we are so pleased to welcome today's headliner, craig newmark, the founder of craigslist and craig newmark philanthropies which has supported a host of causes, especially journalism, veterans issues, women in technology and voter protection. before we begin, i would like to, please, ask you, silence your cell phones if you haven't already. and if you're tweeting today, we are press club dc, and the hashtag for today's event is npc live. i would like to also introduce our head table guests. please hold your applause until be everyone has been introduced. so starting from my left, we have mike smith, ceo of greensmith public affairs and a member of the national press club headline arers committee. we have megan ross, correspondent at gaylord news service. we have a senior associate ed editor at the kiplinger washington editors. we have katie horn, head of product and technology at the mark-up. something that you may have just recently heard about. be we have chris swanson, vice president of editorial projects in education. that's the publisher of education week. we have jess marson, managing

craig: go to craig newmark philanthropies online and there is a contact form right there. whoeverthank you to submitted that question. thank you for being here today. i have just one or two cap more questions here that we will ask before wrapping up today's conversation. you mentioned several groups you are working with. you bring them back to the national press club to give us updates? ofig: i would like to do all the above because i guess this our mission required for country survival as a democracy. we need to support good groups. and just -- i plan to do this only as long as i live. after that, it is over. [laughter] andrea: my goodness. what advice do you have for young people or students of journalism, people who would like to become journalists? first, i would like to remind everyone that use is wasted on the young. -- you arernalism actually helping protect the country. countryple protect the by being cops or firemen or members of the armed services, but as a journalist, you are part of the immune system of democracy. you are part of something much bigger than your

. >>> we are so pleased to welcome today's headliner, craig newmark, the founder of craigslist, and philanthropy, which has supported a host of causes, especially journalism, veterans issues, women in technology, and border protection. before we begin, i would like to ask that you please silence your cell phones if you have not already and if you are tweeting today, we are press club dc, and the hashtag for today's event is npc live. i would like to also introduce our -- please hold your applause until everyone has been introduced. so starting from my left, we have mike smith, ceo of green smith public affairs and a member of national -- headliners committee. we have megan -- was a correspondent at gaillard -- we have -- a senior associate editor at the washington editors. we have katie horn, head of product and technology and markup, something that you may have recently heard about. we have chris watson, vice president of editorial projects in education. that is the publisher of -- we have jeff larson, he is the managing editor of markup. and here for my right, we have lisa matthews, assignment

more live programming coming up later today with remarks from craig newmark. he will discuss the public's trust in news. he is speaking at the press club in washington dc. then, a discussion about the relationship between reporters and confidential sources in the government. university's free speech project and columbia universities night first amendment institute will host key watch live coverage starting at 7:00 eastern, also here at c-span. professor christine ford has agreed to testify thursday before the senate judiciary committee about her sexual assault allegations against brett kavanaugh. judge kavanaugh will also testify at the hearing, and we will have live coverage thursday starting at 10:00 on c-span3. you can also watch online at c-span.org or listen on the c-span radio app. announcer: this week. gary when discusses his concern over

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. >> was there any one major event that was the catalyst for a you found in craig newmark philanthropies and thousand 16? >> it kind of just happened, increasingly, increasingly, and then at some point, i hit a reflective tipping point and said hey, i've got to get my act together. because i had something called the -- and it failed in terms of branding and i needed to get a lot more serious. to stand up, and like i like to say, put my money where my mouth is, and that is how and, as determined by point -- determined by coin toss, corey stewart has the first opening statement. >> thank you all. i would like to thank my wife maria and our two sons for their support. the united states senate is broken. they are not talking with one another. they are yelling at each other. republicans are blaming democrats and democrats are blaming republicans. nothing is getting done. including with senator kaine. he is an automatic no to everything president trump proposes. when the president proposed increasing our military budget, senator kaine voted no. when president trump proposed increasing the mode

newmark. later in the week we have a luncheon with the secretary of the u.s. air force, heather wilson and house speaker paul ryan coming here and there isa, september 27th. so we hope you'll join us all. thank you so much for being here today. i would like to ask that you stay seated for just a moment so we can wipe our wonderful speaker exhibitors. she has another event to get too quickly. we hope that she will come back and speak at the club again and you will have more of an opportunity to equip her at a later date. again, thank you so much for being here today. [applause] .. >> and director of the national air is now one -- and senators that october 31 there are a number -- event we are german -- adjourned. [inaudible conversations] >> to be a beacon to the world to conduct ourselves in a manner with uncivil discourse we have to remember of the entire world. >> i am deeply concerned on many levels by policy he has it been helpful to long-term relations on a daily basis and to suggest we c

