COMING SOON THOMAS OSBORNE THE SOUTHERN VOICE

Journalist

Assigned as reporter/producer and Bureau Chief at the United Nations in 1989 just prior to the Gulf War, Tom Osborne covered the UN for ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH PETER JENNINGS, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, NIGHTLINE, and 20/20, overseeing all editorial coverage for the various prime time news specials and general coverage for ABC news at the UN through 2000.

Elected president of the UN Correspondents Association in 1992, he inaugurated and chaired the 1992 series of international press conferences: "The UN in the Post Cold War Era". Convened at UN headquarters in New York, the conferences provided a forum for international journalists, members of the UN Security Council, the UN Secretariat to discuss UN Security Council forum and transparency; an issue under intense scrutiny in the wake of UN involvement in conflicts in the Iraq Gulf war, and the impending crises in the former Yugoslavia.

Prior to his UN assignment, Osborne covered NE U.S. for ABC News, New York Bureau.

Osborne served as U.S. Director of the Amsterdam-based ANNE FRANK FOUNDATION, 1984-1985, supervising the U.S. opening and national tour of the international archival photographic exhibition: ANNE FRANK IN THE WORLD: 1929-1945, created by the foundation. Osborne later inaugurated the U.S. tour of the exhibition, opening it in 18 U.S. cities. He inaugurated the first annual ANNE FRANK Award for Human Rights in the U.S.

In 1971, Osborne began serving as staff assistant and speech writer for various members of the South Dakota congressional delegation in Washington, D.C. He served in the Washington office of Rep. Frank E. Denholm, D.S.D. as legislative assistant and speech writer.

Thomas Osborne received a BA degree from Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S.D. and completed his Masters of Divinity from Methesco Seminary in Delaware, Ohio. He studied at St. John's College, Durham University in Durham, England where he was accepted as a Ph. D. Candidate in the Department of Theology. He attended Catholic University in Washington, D.C. while studying theology with the Paulist Fathers.

Osborne was recently awarded a 2006 Fellowship Award at St. John's College, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom. Currently he has been teaching "U.S. Policy in the United Nations" at Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN, and lectures on the topic "Behind the Bullets: The Failure of Diplomacy". He has been a frequent guest journalist on The Public Forum: The Teddy Bart Show, produced in Nashville.