Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Politics 2008: The Media Conference for the Election of the President Monday, October 13 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Session II Media and Power: Establishing the National Dialogue – From TV News, Newspapers and Information Programming to the Broadband and Social Networks Rome Hartman, Executive Producer, BBC World News America, former Executive Producer of The CBS Evening News Michael Oreskes, Managing Editor for U.S. News, Associated Press, former executive editor, International Herald Tribune David Bohrman, SVP, Washington Bureau Chief and Executive Producer of CNN’s Election Programming Mike Allen, Chief Political Correspondent, Politico Joel Sucherman, Executive Producer, USAToday Tuna N. Amobi, Director, Consumer Discretionary, Media & Entertainment, Standard & Poor's Equity Research, Moderator Rome Hartman, Executive Producer, BBC World News America, former Executive Producer of The CBS Evening News: Rome Hartman joined the BBC from CBS News where, from November 2005 through March 2007, he was Executive Producer of CBS Evening News and oversaw the launch of CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. Prior to joining that program, Hartman was an award-winning and prolific producer on 60 Minutes where he produced more than 100 reports, a figure reached by only four other producers in the 37-year history of the show. Hartman also served as the senior producer responsible for 60 Minutes II from January to early September 2005. Before his 60 Minutes tenure, Hartman was the senior producer for CBS Evening News in Washington, D.C. (1989-91) and CBS News’ White House producer (1986-89). He first joined CBS News in 1983 as a field producer in the Atlanta bureau. Hartman was born in West Palm Beach. He graduated from Duke University in 1977 with a degree in political science. He lives in Bethesda, Md., with his wife and two sons. Michael Oreskes, AP Managing Editor for U.S. News, oversees domestic news from The Associated Press, from state bureaus to national political coverage, for both U.S. and world audiences. Oreskes joined the AP in July, 2008 after serving as executive editor of the International Herald Tribune for the past three years. Previously, he was deputy managing editor of The New York Times, supervising television and Internet content. During this period, he won three Emmy awards and a DuPont award for documentary television. From 1997 to 2001, Oreskes was Washington bureau chief for the Times, and previously served as national political correspondent, metropolitan editor and city editor. He started with the Times in 1981, as a metropolitan correspondent. Before that Oreskes worked for the Daily News in New York City. He is a graduate of City College of New York. Oreskes is the author of the book "The Genius of America," which examines the role of the constitution in modern political life. Published in September 2007, the paperback version is due out in October. Mike Allen is the chief political correspondent for Politico. He comes to us from Time magazine where he was their White House correspondent. Prior to that, Allen spent six years at The Washington Post, where he covered President Bush's first term, Capitol Hill, campaign finance, and the Bush, Gore and Bradley campaigns of 2000. Before turning to national politics, he covered schools and local governments in rural counties outside Fredericksburg, Va., for The Free Lance-Star, then wrote about Doug Wilder, Oliver North, Chuck Robb and the Bobbitts for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, where he nurtured police sources on overnight ride-alongs through housing projects. Allen also covered Mayor Giuliani, the Connecticut statehouse and the wacky rich of Greenwich for The New York Times. Before moving to The Times, he did stints in the Richmond and Alexandria bureaus of The Washington Post. Allen grew up in Orange County, Calif., and has a B.A. from Washington and Lee University, where he majored in politics and journalism. Tuna N. Amobi is a Director at Standard & Poor’s Equity Research Services, New York, where he heads a group of analysts covering the Media & Entertainment and several other Consumer Discretionary and related sectors. He helped create and develop the proprietary S&P Core Earnings® framework, and as a member of S&P's Analytical Policy Board, participates in key policy and investment decisions for S&P Investment Services. Tuna has been a frequent financial markets commentator on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, and BBC, and regularly quoted in Business Week, Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, to name a few. Prior to joining S&P in 2001, Tuna was a Senior Equity Research Analyst and a Portfolio Manager at Lehman Brothers, where started his Wall Street career on the global Fixed Income Derivatives desk. Earlier in his global consulting and accounting career, Tuna worked at KPMG Peat Marwick and Arthur Andersen, gaining significant international experience across some of the world’s leading emerging markets. After a B.Sc. (Accounting), Tuna qualified as a CPA (NY, NJ), with a law degree (JD), earning an MBA as well from the Strathclyde Business School, Scotland. A Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Tuna was a recently profiled in Black Enterprise Magazine, and has been named in the Wall Street Journal’s “Best of the Street” survey as a top analyst in the Media & Entertainment sector. Joel Sucherman, Executive Producer, USAToday: For almost 15 years, Mr. Sucherman has been a pioneer in the field of new media for USA TODAY. Most recently he has been the editorial lead on the redesign and re-launch of USATODAY.com, incorporating social networking tools that are more closely connecting readers with reporters and the reporting. The new site invites readers to be part of the conversation, forming a USA community around the news. A journalist with more than 20 years of experience overall, Mr. Sucherman was tasked with creating USATODAY.com’s first “Multimedia” department in 1999. He helped bring streaming audio and video to the Web site. He spearheaded USA TODAY’s multimedia coverage from the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, and