Ford Rowan was a television reporter for

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and panelist on ''

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'' during the 1970s and early 1980s. During his tenure with the network, he covered mostly military and security-related issues. Rowan also served as an adjunct professor at the Washington bureau of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. After leaving NBC, he hosted a discussion program featuring foreign television journalists stationed in the U.S., ''International Edition,'' produced by the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting (now

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) for

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. In 1984, Rowan left the journalistic field to found, with partner Richard Blewitt, Rowan and Blewitt, a consulting firm that advises companies on public relations crises. Rowan is based out of

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Rowan & Blewitt websiteFord Rowan’s personal website
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