving he is. i'm blessed to look at my left every morning and to see him right there. >> new gm a coanchor.

>> no one prepares for an interview or assignment like george. >> i sat down with the man in the middle of it officer darren wilson telling his side of the story. >> you're convinced were white this would go down the same way? >> no. >> you can tell from my interviews what do you say to russians that america is an unfriendly adversary? he called secretary of state clinton and enemy of iran? we have learned abc abc news has learned that osama bin laden has been killed. >> george is fully in control.

>> three gunmen on the loose. >> he is calm and collected. >> such a sad morning in newtown, connecticut. that announcement from jason collins. did you always know you were gay? several senators wrote a letter encouraging hillary clinton to run. >> george is the best interviewer on television. >> would you recommend putting american boots on the ground? who is the most consistent conservative candidate and the best able to defeat president obama? when you said you loved him and

think he is awesome -- ♪ >> let's check in with george on traffic. bumper to bumper. >> george is exactly the same person off-camera as he is on camera. >> he is brilliant every morning. [indiscernible] >> he is a dear, loyal friend. i love that man, and a good family man, too. every morning during a he is a dear, loyalcommercial break he calls his daughters at home before they

head out the school. >> george, no one deserves this award more than you. from all of us, many congratulations. >> standby -- >> george -- commercial>> please welcome mr. george stephanopoulos. [applause] >> thank you. thank you, dennis rodman. that was just a second before the interview again and i would like to say there are times in the course of my career i have interviewed people who were drunk. i think in the course of my career i have interviewed people who were high, i think, and also people who were hung over. never all three at the exact same time. [laughter] i want to thank all my

colleagues, robin roberts, the leadership of our team, our team in washington, jonathan greenberger, although he is now the bureau chief in washington and executive producer of "this week." i hate being the age when your former interns are now your bosses. it is an honor to work with them every day, and a lot of fun as well. it is a real honor to be before you tonight to receive this award. it is impossible for anyone in my position went something like this is happening not to think of the journalists who every day are risking for more than those of us who cover the news in washington and new york. at least 61 killed over the last year, including james foley. more than 100 kidnapped. journalists all over the world

many trained by the national press foundation, who are putting their lives on the line, their reputations, their families at risk to hold people to hold institutions accountable, and that is amazing work. i am grateful for the chance to be doing this work. i started on the other side, i spent the first half of my career on politics, and when i think of my beginnings in abc 1997 close to 20 years ago, a lot of people were not sure that i could do this, including me. charlie gibson gave me some pretty pointed questions. peter jennings also used to criticize whymy tie five seconds before i would go on life. i remember ted koppel coming to me when i first started. he pulled me into my office and he said, are you sure you can do this? are you sure you can be fair and it rocks me back on my

heels. when we finished talking he aid me something which -- he gave me something which i have kept every day since. it was a card given to him by fred friendly, and this card was given to him by a broadcasting pioneer, at abc back in the 1 930's. he was the first broadcast news president of radio news at the time, and he gave all his journalists this card where they laid out the responsibilities, and it said the job of an analyst is to point out facts on both sides, to show contradictions with a known record. they should bear in mind into democracy it is important people not only should know, but understand and it is the analyst's function without the listener understand, judge, and not do the judging for them. that is a standard set at the beginning of the broadcast age.

it rings as true today as it rang then. it is as clear a statement of our mission as i could possibly imagine. and thank you all for this honor tonight. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen -- ms. -- baker. >> good evening. i want to congratulate sandy our new president of the national press foundation, your very first dinner appear, and a fantastic one at that. my grandfather said that the mind will retain what the seat will and doeendure. you put together a great dinner and the program you have put together i think the retention span will endure for the night.

so every year i play a clip from "my grandfathered derksen so we do not remember -- dirksen so we do not remember him as a marble building. you have to hear him to understand what he is about. this year i picked a clip -- there so much chaos and unrest today abroad with the crisis in syria and iraq and ukraine and terrorist threats in egypt and libya and africa. so i have chosen a clip tonight i'm 1960 where my grandfather describes the unrest and overthrow of governments in africa today tantrum and unruliness of the soviet premiered nikki ditch chris jeff to the -- nikita khrushchev to

castro eating chickens live in his hotel room, and all this in a minute 30. >> you pick up the paper and on the front page you notice that a -- and fires -- and mobutu fires both of them and -- comes along and wonders who he can fire. and you wonder what goes on in congo land, and you get concerned. and then nikita comes to the u.n. takes off his shoes, and beats on the table, to express his frustration because he went home empty-handed, and nikita, believe me, knows how strong this country really is. and then for good measure fidel

comes -- that means fidelity -- fidel castro comes and he moves from one hotel to the other and brings his own live chickens along to make sure that somebody would not slip something into his food, and cooks them on a hotplate. when the proprietor saw it, he fainted and they took him to a hospital [laughter] then there was a four-hour 28-minute speech. wonderful business. [applause] >> and that was everett dirksen. appropriately, the dirksen award goes to does recognize for best reporting of congress, hovering congress the actions of elected officials, and the workings of congressional policies and policy makers. tonight the first award goes to

greg johnson and his colleagues at buzzfeed. this was a riveting piece of journalism looking at the power that congress gave president bush after 9/11. it was called the most dangerous sentence in history, and is still in use today, describing the president's power of force then that the power of force he uses today. greg johnson at buzzfeed for the dirksen award congratulations. [applause] >> thanks. every award is special and this one is particularly so for me because it recognizes the piece that i wrote the first piece i wrote for buzzfeed, as a michael

hastings national security fella. michael was a tenacious reporter. one of the things that i loved about michael was just how skeptical he was. he did not turust those in power because they spoke silently and wore the suits in that those in power where and it is something in reminder to me and hopefully to all of us that we watch congress and the president authorizing a new debate authorization of presidential force. and another did such fascinating follow-up reporting. [applause] and also in the audience is my first and my favorite reader, my wife.

