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Bob Losure

Anchoring and reporting from Atlanta with "CNN Headline News" since the early years of the network, Bob Losure covered such history-making events as Hurricane Hugo, the San Francisco earthquake, Manuel Noriega's capture and return to the U.S., and Nelson Mandela's visit to America. At the age of 22, Losure took a giant step into radio anchoring and reporting at the legendary CKLW radio in Detroit. He then moved on to television reporting and anchoring for ten years at CBS affiliate KOTV in Tulsa, before beginning his eleven-year position as anchor at CNN in Atlanta. In Losure's 1998 autobiography, Five Seconds to Air, he relates his hilarious faux pas as a news reporter, as well as the inside scoop on a number of famous people. He also discusses the breaking world events of the time and relates how CNN set the standard for accurate, live news information 24 hours a day. Losure also shares his very personal battle with cancer. As he lay in a hospital bed after numerous surgeries and chemotherapy, he watched his permanent replacement in his former anchor chair at the CBS affiliate in Tulsa and recounts how his faith, and the help of many people he had never even had the chance to meet in person, got him back on the road to win the battle against cancer. That victory not... Next

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