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Truth on Trial – Featuring Ty Cobb, Former Special Counsel to the President (On-Demand Video) Overview Ty Cobb, Former Special Counsel to President Trump; Major Garrett, Chief White House Correspondent, CBS News; Richard Painter, former Chief White House Ethics lawyer during the George W. Bush administration; Ambassador Norman Eisen; Richard S. Levick, Chairman & CEO, LEVICK; Peter Nicholas, White House Reporter, The Wall Street Journal; Michael Zeldin, CNN Legal Analyst and others … Hear them talk about how today’s communicators need to navigate story-telling in a world where fake news and biased- information can affect the truth and the institutions in the United States. Truth on Trial… We’re featuring the top talent in the legal, communications and media professions to share their best advice on navigating our changing world. Topics include: The view from experts who’ve been inside the White House legal system on how to address and solve the current polarization. The importance (or not) of rebuilding institutional trust and, if so, how leaders from communications and media say it can be done. The implications for communicators representing brands and non-profits. Special Guest Ty Cobb, Former Special Counsel to the President Ty Cobb recently retired from the government, where he served as the Special Counsel to the President, managing the White House response to the Office of Special Counsel. Previously, Ty was a long-time leader at international law firm Hogan Lovells, where he was widely recognized as one of the premier white collar, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement, and Congressional investigations lawyers in the world. Prominent corporate clients (domestic and international) and senior executives facing serious corporate governance matters such as crisis management, allegations of corruption, bribery or trade sanctions violations routinely turned to Ty to guide them. A former federal prosecutor, Ty is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and is regularly profiled in Best Lawyers in America, Lawdragon 500 Top Lawyers in America, International Who’s Who of Business Crime Lawyers, and Superlawyers. He was selected to the Ethisphere Hall of Fame in 2011 for his work advancing the cause of ethics in business and corporate compliance. Our Hosts Richard S. Levick, Esq, Chairman & CEO, LEVICK | @richardlevick Under his leadership, LEVICK has set new standards in global communications and brand protection for corporations, countries, and major institutions. Mr. Levick is one of the communications industry’s most important spokespersons and thought leaders. A powerful advocate for the strategic initiatives that companies must pursue in today’s perilous environment, he regularly addresses corporate boards as well as industry and government leaders around the world, providing guidance on their most complex communications and reputation management challenges. He is featured in, and authors, countless articles, and is a frequent guest on prime time national and international television programs. Mr. Levick is a much-sought after keynote and graduation speaker and is a columnist for the top business blogs including Forbes. Mr. Levick has co-authored five books including,The Communicators: Leadership in the Age of Crisis; Stop the Presses; The Crisis and Litigation PR Desk Reference; 365 Marketing Meditations; and Lessons for Absent Children. Doug Simon, CEO, D S Simon Media | @DSSimon Doug Simon is the CEO of award-winning video influencer marketing firm D S Simon Media. His firm advises and executes broadcast and social media video communications campaigns on topical issues for senior leadership of brands and non- profits. His firm has completed more than 100 projects for DC based industry groups and non-profits and has been involved with political campaigns on the local and national level since 1992. His firm pioneered Social Media LIVE™–multi-camera video production featuring an organization’s leadership with influencers distributed live to up to 30 social media sites simultaneously. Its unique approach to guiding clients, PRketing®, which connects communications to marketing results, was awarded a trademark by the US patent office. Doug is frequently quoted in top media across platforms. Television appearances include Reuters, Dateline NBC, PBS, CNN, Fox News Live and WNBC. He’s appeared on NPR and been quoted in USA Today and on The Huffington Post in addition to numerous trade publications. Doug’s video commentary on the 2012 political conventions was picked up by the humor site Funny or Die. Doug is the President-Elect of the PRSA-NY Chapter and he was a three-time president of the Publicity Club of New York. Additionally, he is the Founder of SPOKEies® the first ever awards program to recognize in-house spokespeople for representing their brands with authenticity and building trust. Doug began his broadcast career at NBC Sports, where he served as Talent Assistant to Bob Costas. His hobbies include performing stand-up comedy at New York’s top clubs and rooting for terrible sports teams including the Jets and Knicks while still remaining optimistic. Judith A. Wilde, Chief Operating Officer and Professor, Schar School of Policy and Government | @ScharSchool Judith Wilde is a Professor and the Chief Operating Office in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. She received her PhD in research methods, statistics, and evaluation at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Wilde’s recent research has focused on the employment contracts of university presidents, university presidents who serve on the boards of public corporation, and the services provided by executive search firms to universities seeking new presidents. She has more than 50 media citations, 15 articles and op-eds, and 8 presentations in the last 2 years. In her earlier career, Dr. Wilde worked to advance the education of English learners from kindergarten through college, providing technical assistance, as well as writing successful grants and contracts that gave more than $125M in assistance to schools, school districts, Native American tribes, states, and universities. She has worked with 4 different federally funded centers, including serving as executive director of the US Department of Education-funded National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition. In her private life, she is an FAA-certified hot air balloon pilot and amateur photographer. Guests Nneka Chiazor, Vice President of Public and Government Affairs, Cox Communications Virginia | @NnekaChiazor Nneka Chiazor serves as Vice President of Public and Government Affairs for the Virginia region, overseeing all aspects of state and local government relations, employee communications, and media and community relations including the programming partnership with YurView on Cox channel 11 in Hampton Roads and throughout the state. Chiazor brings to Cox more than 20 years of telecommunications experience and a broad policy background in wireless, wireline, and other technology areas. She was most recently the Vice President of Public Policy & Government Affairs for Verizon Communications where she was the leading advocate before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and other government agencies on a variety of policy areas, including public safety, cybersecurity and supplier diversity. Active in numerous civic and business organizations, Chiazor serves on the Board of Directors for the Virginia Cable Telecommunications Association (VCTA), Norfolk State University’s School of Business Advisory Committee, and she is a member of the Federal Communications Bar Association. Additionally, she has served on the Board of Directors of Somos, Inc., the telecommunications industry’s trusted toll- free number administrator as well as the Board of the Connected Vehicle Trade Association (CVTA), a non-profit business league whose mission is to advance next-generation vehicle communication. Karen DeWitt, Breaking News Correspondent for Talk Media News | @Kadewi3201 Karen DeWitt has had a long and distinguished career as a journalist, covering politics, foreign affairs, wars and disruptions, but has also worked on political campaigns. She compares the later to the labor of a Hebrew working for the Pharaoh. She’s covered the White House and national politics for The New York Times; foreign affairs and the White House for USA TODAY before joining that newspaper’s management as an assistant managing editor. She switched to television as a senior producer for ABC’s Nightline, where she wrote and produced the award-winning, Found Voices about the digitization of 1930s and 1940s interviews with former slaves. She returned to newspapers, as Washington editor for the Examiner newspaper and eventually left to help on local political campaigns; then to work as communication director for national nonprofits, including the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and The Sentencing Project. She had several blogs, including a food blog called “I don’t speak cuisine” at peacecorpsworldwide.org and recently launched a new one, On Fallow Ground. She is currently the breaking news correspondent for Talk Media News. Ambassador Norman Eisen, Senior Fellow, Brookings | @NormEisen Ambassador Norman Eisen is the author ofThe Last Palace: Europe’s Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House, forthcoming on September 4, 2018. He is a senior fellow at Brookings, a CNN political commentator, and the chair of the government watchdog group CREW. Eisen served from