kerry mcdonell has won various awards for his magazines and is a novelist, poet and has written and produced and performed on television. in 2012, he was inducted to the american society hall of fame. he's the president of the board foundation and serves as the overseers of the journalism review. so, thank you everybody for coming. >> i believe he turned it over to me. [inaudible] [applause] me start by giving you a little background on my relationship with lewis, so you know. lewis has been for my entire working life a role model of our heroic figure for all editors and writers. we grew up in the same place except his father was the mayor and his grandfather had founded standard oil. i was picking apricots down in the valley. but enough about me. specifically what was so important to me and almost everyone that i worked with as an editor is the revolutionary thinking about what that meant. the statistical data but ironically into a particular border that told you more about your moment in the country than all of the 20,000 pieces we were trying to bring in and then the readings, etc.. it wa