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Bob Schieffer            

Former Moderator of “Face The Nation” & Chief Washington Correspondent for CBS News

Bob Schieffer is broadcast journalism's most experienced Washington reporter. He is CBS News' chief Washington correspondent; serves as anchor and moderator of "Face the Nation," the network's Sunday public affairs broadcast; and is a regular contributor to CBS Evening News.

Schieffer has covered Washington for CBS News for more than 45 years and is one of the few broadcast or print journalists to have covered all four major beats in the nation's capital: the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, and Capitol Hill. He has covered every presidential campaign and been a floor reporter at all of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions since 1972. He and his colleague, Dan Rather, stand as the only two 20-year anchors of a regularly scheduled network news broadcast.

He is a member of the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame and is the recipient of the Radio and Television News Directors Association's 2003 Paul White Award, which recognizes an individual's lifetime contribution to electronic journalism.

Schieffer has won many other broadcast journalism awards, including seven Emmy Awards, one of which was for lifetime achievement, and two Sigma Delta Chi Awards. In 2002, he was chosen as Broadcaster of the Year by the National Press Foundation. He was also the 2004 recipient of the International Radio and Television Society Foundation Award and the American News Women's Club Helen Thomas Award for excellence in journalism. In 2005, his alma mater, Texas Christian University, created the Schieffer School of Journalism in his honor. In 2008, he won the Leonard Zeidenberg First Amendment Award from the Radio and Television News Directors Association and was named a "living legend" by the Library of Congress.

He is the author of "Face the Nation: My Favorite Stories from the First 50 Years of the Award-Winning News Broadcast," as well as the 2003 New York Times bestseller, "This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You on TV," and "The Acting President."

Speech Topics


This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You on TV

Face the Nation

Washington and the World

Having covered many of the world-changing events of the past four decades, Bob Schieffer has a perspective few can claim. Its this perspective, rife with experiences and eyewitness accounts of the events and people that have shaped our age, that Schieffer brings to audiences. Witty, erudite and most of all entertaining and engaging, Schieffer provides audiences with a one-of-a-kind vantage on the issues and headlines of the day, from news breaking around the world to a look at the Obama Administration and Congress.

News


Bob Schieffer Returning To CBS News To Contribute Political Commentary
So much for retirement. Bob Schieffer is returning to CBS News as an occasional contributor throughout the political election cycle, division president David Rhodes announced one day after coming to TCA.
CBS' Bob Schieffer Retires Sunday As Last Of The Old-School TV Anchors
No one can ask a tough question quite like Bob Schieffer. For example, when he asked then-presidential candidate John Edwards: "It appears that the White House strategy will be to picture you as a pretty boy....A lightweight...Does that bother you?"
Bob Schieffer Returns to CBS News as Political Contributor
The veteran 'Face the Nation' moderator will contribute across CBS News platforms through the 2017 inauguration.
Bob Schieffer: The most important advice I can give to debate ...
Bob Schieffer, a political contributor to CBS News, hosted “Face the Nation” from 1991 to 2015. I moderated presidential debates in 2004, 2008 and 2012, and ...
Bob Schieffer - CBS News
Bob Schieffer, 79, has been a reporter for more than half a century and his retirement in 2015 marked his 46th year at CBS News and his 24th anchoring " Face ...

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