Transition to president. [inaudible conversations] [applause] good morning and welcome to the National Press club. I am Jonathan Salant washington correspondent and a past president of mccloskey. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of new york wrote more books than most candidates had read. Todays guest former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has written even more books than senator moynihan but remember there are more house members then there are senators. Speaker gingrich is to talk about his latest book sublight. He will speak for 20 minutes and then take questions from the audience before he signs the book. Proceeds from todays event benefit the National Press Club Journalism institute the clubs nonprofit journalism training. Before we begin please turn off for silence your cell phones. I would like to acknowledge the members that they headline team responsible for organizing the event and if you are in audience please stand be recognized. Lisa matthews, roy rousseau beale pierced frank masson no a
Transition to president. [inaudible conversations] [applause] good morning and welcome to the National Press club. I am Jonathan Salant washington correspondent and a past president of mccloskey. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of new york wrote more books than most candidates had read. Todays guest former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has written even more books than senator moynihan but remember there are more house members then there are senators. Speaker gingrich is to talk about his latest book sublight. He will speak for 20 minutes and then take questions from the audience before he signs the book. Proceeds from todays event benefit the National Press Club Journalism institute the clubs nonprofit journalism training. Before we begin please turn off for silence your cell phones. I would like to acknowledge the members that they headline team responsible for organizing the event and if you are in audience please stand be recognized. Lisa matthews, roy rousseau beale pierced frank masson no a
Transition to president. [inaudible conversations] [applause] good morning and welcome to the National Press club. I am Jonathan Salant washington correspondent and a past president of mccloskey. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of new york wrote more books than most candidates had read. Todays guest former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has written even more books than senator moynihan but remember there are more house members then there are senators. Speaker gingrich is to talk about his latest book sublight. He will speak for 20 minutes and then take questions from the audience before he signs the book. Proceeds from todays event benefit the National Press Club Journalism institute the clubs nonprofit journalism training. Before we begin please turn off for silence your cell phones. I would like to acknowledge the members that they headline team responsible for organizing the event and if you are in audience please stand be recognized. Lisa matthews, roy rousseau beale pierced frank masson no a
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Terabytes of data, the newspaper needed help and called in the journalism troops. With such a large number of people going to the database, they needed to agree on a common strategy for collaboration and for parsing out the research, as well as the joint process of holding off until everyone was ready. This is something foreign to american media. We are not used to co honoring editors. We will talk about some of the work and the findings. It is sponsored by the journalism institute, the nonprofit arm of the National Press club. Left elcome, from i im sorry. From my right, will fitzgibbon, a reporter from the National Consortium. To my last, ms. Walker, the Deputy Director of the National Consortium of journalists. And kevin hall, the chief economics correspondent for mcclatchy. Thank you so much tom and the press club for this invitation. What an honor to be here. So, yes, were going to talk about collaboration across borders. When we think about investigative journalism, sometimes thi