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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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