you can clap. [applause] and finally, the triumvirate of three of the best editors i think in the business, then . it is not often you find editors the to give you such freedom and have such great patience and also allow you to write a 10,000-word piece. thank you all very much. [applause] >> all right. the second award goes to cnn's d rew griffin. in his series -- you can clap. [applause] it is above gotcha journalism. drew physically shows and

explains how members of congress can use their individual pac money to enjoy luxury trips and while at the same time raising enormous amounts of money. the video of members and lobbyists at a ski lodge and playing golf makes the saying a picture is worth a thousand words true. here's a video. [video clip] >> drew griffin hates awards. both true and i consider the dirksen award the very top of the top because it is pretty good to be included. drew and his producer have spent a lot of time working on a series that we commissioned to open the door and little bit into the world of money and politics. here's a quick look at one of those pieces. >> for a washington lobbyist this is the world of unlimited

access. political fundraising junkets leave d.c. every weekend. they meet at luxury resorts where lobbyists schmooze, drink booze, and get what one lobbyist tells cnn is a most valuable asset you could have. critics say it is the epitome of paid to play politics. >> why are they so important? >> i didn't consent to an interview right now. >> a few questions about why you have these weekends. >> politicians raise funds and this is what we do. >> you spoke so eloquently about the disc and they did -- about the disconnect representatives. >> i enjoy skiing. >> few people ever want to talk to drew. >> here is the question.

$64 million raised over three years and none of the money has gone to veterans. >> you have any other questions, please send them to her e-mail. >> when our camera found james reynolds junior, he major we got the message with a single finger salute. >> thank you very much. >> i got to ask you about the money. that does not answer any of the questions about the money that -- that is it? >> do you notice a pattern? one official tried running into the ladies room to escape drew. what happened? >> do you know it convicted felon who apparently runs one of these clinics and has been billing the state of california or several years despite the fact that there have been complaints registered with the department about him? >> we note drew broke -- we know

true broke the v.a. scandal wide open. >> that is the rector of the phoenix medical facility. --on monday she sped from our cameras. >> well you talk to us, director? >> this is a pattern, one we are proud to have, and it is good to know that drew is welcome someplace in washington, d.d. -- d.c. congratulations on winning the dirksen award, drew. >> drew griffin. [applause] >> thank you very much. what an honor, and it is rare to come to this town and not only be welcome but be applauded. it is quite odd. to be honest with you i want to

read you a quote from a senior staff person who did not agree with the judges about our work and sent this note to cnn -- i will not say if it is a her or him -- that the pressure on the cathedral of chattering sk ull. this piece from drew griffin last night is this the shocking thing i have seen in use. is a complete piece of trash. idiotic would be a description of this piece of filth. i would like to thank anderson and charlie moore the executive producer of that stroke who never grow tired of getting our filth on their air. it is a pleasure to work with them. i want to thank sam in our audience who morning after morning has to answer that phone call from a p.o.'d member. i appreciate your help keeping

the employed, keeping cnn in good standing in this town. nothing that goes on the air goes on the air without a team high and it appeared there is no one person who put stuff on the air, so i want to thank our stall but mighty investigative team with us tonight our executive director, all of our producers, and especially david fitzpatrick, who was the lead producer on this series where we continue to call congress for seo. >> our award winners, from a variety of backgrounds broadcasting print, online cartoons, but it is the evolution of -- that binds our work together as journalists. tonight we take a few moments to consider the influence advancing technology has had as we try to navigate our journeys into this new area. joining us to share his thoughts is gabriel snyder, editor of

"the new republic." welcome. snyder: hello. i want to thank the national press foundation for inviting me to speak, ankara gradually to all the winners -- and congratulations to all the winners for being presented. my name is gabriel snyder, and i am an optimist in the future of journalism. we live in a golden age of communications. many of you no doubt are reaching for your phones right now. maybe you already have an instant review of this speech to tweet. go ahead. it is a brave new world. maybe you are texting for a clever -- you may be sitting out there closing a piece with an editor stuck back home while working on your second drink.

in some ways, journalism never changes. yes, we know this magical device in your hands can ask people in ways that were better science fiction two decades ago, but we seem unsure as to whether that is a good thing for this craft and public service we celebrate tonight. there is doubt whether the journalists can survive in this digital age, that of course we can because we must. a vibrant influential and independent craft is vital to democracy. we also know that these tiny devices have rocked havoc -- brought havoc. the revenue stream that pays for that service, predicated on limited distribution and monopolies, have been totally undone by the supercomputers in our pockets and purses. there have been changes for organizations. we know the pain caused by the last take it on restructurings. why am i an optimist?

