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Taking Viewers to 'Church': Susan Swain ’76, H’99

Nearly two years ago, Susan Swain ’76, H’99, co-chief executive officer and president of C-SPAN, felt comfortable in her job. She’d reached a high point in her career, though she would never be the one to say that. She had been promoted to co-CEO a few years earlier.

The drumbeat of Washington news kept Swain on her toes (along with a book about first ladies and various other projects including hosting the network’s weekly “Newsmakers” program). She was anticipating a big presidential election cycle in 2016, or her team’s “Olympics,” as she calls it. There were a record number of presidential candidates, and her network’s role was to “give a voice not only to the top-tier candidates but to the secondary and tertiary candidates,” she said.

But what she could not anticipate, she said, was that the presidential primaries were just the beginning of what’s become a  news cycle.

“The past 18 months have been one of the busier cycles of my p

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Susan Swain

Interview Date: December 13, 2017
Interview Location: Washington, D.C. USA
Interviewer: Seth Arenstein
Collection: Cable Center Oral History Program

Seth Arenstein: Hi, I’m Seth Arenstein. It’s December 13, 2017. We’re in Washington, DC, in C-SPAN’s studios. And we’re here for the oral history project of the Cable Center—the Hauser Oral History Project of the Cable Center—and we’re so happy to have Susan Swain, president and co-CEO of C-SPAN, with us today. This is her second interview, her second oral history, I should say. The first was done in 1999. Welcome, Susan.

Susan Swain: Thank you, Seth. It’s a good thing we are in our home turf here this morning, so I feel comfortable in my surroundings. I understand I’m interview number 39 for you on this project.

Arenstein: Yes.

Swain: You can tell me the history of the cable industry.

Arenstein: Susan, it’s great to have you here. So from 1999, can you remember what was going on in this building? Were you in this building in 1999?

Swain: Oh, yes.

Arenstein: Was C-SPA

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Susan L. Swain

American immunologist

Susan L. Swain is a professor of pathology and former director and president of the Trudeau Institute, NY. She was president of the American Association of Immunologists in 2004/5.

Biography

Swain was born in Columbus, Ohio. Her father was a professor of mathematics; her mother, a journalist.[1] She attended Oberlin College, majoring in biology, and received her Ph.D. in immunology from Harvard Medical School. In 1976 she took her first academic appointment as lecturer and research biologist at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla. She stayed at UCSD, becoming professor of biology in 1989, until her appointment as director and Edward C. Brewster Chair of the Trudeau Institute (1996–2007). She also served as president (2003–2007) and president emeritus (2008–2010) of the Trudeau Institute. Since 2010 she has been professor of pathology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA.[2]

She was president of the American Association of Immunologists in 2004/5 and served on the

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