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2008 Opinion Awards Panel: Joe Scarborough, MSNBC; Eugene Robinson, Washington Post; Senator Claire McCaskill, Missouri; Senator Lindsey Graham, South Carolina; Sir Harold Evans, THE WEEK
Moderator
Sir Harold Evans
Sir Harold Evans, editor-at-large of The Week magazine, is the author of the critically acclaimed They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators. Before moving to the United States in 1984, Evans served as the prize-winning editor of The Sunday Times of London and The Times. He served as president and publisher of Random House trade group and as editorial director and vice chairman of U.S. News & World Report, the New York Daily News, The Atlantic Monthly, and Fast Company. He resigned from the latter position in January 2000 to begin full-time work on two major writing and television projects building on the success of his bestselling history The American Century. Evans was honored with a knighthood in the Queen’s 2004 New Year’s Honors list for services to journalism.
Panelists
Senator Lindsey Graham, South Carolina
Senator Claire McCaskill, Missouri
Eugene Robinson, Associate Editor, The Washington Post
Joe Scarborough, Host of Morning Joe, MSNBC
