Llewellyn King is the creator, executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle,” a weekly news and public affairs program,now in its 17th year on PBS.
The program also airs on public, educational and government cable access television stations, and on Voice of America Television. Episodes can be viewed on the program’s Web site, whchronicle.com. An audio version of “White House Chronicle” airs weekends on SiriusXM Satellite Radio’s P.O.T.U.S. (Politics of the United States) Channel 124. King is also a regular commentator on P.O.T.U.S.
In addition to broadcasting, King writes a weekly column for the Hearst-New York Times Syndicate and The Huffington Post.
In 2006, University Press of America published a collection of his columns,“Washington and The World 2001-2005.” The columns mainly appeared in Knight-Ridder newspapersincluding The Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee, The St. Paul Pioneer Press, The Kansas City Star, The Charlotte Observer and The Columbus Dispatch.
King was the founding editor-in-chief and publisher of The Energy Daily. The energy industry newsletter, created before the energy crisis broke out in 1973, was the flagship of his award-winning King Publishing Group, which he sold in 2006. The group’s other titles included Defense Week, New Technology Week, Navy News & Undersea Technology and White House Weekly.
Over the years, King’s insightful reporting and analysis of energy has led to frequent guest spots on TV news shows, including NBC’s “Meet the Press” and PBS’s “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” and CNN.
King’s remarkable career in journalism began in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, where he was hired,at age 16, as a foreign correspondent for Time magazine. He also reported from Africa for London’s Daily Express and News Chronicle and United Press.
Moving to London in 1959, King worked as an executive for The Daily Mirror Group, a reporter for Associated Newspapers, and a news writer for BBC and ITN.Then moving to the United States in the 1960s, King worked as an editor and reporter for The New York Herald Tribune, The Baltimore News-American, The Washington Daily News and The Washington Post.
A stint at McGraw-Hill’s Nucleonics Week led to his founding The Energy Daily. But it wasn’t King’s first trailblazing publication; his first was Women Now, a monthly magazine targeted to emerging professional women in the 1960s. “It didn’t liberate any women, but it liberated all my money,” King quips.
Before creating “White House Chronicle,” King and his wife, Linda Gasparello, co-hosted “The Bull and The Bear,” a daily stock market program that aired on the GoodLife and Jones cable television networks in the mid-1990s.
King has given more than 2,000 speeches; he is an erudite commentator on energy, foreign affairs, Congress and the White House, small business, science, technology and journalism. He has organized more than 1,000 conferences on issues ranging from nuclear energy to land mine removal, Social Security and campaign finance.
For his longtime contribution to the understanding of science and technology, King received an honorary doctorate in engineering from The Stevens Institute of Technology. He has received hundreds of energy industry awards, and most recently the United States Energy Association’s 2014 Award.
King likes things that move : light airplanes, boats and horses.
(BGF) – On October 3, 2014, the BGF Global Art Competition Executive Director, Dr. Elliot Salloway, announced the contest’s winners during the conference in the Loeb House at Harvard University.
The 2014 competition is open to all people in all countries over the world. It called all artists to submit original artwork in the form of photography or multimedia that answers the question: “Can Wars between nations be prevented” – with particular reference to the issues between Vietnam/Japan/Philippines and China.
The virtual contest took place via Instagram and was judged by the world community in addition to a panel of international jurors based on the criteria of creativity, composition, theme, technique, and issue impact.
The Jury Committee include:
MARY HARVEY,PHD., Executive Director, Violence Transformed, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School
HOPE RICCIARDI, United South End Artists, Co-Chair, SOWA Artists Guild
JONATHAN SHIRLAND,PHD, Assistant Professor of Art, Bridgewater State College, Visual Arts Director, Violence Transformed
Below is the winners:
Video of Peaceful morning in Sapa, Vietnam by Nguyen Ngoc Duong
And 10 photograph winners:
Artist: Bruce Fiene from USA (Photo was taken in Cuba)
Artist: Bruce Fiene from USA (Photo was taken in Cuba)
Artist: Pavel Terentyev from Latvia
Artist: Phap Hanh from Vietnam
Artist: Manuel Schroeder from Germany
Artist: Dang Mau Triet from Vietnam
Artist: Ta Hai from Vietnam
Artist: Atsue Imayoshi from Japan
Artist: Bruce Fiene from USA (Photo was taken in Ukraine)
During the Boston Global Forum Conference on Global Media and Cyber-Terrorism on October 3, Joshua W. Haines, the Group Leader in the Cyber Systems and Operations at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, shared the work of his group research in helping people understand and describe the challenges of cybersecurity so that we can make a solution against them effectively.
