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 Tuesday, October 14 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM Keynote Roundtable Defining the American Experience - the State of the Global Superpower - How the World Sees Us - How We See the World Fareed Zakaria, GPS, CNN and editor, Newsweek International Richard Holbrooke, former, Assistant Secretary of State Christiane Amanpour, Chief International Correspondent, CNN Dan Senor, founding partner, Rosemont Capital LLC, former chief spokesperson, Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq Romesh Ratnesar, Deputy Managing Editor, TIME Wolf Blitzer, Anchor, CNN, Moderator Fareed Zakaria, GPS, CNN and editor, Newsweek International: Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International and one of the world's leading journalists and commentators, hosts Fareed Zakaria – GPS for CNN Worldwide. GPS, which stands for "Global Public Square," is a weekly global get-together focused on international topics rarely heard on American television. The program airs both on CNN/U.S. and on CNN International around the world. In addition to anchoring his weekend program, Zakaria contributes analysis to other CNN programs across CNN Worldwide. He is based in New York. Zakaria oversees all of Newsweek's editions abroad and writes a regular column on foreign affairs that appears both in the magazine and in The Washington Post. Zakaria has served as an analyst for ABC News, a roundtable member of This Week with George Stephanopoulos and host of Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria on PBS. Before joining Newsweek in October 2000, he was managing editor of Foreign Affairs, a leading journal of international politics and economics. Zakaria's new book, The Post American World, was published in May 2008 and became an immediate New York Times bestseller. He also wrote The Future of Freedom, an international bestseller published in 2003 that has been translated into about 20 languages. Zakaria has won numerous awards and been named to various lists, most recently the Prospect/Foreign Policy list of the world's 100 most important intellectuals. In 1999, Esquire magazine named him as "one of the 21 most important people of the 21st Century." He serves on the boards of Yale University, the Council of Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission and Shakespeare and Company. Zakaria earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a doctorate in political science from Harvard University. Romesh Ratnesar, deputy managing editor of TIME, works closely with managing editor Richard Stengel to oversee the day-to-day operations of the magazine. Previously, he served as a senior editor and foreign correspondent for TIME, writing and editing stories about foreign policy and diplomacy. He was named deputy managing editor in October 2007. Ratnesar has written or co-written more then 20 TIME cover stories. His cover story “The End of Cowboy Diplomacy,” published in July 2006, was hailed as marking a decisive moment of change in the Bush Administration’s military and diplomatic strategies. He has also written on the war in Iraq, global terrorism, the hunt for Osama bin Laden and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Ratnesar spent two years in London as a writer for TIME’s European edition in 2000-2001 and has reported from numerous countries around the world, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Israel, as well as the Palestinian territories. Prior to joining TIME, Ratnesar was a reporter-researcher at The New Republic. He has also written for Slate, the Washington Post, Washington Monthly, Mother Jones, Legal Affairs and Lingua Franca. He began his journalism career as an intern at TIME while still in college. With Michael Weisskopf, Ratnesar won the 2004 National Headliner Award for Magazine Reporting for TIME’s 2003 “Person of the Year” story on the American soldier. Ratnesar and Weisskopf also won several New York Press Club awards for feature writing in 2004 and spot news reporting in 2003. Ratnesar received a B.A. and M.A. in history from Stanford University and grew up in Hayward, Calif. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Christiane Amanpour, Chief International Correspondent, CNN: Christiane Amanpour is CNN’s chief international correspondent based in New York. Amanpour has reported on most crises from the world’s many news hotspots, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Somalia, Rwanda and the Balkans. Her assignments have ranged from exclusive interviews with world leaders to reporting on the human consequences of natural disasters or covering events from the heart of war zones. She has received wide acclaim and numerous awards for her work, particularly for her extensive coverage of conflicts in the Balkans, Africa and the Middle East. Amanpour’s recent work has focused on the production of a series of highly acclaimed long-form programs that have aired across the CNN networks. In 2007 she presented a six-hour series on the world’s three leading monotheistic religions and their defenders, ‘God’s Warriors’, and an in-depth examination of the growing Islamic unrest in the UK in ‘The War Within’. In 2006 Amanpour presented two outstanding award-winning documentaries, ‘Where Have All The Parents Gone?’ a powerful film examining the plight of the more than one million children orphaned to AIDS in Kenya and a two-hour exploration of the life of the world’s most wanted terrorist, ‘In the Footsteps of Bin Laden’. In addition Amanpour remains at the center of the news agenda and her reporting continues to be a corner stone of CNN’s coverage of major international news events. In the last few years Amanpour has been involved in every major news story that CNN has covered. This has included conflict in the Middle East, the natural disasters of Tsunami-hit Sri Lanka and the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana, as well as growing global terrorism, including the London tube bombings of July 2005 and the Madrid railway bombings of 2004, riots in France and the first democratic elections in Iraq. She has also traveled to Sudan to cover the crisis in Darfur where her coverage included an exclusive interview with Sudanese President al-Bashir. Amanpour has received many prestigious awards in recognition of for her reporting on major world stories. For her reporting from the Balkans, Amanpour received a News and Documentary Emmy, two George Foster Peabody Awards, two George Polk Awards, a Courage in Journalism Award, a Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival Gold Award and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. She was also named 1994 Woman of the Year by the New York Chapter of Women in Cable and