Journalist

Steve Liesman

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Steve Liesman

Journalist

As CNBC’s senior economics reporter, Steve Liesman reports on topics including the Federal Reserve and major economic indicators. He appears on Squawk Box, as well as other CNBC programs throughout the business day.

Liesman joined CNBC from The Wall Street Journal, where he served as a senior economics reporter covering monetary policy, international economics, academic research and productivity. At the Journal, Liesman worked as an energy reporter and Moscow bureau chief. He won an Emmy for his coverage of the financial crisis and was a member of the reporting team recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for stories chronicling the crash of the Russian financial markets.

Prior to joining the Journal in 1994, Liesman was the business editor for The Moscow Times, where, as the founding business editor for the country’s first English-language daily newspaper, he helped create the publication’s stock index, which was the country’s first. Liesman also has worked as a business reporter for both the St. Petersburg Times and The Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

Twitter: @steveliesman

Carol E. Lee

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Carol E. Lee

Journalist

Carol Lee is a White House correspondent for NBC News. She was previously the White House correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, responsible for their coverage on politics, foreign affairs and domestic policy issues. She is currently president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, after serving on its board since 2010.

She has covered the White House since October 2008. She joined the Journal’s White House correspondence in 2011. Previously, she covered the White House for Politico, starting with President Obama’s transition in Chicago. Lee wrote a weekly column for the Journal’s digital politics page, “Capital Journal”. She now appears regularly on television and radio, including CNN, MSNBC, NPR and Sirius XM, as a commentator on the White House.

Lee spoke on the Midterm Elections Panel alongside Patrick Caddell, Anna Greenberg, Steve Kornacki, Jim McLaughlin, and Jefrey Pollock, moderated by John Harwood, at The Common Good in 2014.

Twitter: @carolelee

Amy Sullivan

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Amy Sullivan

Journalist

Amy Sullivan is a Chicago-based journalist who has covered religion and politics as an editor at TIME, Yahoo, the Washington Monthly, and National Journal. She contributes opinion and news analysis to outlets including NPR, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Sullivan co-hosts the podcast "Impolite Company" with Nish Weiseth. Her critically acclaimed first book, The Party Faithful: How and Why Democrats are Closing the God Gap, was published by Scribner in 2008.

Sullivan spoke about The Role of Religion in the 2008 Campaign at The Common Good alongside Jon Meacham and Steven Waldman, moderated by Paul Glastris and introduced by Richard Feigen.

Twitter: @sullivanamy

Matt Taibbi

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Matt Taibbi

Author and Journalist

Matt Taibbi is a multitalented author and journalist who has covered politics, media, finance and sports, and in 2008 received a National Magazine Award for his columns in Rolling Stone. In February of 2014, he penned a goodbye in Rolling Stone magazine and moved to Glenn Greenwald’s First Look Media, where is he assembling a team of top-notch journalists and helping to launch a new magazine.

Taibbi spoke at The Common Good in 2014: Matt Taibbi on Corruption, Fraud and Inequality.

Twitter: @mtaibbi

Steve Kornacki

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Steve Kornacki

Political journalist

Steve Kornacki is an American political journalist and current national political correspondent for NBC News.

Kornacki previously hosted “Up with Steve Kornacki” from 2011-2016. He also contributed occasionally to Capital New York and Salon, where he served as a senior political writer and politics editor from 2010 to 2013. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, New York Daily News, New York Post, Boston Globe and Daily Beast.

Kornacki spoke on the Midterm Elections Panel alongside Patrick Caddell, Carol E. Lee, Anna Greenberg, Jim McLaughlin, and Jefrey Pollock, moderated by John Harwood, at The Common Good in 2014.

Twitter: @SteveKornacki

Gillian Tett

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Gillian Tett

Journalist

Gillian Tett is chairman editorial board and editor-at-large, US of the Financial Times. She writes weekly columns, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues.

