she's a journalist writing about the local politics more than a decade and is a staff writer at the dalia news event has written for the post the ap, bbc national public radio and the voice. her new book fire fight a battle to integrate new york's bravest is based on ten years of interviews with firefighters. it traces the history of race and the new york fire department for the first black firefighter to the massive dissemination lawsuit settled in 2014. at the center of the book are stories of courage that firefighters risking their lives in the line of duty while risking their livelihoods in the system. we share the stage this evening with these firefighters all members of the society and organization to combat racism which was instrumental in the struggle in the book. the members here all currently active firefighters who appear in the book are paul washington you can clap for them. [applause] the former president and michael marshall former society advocates. the discussion is moderated by todd robbins the teachers at the graduate school of journalism he's a former housing organizer and h

dalia or the publishing reporter or something that ran in the magazine. but again ideally they would read it all beginning to end. >> host: what do you think about the books that splash "the new york times" bestseller on their covers? >> guest: i think it's great. congratulations to them. it's not easy to become a "new york times" bestseller. so i would put that on the cover, too as long as it is true. >> we've got more of a discussion about the future of the newspaper, the publisher and executive editor. here's a preview. journalism is better today than it was because there are many more tools. i grew up in new orleans and only have access to one newspaper. at the the same kid grows up in new orleans has access to as many as he can push a button for. they have access to video and they shouldn't get so caught up in the debate if we shouldn't get so caught up in the romantic aspects of journalism which i grew up in. >> we are in the node of testing, learning and adapting. if you don't have the courage to try new things and grow, you are going to fail. that is the reality of the world that we are in. and so i would applaud with dean and his colleagues did which is to increasing

this friction contrasts with the images on the screen dalia and with a smiling john kerry giving the impression of a newera of friendship. they insist this is an arms control negotiations only about the nuclear issue and issue if it isn't looking to build on this for anything larger detente or grand bargain or anything else. but we keep hearing credible reports about the discussions between iran and the united states and iraq that stabilizing young man and we wonder how wide is this cooperation and what are the long-term plans with respect to iran and is the united states starting to think of them as a partner for the security and so on. that leads to the most important thing which is the total lack of response. the dog that didn't bark in the story of the last two or three years is the absence of any attempt to impose a cost on iran for its interventions in iraq syria and yemen. what about the fact that iran is deploying the militia and about what it's doing in yemen and so on. the statement level of actions designed to impose the cost. on the contrary when they were running in iraq with their air forc