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image of Tim RussertTim Russert, a national political analyst and journalist, who first came to the university to cover a 2000 Presidential Debate for NBC, will return on June 1 as UMass Boston’s 34th commencement speaker for graduation ceremonies held at the Bayside Exposition Center. Russert is the managing editor and moderator of Meet the Press, the most watched Sunday morning interview program in America.

He serves as a political analyst for NBC Nightly News and the Today program, anchors The Tim Russert Show, and is a contributing anchor for MSNBC.

Russert also serves as senior vice president and Washington bureau chief of NBC News. He has received twenty-two honorary doctorates from American colleges and universities and has lectured at the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Reagan Presidential Libraries.

 

 

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