“Google and Meta have repeatedly attempted to avoid paying news publishers for the high-quality, local journalism that publishers invest significant resources into producing, while the platforms enjoy a steady stream of users and ad revenue and news publishers struggle,” stated Danielle Coffey, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the News/Media Alliance. “First in Australia, then in the U.S., and now in Canada, Meta and Google have threatened to remove news from their platforms and risk harming the public rather than pay for content they did not create. We cannot continue to allow Big Tech to exert their dominance any longer. The stakes – the survival of local journalism – are too great.”

When Australia was considering its News Media Bargaining Code, Meta ‘deliberately caused havoc’ amid the COVID-19 pandemic to influence the law. Their threats didn’t work, and the News Media Bargaining Code has helped news publishers there reach deals with the platforms. Meta made similar threats when the Canadian legislature introduced the Online News Act (C-18) last year and fought similar bipartisan efforts in Congress to pass the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) in December. In addition, Google has been testing removing news from its platform in Canada in the event C-18 becomes law.

The Alliance deeply appreciates the President’s efforts to promote competition across the American economy and calls on every corner of the Administration to stand strong against Big Tech’s efforts to resist fair payment that will help keep newsrooms open across the United States and the world.

The Alliance encourages Congress to pass the JCPA in the United States, which would establish fair terms of engagement between news publishers and platforms such as Facebook and Google. America’s publishers continue to support the global efforts in Canada, the UK, India, and Taiwan to promote fairness between the companies who employ hardworking journalists and the dominant online platforms that seek to exploit news content and divert advertising dollars to their own bottom line.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Arlington, VA – Seven leading journalism, media, and pro-consumer antitrust advocacy organizations today sent a joint letter to President Joseph Biden calling on him to highlight, in his upcoming State of the Union address on February 7, the importance of local journalism. The letter highlights the urgent need for congressional action to preserve a strong democracy and a free press. Specifically, the letter urges President Biden to call on Congress to advance the bipartisan Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) (S. 673 and H.R. 1735). The legislation will give small, local news outlets the ability to join together in negotiations that will level the playing field with Big Tech platforms. Small and local publishers currently do not have the ability to negotiate jointly for fair payment to counter the dominant power of Big Tech platforms. That imbalance allows tech monopolies to capture the vast majority of U.S. digital ad revenue, leaving local publishers with little to reinvest in the production of high-quality journalism.

The organizations that signed on to the letter include the News/Media Alliance, National Newspaper Association, America’s Newspapers, Authors Guild, American Economic Liberties Project, Inter American Press Association, and the Radio Television Digital News Association.

The letter outlines the plight of local news, in which news publishers have been forced to play by Big Tech’s rules of the digital advertising playing field for years, resulting in the loss of more than a quarter of U.S. newspapers since 2005 and the spread of news deserts across the country. In their letter, the groups underscore the importance of passing the JCPA as the best solution to ensuring news publishers are compensated fairly for use of their content by the dominant tech platforms, asking President Biden to call on Congress to pass the bill, which was introduced in the 117th Congress in 2021 and successfully marked up by the Senate Judiciary Committee last September. In addition, the groups ask Biden to call on Congress to pass the Local Journalism Sustainability Act, which would incentivize investments in local journalism through the tax code.

The letter states in part:

“While America has long been a beacon of light when it comes to freedom of the press, that light has grown dimmer due to the monopolistic shadow of the Big Tech giants. The largest tech platforms dominate revenue streams online, with Google and Facebook in control of an estimated 60 to 70 percent of digital ad markets. These anticompetitive behaviors are further highlighted in the Justice Department’s recently filed lawsuit against Google, which alleges monopoly abuse by the company in the online advertising market.

To stop that light from going out and allow America’s free press to continue to contribute to our nation’s resilience and serve as a model of democracy to the world, we need bipartisan action from Congress. The local news outlets we represent and others that prioritize a free press ask that you use your State of the Union address to call on the House and Senate to urgently advance key legislation to your desk that will help save local journalism.”

