i said i'm jim o'shea, the new editor. he says okay, he gave me a pass into the building that was good for one day. [laughter] i thought that says a lot right there. [laughter] i walked into the newsroom and all around the news room are plastered pictures of dean bakaay and otis chandler, the god, zeus. i thought, okay, welcome. i had decided that i was just going to go there, and i was going to get up in front of the newsroom. i said right away, assemble the staff. i went out and i basically, you know, said, okay, i'm a journalist. i'm here. i think i can help you guys, and i just basically tried to be real honest to them. it appealed to the sense in journalists that they'll give you a fair shake. they traffic in fairness and balance, and if they think you're honest, they'll give you a chance even if they can't stand you. i basically did that, and we went to work and tried to do it, but all throughout the industry, you have to understand people -- we had gone through three or four years of trying to figure out, you know,

jim o'shea was a longtime reporter at "the chicago tribune." he became the managing editor at the l.a. times, so he's had both the ground work as a reporter and the management experience of being, you know, not quite the other side, but, you know, in the decision making meetings. and it is the full, unvarnished story of what's happened to media businesses in america by focusing on the story of the tribune company. page 1 is a book in our series of books that we have done in the conjunction with participant media. we've done books and films like foodinc. and waiting for superman, and this is their new film. it's called "page one: inside "the new york times." " and we had an npr media reporter that has a collection of essays by many different contributors writing about media, again, taking this subject beyond the, um, the film's limitations. a film can tell you in a very visceral way the story, but it can only tell you so much. these essays in this book really tell you more fully what's going on with media today. especially digital, print, what t

jim. a [laughter] guy have a huge respect and many of you do for james o'shea. it is amazing all he has accomplished in his life and was a loved journalist and editor hot of the tribune and chatting with people tonight it is nice to seeim, how much people love and care and respect him. i am honored the right here and it took courage to write the book. he is used to writing about other people and writing about yourself is not sout easy. this is being taped for c-span and they have asked me to ask you if you're asking questions to pleaseou wait until the microphone comes before you start asking a question. so now i introduced jim and jim. [applause] >> thank you. i am james warren with my colleague and former boss james o'shea. the former editor of the "l.a. times" in managing editor of "the chicago tribune" and i want to thank for offering this space that i did not realize was a very purpose base giving the topic of the book as the auction house since it revolves around two deals one is clearly an option. you may assume given our relationship this will be 45 minu

mike o'shea with the national institute of justice. next to him is mr. jim lowry with the arlington police department. to his right is mr. greg sackman with the seattle police department and next to him is ben miller with the mesa county sheriff's office and then dave bagett the school center for asymmetric warfare and to his right i have mr. f freborn with unmanned experts and last but not least on the end mr. ed tobar within texas llc. what we're going to do each one of the panelists will get up and give a short presentation. on their background their air of expertise both with the first responding community and the uas community and then after everybody has given a presentation, we'll open it up for questions, answers and discussion. and with no further ado, we'll start, mike, mr. mike o'shea. >> i'm program justice and i'm in a division called the office of science and technologies and pretty much what our job there is to support federal, state and local law enforcement with local technologies and while i'm there i have three hats that i actually wear. o