because it is clear that the same technologica purses. l disruptions have uncovered massive new opportunities and audiences for the journalism we cherish. far from being a dying art, we discover that journalism is just getting started. people like nate silver come as her klein -- silver, ezra klein -- the great mr. carr was instrumental in leading the place where he worked from being the definition of the old ways into it and innovative organization it is today. there are great challenges, because the printing presses giving way to apixels is not mean our values change. the publication i edit has

lately been going through some changes of its own. we may be a little more vertical, more integrated. actually, the fantastic team of writers, editors and developers in the new york and d.c. offices are making magazines, websites and social media that advance the mission that our founder outlined 100 years ago. he summed up the new publication is radically progressive. a journal of opinion which seeks to meet the challenge of the new time. herbert, i could not agree more. if our founders that down today to settle on the best ways to achieve this mission, he would not have picked a printed magazine as their best hope to achieve it. they were smart people. they would not ignore an array of publishing possibilities, and like any publication with hopes of success in 2015, they would want the new republic to be better at welcoming into our

fold readers, writers, and editors reflect the american experience as it exists today. the new republic's the funny ability has been that of reinvention. in the endless pursuit of america's promise, it has known it also needed to improve itself. today the question we must ask is, what should the new republic be in its next 100 years? the new republic will be a home for ambitious journalism and provocative ideas. what will changes how we will go about delivering them. our biggest opportunity to reach new readers and advanced ideas will be digital. an effective digital storytelling is essentially collaborative. it does not make sense to organize our editorial staff by a format. instead, our staff will work together in teams made up of

editors, writers, designers, and developers who will decide the best ways to tell each storedi es. the very first words in our very first issue were " the new republic frankly is an experiment." and that is how we are working right now. in new york and d.c., it feels like an experiment. it is fun, it is tough, it is racing, scary, and sometimes we will screw up, but we are conducting this for a reason. we believe in great journalism. journalism is the pursuit of insight of new knowledge of truth, and the truth is this recent revolution and the ways of human direction are not conversing. the pace of change will likely increase in five years' time. references in this speech may be

as quaint as a pneumatic tube. if we stick to our values to discover inform, the light, i am sure we can commit pretty great acts of journalism, and that is why i am an optimist. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, gabriel. i appreciate your support of npf. there is another person that i would like to recognize tonight, bob myers. after 21 years -- [applause] of leading the national press foundation after training journalists around the world after developing hundreds of programs under critical issues that reporters cover, bob is leaving the foundation for greener fields or should i say turf because wentz -- when i heard about his plan to retire i cannot fathom what he might

want to do other than going to the office every day. this does not compute. and then i learned his leaving us is simply a's team to attend more baseball games. i know that is hard to believe. and so i have come to recognize this, and it is tonight that we recognize the distinguished conference of bob myers, because he has given so much to our profession. he has dedicated his career to making to make thousands of journalists that are including many of us in this room. so, bob, on behalf of all of us, thank you. take you for your leadership and form building the national press foundation into the strong organization that we all know today, and celebrate tonight. and so to get you started on this new adventure, we have some pretty awesome seats for you at a nationals game this year.

thank you so much, bob. >> thank you. the seats are in their? -- in there? and spring training starts this week. [applause] so i think all of you and thank you, heather for this wonderful recognition. it has been a lot of fun for me and my wife and child, and we are very grateful. just briefly, i joined npf after years of a reporter, editor, book writer, and fellowship director. in those years i gained two essential insights. journalists learn by asking questions and often people do not like being asked questions.

reporters in any medium can be pushy, insistent, and at least in my case, badly dressed. [laughter] so this is what we did at npf. in our one-hour segment we would stop segment and go to q&a. we instituted breaks between sessions of journalists and speakers could chat. for our international programs, we added multiple sessions on journalism practice, american journalism practice, and set up editor reporter sessions where ways of covering a topic were discussed. we always make a point of selecting journalists who clearly show in their applications that they want to learn and whose editors and producers

we do constant evaluations for the staff can tell how we are accomplishing our goals. we seek to stay on top of the news that also get ahead of the news. our topics can be anything from politics to welfare to children to retirement and measles and vaccinations and the idea is to provide information that the public needs to understand the issues and help make journalists better. for me, these last two decades have been a really great ride. one of which i am grateful to the npf board and all of you here for supporting our efforts. i also want to extend a note of appreciation to the wonderful staff for their creative help through the years and thank sandy johnson for helping make this transition so smooth and to

express the excitement i feel in seeing the changes she is bringing about. a show of recognition and appreciation of this evening means so much to me, my wife, rosemarie, and our son sam. thank you very much. [applause] i have been given in the picture -- honor of introducing -- the winner of the benjamin c bradley editor of the year award. -- benjamin c. bradlee award for his coverage in ferguson missouri. bradlee the oldest and most for an editor in the country. ben joined us for the first night we gave the award and on a number of locations as well.