The JCPA has broad support, not only in Congress in both the House and the Senate (on both sides of the aisle – including 90 total co-sponsors), but also from over 300 consumer interest groups, unions, conservatives, advocacy groups and third-party organizations that have shown support for the JCPA by sending letters of support to the bill sponsors. In addition, over 24,000 individuals have signed a Change.org petition for the bill and nearly 1,000 editorials and op-eds in support of the JCPA have been published in newspapers in 48 states across the country. In a recent poll of 1,000 U.S. adults conducted by Schoen Cooperman Research for the News/Media Alliance, 70 percent of Americans said they support Congress passing the JCPA.

View the joint letter here.

For more information about the JCPA, visit www.JCPABill.com.

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Media Contact:
Lindsey Loving
Director, Communications
lindsey@newsmediaalliance.org

The News/Media Alliance is a nonprofit organization representing more than 2,000 news and magazine media organizations and their multiplatform businesses in the United States and globally. Alliance members include print and digital publishers of original journalism. Headquartered just outside Washington, D.C., the association focuses on ensuring the future of journalism through communication, research, advocacy, and innovation. Information about the News/Media Alliance can be found at www.newsmediaalliance.org.

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Arlington, VA – Nine leading media and journalism organizations on Tuesday sent a joint letter to the White House calling on the Biden Administration to pass the bipartisan Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) (S. 673 and H.R. 1735). The JCPA would allow local news publishers to come together to collectively negotiate with Google and Facebook for fair compensation for use of their content, as small and local publishers currently do not have the ability to negotiate these deals on their own, as the dominant tech platforms capture the majority of U.S. digital ad revenue, leaving local publishers with little to reinvest in the production of high-quality journalism.

The organizations that signed on to the letter include the American Economic Liberties Project, Alliance for Audited Media, Authors Guild, California Black Media, Ethnic Media Services, Main Street Alliance, National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), News/Media Alliance, Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA), and the Revolving Door Project.

The letter outlines the plight of local news, in which news publishers have been forced to play by Big Tech’s rules of the digital advertising playing field for years, resulting in the loss of more than a quarter of U.S. newspapers since 2005 and the spread of news deserts across the country. The groups in their letter underscore the importance of passing the JCPA as the best solution to ensuring news publishers are compensated fairly for use of their content by the dominant tech platforms. Attackers of the bill have claimed that it would create a link tax and break the Internet. However, similar legislation has been in place in Australia for nearly two years and no such thing has happened. Instead, news publishers in Australia are finally being sustained and hiring journalists again.

The Senate Judiciary Committee completed its bipartisan markup of the JCPA in September. The bill has broad support, not only in Congress where it has strong support in both the House and the Senate (on both sides of the aisle – including 79 total co-sponsors), but also from over 300 consumer interest groups, unions, conservatives, advocacy groups and third-party organizations that have shown support for the JCPA by sending letters of support to the bill sponsors. In addition, nearly 24,000 individuals have signed a Change.org petition for the bill and nearly 1,000 editorials in support of the JCPA have been published in newspapers in 48 states across the country. In a recent poll of 1,000 U.S. adults conducted by Schoen Cooperman Research for the News/Media Alliance, 70 percent of Americans said they support Congress passing the JCPA.

“While news publishers struggle to survive, Big Tech’s anticompetitive practices are actually being protected by current antitrust laws, to the extent that it is a stranglehold on local news outlets and other online businesses,” said Danielle Coffey, Executive Vice President and General Counsel at the News/Media Alliance. “The time is now for Congress to pass the JCPA and for President Biden to sign the bill into law. We need local news publishers to ensure a strong and informed democracy, and right now they need a lifeline. The JCPA is that lifeline.”

The Alliance thanks the many co-sponsors of the bill for their leadership in pursuing this legislation and for their commitment to sustaining quality journalism.

View the joint letter here.

