And down to the annual National Press Foundation Awards dinner, the event recognizes journalists and the stories they have covered. [background sounds]. Lease and gentlemen, welcome back to the podium. Thank you for joining us. Your sponsorship of tonights dinner will go towards National Press Foundation Training programs in the United States and around the world. It is been my Great Fortune in five years to educate journalists across the globe, we run Training Programs in buffett barcelona, shanghai, i would not be, moscow, hong kong and paris. Reinforce relationships with two remarkable International Foundations who are just as passionate about journalism as we are. They share our dedication to making good journalists better. This foundation difference is in four years of programs and paris. To train journalists about science, and how to communicate science. In the foundation hong kong, its something train journalists about International Trade programs. Using incredibly timely and critical partnerships will benefit in journalism for years to come. Heres a brief video about her International Training. National press foundation has long long history of conducting International Training under our journalists to journalists better. We had two brandnew j to j programs in 2019. And more scheduled this year. Jim took us to hong kong where we trained 20 journalists from across asia International Trade. An urgent. Several deep dive on the chair force, learned the history of asia u. S. Traits. Toward the seventh Largest Force in the world. And took the wheel of the ship simulator. In october, we were in paris, training 25 american and European Union journalists on science. And in science communications. Some of us learn about neurobiology, and how to debunk fake science and how to interpret scientific abstracts. They toured the institute for famed scientists, louis pasteur, ann marie, and they learned about Life Expectancy from a real sir michael verma. [inaudible]. They gave us a lot of Practical Knowledge and explain some of the technicalities to demonstrate. [inaudible]. We see whats happening in u. S. , and we got people from china and also investors. Nps makes good journalists better all of the world. [applause]. Our visa digital manager, program manager, in turn valerie, jenny, director of operations for the center. Npf. [applause]. , they cannot have two president s of course. Tonight, i am retiring and leaving in very capable hands. It setting brings formidable combination of suppressive journalism experience here and abroad, as well as a deep understanding of press freedoms and challenges in her international contacts. I am turning npf over the sunny and great confidence into the next chapter. [applause]. Thank you so much. Its an honor to follow Sandy Johnson in leading this organization. Im feeling very big shoes. I want to thank all of you of help build National Press foundation in a strong institution. Nurtures the kind of journalism we honor tonight. Evidencebased journalism that propels and protects our democracy. I would like to introduce two people give them some very heavy lifting. They are the best kind of washington writers. There are people who are committed to great journalism and a loss to know how to get things done. Good things done in this town. Please welcome our Dinner Committee chair. [applause]. Thank you sunny, we want to thank all of the Dinner Committee people. These are people calling you. The romans also thank you. Born with twitter, terry bge, kathy with Public Affairs consultant, Kevin Goldberg with the Digital Media association, leonard with remote communication, raymond, and those, with toyota and lauren with cnn. [applause]. Will sort of thing the rest of the Dinner Committee. Jeffrey smith with Honda North America inc. , and cta, sally, susan twain cspan, chris and a bit of Public Affairs, time and aarp. Thank you also much. [applause]. Ladies and gentlemen, kathy, chair of the National Press Foundation Board of directors and communications consultants. Good evening. One of the privileges that comes with the chairmanship of the National Preservation is being able to choose who receives this special award. Also tonight awardees, or individuals being cited for their outstanding journalism or for lifetime achievement. This award is being given on exceptional idea. And to the two people who are tearing it out. Charlie and steve, are the cofounders of report for america. The initiative to strengthen local journalism at a time when they are facing enormous challenges. That Research Center reports newsroom jobs in the United States declined 25 percent from 2008, 22018. Report for america has been swimming against the tide. Since 2017. Working to strengthen Quality Community journalism and areas for local reporting has collapsed. Continually expanding in the coming years, the Program Plans to place 250 journalists and hundred and 65 newsrooms. In 46 states and puerto rico. Many of these humans are less are trying to vastly undercut every areas telling stories that otherwise would not be told. We are ambassadors for journalism. One of them told me recently and helping to create an understanding of what a journalist does. When journalism was under siege, report for america strengthened our democracy by providing artifactual in depth information that the electorates need to make informed decisions and keep democracy strong. Here are charlies team, accomplished journalists in their own rights to describe this groundbreaking project. [applause]. Thank you kathy. Thank you, for this award. Thank you to the National Press foundation. This is truly an honor. I want to thank a couple of people. I want to thank our amazing team, who every day is building this vision out. All i think all of the journalists in this room. Our call on race or appear tonight, this is not an easy time to be a journalist. He really feels like the crisis in journalism has become a crisis for our democracy. Report for america is trying to do something about that. What we do is pretty basic. Were trying to take emerging