Rice universities Public Policy hosted the event. It is over one hour. Welcome to the Baker Institute webinar. I am steve lewis. The head of our china studies program. We are happy to have you all this afternoon. Thank you for tuning in. I am hoping not only do you find it informative and unique colleague, but froma welcome respite domestic politics, which is never as important as aging asian affairs. I would like to thank all of you again. Our hardworking staff at the Baker Institute. My Research Assistant for helping. The foundation for endowing a lot of the events here. The doctor i have known her for 10 years one of our top scholars. I think it has been 10 years. She was a postdoc here for asian interested in media. Had her and her expertise in many of our past webinars on chinese politics. We are happy to have her again today. Also, we are happy this year because she is newly minted as an associate professor, tenured professor at media studies at the university of virginia. The on
University announced winners for the annual george polk awards in journalism. They talked about the challenges reporting during wartime domestically and internationally. This runs one hour. Good afternoon and welcome. I am john darnton the curator of the george polk awards and it is my pleasure to announce the winners for the most outstanding works of journalism in 2019. I would like to express my gratitude to long island university, the sponsor of the klein, li kimberly you president , for her unflagging support. I would like to thank my friend and colleague, ralph engleman, our faculty coordinator. As many of you know our awards were established in 1949 to commemorate george polk, the cbs correspondent assassinated the year before during the greek civil war. Yeare now in our 71st having bestowed, as of today, 3125 prizes. Legacy,ng with polks our judges on a reporters whenever possible and not just their news organizations. Dogged out those who are in their investigations, resourcefu
Talk about reporting during wartime, both domestically and internationally. John good afternoon and welcome. Im john darnton, the curator of the george polk awards. It is my pleasure to announce the winners for the most outstanding works of journalism in 2019. I would like to express my gratitude to long island university, the sponsor, and in particular, dr. Kimberly klein, liu president , for her unflagging support. I want to thank my friend and colleague ralph engelman, our faculty coordinator. As many of you know, our awards were established in 1949 to commemorate george polk. The cbs correspondent assassinated the year before during the greek civil war. We are now in our 71st year, having bestowed as of today 3125 prizes. In keeping with his legacy, our judges honor reporters whenever possible and not just their news organizations. We seek out those who are dogged in their investigations, resourceful in their tactics, and intrepid in overcoming the odds, whether it is sending dispa
Fewer outages. Well begin with luz pena with a look at who could be affected this week, this time. Luz . Thats right, dan a ke to several Business Owners here in Sonoma County who said that the last power shutoff affected them drastically. They lost thousands of dollars in business. Now this business right here, the jade room did not make it to this psps that were approaching. We spoke to a supervisor here in Sonoma County who said at least six restaurants on this strip did not survive the last psps and had to close. So this time were planning accordingly, and were really not going to order. So as you see, normally today is a day where we bring in a lot of our product to start prepping for next week. And this week we have very, very little in there. Having less food in the fridge means losing less money during the last power shutoff daniel and his wife lost 50,000. They were close ordd for five d and now the thought of another power shauft has them on edge. How would it affect your bus
it has become the single most predictable form of american television in this american way of death. there is nothing else that we can do, if we could think up a better way of doing, it we would. but we have no better idea of how to handle this. well, enjoy your show tonight, i ll be watching. thank you. fani willis speaks, and lindsey graham goes silent. that s a news day that we did not see coming. the normally silent full-time county district attorney fani willis gave an exclusive interview today, she discussed her grand jury investigation of republican interference into the republican election in georgia. she said that it was possible that donald trump could get hit with a subpoena to testify to that grand jury, just like lindsey graham. lindsey graham has been entrusts silent. since fani willis served him with a a subpoena to testify in georgia. he is the only current member of the united states senate to have been subpoenaed to testify to a grand jury. pretty sp