his passing this past year saddens and diminishes us all. here's a brief video about gilbert bailon's work. [video clip] >> ferguson, missouri was unknown to most people previous to last august. when our staff responded to the shooting, we found the story was going to be huge for the country but also very important for us here. >> the protests have been like a band-aid being ripped off. tensions that have always been here and now they are out in the open. ♪ >> you had the daily uncertainty of how big they live news events will be, whether a rally would turn into a violent encounter

with police late at night. >> our staff in the coming months and weeks were working in difficult circumstances and surviving teargas and of all from looters. and people were criticizing our reporting. we did outstanding journalism. -- assault from looters. >> now that it be teargas canisters are not been launched and buildings are not being burned anymore, the issues of distrust and disparity that really launched everything are still with us today not only in st. louis. >> problems like poverty, lack a representation, and other issues that we will continue to delve into. >> gilbert was everything you would want in a newsroom leader at a time like of this. he was a cheerleader, helped keep people popped up about what

was going on and the kinds of work we were doing. he was a good voice when we had issues that came up and needed to talk with someone not write down the front line. >> he's done pretty much every job in the newsroom and has risen up through the ranks and that gives some great credibility with the staff. and has the deepest journalistic integrity. >> throughout the protests, gilbert would ask how photographers are doing and if they have the right equipment. the type of questions from someone who is trusted you. >> it is important role for a regional newspaper to step forward on a story that's national and international significance with great journalism. [applause]

>> congratulations. >> thank you very much. before i make a few remarks about ferguson, i would like to acknowledge my family. my wife and my daughter, breanna , and family and friends. [applause] i would also like to knowledge our company for giving us the resources and latitude and equipment and patience for us to do our jobs and doing journalism under a great deal of stress. i have a few remarks i would like to read. our coverage in ferguson they came a local story of a police shooting. a quickly transformed into a national event depicted by street protest which gave rise to looting, burning, violent unrest that shocked the nation and our midwestern hometown. a central suburb of 21,000

people, the came -- it became #ferguson. the images of violence pain, police presence, a powerful national wake-up call. other police killings and brutality on long festering societal problems. issues involving criminal justice system, policing tactics, concentrated poverty, race relations disenfranchisement, and equities and educational opportunities. ferguson is no outlier. it has been elevated as a symbol and called to action. the reward is recognition for every journalist and every support staff from in the post dispatcher newsroom. i have never been involved in such a volatile local news story whose impact will project for generations. the post dispatcher journalists are forever changed as well. their professionalism and demonstration.

they were crazily day and night. -- as they worked daily and night. they donned gas masks and some were attacked. some were pepper spread by police. one photographer was chased out of a home owner -- out of the backyard of a home owner. ferguson reestablished how newspapers are real time. our community relied on journalists for the last six months. our journalists are the heroes tonight. the violent unrest has subsided but the depolymerization and intensity of emotion continues in the st. louis area. the goals are huge. in letters and phone calls and e-mails a social media, web best subject to races and via language. at the height, police were al

qaeda one reporter's house -- were stationed outside of one reporter's house. others say they would counsel subscriptions if we continue to print ferguson news on the front paper. both for the post dispatcher journalists that stayed focused and continued despite an emotional public, that outgrowth of issues have validated a vigorous news media. it defies the message that we have become obsolete. human stores to seek facts and investigate and speak with a strong editorial voice and hold institutions accountable. that's a workable in door for years in the newsroom. -- that work will endure four

years and the newsroom. on their behalf, i except this award. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. this year it is my honor to present the chairman citation to brian krebs, founder of krebs on security.com and author of the bestseller. he has demonstrated that one journalist can build a digital news organization from the ground up. he has shown one journalist can have an impact across an entire industry by upholding the highest standards of reporting. he is a pioneer in covering crime and conflict cyberspace while facing frightening physical threats and relentless

digital assault as result of his on the ground coverage of ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to introduce you to mr. brian krebs. [applause] >> well, thank you very much heather. my name is brian krebs and i am a recovering journalist. i want to thank the national press foundation for this prestigious award. it is a great honor and hugely rewarding particularly since the last three recipients of this reward have been washington post reporters and political prize winners to boot. the lady great anthony sneed won

2 lists are's for his reported in the middle east of which he gave his life. [applause] and colbert won a pulitzer at "the washington post." i said this was a humbling experience for me and i meant that in every sense of the word. prior to my getting a real job at "the washington post," i was a copy aid for about 45 years so i deliver these guys' mail and faxes on a daily basis. it is incredible and kind of surreal for me to be up here. i am really excited about this award, a big score for independent journalists. [applause]

the absolute hardest thing about being independent especially if you go from being in a major newsroom is making that phone call to an important person, import organization and saying, it is just me. they go, all, one news organization? it is just me, sorry about that. it takes a little bit getting used to. probably the most rewarding at fact of being on your own -- aspect of being on your own, you don't have to chase the story that everybody is chasing. you get at the time and space to really chase the story that matter. if you are lucky enough to get other reporters to chase your stories. ever since i left "the post," i worked to convince some of my most dissatisfied or dissolutions colleague in

newsrooms out to their to go out on their own and really -- i've watched some of my best friends in different newsrooms happen to take unpaid furloughs to keep their jobs. having to do a lot less with more area they have to be assigned or reassigned to more advertising beats. and they are asked to sort a focus on doing stores that attract a lot more eyeballs and clicks than actual real journalism. the biggest reason i am excited about this award, it gives me a bigger megaphone to be the main, independent reporter guy and to push that message out there. if you have a deeper knowledge of what you do and a niche and you love what you do and you are passionate about that, you should consider going independent.

