- Robert Zoellick
Robert Zoellick also serves or has served as a board member on a number of private and public organizations: Alliance Capital , Said Holdings , and the Precursor Group ; a member of the advisory boards of Enron and Viventures , a venture fund; as a Director of the Aspen Institute 's Strategy Group, Council on Foreign Relations , the German Marshall Fund of the United States , and the World Wildlife Advisory Council ; and a member of Secretary William Sebastian Cohen 's Defense Policy Board .
- James Taranto
James Taranto (born 1966) is a Manhattan-based columnist for "The Wall Street Journal" and editor of its online editorial page, OpinionJournal.com. He is best known for his daily online column, entitled "Best of the Web Today", in which he links to and comments on news stories and Web sites submitted by readers. Most of Taranto's commentary is politically oriented and conservative/libertarian in perspective.
- Jay Rosen
Jay Rosen (born May 5, 1956 in Buffalo, New York) is a press critic, a writer, and a professor of journalism at New York University. He is a strong supporter of citizen journalism, encouraging the press to take a more active interest in citizenship, improving public debate, and enhancing life. His book about the subject, "What Are Journalists For?" was published in 1999. Rosen writes frequently about issues in journalism and developments the media.
- Opheera McDoom
Opheera McDoom (born ca. 1978) is a journalist. She is currently a Reuters correspondent. For several years, McDoom has been one of the foremost sources of news on Egypt and Sudan, filing nearly daily reports from that region. McDoom joined Reuters in September 2003. She spent one year in London before moving to Cairo in July 2004 to cover Egypt and Sudan. After rapidly becoming one of the most recognized sources in the area, …
- Alan Cowell
Alan S. Cowell (born March 16, 1947) is a British journalist who was the London bureau chief of "The New York Times" until July 13, 2007. Cowell began his journalism career as a reporter for Reuters. In 1985, Cowell won the George Polk Award for foreign reporting
- Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan is the author, most recently, of "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto." His previous book, "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. It also won the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, the James Beard Award for best food writing, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
- Qari Mohammad Yousuf
Little is known about Qari Mohammad Yousuf except that he is a spokesman for the Taliban. On numerous occasions he has contacted Reuters, Associated Press, and Afghan Islamic Press by satellite telephone to tell the Taliban's version of events in Afghanistan, particularly the south of that country. Examples are: *al-Jazeera, quoting Reuters, March 2006 *MSN, quoting AP, May 2006 *BBC, quoting AIP, September 2006 *TVNZ, quoting Reuters, 10 December 2006
- Taras Protsyuk
Taras Protsyuk was a Ukrainian-born TV cameraman working for Reuters, who was killed during the US invasion of Iraq. Protsyuk was filming from a balcony of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, where most of the foreign journalists were staying, when a shell fired by a U.S. M1 Abrams tank killed him and José Couso, a cameraman for the Spanish television station Telecinco. The U.S. soldier commanding the tank was Sgt. Shawn Gibson of the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division.
- Michael Stebbins
Michael Stebbins is an American geneticist and science writer. He received his B.S. in biology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and his Ph.D. in genetics while working at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he constructed genetic systems to artificially control gene expression in the brain. Since August 2005, Dr. Stebbins has served as the Director of Biology Policy for the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), …
- Eric Bana
Eric Bana (born Eric Banadinovich on August 9, 1968) is an Australian film and television actor. He began his career as a comedian in the sketch comedy series "Full Frontal" before gaining critical recognition in the biopic "Chopper" (2000). After a decade of critically acclaimed roles in Australian television shows and films, …
- Caroline Drees
Caroline Drees is a journalist for the Reuters news organization.
- Steve Chen
Steve Shih Chen (born August 1978 in Taiwan) is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube. Chen grew up in Taiwan until the age of 8, when his family emigrated to the United States. He attended high school at John Hersey High School as well as the Illinois Math and Science Academy and college from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was an early employee at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim.
- Mazen Dana
Mazen Dana (1962-August 17, 2003) was a Palestinian journalist who worked as a Reuters cameraman and was shot by United States soldiers in Baghdad, Iraq on August 17, 2003. The soldiers mistook his camera for a rocket launcher. Mazen Dana was filming outside Abu Ghraib Prison after obtaining permission from US authorities. Days before his death, Dana had filmed a mass grave constructed by U.S. soldiers to bury other U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq.