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Media Contact:
Lindsey Loving
Director, Communications
lindsey@newsmediaalliance.org

The News/Media Alliance is a nonprofit organization representing more than 2,000 news and magazine media organizations and their multiplatform businesses in the United States and globally. Alliance members include print and digital publishers of original journalism. Headquartered just outside Washington, D.C., the association focuses on ensuring the future of journalism through communication, research, advocacy, and innovation. Information about the News/Media Alliance can be found at www.newsmediaalliance.org.

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The press release below is provided by News Media for Open Government.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The News Media for Open Government (NMOG) today sent a position paper to President-Elect Joseph Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris’s transition team, outlining policy objectives that support and strengthen openness in government and the right to a free and independent press, which is critical to our nation’s democracy.

The position paper states, “Citizens across the country rely on journalists, both in Washington and in their local communities, to stay informed of what’s happening in their government. Fact-based, trusted information distributed to the public permits the unfettered discourse that sets the United States apart from much of the world.”

Recommendations in the position paper include:

• Daily White House press briefings and regular briefings across Executive Branch agencies.
• Eliminating current restrictions that prohibit government employees in Executive Branch agencies from communicating with the press unless a public information officer provides clearance and is involved.
• An administrative directive encouraging Executive Branch agencies to interpret the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in a manner that favors the disclosure of government information to the American people.
• Administration support for Office of Government Information Services’ Advisory Opinions, that would increase government transparency and reduce unnecessary FOIA litigation costs for the government, businesses and individual citizens.
• Administration support for the principle that journalists will not be prosecuted for doing their jobs or protecting their confidential sources –  and journalists should be the last resort, not the first, when federal law enforcement is seeking information in an investigation.
• The withdrawal of a proposed Department of Homeland Security rule that limits the length of time foreign journalists can stay in the United States and places the government in a position of reviewing the content of journalist’s work product as part of the visa renewal process.

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Media contact:
Paul Boyle
paul@newsmediaalliance.org
571.213.4365

News Media for Open Government (NMOG) is a broad coalition of news media and journalism organizations working to ensure that laws, policies and practices preserve and protect freedom of the press, open government and the free flow of information in our democratic society. Members of the coalition include: Associated Press, Association of Alternative Newsmedia, MPA – The Association of Magazine Media, National Association of Broadcasters, National Newspaper Association, News Leaders Association, News Media Alliance, Online News Association, Radio Television Digital News Association, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the Society of Professional Journalists.

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Arlington, VA – The News Media Alliance today sent recommendations to President-Elect Joseph Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris’s transition team outlining policy positions on regulations and existing laws that deter investment and limit growth in the news media industry.

The Alliance continues to lead the news sector’s efforts to protect the constitutional right to a free press. That objective also requires government policies that support a vibrant and growing news industry.

“Quality journalism is the foundation of a fully functional democracy, and our members have proven again and again how essential they are to the communities they serve,” said David Chavern, president and CEO of the News Media Alliance. “Unfortunately, the current environment has made continuing to deliver vital information to the public significantly more challenging than it has been in years past. From a complicated and unfriendly digital ecosystem that favors big tech over local news to limited government engagement with the press, publishers have had to fight to constantly evolving challenges. We encourage the new Administration to revisit these policies and practices as it charts a new course for our nation’s future.”

The Alliance’s recommendations outline key public policy positions that involve such issues as: the passage and enactment of a limited antitrust safe harbor allowing news publishers to collectively negotiate with the tech platforms; a comprehensive revision of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 that holds the platforms accountable and is not exported in international trade agreements; taking an active role in passing a COVID relief package that includes PPP affiliation exemption and tax benefits for local news; reigning in the overly expansive “fair use” defense to copyright protections that have been continually eroded by the courts in recent years; developing privacy policies that respect a consumer’s right and are proportionally targeted at platforms who financially benefit from flagrant use of consumer data across the web; and protecting press access and freedom to assure the government is open and accountable to the public.

You can read the full list of policy recommendations here.

