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DAN
BUETTNER
Dan
Buettner has unlocked the secrets of longevity. With funding from the National
Institute on Aging, Dan led team that found the longest-lived pockets (Blue
Zones) in the world and discovered their secrets. His National Geographic cover
story on the topic was the third best-selling cover in the magazine's history
and has been featured on Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper 360 and soon to
be featured in a Barbara Walters special. His presentations use National
Geographic images to take audiences to the world’s four Blue Zones and tell
their stories. The presentation ends with a simple formula that shows people how
to add up to 10 good years to their lives. Dan’s forthcoming book, Living In the
Blue Zone--8 Habits of the World's Longest-Lived People was released in January
‘08.
Bob Costas
Bob
Costas is one of America’s most recognized and accomplished sports
broadcasters. He has covered sports for nearly 30 years, 22 of those with
NBC. His work has earned him
14 Emmy® Awards,
12 in sports broadcasting, one for his informational series, 'Later With
Bob Costas,' and one for his riveting HBO show, 'On the Record with Bob
Costas.'
Craig Crawford
Craig Crawford is one
of Washington DC’s most popular pundits. His wit and wisdom are featured almost
daily on national television and radio programs. Crawford is a contributor under
contract appearing regularly for “The Early Show” on CBS, on cable television
for CNBC and MSNBC, and on radio for the CBS Network. He is frequently
interviewed for political reports on the NBC “Nightly News” and the CBS “Evening
News.”
SETH DAVIS
In just a short
time, and at a relatively young age, Seth Davis has established
himself as one of the most accomplished and respected voices in the
worlds of print and broadcast journalism. Seth is also an
experienced Master of Ceremonies and public speaker whose
motivational message “Define Yourself” is tailored to resonate with
young and older audiences alike.
Since joining CBS Sports in 2003, Davis has become one of the faces
of March Madness through his position as an on-air college
basketball studio analyst. He serves as the lone analyst in the CBS
studio during the network’s “At the Half” segments for all regular
season games, and his reportage continues throughout the NCAA
Tournament alongside his studio partners, Greg Gumbel and Clark
Kellogg.
Thomas
DEFRANK
One of Washington's most respected
President-Watchers, Thomas M. DeFrank is a veteran political journalist and
author. His reporting has been praised as riveting by The New Times. The New
York Times ranked him as one of the country’s best political ghostwriters.
And former President Gerald R. Ford calls him “one of the finest journalists
I have ever known. Everyone I know feels the same way: you are fair, trustworthy
and professional.” As Washington bureau chief for The New York
Daily News since 1996, he directs coverage of the nation’s capital for the
country’s second-largest metropolitan daily newspaper.
Hugh Downs
Hugh Downs is a longtime anchor of ABC Television’s primetime
news magazine 20/20, is one of the most familiar figures in the
history of the medium. He left the program in September of 1999
to write and lecture and enjoy other activities: travel, flying
and riding. Downs has enjoyed a distinguished 64-year career in
radio and television as a reporter, newscaster, interviewer,
narrator, and host. In 1885 he was certified by the Guinness
Book of World Records as holding the record for the greatest
number of hours on network commercial television. In the course
of his career he has broadcast from every continent and both
poles.
Linda Ellerbee
Linda Ellerbee is an outspoken
journalist, award-winning television producer, best-selling
author, one of the most sought-after speakers in America, a
breast cancer survivor and a mom.
Ellerbee began at CBS, then moved to NBC News, where, after covering
politics, she cultivated a diverse following in the '80's with the
pioneering late-night news program NBC News Overnight, which she
wrote and anchored. Overnight was cited by the Columbia duPont Award
it received as "the best written and most intelligent news
program ever."
Ellen Goodman
Ellen Goodman's insight, common sense,
and verbal flair have attracted a fervent national following since 1976,
when her Boston Globe column was first syndicated by the Washington Post
Writers Group.
Today, her column appears on op-ed pages
in over 440 newspapers across the country. Goodman has been with the
Boston Globe, where she is an associate editor as well as a columnist,
since 1967.
Jordan Goodman
Jordan Goodman, is known as
America's 'Money Answers Man' for a good reason. He has been answering
America's questions about personal finance for over 20 years.
He is the author of 4 best-selling books on personal finance, including
"Everyone's Money Book.' Jordan is also the weekly financial analyst
on NBC News at Sunrise and Public Radio's Marketplace in the
Morning show. He appears regularly on CNBC, CNN and other
national and local TV shows.
