Fredricka Whitfield is a news room reporter for CNN. She anchors the weekend versions of CNN Newsroom and sometimes substitutes for anchors during weekdays. She is the daughter of Olympian Mal Whitfield.^[1]

Education[link]

Whitfield attended Paint Branch High School in Burtonsville, Maryland, graduating in 1983. Ms. Whitfield earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from Howard University’s School of Communications in 1987. While attending Howard she served as a news anchor for campus radio station WHBC.

Early career[link]

Prior to joining CNN, Whitfield was a correspondent for NBC News and served as an Atlanta-based correspondent for NBC Nightly News from 1995 to 2001. She worked for other news programs at NBC including The Today Show; she was a morning and afternoon anchor as well as an assignment reporter.

Before joining NBC, Whitfield worked at WPLG-TV in Miami, News Channel 8 in Washington, D.C., KTVT-TV in Dallas, WTNH in New Haven, Connecticut, and WCIV in Charleston, South Carolina.

Career at CNN[link]

Since joining CNN in 2002, Whitfield has reported many major stories. She was the first anchor to break the news of the death of Ronald Reagan. She has reported the devastating Asian tsunami which occurred in December 2004. Whitfield also reported from the Persian Gulf region during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Personal[link]

Whitfield was born May 1965. She is married to John Glenn who was formerly a photo editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She gave birth to a son in January 2005.

References[link]

External links[link]

• CNN Programs - Anchors/Reporters - Fredricka Whitfield
• Howard University Celebrates 141st Anniversary

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EXTREME WEATHER, Bonnie Schneider - Meteorologist/Author www.BonnieWeather.com

Bonnie Schneider is a meteorologist appearing on the various platforms of CNN and HLN. Her debut on the network was on June 11, 2005, which was just in time to cover the 2005 hurricane season. She is also the author of Extreme Weather. During the coverage of Hurricane Irene in August 2011, Schneider's book was featured on HLN's popular prime time show, Special Report with Vinnie Politan. Currently, Schneider is promoting her book on a book tour, which began on February 1, 2012 in Boston.

Schneider has also been the Weekend Meteorologist/Special Assignment Reporter for "The Ten O'Clock News" on WLVI-TV WB56 in Boston. While in Boston, she also provided entertainment and lifestyle reporting as a special assignment reporter three days a week. Prior to WB56, she was the weekend meteorologist at WFOR-TV in Miami. She has held several meteorology and reporting positions including: News 12 Long Island, a 24-hour cable news television network, and WXII-TV, the NBC affiliate in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She also worked for the CBS network in New York City as a frequent fill-in meteorologist on the The Saturday Early Show.

Schneider was awarded the American Meteorological Society's Seal of Approval for broadcast meteorologists who achieve the highest standard of excellence in both technical weather knowledge and communication skills. She has also had the opportunity to interview a number of famous celebrities. While in New York at News 12, she earned the Associated Press Award for "Best Interview" for her half-hour special, "A Conversation with Billy Joel." She said she suffered from nerves just prior to the interview, but her uneasiness subsided after the legendary singer flashed her a smile and admitted that he watched her station's newscasts frequently and always kept an eye out for her "marine forecasts."

A native of Jericho, New York, Schneider earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Boston University. She pursued her meteorological studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Hunter College in Manhattan. She started her career as a weekend meteorologist at KPLC-TV in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

External links[link]

• Bonnie Schneider at KPLC-TV
• Transcript of Bonnie Schneider debut on CNN
• Bonnie Schneider's Website Promoting Book, "Extreme Weather"

Suzanne Malveaux prepares to do a live broadcast on the pier of Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Feb. 21, 2008.

Suzanne M. Malveaux ( /suːˈzɑːn mɑːlˈvoʊ/; born December 4, 1966), is an American television news reporter. She is currently the anchor of the 12 pm–2pm edition of CNN Newsroom. Previously, she was White House correspondent for CNN and the primary substitute to Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room. She joined CNN in 2002.

In August 2007, Malveaux was the moderator of the 31st annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists^[1] and has served on various panels at previous conventions of the NABJ, of which she is a member.^[2]

Personal[link]

Malveaux, whose first name is pronounced Sue-zahn,^[3] was born in Lansing, Michigan into a New Orleans-based family of African, Spanish, and French descent. Her Louisiana French Creole ^[4] father, Floyd J. Malveaux, is a prominent doctor who became the dean of the College of Medicine at Howard University; he is now the executive director of the Merck Childhood Asthma Network and a founder of Howard University's National Human Genome Center.^[5][6][7] Her mother, the former Myrna Maria Ruiz, is a retired schoolteacher. The economist Julianne Malveaux is a distant cousin.^[3]

She has three siblings:

• Suzette M. Malveaux (identical twin with Suzanne and an associate professor at the Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America)^[8]
• Courtney M. Malveaux (an assistant attorney general for the state of Virginia and chairman of the Richmond Republican Committee)^[9][10]
• Gregory F. Malveaux (an associate professor of English at Montgomery College).^[11]

Her family lived in New Orleans and later Howard County, Maryland, and she attended Centennial High School in Ellicott City, Maryland.

