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MOLLY HENNEBERG Primarily, Fox General Assignment Reporter Covers Politics
By Marisa Guthrie

Molly Henneberg is one of the many political reporters whose lives have been hijacked by the runaway train known as the 2008 race for the White House.

Not that she minds the pace.

“I love it! I know everybody says it’s crazy and everybody is ready for it to end. But I’m not!” she said, just prior to the Montana and South Dakota Democratic primaries in which Sen. Barack Obama was able to secure enough delegates to make him the presumptive party nominee.

By all accounts she’s held her own covering the fractious primary campaigns, and her coverage has gotten her the kind of attention that young reporters need to graduate up the ladder at their news organizations.

Henneberg, 34, has been a general assignment reporter at Fox News since 2002, having paid her dues at far-flung local stations including WHAG Hagerstown, Md.; WPBN Traverse City, Mich.; and WBRE Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Pa.
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Via Hagerstown Morning Herald
Academy settles for jokes about absent graduation speaker
By KATE S. ALEXANDER

MERCERSBURG, PA. - MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews might have missed Mercersburg Academy’s graduation Saturday to cover Hillary Clinton’s announcement that she was suspending her presidential campaign, but jokes of his absence made multiple appearances at the academy’s 115th commencement.

“I don’t know what Chris Matthews was going to speak about, but odds are that right now, he is drinking beer in an airport bar with a nagging feeling that he forgot to do something important,” said Tom Thorne, second-string commencement speaker and instructor of Latin at the academy.

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Via Tradeshow Week
CNN Correspondent to Emcee TSW Fastest 50

The sixth annual Tradeshow Week Fastest 50 event will take place the weekend after the Nov. 4 presidential election, meaning this year’s master of ceremonies may have plenty of news to share with the participants.

Carol Costello, a CNN News correspondent and contributor to the cable news network’s “The Situation Room,” will emcee the gala dinner that is the highlight of the Nov. 7-9 weekend of activities in Baltimore.

Along with covering the 2008 presidential election, Costello has been instrumental in CNN’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina, the tsunami in south Asia and the shootings at Virginia Tech University last year.

“Carol Costello’s a well-known face on CNN,” said TSW Editor-in-Chief Michael Hart. “We’re fortunate to have another wonderful news professional with national credentials serve as our master of ceremonies.”

Last year’s TSW Fastest 50 in Atlanta was emceed by another CNN news anchor, Erica Hill.
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