you will almost certainly work harder, thank you. you will almost certainly work harder than you have ever worked before. but i think you will probably be happier. probably be wealthier and will still be producing fantastic journalism, if you're doing it right. so, here is my open invitation to all of you out to their, it -- out there, if he thought about going independent and maybe your not really sure. do me a favor -- shooting me a note. i am more than happy to talk to any of you about the failures, successes, all of its. once again, i want to thank npr for having me here. i want to thank my own amazing this is manager mrs. krebs who

is seated in the middle of the room. had to put all with an unbelievable amount of crap on my behalf for five years in thank you for having me here. [applause] >> our next award is as loose in online journalism to take -- for exceptional coverage. it features smart commentary, top-notch reporting on the industry that is constantly changing. repost has shown quality journalism brings success in this highly competitive environment, accepting the award is amy schaltz. [applause] >> thank you very much.

i am a senior editor for f re/code. my bosses wish they could be here but they are moderating a conference tonight and they could not make it. one of six conferences and that re/code will be hosting and they are important in this brave, new digital world. it is really only been a year since the re/code team broke away from "the wall street journal" to form our own organization. we post seven days a week from new york, washington, l.a., and san francisco. we spent a lot of time on features. it might seem a little weirder since we publish online instead of dead trees but we found they are among the most popular stories on our site. last year, we published re/code

series on innovative cities including boston and las vegas and are planning to do more. among our feature stories was a look at the burning man and how one las vegas house of ill repute was the official brothel of ces. we could do this alone and will want to offer a thanks for our friends at nbc. nbc is an investor and the folks are generous in helping reporters learn how to stop embarrassing ourselves on live tv. sadly, some of us are learning faster than others. the entire re/code team is -- we thank you for this tremendous honor. [applause] -- thrilled we caught the attention. >> we are proud to recognize the successes of news organizations

that have embraced the digital landscape. that's why were pleased to announce the development of a new series of digital awards to continue and better honor those who make the best use of technology and innovation to make journalism better. we will be announcing more about the series of awards in the coming year. our next award is given to journalism that shows the impact of rules and regulations on local communities area tonight's recipient is thomas frank of "usa today." [applause] history showing how unsafe -- hit series showing how -- please welcome thomas frank. [applause]

>> i know i one of the last ones. i am from "usa today," so i will be brief. [laughter] isn't that a great line? i would like to take credit for it but i heard it for the first time 15 years ago. [laughter] actually, i think newhart trademarked it. as much is i have wanted to use it, it is inexplicable because i from the investigative team so what i should say is get comfortable, faux. -- folks. i one for a five-part series that ran 17,000 words and something not trying to show personally even though that is a lot of words. but to make the point that the paper that a lot of you know is doing some serious, long firm, hard-hitting investigative journalism. i am really grateful to the

foundation for recognizing that. i am more grateful and proud to be working with an incredible team of people started with my editor and a really creative group of people who do terrific stuff online, who are the only guys here with really long hair. carter and mitchell and jerry and marine, -- maureen, and shannon green. so, i encourage all of you to go to the usa today website and we have a link for the investigation. it is next to the kardashian video gallery. [laughter] no, actually it is not. but, it is gratifying. to know when i got into this business 30 years ago, people

said, stay away from whatever you do. and go to good change like -- and we all know how that story ended. and so, i encourage all of you to understand what is going on at "usa today" as we tried to struggle like every other news organization. we've done something really really impressive and that is a real commitment to hard-hitting, investigative, groundbreaking journalism and i am grateful for that and thank you to the foundation. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen chairman and editor in chief of kiplinger publications.

>> a good evening, i have from the kiplinger and i will be briefer. [laughter] i am knight kiplinger and i am not related to those other knigh ts. wish i were, but i am not. our honorary this evening is the first kiplinger awardee in many years who has never worked as a professional journalist. but paradoxically, she is one of the most influential figures someone would say the most influential in journalism today. in the forefront of a movement to totally reshape their journalism profession to adapt to the new realities of the digital age alberto ibarguen

can be this dress more with force -- transformative force because under a lawyer and publisher and executive, their beats the heart of a journalist. while he was never a professional journalist, he was once a darn good student journalist. when he was the editor of the wesleyan university his senior year in 1965, when a bus load of students went down to alabama from connecticut that spring for the montgomery to selma march alberto deputized six of his fellow students to call him with their first-hand accounts. he gave each of them a dime to place a collect call from the payphone. for the younger of you here tonight, ask someone older as

the table was a collect call was and a pay phone. he told his fellow students when you are arrested, not if but when you are arrested, don't use this time to call your parents, your lawyer, or the dean -- call me. that is a tough editor. a few nights later, he sat by the phone with 4 empty pages in his layout for the next day. he waited and waited and then the collect calls started coming in with a vivid, first-hand accounts of police attacks on the peaceful marchers. we had one guy, he recalled, who was being beaten while he was on the phone in a phone booth. ask someone else at your table

was a phone booth is. well, alberto field though for empty pages that night, scooping the papers in connecticut that had already gone to press. -- field the -- filled the 4. why didn't you choose journalism for career? he had other ideas for helping his fellow man as a peace corps volunteer and then an attorney, working in legal aid, community activism and connecticut state government. the siren song of publishing called to him. he ended up being senior management, first at "the hartford current " and "long island newsday" and finally "the miami herald." she was passionate about editorial quality, community engagement, and connecting with

the readers. on his watch and "the herald," the paper won numerous pulitzers comes the first paper in america to list reporters' e-mail addresses into the story. well, as good a publisher as he was, it was alberto ibarguen's leadership of the knight foundation that has made him such a force in american journalism today. for the past 10 years, he has remade this foundation to be the leading supporter and funder and cheerleader for journalistic innovation. 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 save

television news or radio news, but how to figure out how to meet information needs in every way possible." so the knight foundation of funds at new ventures to help journalists use of the internet to find citizen sources for their reporting and research. to sustain new nonprofit news organizations. to create privacy protecting methods for whistleblowers to contact journalists online with safety. and to create a comprehensive database of donors to federal campaigns across america. the knight foundation is also a major funder of new media training for print and broadcast journalists. this is a mission that we acted the kiplinger foundation support through the kiplinger program for midcareer journalists at ohio state university.

