Center for the American Idea - Speakers

Deroy Murdock is a columnist with Scripps Howard News Service, and helped launch MSNBC's cable-TV channel as an on-air commentator. Previously, Mr. Murdock was On-Air Investigator and substitute host with "Damn Right," a nightly public affairs TV program produced by Tele-Communications, Inc. He also has appeared on ABC's "Nightline," the "NBC Nightly News," CNN, Fox News Channel, C-Span and "Politically Incorrect," plus numerous radio shows. His column, "This Opinion Just In . . .," and other articles have been included in numerous publications, including the Washington Times, Orange County Register, Dallas Morning News and Wall Street Journal. Mr. Murdock is also a contributor to The Race Card: White Guilt, Black Resentment and the Assault on Truth and Justice (Forum), Black and Right: The Bold New Voice of Black Conservatives in America (Praeger) and The Third Generation: Young Conservatives Look to the Future (Tegnery-Gateway). Since 1980, he has participated in five national conventions of both the Republican and Democratic Parties, and also served on both Reagan for President campaigns. He is co-founder and national Board member of Third Millennium, a New York-based educational and political advocacy group launched by concerned Americans born after 1960. He is also on the national advisory board of Project 21, an organization dedicated to promoting free-market solutions within America's black communities. Mr. Murdock is President of Loud & Clear Communications, a Manhattan-based marketing and media consultancy. Mr. Murdock received his undergraduate degree in government from Georgetown University and his MBA from New York University. He is Senior Fellow with the Fairfax, Va.-based Atlas Economic Research Foundation.