journalists and give them an opportunity to going to a smaller newsroom, for local news and get into undercover cords of the country. I am charlie, one of the cofounders, steve and i cofounded it. I had something called the ground project. We support a new generation of journalist to do reporting around the world and here in United States. Within 2018, we decided to launch report for america as a flagship program. And watching report for america, we started really small. We had three reporters. And now its really grown. Starting to truly feel like it is a movement. The Movement Really started with an idea. It was idea inspired by my cofounder, steve who had this really smart notion that was born of a question which was the Education Reform Movement has teach for america, what is in journalism have a report for america. We decided we would come together to try to make that idea a reality. And we been on a journey trying to do that and in great honor to be here to celebrate the momentum we have really feel. So thank you, i dont think steve for leading us into the vision. Thank you steve. [applause]. Thank you so much for this. Thank you charlie and the project are deciding to embrace this unusual idea. We refer to it as National Service program. For journalist to go into local communities cover under covered topics and communities. And in some way the ideas really breathtakingly simple. The way to solve the problem of local news is with more local reporters. And so yes we have 250 that are going into the field in june. Shooting for thousand reporters 2024. If we can raise enough money. [applause]. It is more than about just putting reporters in the field. It is also about reestablishing the idea of local reporting is a Public Service profession. Which of course is a lot why people wanted to in the first place but it tends get ground out of you by the business reality. Sir things. The real Public Servants who are people, Young Journalist like michelle, in mississippi today, but her first year spotlighted a shocking rise in president s in the mississippi prison system and got the Justice Department to look at it. Or will write to found, no clean Drinking Water in Eastern Kentucky or many a while we discovered that an american citizen being held by ice illegally and got them sprung by reporting about it. These journalists are amazing. And we are really honored, to accept this award on behalf of the newsroom, and these journalists who work really trying to strengthen communities and rebuild trust on the ground level. Thank you. [applause]. If that whats up. The purpose of npf storytelling award is to recognize digital journalism reinvents the way stories are told. This year, goes to in pretty are in the university for Investigative Journalism and Capital New Service for a story about how low income urban neighborhoods are hotter than wealthier ones. The judges said the brilliance of the Data Collection tools, this is npf, they built for the story may offer early delete somehow innovation will drive the future of newsrooms. Heres a look at the project called code red. In big cities across the u. S. , low income neighborhoods are hotter will be once. Joint investigation by an npf at the university of maryland. People recruiting because theyve shown some interest in urban affairs. We may clear to them this was another class. They could not skip a day just because you didnt felt like getting there the day. My first meeting with them, this is going be a lot of hard. A long day, nothing is going to go the way you wanted to write you might have to readjust, defeat, and is the job. Every day in the newsroom, is a little different. The departure from what we normally do. It was very unexpected but the most fun that i had of the project. That was a very important moment for us because we realized not only building it, our reporters will be putting the information into the tracking data. And added a level of depth to a story because it brings real characters and people into this. It shows how this issue is affecting. The reason i know i want to stay in journalism is because of the people aspect. Tremendously collaborative. This project would not have come up close to his successfully as it did without the role. Is really detailed data that showed the neighborhoods also have higher rates of poverty and we wanted to see if that played out across the country. We got the thermal images from nasa and combined that was that the data admitted of nothing 97 cities and towns that this link between cohesion lower income existed in almost all of them. Or people who said when the driver of the neighborhood, they can actually feel it cooling down the she drives. We did just ask them about the story but that was a backandforth pretty. Journalism now functions best when organizations, bring their resources together and Work Together to investigate and examine really weighty topics. I hope this project in addition to the things we learn will also teach our colleagues at baruch professional news organizations, that collaborating with student journalist is not something that they should be afraid of. It is something they should embrace. [applause]. Kathy and robert who will accept this award. [applause]. [background sounds]. Good evening. Im kathy best from the university of maryland ten risk, i would like to thank the National Press foundation for this amazing recognition of the collaboration and took a little bit of courage from our professional partners. Npr was the very best partner we could expect. I would also like to recognize the students at the university of maryland who made this possible. We can the nine of them tonight, when you nice enough place. [applause]. [applause]. I want to point out the some of them will be in the job market very soon. And others of them are in the job market right now. The industries on the hottest months of the hottest year ever recorded in baltimore. It was hot and sweaty and they did reporting, put sensors in peoples houses, they took photos, they took videos, they did deep Data Analysis and working