Bob Losure
Former CNN Headline News anchor, correspondent, author, and two-time cancer survivor Bob Losure continues to be in demand in 2012 as spokesman, emcee, and facilitator for companies including Delta Airlines, Mercedes-Benz, RadioShack, BellSouth, OfficeMax, the IT Asset Management Association, and the Outdoor Advertising Association of America. In 2011 as well as 2010, he served in three roles at the IT Asset Management National Conventions in Las Vegas and Nashville, introducing speakers, keynoting, and doing on-camera interviews with top members of the association.
In recent years, top companies have used his on-stage skills to interview top newsmakers including Walter Cronkite, Donald Trump, G-E Chairman Jeffrey Immelt, Delta C-E-O Richard Anderson, and Cancer Treatment Centers of America Chairman Dick Stephenson. In September, 2010, Bob traveled to Atlanta and Delta Airlines headquarters to moderate a televised 90-minute Q & A session featuring top Delta Airlines executives and over 200 Delta flight attendants. The five-camera webcast, viewed by Delta employees in Atlanta, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York, and L.A., was in preparation for a union vote by 20,000 Delta flight attendants worldwide.
Over the last three years, Bob has introduced speakers and held question-and-answer sessions for conventions including KioskCom at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Novartis Pharmaceuticals in Pasadena, CA., and Edison Electric Institute in Toronto and Wash. DC.
In 2010 he gave his 200th keynote speech on winning his personal battle against testicular cancer in a dramatic evening presentation before cancer survivors at Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah, Georgia. In 1985 Bob had multiple operations and sessions of chemotherapy to survive and take a seat in the anchor chair at CNN Headline News in Atlanta. His courageous story has been told to cancer groups nationwide, including M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and Provena St. Joseph's Medical Center in suburban Chicago.
During his career in Atlanta at CNN, Bob filed live reports from the scene of the Loma Prieta earthquake in San Francisco, Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega's capture and return to Miami, the Avianca Airliner crash in New York, and Nelson Mandela's historic visit to Atlanta.
More recently, Bob served as moderator of a two-hour global warming debate in Tucson for 10 chapters of the Chicago-area Young President's Organization, and posed questions to JC Bamford executives and dealers with live interviews on-stage at The Venetian in Las Vegas. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40ccZxG_XLI&feature=player_detailpage#t=6s.
Lights...Camera...Cancer! gives the exciting story of what goes on behind the scenes of network news. The speech also details Bob's successful fight against testicular cancer, and how it led him to prominence in the CNN anchor chair.
The Evolution of "Branding" looks at how Bill O'Reilly, Lou Dobbs, and Keith Olbermann, among others, are creating a polarization of "opinion" that's rapidly crushing the traditional "objective" style of news.
The Final Decision in '08 shows how it will be the media, not the politicians, who will decide the winner of the '08 Presidential race, and only after a photo-finish.
The veteran journalist is a native Oklahoman and member of the University of Tulsa's Broadcasting Hall of Fame, and is one of a select few alumni to be honored with the title "Distinguished Alumni." In 2005 he was given the lifetime achievement award by his fraternity, Pi Kappa Alpha, and became only the second national television news anchor to receive the fraternity's highest alumni honor, "The Order of West Range", joining former ABC news veteran Ted Koppel.
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