Company. As a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Welcome everybody, i am the dean at the Journalism School and im very pleased to welcome you to tonights conversation with the 2020 prizewinners, i am sorry we are conducting this conversation virtually rather than in the room at columbia, i hope her back together again next year and the way we annually celebrate these wonderful awards in the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generation, certainly a great influence on the generation of writers that i grew up around. And probably among the folks who are being honored tonight. What were going to do tonight is try to concentrate on the substance rather than the ceremony since zoom is not a capacious place to exchange awards and the like so we will have a series of conversations with our four winners and then walk us through that, when we are done we will take your questions in chat and we will try to wrap up in an hour using the
At columbia i hope we are back together again next year and the way we annually celebrate these wonderful awards in the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generation certainly a great influence on the generation of writers that i grew up around and probably the folks being honored tonight. What we are going to do tonight is try to concentrate on the substance rather than the ceremonies since zoom is not a place to exchange awards and the like. We will have a series of conversations with our four winners and then when we are done we will take your questions in chat and try to wrap up in an hour using zoom best practice of not leaving you in front of your computer screen for too long a time, especially this time of day. For those of you new to the awards, we have a short video about j anthony with his prizes. People talk about book writing they almost always talk about the process of writing, sitting at the keyboard writing it down is in many respects not the
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