it is all about teaching old dogs and some new -- young dogs valuable new tricks. as a profile in fast company magazine recently said, by reinventing the knight foundation, alberto ibarguen helped reinvent the news. it is for these contributions creative and yes financial, that the national press foundation at this evening the stoles upon this leader the kiplinger award for lifetime contribution to journalism. ladies and gentlemen, alberto ibarguen. [applause]

>> thank you knight, i think i have died and gone to heaven. i don't deserve that generous introduction but thank you for it. congratulations to all of the other winners tonight particularly my friend gilbert bailon for the extraordinary work that you done in lots of places and been there in the right place at the right time and across multiple media platforms. great a job. i was actually surprised when sandy johnson called and told me about this award's is most of the winners in the past have been journalists. rosenthal, head of a paper that i grew up with or jean roberts one of the great -- great editors are you to be in the company -- great editors and to be in the company is the

definition of an honor. of course, i am not sure this will get to me and he props at home. there was a family story that began when our son, was now first amendment counsel at hearst not that his father is too proud to mention a home. he was a reporter for the associated press and stuck on a story and mentioned he was stuck on this story. and he thought we were both in the same business. he said, mom pop is a lawyer who runs a newspaper and i am a journalist. i do not pretend to be a journalist, i never have. i admit to a lifelong passion of journalism and free expression and a faith in the wisdom of a well informed crowd. i have something else in common with my distinguished

predecessors a you tonight kiplinger himself and jack knight. we all grew up and became successful in a print oriented principles driven, hierarchical, state media world. we enjoyed few competitors highly profitable business, and a public service mission to inform. it in the space of about 10 years, newspapers and went from cash not to cost cutters struggling to make a profit so they could continue to serve. as always, chaos for some is opportunity for others to inform reach, around the people so they can determine their own interests. across the country, i see a lot of a senior in newsrooms. we work with many of them. -- i see a lot of fear in newsrooms.

from the movie network i am mad as hell and i will not take it anymore. when he began it this way when he ended that way, he said he doesn't know the solution but he knows he will not sit around and mo. -- mope. she's mad as hell and so should way. the best self-government is not possible without an informed citizenry and informed citizenry is impossible without good journalism. my view of the future of journalism starts with a simple observation -- the new digital age of communication all around us in our pockets and wrists is profoundly changing our economy, our communities, and our lives. if you care about journalism you will have to care about technology because that is how you will find your audience, reading viewing, listening,

commenting, producing, and distributing news. journalism and news people must care about the devices people use, about how they will use them, and about how they will value the information, depending on the platform or device. you can wring your hands, pray for time to freeze, so the new republic will never change and the times picayune will return to full print or you can look with hope and good will as a current leadership works to find a way that fits the times. as so often is the case, you have two choices curse or light of the council. at knight, we choose the light. were mad as hell and we're doing something about it. values matter, training matter maintain programs for journalism schools as you see on the slides. deans, fellowships, new degrees

training in person and online, we're funded hundreds media from prototypes to real-time news to open source community engagement platforms. we've turned m.i.t.'s media lab to help us understand how people use information technology. we don't pretend to have a magic bullet but we were with journalists who care about the present and the future. we have a news organizations whose missions, day in and day out, is to do outstanding journalism like texas tribune and the voice of san diego. in addition to, we have given breathing space to 27 online news sites around the country by finding 15% of their annual budgets. they have to survive. we finance tech incubators at the boston globe tools and

right now, where in the middle of a project to create a new open source community platform with "the washington post" and "the new york times." we are still experimenting and a slice show you how we have moved to smaller projects and it represents more than $90 million of active grants during this 4 year period, which is a drop in the bucket compared to what google microsoft, or facebook might spend on development. and sure i wish that news companies had spent on r&d when we were making 20% or 30% profit. that was then and that is now and we should be at the mad as hell and fighting in figuring out what to do next.

two of the people who do that help me do that are here tonight and i would like to recognize them. director of journalism program and the chairman of our advisory journalism committee. [applause] most newsrooms sadly are not particularly experimental. what you've heard tonight, i wish were common and it is extraordinary and i congratulate the other winners again. if we don't experiment, you could wave your future goodbye. if you are experimenting, please do more. push your boundaries and let us know what you are learning. just a note there is no roadmap. your path is made by walking with an open mind and will to change and serve the audience and remembering the true north star of journalism, fair

accurate for trail of truth and that hasn't changed. thank you. [applause] quick thank you, alberto -- >> thank you, alberto. we want to thank our dinner committee and 2 successful cochairs. [applause] >> i'm going to take forever. [laughter] nothing in this important gets done without the work of a lot of people and so i want to thank all of you for being here tonight. come on. [applause] sandy johnson the national

press foundation has done amazing things to get this dinner off the ground. as cochair, i would like to thank the dinner committee for all of their hard work and please hold your applause until we recognize all of the members. and then please, stand when i mention your name. jeffrey birnbaum. a simple instruction. [laughter] peter, politico. chairman of the board. kathy, national democratic. plc. imani green. international franchise. bear corporation. shawn make bride. -- mcbride.