Watch his speech here.
Mr. Joshua W. Haines is the Group Leader in the Cyber Systems and Operations Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He is responsible for managing research and development of technology and systems in support of national cyber missions including defensive and offensive cyber operations.
Boston, MA (October 3, 2014) – The world is being transformed by the power of social media, for good and for ill. In Hong Kong, pro-democracy protestors are using Firechat to organize In high schools, Yik Yak, an anonymous gossip app is being used to cyber bully. What new global media, is having the most positive effect?
The Boston Global Forum today announced that it wants the publics nominations for the most outstanding media products that have contributed to the betterment of society in the past year. What platform do you think will have the most positive impact in the year to come?
The announcement was made today at Loeb House, Harvard University during a Boston Global Forum Conference . The winners will be announced in January of 2015 in Boston.
The new Global Media Awards will honor achievements in three categories;
(1) Best Connectivity Platform
(2) Best Content Production
(3) Best Cyber Security Products
Members of the public can submit nominations through the Boston Global Forum website.
Once the nominating process closes, a jury, made up of Boston Global Forum leaders, will make the final decisions.
The jury committee includes:
Forum chairman, Governor Michael Dukakis
Harvard Professor Thomas Patterson
Harvard Professor John Quelch
Dean of the College of Communications at Boston University, Professor Thomas Fiedler
Forum Editor-in-Chief, Nguyen Anh Tuan
Member of Forum Editorial Board, Barry Nolan
Member of Forum Editorial Board, Dick Pirozzolo
Former CEO of Turner Broadcasting Systems, Phil Kent
Detailed criteria
Best Connectivity Platform–this product will have a positive effect on society by successfully connecting people from around the world.
Best Content Production–this product will positively influence or affect the way people receive information, make the world more peaceful, prosperous, and humane. The product can be from any realm; radio, television, internet, print media, blogs; etc.
Best Cyber Security Products –this prize will be broken into three sections – awarding the products that make the most significant contributions to protecting online activities. The three subcategories are:
– Best solution to protect against Denial of Service (DOS), Website censorship, etc
– Best solution to protect stealing information, account theft, etc
TIME: 3:00 – 5:30 PM, Friday, October 3, 2014 VENUE: Loeb House, Harvard University, 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
MODERATOR:Governor Michael Dukakis – Co-Founder, Chairman, Boston Global Forum
AGENDA
3:00 PM – OPENING REMARKS AND INITIAL FRAMING OF 2015 TOPIC by Governor Michael Dukakis – Co-Founder, Chairman, Boston Global Forum
3:05 PM – Speech of Madam Vaira Vike-Freiberga – Member of Board of Thinkers, Boston Global Forum; President of Club de Madrid; Former President of Latvia
3:15 PM – Speech of Anders Corr – Principal of Corr Analytics, Inc.
3:25 PM – Speech of Joshua W. Haines – Leader, Cyber Systems and Operations Group, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
3:35 PM – Speech of Robert K. Gardner – Founding member, New World Technology Partners
3:45 PM – Speech of Llewellyn King – Member, Boston Global Forum Editorial Board; Co-Host and Executive Producer of PBS White House Chronicle, a weekly news and public affairs program
3:55 PM – Speech of Professor Thomas E. Patterson – Co-Founder, Member of Board of Thinkers, Boston Global Forum; Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Harvard Kennedy School
4:00 PM – Speech of Ryan Ellis – Postdoctoral Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
4:05 PM – General Discussion
4:20 PM – Announcement of Creation of BGF Global Media Awards (Its purpose, eligibility, criteria, selection process) by Professor Thomas Patterson – Co-Founder, Member of Board of Thinkers, Boston Global Forum; Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Harvard Kennedy School
4:22 PM – Announcement of Creation of Boston Global Museum of Internet Time by Governor Michael Dukakis – Co-Founder, Chairman, Boston Global Forum
4:25 PM – Announcement of Final Results of Cyber Art Competition by Dr. Elliot Salloway – Chief Operation Officer, Boston Global Forum
4:35 PM – Speech of Madam Vaira Vike-Freiberga – Member of Board of Thinkers, Boston Global Forum; President of Club de Madrid; Former President of Latvia
4:40 PM – CLOSING REMARKS by Governor Michael Dukakis – Co-Founder, Chairman, Boston Global Forum
(BGF) – The Boston Global Forum is pleased to have its Distinguished Lecture delivered by the former Latvia’s President, Madam Vaira Vike-Freiberga, in the morning of October 3, 2014. The topic of the talk is the Forum’s focus throughout 2014, which is to build a Framework for peace and security in the Pacific. The issue has been attracting participation and supports of several policymakers, scholars, researchers and business leaders into discussion.