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Media contact:
Lindsey Loving
Director, Communications
lindsey@newsmediaalliance.org
571.366.1009

The News Media Alliance is a nonprofit organization representing more than 2,000 news organizations and their multiplatform businesses in the United States and globally. Alliance members include print, digital and mobile publishers of original news content. Headquartered near Washington, D.C., in Arlington, Va., the association focuses on ensuring the future of news media through communication, research, advocacy and innovation. Information about the News Media Alliance (formerly NAA) can be found at www.newsmediaalliance.org.

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March 26, 2020

Lawmakers Reach Deal on Emergency Relief/Economic Stimulus Package

At 1:30 a.m. on March 25, congressional leaders in the Senate and House reached a deal on a $2 trillion economic stimulus package that would increase funding for state and local governments, federal agencies and hospitals to help with the response to the COVID-19 crisis.

The bill provides broad economic support and assistance to individuals and businesses who have been disrupted by illness and stay-at-home orders.

The legislation does not provide sector-specific relief, except for the airline, air cargo and national security industries. Policymakers opted to provide economic relief for businesses across the spectrum.

The Alliance expects continuing interest from members of Congress and the public about the impact of the crisis on news publishers. We will be working with other national and state press associations to make sure that the needs of news organizations – large and small – are heard.

Below is a high-level summary of key provisions. The Alliance will also provide a detailed guide as to how news organizations can access some of these loans / grants.

Individual Assistance

• $1,200 for adults / $2,400 for a family; $500 child credit. There are income limitations on these provisions
• Enhanced unemployment insurance up to 4 months.
• Income tax exclusion for individuals who are receiving student loan repayment assistance from their employer.

Small Business Loans

• The legislation provides $367 billion in federally guaranteed loans through the Small Business Administration for small businesses with 500 employees or less.
• Loans can be used for payroll, healthcare, mortgage, and any other debt obligations.
• Loan forgiveness is possible if the money is used to retain workers.
• Sole-proprietors, independent contractors and other self-employed individuals are eligible.

Loans to Larger Businesses

• Provides $500 billion through the Department of Treasury’s Exchange Stabilization Fund to provide loans, loan guarantees and other investments.
• The direct lending includes the following:
  • $50 billion for passenger air carriers;
  • $8 billion for cargo air carriers;
  • $17 billion for businesses important to maintaining national security; and
  • $425 billion for eligible businesses, states and municipalities.

There are limits on stock buybacks and executive compensation for the duration of the loans.

Delay of Payroll Taxes

• Employers generally are responsible for paying a 6.2 percent Social Security tax on employee wages. The legislation delays payroll taxes for 2 years with half of the tax being paid by December 31, 2021 and the other half by December 31, 2022.

Pension Plans

• Sponsors of defined pension plans can delay minimum contributions until January 1, 2021.

Net Operating Losses

• A net operating loss (NOL) from 2018–2020 can be carried back five years. The provision also temporarily removes the taxable income limitation to allow an NOL to fully offset income.

Interest Expensing

• The bill increases the amount of interest expense that businesses are allowed to deduct on their tax returns, by increasing the 30 percent limitation to 50 percent of the taxable income (with adjustments) for 2019 and 2020.

March 25, 2020

What is the Law on Paid Leave During Coronavirus Crisis?

Last week, Congress passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, that would make coronavirus tests free, ensure students continue to receive free lunches, and expand unemployment insurance. The new law also requires that employers with fewer than 500 employees provide employees with two weeks of paid sick leave for employees who are unable to work because they are quarantined or because they have to care for a child whose school or day care has closed because of the coronavirus.

After the two weeks, the law requires up to 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave at 67 percent of the person’s normal pay, up to $200 per day or $10,000 maximum.  To reimburse employers for this expense, the law provides refundable tax credits equal to 100 percent of qualified paid sick leave wages paid for each calendar quarter.

Employers must post a notice that informs employees of their rights under the new law by March 25, 2020.  According to the Department of Labor, DOL will issue a model notice for employers by March 25.  The Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor has a good explanation of the employer paid leave provisions here.

