please welcome steve adler. next we have dean balke, the first african-american editor of "the new york times." he was the managing editor for news. after graduating from columbia university in 1978, the new orleans native went to work for his hometown newspaper. in 1988 he won the pulitzer prize for his investigative work leading a trio of reporters who uncovered corruption in the chicago city council. please welcome dean bakai. the final panelist is vice president and managing editor for u.s. news at the associated press. he oversees coverage in bureaus and regional desks. from 2010 to 2013 he served as the asia pacific news director. he led the coverage of the earthquake and tsunami, and nuclear crisis in japan. he's a graduate of colby college in maine. please welcome brian. we're going to get right to it. thank everyone so much for coming. this is an important discussion. and we will try to move it along quickly. james risen is a "new york times" reporter. in 2006, he published a book called "the state of w

please welcome steve adler. next we have dean balke, the first african-american editor of "the new york times." he was the managing editor for news. after graduating from columbia university in 1978, the new orleans native went to work for his hometown newspaper. in 1988 he won the pulitzer prize for his investigative work leading a trio of reporters who uncovered corruption in the chicago city council. please welcome dean bakai. the final panelist is vice president and managing editor for u.s. news at the associated press. he oversees coverage in bureaus and regional desks. from 2010 to 2013 he served as the asia pacific news director. he led the coverage of the earthquake and tsunami, and nuclear crisis in japan. he's a graduate of colby college in maine. please welcome brian. we're going to get right to it. thank everyone so much for coming. this is an important discussion. and we will try to move it along quickly. james risen is a "new york times" reporter. in 2006, he published a book called "the state of w

first we have steve adler, the editor in chief of reuters news, and he's the executive vice president for news for all of thompson reuters. before joining reuters adler was editor in chief of "business week" where during his five-year tenure the magazine and website won more than 100 major journalism awards. he's a graduate of harvard law school and served as editor of "the american lawyer." please welcome steven adler. next, we have beane bace. the first african-american executive editor of the "new york times." before taking on that real he was a managing editor for news. after graduating from columbia university in 1978, the new orleans native went to work for his hometown newspaper. in 1988, he won the pulitzer prize for his investigative work leading a trio of reporters who uncovered corruption in the chicago city council. please welcome dean bace. our final panelist is brian caramelano, vice president and managing editor for "u.s. news" at the associated press. overseas coverage in operations and state bureaus and regional desks. 2010 to 2013 he served as ap's asia-pacific news