Photo Credit: Madam Vaira Vike-Freiberga, the former Latvia’s President, and Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, the Boston Global Forum Editor-in-Chief.
The event is one of the Forum’s Leader Series activities which features talks with the most remarkable figures in their respective fields, and be anchored by Llewellyn King, member of the Forum Editorial Board, executive producer and host of PBS White House Chronicle
(BGF) – The Boston Global Forum is pleased to announce that the next installment of the BGF Leader Series will be taken place at 9:00 AM (EST) on Friday, October 3, 2014 and will be delivered by the former President of Latvia, Madam Vaira Vike-Freiberga.
The lecture will be live-streamed at www.bostonglobalforum.org
Dr. Vaira Vike-Freiberga, former President of Latvia will deliver her speech on building a Framework for Peace and Security in the Pacific, a focus of the Boston Global Forum in 2014 which has attracted attention and interest by several scholar, policymakers, business leaders.
Please attend at bostonglobalforum.org and send your questions to [email protected].
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: FRAMEWORK FOR PEACE AND SECURITY IN THE PACIFIC
Time: 9:00 AM (EST), Friday, October 3, 2014
Location: live-stream at bostonglobalforum.org
Anchor:
Llewellyn King – Member of Editorial Board, Boston Global Forum; executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle,” a PBS’s weekly news and public affairs program.
Featured Speaker:
Madam Vaira Vike-Freiberga – Member of Boston Global Forum Board of Thinkers; President of the Club of Madrid and former President of Latvia (1999-2007)
Dr. Vaira Vike-Freiberga is President of the Club of Madrid and former President of Latvia (1999-2007). She was instrumental in achieving membership in the European Union and NATO for her country, and was Special Envoy on UN reform among her international activities. Since 2007, she is an oft invited speaker on social issues, moral values, and democracy. She was Vice-chair of the Reflection group on the long term future of Europe, and chaired the High-level group on freedom and pluralism of media in the EU.
Having left Latvia as a child refugee to Germany in 1945, then French Morocco and Canada, she earned a Ph.D. in psychology (1965) at McGill University. After a distinguished career as Professor at the University of Montreal, she returned to her native country in 1998 to head the Latvian Institute.A year later she was elected President by the Latvian Parliament and re-elected in 2003.
She is member of four Academies, and Board member or patron of 30 international organizations, including the Board of Thinkers of the Boston Global Forum. She has received many highest Orders of Merit, as well as medals and awards, for distinguished work in the humanities and social sciences. She has published 14 books and authored over 200 articles, book chapters, reports, and audiovisual materials.
Co-Founder; Chairman of The Board of Directors and Board of Thinkers, The Boston Global Forum. Democratic Party Nominee for President of the United States, 1988. Distinguished Professor J.D., Harvard University
Michael Stanley Dukakis was born in Brookline, Massachusetts to Greek immigrant parents. He attended Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School and served in the United States Army from 1955-1957, sixteen months of which was with the support group to the U.S. delegation to the Military Armistice Commission in Korea.
He served eight years as a member of the Massachusetts legislature and was elected governor of Massachusetts three times. He was the Democratic nominee for the presidency in 1988.
Since 1991 he has been a distinguished professor of political science at Northeastern University in Boston, and since 1996 visiting professor of public policy during the winter quarter at UCLA in Los Angeles. He is chairman of Boston Global Forum.
He is married to the former Kitty Dickson. They have three children—John, Andrea and Kara—and eight grandchildren.
Robert Desimone is director of the McGovern Institute and the Doris and Don Berkey Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before joining MIT, in 2004, he was director of the Intramural Research Program at the National Institutes of Mental Health, the largest mental-health research center in the world. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of numerous awards, including the Troland Prize of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Golden Brain Award of the Minerva Foundation.
