Sentences with phrase «by leading journalists»

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With one - on - one interviews and panel discussions led by top journalists from CNBC and Institutional Investor, the 2017 Delivering Alpha conference featured Steven Mnuchin, the 77th United States Secretary of the Treasury; Jamie Dimon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Raymond Dalio, Founder, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer, Bridgewater Associates; Julian H. Robertson Jr., Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tiger Management; Mary Callahan Erdoes, Chief Executive Officer, J.P. Morgan Asset Management; and Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, The Blackstone Group.

This theory is often invoked by angry motorists, not to mention journalists in the lead - up to long weekends.

Led by author and journalist Lenora Chu, this panel will explore how China's education system must both adapt to cultivate future entrepreneurs and retain its commitment to intellectual rigor to ensure that it can serve as a global talent pipeline.

He told the audience that if they want to do something to help journalists, they should support blog TechDirt and its founder Mike Masnick, who is being sued by the same lawyer who led Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker over stories TechDirt published about Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims to have invented email.

Longtime Vatican journalist Andrea Tornielli of Il Giornale reported last week that John Paul could be beatified in a service led by the pope by the end of this year.

Led by The Chef's Garden farmer Lee Jones, the conference attracts farmers, chefs, academics, food scientists, journalists and consumers and inspires them to ask themselves what they can contribute to heal and improve the world.

Delivered over two half - day sessions, the Forum will be facilitated by respected rural journalist Pete Lewis and features special guest speakers including leading beef brand marketers from Teys Australia and Stockyard Beef, and a market research specialist from Millward Brown.

In addition, masterclasses led by Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) will be offered on topics such as «The language of wine: a Systematic Approach to Tasting» by Jude Mullins, DipWSET — International Development Director, «A world of Sherry» by Jon Chan, WSET Educator, Wine Language as well as an «Austrian Wine Seminar» by Robert Parker's Wine Advocate led by Stephan Reinhardt, a German journalist specializing in wine (his book «The Finest Wines of Germany» was selected as «Best international wine book of the year 2013» by the Louis Roederer International Wine Writers» Award).

The Spirits Masters are a series of competitions where medals are awarded based on blind tastings by a panel of leading spirit experts and trade journalists.

It should be noted that although Leicester were 2 points clear of us and leading the race, they were never given a serious chance of winning the title by anyone — notice how the Guardian journalist doesn't even mention them in the above review of Arsenals prospects for the title.

According to a work put together by a leading African journalist based in the United Kingdom, the rise of Alex Iwobi with Nigeria has lead to so many stars born in England to switch allegiance to the country of their parents.

According to a work put together by a leading African journalist based in the United Kingdom, the rise of Alex Iwobi with Nigeria has lead to so many stars born in England to switch allegiance to the country of...

The PSA Academies team, led by Philippe Saint Andre also included coaches Jermome Riondet (leading French Rugby journalist and ex-Harlequins, FC Grenoble & Oxford University Blue, the first Frenchman to play in the Varsity Match), Florian Rossigneux (ex-Racing, Sydney University, London Wasps, Bedford & Richmond player and Rugby Canada & Rosslyn Park coach), Jules Di Tomaso and Cory Brown were welcomed by host Olivier Baudin as they arrived for the 10 day programme at Fort de France airport on the west coast of the island.

Thirdly, my opinions are inevitably shaped by my previous experience as a journalist at Folha de S. Paulo, Brazil's leading newspaper.

And so, after seeing successive governments window dress on measures to tackle inequality, Walker agreed to lead the WEP, set up by comedian and writer Sandi Toksvig and journalist Catherine Mayer in March of last year.

The election committee led by veteran Journalist, Mr Ray Ekpu supervised the hitch - free exercise and declared the officers as winners.

But the veteran journalist maintained that, given his little tour to some regions in the country, the NDC led by President John Mahama is in the lead.

Led by North Korean Sports Minister Kim Il - guk, it includes 229 cheerleaders, four officials from the National Olympic Committee, 26 taekwondo demonstrators and 21 journalists.

In 2015 we conducted an event at the 2015 Conservative Party annual conference at which we presented analysis of the Conservative's electoral position and prospects, we were invited to submit independent scholarly evidence to Labour's Learning the Lessons Review, chaired by Margaret Beckett, and we co-hosted a 2015 post-election event in June 2015 with cross-party attendance and participation by a broad political range of commentators, and also leading UK journalists.

National President of the union, Comrade Michael Alogba Olukoya, gave the ultimatum in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, while addressing journalists after the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the union, where representatives from across the nation were hosted by the Comrade Waheed Olojede - led Oyo NUT.

Program note: Explore the journey out of the shadows led by undocumented immigrant and Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas.

Shettima while addressing journalists said the estate was named after Tinubu in order to appreciate him for rescuing the State's APC from the hands of a «tyrant» who made frantic efforts to hijack the party's machinery ahead of the 2015 Governorship, National and State Assembly elections in Borno but was resisted by forces led by Tinubu in favour of the Governor and majority of his associates.

While being interviewed by journalists, the two arrested suspects said nine people were involved in the operation that led to the kidnap of the monarch.

Confusion broke out on Tuesday morning at Chorkor in Accra, when a group of young men led by the Constituency Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the Ablekuma South Constituency, chased out journalists who were to cover a press confab by a stalwart of the party, Mr. Ato Quarshie.

A similar strategy is deployed by one Pennsylvania lawmaker, who at a recent women - led panel in the state, explained how she avoids the cheek kiss — by placing one hand on her colleague's shoulder, and the other outstretched for a handshake, according to an account by a journalist covering the Harrisburg Capitol in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

«There is also, the increasing unwarranted attacks by government controlled security forces on journalists, media houses and other well meaning Nigerians carrying out their legitimate duties simply because they hold different opinions from those of the APC - led government,» he asserted.