In 2014, she was named Columnist of the Year in the British Press Awards and was the first recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute Marsh Award. Her other honors include a SABEW Award for best feature article (2012), President’s Medal by the British Academy (2011), being recognized as Journalist of the Year (2009) and Business Journalist of the Year (2008) by the British Press Awards, and as Senior Financial Journalist of the Year (2007) by the Wincott Awards. In June 2009 her book Fool’s Gold won Financial Book of the Year at the inaugural Spear’s Book Awards.

Twitter: @gilliantett

Ted Koppel

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Ted Koppel

Broadcast journalist

Ted Koppel, a 42-year veteran of ABC News, was anchor and managing editor of Nightline from 1980 to 2005.

New York University recently named Koppel one of the top 100 American journalists of the past 100 years. He has won every significant television award, including 8 George Foster Peabody Awards, 11 Overseas Press Club Awards, 12 duPont-Columbia Awards, and 42 Emmy’s. Since 2005 he has served as managing editor of the Discovery Channel, as a news analyst for BBC America, as a special correspondent for Rock Center, and continues to function as commentator and nonfiction book critic at NPR. He has been a contributing columnist to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, and is the author the New York Times bestseller Off Camera.

Koppel spoke at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2016.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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Jose Antonio Vargas

Journalist, filmmaker, activist

Jose Antonio Vargas is a journalist, filmmaker, and immigration rights activist. He was part of The Washington Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting in 2008 for coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings online and in print. Vargas also has worked for The San Francisco Chronicle, The Philadelphia Daily News, and The Huffington Post. He wrote, produced, and directed the autobiographical 2013 film, Documented, which CNN Films broadcast in June 2014.

In a June 2011 essay in The New York Times Magazine, Vargas revealed his status as an undocumented immigrant in an effort to promote dialogue about the immigration system in the U.S. and to advocate for the DREAM Act, which would provide children in similar circumstances with a path to citizenship. A year later, a day after the publication of his Time cover story about his continued uncertainty regarding his immigration status, the Obama administration announced it was halting the deportation of undocumented immigrants age 30 and under, who would be eligible for the DREAM Act. Vargas, who had just turned 31, did not qualify.

Vargas is the founder of Define American, a nonprofit organization intended to open up dialogue about the criteria people use to determine who is an American.

Vargas was awarded the American Spirit Award for Citizen Activism at The Common Good Forum & The American Spirit Awards 2014.

Twitter: @joseiswriting

Alison Klayman

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Alison Klayman

American filmmaker, journalist

Alison Klayman is an American filmmaker and journalist.

Klayman has produced radio and television feature stories for PBS Frontline, NPR’s All Things Considered, and others. Her movie, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, documents Ai Weiwei and his work. It was shortlisted for an Academy Award, nominated for two Emmy’s, and earned Alison a Director’s Guild of America nomination. It premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival where it won a Special Jury Prize, and was picked up by IFC Films. Never Sorry has now been translated into over 26 languages and released around the world. It was also one of the highest grossing films of 2012 directed by a woman.

Alison has made many media appearances to speak about her documentary work, including on The Colbert Report. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times’ Emmy-nominated Op-Doc Series, and a grant recipient of the Ford Foundation, Sundance Institute, Henry Luce Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Chicken and Egg Pictures. In 2011 she was a Sundance Creative Producing Fellow and one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” New York Times chief film critics A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis named Alison one of their 20 Directors to Watch on a list of rising international filmmaking talents under 40.

Klayman was hosted by The Common Good in 2012 for a Special Screening: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry.

Twitter: @aliklay

Tim Weiner

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Tim Weiner

Journalist

Tim Weiner is a reporter, author of three books and co-author of a fourth, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. He is a graduate of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and has worked for the Times since 1993, as a foreign correspondent in Mexico, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sudan and as a national security correspondent in Washington, DC.

Weiner won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting as an investigative reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer, for his articles on the black budget spending at the Pentagon and the CIA. His book Blank Check: The Pentagon’s Black Budget is based on that newspaper series.

He won the National Book Award in Nonfiction for his 2007 book Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA.

