Tom Costello is an Emmy award-winning NBC News Correspondent based in Washington, D.C., reporting across all NBC News platforms, including TODAY, NBC Nightly News, and streaming on NBC News NOW.
Bazi Kanani is a Senior News Host at CPR News in Denver. Her work as a journalist has led her on assignments across Colorado and around the world.
Brian Malone is an American documentary filmmaker and television producer. Malone’s films and television programs capture the intimate human perspective of society’s most pressing contemporary issues.
Barbara Starr is a renowned journalist, Emmy award-winning producer, and former CNN Pentagon correspondent where she spent 21 years reporting from hotspots including Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, the Horn of Africa and the Chinese-North Korean border.
Martin (Marty) Baron retired at the end of February 2021, after eight-plus years as executive editor of The Washington Post. News staffs under his leadership have won 18 Pulitzer Prizes.
John Ragosta is the inaugural 2026 James Madison Fellow at Montpelier and is a fellow at Virginia Humanities. Dr. Ragosta’s most recent book, For the People, For the Country: Patrick Henry’s Final Political Battle, has received highly favorable reviews in the Wall Street Journal and New York Sun.
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