Telecommunications, and she helped the CNN news network win a duPont Award for its coverage of Bosnia and a Golden CableACE for its Gulf War coverage. Amanpour’s 1991 Gulf War reporting also received the Breakthrough Award from Women, Men and Media. Her contribution to the 1985 four-week series, ‘Iran: In the Name of God’, helped CNN earn its first duPont award. In total Amanpour has won nine Emmy awards, including one for her documentary ‘Struggle for Islam’; the 2002 Edward R. Murrow Award for Distinguished Achievement in Broadcast Journalism; the Sigma Chi Award (SDX) for her reports from Goma, Zaire; a George Polk Award for her work on the CNN International special ‘Battle for Afghanistan’ in 1997; and the Nymphe d’Honneur at the Monte Carlo Television Festival in 1997, to name but a few. Her documentary ‘In the Footsteps of Bin Laden’ won the Sigma Delta Chi award given by the Society of Professional Journalists in the USA while ‘Where have all the Parents Gone?’ has been recognized with a POP Award (Cable Positive for HIV/AIDS coverage). Amanpour was also recently named a Fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists, an honor which recognizes significant contributions to journalism. She has also been bestowed with a number of honorary degrees from America’s prestigious universities. Amanpour graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rhode Island with a bachelor of arts in journalism. Dan Senor, founding partner, Rosemont Capital LLC, former chief spokesperson, Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq: Until the hand-over of power in Iraq, Dan Senor was the Bush Administration's Chief Spokesperson in Baghdad, and a Senior Advisor to Presidential Envoy L. Paul Bremer III, the Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority. Senor rode into Baghdad on the first convoy of civilians into Iraq from Kuwait, less than two weeks after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, and was one of the longest-serving American civilians in Iraq, extending his tour to 15 months, after originally committing to just a 90-day assignment with the Bush Administration. Working closely with the military under often less-than-ideal conditions, Senor advised the Bush Administration, the Blair Government in the U.K. and Ambassador Bremer on a variety of Iraqi strategic, policy and communication issues, and was the civilian face of the Coalition Authority to Americans, Europeans, Iraqis and the world. No one is better positioned to address the turbulent and revolutionary moment in the Middle East and the Bush Administration's strategy for dealing with the region. Senor has worked closely with the Bush Administration's national security team, including Secretaries Rice and Rumsfeld and Generals Abizaid and Sanchez, as well as senior officials throughout the Administration's foreign policy apparatus. He also served as an International Election Monitor based in Kiev and Kirovograd during the Ukrainian election. An accomplished speaker, he gave more than a hundred press briefings while serving in Iraq, Senor comes to the podium to discuss the current, ever-changing global political situation. Because of Senor's international policy expertise, specifically on Iraq and Iran, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, America's renewed engagement with Europe and the tension between Russia and the new Ukraine, he is uniquely positioned to speak to America's strategy and role in the world for the next four years and how the international community will react. Senor completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Western Ontario, and studied for a year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He later attended Harvard Business School, where he completed his MBA. He is currently a Middle East and National Security analyst for Fox News, and has been published frequently by The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. Senor is also founding partner of Rosemont Capital, a New York-based private equity firm. He previously was a private equity investor with the Carlyle Group. Wolf Blitzer, Anchor, CNN: Wolf Blitzer is the anchor of CNN's The Situation Room, CNN's innovative, fast-paced three-hour weekday political news program. Blitzer also hosts Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, the only Sunday talk show seen in more than 200 countries and territories. Blitzer is CNN's lead anchor for the network's political coverage running up to the 2008 elections. In this capacity, he has moderated several of CNN's presidential primary debates in 2007 and 2008 and has anchored coverage of the key primary and caucus nights. He led CNN's Emmy-winning "America Votes 2006" coverage and "America Votes 2004." During the 2004 election cycle, Blitzer anchored events including the Iowa caucuses, the New Hampshire primary, the Democratic and Republican national conventions, election night from NASDAQ in Times Square and President George W. Bush’s second inauguration. In addition to politics, Blitzer is also known for his in-depth reporting on international news. He reported from Israel in the midst of the war between that country and Hezbollah during the summer of 2006. In 2005, he was the only American news anchor to cover the Dubai Ports World story on the ground in the United Arab Emirates. He also traveled to the Middle East that year to report on the second anniversary of the war in Iraq. In 2003, Blitzer reported on the Iraq war from the Persian Gulf region. Among the numerous honors he has received for his reporting, Blitzer is the recipient of an Emmy Award from The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for his 1996 coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing and a Golden CableACE from the National Academy of Cable Programming for his and CNN's coverage of the Persian Gulf War. He anchored CNN's Emmy-award winning live coverage of the 2006 Election Day. He was also among the teams awarded a George Foster Peabody award for Hurricane Katrina coverage; an Alfred I. duPont Award for coverage of the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia; and an Edward R. Murrow Award for CNN's coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001. He is the recipient of the 2004 Journalist Pillar of Justice Award from the Respect for Law Alliance and the 2003 Daniel Pearl Award from the Chicago Press Veterans Association. Blitzer is the author of two books, Between Washington and Jerusalem: A Reporter's Notebook (Oxford University Press, 1985) and Territory of Lies (Harper and Row, 1989). The latter was cited by The New York Times Book Review as one of the most notable books of 1989. He also has written articles for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. Live TV by Ustream