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. His years at CNN gave him a level of experience that few national anchors have been privileged to have.

His 1998 autobiography, Five Seconds To Air, focused on his CNN career as well as the humorous things that go wrong when you?re doing live TV news. Bob gave an up-close and personal look at his 1985 battle with testicular cancer, his interview by ?60 Minutes? reporter Ed Bradley, and his opinion of the state of the news media today.

In his "Lights?Camera?Cancer!" speech to groups ranging from the annual Patient Conference at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, to The American Cancer Society chapters in Kansas City, Detroit, Milwaukee, Orlando, and Tulsa, Bob gives audiences a clearer understanding that they are not alone in their battle against cancer, and that there is always hope. Hope to see a child graduate from college. Hope to take that vacation they?ve always wanted. Hope to be free of pain, and that a cure can be found.

Bob lets his audience into his deepest thoughts on cancer, and how he felt as he lay in a hospital bed late at night after numerous surgeries and chemotherapy in 1985, watching his permanent replacements in his former anchor chair at the CBS affiliate in Tulsa. He recounts how his faith in God, 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 only gave him a different outlook on life, it motivated him to step outside his comfort zone and reach for the stars-in this case, a highly-coveted job anchoring for CNN Headline News in Atlanta.

From age 22 when he took a giant step into radio anchoring and reporting at the legendary CKLW radio in Detroit, to TV reporting and anchoring for 10 years at CBS affiliate KOTV in Tulsa, Bob was in the trenches when major events unfolded.

In 1995 he was inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame at The University of Tulsa, which followed his 1992 induction as a Distinguished Alumni of the school. He also has the distinction of joining ABC Anchor Ted Koppel as a member of ?The Order of West Range?, the highest alumni honor given by Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity.

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Books:
Five Seconds To Air