Media Speakers

Larry King

A captivating storyteller and keen commentator on life and history, Larry King continues to fascinate audiences as a keynote speaker and host of his live and unscripted TV talk show. With his gift for humor and broad range of experience, an evening with King is guaranteed to leave audiences feeling enlightened and entertain ...

Dan Rather

For decades, Rather was the face of the news as CBS News anchorman and reporter, delivering audiences the most defining moments in our recent history. He continues to call them as he sees them as a keynote speaker on media and national issues, and as the host of Dan Rather Reports on HD Net. As a speaker, his breadt ...

Juan Williams

Prize-winning columnist and editorial writer for The Washington Post, Juan Williams is also NPR’s Senior Correspondent and a keynote speaker on issues including diversity, ethics, leadership, media and national issues. There are few voices as clear and intelligent on the power of diversity within today's business, ...

Nicholas Kristof

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, Kristof is an extraordinary thinker, human rights advocate, and astute chronicler of humanity. As a seasoned journalist who has traveled China, Africa, India, and South Asia, he offers a compassionate glimpse into such issues as global health, poverty and gende ...

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Hunter-Gault made civil rights history as the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Georgia. Now, as one of television's premier journalists, she challenges convention with her insights. A special correspondent for NPR based in South Africa, she has written New News Out of Africa, which pr ...

Maria Hinojosa

Senior Correspondent for PBS news program NOW and Managing Editor of the radio program, "Latino USA," Hinojosa hosts a new PBS series, One-on-One, interviewing some of America's foremost Latino leaders. A prominent voice in the Hispanic community, she brings her wit, warmth, and professional wisdom to the dialogue a ...

Claire Shipman

An experienced broadcast journalist who has covered stories in both the United States and Moscow, Shipman can be seen as the senior national correspondent for ABC News' Good Morning America. She has also reported on presidential policy and politics for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw and The Today Show ...

Anderson Cooper

Anderson Cooper anchors Anderson Cooper 360ø, an unconventional, wide-ranging news program airing on CNN/US weekdays. Cooper, who joined CNN in December 2001, served as CNN's weekend anchor before moving to the 7pm hour in March 2003, following the war in Iraq.

Bob Simon

During the last quarter of a century Simon, an Emmy Award-winning CBS news correspondent, has covered every major armed conflict suffered by the world. In his edge-of-the-seat presentation, he shares first-hand accounts of Lebanon, Serbia, Namibia and the terrifying forty days he was held hostage in Iraq during the Gulf Wa ...

Carl Bernstein

The hard-hitting and insightful journalist who helped bring down a presidency in the Watergate scandal, Pulitzer Prize winner Bernstein is credited by many as being "the father of American investigative reporting." Keeping his eye on current affairs and issues that dominate our nation's agenda, he reflects on the use and a ...

Bob Woodward

The Wall Street Journal has called Woodward the "most celebrated journalist of our age." Currently the Assistant Managing Editor of The Washington Post, Woodward initially rose to journalistic prominence with Carl Bernstein, winning a Pulitzer Prize for his role in exposing the Watergate scandal. He also hold ...

Laura Ingraham

Political journalist, Ingraham is the host of "The Laura Ingraham Show," a nationally syndicated radio program. Ingraham appears regularly on several television programs, and is known for her unique ability to jump back and forth between the political, entertainment, and media worlds with her signature wit and pithy analys ...

Bob Schieffer

Broadcast journalism's most experienced Washington reporter, Bob Schieffer has been anchor and moderator of CBS's Face The Nation since May 1991. CBS's chief Washington correspondent for over 30 years, Schieffer is one of the few broadcast and print journalists to have covered all four major beats in the nation's ca ...

Maureen Dowd

Maureen Dowd, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, became a columnist on The New York Times Op-Ed page in 1995 after having served as a correspondent in the paper's Washington bureau since 1986.

Deborah Norville

As the anchor of the nation's top rated syndicated newsmagazine, Inside Edition, Norville is an acclaimed television journalist, active volunteer, and author of Back On Track: How to Straighten Out Your Life When it Throws You a Curve, I Don't Want to Sleep Tonight, and Thank You Power: Making the SC ...

John Quinones

John Quinones has been with the ABCNEWS team for over 20 years now. Currently, he is a co-anchor of Primetime Live and was most recently a correspondent for Primetime Thursday and 20/20. He has won six national Emmy Awards, the most recent for his coverage of Congo's virgin rainforest.