Welcome. My name is Vivian Schiller and im the director of aspen digital. Were blunt glad you could be with us today. The New York Times bestseller list can often seem to be a veneer of the National Psyche and this year it seems to reflect a nation going through an awakening on matters of race. Books written by people of color and about matters of race and racism have filled those lists, both fiction and nonfiction. Thats the good news. Sadly the Publishing Industry does not necessarily always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest hashtag publishing pay me exposed the disparity in the industry between black and nonblack authors. There are few people of color who serve as publishing staff or literary agents and even fewer who operate at decisionmaking levels and for those who are published, sometimes the marketing exposure can be sub optimal. This year of National Reckoning on racism were going to take a look at the industry, the book Publishing Industry and whether it can br
Affected our National Politics for decades. Campbell spent 20 or centralism before becoming a professor in the Communications Studies program at American University in washington, d. C. He is also a writer, historian, be the clinic and blogger. He has solo authored seven books including getting it wrong, defunct in the greatest myths in american journalism, and 1995, the year the future began. Tonight campbell will talk about is brenda book from university of California Press, lost in a gallup. Following his opening remarks i will moderate a q a session. Those watching us live on crowd cast can submit a question by clicking ask the question at the bottom of the screen at any time during appropriate. Now i would like to welcome w. Joseph campbell to let talks. John, thank you. Great to be a period great to be back in i was a, if virtually. I spent productive period of time but two and half years ago in i was city going through the Gallup Organization papers university of iowa city speci