Malveaux graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. cum laude in sociology. At Harvard, she was a classmate with future CNN reporter Soledad O'Brien.^[3] She graduated with a master's degree in broadcasting from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1991.^[3]

Career[link]

Malveaux's first television job was with New England Cable News as a general assignment reporter in Boston, Massachusetts, during 1993–1996.^{[citation needed]} She then moved back to Washington, D.C., and worked for NBC affiliate WRC-TV during 1996–1999 as a self-described "rock-and-roll" reporter reporting local and crime news.^{[citation needed]}

In 1999 she joined NBC Network News, three years in Washington, including as a Pentagon correspondent, and three years in Chicago.^{[citation needed]} She covered national stories such as Bill Clinton's impeachment, Elián González, the Kosovo War, the 2000 Presidential Election, the 9/11 attacks, and the 2001 war in Afghanistan.^{[citation needed]}

Since May 2002, she has been a White House correspondent for CNN, based at their Washington, D.C. bureau. She covered the 2008 presidential election cycle from the campaign trail as a member of the network's political team. In advance of the Democratic and Republican national conventions, Malveaux anchored a 90-minute documentary on then-Senator Barack Obama as part of a two-part series on the 2008 general election presidential candidates. Additionally, she served as a panelist questioning the candidates in the Democratic presidential primary debate in South Carolina sponsored by CNN and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute in January 2008. She also played a key role in CNN's 2004 election coverage and its Emmy-winning 2006 election coverage. Most recently, she has augmented her White House reporting by serving as the primary substitute anchor for The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, a two-hour-long program that airs every weekday on CNN.

Ms. Malveaux recently started tweeting on Twitter, the popular microblogging platform. She has posted tweets from all over the world as she covered President Obama's trips to Europe and throughout Latin America.

Role as a black journalist[link]

As Malveaux said in an interview about her position as an African American journalist “When I think of my grandparents and I think about the time of segregation, I think what would they think of their grandchild sitting in that seat, that CNN seat in that small little [White House] briefing room? There [are] only about 20 seats and I’m sitting in one of them. It’s so important that I feel like I’m representing people who couldn’t even imagine that we could be in that kind of position.” ^[12]

Criticism[link]

Suzanne Malveaux prepares to do a live broadcast on the pier of Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Feb. 21, 2008.

2007 Democratic Party debate[link]

On November 16, 2007 while moderating a debate between candidates for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, Malveaux modified a question asked by audience member LaShannon Spencer. Spencer asked what qualities the candidates' nominees to the Supreme Court of the United States should possess. Malveaux directed the question to Senator Chris Dodd and further asked him if he would require nominees to support abortion rights. When the question was put to Senator Joe Biden he responded "Suzanne's decided. I'm not answering her question. I'm answering the question of the woman who was there, okay?"

Important interviews and presidential-related travel[link]

As White House correspondent, Malveaux has interviewed former presidents George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, as well as former first lady Laura Bush. Her coverage of presidential trips overseas has taken her to Europe, the Balkans, Southeast Asia, Africa, Australia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

References[link]

External links[link]

• CNN - Biography
• Suzanne Malveaux on Twitter
• "Laura Bush Rebukes Husband on Abstinence Only Requirement" Feminist Daily News Wire, Feminist Majority Foundation July 5, 2007.
• "CNN's Malveaux parroted White House criticism of Pelosi's Syria visit, but ignored GOP-led trip," Media Matters For America, April 2, 2007.
• Malveaux's CNN report about her cousins in New Orleans's 9th Ward and their experiences during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath

Brooke Baldwin is an American news anchor. She appears on the weekday edition of CNN Newsroom.

Early life and career[link]

Brooke Baldwin was born on July 12, 1979. She attended United States Space Camp at the age of 13 and served as commander of her mission there. The week, she said, "was incredibly cool." ^[2]

Baldwin graduated with a double bachelor's degree in journalism and Spanish from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also studied at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City during her undergraduate years.^[3]

She started her career at WVIR-TV in Charlottesville, Virginia and later became the morning anchor at WOWK-TV in the Huntington and Charleston, West Virginia area. She later joined WTTG in Washington, DC as lead reporter for the 10pm newscast.^[3]

CNN[link]

Baldwin joined CNN and HLN networks in 2008.^[3] She was a contributor on Rick's List, hosted by Rick Sanchez, from the show's inception in January 2010.^[4] When Sanchez was fired in October 2010 for making what some believed were antisemitic remarks, Baldwin filled in for him, eventually taking the time slot permanently.^[4] She now anchors CNN Newsroom from 2 to 4pm ET on weekdays. She hosts a weekly segment during her newscast hours known as #MusicMonday (named after the Twitter trend)^[5] profiling various musicians.^[6] Baldwin is the last anchor to broadcast from Atlanta on weekdays, before The Situation Room goes on air from Washington, DC.

