Some professional notes below reflect past roles.
| Jill Abramson Managing Editor, New York Times |
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David Allen Author, Getting Things Done |
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| Ron Allen Emmy-winning Correspondent, NBC News |
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Jonathan Alter Sr. Editor, Newsweek |
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| Peter Arnett International Correspondent |
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| Andrew Barnes Former Chm., Times Publishing Co. & Poynter Institute |
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Robert Bazell Emmy-winning Chief Science Correspondent, NBC News |
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| Melody Beattie Author, Codependent No More |
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Charlotte Beers Former CEO, Ogilvy Worldwide & J. Walter Thompson and US Under Secretary of State |
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| James Berrien Former Publisher, Forbes |
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Vinay Bhargava Strategic Partner Dev't Mgr., Google |
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| Jim Bitterman European Correspondent, CNN Int'l |
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Tony Blankley Frmr. Press Sec'y to Speaker Gingrich & Ed. Page Editor, DC Times/Sr. Fellow, Heritage Fndtn. |
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| Wolf Blitzer Correspondent, CNN |
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Richard Bolles Author, What Color is Your Parachute |
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| Neal Boortz Radio Commentator |
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Hilary Bowker Former Sr. European Anchor, CNN |
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| David Bradley Founder & Chairman, The Advisory Board Company/Owner, Atlantic Monthly |
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Rita Braver Emmy-winning Nat'l, and former Chief White House, Correspondent, CBS News |
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| Sarah Ban Breathnach Author, Simple Abundance/Nationally Syndicated Columnist |
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Yoni Brenner Humor Writer, New Yorker/Screenwriter, "Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" |
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| Steven Brill Founder, American Lawyer, Court TV |
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Bill Broyles, Jr. Screenwriter, "Cast Away," "Apollo 13"/Creator "China Beach"/Former Editor, Newsweek |
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| Jack Canfield Co-Author, Chicken Soup for the Soul Series |
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Nick Carr Author, Does IT Matter?, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google |
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| Steve Case Founder, Revolution/Former Chm., AOL/TIME-Warner & CEO, AOL |
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Veronica Chambers Features Dir., Glamour/Author, Kickboxing Geishas, Joy of Doing Things Badly |
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| Joie Chen News Correspondent, ABC-TV |
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Farai Chideya Former ABC, CNN & MTV Political Analyst |
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| Eleanor Clift Contributing Editor, Newsweek |
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Shelby Coffey Former Editor, Los Angeles Times & Pres., CNN |
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| Jeff Cunningham Chm., New England Ventures/Former Publisher, Forbes |
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| Joel Dreyfuss Former Editor in Chief, Information Week |
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Esther Dyson Web Commentator/Angel Investor |
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| Michael Elliott Editor, Newsweek International |
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Peggy Engel Managing Editor, The Newseum |
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| Gregory Favre Pulitzer Prize-winning Former President, American Society of Newspaper Editors |
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Tom Fenton Emmy-winning Int'l Correspondent, CBS News |
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| José Ferrer Former Executive Editor, TIME, Inc. |
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Howard Fineman Chief Political Correspondent, Newsweek |
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| Jon Fougner VP, Facebook |
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Daniel Franklin Executive Editor, The Economist |
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| Arthur Frommer Pubisher, Frommer Travel Guides |
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| David Gergen Presidential Adviser |
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Tess Gerritsen Author, Harvest, The Surgeon, Body Double |
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| Wendy Goldberg Sr. VP, Hearst Corp. |
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Nik Gowing Anchor, BBC |
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| Janet Guyon Sr. Writer, Fortune Magazine |
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| Ralph Hallow National Desk, Washington Times |
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Jay Harris Former Pubisher, San Jose Mercury News and Executive Editor, Philadelpha Daily News |
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| Patricia Harrison Pres., Corp. for Public Broadcasting |
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George Hirsch Former Publisher, Runner's World |
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| Jim Hoagland Columnist, Washington Post |
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Warren Hoge Former UN & London Correspondent, New York Times and Editor, New York Times Magazine |
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| Jan Hopkins Former Anchor, CNN Business News |
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Richard C. Hottelet Former Anchor-Foreign Correspondent, CBS News & Counselor, US Mission to UN |
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| Betty Hudson Sr. Vice President-Communications, National Geographic |
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Lee Huebner Former Publisher, Int'l Herald Tribune and Pres., American University-Paris |
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| Arianna Huffington Author and Political Commentator |
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| John Jakes Author, Bicentennial Series, North & South |
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Karen Jurgensen Founding Editor & Former Editorial Page Editor, USA Today |
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| Myron Kandel Former Financial Editor, CNN |
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Dina Kaplan CEO, blip tv |
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| Rich Karlgaard Publisher, Forbes |