tamara. will >> t-1 -- >> thank you. i will like to thank six more names. andy. joanna snyder. andrew shorts. jeff friesen met with honda. greg thank you. rob starter. rob has a fan base here. bloomberg news and julie with yahoo!. i would like to give a shout out to julie who made a really big contribution this year. three weeks ago, welcomed a new child this year. julie, thank you on behalf and everyone -- and thank you to everyone on the dinner committee. thank you. [applause]

>> thank you. the fruit of the dinner committee's work provides training for journalism. we are going to abu dhabi to look a regulation and health issues and in december, we would take journalist to south africa to learn about tv and diabetes and thanks in part to eli. and educate journalists on retirement funded by prudential. in every program, an element of digital storytelling or training to keep our journalists of breast of the digital ways. we've got a slate of webinars to make great use of our brand-new studios and will look at the latest research on addiction and bring in express to explain the baltimore over vaccinations -- uproar over vaccinations.

and now i would like you to meet the hard-working npr staff. linda, program director. ginny, studio and program manager. [applause] rena levine. congo, our intern this semester. and jet jet -- and jessica digital correspondence on this year's dinner detail. [applause] where are making great use of our studio which opened in october a you can use it. it is available for commercial rental. >> take care of yourself here and we produce a video content every week from this studio thanks to generous gift from the

evelyn y. davis foundation. this studio to produce your own high-quality video or your website, newsletter. bring your content alive just as we are doing at npf. our studios are a few blocks away on connecticut avenue in the heart of d.c. there's a brochure on your plate setting. take it home and contact us for rental info. studio at the national press. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, kevin goldberg. in vice chair of the national press foundation -- and of vice chair of the national press foundation. >> thank you. a couple of awards you do not want to miss. the word captivating is one i rarely use when describing energy policy issues.

that is before i read a project of bloomberg news which takes a hard look at issues facing our national energy grid. noting that while the grid hasn't changed much since tom edison invented the light of all and it is doomed to obsolete area read on and you will see why the judges were so enthusiastic about the choice of chris martin, jim of bloomberg news are the winners of the 2015 thomas stoltz award for energy writing. [applause] >> thanks very much. thanks to the judges. and to the national press foundation.

and i have woken up in a dream five years ago and think i would be honored by a national news organization about utilities, i would've killed myself. [laughter] i am fundamentally a storyteller and my view is "what is the story there?" it is an amazing story. i spent many of my years on the wall street journal and i was and san francisco in the 1980's when the macaw brothers were buying up cell phone tower rights and then we saw the first cell phone. it was the size of the suitcase. everyone said, who in the hell wants one of those? and not every second grader in america has one. i had the privilege of actually interviewing george mitchell who was the grandfather of fracking. for 25 years, everybody said,

nobody will ever be able to squeeze oil and gas out of those formations. george mitchell got the recipe right and changed the energy world. this is where we stand at this moment in my opinion in our opinion on the utility. we've reached this crossing and tipping point where suddenly there's a coalesce and sooner than we recognize will change the entire world in a way we see the world and the way we see the energy world. we are lucky and bloomberg news because we have all of these really smart beat reporters who go out and rights of these incredible stories about stuff that is breaking. what we finally did was saw the connections, walmart is going to sell arise all of us -- solarize all of its stores of by 2020.

verizon, 1000 data centers. there were winners, but who are the losers and we recognize the losers could be potentially the -- industry. it is phenomenal. this a most interesting thing that has happened since thomas edison invented the grid. we took the helicopter up 5000 feet and began to see the connections. we discovered from those who said in a candid moment, the telecom industry in 1975 and remember what happened to them. this is our story. if you want to go online and read it, i think we've done a pretty good job of looking forward. i go home and tell my family, oh, my god, i am writing about energy. they say, get another life. it is the story of the next decade. and hats off to my colleagues

and editors for doing this in thank you very much. [applause] >> jesuis charlie. even those who do not speak a word of french half become familiar with this phrase after the january terrorist attack at the headquarters of "charlie hebdo" left 12 people dead all because of pictures, right? political pictures are so much more because of the strong and effective message they can convey to anyone in an instance. a strong and effective message describes the cartoons of clay bennett who has drawn five cartoons a week for the chattanooga times's is joined in late 2007. his work is clean, concise, and to the point.

simple to understand but not simple. our panel thought his work clear drawings, clear messages, and bennett's style is charming with a strong bite underneath. his humor is subtle and witty. ladies and gentlemen, and honor the 2015 clifford berry for editorial cartoon to clay bennett. [applause] >> thank you very much for that. first off, let me thank the national press foundation for this wonderful recognition of my work. i feel very honored, if not a little out of place to be included in such a distinguished group of journalists.

