and of course, arthur sulzberger, jr., publisher of "the new york times." i want to start with a question to each of the panelists, , and it has toim do with the state of journalism. if you are a doctor and the state of american journalism was your patient, how would you assess the diagnosis? >> if you look at the data, you would be concerned. the number of journalists has gone down by about 30% in the last seven or eight years. newspaper revenue is down by about 55%. you see a distance between the digital landscape. if you froze things right now, you would say, the patient needs a lot of work and there is a continued progress on that work. if you look forward there are some very exciting things on the horizon. one of the things i am most excited about journalism is that journalists essentially network on their own. if you see some of the work that "the new york times" has done from a digital standpoint, you see what can be done. consumers want high-quality content and i think there is a big role for journalism in the future. if you froze it right now, i th