Baldwin hosted the central time countdown from Nashville, Tennessee as part of CNN's 2011 New Year's Eve coverage.^[7]

On January 14, 2012, she hosted a half-hour special music program named Soundcheck which featured Wilco, Mavis Staples, Mumford & Sons, Ben Sollee, and Janelle Monae.^[8]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Brooke Baldwin — CNN profile
• Brooke Baldwin at CNN Newsroom website

Richard Herman
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Richard H. Herman served as the Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2005-2009. He previously served there as Provost and Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs since 1998. As provost he garnered support for, and administered, a “faculty excellence” program designed to bring established faculty to the institution. Over the course of his administrative tenure, sponsored research at the university increased by more than 50%.^[1]

Herman promoted private sector partnerships by supporting the creation of a Research Park and, in particular, by helping to secure a $500 million grant from BP in partnership with Berkeley.^[2][3][4] Commitments to the creation of the Institute for Genomic Biology and the garnering of the Petascale Award with IBM from the National Science Foundation ensured continued scientific and technological leadership for the university ^[5]

Herman helped to secure a number of gifts including $100 million from alumnus Tom Siebel for support of research in science and technology,^[6][7] $14 million for a Center for Brazilian Studies from the Lemann Family ^[8] and an anonymous gift of $40 million for undergraduate student support.

Before coming to Illinois, he served as Dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park and Chair of the Department of Mathematics at the Pennsylvania State University. He has been a visiting faculty member and fellow at the University of Marseilles and Princeton University.^[9][10]

In 1963, he received a bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from the Stevens Institute of Technology. In 1967, he earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Maryland.^[9][10]

President Bush appointed Dr. Herman to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, serving on subcommittees which advised the President on nanotechnology, networking and information technology and university-private sector partnerships. He co-chaired the High Performance Computing Inititiative for the Council on Competitiveness as well as serving on the steering committee for its Energy, Security, Innovation and Sustainability Initiative and the Council’s Executive Committtee.

Herman served as chair of the Council of Presidents for the University Research Association in 2007. He also served on, and was chair of ,the National Science Foundation's Advisory Committee for the Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences , 1993–1997, served as chair of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics and as a member of the Observatories Council, the Management Council of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy.^[9][10]

Herman's research specializes on mathematical physics and operator algebras.^[9]

Honors[link]

Herman is an Eagle Scout and a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.^[11][12]

In 2008 Herman was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[13]

The Rainbow Push Program named Herman as Educator of the Year in 2009.^[14]

Herman received the Malone Award from APLU in 2009.^[15]

Admissions Controversy[link]

The Chicago Tribune reported on Friday, May 29, 2009 that several students had been admitted to the University based upon connections or recommendations by Board of Trustees, Chicago politicians, and members of the Rod Blagojevich administration. The improprieties occurred, according to the Tribune, on the Urbana-Champaign campus headed by Herman. The Tribune obtained through a FOIA request several emails between Herman, then law dean Heidi Hurd and others spanning a number of years and establishing without any doubt that preferential treatment had been given to well-connected students. The Tribune also reported on one case in which the University's president, B. Joseph White, had received a recommendation for a relative of a subsequently convicted fundraiser Tony Rezko to be admitted. The Tribune posted emails of Herman to admissions staff pushing for less qualified students to be accepted, citing particularly an exchange between Herman, admissions officers, and then-dean of the college of law Heidi Hurd. The controversy has sparked condemnation from student trustee Paul Schmitt and state lawmakers.^[16] It is quite unusual for deans, let alone provosts, to interfere with admissions staff in deciding whether or not to admit individual applicants. Their usual role is to provide guidance and direction as to admissions policies.

As a result of the clout controversy, several state lawmakers including Representatives, Naomi Jakobsson, Chapin Rose, and Bill Black have called for legislative investigations.^[17] Chairman of the Illinois House of Higher Education Committee, Representative Mike Boland, has called for Herman's and White's removal, as well as several administrators including and members of the Board of Trustees, saying "They were trusted to protect our university. In my eyes, they failed in that regard and they should resign."^[18]

In September 2009, Urbana alumni in the Chicago area wrote to the governor and board of trustees praising Herman for his many accomplishments during his term as Chancellor. These included highlighting his fundraising leadership and efforts to raise the campus' share of the Brilliant Futures $2.25 billion campaign, his efforts to increase Urbana's research presence including leading in creating the Energy Biosciences Institute, a $500 million research program to study converting plant biomass to fuel, helping to create an outreach effort with Chicago Public Schools to increase recruitment of students and increasing diversity on campus, among other accomplishments.^[19]

After months of calls for his resignation, on 20 October 2009 Herman announced he would resign as Chancellor for his role in the controversy. He was replaced in August 2011 by Phyllis Wise, the former Interim President and current Provost of the University of Washington.^[20]

See also[link]

Scouting portal

References[link]