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Ideas in Action with Jim Glassman
The TV series hosted by the executive director of the Bush Institute airs weekly on many PBS stations nationwide
James K. Glassman, Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute, is the host of a new half-hour television series on ideas and their consequences, airing on public television stations and non-commercial cable stations nationwide. The series, a co-production of Grace Creek Media and The Bush Institute, is taped on the campus of SMU in Dallas (near the Bush Institute’s headquarters) and at the Newseum in Washington, DC.
For the latest information on local stations that carry “Ideas in Action with Jim Glassman,” future programming, and an archive of clips and transcripts of previous episodes, visit the show’s Web site, IdeasinActionTV.com.
Jim Glassman
Founding Executive Director
The George W. Bush Institute
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Jim Glassman
Founding Executive Director, The George W. Bush Institute
Ambassador James K. Glassman is the Founding Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute.
Glassman served as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs from June 2008 to January 2009, leading the government–wide international strategic communications effort. Among his accomplishments at the State Department was bringing new internet technology to bear on outreach to foreign publics, an approach he christened “Public Diplomacy 2.0.”
Prior to his State Department post, from June 2007 to June 2008, he was chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), directing all non–military, taxpayer–funded U.S. international broadcasting, including Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and Alhurra TV. He continued to serve as a governor of the BBG, representing the Secretary of State, during post as Under Secretary.
From 1996 to 2008, Glassman was a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
Glassman is moderator and host of “Ideas in Action with Jim Glassman,” a weekly series on public policy issues aired on more than 100 public television stations around the country. He was previously moderator of two weekly TV programs in the late 1990s: “Capital Gang Sunday” on CNN and “TechnoPolitics” on PBS.
Glassman has had a long career as a journalist and publisher. He served as president of the Atlantic Monthly magazine, publisher of the New Republic magazine, executive vice president of U.S. News & World Report, and editor and co–owner of Roll Call, the Congressional newspaper. Between 1993 and 2004, he was a columnist for the Washington Post and the International Herald Tribune. Shortly after graduating from college, he started Figaro, a weekly newspaper in New Orleans. His articles on finance, economics, and foreign policy have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street, Los Angeles Times, and various other publications.
Glassman has written three books on investing, and in April 2012, he was appointed to the Investor Advisory Committee of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He was formerly a member of the Policy Advisory Board of Intel Corporation and was Senior Advisor to AT&T Corporation and SAP America, Inc.