craig newmark talks about his work and donation to a new nonprofit journalism organization aimed at understanding the impacts of technology on society. that's followed by the annual conservative gathering of 2018. >> we will then hear from the witnesses. the senators will each have five minutes to ask questions. we have a full house of guests in the audience and i welcome you here. >> we have a g full house of guests in the audience. i welcome you here! part of your right as an american citizen. can you expect vigorous back and forth among the senators. that's the nature of this committee. we have different point of views. i would ask that those in the audience respect the rules of the senate in terms of no applause or demonstrations or comments during the hearing. canis hines, a kindergarten teacher, recently wrote the following. "this year tennessee schools will begin to implement our state's new education plan under the every student succeeds act, essa. unlike no child left behind, essa gives tennessee more economy to design policies to meet the need was our state's students" show quote. "essa

. >> live here on c-span in about half an hour with remarks by craiglist -- craig's list founder craig newmark as he discusses public trust in the news at the national press club in washington, d.c. live coverage at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. lisa mascaro is back at our desk, chief congressional

craig newmark talks about his work and donation to a new nonprofit journalism organization aimed at understanding the impacts of technology on society. that's followed by the annual conservative gathering of 2018.

newmark and later in the week we have a luncheon with the secretary of the u.s. air force speaker paulhave house ryan coming in, and we hope that you will join us. thank you so much for being here. i would like to ask that you stay seated for just a moment, so we can let our wonderful speaker exit with her staff. she has another event is get to, -- event to get to, but we hope that she will return to speak at the club again and you will have an opportunity to equip her at a later date. thank you for being here today. [applause] >> while they are exiting i will plug a couple more offense because we have so many great events coming up. we have the director general of out to zero coming in at the beginning of october. we have the president of slovenia coming september 28. -- the the ceo of director of the national air and space museum coming october 22, and we have senator ben sass coming in seeking on wednesday, october 31. there are a number of excellent events, and you can look for details on the matter website. thank you for coming out. we are adjourned. [applau

on monday, we have craig newmark, the founder of craigslist coming. later in the week, we have paul ryan. we also have the president of selenium. we have great events happening at the club over the next weeks and months. take a look at our website, and i hope you can join us. thank you for being here. [ applause ] stomach executives from amazon, apple, at&t, facebook, google, twitter, and others testify on data privacy for consumers. the senate commerce committee hearing is alive, wednesday morning on cspan3. you can watch on c-span.org , or the radio app. veterans affairs secretary robert wilkie testified before the senate veterans affairs committee on their priorities. watch that life wednesday at 3:00 eastern, on cspan3 , our website, and radio app. >>> dr. ford has agreed to testify about her sexual assault allegations against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. judge cavanagh will testify at that hearing. we will have live coverage on thursday starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on cspan3. you can watch online at c- span.org, or listen on the c- sp

we have craigslist founder craig newmark on the public stressed on the news. and a discussion of the relationship to between reporters and confidential sources in the government. communicators,e the executive director of the open market institute discusses his concern over companies like google, facebook and amazon, possibly becoming monopolies and threatening

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next monday we have a luncheon with craigslist founder craig newmark. later in the week we have a luncheon with the secretary the of the u.s. air force, heather wilson, and we have house speaker paul ryan coming here on thursday, september 27th. so we hope that you will join us all. thank you so much for being here today. i'd like to ask that you stay seated for just a moment so that we can let our wonderful speaker exit with her staff. she has another event to get to quickly, but we are going to -- we hope that she will come back and speak at the club again and that you will have more of an opportunity to speak with her at a later date. again, stephanie, thank you so much for being here today. [applause] and so while they're exiting, i'm going to plug a couple more e s&p vents because we have so many great events coming up. we have the director general of al-jazeera coming at the very beginning of october. we have the president of slovenia coming on september 28th. we have the ceo of -- oh, we have the director of the national air and space museum comi