with our partners it npr, they produced an unbelievable digital presentation for this work. We are incredibly of them. But we also think that this is part of what the future of journalism can look like. I would also like to thank in addition to our partners at npr, the Howard Foundation and the leadership at the university of manager maryland and the Maryland College of journalism for having the vision to make this possible. Thank you. [applause]. On think our producer megan anderson, and our digital producer, they were together to create some great radio for this project. I am bob with npr. We figured out the partnerships make this better. It is a good example of that action ungrateful of the university of maryland for recognizing that. And the wisdom of the howard center. And if i could, im an Old Newspaper guy and i spent some time fretting about the future my profession. I have to say that working on this project with my colleagues, and with the students of the university of maryland to see the enthusiasm and the talent and energy, the outrage, i think we will be okay. So congratulations to all my partners and thank you. [laughter]. The study aboard recognize regulations on local communities. The outstanding series of capture this years prize, was reported by christina, has been in effect on all this. She revealed the shocking 20 year effort by Major Medical equipment manufacturers to hide from doctors in the public, millions of cases of medical equipment malfunctions and advice related injuries. And since judges said they were stunned by the story. In the failure of federal regulation that revealed. Heres christina. [applause]. Thanks for the award. I like to think my editors, john Anna Elisabeth rosenthal who were just amazing and supporting when i did work on the story. This all started when i was talking to a source medical device arena. Itll be something that was a twist on what i understood about medical device injuries, and malfunction reporting. As far as i knew, everything was in a database called mod. But when she told me was it was not. There were exemptions that the fda gave to some Device Companies and they were able to file alternative summary reports with thousands of injuries and malfunction reports of years. On that this could not be true. Someone would have written about this already. Click on experts, biomechanical engineers who all they do is investigate what happened when someones one of them told me sort of died in the shower from a pacemaker that was implanted two days ago pretty none of them knew what i was talking about. So i started digging. With the public at every mention i could find of these alternative summary reports and pretty early on when to be of the, and asked how what are these and how many of these are there. And why were they granted. What the fda told me was the file of freedom information act. So i did. I filed it. What happened was i saw expedited reporting because im impatient like the average journalist, and im not patient it all. I was denied and i feel that i was denied again. And then they told me it would take 22 months to fulfill merit bus. So i kept asking questions and eventually when i found out was that in a couple of years nor more than a million of these reports file. Many of the more files regarding surgical staplers. They can sever a vessel and not feel the vessel. People bleed to death when devastating injuries quickly. So i flew to toledo and spent a day with the family, was let out after liver surgery and he didnt even notice and same. We wrote a story and eventually the fda told me that in a year, about 84 reports were available about surgical surgeries. There are actually about 1,030,000 in the database. And the power that story, but the fda to introduce basically review of surgical staplers. In june of that year, fda open this data. It was 5. 7 million records that accounted for 40 percent medical device malfunction injuries. So was a pretty good day for journalism. The power of the work that Kaiser Health workers doing the power of the free press. So i am very elated to accept the work. Thank you. [applause]. Is with great pleasure to present this years hadley editor of the year award. [applause]. Obviously as a cheering section. Miami harold media company, according to the judges, commitment to accountability journalism, brought Jeffrey Epstein to justice. Laser focus. [applause]. Laser focus on the hurricane victim in puerto rico. Revealed have gun violence forever changed the part in school community. Many story is truly one of the local world makes good. As this video portrays. Was amazing, she truly is the heart and soul of this organization. She has come up through the ranks of the miami herald in a way that you just dont care about anymore. She started here as an intern. She is miami. I started in high school and she and i were from the same bureau. I just remember seeing her work and work hard, so imagine your 14 year teenager, and you think this would want to do so youre really impressed by that. In the year of the many is an editor, we have even been a finalist out almost a year. If you look at news organizations, of our sites, there really is no one with us five or ten years has been the finalist for a winner virtually every year. And we have done that. At a time, we were struggling newspapers, struggling financially it is quite a feat that mindy was able to give the time and attention and money and resources to reach a big story like this. This what i would say, she is the most awful, genuine and empathetic journalist i know. They make her a great leader and in the words. She is a fighter. [applause]. [applause]. Good evening. Im really honored and humbled to be here and such amazing company. I will a little bit unjust because im in such amazing company. Thank you have to be a certain age to get this kind of honor. So congratulations to all of tonights honorees. Including Stephen Charles actually we have three in corporate america, reporters coming to our newsroom. [applause]. Coming in june. Dozens across the country in june. So