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The Alliance launched the Support Real News campaign nearly two years ago to combat the spread of misinformation and highlight the need for and importance of quality journalism from trusted, respected sources. Today, with bad information still rampant via online platforms and the increasing attacks on the media, our campaign has never felt more essential.

With the release of our newest ad last week, we — along with our Support Real News partners — are responding to recent attacks on the media, highlighting the importance of press access for the preservation of our democracy. In the ad, we called on the public to support press access, noting that the ability of reporters to accurately inform the public depends on their ability to ask questions of those in power.

While politicians have more opportunities than ever to speak directly to the public through social media, they are not held accountable in the same way. Only when questioned by professional journalists, who are committed to the profession’s code of ethics to seek and report the truth, are they held to their promises and required to answer to the public.

“While other avenues exist to obtain information, the robust, public back-and-forth we’ve come to expect in the James S. Brady briefing room helps highlight that no one in a healthy republic is above being questioned,” said Olivier Knox, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, in The New York Times. “This retreat from transparency and accountability sets a terrible precedent.”

Under the Trump administration, the White House has done away with the regular press briefing, dropping the near-daily meetings between the press secretary and the press in favor of letting the president’s tweets and rallies — and the occasional official statement — fill the void. Since September 2018, Trump has averaged one briefing per month, and during the rare full-corps briefings, he has not always taken questions from the media.

Trump’s horrible comments and tweets about the media being “the enemy of the people” have undoubtedly influenced public perception and contributed to increased attacks on reporters. On Wednesday, Trump did it yet again with The New York Times after they published an article about his attempts to influence investigations into him and his associates. And the day before our Press Access ad ran in newspapers, on February 11, a Trump supporter pushed and shoved a BBC cameraman at a rally in El Paso, Texas, while the cameraman was attempting to capture the event for BBC viewers.

These attacks on the press are no more acceptable than the murder of five reporters from the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, in 2018 – an attack which was also motivated by a belief that the journalists were producing “fake news.”

In addition to these physical attacks, the press is now getting stymied just trying to attend press conferences and other political events, most notably in November, when the White House revoked CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s press pass after Acosta tried to ask Trump a follow-up question during a rare briefing.

Journalists work hard every day to deliver critically important news and information to the public, which is why “freedom of the press” is specifically protected by the First Amendment. Central to this freedom is the ability of journalists to ask questions of government officials and others in positions of power. Without press freedom, our democracy is at risk — which is why we all need to speak up now and support journalism and the right of the press to ask hard questions and seek uncomfortable truths.

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Statement: CNN Lawsuit to Restore White House Journalist’s Press Credentials

In response to CNN’s filing of a lawsuit against the Trump administration seeking the reinstatement of its White House reporter’s press credentials

The News Media Alliance stands in full support of CNN’s defense of its First Amendment rights. We need quality journalism – now more than ever – from respected news organizations employing professional journalists who will hold those in positions of power accountable. We commend CNN for not allowing the Trump administration to intimidate them by threatening the very rights on which our nation was founded, and which ensure the preservation of a strong democratic society.

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Olivier Knox appearing on C-SPAN in May 2013.

When President Trump called the press “the enemy of the American people,” journalist Olivier Knox’s son asked if his dad would be safe going to work at the White House the next day. “That was kind of a punch,” Knox says. “[My son] understands why I do what I do, at least as well as an 11-year-old can, and he never asked me not to do [my job]. But he was definitely very concerned. And then when we went to Mexico on vacation, he sort of wondered aloud whether Donald Trump would let me back in the country. But he said, ‘Don’t worry. If they stop you, we’ll get you a good lawyer.’”

Knox’s son was worried because his dad is the chief Washington correspondent for Yahoo News, as well as vice president of the White House Correspondents’ Association. And while Knox’s son has some fears about this administration, Knox himself is much more laid-back about things. “I’m always a little bit skeptical of the idea that we are in some shockingly new and different environment, because it feels like we’ve lurched from crisis to crisis, from unprecedented event to unprecedented event, at least during my career,” he says. “And while I won’t deny that Donald Trump is a unique force in American politics, I want to keep that perspective.”

