Police brutality and racial injustice. The discussion focused on how newsrooms are changing how they approachstory coverage. Welcome. So happy to know that youre with us. Im the executive director of the National Association of Journalism Institutes and we are really happy to be hosting this event on newsroom protests and it has anything really changed. Thank you to the National Press club members for planning this program in partnership with us and the communicatorscommittee. Its going to be an interesting and informative conversation. First among our wonderful panelists and then we hope youll join in by sharing your questions using the monday. So im going to turn this over to our moderator ina moment , Michael Carter who is usa today managing editor, ethics but first i want to say again welcome and thank you to our panel and amanda barrett, fda managing editor of theassociated press. Sanchez, editor and Senior Vice President at the Minneapolis Church news and dorothy packer, Investig
The National Press Club Journalism institute, and were very happen happy to be hosting this program on newsrooms after thews summer of protests, has anything really changed. Thank you to National Press club members for pairing this program rtin partnership with us and wih e e communicators committee. Its going to be an interesting and informative conversation first among our wonderful panelists, and then we hope youll join in using the q a. So im going to turn this over to our moderator, michael mccarter, who is usa today managing editor of standards, ethics and inclusion. But first, i want to say begun aglcome and thank you to our panel amanda barrett, Deputy Managing Editor of the associated press, Renee Sanchez, editor and Senior Vice President at the minneapolis star tribune, and Dorothy Tucker, Investigative Reporter in my hometown of chicago and president of the National Association of black journalists. Thank you all for being here. And michael, over to you. Thank you for having
In the van last night. I notice some neighbors have been using generators. I imagine some people have medical issues. Reporter this is what neighbors feared this morning, a repeat of the 1991 oakland fire storm that killed 25 people and burned close to 3,000 homes. The 91 fire is in our hearts and minds every day. Reporter fortunately no one was injured in this fire and you can see that pg e is still out here. Neighbors say theyve been pretty frustrated because theyre hearing power is going to come back off and on sometime tonight but havent heard any confirmation. Firefighters say they will be on stand by out here because it is so dry out here. Reporting live in oakland hills. Sharon, thank you. Businesses in the north bay got creative during the outage. This is a life look at the local q restaurant in calistoga, good barbecue there. Within the past five minutes, the lights just turned back on. Before that, they were able to serve customers by using a generator and a propane grill. He
Household name. People know his name from public institutions, obviously from the banking legacy. Theres not a lot about him. Can you tell us about him and what you found so compelling about him as an agent and an actor within this story, this landscape that you are drawing. It. When i first started looking into this time. , i know a lot more about roosevelt did about morgan. As is probably true of most people. When i realized as i began researching is that this was really morgans world that roosevelt very kind of quickly and abruptly and welcomed in terms of wall streets point of view, treated. By the time roosevelt became president. Morgan was at the peak of his power and if he was the king of wall streets literally called zeus. On the eve of the inauguration. Roosevelt Vice President morgan had created the first billiondollar company in the world. Still with us today. As a company that employed more than any other company and control enormous amount of production. It was a huge mono
Fight between president Theodore Roosevelt and financier j. P. Morganover the size of corporations and Government Intervention at the turn of the 20th century. I wanted to sort of ask you to paint a picture of j. P. Morgan. Obviously youre telling a story about roosevelt but a large amount of the book is about j. P. Morgan. For a lot of americans hes one of those, i dont mean this in a demeaning way but hes out of an empty household name area will know his name from public institutions, obviously from the banking legacy. They dont know a lot about him. Can you tell us about him and why, what you found so compelling about him as an agent, an actor within this story, this landscape that your drawing. So when i first started looking into this time period , i think i knew a lot more about roosevelt than i did about morgan. As is probably true of most people. And what i realized is i began researching that this was really morgans world, that roosevelt very kind of quickly and abruptly and u