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Sam Donaldson: The Long View

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Longtime ABC newsman Sam Donaldson looks back on a half-century in the news business, covering everything from the civil rights movement to the Vietnam War to Watergate, and every presidential administration from Lyndon B. Johnson to Barack Obama. In a conversation with Newsy National Correspondent Maritsa Georgiou and former Author and Journalist Gwen Florio, Donaldson discusses the sweeping changes in journalism and its critical role in democracy, and provides perspective on today’s turbulent times.

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Apr 26, 2022 07:00 PM in Mountain Time (US and Canada)

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Message preview	Hi there, You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Apr 26, 2022 07:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada) Topic: Sam Donaldson: The Long View Register in advance for this webinar: https://umontana.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aE769rjIQdK0tz4RJYMdbQ After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. ---------- Webinar Speakers Sam Donaldson (Reporter & News Anchor ) Raised on a cotton farm, Sam Donaldson is a native of New Mexico. He served two and a half years on active duty in the U. S. Army and achieved the rank of Captain in the USAR. Donaldson was a news reporter in Washington from February1961 to October 2013, and was employed by ABC News from 1967 to 2013. He covered every presidential election during that time beginning with the campaign of Barry Goldwater. He covered the war in Vietnam and the First Gulf War. He was an on-the-scene observer of the shooting of President Reagan in March 1981. He was ABC’s Watergate Correspondent, twice Chief White House Correspondent covering presidents Carter, Reagan and Clinton, co-anchored the ABC magazine program Prime Time Live with Diane Sawyer, co-anchored the Sunday program This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts and was the founding anchor of Politics Live, the first regularly scheduled Monday-Friday news program in the United States on the Internet. Gwen Florio (Adjunct Professor @University of Montana) Gwen Florio retired in 2020 as editor of the Missoulian. Her four-decades in journalism also included stints as a staff writer and editor for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News, as well teaching courses in the University of Montana’s journalism program. She covered stories ranging from the Oklahoma City bombing trials and the mass shooting at Columbine High School, to the glitz of the Miss America pageant and the more practical Miss Navajo contest, whose participants slaughter a sheep. She’s reported from Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia, as well as Lost Springs, Wyo., population three. Her award-winning journalism led to a federal investigation on the handling of sexual assault cases, and to new laws in Montana designed to protect at-risk teens in private, for-profit programs. Florio’s first novel, Montana, won the inaugural national Pinckley Prize for debut crime novel, and a High Plains Book Award. Her 10th and 11th novels are due in August and December. Maritsa Georgiou (National Correspondent @Newsy) Maritsa Georgiou is a national correspondent for Newsy after years as an anchor at NBC Montana where she specialized in COVID-19, politics and wildfire coverage. She’s most widely known for her reporting on the planned removal of USPS blue collection boxes before the 2020 election, which earned her the 2021 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism. Maritsa lives in Missoula with her husband and son, and has countless relatives across the great state of Montana. She is a fierce believer that one person can make a difference and everyone should try.

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