Reward have been Washington Post reporters and political Prize Winners to boot. The lady great Anthony Sneed won 2 lists ares for his reported in the middle east of which he gave his life. [applause] and colbert won a pulitzer at the Washington Post. I said this was a humbling experience for me and i meant that in every sense of the word. Prior to my getting a real job at the Washington Post, i was a copy aid for about 45 years so i deliver these guys mail and faxes on a daily basis. It is incredible and kind of surreal for me to be up here. I am really excited about this award, a big score for independent journalists. [applause] the absolute hardest thing about being independent especially if you go from being in a major newsroom is making that phone call to an important person, import organization and saying, it is just me. They go, all, one News Organization . It is just me, sorry about that. It takes a little bit getting used to. Probably the most rewarding at fact of being on your
Computers to measure how secure computers are and thats where we need to be. When you have millions of computers in the federal government going around with a clipboard is not the way. You have to use computers to assess how secure they are, so one of the things we got out of fizz pha is in fact the positive authorization to do continuous diagnostics and 34eu9 tkpwaeugsand they get a tool where they have a dashboard and gives them a status of their own environment and we get a tool where we have a rollup dashboard where we can help them understand how they stand next to next to each other. Whether one department is doing a great job and we have lessons that we can take and share with other departments. This is really a pro foundly important tool for us. Just as general counsels from private companies have questions who is this organization thats going to come in and look at our networks and work with us, agencies have counsel who also ask that question. You have the capability youll pu
As so often is the case you have two choices you can curse the darkness or light the candle. At night we choose to light. Were mad as hell and were doing something about it. Id like to tell you a little bit of that. Values matter training matters so we maintain programs with scores of Journalism Schools as you see on the slides. And there are deans fellowships, knight chairs, new degrees, training in person and online. We funded hundreds literally hundreds of immediate experiments from prototypes from realtime news to open Source Community engagement platforms. We have turned Mits Media Lab and the Pew Research Center to help us understand how people use information technology. We dont pretend to have a magic bullet. Instead we work with the journalists who care about the present and the future. We funded News Organizations whose missions day in and day out is to do outstanding journalism, like texas tribune, propublica and the voice of san diego. In the short term weve also given brea
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) Americans advocating for gun reform are taking to the streets in communities across the U.S. Saturday to participate in protests sparked by the back-to-back mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York. The nationwide marches were organized by March For Our Lives, a group founded by student survivors of the 2018 high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people. Saturday's marches are in response to the May 24 shooting at a Uvalde elementary school that killed 19 students and two teachers, as well as the May 14 massacre at a Buffalo grocery store where 10 people, all of whom were Black, were gunned down in an alleged hate crime. Jun 11, 3:54 pm 'No one should be able to inflict these types of injuries' At the March For Our Lives rally in Los Angeles, one woman held a sign reading: "Send the guns to Ukraine." Dr. Jeffrey Birnbaum, a pediatric emergency medicine doctor in LA and a Parkland, Flor