As part of VCU’s Mass Communications Week, Bob Deans, White House correspondent for Cox News, will present his lecture on Transformations in Elections on Wednesday, October 8 in the Commons Forum, 2-3:30 pm.Deans will talk about his experience as a White House correspondent during the transition from the Clinton administration to the Bush White House, as well as his time as White House Correspondence Association President in the early years of the Bush administration.
Deans offers a unique perspective on what effects the 2008 elections and the changing media landscape will have on future coverage of presidents and presidential candidates.
Deans, a 1978 graduate of VCU’s School of Mass Communications, entered the newspaper business at age 10, delivering his hometown paper, the Richmond Times-Dispatch.In 1980 he became an Atlanta-based reporter for Fairchild Publications and the following year moved to New York as a Fairchild editor. In 1983, he returned to the south as a reporter for the Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier. The following year he joined The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as a business reporter.
Deans was posted in Tokyo as the Cox Newspapers Asia correspondent from 1987-1991. In 1992 he joined the Cox Washington Bureau, where he covered economic and diplomatic affairs before shifting to White House coverage in 1998. He was president of the White House Correspondents' Association 2002-2003.
