American Politics Public Speakers – Current Affairs Public Speakers
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American Politics Public Speakers and Current Affairs Public Speakers
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| Jim Angle | Michael Barone | Jeffrey Birnbaum | Mika Brzezinski |
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| Jim Angle is one of the most respected journalists in Washington and was named Senior Washington Correspondent for Fox News in 2005. In this capacity he reports on overall political news from Washington, D.C., as well as broader issues including economic policies, tax reform, energy, immigration and the new Obama Administration. He is seen regularly on all Fox News programs including, Fox News Sunday and Special Report with Brit Hume, where he also serves as substitute host. | Michael Barone is Senior Political Analyst for the Washington Examiner and a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He grew up in Detroit and Birmingham, Michigan. He was graduated from Harvard College (1966) and Yale Law School (1969), and was an editor of the Harvard Crimson and the Yale Law Journal. | Jeff Birnbaum, veteran Washington journalist, TV commentator and award-winning author, was named managing editor of The Washington Times‘ digital media operations in August 2008. Before that he was a columnist for the Washington Post. He joined the Post in March 2004, after spending seven years as the Chief of Fortune magazine’s Washington Bureau, and two years as a Senior Political Correspondent for Fortune‘s sister publication, TIME. On television, he is a political analyst for Fox News Channel and is a regular panelist on PBS’s Washington Week. | Mika Brzezinski is the co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” a show Time Magazine calls “revolutionary” and the New York Times ranked as the top news show of 2008. In January of 2009 Mika launched and became the Co-host of Citadel Media’s syndicated radio show “The Joe Scarborough Show”. She is also the author of All Things At Once, a candid and inspiring motivational book that will help women of all ages confront the unique professional and personal challenges they face in the key moments of their lives. |
| Pat Buchanan | John Gibson | Laura Ingraham | Morton Kondracke |
| Patrick Buchanan is a leading political analyst, commentator and former Director of Communications for the Reagan White House. In 1992, he challenged George Bush for the Republican nomination and almost upset the President in the New Hampshire primary. In 1996, he won the New Hampshire primary, and went on to finish second to Senator Bob Dole, having received three million Republican votes. Buchanan writes a syndicated column of political and social commentary. He also has been the co-host of Crossfire, a nightly interview program on the Cable News Network, and a panelist on the weekly news programs The McLaughlin Group and The Capital Gang. | John Gibson is a best-selling conservative author, political commentator, and one of Fox News Channel’s most outspoken and enduring personalities. He appears frequently on FOX and his national radio program, The John Gibson Show, reaches over two million listeners on 90 stations providing top news coverage and features interviews with leading newsmakers. | Laura Ingraham is the most popular female radio host in the United States. “The Laura Ingraham Show” is heard on more than 325 stations coast-to-coast. The show is a three-hour rollicking odyssey through the worlds of politics, Hollywood and the media, with Laura’s unique brand of analysis lighting the trail. Her regular guests include everyone from Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry Kissinger to Saturday Night Live’s Darrell Hammond. Laura has also been a member of USATODAY’s Board of Contributors, writing frequent columns on politics and the culture. She has also written commentary for The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the New York Daily News. and is currently a contributor on the Fox News Channel and regularly subs for Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity–and is one of the most sought-after political and cultural commentators in the country. | As executive editor of Roll Call, Capitol Hill’s feisty, independent newspaper, Morton Kondracke has covered all phases of American politics and foreign policy as both a print Pennsylvania Avenue, a twice-weekly column on national politics, White House-Congressional relations, and domestic and foreign policy, syndicated nationally through United Features Syndicate and Newspaper Enterprise Association. Known to millions of Americans for his 17 years of regular appearances on The McLaughlin Group, Morton Kondracke is now co-host, along with Fred Barnes, of The Beltway Boys on FOX. |
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| Bill Kurtis | Andrea Mitchell | Charlie Rose | Paula Zahn |
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| An acclaimed documentary host and producer, network and major market news anchor, multimedia production company president, and grass-fed cattle rancher, Bill Kurtis is celebrating his fortieth anniversary in the field of broadcasting. Over the years, Kurtis has created a body of work that is virtually unparalleled. Kurtis began his career as a documentarian, traveling to the far ends of the earth for the Peabody Award-winning series The New Explorers, which aired on A&E®. In 1990, he founded Kurtis Productions and began producing programs for the A&E Network, including the long-running, award-winning Investigative Reports and Cold Case Files® as well as Investigating History for the History Channel. He has also served as the host of A&E’s American Justice – the longest running nonfiction justice series on cable. Cold Case Files® was nominated for 2004 and 2005 Primetime Emmys for Outstanding Nonfiction Series. | Andrea Mitchell is the Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for NBC News, a position she has held since November 1994. She reports on evolving foreign policy issues in the United States and abroad for all NBC News broadcasts, including NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Todayand