okay, bill, dean baquet. i've called her newspaper a morning miracle and i mean it.'m always amazed at what i can find in the newspaper, so how do you make a miracle? and bill, i want to start with you on a couple basic questions, get the lay of the land. you work in new york which is the headquarters of the "new york times." how many people work for the times? >> well, for the newsroom, not counting the delivery trucks to the advertising department, the actual journalists, a little more than 1100. as far as reporters, editors, photographers, videographers, producers, the whole panoply of clerks, about 1100. >> but of the 1100 how much our reporters who go out to cover stories? >> roughly 400. >> roughly 400 of the 1100. and on a normal day what do you get in? >> i normally get into about 8:30. >> what is your first meeting, who attends and what happened to? >> we just change our first meeting, for many years it began at 10:30 and was mostly focused on getting ready for the next days paper. we now start at 10:00, and we devote our time pretty much equally to things t

dean baquet of "the new york times." on the times u.s. news and then you've got an opinion.w there should be all wall between the two. you're ombudsman's says and i quote, the news pages are laced with analytical and opinion pieces of work against the premise that the news is just the news, in dovecote. many conservatives as you know criticize the times as being a little left-wing newspaper, and those views get into the news part of your newspaper. why do you allow this to happen? >> we don't allow it to happen. [laughter] >> but it happens almost every day. >> according to him or according to you? >> the people who fretted "the new york times" for many years. william getting at is there is more analysis stepping into the commentary, and the editorial side of reporting been a straight hard news story. >> i don't remind analysis in the pages in fact i encourage every day. i think, you know, the discipline of objectivity or impartiality is something that this natural than to american reporters from their first day on the job. it's different from a lot of other countries where

but most of all, i want to thank our two guests, bill keller, and dean baquet, two remarkable reporters representing the "new york times." [applause] >> and all of you out there, enjoy a free press in a free society. i'm marvin kalb and good night and good luck. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> we now have an opportunity for you to ask the questions that you wish and what you have to do -- where is that microphone -- back there. and the microphone right over here on the right. so please go to the microphones, ask a question. identify yourself and if i have the impression you are about to make a speech, i'm going to cut you off. so i'm alerting you right now. >> i'm a journalism student at george washington. my question goes back to a different direction. mr. keller, when you originally published the first round of wikileaks' information, you included an editor's note and you answered readers' comments and questions. do you think in the changing media environment it's important to open the door