thank you. This is an incredibly frightening time to be journalists. I dont have some folks in this room reading newspapers organizations across the country, articulate local media like miami harold, when the fight of our lives. In this battle has many fronts from the financial model, resulting distraction mergers acquisitions, bankruptcies. To the 24 hour news cycle and 32nd Attention Span of our readers. Make news, alternative facts. And other things pretty journalism, interest are under assault. Literally and figuratively. And in these times, it takes a special kind of courage to do what we do. Mark bennett reporters who have roots assisted, teaching were job in public relations, this generation of young reporters who have enlisted in this cause and spite of what were going through. Knowing full well they are facing. The chance to make a difference every day becomes work. I am proud and privileged to leave miami harold as well as harold, on floridas west coast. Fiercely talented, passionate, scrappy newsroom that exhibits this special kind of courage and determination in space. And just the last couple of years, mama newsroom, has brought a wealthy pedophile to justice and forced to exit resignation cabinet member. With details of decades of abuse. [applause]. Thank you. With details decades of abuse of floridas juvenile justice system. We discussed how President Trump donald trump has become a favorite target of littleknown chinese industry. With access to the well they may be explored remaining challenges, ten years after the devastating earthquake that left 300,000 dead and jacky charles, is here tonight who is responsible for that reporting. [applause]. These are just a few the stories are editor calls an kicking journalism factory. This Critical Mission driven work is possible because i work with the best in the business. Rick managing editor of the miami herald and managing editor and theyre both here today. Our team of extraordinary editors, gives direction by focusing on the one thing we can control. And that is telling compelling local stories that would otherwise go untold. This work is also possible thanks to on wavering commitment to local journalism. Starting with the family, who has supported this work of independent local journalism, honoring legacy of jane, over hundred 85 years ago, and thanks to the mcclatchy leadership from ceo, to our Vice President of news, Crystal Roberts who is here today. [applause]. And thanks also to my colleagues and peers, some of who are here today representing to pursue our mission with vigor across her 27 sister papers. I couldnt do this without my with the decadelong support of my husband. By 1959, miami. [laughter]. , im in good hands. Also support there. [laughter]. It takes a special kind of courage to be journalists today. And across the country, and your newsrooms and newsrooms both large and small, powerful we can and must do is on display. Thank you for your courage and continue to fight the good type. I appreciate the honor. Cutback be met our next award is always a fun one and you get to have dinner. This years prize for editorial goes to robert roll call. Nps judges said that the cartoons with visual clarity and instant impact. His drawing is fresh and clean and beautifully composed. His dry satire of post break down complicated issues and susan on this point. Unfortunately, date cannot be with us tonight because despite, he lives in maine and his flight was canceled. So, do not, you should present his drawing is catalina, member of the board and entered her and chief of the recall. [applause]. [background sounds]. [laughter]. Thank you kathy. As kathy said, rj is disappointed that he cannot be here this evening. Due to weather problems and mechanical difficulties. But on his behalf, i would like to thank the National Press foundation for this great honor. And recognize, but rj and our news organization. This year is the 75th anniversary cq. In the 65th anniversary of roll call. Rj has been a member of our family since 1986 when he began as an illustrator and roll call. In addition to roll call, his work has appeared in your car, the nation, the washington post, and syndications across the country by cagle cartoons. He is proud to carry on in the tradition, and all of the political cartoonist, on the 19th and 20th centuries who are his heroes growing up. Men like volt kelly, jeff mcnally, and founding father of cartoonist, thomas mass. He was rjs biggest inspiration early on. When he was as he puts it, a meticulous crosshatch are working in a deliberately oldfashioned style. It is been many years since rj is live here in the nations capital. But he knows that is custom to begin any speech here in dc, with words of praise from the president. So if rj were here, he wanted to say, thank you President Trump, if not for you, i would not be receiving this award. [laughter]. And heres why. Back in 2016, when trump took the stage at the Republican National convention, rj has now. He was william barr. D the divide between democrats and republican. And the thoughts of a Hillary Clinton presidency only promises former years of the same. So far cartoonist, theres a time in america when scandalous salacious and impeachment was a farce. Cheap and easy fodder for cartoonists all. So imagine a canvas that rj has had since trumps election and the work he has done in the past year. If rj were here, he would want to thank President Trump for leaving the Business World and entering politics. [laughter] and he would have said, thank you, mr. President for your tweets. You are, in rjs words, the very best thing that ever happened to editorial cartoonists. [laughter] i know if rj were here he would like to think his wife, mary, but also design editor chris hale and news editor andrew as he for their partnership and work on his behalf for nominating him. So please accept rjs thanks and mine on behalf of us for this great honor. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please enjoy your dinner. [background
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