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Frederick Kempe Pres., Atlantic Council/Former Editor, Wall Street Journal-Europe |
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| Joe Klein Political Commentator/Author |
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Morton Kondracke Executive Editor, Roll Call/Commentator, Fox News |
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| Kay Koplovitz Founder-Former CEO, USA Network |
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Michael Kramer Columnist, Time |
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| Nicholas Kristof Pulitzer Prize-winning Columnist |
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| Andrew Lack CEO, Bloomberg Multimedia/Former President, NBC |
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Richard Lambert Pres., Confederation of British Industries/Former Editor, Financial Times |
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| David Lawrence, Jr. Former Publisher, Miami Herald and President, American Society of Newspaper Editors |
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Jenny 8 Lee Author, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles |
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| Jackie Leo Former Editor, Reader's Digest |
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John Leo Former Contributing Editor, US News & World Report |
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| Marshall Loeb Former Managing Editor, Fortune |
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Ed Lu Advanced Projects Mgr., Google/Former Astronaut & Astrophysicist |
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| Bob Marbut Founder & Former Chairman, Hearst-Argyle TV/Former CEO, Harte-Hanks Communications |
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Patty Marx Humor Writer, New Yorker |
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| Mark Mathabane Author, Kaffir Boy |
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Boyd Matson TV News & Features Host |
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| Mary Jo Meisner VP, The Boston Foundation/V.Chair, Community Newspaper Co. |
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Alisa Miller Pres., Public Radio Int'l |
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| Matt Miller Columnist |
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Patricia Mitchell Emmy-winning former President, PBS and Turner Productions |
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| Andrea Mitchell NBC News Correspondent |
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Leslie Moonves Chairman, CBS |
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| Terry Moran Anchor, Nightline/Former White House Correspondent, ABC News |
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Alan Murray Assistant Managing Editor, Wall Street Journal |
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| Peggy Noonan Columnist/Former Reagan Head Speechwriter |
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Jay Nordlinger Managing Editor, National Review |
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| Neil Nyren Sr. Vice President, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, G.P. Putnam's Sons Publishing |
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| Candace Carpenter Olson Founder & Former iCEO, Village |
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Neil Osborn Publisher, Euromoney |
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| Richard North Patterson Novelist |
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Will Pearson Pres., Mental Floss Publishing |
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| Scott Pelley Emmy-winning Correspondent, CBS News' "60 Minutes" |
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Marisha Pessi Author, Special Topics in Calamity Physics |
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| Mike Peters Pulitzer Prize-winning Editorial Cartoonist and Creator, "Mother Goose & Grimm" Comic Strips |
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Jason Pontin Former Editor, Red Herring |
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| Ron Powers Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, Flag of Our Fathers |
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| Richard Reeves Biographer |
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Judith Roales Former Publisher, St. Petersburg Times |
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| Charles Savage Pulitzer Prize-winning Correspondent, New York Times |
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Diane Sawyer Anchor, ABC Evening News |
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| William Schneider Senior Political Analyst, CNN |
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Alice Schroeder Pres., Hawthorn Hill/Author, Snowball: Warren Buffett-Business of Life/Frmr. MD, MorganStanley |
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| Patti Sellers Columnist, Fortune |
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Gail Sheehy Author, Passages |
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| Scott Simon Emmy- & Peabody Award-winning Host-Anchor, National Public Radio, Novelist |
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Thomas Stewart Former Editor, Harvard Business Review |
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| John Fox Sullivan Former President, National Journal |
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| Amy Tan Author, The Joy Luck Club |
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Deborah Tannen Linguistics Prof., Georgetown/Best-selling Author, You Just Don't Understand, Talking 9-5 |
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| Andrew Tobias Author/Financial Writer |
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Nina Totenberg Legal Affairs Correspondent, National Public Radio & ABC |
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| Oliver Uberti Design Editor, National Geographic |
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Adaora Udoji Former Host, NPR's "The Takeaway"/Former Correspondent, NBC News |
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| Art Ulene Physician/Former NBC-TV Medical Commentator |
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| Dan Wasserman Political Cartoonist. Boston Globe |
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Sherron Watkins TIME's 2002 "Person of the Year" |
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| Peggy Wehmeyer Former Religion Correspondent, ABC-TV News |
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David Westin President, ABC Television |
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| Brian Williams Anchor, NBC News |
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Hastings Wyman Founding Editor, "Southern Political Report" |
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| Karl Zinsmesiter Former Editor-in-chief, The American Enterprise |
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Mort Zuckerman Editor-in-Chief, US News & World Report/Founder, Boston Properties |
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