Carol Buckland will be presenting a talk titled Billions of Bytes but No Big Picture? The Impact of 24/7 Internet News. Carol is the senior editorial producer for CNN's Emmy-winning Larry King Live. Based in Washington, D.C., she coordinates show topic research, pre-interviews guests, reviews scripts and on-screen graphics, and prepares Larry King's "blue card" editorial briefing sheets. During the course of her work with Larry King Live, Carol has had an opportunity to interview a wide range of people – including the late Julia Child, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Mario Cuomo, Jimmy Carter, Danielle Steele, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Tom Clancy, Ben Affleck, Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham, Kid Rock, and Snoop Dogg.

Carol started at CNN as a news writer in Atlanta. She has worked extensively with the network's Special Events and Political Units. Her job-related travels have taken her to Moscow, Malta, Madrid, Tokyo, and numerous U.S. cities. She also did a stint as an on-air film reviewer.

Prior to joining CNN in 1981, Carol was a reporter for what was then The MacNeil/Lehrer Report on PBS. Her "beats" included the media, education, labor, and agriculture. She is a former American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow. In this capacity, she spent ten months working on Capitol Hill. Carol also spent two months living in Tokyo as a Japan Society Media Fellow. The focus of her studies during this period was women and journalism.

Carol holds an MIA from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, where she was selected as an International Fellow. She has a B.A. in political science from the University of Connecticut, where she graduated summa cum laude as an Honors Fellow. Carol is the author of more than two dozen contemporary romance novels published under the pseudonym Carole Buck.

A die-hard political junkie, Carol has covered every national political convention since 1976. Her other passion is cooking and eating. She's taken culinary classes in the U.S., France, Italy, and Thailand.