the 2000 Republican and Democratic national conventions. His efforts at the political conventions, which included twice-daily live Webcasts, earned him one of USA TODAY’s highest honors, the Luminary Award. In 1992, Mr. Sucherman was an anchor/reporter for one of Gannett’s earliest forays into new media, sending news and information to wireless platforms (cell phones, pagers and handhelds). He also was one of USA TODAY’s first online columnists, writing weekly on the NFL. Prior to working for Gannett, he was White House and Congressional correspondent for a national radio bureau. Mr. Sucherman is a graduate of the University of Illinois, with a degree in broadcast journalism. David Bohrman is senior vice president and the Washington, D.C., bureau chief for CNN. In this role, Bohrman oversees newsgathering, political coverage and programming for the Washington bureau and all special events for CNN/U.S. Among his numerous programming accomplishments, one of Bohrman’s most recent creations is the unprecedented CNN/YouTube debates. Bohrman conceptualized the format, which involves direct questioning of the candidates by individuals who submit video questions. He served as executive producer for these and CNN’s other presidential primary debates. Bohrman also produces the network’s America Votes 2008 coverage, including primary and caucus nights and other specials. In addition to the YouTube debates in 2007, his election coverage innovations include reinventing how television covers political conventions: the unique “floor anchor locations” for which CNN has become known, the John King “Magic Wall,” the use of SkyCam at the Democratic Convention night at Invesco Field, and election night and primary coverage on the large video walls at CNN’s New York Headquarters in 2006 and 2008, as well as the NASDAQ Marketsite in 2004. He produced CNN’s extensive political programming leading up to CNN’s Emmy award-winning coverage of the midterm elections in 2006, including Election Night on a newly designed set in the Time Warner Center and in a Washington, D.C. coffee shop, where the Election Night Blogger Party was held. The resulting coverage was a ratings winner and critically praised. In 2005, Bohrman created The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, CNN’s daily political and hard news program. During 2004, Bohrman produced CNN's extensive coverage of “America Votes 2004,” which included special coverage of the Republican and Democratic national conventions, the presidential and vice presidential debates, Election Night and the inauguration of President George W. Bush. Bohrman was instrumental in securing CNN’s unprecedented floor access and anchor location at the Democratic National Convention, and he was the executive producer for the network’s Election Night coverage headquartered at the NASDAQ Marketsite in Times Square. In addition, he produced the 2002 election for CNN and the network’s live coverage of the funerals of Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II. Bohrman created and served as senior executive producer of NewsNight with Aaron Brown, a position he assumed when he returned to CNN in summer 2001. There, he produced all of the New York portion of CNN’s award-winning live coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He also oversaw hundreds of hours of live war coverage during the lead-up to and early part of the War in Iraq. Bohrman previously served as executive vice president of CNNfn, overseeing production of the network’s 18 hours of weekday business programming until November 2000 when he left to be the CEO of Pseudo Inc., the world’s first interactive Internet television network. Bohrman joined CNN in February 1998 as executive in charge of the Moneyline News Hour. As executive producer, Bohrman was responsible for expanding the program to an hour-long format, which resulted in a ratings increase of 20 percent in its first six months. As a nearly 30-year veteran of broadcast news, Bohrman has covered some of the most memorable events on television. Before joining CNN, Bohrman was executive producer of NBC News’ specials and special events from 1993 to 1997. In this capacity, he oversaw all coverage of breaking news and events. In addition, Bohrman produced such specials as “Decision 94” election coverage and the state funerals for Richard Nixon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Also, for the NBC News cable venture MSNBC, Bohrman was responsible for creating two of that network’s original programs, The Site and Imus in the Morning. Prior to working at NBC, Bohrman spent 13 years at ABC News. From 1991 to 1993, he was the executive producer of World News Now, the network’s first foray into overnight news coverage. Bohrman continued his role as executive producer when World News Now merged with World News This Morning and Good Morning America News in 1992. He was also a principal creator and executive producer of ABC News InterActive from 1988 to 1991. For several years, he served as senior producer of ABC News Special Events, playing key roles in coverage of the Persian Gulf War, several political conventions and coverage of most major breaking stories. From 1982 to 1984, Bohrman was broadcast producer and senior producer of World News Tonight. As a senior producer for Nightline – and part of the venerable program’s original team – Bohrman managed the New York staff and coordinated most of the show’s live and often ground-breaking remotes. During his three decades in broadcasting, Bohrman has been recognized for his excellence in journalism through numerous honors, including several Emmy awards, the Christopher award, a Los Angeles Press Club award, Golden Mike awards, the Arthur Ashe award and two honors recognizing achievement in new media, the MacUser and the SuperStacks awards. He served as senior producer of Nightline when the program received Dupont, Polk and Peabody Awards. In 1982, Bohrman was recognized by People magazine as the youngest senior producer in network news. Bohrman simultaneously earned a bachelor of arts degree in French and a bachelor of science in physical science from Stanford University and later earned a master’s of science in journalism from Columbia University. Live TV : Ustream