Barry Petersen Speaking Fee: $20,000 to $30,000
Travels From:
DEN - Denver, CO
Primary Topic Category:
Journalists / News Media / Global Outlook / Current Events
Secondary Topic Category:
Inspiration / Motivation / Overcoming Obstacles
Barry Petersen Speaker Profile: At A Glance
Barry Petersen is an Emmy Award-winning journalist with decades of experience covering global events. As a CBS News correspondent, he has reported from war zones, covered major political shifts, and interviewed world leaders. His book "Jan’s Story" offers a deeply personal look at Alzheimer’s disease, drawing from his own experience as a caregiver. With a career spanning conflicts, natural disasters, and human-interest stories, Petersen brings firsthand insight into the realities of journalism and global affairs. His compelling storytelling and on-the-ground perspective make him a powerful and engaging speaker.
Related Speakers
Bob Woodruff
ABC News Correspondent | Co-Founder of the Bob Woodruff Foundation | Advocate for Veterans and TBI Awareness | Inspirational Speaker on Resilience and Overcoming Adversity
Bob Woodruff is an ABC News correspondent renowned for his international reporting and resilience. He survived a life-threatening injury in Iraq in 2006 and went on to co-found the Bob Woodruff Foundation, which supports injured service members and their families. Woodruff's inspiring story of recovery and his dedication to journalism and veteran advocacy make him a compelling and influential speaker.
Jonathan Capehart
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist, Associate Editor for the Washington Post, and Television Personality
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jonathan Capehart is known for his insightful, hard-hitting reporting and writing and witty commentary. He is associate editor of The Washington Post, where he writes a weekly column focusing on the intersection of social and cultural issues and politics, hosts the Post’s “Capehart” podcast and live roundtable show “First Look,” which is also streamed on “The Choice MSNBC” on Comcast’s Peacock streaming service. He is also an MSNBC contributor and anchor of The Saturday Show & The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart, and a regular PBS NewsHour contributor.
Matt Gutman
ABC News’s Chief National Correspondent
Matt Gutman is ABC News’s chief national correspondent. A multi-award winning reporter, Gutman contributes regularly to World News Tonight with David Muir, 20/20, Good Morning America, and Nightline. He has reported from fifty countries across the globe and is the author of The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.
Ted Fishman
Author & Economist
Ted C. Fishman's bestselling book China, Inc., How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World, has helped describe for the world the effects of China's momentous change on the lives and businesses of people everywhere. Fishman has testified before Senate and Congressional committees and commissions and consults on China with a wide range of government officials, including some of the America's most influential office holders.
Katty Kay
U.S. Special Correspondent for BBC Studios, Award-Winning Journalist & Best-Selling Author
Katty Kay is an award-winning journalist and news anchor who brings an instinctively global perspective to her observations on American politics and global affairs. During her nearly 30 years with BBC News, she was a reporter and then news anchor, bringing important news from America and around the world to a huge global audience. From her studio in Washington, D.C. Katty has reported on six U.S. presidential elections, national and global politics, and is a passionate women's rights advocate.
Shereen Marisol Meraji
Founder of NPR's Code Switch, Journalist, Educator
Shereen Marisol Meraji grew up in a Puerto Rican and Iranian home where no one spoke in hushed tones, and where the rhythms and cadences of life inspired her story pitches and storytelling style. As a young producer, Shereen found herself in the midst of a wave of demographic changes that she was poised to report on. Today, she’s an award-winning journalist and co-founder of the pre-eminent podcast about race and identity in America, NPR’s Code Switch: the only podcast about race that's talking about all of us: our histories, how we're represented, the ways we work together and against each other.
Ari Melber
Anchor, The Beat with Ari Melber Weeknights & Chief Legal Correspondent, MSNBC
Ari Melber is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, news anchor, writer and attorney. He anchors The Beat with Ari Melber on MSNBC, which draws the largest audience for any 6pm show in MSNBC’s history, and serves as the network’s Chief Legal Correspondent, reporting across all platforms, including MSNBC, NBC News, The Today Show and NBC Nightly News. Melber received a 2016 Emmy Award for his reporting on the Supreme Court.
Rick Steves
Leading Authority On European Travel
Rick Steves is a popular public television host, a best-selling guidebook author, and an outspoken activist who encourages Americans to broaden their perspectives through travel. He is the founder and owner of Rick Steves' Europe, a travel business with a tour program that brings more than 30,000 people to Europe annually. Rick lives and works in his hometown of Edmonds, Washington, where his office window overlooks his old junior high school.
Gene Demby
Co-Host/Correspondent, Code Switch
Gene Demby is a founding member of NPR’s race, ethnicity and culture team, Code Switch. He serves as the blog's "host," starting and moderating conversations across an array of platforms. Before NPR, he served as the managing editor for Huffington Post's BlackVoices following its launch. He later covered politics. Prior to that role he spent six years in various positions at The New York Times. While at NYT, he started a blog about race, culture, politics and media called PostBourgie in 2007.