The constituents of Kogi West, led by Chief Cornelius Olowo, had shortly after submitting the petition, told journalists that the move to recall Malaye was based on his «abysmal performance».

In their goodwill messages, representative of the veteran journalists in Osun state, Kayode Adedire and retired Justice Moshood Kunle Ajeigbe expressed worry over the situation whereby budgeting in Nigeria is overshadowed by political interests leading to delay in budget passage by the National Assembly till middle of a year with reference to 2018 budget proposals.

White House Secretary Robert Gibbs told journalists that recent signals of new commitments by China and India created possible momentum toward an agreement at the U.N. - led climate change talks that started Monday and are scheduled to conclude on December 18.

The CPI project, led by journalists Dan Fagin of Newsday and Marianne Lavelle of the National Law Journal, in part analyzed 161 studies of four chemicals reviewed over the last 25 years: two pesticides — alachlor and atrazine — the industrial solvent formaldehyde, and the dry - cleaning agent perchloroethylene.

I am scaling this slope with a group of scientists and journalists led by John Grotzinger, project scientist for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), which launched Curiosity in November.

The aim is to «increase the number of women in leading positions» in academe, government, industry, nonprofit organizations, and elsewhere by «rais [ing] the visibility» of outstanding women, said Ingrid Wünning Tschol, senior vice president for health and science at the Robert Bosch Stiftung, in a speech to the first European Conference for Science Journalists at the Euroscience Open Forum on 22 July.

He interviews, among others: Neville Hodgkinson — the journalist then at the Sunday Times, who led a media campaign to argue that HIV does not cause AIDS; Edwina Currie; and the voluntary workers and «ordinary» people directly affected by the arrival of the virus.

The project was led by BU's Dr Chindu Sreedharan, himself a former journalist and now a Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Communication, in collaboration with BU colleagues Dr Einar Thorsen and Robert Munday.

Funded by MacArthur, Oak and Open Society Foundations, SITU has undertaken collaborations with a diverse range of partners, including the International Criminal Court, the United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B'tselem, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), as well as projects with international legal teams, award - winning journalists and leading academic institutions such as Carnegie Mellon and Princeton Universities.

She edits articles by both contributing journalists and leading scientists, and organized a special issue on aging.

The SMC's Expert Encounters are a good opportunity to invite leading scientists from overseas to drop by and meet UK based Journalists to share their perspectives on the rapidly changing medical research environment so we have invited Jim Sullivan, vice president for Discovery at Abbvie to join us.

Living on the edge amid the constant threat of attack, an offbeat band of TV journalists, lead by hotshot Jimmy Flynn (Harrelson), report from a devastated war - torn country.

AWFJ, a nonprofit organization of leading female film journalists with active members in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, recognizes outstanding achievements by women filmmakers by presenting its prestigious EDA Awards at year's end and at select film festivals.

ABOUT THE AWFJ and EDA AWARDS The Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Inc. (AWFJ), a not - for - profit corporation, is an international association of leading professional female movie critics, reporters and feature writers working in print, broadcast and online media, dedicated to supporting film work by and about women — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting the annual AWFJ EDA Awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the movies.

Based on the journalist Lynn Barber's memoir of her sentimental education at the hand of an older charmer and scripted by Nick Hornby, this soft - edged exercise in nostalgia is worth seeing for its rich array of sharply drawn characters led by Carey Mulligan, who received a deserved Oscar nomination for her sweet, smart, sexy central performance.

Host John Horn leads the conversation, accompanied by the nation's most plugged - in cultural journalists.

That gang is led by Max (Mark Strong), a high - ranking police official, and includes history professor Iorgu (Christian McKay), journalist Razvan (Joe Armstrong), and scientist Dumi (Tim Plester).

The stories follow Tin Tin who is a young journalist, and adventurer, as he continually stumbles across mysteries that leads him on grand adventures that eventually has him averting the world from being taken over by some crazy man, or something like that.

Playing lead journalist Mike Rezendes, Mark Ruffalo (Foxcatcher) gives a finely tuned performance: determined, passionate and shaken by the revelations.

While the President (Morgan Freeman) tries to maintain order in the land, a team of experts led by a famed astronaut (Robert Duvall) attempts to stop the comet and an ambitious journalist (Tea Leoni) resolves to come to terms with her past.

WHAT: In 2001, Boston Globe editor - in - chief Marty Baron (Live Schreiber) assigned the newspaper's Spotlight team — a four - man group of investigative journalists led by Walter Robinson (Michael Keaton)-- to follow up on a story about a local priest accused of child molestation, only to uncover a massive scandal within the Boston archdiocese.

Out of the competition, the international highlights were El Clan (The Clan, Pablo Trapero), an effective if derivative Argentinian political drama / gangster film heavily influenced by Scorsese's Goodfellas; L'avenir (Things to Come, Mia Hansen - Løve), a fine if rather low - key drama helped enormously by Isabelle Huppert's lead performance; and, best of all, Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine, a truly disturbing mixture of fiction and documentary concerning the attempt to make a movie about the tragic suicide of Florida journalist Christine Chubbuck, who shot herself on live television back in 1974.

AWFJ, a nonprofit organization of leading female film journalists with active members in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, recognizes outstanding achievements by women filmmakers by presenting its prestigious EDA Awards at select film festivals around the world, and at year's end.

In addition to original insights gleaned from Snowden and other real - life sources, Stone and Fitzgerald turned to two books about Snowden: The Snowden Files by British journalist Luke Harding (who co-authored another book that led to the WikiLeaks film, The Fifth Estate); and the fictionalized novel Time of the Octopus by Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, who represents Snowden in Russia.