maybe i will see where did the only by association. i should confess that i always get a little bit nervous on occasions like this. i think of my anxiety all stems from this experience i had when i was asked to speak about for the texas press association in 2002. now, here's a dramatization of actual events. when i went to fort worth, i guess i was expecting a group of liberal, you know reporters and editors. i knew it was texas but it was the texas press association. instead i was faced with a room full of very conservative newspaper publishers. from across the lone star state. undeterred by the demographics other group, i went ahead with my plan. after a short intro, the lights went down and let's see here --

the lights went down and atypical sort of liberal cartoons slide show. when the presentation was over 20 minutes later and the lights were turned back up, half of the audience was gone. i mean -- it was pretty humbling , if not downright humiliating experience. even an optimist still would've seen the room as half full, might've even been discouraged. the only comment i got afterwards that even came close to being a complement was one of the publishers walked up and said well, that's took guts. [laughter] and i will take that as a compliment. my nerves aside, i'm pretty sure nothing like that will happen

tonight. you guys, it is d.c. after all and you guys are oprah and 8 -- urbane and tolerant crowd and we have blocked all of the exit spring with that in mind, let's get this show on the road. i have been a cartoonist to force long as i can remember. and i've been opinionated force long as anyone else can remember. and so it seemed only natural that i would pursue a career in editorial cartoon. i chose this career path in the early 1970's. during the heyday of the art form in like most cartoonists of my generation, i tried my best to emulate the artist who dominated the profession at the time. unlike many of my contemporaries, i just was a

talented enough to do it. i had to fashion a drawing style that was more suited to my modest ability as an artist. now, ironically, it was my limitation as a cartoonist, not my skills as one that would determine the drawing style that would come to define my work. ummm, my approach to cartooning was also shaped by my weaknesses than by my strengths. temperature, for example i've never considered myself to be a good caricature. you might think it would discourage someone from pursuing a career in a profession virtually driven by caricature. i wasn't going to let a little thing like not being able to capture'-- someone's likeness to

keep me down. eliminating them altogether seems like a good solution. with time, i found ways to criticize public officials without depicting them at all. [applause] -- [laughter] 8 can yes. there are times when this job demands you draw a character. on those days, i do the best i can. now -- sometimes it works out all right. by the way, the guy batting is president obama. yes, i know he is left-handed but he that's writes -- bats rights. other time, you can put in a

well-placed label that will clear up any confusion on your subject matter. [laughter] that's when newt was contributing to anti-gay-rights people. most of the time, i avoid drawing characters by addressing broader issues in my work. and so, another signature of my approach to cartooning is the visual nature of my work. with artistic influences their range from the new yorker cartoons of charles adams and animated of warner bros. to the work of european and latin cartoonist, i have had an affinity for cartoons with few or no words. now -- i may have followed the same path because i just love the purity and universal appeal

of wordless cartoons or maybe i just went this route because i can't spell. but regardless of the reason the fact of the matter remains that the few were worse i include, the less chance i have of misspelling one. now, like this one. i only had to spell check three words in this cartoon. and this one? no worse at all, the chant -- no words at also the chance of misspelling is zero. once i developed the style and an approach that eliminates the words i can't spell, i had to establish a general tone to my cartoons. when i was -- [laughter]

i faced an obstacle. when i was first breaking into this business, there seemed to be 2 types of cartoonist. those who went for the jugular and those with for the funny bone. the only problem was i didn't really seem to comfortably fit into either school of cartooning. i've always had strong views. but i've never thought of myself as being shrill or malicious. even though i have leases of humor, i'm not all that funny. as of the speech tonight can be proof of that. but eventually, i would -- eventually i would find my place somewhere in the middle. i guess somewhere in between

going for the jugular and going for the funnybone among what would that be? going for the shoulder or bicep that doesn't sound like a good idea. my one and only rule of cartooning is to try to make a cartoon insightful. if i can't make it insightful, i try to make it funny. if i can't make it -- if i can't make it insightful or funny, make it timely. needless to say, i draw a lot of timely cartoon. this one was very timely a couple of months ago when i first true it. now, you might think i am tough on myself. but hell, being tough on myself

might be all i have going for me. i've always had a terrible if or debt inferiority complex when it comes to my work. i realize that there are 11 cartoonist -- a lot of cartoonist working today that are better artist and those are funnier and more intelligent than me. so suffering as i do from such low cartooning self-esteem, i've always tried to compensate for my inadequacies by a work ethic that borders on obsession. now, in light of that, i would accept this honor tonight, but not as a recognition of artistic talent nor as a testament to any inherent wit or wisdom. i will accept this award on behalf of of neurotic insecurity and as the hard work it inspires.

in closing, i would like to again thank the national press foundation for recognizing my work. i would like to express special thanks to my bosses at "the chattanooga times free press" for their support. and my wife, cindy, for her incredible patience over the past 15. lastly, i will like to thank all of you still here and for not walking doubt during -- walking out during my slideshow. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, clay. please join us for the post-dinner reception in at the jefferson room on this level. while live music and sponsored by pepsico. on your way, i invite you to take a look at some of clay's cartoons available for purchase with all proceeds going to the national press foundation.

i appreciate you having me here tonight and thank you and we will see you next year. bye. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] you look at gender equality laws of the civil rights. and the civil rights act. -- and the civil rights act. >> next, and look at the u.s. relations with cuba. they met in fort lauderdale to discuss u.s. cuba relations. this is hour and 10 minutes. >> thank you, i am happy to be