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Mike Chinoy
Former foreign correspondent for CNN, Chinoy is the author of the acclaimed book China Live: People, Power and the Television Revolution. He joined the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles in 2006 as the Edgerton Fellow in Korean Security, focusing on security issues in North Korea, China, and Northeast Asia.

Available Programs
  • Making sense of North Korea.
  • The Rise of China.
  • American in Asia.


Steven Cojocaru
Celebrity insider, style maven, diva favourite, bestselling author, and America's top red carpet guru, Cojo is known for his memorable and intimate sit-downs with today's biggest and most sought-after stars, conducting standout interviews with “A-listers” such as Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts, Gwyneth Paltrow, Demi Moore, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Halle Berry, Jennifer Aniston, and Jude Law. His unique blend of quick wit, dish, fashion frisson, and humour have made him a must-see presence at major media events, from the Oscars and Emmys to the Golden Globes, and the MTV Video Music Awards.

Available Programs

  • Confessions of a Glamour Boy.
  • How I became the best dressed patient.

Larry King
A captivating storyteller and keen commentator on life and history, Larry King continues to fascinate audiences as a keynote speaker and host of his live and unscripted TV talk show. With his gift for humour and broad range of experience, an evening with King is guaranteed to leave audiences feeling enlightened and entertained.

Available Programs

  • An evening with Larry King.

Jay Leno
As the legendary host of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, his “everyman” style and personality have helped him earn millions of fans worldwide. He has been touted as one of the nicest entertainers in show business and the hardest working -- a winning combination for the man who says, "Anyone can have a life - careers are hard to come by!"

Available Programs

  • A night with Jay Leno.

Mark Fainaru-Wada
Mark Fainaru-Wada is an investigative reporter credited with exposing the steroid scandal case known as BALCO. With his colleague Lance Williams, Fainaru-Wada wrote the book Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports, a New York Times bestseller.

Available Programs

  • A promise is a promise.
  • The biggest sports scandal of our generation.
  • Investigative reporting 101.
  • Steroids: the Wonder Drug


Rob Gifford
Serving as NPR's China correspondent from 1999-2005, he now is NPR's London correspondent and recently published his first novel, China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power.

Available Programs

  • China Road: A journey into the Future of a Rising Power.
  • A view of the rest of the World from Europe.


David Goodman
David Goodman is an award-winning journalist and author of seven books, three bestsellers and the critically acclaimed 'Fault Lines: Journeys into the New South Africa'. He has reported from Sudan, Liberia, and elsewhere throughout Africa on war, AIDS, and travelled secretly inside apartheid South Africa.

Available Programs

  • Standing up to the Mandess: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary times - How citizens can change the ??<text cut off>
  • Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders and the people who fight back - war media censorship and ???<text cut off>
  • Truth and Reconciliation: A rare Eyewitness account of South Africa's transformation from apartheid to ???<text cut off>


Roya Hakakian
A celebrated poet and filmmaker, Roya Hakakian has collaborated on over a dozen hours of programming for some of the most prestigious journalism units on network television, and has authored two highly acclaimed collections of poetry. Her most recent publication, 'Journey from the Land of No', is a memoir of growing up a Jewish teenager in post-revolutionary Iran.

Available Programs

  • Journey from the land of No: A girlhood caught in revolutionary Iran.
  • The fundamentals of an Iranian in Exile.
  • Iran 101: An insiders guide to a country in turmoil.
  • The Jews of Iran today.


Chris Hedges
A graduate of Harvard Divinity School and a foreign correspondent for nearly two decades in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans, he writes and speaks extensively on war, religion and the conflict in the Middle East. He is the author of the bestseller 'War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning', a book that draws on the many conflicts he covered to explore what war does to societies and individuals. His most recent work is I Don’t Believe in Atheists.

Available Programs

  • War is a force that gives us meaning.
  • American Fascists: The Christian right and the war on America.
  • The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
  • The new atheists as Secular Fundamentalists.
  • Covering War and conflict as a foreign correspondent.
  • Moral Choice in the Times of War.


Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Hunter-Gault made civil rights history as the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Georgia. Now, as one of television's premier journalists, she challenges convention with her insights. A special correspondent for NPR based in South Africa, she has written News Out of Africa, which provides a balanced perspective on the continent's past, present, and potentially rich future.

Available Programs

  • Africa on the Edge.
  • The new face of AIDS: Africa's Women and Girls.
  • Africa's women on the move.
  • From Jim Crow America to Apartheid South Africa and Beyond: A Journalists Journey.
  • Black economic empowerment.
  • Brown vs Board of Educational: A personal Reflection.

Jeff Jarvis
Named one of the 100 most influential and respected media figures in the world by the World Economic Forum, Jeff Jarvis writes about media, technology, and business on his blog, Buzzmachine.com, and works as a columnist for The Guardian in London. From newspapers to magazines to blogs – he has established himself as a respected authority on a wide range of topics. He is currently working on a book, What Would Google Do?

Available Programs

  • Buzzmachine: Media, Technology and business intersect.
  • What would google do.


Michael Kimmelman
Michael Kimmelman is chief art critic of The New York Times and a contributor to The New York Review of Books. While his critiques are certainly an assessment of art, they also seek to help everyday people understand the relationship between art and life. A Pulitzer Prize finalist, Kimmelman is the author of Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere, which was named a Best Book of the Year by The Times and the Washington Post.

Available Programs

  • Amateurism-Making Art for the love it.
  • Seeing art through the eyes of the artists.
  • How to make Everyday Life into a work of Art.
  • The life of a musical performer.


Mr. Nicholas Kristof
Serving as NPR's China correspondent from 1999-2005, he now is NPR's London correspondent and recently published his first novel, China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power.

Available Programs

  • One woman at a time: Turning Oppression into Opportunity worldwide.
  • Reporting the truths of the world.
  • The World as I see it: Moving to a do-it-yourself Foreign Policy.
  • A Haunting Portrait of genocide in Darfur.


Robert Kuttner
Robert Kuttner is a leading political economist, speaker and author who seeks to broaden the public debate on how to achieve a prosperous and fair economy.

Available Programs

  • Obama's Challenge: The Promise and Perils of the Obama Presidency.
  • The Challenge of Rescuing the Financial System.
  • Restoring America as a Middle Class Society.
  • Globalisation and the Good Society.
  • A new Deal for America's youth.


Mike Leonard
Mike Leonard has captivated millions of television viewers with his wry and witty feature stories on the often overlooked aspects of everyday life for NBC’s The Today Show. Prior to beginning his fulltime television career at age 30, Leonard worked a variety of jobs, from salesman to construction worker. In his 25-year career as a feature reporter for Today, he has traveled around the world in search of the offbeat, focusing in particular on everyday American life, exploring all 50 states for the true characters and humorous situations.

Available Programs

  • Where is my Mark? Carving out your own path in life.
  • The giant Motherload of the Middle:The incredible everyday life of the Everyman.
  • Setting sail in life: The beauty of Letting a Little Breath of wind push you off course.

Rich Lowry
Lowry is considered the gatekeeper of the mainstream conservative moment in our country as the editor of National Review and as a political analyst for Fox News. Intellectual, yet down to earth, conservative and fair-minded, he examines the issues of today with a challenging and engaging perspective.

Available Programs

  • The Future of Politics.
  • War on Terror.
  • Whither the GOP.
  • What is Conservatism?


Dr. Manning Marable
One of America's most influential and widely read scholars, Marable is Professor of History and Founding Director of the African American Studies Institute at Columbia University. A fervent activist and prolific author, he explores issues of black leadership and politics, culture and society.

Available Programs

  • Rediscovering Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.
  • Diversity and Democracy in American Education: Making Multiculturalism work.
  • Living Black History: How Re-imaging the African-American past can remake America's Racial Future.


Mr. Josh Rushing
Rushing has gone from US Marine Corps Captain conducting daily press briefings in Iraq to celebrated military correspondent and analyst for Al Jazeera English to author of Mission Al Jazeera: Build a Bridge, Seek the Truth, Change the World. He delivers news from a unique prism of experience, providing accurate and impartial reporting with an international perspective.

