Gordon Chang

Gordon G. Chang is the author of Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World, released by Random House in January 2006.  Showdown focuses on nuclear proliferation in general and the North Korean crisis in particular.  His first book is The Coming Collapse of China (Random House, August 2001). He is a contributor at Forbes.com and blogs at World Affairs Journal.

He lived and worked in China and Hong Kong for almost two decades, most recently in Shanghai, as Counsel to the American law firm Paul Weiss and earlier in Hong Kong as Partner in the international law firm Baker & McKenzie.

His writings on China and North Korea have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Far Eastern Economic Review, the International Herald Tribune, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, National Review, and Barron's. 

He has spoken at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale, and other universities and at The Brookings Institution, The Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, RAND, the American Enterprise Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, and other institutions.  He has given briefings at the National Intelligence Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and the Pentagon.  He has also spoken before industry and investor groups including Bloomberg, Sanford Bernstein, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia.  Chang has appeared before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.  

He has appeared on CNN, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, CNBC, MSNBC, PBS, the BBC, and Bloomberg Television. He has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and is a frequent co-host and guest on The John Batchelor Show. 

Outside the United States he has spoken in Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo, The Hague, London, Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver.

He has served two terms as a trustee of Cornell University.

Fox News' Chad Pergram

Chad Pergram began his career in journalism in high school as an intern and later reporter/anchor at WKRC-AM in Cincinnati. He also worked at WKRC-TV and then joined public radio station WMUB-FM in Oxford, OH. He became Senate producer for C-SPAN in 1993, after which he produced and anchored newscasts for NPR in Washington. Pergram was a reporter for Capitol News Connection prior to joining Fox News Channel, in September 2007, as the senior producer for the House of Representatives. Pergram was named Best Radio Reporter by the Ohio Associated Press in 1992. He has also received prestigious statewide awards for Best Use of Sound, Best Investigative Reporting, and Best Broadcast Writing. He has covered a variety of stories, including the Robert Mapplethorpe photo exhibit trial, Pete Rose's banishment from baseball, President Clinton's impeachment, and the Stanley Cup Finals. On Capitol Hill, Pergram enjoys doing stories that allows the listener to “look beneath the Dome to see how the machinery of Congress works”. In March 2007, he won a regional Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in reporting for his coverage of outgoing House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX). He also specializes in producing sound-rich features. In particular, he has compiled several "day-in-the-life" reports, detailing what lawmakers do all day (Pergram had to go running at 4:45 a.m. with one senator in 20-degree weather). He also prepared an audio diary of President Bush's inauguration and assembled a behind-the-scenes look at both political conventions.

In March 2006, Pergram’s colleagues and co-workers at the Radio/Television Correspondents Association saluted him with the Joan S. Barone Award for Excellence in National Affairs/Public Broadcast Journalism. It’s the most prestigious prize for Washington-based broadcast reporting. Previous recipients include Tim Russert, Bob Schieffer, Nina Totenberg and Roger Mudd. Pergram was the youngest recipient of the award and the first radio reporter to be honored in 12 years.

Pergram is the self-proclaimed “genesis” of Miami’s Inside Washington Program - one of the premier study programs at the University. The Inside Washington Program gives students the opportunity to meet the movers and shakers of Washington, D.C. and intern in a world-class environment only the nation’s capital can provide. The program focuses on topics in Political Science, Communications, and Journalism; however, it is open to undergraduates and graduate students from any major or academic division. In 1998, the program started as a summer internship program and in the fall of 2007, the university approved a pilot fall semester based program which was extremely successful. The university will send students out in the spring of 2009 for another semester based program and beginning in 2010 the program will expand to a full year program mirroring the highly acclaimed Miami Luxembourg Study Abroad Program. The Inside Washington Program is now approaching its 10-year anniversary.

Pergram is a native of Jacksonburg, OH, the state's smallest incorporated village, population: 52. He earned a bachelor's degree in Political Science from Miami University (Ohio) in 1991 and a master's degree in Communication from Miami in 1993. He teaches a seminar in Washington for his alma mater on the confluence of media and politics.

David Lennon

David Lennon is an award-winning columnist and author who has been a staff writer at Newsday since 1991.

He was named one of the top 10 columnists in the country by the Associated Press Sports Editors in 2014 and also took first place in that category for New York State that same year.

Lennon began covering baseball for Newsday as the Yankees' beat writer in 1995, the season the Bombers snapped a 14-year playoff drought by becoming the American League's first wild-card team. Two World Series rings later, Lennon left the Yankees' beat after the 1998 season, bounced between the Bronx and Shea for the next three years, then took over on the Mets for the demise of Bobby Valentine in 2002. He became Newsday's national baseball writer in 2012.

Lennon also is a Hall of Fame voter, a former Chairman of the New York Chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America and co-author of "The Great New York Sports Debate."

Alayna Treene

Alayna Treene is a reporter at Axios, where she covers the days biggest breaking news stories, from the ins and outs of the Russia investigation to the latest technology trends and breakthroughs in science.

Connell McShane

Connell McShane is a news correspondent for FOX Business Network and news reader on Imus In The Morning radio program.

 

Prior to joining FBN, McShane worked at Bloomberg Television where he served as a news reporter and an anchor on "Evening Edition," "On the Markets" and "Marketweek." He also broadcasted live reports from both the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and NASDAQ. Before Bloomberg Television, McShane co-anchored the syndicated morning show "The First Word" on Bloomberg Radio. McShane began his career in sports broadcasting. He served as the play-by-play voice of minor league baseball’s Pittsfield Mets during the 1998 season.

 

A graduate of Fordham University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication and Media Studies, McShane was named a finalist in both the New York Metro Achievement in Radio Awards and the New York State Associated Press Broadcasters' Association.