He is featured along with other foreign affairs experts in interviews in Denis Delestrac’s 2010 “Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space”. Enemies: A History of the FBI, Tim Weiner’s latest book, traces the history of the FBI’s secret intelligence operations, from the bureau’s creation in the early 20th century through its ongoing fight in the current war on terrorism. He explains how Hoover’s increasing concerns about communist threats against the United States led to the FBI’s secret intelligence operations against anyone deemed “subversive.”

Jonathan Tepperman

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Jonathan Tepperman

Author, journalist

Jonathan Tepperman is a journalist and author. He is currently the Editor-In-Chief of Foreign Affairs and the author of The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline (Crown, September 2016).

In 1998, he joined Foreign Affairs as a junior editor. A few years later, he moved to Newsweek, where he was deputy editor of the international edition. After a short stint as a political risk consultant, he returned to Foreign Affairs in 2011. Tepperman has written for a long list of publications, including Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and others, on subjects ranging from international affairs to municipal politics. He has interviewed more than a dozen world leaders, including Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, Japan’s Shinzo Abe, Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Mexico’s Enrique Peña Nieto, Indonesia’s Joko Widodo, and Rwanda’s Paul Kagame. He is the co-editor of the books The U.S. vs. al Qaeda (2011), Iran and the Bomb (2012), and The Clash of Ideas (2012). He is vice chairman of the Halifax International Security Forum, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a fellow of the New York Institute of Humanities.

Tepperman gave an introduction to the “Global Threats & Opportunities” subsection of The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2017.

Twitter: @j_tepperman

Brian Kelly

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Brian Kelly

Journalist, author

Brian Kelly is the editor and chief content officer of U.S. News & World Report, a multi-platform publisher of news and consumer information products. Kelly is a member of the executive committee with primary responsibility for all the company’s content, which includes the websites usnews.com and rankingsandreviews.com, the digital-only U.S. News Weekly magazine, print and e-book guides on education and health care, and a conference and events business.

Kelly joined U.S. News in 1998 after serving as a senior editor at The Washington Post, and was named editor at U.S. News in April 2007. Kelly has led the transformation of U.S. News from a traditional print news magazine to a largely digital publishing company with a range of influential products including the Best Colleges and Best Hospitals rankings. Under his leadership, usnews.com has gained an audience of more than 20 million monthly users. Kelly has also expanded U.S. News’ Money, Personal Finance, and Health content and launched new Car and Travel products as well as two national conferences.

He is the chairman of U.S. News STEM Solutions, a national forum that brings together corporations, educators and policymakers working to help the U.S. fill jobs by creating a more skilled and competitive workforce. He is on the board of the World Affairs Council of Washington and a member of the Economic Club of Washington.

Twitter: @BKellyUSN

David Kemp

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David Kemp

American Journalist and Executive

David Kemp is President of CurePSP, a foundation engaged in research into neurodegenerative diseases, creating public awareness of these afflictions and providing support for patients, families and caregivers. Mr. Kemp is a seasoned executive and marketing professional with some 35 years of experience in the field. Prior to joining CurePSP, Mr. Kemp was Chief Executive Officer of Jager Di Paola Kemp Design (JDK), a firm that employed more than 100 people in offices in New York, Burlington, Vermont, and Portland, Oregon. There he helped to create the firm’s proprietary Living Brand® strategic process which he helped to deploy for companies including Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division, Burton Snowboards, Levi Strauss, Nike, Patagonia, Merrell footwear, The North Face, Woolrich and many others. Prior to JDK, Mr. Kemp founded the corporate design firm Harmon Kemp, Inc., in New York City, where he was involved with financial and manufacturing clients including JPMorgan Chase, Deloitte Consulting and International Paper Co.

Mr. Kemp started his career in journalism as reporter and editor for community newspapers and trade publications. He was a business-beat reporter for The Boston Globe where he also wrote the paper’s weekly advertising column. Later he worked at Dow Jones & Co. in New York as Manager of Public relations with responsibilities for investor and media relations. He received his A.B. from Dartmouth College and M.B.A. from Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. 

Twiter: @primeoflife661

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