Helen Walters

Now, how do you get those people to trust that they can share information with you?

Because a lot of it, I'm sure, is confidential.

And so how does that work?

So how do you avoid getting spun?

What do you make of the changes that have happened to the media industry over the years?

So I'm imagining that when you're in these rooms or when you're talking to people, you're not, do you call yourself a journalist, for instance?

Right.

So you're a political scientist.

So that actually gives you a kind of a different credibility from a journalist who is there to report on the topic.

But then the media company that you have, GZERO Media, is reporting on these stories all the time.

You have a team of people who are writing and analyzing and giving context about all of these things.

I'm just curious because the press has got such a bad rap at the moment and we can argue about whether it's warranted or whether it's not warranted.

In some cases it is, in some cases it isn't.

But access is becoming harder, it seems like, for people to be able to report about what is happening at the highest levels.

So how do you think about that topic?

And does the fact that you're a political scientist and kind of there in a different context as an advisor, like, is that the way in?

Is that kind of the future?

So let's talk a minute about the process that you have internally.

When everyone is getting this information, everyone has their network of contacts and people.

And so there's stuff flying around, right?