Bob Losure
Former CNN Headline News Anchor and cancer survivor Bob Losure reached a milestone of 200 emcee and keynote speaking appearances in 2007, hosting the Edison Electric Institute Convention in Denver and KioskCom Awards Presentation in Las Vegas. Bob is author of Five Seconds To Air, detailing his successful fight against testicular cancer and how it led him to anchor at CNN.
Bob's 11 years in the anchor chair at CNN Headline News also included on-the-scene reporting of such stories as the San Francisco earthquake, Hurricane Hugo, and the return of Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to Miami.
The broadcast veteran remains in great demand as a speaker and emcee for firms like Mercedes, RadioShack and OfficeMax, and associations like the Outdoor Advertising Association of America. He's interviewed top newsmakers such as Walter Cronkite, Donald Trump, and the late David Halberstam, and emceed several political debates in his home state of Oklahoma, including nationwide distribution on C-Span and C-Span 2.
Mr. Losure's keynotes and and emcee engagements have taken him literally around the world - emceeing the Junior Chamber International Conference in Pusan, South Korea, and presenting a one-hour newscast for 700 JCB Inc. delegates onboard Holland America's HMS Westerdam sailing across the Caribbean.
His recent appearances focusing on his own cancer survival story have included audiences at M.D. Anderson Medical Center in Houston, and medical centers from San Jose, California to the University of Tennessee. In June of '07 he keynoted Cancer Survivor's Day at Provena St. Joseph Medical Center in Chicago.
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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