Frank Sesno is an award-winning American journalist, former CNN correspondent, anchor and Washington Bureau Chief, and Director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University. Sesno is also the creator and host of Planet Forward, a ground-breaking web-to-television show on PBS. Sesno is a Professor of Media and Public Affairs at the George Washington University. Sesno assumed the Director's role at the School of Med...
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Frank Sesno is an award-winning American journalist, former CNN correspondent, anchor and Washington Bureau Chief, and Director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University. Sesno is also the creator and host of Planet Forward, a ground-breaking web-to-television show on PBS. Sesno is a Professor of Media and Public Affairs at the George Washington University. Sesno assumed the Director's role at the School of Media and Public Affairs in September, 2009.
Sesno received his Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury College in 1977, where he would later serve as one of its trustees. Sesno worked as news director at WCFR, a local radio station in Springfield, Vermont, where he hosted a highly-regarded interview show "Checkpoint" every day. Before joining CNN in 1984, Sesno worked as a radio correspondent at the White House and in London for the Associated Press. During his long CNN career, he served in many parts of the world, as well as Washington bureau chief...
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