benjamin barber. thank you for being here today. thank you for attending. clark that -- [applause] ♪ factual setting to make figures sure to the committee to protect journalists of any censorship talks about targeting of journalists by governments around the world including the u.s. government. during the event hosted by columbia university graduate school of journalism in new york city, mr. simon is in conversation with kathleen carroll can do to get better of "the associated press." speenine good evening, everyone. thank you for being here today. i'm sheila carrera. we are pleased to have kathleen carroll and joel simon for this conversation. journalism is an increasingly dangerous profession. no one knows this more than our guests tonight. joel simon is director of the committee to protect journalists, organization founded in 1981 by a group of u.s. correspondence to realize they couldn't ignore the dangers around the world are facing. research and advocacy are focused on defending the right to journalists to report. forever in the world journalists are

benjamin barber.ll for being here today, thank you for attending. ♪ >> coverage from the sixth annual boston book festival continues. .. >> and vikram as a fiction writer who stumbled into nonfiction. sitting right next to him i have howard gardner who is a professor of cognition and education at the harvard graduate school of education and the author of "the app generation." and then i have judith donath, who is the founder of the social miss machine group. i'm going to invite the audience to participate as soon as i can. and we will begin by sure presentations at each of the authors and after that i will ask if you rest in. so we are going to begin with judith, please. >> hello. what i wanted to do will start by telling you some beautiful organisms that look like something you might see in the crib in ca. but they are actually visualizations and the artist based them upon different features of spam, how long it is, the words that are used, to determine the colors and how they grow. and in the online

benjamin barber.te center o. >> 84 inviting me and the people who i have come to be fond i'd like lisa wong and dan rivera end martin walsh but to talk about cities and mayors is a particular pleasure because for a change i can say something about people who say are you crazy? but let me just back up for a minute to talk about the era that we're living and why this city mayors and the city council have become so important. in the era of ebola and terrorism and ices and a national grid lock l over the world as a result democracy is in crisis also half of those able to vote to do in those the most in need to you don't and it is a political system that is the great preponderance are ruled by a minority so there is the feeling of a political system rainout. and with the economy if the last 400 years but have become increasingly dysfunctional. two-seat not just in england or china but other parts of the world with the european union that great experiment to find to attract attention from the populist react