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| The Washington Center for Politics & Journalism
has both an operating Board of Directors, to administer formal business
of the Center, a 501(c)(3) tax exempt foundation and non-profit corporation,
and an Advisory Board. The boards include journalists and journalism
educators, plus a bi-partisan group of political practitioners and
elected and political party officials. |
Tony Blankley
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- exec. v.p., global pub. affairs, Edelman Intl
- visiting senior fellow, Heritage Foundation
- former edit. editor, The Washington
Times
- former press secretary, Spkr Newt
Gingrich
- former speech writer
for President Reagan
- regular McLaughlin Group panelist
- author, “The West's Last Chance" and "American Grit"
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Eleanor Clift |
- contributing editor, Newsweek
- author, "Founding
Sisters and the Nineteeth Amendment," "Madam President: Shattering the Last Glass Ceiling," and "Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics"
- co-author (with her late husband,
Tom Brazaitis) "War Without Blood"
- regular McLaughlin Group panelist
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Joe Foote |
- dean, Univ. of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication
- former director, Walter Cronkite School, Arizona State, and dean, S. Illinois Univ. College of Commun.
- former press secretary, U.S. House
Speaker Carl Albert
- 2002 president, Assn. for Education
in Journalism and Mass Commun.
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Mike McCurry |
- partner, Public Strategies Washington, Inc.
- former press secretary to President
Bill Clinton
- former press spokesman, U.S. Dept.
of State.
- former communications director, Democratic
Nat. Com.
- former press secretary, Sen. Pat Moynihan
and presidential and vice presidential campaigns of John
Glenn, Bruce Babbitt, Lloyd Bentsen, and Bob Kerrey
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Terry Michael |
- founder and exec. director of the Center
- reporter, 1969-72
- former press secretary:
Illinois House of Rep.;
U.S. Rep. Paul Simon; Democratic National Com.; 1988 Simon for President
- "Distinguished Service
Award," Wash, DC SPJ (2001); "Presidential
Award," Assn. for Edc. in Journ. and Mass Commun. (2002)
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Robert Pierre |
- correspondent, The Washington Post
- member, first Politics & Journalism
class (Fall 1989)
- former visiting professor, Dillard
Univ. in Louisiana
- former president, Washington chapter,
National Assn. of Black Journalists
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Juan Williams
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- senior correspondent, National Public Radio
- Fox News Channel analyst
- author: "Enough," "Thurgood Marshall: Amer. Revolutionary," "Eyes on the Prize," and "This Far by Faith"
- former reporter, The Washington Post
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Judy Woodruff
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- special PBS corresp.
- visiting fellow (2005), Harvard’s
Shorenstein Center
- former anchor and senior
correspondent, Cable News Network
- former MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour anchor
and correspondent
- former NBC News White House correspondent.
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2009 Board of Directors Meeting
Members gathered in Washington at the Center's offices at The Watergate on February 11, adopted a budget of $260,800 for 2009, and discussed plans for celebration in the Fall of 2009 of the
20th Anniversary of the first class of The Politics & Journalism Semester.
The next annual meeting will be February 10, 2010.
From left: Robert Pierre, Terry Michael, Judy Woodruff, Mike McCurry,
Eleanor Clift, Joe Foote
and Tony Blankley. (Unable to attend, Juan Williams.)
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