Editor, Global Journalist
Lee Hills Chair in Free-Press Studies in the Missouri School of Journalism and editor of Global Journalist, a magazine for the international news business; former staffer at CNN, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Los Angeles Times
Jailing Journalists around the World US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi is waging a hunger strike in Iran, where she's been sentenced to eight years in prison on a spying charge. In North Korea, American reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee face up to ten years of forced labor on similar charges. Around the world, there are some 125 journalists being held in prison. Missouri School of Journalism Professor Stuart Loory is editor of Global Journalist.
President Trump: US to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord Trump says he was elected to serve Pittsburgh, not Paris.
What is Trump's plan for Middle East peace? On his first foreign tour, President Trump has promised "peace" between Israel and the Palestinians. Are there any details for re-starting talks that have been stalled for the past three years?
What happens when America retreats from the world? Is President Trump taking his "America First" agenda to extremes, withdrawing the country from the international stage on trade and climate change, distancing America from its traditional allies across the Atlantic and even threatening to physically isolate the country through the building of a wall along its southern border? León Krauze guest hosts.
Ex-FBI Director Comey tells his side of the story Today, former FBI Director James Comey came close to calling the President who fired him a liar. The White House denied the claim and called it insulting, but Republican Senators did not challenge Comey’s truthfulness. Many questions remain: did the President try to obstruct a federal investigation? Later, we’ll go behind the “velvet rope” for a look at 5-Star health care for the richest Americans.