Bob Losure

Biography

Election 2012
Former CNN Headline News anchor, correspondent, author, and two-time cancer survivor Bob Losure continues to be in demand in 2011 as motivational speaker, emcee, and spokesman for companies including Delta Airlines, Mercedes-Benz, RadioShack, BellSouth, OfficeMax, the IT Asset Management Association, and the Outdoor Advertising Association of America. In recent years they've used his on-stage skills to interview top newsmakers including Delta C-E-O Richard Anderson, Walter Cronkite, Donald Trump, G-E Chairman Jeffrey Immelt, and political strategist James Carville.

In September, 2010, Bob traveled to Atlanta and Delta Airlines headquarters to moderate a televised 90-minute Q & A session featuring top Delta Airlines executives and over 200 Delta flight attendants. The five-camera webcast, viewed by Delta employees in Atlanta, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York, and L.A., was in preparation for a union vote by 20,000 Delta flight attendants worldwide.

In October, 2010, he served in three roles at the IT Asset Managers Association National Convention in Nashville, introducing speakers, keynoting, and doing on-camera interviews with top members of the association.

Over the past two years, Bob served as moderator of a two-hour global warming debate at in Tucson for 10 chapters of the Chicago-area Young President's Organization, and posed questions to top-selling members of the JC Bamford organization worldwide with live interviews on-stage at The Venetian in Las Vegas.

In 2010 he gave his 200th keynote speech on winning his personal battle against testicular cancer in a dramatic evening presentation before cancer survivors at Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah, Georgia. In 1985 Bob had multiple operations and sessions of chemotherapy to survive and take a seat in the anchor chair at CNN Headline News in Atlanta. His story of never giving up has been told to some of the most prestigious cancer groups in the nation, including M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and Provena St. Joseph's Medical Center in suburban Chicago.

During his career at CNN, Bob filed live reports from the scene of the Loma Prieta earthquake in San Francisco, Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega's capture and return to Miami, the deadly Avianca Airliner crash on Long Island, and Nelson Mandela's historic visit to Atlanta. Working for the prestigious Dyson and Dyson real estate firm in 2006 in San Diego, he anchored the first daily internet-based TV real estate news program. The show reached viewers worldwide through Yahoo.com, and Bob has continued to do special projects for Dyson in 2011.

Publications

Five Seconds to Air: Broadcast Journalism Behind the Scenes

Former CNN Headline News anchorman Bob Losure loosens his newscaster`s tie for a candid and humorous look at what can and will go wrong when you`re doing live television, in his new book, Five Seconds To Air: Broadcast Journalism Behind the Scenes, published by Hilisboro Press and now on many bookstore shelves nationwide.

Losure draws on 30 years experience in broadcasting, from his beginnings in his hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, to CKLW Radio in the Motor City at age 22, and finally to anchoring at CNN Headline News, known in its early days as the Chicken Noodle Network.

Losure has some fascinating behind-the-scenes stories to tell, all chronicled in the book -- barging unannounced with a live crew into Tina Turner`s dressing room chatting with a pajama-clad Ted Turner in the middle of the night at the old CNN facilities watching fellow CNN Headline News anchor Don Harrison narrowly escape broadcasting disaster when told to read a bulletin that President Bush had died, only to find out later that the source was an institutionalized mental patient calling from a pay phone being on the wrong side of the microphone when Ed Bradley spars with him on 60 Minutes over of some controversial John F. Kennedy documents.

On a more serious note, Five Seconds to Air relates Losure`s uneasy departure from CNN after eleven years and gives his uncompromising view of where CNN should be headed. The book describes his fight through three surgeries and three sessions of chemotherapy to win a battle against cancer in 1985, a victory that propelled him to seek the CNN job. Seen around the world, his reporting of such history-making events as the San Francisco earthquake, Manuel Noriega`s capture, and Nelson MandeIa`s visit to America has given him a level of experience few national and international anchors have been privileged to have.

Titles

Who Will Win the 2012 Presidential Race?
...Get the Latest From A Man Who Upholds the Tradition of an Unbiased Journalist, Former National News Anchor Bob Losure...
Bob Losure has spent over 25 years in the media spotlight, moderating gubernatorial and congressional debates, and asking the tough questions to politicians who say one thing and do another. Bob`s keynote gives an up-to-the-minute assessment of where the Presidential polls stand, and a look at what Americans are worried about leading right up to the election.

Bob gives you his no-holds-barred opinion on which news organizations, which reporters, which anchors carry hidden agendas, which ones are in the hip-pocket of "their" candidates, and which ones are truly probing beneath all the hype to get the real stories.

Lights... Camera... Cancer!
Bob gives audiences a heartfelt look at his own battle with testicular cancer, the same disease that almost claimed the life of world-renowned cyclist Lance Armstrong. Bob not only conquered the disease, he convinced CNN management that he had "the right stuff" and moved into the CNN anchor chair just three months after recovering from chemotherapy.

How Cable News is Fighting For Viewers
Bob takes a one-hour look at how Bill O`Reilly, Piers Morgan, and Chris Matthews are giving a hard edge to opinion-driven news, and polarizing an American public that's increasingly turning to the Internet.