- Mona Eltahawy
Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning New York-based journalist and commentator and an international lecturer on Arab and Muslim issues. Her opinion pieces have appeared frequently in the International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post and the pan-Arab Asharq al-Awsat newspaper and she has also published opeds in The New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, Egypt's al-Dostour and Lebanon's Daily Star.
- Mark Fields
Mark Fields is Executive Vice President, Ford Motor Company; President, The Americas and an executive of the Ford Motor Company. As head of the Americas division, Fields was tapped to develop Ford's "The Way Forward" plan, an effort to repair the ailing automaker. He reports to Alan Mulally , the Company’s CEO. Fields was born in Brooklyn, New York, grew up in Paramus, New Jersey, and holds an economics degree from Rutgers University.
- Inayat Bunglawala
Inayat Bunglawala is media secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain. He has written articles for "The Times", "Daily Telegraph", "The Guardian", "Daily Express", "The Observer" and "The Sun" focusing on Islam and current affairs. He is an activist for Islamic concerns and joined the Young Muslims UK in 1987.
- Ethan Bronner
Ethan Bronner (born 1954) is deputy foreign editor of "The New York Times", and a frequent essayist on foreign affairs. Bronner previously served as assistant editorial page editor of the "Times", and before that worked in the paper's investigative unit, focusing on the attacks of Sept. 11. A series of articles on al Qaeda that Bronner helped edit during that time was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism.
- Peter Schmeichel
Peter Bolesław Schmeichel MBE (born 18 November 1963 in Gladsaxe, Denmark) is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and was voted the "World's Best Goalkeeper" in 1992 and 1993. He experienced his most successful years in English club Manchester United, with whom he won the 1999 UEFA Champions League to complete The Treble. He was a key member of the Denmark national football team which won the 1992 European Championship (Euro 92) tournament.
- Ray Richmond
Ray Richmond (born October 19, 1957) is a globally syndicated critic and entertainment/media columnist. A longtime fixture on the Los Angeles journalism scene, he is best known for his years with The Hollywood Reporter. Richmond's long-running weekly column in The Hollywood Reporter is called "The Pulse" which is syndicated by Reuters. Richmond has also worked variously as a feature and entertainment writer, …
- Waleed Khaled
Waleed Khaled was a journalist working for Reuters news agency. He was shot and killed by American soldiers in Iraq on August 28, 2005. Khaled and a cameraman had gone to cover an incident in which two Iraqi policemen were killed in the Hay al-Adil district of Baghdad. On September 1, the chief military spokesman in Baghdad, Major General Rick Lynch, said soldiers had followed "established rules of engagement" and acted in an "appropriate" manner when they opened fire. Gen.
- Steve Wilson
Steve Wilson is a football writer working primarily for the English based publication Calcio Italia, which focuses on Serie A and Italian football. Born in High Wycombe on January 29, 1979, he was educated at John Hampden Grammar School before studying Journalism at the University of Teesside in Middlesbrough. Having began his career at Reuters news agency in 2001, where he covered Wimbledon, World Cup 2002 and Euro 2004, he moved to Calcio Italia magazine in early 2005.
- Christine Romans
Christine Romans is a correspondent for "Lou Dobbs Tonight" on CNN. She previously worked for Reuters and Knight Ridder Financial News.
- Mark Lee
Mark W. Lee (b.1950) is an American novelist, poet and playwright. He has worked as a war correspondent and some of these real-life experiences have appeared in his fiction. Lee was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended Yale University where he became friends with the Pulitzer prize winning poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren. Lee dedicated his first novel to Warren.
- Corinne Heller
Corinne Heller is a journalist with Reuters News Agency in Jerusalem.
- Kurt Schork
Kurt Schork was an American reporter and war correspondent. He was killed in an ambush while on assignment for Reuters in Sierra Leone together with cameraman Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora of Spain, who worked for Associated Press Television. Two other Reuters journalists, South African cameraman Mark Chisholm and Greek photographer Yannis Behrakis, were injured in the attack. Kurt Schork was born in Washington, D.C., in 1947, …
- Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh (sometimes known as Omar Sheikh, "Sheikh Omar", "Sheik Syed", or by the alias "Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad") (b. December 23 1973) is a British-born militant of Pakistani descent with alleged links to various Islamic-based organisations, including Jaish-e-Mohammed, Al-Qaeda, and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. He was arrested and served time in prison for the 1994 abduction of several British nationals in India, …
- Danielle Pletka
Danielle Pletka Print Mail Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies Danielle Pletka is the vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at AEI. Her research areas include the Middle East, South Asia , terrorism, and weapons proliferation. While at AEI, Ms. Pletka has developed a conference series on rebuilding post-Saddam Iraq and a project on democracy in the Arab world.
