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EXPERT ALERTS

• How U.S. History Would Have Changed Had President Bush Chosen Colin Powell as VP
• Journalists in the Face of Danger
• Hurricane Katrina, 10 Years Later: What We've Learned

MEDIA JOBS

• Writer – Vox (DC)
• Freelance Reporter – Kentucky Today (KY)
• Reporter – Navarre Press (FL)

OTHER NEWS & RESOURCES

• Numb With Disbelief: Newsrooms Feel Impact of WDBJ Shooting
• The Blog Blog: How to Make Graphics on Your Phone
• First-Time Speaker: Four Tips to Build Your Speaking Career

EXPERT ALERTS:

How U.S. History Would Have Forever Changed Had President Bush Chosen Colin Powell as VP
Harlan Ullman
Chair
The Killowen Group
"In the shadow of the Sept. 11 anniversary, was America's response inevitable? Consider George H.W. Bush, America's 41st president, and George W. Bush, the 43rd president. Suppose either had picked a different vice president. Think how that might have altered history, especially if both presidents had been led to the same choice. In 1992, former Secretary of Defense and Energy and CIA Director James Schlesinger suggested that Bush pick Colin Powell as his new vice president (replacing Dan Quayle). Quayle had never recovered from the battering he took in the October vice presidential debate against Senator Lloyd Bentsen from Texas. Whether Powell would have accepted or his vice presidency would have overcome Perot's 19% take of the vote is unknowable. Vice presidents rarely affect the general election, although Lyndon Johnson did deliver Texas to JFK. But a Bush 41 second term would clearly have altered his successors and who might have been in charge in 2001. Suppose that in 2000, George W. Bush had picked Powell as his vice president instead of Dick Cheney. Powell also would have brought the necessary foreign and national security experience to the White House, including two tours in combat in Vietnam where he had once been wounded in action. Had Powell been vice president, the post-Sept. 11 response to the al Qaeda attacks could have been far different. It is exceedingly unlikely that Bush would have chosen to intervene in Iraq in March 2003, as Powell was never in favor of that decision."
Based in Washington, D.C., Ullman is a former naval officer with combat commands in the Vietnam War and later in the Persian Gulf. He chairs The Killowen Group, which advises leaders of government and business at the highest levels, including presidential candidates here and abroad, through a brains-based approach to strategic thinking. Since the 1980s, he has developed a reputation as a strategic thought leader and thinker in the public and private sectors. He is known for the doctrine of shock and awe and sits on advisory boards for the Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Commander US Forces Europe. Currently a senior advisor to the Atlantic Council and Business Executives for National Security, he was a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the National Defense University and professor of military strategy at the National War College. A student and practitioner of global economies, he writes often on the financial crises in UPI and other media, and sits on the boards of both private and public companies in the high-tech and financial services sectors. His latest book is "A Handful of Bullets--How the Murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Still Menaces the Peace." He can discuss: why American government is broken and how to fix it; a brains-based approach to strategic thinking; handicapping the qualifications of presidential candidates on both sides; why we lose every war we start, and how to change that.
Website: http://harlanullman.net
Contact: Ryan McCormick, [email protected]

Journalists in the Face of Danger
Barbara Barnett
Associate Professor of Journalism
University of Kansas
"Journalists have sometimes been called the 'first responders' in disasters. They are the people who head toward dangerous situations, who cover natural disasters, mass shootings and combat. But in this case, the journalists who were killed weren't going into harm's way. They were not covering a violent event; they became victims in a violent event. This was unexpected, and the colleagues who worked with these reporters, as well as their families and loved ones, will struggle to make sense of how this could happen in what was supposed to be a peaceful setting. Sadly, shootings are too common in the United States."
Professor Barnett can discuss journalists in the face of danger, those who choose to cover danger and the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder on journalists. She has studied trauma and journalists and has shared her research in journalists and PTSD with the U.S. State Department and co-led a program at the U.S. Army's Fort Leavenworth that helps to increase understanding between the military and the media. 
Contact: Mike Krings, [email protected]

Hurricane Katrina, 10 Years Later: What We've Learned
Erik A. Larsen, MD, FACEP
Medical Director, Katrina Disaster Response
National Disaster Medical System
When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Dr. Larsen was in charge of the medical response team treating storm victims at a make-shift field hospital at the airport. Dr. Larsen can describe the human tragedy he witnessed, as well as how different the medical response might be today 10 years after the storm: "Thousands of seriously ill and injured Katrina victims had been helicopter plucked from rooftops and brought by every imaginable vehicle/boat to NO(Louis Armstrong) International Airport, where we NDMS/DMAT treated/stabilized and then were put onto huge military aircraft and flown all over America to operational hospitals/facilities not directly affected by the storm. Tracking of those people was a very difficult challenge both for their care and trying to reunite them with their loved ones." He explains that better patient tracking is available today: "Coming up with a system that tracks/follows a disaster victim/patient from the very beginning of their first contact with health care providers -- whether first responders and paramedics, Disaster Medical System Teams, RNs, MDs, hospitals, you name it -- to their final destination/facility is a priority. Additionally, you need to track care given to them along the way."
Dr. Larsen's "day job" is associate director of the emergency department at White Plains Hospital. As chief medical officer for the federal government's Region 2 National Disaster Medical System, Dr. Larsen plays a vital role in protecting this country. He served as chief medical officer at President Obama's 2013 inauguration, the 2013 Super Bowl, and the 2013 and 2014 opening sessions of the U.N. General Assembly, prepared to lead the medical response team if the unthinkable happened. He is also on the executive board of NYC Medics (an NGO disaster medical relief organization).
Contact: Jeannie Ashford, [email protected]

MEDIA JOBS:

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• Writer – Vox (DC)
• Freelance Reporter – Kentucky Today (KY)
• Reporter – Navarre Press (FL)

OTHER NEWS & RESOURCES:

Following are links to other news and resources we think you might find useful. If you have an item you think other reporters would be interested in and would like us to include in a future alert, please drop us a line.

• NUMB WITH DISBELIEF: NEWSROOMS FEEL IMPACT OF WDBJ SHOOTING. The shooting of WDBJ reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward during a routine live shot last week left the country speechless. For journalists, particularly TV reporters who work daily in the field, their brutal death was personal. Reporters share their thoughts about the shooting and about newsroom safety: http://prn.to/1PJjnVX
• THE BLOG BLOG: HOW TO MAKE GRAPHICS ON YOUR PHONE. Our time is so precious these days -- every second counts. Why not boost your productivity by creating graphics from your phone in your down time? Here are tips on how to use two apps to help you create graphics for your blog: VSCOcam and Kanvas: http://prn.to/1WSKfIC
• FIRST-TIME SPEAKER: FOUR TIPS TO BUILD YOUR SPEAKING CAREER. If you've wanted to build your speaking career but aren't sure where to start, you're not alone. Most entrepreneurs and authors who aren't doing speaking engagements are not always sure where to start either. Here are four tips to help you start: http://prn.to/1LwAUQs

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