welcome to the conference center at the newseum. on behalf of my colleagues, welcome to this building. we hope this and other conferences will engender discussion, and perhaps solutions concerning all five of freedoms and effect today. the topic today is the news media. the freedom forum is non- partisan, founded in 1935. it is the principal founder and builder of the newseum here in washington. there are three initiatives. the diversity institute is the third, concern about training individuals and encouraging diversity in newsrooms across the country, in all forms of media. it is particularly appropriate to have this today because the newseum is not just about the past or present of a free press, but the future of its. that is what we hope to do here, to have the public, interested parties, journalists and others, makes talk, argue, raised once with each other civilly, and look at this challenging and confusing future we have. we're glad to have you. we're glad to have you here and i look forward to engagement. engagement. it is t

>> from the newseum in washington, d.c., this is "the future of news." welcome to the night studio and our conversation about media and news in the digital age. i'm sonya gavankar filling in for frank sesno. today's guests have very different perspectives on the news media. chris matthews is a long-time broadcast journalist, a best-selling author, and of course is host of "hardball" on msnbc. jan schaffer is a print journalist and a pulitzer prize winner. she is now at the american university as the executive director of the j-lab, the institute of interactive journalism. welcome to you both. let's start out with a very quick question: is there really anything wrong with 24-hour news cycle? jan? >> well, it doesn't serve all the citizens. in a democracy, people need different things than what you get on that 24-hour cycle, and i think that's become problematic, and i think we see citizens stepping up to the plate to try to fix it. >> chris? >> well, it is what it is. i think what i do is i get in my car in the morning, and i have satellite, which is grea

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>> from the knight studios at the newseum in washington, d.c., i'm frank sesno. hello, and welcome to "the future of news," our conversation about old and new media and what it means for news and for all of us in the digital age. i'm happy to be joined today by 2 award-winning journalists in the world of international reporting. ann curry of nbc news may be best known for her work on the "today" show and "dateline," but she's also distinguished herself in global humanitarian reporting. she reported on the crisis in darfur when few western reporters were there and has returned to africa repeatedly to cover the conflicts in sudan, chad, and the congo. she's also reported from the middle east and from iran for that country's presidential election. charles sennott, longtime foreign correspondent for the "boston globe," was bureau chief in both jerusalem and london and has more than 25 years of experience covering the world. he's now the executive editor of a new venture, an entirely web-based service devoted exclusively to global news. it's called global post. so wel

of the nation's capital "this week" with abc white house correspondent jake tapper live from the newseum on pennsylvania avenue. >>> good morning, everyone. we start with the announcement supreme court justice john paul stevens is retiring, longest sitting justice on the court. stevens in firmly in the liberal block, now the president has his second supreme court appointment. coming into a polarized atmosphere and election year. the nation's capital will likely have a long, hot summer. joining me this morning, democrat chuck schumer and jon kyl, both members of the senate judiciary committee. thanks for joining me. >> thank you. >> senator kyl. we heard you talking about being worried about president obama nominating an overly ideological person. we know the four on the short list. elena kagan. merrick garland, diane wood and secretary of the department of homeland security, janet napolitano. are any of them overly ideological? >> it will depend upon the analysis of what they have written, what they said, judicial decisions they've made and what they say in hearings, whether my colleague

we constructed this beautiful memorial and the compelling newseum to the ground of the attack. the rebuild heavily damaged box around the site. today, we continue our work building and even greater oklahoma city. now please welcome the mayor of oklahoma city, the cornet -- mick cornett. [applause] >> as john mentioned, april 19, 1995 began much like today. the temperature was seasonal, the sun came out, and then our lives were changed forever. ultimately, each of us, individually and collectively, have been faced with choices, the choice is between strength and the uncertainty, the choices of optimism and pessimism, the choice is between freedom and fear, choice is between moving forward and falling back. and we have made our choice is collectively and individually. we have chosen to track. we have chosen optimism. we have chosen freedom. and we have chosen to move forward together with a level of unity that is unmatched in any american city, as it to be expected because our experiences are like no other. i do not know what this site looks like from that side of the pond this m

jake tapper is with me in the newse newseum. now, he's taking down the rhetoric a notch? >> that's right. it will be a much more serene speech. you don't see the fiery populism you've seen before. he'll be speaking to the larger public, more so than wall street. when it comes to wall street, and there will be people in the audience there, it will be more of a tone of come join us. join us in this endeavor. wall street will benefit from clear rules of the road. >> at the heart of what the president is doing today, as well, he really wants to connect what's happening in washington. what these reforms will mean for everyone back home. it is pretty arcane stuff. >> that's right. excerpts we got from the white house, he'll say, a free market was never meant to be a free license to take whatever you can get however you can get it. some on wall street forgot that behind every dollar traded or leveraged, there's a family looking to buy a house, pay for an education, open a business or save for retirement. what happens here has a real consequence across our country. trying to conn