Club's Legends of Broadcasting dinner on June 25 welcomes CNN's Frank Sesno

Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist Frank Sesno will be the guest of the National Press Club Broadcast/Podcast team at a Legends of Broadcasting dinner on Tuesday, June 25.

Sesno spent more than four decades in journalism, about half of it at CNN where he was White House correspondent, Sunday talk show host and Washington bureau chief.  He has interviewed five U.S. presidents and countless world figures. His career in Washington began at the Associated Press Radio network, where he covered the White House and served as London correspondent.

He currently is director of the George Washington University Alliance for a Sustainable Future, a hub of teaching, research, convening, and outreach around climate change and sustainability. 

The June 25 dinner is open only to NPC members and their guests. The event will start with a cash bar at 6 p.m. Dinner, including two complimentary glasses of wine, will be served at 6:45 followed by remarks from Sesno and a question and answer period with the honoree.

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Sesno also is a professor in GWU’s School of Media and Public Affairs, which he led as director from 2009 to 2020, and where he teaches classes on environmental reporting. He is founding director of Planet Forward, a multi-media platform that publishes stories by college students around the world about ideas and innovation to “move the planet forward.”  Sesno hosts Maryland Public Television’s Chesapeake Bay Summit and has hosted programs for New York Public Broadcasting on climate change and sea level rise.

At GW, he hosts The Sesno Series, which convenes high-level conversations at the university about issues concerning American democracy and civil discourse. In the first of the series, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., discussed how leaders can work across the aisle to promote understanding and advance policy issues even during polarizing times. In the second event, Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, chair of the National Governors Association, discussed his Disagree Better initiative aimed at fostering a more civil approach to debate and disagreement.