Former CNN Headline News anchor, correspondent, author, and two-time cancer survivor Bob Losure continues to be in demand in 2011 as motivational speaker, emcee, and spokesman for companies including Delta Airlines, Mercedes-Benz, RadioShack, BellSouth, OfficeMax, the IT Asset Management Association, and the Outdoor Advertising Association of America. In recent years they’ve used his on-stage skills to interview top newsmakers including Delta C-E-O Richard Anderson, Walter Cronkite, Donald Trump, G-E Chairman Jeffrey Immelt, and political strategist James Carville.
In September, 2010, Bob traveled to Atlanta and Delta Airlines headquarters to moderate a televised 90-minute Q & A session featuring top Delta Airlines executives and over 200 Delta flight attendants. The five-camera webcast, viewed by Delta employees in Atlanta, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York, and L.A., was in preparation for a union vote by 20,000 Delta flight attendants worldwide.
In October, 2010, he served in three roles at the IT Asset Managers Association National Convention in Nashville, introducing speakers, keynoting, and doing on-camera interviews with top members of the association. He’s scheduled for an encore in October, 2011, at the association’s next annual event in Las Vegas.
Over the past two years, Bob served as moderator of a two-hour global warming debate at in Tucson for 10 chapters of the Chicago-area Young President’s Organization, and posed questions to top-selling members of the JC Bamford organization worldwide with live interviews on-stage at The Venetian in Las Vegas.
In 2010 he gave his 200th keynote speech on winning his personal battle against testicular cancer in a dramatic evening presentation before cancer survivors at Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah, Georgia. In 1985 Bob had multiple operations and sessions of chemotherapy to survive and take a seat in the anchor chair at CNN Headline News in Atlanta. His story of never giving up has been told to some of the most prestigious cancer groups in the nation, including M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and Provena St. Joseph’s Medical Center in suburban Chicago.
During his career at CNN, Bob filed live reports from the scene of the Loma Prieta earthquake in San Francisco, Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega’s capture and return to Miami, the deadly Avianca Airliner crash on Long Island, and Nelson Mandela’s historic visit to Atlanta. Working for the prestigious Dyson and Dyson real estate firm in 2006 in San Diego, he anchored the first daily internet-based TV real estate news program. The show reached viewers worldwide through Yahoo.com, and Bob has continued to do special projects for Dyson in 2011
