It is more than just cat videos. I am very proud that despite challenges and changes, register hasnt retreated. We have built a stateoftheart video studio. We are rolling out new partnerships. Next week, we are introducing a new structure to our newsroom. Really important time for all of us. The thing that is so critical is that we have to think about the consumer nonstop. We can still do the highquality journalism we are known for in the new era. We got a big kudo at the end of the political caucus cycle. She had a blog and talked about the top five winners and losers of the iowa caucus. Coming in at number two was the Des Moines Register. She said they proved local papers can not only survive, but thrive. They combined good oldfashioned reporting with an understanding and aptitude for the technical and digital world. When i took the reins of the publishers job, my vision was a simple one and it continues today. We have to protect the content at all cost. If you are a student editor,
Created and developed the avenue of the saints. Thats whats going to create the opportunities in southeast iowa and all over the state, by our ability to focus on developing Job Opportunities for Small Businesses in this state. Lets move now on to the topic of minimum wage. Danielle has a question for senator hatch. Senator hatch, in your campaign, you talk about growing Small Businesses and also increasing the minimum wage. Now, many of the Small Business owners weve heard from say theyre worried about how an increase in the minimum wage would affect their business. How can you be in favor of both . Well, you know, good question. [laughter] but youre assuming that all Small Businesses pay below the minimum wage, which is wrong. Right now, there are 216,000 iowans that get less than the 10. 10 that we are proposing. Thats not a high wage. That allows an individual working 40 hours a week, works by the rules, works hard, works every day, to get just above the level of poverty. No iowan
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Of writing, making things come alive in a fair, relevant way, youre going to find a position. Thank you. You bet. Thanks for being here. Real quickly. Yes or no, michael, is that it . Just yes or no. Im kelly mcgowan. I have another ethics question. What do you do to get everybody on your staff on the same page ethically . Get everybody on the same page ethically . Like what do you do to ensure your staff is all on the same page constant coaching, transparency. Here is what is expected if you want to work for me, and if you cant live by those rules, you wont. Okay. Lets face it, ethics is a nonnegotiable thing, okay . Its not. Michael, you know that certainly in your classes and what it is youre teaching. Its nonnegotiable conversations related to the ethics. You want to be in this business, to be credible, relevant to the readers and advertisers i serve, you dont play by the ethics game, youre not going to work for us. Thank you. My name is nicole. Im in a Research Class and our littl
Been, this one really is a bombshell. This could be just the tip of the iceberg. Momentous times. Im jim sciutto in for wolf blitzer today. 1 00 p. M. In new york, 8 00 p. M. In moscow. Wherever youre watching from around the world, thank you for joining us today. Bipartisan calls for a special prosecutor growing talk among democrat of impeachment. Leaks from inside the white house of dismay and confusion. Trump administration scrambling to deal with the latest arguably most serious crisis of the trump presidency. The administration denies that President Trump asked now fired fbi director james comey to drop the investigation of Michael Flynn, the former National Security advisor to the president. Sources close to comey, however, tell cnn that the former fbi director meticulously documented that conversation in a memo composed right after his meeting with the president. As first reported by the new york times. The white house has had nos Public Comment today but at a coast guard Commen