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CEDAR CITY — Emmy-award winning political commentator and TV journalist Bob Schieffer will give Southern Utah University’s 2017 commencement address on Friday, April 28, at the Centrum Arena.
For more than four decades, Schieffer has worked for CBS News covering every political convention since the 1968 Democratic Convention and 14 presidential inaugurations. He retired in 2015 but returned to CBS in 2016 to serve as a political contributor through the 2017 inauguration.
During the span of his career, Schieffer has interviewed every U.S. president since Richard Nixon, as well as many presidential nominees. For 24 years he anchored “Face the Nation,” one of the highest-rated Sunday public affairs broadcasts. He also worked as weekend anchor with the “CBS Evening News” for 26 years.
Winner of eight Emmys, Schieffer has earned nearly every award in broadcast journalism, including the Overseas Press Club Award, the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence, the Paul White Award presented by the TV News Directors Association, was named a Living Legend by the Library of Congress and was inducted into the National Academy of Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame.