Greg Gumbel
The
CBS slogan "Welcome Home" has special meaning for sportscaster
Greg Gumbel. A veteran of sports broadcasting for more than 25 years, Greg
has returned to CBS as host and play-by-play announcer. Having worked with some
of the greatest names in sports television - Terry Bradshaw, John Madden,
Joe Morgan, Bill Walton, Mike Ditka, Cris Collinsworth and Joe Gibbs -
Greg adds former NY Giants quarterback, Phil Simms, as they team
as CBS' lead NFL announce team.
Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell is the Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for
NBC News, a position she’s held since November 1994. She
reports on evolving foreign policy issues in the United States
and abroad for all NBC News broadcasts, including “Nightly News
with Tom Brokaw,” “Today” and for MSNBC.
Deborah Norville
Emmy Award-winning journalist Deborah Norville endured one of the most
public and humiliating crises imaginable when she left the
"Today" show in 1991 amid accusations that she had driven the
beloved Jane Pauley off the air. Many, including Norville herself,
predicted that she would never work in television again. Now,
after overcoming depression, a weight problem and a nearly
complete loss of confidence, she is back as the host of the
nation's top-rated syndicated newsmagazine, "Inside Edition." In
BACK ON TRACK: How to Straighten Out Your Life When ft Throws
You a Curve (Simon & Schuster. Norville speaks for the first
time about her disastrous departure from "Today."
Diana Nyad
In 1979, Diana Nyad plunged into the history books by completing
the longest swim in history. The distance was 102.5 miles from
the coast of Bimini to the Florida shore. This incredible world
record, the longest swim by a man or a woman without the aid of
a cage, still stands today. Diana was front page news
throughout the Western world, the lead story for Walter Cronkite
on the CBS Evening News, and many times guest of the Tonight
Show. For ten years, Diana was the greatest long-distance
swimmer in the world. She broke numerous world records,
including the fifty-year-old mark for circling Manhattan Island,
in 1975 (7 hours, 57 minutes).
Diane Smith
Diane is the
co-host of the top rated Morning Show on WTIC-AM News Talk 1080 with
Ray Dunaway. An Emmy award winning TV journalist, Diane Smith
produces programs for Connecticut Public TV, based on her very
popular series "Positively Connecticut". "Positively Connecticut"
searches out the inspiring, warm, funny, and sometimes downright
strange stories that give Connecticut its character. Her book by the
same name has been a best seller for The Globe Pequot Press, and the
popular sequel Absolutely Positively Connecticut was
published in 2000. One reviewer called Diane’s latest book Christmas in Connecticut “the comfort
gift of the season.”
Calvin Trillin
Calvin Trillin has been acclaimed in fields of writing that are
remarkably diverse. As someone who has published solidly
reported pieces in The New Yorker for thirty years, he has been
called "perhaps the finest reporter in America". His antic
commentary on the American scene- which now appears weekly in
Time magazine, and his books chronicling his adventures as a
"happy eater" have earned him renown as "a classic
American humorist".
Barbara Walters
Barbara Walters has arguably
interviewed more statesmen and stars than any other journalist
in history. Ms. Walters' interviews on “20/20” and on “The
Barbara Walters Specials” read like a "Who's Who" of newsmakers,
including her interviews with every American President and First
Lady since Richard Nixon.
Patricia Wells
Patricia Wells is an American
journalist and author who has lived in France since 1980. She is the
restaurant critic of the International Herald Tribune and the author of
seven books: 7he Food Lover's Guide to Paris, Tbe Food Lover's Guide to
France, Bistro Cooking, Simply French, Patricia Wells' Trattoria,
L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon and Patricia Wells At Home In Provence. She was
recently honored with the James Beard Award for Best
International Cookbook.
Bob Woodward
Bob Woodward is an assistant managing editor of The
Washington Post where he worked since 1971. He has won
nearly every American journalism prize. The Pulitzer Prize was given
to the Post in 1973 for the reporting of Woodward and Carl
Bernstein on the Watergate scandal. Woodward is the only
contemporary American writer to author or co‑author eight # 1
national best-selling non‑fiction books.
Paula Zahn
Paula Zahn is anchor for CNN's weeknight primetime evening
program, Paula Zahn Now, an issues-driven program offering live
newsmaker interviews and meaningful discussion and analysis from
an exclusive roster of contributors. Based in the network's New
York bureau, Zahn also hosts People in the News, CNN's
feature-format program with PEOPLE magazine profiling newsmakers
from politics, sports, business, medicine and entertainment. |
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