Available Programs

  • Al-jeer and America's Image: What's at stake.
  • Spin: The art of selling war..


Jeremy Scahill
An award-winning investigative journalist and frequent contributor to The Nation magazine, Scahill is widely viewed as one of the world's leading experts on privatized warfare. His first book, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army is a New York Times bestseller.

Available Programs

  • Blackwater: The rise of the worlds most powerful Mercenary Army.


Mr. Anthony Shadid
He is the Middle East Correspondent for the Washington Post. Since 9/11, he has reported from most of the countries in the Middle East, from Egypt to Syria to Israel and Palestine, where he was wounded in the back while covering fighting in 2002 in the West Bank.

Available Programs

  • Night draws near: Iraq's people in the shadow of America's war.
  • Dispatches from the middle east: Current reporting from the front lines.
  • Legacy of the prophet: Despots, Democrats and the new politics of Islam.


Claire Shipman
An experienced broadcast journalist who has covered stories in both the United States and Moscow, Shipman can be seen as the senior national correspondent for ABC News' Good Morning America. She has also reported on presidential policy and politics for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw and The Today Show.

Available Programs

  • A view from Washington.
  • Observations: Leadership in changing world.
  • On the Campaign Trail.


Bob Simon
During the last quarter of a century Simon, an Emmy Award-winning CBS news correspondent, has covered every major armed conflict suffered by the world. In his edge-of-the-seat presentation, he shares first-hand accounts of Lebanon, Serbia, Namibia and the terrifying forty days he was held hostage in Iraq during the Gulf War.

Available Programs

  • Bringing the event of the globe home.
  • Reporting from the Frontline.
  • Forty Days: My own story of the Golf War.
     

Craig Unger
raig Unger is author of the New York Times bestseller, House of Bush, House of Saud. Unger and his work are featured prominently in Michael Moore's blockbuster, Fahrenheit 9/11. He appears frequently as an analyst on terrorism, Saudi-American relations and the oil industry on CNN, the ABC Radio Network and many other broadcast outlets. He has served as deputy editor of the New York Observer and editor of Boston Magazine.

Available Programs

  • Elephant in the Living: How and why the mainstream Media Missed the story behind Wao <text missing>
  • Endgame: Ho global politics, Terrorism and the Iraq war led to the energy Crisis of the Next Decade.
  • The fall of the House Bush: How a group of true believers put American on the road to Armageddon.


Juan Williams
Prize-winning columnist and editorial writer for The Washington Post, Juan Williams is also NPR’s Senior Correspondent and a keynote speaker on issues including diversity, ethics, leadership, media and national issues. There are few voices as clear and intelligent on the power of diversity within today's business, political and cultural climates.

Available Programs

  • Enough - The phony Leaders, dead end movements and the culture of failure that we are.
  • American Leadership - stories of inspiration and power behind proven leaders.
  • Changing votes - The changing faces of US politics.
  • Eyes on the prize: The truths of American Race Relations.
  • Understanding the changing face of America: Business Media and the work place.
  • The latest from Washington - An insiders view.

Lance Williams
Lance Williams is a reporter on the investigative team at the San Francisco Chronicle, where he helped break many of the newspaper’s exclusive stories on the BALCO steroid scandal. He is co-author, with Mark Fainaru-Wada, of Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports.

Available Programs

  • A promise is a promise.
  • The biggest sports scandal of our generation.
  • Investigative reporting 101. Steroids: the wonder drug.


Mariane Pearl
Pearl is a unique and versatile award-winning journalist who has written 'A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl', a gripping and profound narrative of her experience and the pursuit of those who captured and killed her husband, Daniel Pearl, the South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal. In 2007, A Mighty Heart, starring Angelina Jolie as Mariane was released on the big screen. In a moving and uplifting presentation, Mariane relays a message of courage as a tribute to her husband’s life and the values and ideals which they shared. While terrorists did take Daniel from her, they could not make her fearful enough to abandon their principles of hope for the future.

Available Programs

  • Almighty heart: The brave life and death of my husband Danny Pearl.
  • Fighting Violence: Open up a dialogue.