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
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