Give a warm welcome to the stage. [applause]. I hope you are having as much fun as i am at this festival. [applause]. I think of students in college a few of you were in college a few years ago as the best thing to do is to take the teacher not the course and here i think of things to take these incredible authors and be in a room with them. Whatever theyre talking about. The only problem is there is someone in every room. That you want to be with. I think you heard from them all at one point or another. They have also done some the other interesting things. American shots. He is the cn and historian. He has a little bit of basement studio and envy of john meacham. Whos got that at msnbc. Of course the great tester in 1919. Just a transformative book that is so important. Many of us know him from his basement with morning joe. The assignment is to talk about who is your favorite historical figure. I want to make that a free and fun thing. Maybe later we would get into other elements. W
I want you to look at the camera right there. Is that okay . Does everybody see her. Good. Go ahead. Its hard to sum up quickly what we tried to accomplish, but the basic premise is we realized there was a huge lack of trust in hr and legal after what happened at npr and we wanted to restore that trust and we wanted to go to where people were talking and confiding in one another and we realize they had a real lack of knowledge about harassment, about our policies, about where to go, and we realized if we educated and trained them at the ground level, they are in the secret slack channels, theyre hearing, you know, all the gossip and once they were had, you know, training and we developed a whole new Training Program that had never really existed before, we realized that, you know, they were another resource that the company can use. So we kind of functioned both to help guide people who have harassment concerns and also as a kind of heat map of the company to monitor when we see issues
Were going to get started in five. With the rest of the afternoons session. So five, four, three, two, one. Were back now at the power shift summit 2. 0 for our conversation focused on the view from the eeoc, the u. S. Equal Employment Opportunity commission and leading the conversation today and introducing our speakers is nizelle stewart. A veteran news executive and newsroom leader and and outstanding educator. He is senior director of talent, partnerships and new strategy for gannet and the usa today network. Welcome. Thank you, kathy. [ applause ] well, good afternoon, everyone. And before we begin our discussion, wed like to take a moment to introduce the power shift projects workplace integrity training. This is a curriculum specifically developed for news organizations by our own gill guiseler, and as we will discuss in a few minutes, training can play a Critical Role in creating workplaces that are free from discrimination and harassment. Heres a video overview of the workplac