An incomplete list, in no particular order, of some highlights from my first full year hosting “Reliable Sources…”
(And here’s the complete 2014 guest list.)
Speaking with Chuck Todd as he prepared to take over “Meet The Press…” Glenn Greenwald after his Pulitzer win… Sharyl Attkisson after she resigned from CBS… Rep. Mike Rogers after he announced a radio deal… a UVA rape victim after Rolling Stone’s “Rape on Campus” story fell apart…
Interviewing two journalist eyewitnesses to executions… a correspondent and photojournalist who shot incredible scenes in Iraq… a reporter who questioned Bill Cosby about sexual assault allegations… a radical Muslim cleric who was later arrested… and the Ferguson protester behind an iconic image…
Scrutinizing the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger with Senator Al Franken, the head of the public interest group Free Press, and the business editor of BuzzFeed…
Sitting across from the founder of Aereo right before its pivotal Supreme Court hearing, and Barry Diller right after…
Visiting chief content officer Ted Sarandos at Netflix HQ…
…and Robin Roberts at “Good Morning America…”
…and Glenn Beck at his studio in Texas…
Scoring W.H. press secretary Josh Earnest’s first Sunday show interview…
Interviewing a reporter in an Ebola self-quarantine… the man who helped coordinate Michael Sam’s coming-out interviews… the parents of a jailed Al Jazeera journalist… and Brent Bozell AND David Brock…
Booking presidents and CEOs: of CBS Corporation, The Associated Press, the Pew Research Center, the National Urban League…
Highlighting the case of Bowe Bergdahl 3 months before he was freed…
Interviewing Robert Redford at Sundance…
Rejoining my NYT colleague Bill Carter for a conversation about late night…
…And Tim Arango for a conversation about overheated coverage of ISIS…
…and David Carr on Rupert Murdoch’s bid for Time Warner…
Talking with Ryan Reilly about being arrested in Ferguson… Mark Landler about questioning the president of China… Deborah Norville about TV comings and goings… “Page One” director Andrew Rossi about documentary-making… Christopher Ruddy about creating a Fox News competitor…
Sharing the screen with CNN greats like Anderson Cooper, Christiane Amanpour, and Chris Cuomo…
And getting Larry King on the phone, twice…
Asking if the press has learned anything since the 2003 invasion of Iraq and saying that some journalists “are letting their fears get the best of them…”
Pairing a V.A. whistleblower AND the CNN correspondent who believed him… Bush and Obama press secretaries… two generations of women in television news… two generations of hard-nosed investigative journalists… a Weather Channel co-founder and the current CEO of the company…
For aspiring journalists: on distinguishing between real news and forgeries online… on informing without overhyping… on regaining Americans’ trust… on having to call victims’ families… on journalism and patriotism in wartime…
Then there was Joanna Coles about #YesAllWomen…
Ken Auletta about Jill Abramson’s firing…
Carl Bernstein on “-gate” overuse…
FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel on “net neutrality…”
Jorge Ramos on point-of-view journalism…
Daniel Ellsberg about Edward Snowden…
Nancy O’Dell about the legacy of Joan Rivers…
Dan Rather about ISIS and threats against journalists…
Donna Rice Hughes on Monica Lewinsky’s comeback…
James Risen on how we’ve “let ourselves become terrorized…”
Jeremy Renner on playing a reporter…
Dan Pfeiffer on the modern media age…
Neil deGrasse Tyson on “Cosmos…”
Mark Cuban on the Sony cyber-attack…
and hopefully many more in 2015.