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
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 being honored tonight. What we are going to do tonight is try to concentrate on the substance rather than they ceremony since zoom is not a great place to exchange awards and the like. So were going to have a series of conversations with our four winners, and then ill when were done well take your questions in chat. And well try to wrap up in an hour, following the zoom practice not leaving you in front of your computer screen for to long especially this time of day. As we get started, for those who may be knew to the awards and to the legacy that they honor, we have a short video about J Anthony Luka ss prizes. People talk but book writing, they almost always talk but the process of writing. Sitting there by the keyboard, and writing it dont and it is in many resp
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Trump is now president of the United States, our 45th president. Ut has been for about 90 minutes now. And mike pence, of course, is Vice President. In his inaugural address President Trump lashed out at inshington establishments saying for too long a small group in our nations capitol has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. You are looking at pictures now of the congressional luncheon stat the new president and first lady will be attending with members of the house and the senate on both sides of the aisle. Red this is joint base andrews on the right side of the screen, what used to be called Andrews Air Force base. And you see the outgoing president , mr. Obama saying goodbye to the wellwishers there. He just spoke to a large crowd at andrews. And he will be getting on a plane with his family and inading to palm springs, california, and a nice vacation. He said during his News Conference a few days ago that he was looking forward to a time when he d