Past Speakers
- Sam Champion, Weather Anchor of Good Morning America and Weather Editor for ABC News
- Nancy Snyderman M.D., Chief Medical Editor of NBC News
- Jean Chatzky, award-winning journalist, best-selling author, and financial editor of NBC's Today
- Lester Holt, anchor of NBC Nightly News, Weekend Edition; and co-host of Today, Weekend Edition
- Natalie Morales, NBC News, Today national correspondent
- David Muir '95, ABC News, anchor of World News Saturday and co-anchor of Primetime
- Steve Capus, president of NBC News
- Mara Liasson, national political correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR)
- Dawn Fratangelo, news correspondent for Dateline NBC and substitute anchor on the weekend edition of NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw
- John Seigenthaler, anchor, weekend edition of NBC Nightly News, contributing anchor on MSNBC cable, and anchor of MSNBC Investigates
- John Palmer, former longtime NBC News correspondent
- Sylvia Chase, ABC News correspondent, PrimeTime Thursday
- Ann Curry, news anchor, NBC Today, and MSNBC Emmy Award-winning reporter
- Catherine Crier, news journalist, state judge, trial lawyer, and host of the Fox News nightly show, The Crier Report
- Cokie Roberts, ABC News program anchor
- Andrea Mitchell, NBC News chief White House correspondent
- Betty Rollin, NBC News correspondent and author
- Barrie Dunsmore, ABC News correspondent
- Fred Francis, NBC News anchor
- Carole Simpson, ABC News anchor and senior correspondent
Please note: Job titles and company associations listed above reflect the role each speaker had the year he/she served as the Jessica Savitch Distinguished Journalism Lecturer.