- Dan Eldon
Daniel Robert Eldon (September 18, 1970 in Hampstead, England - July 12, 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia) was a British photojournalist. He was working for Reuters as a freelance photographer when he was dispatched to the site of an attack, led by United States forces, on what was believed to be where Mohammed Farah Aidid's Habar Gedir clan were meeting to plot against U.S and U.N. forces. In the aftermath of the assault, Eldon and three colleagues were filming the scene, …
- Sheryl Wudunn
Sheryl WuDunn (born 1959) is a Chinese American journalist and editor for "The New York Times". She is currently industry and international business editor at the Times. She formerly was journalist/anchor of "The New York Times Page One", a production of New York Times Television Enterprises. She also has worked in "The New York Times" Beijing and Tokyo bureaus, as well as for the "Miami Herald", Reuters, and "The Wall Street Journal".
- Steve Lawrence
Dr. Steve Lawrence was among the group at NEC Research which was responsible for the creation of the Search Engine/Digital Library CiteSeer. He is currently an employee at Google. Lawrence received bachelor of science and bachelor of engineering degrees from Queensland University of Technology in Australia, and his PhD from the University of Queensland in Australia. He became a Senior Research Scientist at NEC Research Institute.
- Peter Millar
Peter Millar is a British journalist and author, primarily known for his reporting of the fall of the Cold War and fall of the Berlin Wall for "The Sunday Times" of London. He was named "Foreign Correspondent of the Year" 1989<sup>*1</sup> by the British "What the Papers Say" television programme. Millar was born in Northern Ireland and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. He subsequently worked for Reuters in East Berlin, Warsaw and Moscow, …
- David Gelernter
David Hillel Gelernter (b. 1955) is a professor of computer science at Yale University. In the 1980s, he made seminal contributions to the field of parallel computation, specifically the tuple space coordination model, as embodied by the Linda programming system. Bill Joy attributes Linda as the inspiration for many elements of JavaSpaces and Jini.
- Jane Arraf
Jane Arraf studied journalism in Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. One of her first jobs was working for Reuters. In 1984, she was a bureau chief in Montreal. Then she moved on to a desk editor in New York City in 1987. In 1990, she went to Jordan to be the Amman bureau chief before returning to her desk-editing job in New York City and later in Washington, D.C. Her last job in Reuters was as a correspondent in RFTV (Reuters Financial Television).
- Tareq Ayyoub
Tareq Ayyoub was an Arab television reporter of Palestinian nationality, employed by Al Jazeera, and previously by Fox News. On April 8, 2003, Ayyoub was killed when two missiles ,fired from an A-10 Warthog US Fighter plane, struck the Baghdad headquarters of the Al Jazeera Satellite Channel during the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. Many of the Arab reporters for Al Jazeera saw this as an intentional attack on their personnel, …
- Dale Watson
Dale Watson ... Executive Assistant Director for Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence, FBI, 2001-2002
- Edwin Schlossberg
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- Layne Staley
Layne Staley (August 22, 1967 - ca. April 5, 2002) was the lead singer of the rock group Alice in Chains and the short-lived supergroup Mad Season. His addiction to heroin led to the downfall of his musical career, and eventually his own life
- Anne Davies
Anne Davies is a presenter for the BBC local news programme East Midlands Today in the East Midlands. The show comes from Nottingham each weekday night at 6.30pm. Anne comes from the Isle of Wight. Anne began work for BBC Current Affairs, working behind the scenes on Question Time and Panorama. She moved to Radio Leicester and Radio Derby, then became a continuity presenter for Central East. She became the regular newsreader for Central News East.
- Tarek William Saab
Tarek William Saab Halabi is an Arab-Venezuelan politician, lawyer and poet. He is a human rights activist and a leader of the Fifth Republic Movement (MVR) party founded by Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela. The son of Lebanese immigrants, he studied criminal law in the Universidad Santa María and human rights law in the Universidad Central de Venezuela.
- Arat Dink
Arat Dink is the executive editor of Agos, an Armenian newspaper in Istanbul. He is the son of Hrant Dink, the former editor-in-chief of Agos, who was murdered by Ogün Samast, a Turkish teen ultra-nationalist. Arat Dink has been brought to trial as a co-defendant as the executive editor of Agos along with Serkis Seropyan, …