Knox keeps his cool in part because he’s been covering the White House for more than 20 years. He got his start at Agence France-Presse in 1996, and he dove head-first into the Washington chaos with his first real assignment, covering Congress right as the Monica Lewinsky scandal blew up and the impeachment process began. “It was totally crazy at the time. Impeachment was the number-one story in the world. In every country around the globe they were discussing the blue dress,” he says. “It was a super-heated, crazy partisan environment.”

And the chaos didn’t end there. Almost immediately after the impeachment scandal died down, the country was forced to go through the contentious 2000 election, which ended in an even more contentious recount, and which was followed by 9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. For veteran journalist Knox, things have always been a little crazy — and he’s always continued to work through it.

He has been assaulted by various politicians’ supporters while on the campaign trail for work, first by a Gore supporter in 2000  and then by a Kerry supporter and a Bush supporter, leading up to the 2004 election. What’s different for Knox in 2017 is that now, the chaos is coming from inside the White House.

“The hardest thing about covering the Trump administration is frankly the chaos, not the media hatred. It’s the fact that on any given day, no one speaks reliably with any authority for this president, sometimes including the president,” Knox tells us. “The press secretary can come out and say, ‘He’s definitely not doing X,’ and within an hour say, ‘He is doing X.’ He changes his views on policies on a dime. [First he says,] ‘The House healthcare bill is great,’ and then he turns around and calls it mean and says we have to do better.

“To the extent that reporting is using facts and analysis to reduce uncertainty, reducing uncertainty is really hard in the current climate,” he continues. “What you end up seeing is a lot of stories that say ‘Trump might do X,’ which is not a very satisfying story, because of course he might. So that’s a bit of a challenge.”

To combat this problem in his own work, Knox relies on his innate curiosity to dig up story ideas that take him out of the realm of hard news and into areas rarely written about by traditional political journalists. For example, he’s left Washington to write about how American places get their names (with a dateline from Boring, Maryland, no less); what the Confederate flag market was like after the Charleston, S.C., massacre; and the business of creating and selling campaign souvenirs, among other non-traditional stories.

“I’ve been enormously lucky and privileged to work in a shop where the people who I report to have encouraged me to chase these things down,” he says. “We do these editorial calls and something will hit me out of the blue and I’ll say to my editor, ‘Hey, I know, I think it’ll be fun to look into how American places got their names,’ and my editor says right off, ‘Go.’ They’ve been willing to let me humor myself and indulge my own curiosity. And when I come back to them and say, ‘It turns out there’s nothing there,’ they’ve been willing to eat the lost time.

“Some of [those ideas] come from spending years covering this stuff, and some of it is just that I have a weirdly active sense of curiosity, and I’ve found a professional home someplace where my editors see that kind of curiosity as an asset and not a liability,” he adds.

One of the harder parts of the job, on the other hand, is dealing with the public’s criticism, but not because he’s personally offended. “The criticism I get the most is that we (the press) obsess over things that have no meaning for the average voter,” he says. “But I’ll tell you, some of the traffic numbers don’t bear out the criticism. [For example,] people devoured the ‘Scaramucci is out at the White House’ story.”

But some of the criticism can be valid, at least to an extent, Knox says. “People I know from growing up in Vermont and people from overseas ping me and say, ‘Why are you guys spending so much time on palace intrigue? Why are you doing textual analysis of the president’s words? You know, we have an opioid crisis. We are unemployed.’ I’ve got a few friends who are in the military who want to know, ‘Is this president going to send me to war?’ So most of the criticism I get is that there’s a disconnect between the amount of energy that we put into some ephemeral Beltway issues and personalities versus the interests of the population at large,” he explains.

He stays online, though, because it gives him the ability to engage with a mix of people, especially those outside the Beltway.

“There’s a reward there,” Knox says. “One of the most interesting experiences I’ve had this year was inviting people to ask me questions, and I discovered that I learn just as much from the questions they ask me as from the questions I ask them.”

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