Brian Lehrer is an American radio talk show host on New York City's public radio station WNYC. His daily two-hour 2007 Peabody Award-winning program,The Brian Lehrer Show,features interviews with newsmakers and experts about current events and social issues. Lehrer was formerly an anchor and reporter for NBC Radio Networks and has been in broadcast journalism for over 30 years.
Henry Gabriel Cisneros is an American politician and businessman. He served as the mayor of San Antonio,Texas,from 1981 to 1989,the second Latino mayor of a major American city and the city's first since 1842. A Democrat,Cisneros served as the 10th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the administration of President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. As HUD Secretary,Cisneros was credited with initiating the revitalization of many public housing developments and with formulating policies that contributed to achieving the nation's highest ever rate of home ownership. In his role as the President's chief representative to the cities,Cisneros personally worked in more than two hundred cities spread over all fifty states. Cisneros's decision to leave the HUD position and not serve a second term was overshadowed by controversy involving payments to his former mistress.
Peter Steinbrueck is an American architect and politician from Seattle,Washington. He is the principal and founder of Steinbrueck Urban Strategies and was a city councilmember from 1997 to 2008. He also served as a Seattle Port Commissioner from 2018 to 2022.
Roxanne Qualls is an American politician who served as the 66th mayor of Cincinnati,Ohio. She also served a two-year term on the Cincinnati City Council prior to her service as mayor,having been elected in 1991. On August 8,2007,the Charter Committee announced her appointment to fill the unexpired term of council member Jim Tarbell. Qualls was elected to a two-year term on Cincinnati City Council in November 2007,and again in 2009 and 2011. She served as Vice Mayor,the chair of the Budget and Finance Committee,chair of the Livable Communities Committee and chair of the Subcommittee on Major Transportation and Infrastructure Projects.
Philippe Douste-Blazy is a French United Nations official and former centre-right politician. Over the course of his career,he served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations,Special Adviser on Innovative Financing for Development in the UN and chairman of UNITAID.
Paul E. S. Schell was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 50th mayor of Seattle,Washington,from 1998 to 2002.
Norman Blann Rice is an American politician who served as the 49th mayor of Seattle,Washington,serving two terms from 1990 to 1997. Rice was Seattle's first elected African-American mayor.
Charles Lewis is an investigative journalist based in Washington D.C. He founded The Center for Public Integrity and several other nonprofit organizations and is currently the executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop at the American University School of Communication in D.C.
Leonard "Len" Downie Jr. is an American journalist who was executive editor of The Washington Post from 1991 to 2008. He worked in the Post newsroom for 44 years. His roles at the newspaper included executive editor,managing editor,national editor,London correspondent,assistant managing editor for metropolitan news,deputy metropolitan editor,and investigative and local reporter. Downie became executive editor upon the retirement of Ben Bradlee. During Downie's tenure as executive editor,the Washington Post won 25 Pulitzer Prizes,more than any other newspaper had won during the term of a single executive editor. Downie currently serves as vice president at large at the Washington Post,as Weil Family Professor of Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University,and as a member of several advisory boards associated with journalism and public affairs.
The United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) is the official non-partisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. The cities are each represented by their mayors or other chief elected officials. The organization was founded in light of the Great Depression and was formed under Herbert Hoover until its original charter was signed at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington,D.C.,on the eve of the inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Stephen Henderson Talbot is a TV documentary producer,reporter and writer. Talbot directed and produced "The Movement and the 'Madman' " for the PBS series American Experience in 2023. He is a longtime contributor to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and worked for over 16 years for the series Frontline.
Harold Holzer is a scholar of Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the American Civil War Era. He serves as director of Hunter College's Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute. Holzer previously spent twenty-three years as senior vice president for public affairs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York before retiring in 2015.
The Investigative Reporting Workshop is a nonprofit,editorially independent newsroom based at American University in Washington,D.C. in that trains undergraduate,graduate student and early career journalists by pairing them with professional newsrooms on investigative,enterprise and data journalism projects. Since its founding,the IRW has partnered with dozens of professional newsrooms on hundreds of investigations,and trained more than 240 student journalists -- many of whom now work in leading newsrooms across the country.
Lisa Fletcher is an American television journalist. She is an investigative reporter and news anchor who has covered stories around the world - both for ABC News as a correspondent and various major-market television stations. She was previously the host of The Stream on Al Jazeera America based in Washington DC. She is currently with WJLA-TV in Washington,which is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group.
Jennifer Semakula Musisi is a Ugandan lawyer and public administrator. She is the first City Leader in Residence at Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative at the Ash Center of the Harvard Kennedy School,in Cambridge,Massachusetts,United States. She was appointed to this position in January 2019.
Susan Feeney is a partner at GMMB,Inc.,a communications,advocacy and political consulting firm. She co-leads the firm's strategic communications work on education reform and policy advocacy. Prior to joining GMMB,Feeney worked at NPR as supervising senior editor of two of its flagship news magazines:Morning Edition from 2000 to 2004 and All Things Considered from 2004 to 2009. Feeney joined NPR as a political journalist.
Jacob "Jack" Rosenthal was an American journalist,editor and executive best known for his work at The New York Times. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1982.
Karyn Pugliese (Pabàmàdiz) is a Canadian investigative journalist,press freedom advocate and communications specialist,of Algonquin descent. She is a status Indigenous person and a citizen of the Algonquins of Pikwàkanagàn First Nation in Ontario. Pugliese was chosen for the twenty-fifth Martin Wise Goodman Canadians as Nieman Fellow,and graduated in the Class of 2020,Harvard University. She is a frequent commentator on Rosemary Barton Live. In May 2023,she was appointed editor in chief of Canadaland after publisher Jesse Brown announced that he was stepping down from the role. She also hosts the podcast canadaLANDBACK. Pugliese is best known for her work as a journalist/executive director of news and current affairs at the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network,and as the host of ichannel's #FAQMP.
The Malheur Enterprise is a weekly newspaper in Vale,Oregon. It was established in 1909,and since October 2015 has been published by Malheur Enterprise Pub. Co. It is issued weekly on Wednesdays. Early on,it carried the title Malheur Enterprise and Vale Plaindealer. As of 2018 its circulation has been estimated at 1,207 to 1,277.
Robert J. Blendon is an American academic who is the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Public Health and Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis,Emeritus and Acting Director for the Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Development at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He previousy held appointments as a Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Hhe directs the Harvard Opinion Research Program and co-directs the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health project on understanding Americans’Health Agenda. Previously,he co-directed a polling series with The Washington Post and Kaiser Family Foundation.
