Reward have been Washington Post reporters and political Prize Winners to boot. The lady great Anthony Sneed won 2 lists ares for his reported in the middle east of which he gave his life. [applause] and colbert won a pulitzer at the Washington Post. I said this was a humbling experience for me and i meant that in every sense of the word. Prior to my getting a real job at the Washington Post, i was a copy aid for about 45 years so i deliver these guys mail and faxes on a daily basis. It is incredible and kind of surreal for me to be up here. I am really excited about this award, a big score for independent journalists. [applause] the absolute hardest thing about being independent especially if you go from being in a major newsroom is making that phone call to an important person, import organization and saying, it is just me. They go, all, one News Organization . It is just me, sorry about that. It takes a little bit getting used to. Probably the most rewarding at fact of being on your
Our way through like every other News Organization. We have done something truly impressive and made a real commitment to hardhitting and investigative groundbreaking journalism and im grateful for that and i thank you. [applause] ladies and gentlemen chairman and editorinchief of kiplinger publications. [applause] good evening. I am from the kiplinger letter and i will be referred. I am not related in any way to the other nights, including john and james. I wish that i were but i am not our honorary this evening is the first kipping letter award who has never worked as a professional journalist. Paradoxically he is one of the most influential figures in this totally reshape the journalism profession too adapted to the new realities of the digital age. And because beneath the guise of the lawyer, a newspaper publisher and a Foundation Executive while he was never a professional journalist, he was once a student journalist in 1965. A busload of students went down to alabama from connect
Computers to measure how secure computers are and thats where we need to be. When you have millions of computers in the federal government going around with a clipboard is not the way. You have to use computers to assess how secure they are, so one of the things we got out of fizz pha is in fact the positive authorization to do continuous diagnostics and 34eu9 tkpwaeugsand they get a tool where they have a dashboard and gives them a status of their own environment and we get a tool where we have a rollup dashboard where we can help them understand how they stand next to next to each other. Whether one department is doing a great job and we have lessons that we can take and share with other departments. This is really a pro foundly important tool for us. Just as general counsels from private companies have questions who is this organization thats going to come in and look at our networks and work with us, agencies have counsel who also ask that question. You have the capability youll pu
Should be is we have been talking with all her to third armstrong. This is booktv on cspan2 in london. For more information on these and other interviews from london, visit booktv. Org and watch the tv every sunday at 6 p. M. Over the next several weeks for more. 2013 marks booktv blank fifth anniversary which debuted on september 12, 1998. In april of 2011, sarah vowell examined the organization of hawaii that began with the arrival of new england missionaries in 1820. The author recounts the coup organized by the missionaries that proposed the last hawaiian clean in 1893 and resulted in the annexation of the islands by the United States in 1898. How white he was named the 50th state on august 2021, 1959. I know you just have microphones everywhere here. [laughter] im going to read for a little bit and then take questions, just like every other reading that youve ever been to. [laughter] why is there a glop of macaroni salad next to the japanese chicken on my plate on each . Because t
Good at that. I can evoke memory quite easily. Rose ian mckellen, Patrick Stewart and Anjelica Huston when we continue. Sir ian mckellen and sir Patrick Stewart are here. The actors were a member of the Royal Shakespeare company together. They became friends in hollywood. Patrick stewart playing professor xavier and ian mckellen plays mag nino the xmen film series. Fans of lord of the rings know mckellen as gahn dofl. The brits are performing two plays in repertoire at the cort theater on broadway. The plays are Samuel Becketts waiting for godot and Harold Pinters nomansland. Im pleased to have them here at this table. Welcome. Thank you very much. Rose other than these are two great playwrights, two great actors, two friends and the playwrights were friends so all this friendship well talk about. How did this come together. Whose bright idea was it to do all this . Wed dondo doe in london and on tour about five years and on the last night in london i now famously collapsed in tears. R