The Military Hour: Tom Squitieri Pentagon News Correspondent - China

Tom Squitieri is the Pentagon correspondent for Talk Media News, the latest chapter in a more than three-decade long award-winning journalist career. He also is an adjunct professor at American University and the author of a soon-to-be released collection of romantic/erotic poetry: The Champagne Was Lonely Without You Last Night.

Tom’s decades of daily journalism – from an underground newspaper in western Pennsylvania to USA TODAY -- produced deep and wide reporting and writing experience in coverage of national politics, defense, crime, breaking news, Congress and the White House, foreign policy and international conflicts.

Tom’s passion to use communication, writing and training to give structure and voice to the important work and thoughts of others comes from being a superb policy writer with an uncanny knack for rendering complex ideas into simple compelling text; those skills have resulted in three Overseas Press Club Awards and three White House Correspondent Association awards as a journalist.

As an adjunct professor at American University, his teaching courses include  “The Media and Foreign Policy” and “Writing for Communication.” Tom also created classes and taught speech writing and presentation as part of a communication skills program developed for the group Ladies America, a national organization that connects, educates and mentors professional women. He spoke on writing and publishing at their annual event and the class was an outgrowth from those appearances. Tom also spoke on the role of the media in political campaigns at the Graduate School of Political Management at GWU for the class on Political Communications Strategy.

Tom is a member and former officer of the Overseas Press Club of America and the National Press Club. He has been on all seven continents - and in dozens of places he intends to keep secret.