. >> during a virtual event hosted in washington dc, amanda ripley discusses healthy debate and conflictution. >> four years ago i felt as journalist i had to do something differently. it was so easy to make things worse, some don't intend to, but some do, but yet here we were. there was something they were not understanding about what was going on and that is a problem. so i spent a lot of time with people who studied conflict of all kinds, personal, political, professional, individual. and the study of conflict, particularly this kind of conflict, it put everything else into place. and that is an overlay, it suddenly allowed everything to make sense. so then the question became, okay, what can we learn from people who have been through ugly conflict and gone to a better place? so i have followed a politician, a former gang leader, an environmental activist, those who were regularly frustrated in michigan, the whole goal was to see how did they get from high conflict, which was this destructive kind of conflict, to good conflict. because the problem isn't conflict but the kind of confli

during effortful event surviving institute in washington d.c., amanda ripley discussed the importance of having to fight conflict resolution. >> four years ago i felt like as a journalist i have to do something different. i felt it so easy as a journalist to just make political conflicts worse even if you didn't think i different something tentative from most don't get from a carefree work and felt like understand what was going on in the country a problem so i spent a lot of time study all the time. personal, political, professional, at scale the study of conflict as a system particularly intractable conflict to me everything else into place. there's a lot of forces that got us where we are such that as an overlay suddenly made everything make sense in a distorted kind of way so the question became all right can we learn from people have been through conflict and got to a better place? followed a handful of people including a politician in california, former gang leader in chicago, environmental activists in england, regular frustrated democrats in the city and regular frustrated rep

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amanda ripley is an investigative journalist and best-selling author. her most recent book is, "high conflict: how we get trapped and how we get out." i read it and it is terrific. her books and magazine writing combined storytelling with data to identify hard problems and solutions. miss ripley is spoken at the pentagon, senate, state department, homeland conferences on leadership, conflict resolution and education. you are recognized for five minutes. ms. ripley: thank you for the opportunity to testify today, and for holding this hearing at all. there is a lot about congress i don't understand but i think i may understand the predicament you are in, although from a slightly different vantage point. i started congressional quarterly and moved to atlantic and time magazine, but something has broken in my profession. the conventions of journalism are not functioning the way they are supposed to. unfortunately, my profession, like yours, is distrusted by millions of americans. what i have learned is that journalists, like politicians, are trapped in a sp

our final witness is amanda ripley. ms. ripley is an investigator the best-sellingauthor , her most recent book is conflict, when we get track and how you . i read on my life here is. i her id med. the books and magazine writing in her books and magazine writing this ripley combined storytelling with data to help illuminate our problems and solutions she's also about how journalists and better job covering controversy and age-appropriate. ms. ripley is looking at the pentagon, the department department of homeland security as well as conflict resolution and education. you recognized fiveminutes . >> their jericho work members of the committee for the opportunity to aytestify and for holding this hearing at all. there's a lot about congress i should say i don't understand i think i may understand the predicament. albeit from a slightly different vantage i've been a journalist for two decades starting at congressional quarterly but in recent years i had to admit something is broken in my profession . >> .. arguing the facts d

our final witness is amanda ripley, she is an investigative journalist and a best-selling author.ost recent book is high conflict "how we get trapped and how we get out," i read it on my flight here and i said i would be her hype man. her books and magazine writing -- in her books and magazine writing she combines storytelling with data to eliminate hard problems and solutions. she has written about how journalist can do a better job covering controversy in an age of outrage. she has spoken at the pentagon and the department of homeland security as well as conferences on leadership, conflict resolution and leadership. you are recognized for five minutes. mrs. ripley: members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify and for holding this hearing. there is a lot about congress that i do not understand, but i think i may understand the predicament that you are in. albeit, from a slightly different vantage point. i have been a journalist starting in -- for two decades, that in recent years i've had to admit that something is broken in my profession. the conventions of

the house on civility in congress and it was one representative who asked journalist and author amanda ripleybout the influence social media, particularly partisan social media had on traditional news media. [video clip] >> what can we do to help education professionals help some of the techniques journalists use may be damaging the fabric of this institution. >> i'm glad you asked because i do think part of creating new incentives, they have to involve the news media. that is part of what's driving these incentives. i often think there should be a warning that pops up that says eight out of 10 americans do not use this service. just because it does really work. it is not designed for us to calibrate those messages. so the ones that are negative are searing. there are conservatives on twitter as well, but in any case there's only very activist left and very activist right, a 20% of the country. but they are more than twice as likely to post about politics and social media. you get this really distorted view. we cannot calibrate it. so i think there are some people working on overlays for twit