Book Talk with Adam Nagourney

Let's Find Common Ground

USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future

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🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

CPF Director Bob Shrum joins New York Times reporter Adam Nagourney for a conversation on his new book, “The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism,” and the role journalism plays in politics. In partnership with USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy.

Featuring:

Adam Nagourney: National Political Reporter, The New York Times; Former Fellow, USC Center for the Political Future
Bob Shrum: Director, Center for the Political Future; Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics, USC Dornsife

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0:00.0	Welcome to the bully pulpit from the University of Southern California's Center for the Political Future.
0:11.7	Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot button issues where we respect
0:22.0	each other and respect the truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:29.5	Good afternoon. I'm Bob Trump, the director of the Center for the Political Future at
0:34.3	USC Dornside. Welcome to those of you who are here with us and everyone watching remote.
0:40.3	Our guest today is Adam Negerney, who also happens to be a former fellow at the center,
0:45.0	where he had an extraordinary impact on our students on our programming.
0:48.5	He was one of the great national political reporters of this generation
0:51.4	and covered presidential campaign after presidential campaign
0:54.6	for the New York Times. He's also the author of an acclaimed new book entitled The Times. He and I
1:01.1	will discuss the book for about 40 minutes and then turn to questions from the audience.
1:05.6	The book is a monumental and constantly engrossing journey decades of the times and its impact on America.
1:14.1	Why did you decide to write it? And what did you learn and what will readers learn that most
1:19.1	stands out to you? Well, first of all, thank you for doing this, Bob. Thank you all for coming.
1:23.6	I appreciate it. If you know me, I guess, when I was in college, I always wanted to work in New York
1:28.9	Times. Like, since I was a freshman, I knew what I wanted to do, and I was dedicated to that,
1:34.1	accomplishing that. I admired the Times, and I read a book that was read, written in the 1960s
1:39.8	by Gay Talese, a former Tides first in the the time. And that always influenced by thinking about
1:45.5	what book I might want to do. And I reached a point, it's kind of mostly, I was trying to figure
1:49.9	how this happened, where I decided I wanted to write a book about the history of the paper.
1:54.5	There's been other books that have been done. There was a book done on the family, the basis of
1:58.9	the Times by Alice Jones and Susan Tiff,
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