PTV at Sea November 2011 Program

PTV at Sea enriches, inspires and entertains with informative programming, presented by some of public broadcasting's most acclaimed personalities. In November 2011, PBS and NPR supporters and friends will set sail again for an engaging and enlightening travel experience. We will preview the 2012 election and its impact on the world as a whole – plus we will continue to explore the best in arts and entertainment. Participate in fascinating seminars, panel discussions and exclusive receptions with some of the United States' most respected authorities on politics, arts, culture and finance. Our invited guests include...

	An accomplished political reporter with experience in both print and broadcast news, Gwen Ifill holds two of the most highly-respected posts in her field. She is Moderator and Managing Editor of Washington Week, the longest-running public affairs program on PBS, and Senior Correspondent for the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Ifill is also the best-selling author of The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama. She has received more than a dozen honorary doctorates, and is the recipient of several broadcasting excellence awards, including honors from the National Press Foundation, Ebony Magazine, the Radio Television News Directors Association, and American Women in Radio and Television. (Confirmed)
	Joseph Rosendo has been a travel, food and wine journalist for 30 years. Since his first travel story in Los Angeles Times in 1980, he has been published in countless publications worldwide.  He is the author of An Insider’s Guide to Los Angeles and the Consulting Editor for DK Eyewitness Travel Guides’ Where To Go When and Where To Go When—The Americas. Rosendo is the executive producer and host of the travel television series, Travelscope®, distributed by American Public Television (APT) to more than 500 PBS television channels. Rosendo's many awards include an Emmy, seven Telly Awards, seven Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism awards, Canada's Globe and Mail Travel Media Award and France's Medaille d'Or du Tourisme. (Confirmed)
	Mark Samels is executive producer of American Experience, PBS’s flagship history series. Produced by WGBH/Boston, American Experience is television’s most-watched and longest running history series. Under Samels’ leadership, the series has been honored with nearly every industry award, including the Peabody, Primetime Emmys, the duPont-Columbia Journalism Award, Writers Guild Awards, Oscar nominations, and Sundance Film Festival Audience and Grand Jury Awards. Samels has overseen the production of more than 100 films for the series, focusing on stories from America’s past that are highly resonant in the world today. He has expanded both the breadth of subjects and the filmmaking style embraced by the series, allowing for more contemporary topics and more witness-driven storytelling. In addition to his public television work, Samels is a founding member of the International Documentary Association and has served on the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Nonfiction Peer Group. (Confirmed)
	Scott Simon has won every major award in broadcasting, but the one that means the most to him is Chicago’s Studs Terkel Award. He hosts NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon, which is heard by more than 4 million people every week, the series Backstage With . . . on PBS stations, and appears on BBC-TV. He is the author of several books, including Home and Away, a sports memoir, Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball, the novel Pretty Birds about two teenage girls during the siege of Sarajevo, the political comedy Windy City, and his most recent book, Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption. He has covered ten wars, done stories in all states and every continent, gone swimming with Esther Williams, flown as Peter Pan and aboard the US space shuttle simulator, and danced the role of Mother Ginger in The Nutcracker. (Confirmed)

PTV at Sea guests subject to change.