on both CNBC and MSNBC.Mitchell’s first book, Talking Back, (September 2005) is a memoir about her experiences as one of the first women to cover five presidents, congress and foreign policy. In 2005, Mitchell received the prestigious Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and in 2004, the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) honored Mitchell with the Leonard Zeidenberg Award for her contribution to the protection of First Amendment Freedoms. | Charlie Rose is executive editor and anchor of “Charlie Rose,” the nightly one-hour interview program that engages in one-on-one in-depth conversation and round table discussions about important issues and ideas of our time. He is also a contributing correspondent to the CBS news program “60 Minutes.” Charlie Rose and his guests define the global conversation. The program’s round oak table and simple black backdrop provide an intimate atmosphere for intelligent conversation attracting leaders from around the world including Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, Nicolas Sarkozy, Lula da Silva, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Recep Erdogan, Bashar al-Assad, Pervez Musharraf, Hosni Mubarak, Lee Kuan Yew and Manmohan Singh. |
Paula Zahn is anchor for CNN’s primetime news program, American Evening with Paula Zahn, airing weeknights from 7-9 p.m. She previously anchored the network’s flagship morning news program, American Morning with Paula Zahn. Based in the network’s New York bureau, Zahn is a 23-year news veteran who joined CNN in September 2001. Zahn also hosts People in the News, CNN’s feature-format program with People magazine that profiles newsmakers from politics, sports, business, medicine and entertainment. Paula Zahn is anchor for CNN’s primetime news program, American Evening with Paula Zahn, airing weeknights from 7-9 p.m. She previously anchored the network’s flagship morning news program, American Morning with Paula Zahn. Based in the network’s New York bureau, Zahn is a 23-year news veteran who joined CNN in September 2001. Zahn also hosts People in the News, CNN’s feature-format program with People magazine that profiles newsmakers from politics, sports, business, medicine and entertainment. People in the News airs Saturdays at 11 a.m. and Sundays at 8 p.m. |
| Bob Woodward | Barbara Walters | Joe Scarborough | Charles Gibson |
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Bob Woodward is a true Washington Insider. His experiences from Watergate to the Bush White house make him one of the country’s best politcal speakers. Woodward is the Assistant Managing editor of The Washington Post., where he has worked since 1971. He has won nearly every major American journalism award. The Pulitzer Prize was given to the Post in 1973 for the reporting of Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate scandal. In addition, Woodward was the main reporter for the Post’s articles that won the National Affairs Pulitzer Prize in 2002. The Weekly Standard called Woodward “the best pure reporter of his generation, perhaps ever.” In 2003, The Wall Street Journal called Woodward “the most celebrated journalist of our age.” In 2004, Bob Schieffer of CBS News said, “Woodward has established himself as the best reporter of our time. He may be the best reporter of all time.” |
Barbara Walters has arguably interviewed more statesmen and stars than any other journalist in history. She is so well known that her name and a brief biography is listed in the American Heritage Dictionary. Ms. Walters’ numerous and timely interviews — which appear regularly on the weekly newsmagazine 20/20 and on The Barbara Walters Specials — read like a “Who’s Who” of newsmakers. She did the first interview for American television with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and the first interview with President and Mrs. Bush following September 11th. She also did a one-hour special on Saudi Arabia following her visit there. Through the years she has interviewed such world figures as Russia’s Boris Yeltsin, China’s Premier Jiang Zemin, Great Britain’s former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Libya’s Moammar Quadaffi and Iraq’s President Sadaam Hussein. |
Former Congressman Joe Scarborough (R-Fla.) along with Mika Brzezinski, is the host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, a show Time magazine calls “revolutionary” and the New York Times ranked as the top news show of 2008. Morning Joefeatures interviews with top newsmakers and politicians, in-depth analysis of the day’s biggest stories and is described by the New Yorker as “appallingly entertaining.” Previously, Joe hosted “Scarborough Country” a primetime news show the San Francisco Chronicle called “must-see TV.” Joe and Mika Brzezinski also recently launched a daily syndicated talk radio show called “The Joe Scarborough Show” on ABC Radio Network. Prior to the launch of Scarborough Country in April 2003, Scarborough was the publisher and editor of the award-winning newspaper “The Florida Sun.” |
Charles Gibson was anchor of ABC’s flagship broadcast “ABC’s World News,” as well as the network’s principal anchor for breaking news, election coverage and special events until his retirement in 2009. He is one of the most distinguished journalists in television with more than forty years’ experience, thirty-three of those at ABC News. Mr. Gibson has reported from around the country and the world. During the 2008 election cycle, he has covered the pivotal primaries and caucuses, reporting from the scene in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Texas. He moderated back-to-back presidential debates in Manchester, NH just days before the first-in-the-nation primary in that state. Prior to Pennsylvania’s highly anticipated primary, Mr. Gibson moderated a Democratic debate at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, which was the most-watched debate of the entire primary cycle. This summer, he reported from the Democratic and Republican National Conventions and has conducted several wide-ranging interviews with the presidential candidates. |
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