Politics from the Inside:

A Media View from Presidential to Personal

Thursday, November 20, 7:30 to 9:30 am

Breakfast Buffet at the Rivers Club

Oxford Center, 301 Grant Street, Fourth Floor

412-391-5227

Fee $30 members; $45 non-members

(Register at the door and add $10)

Join us for breakfast on November 20 and hear four seasoned media professionals discuss some of the important issues affecting this community and all of us as women leaders. Members of this highly experienced media panel will begin by reflecting on the just ended presidential election and what its outcome might mean to the Pittsburgh region. They will move on to a discussion of some of the vital issues affecting us as women leaders. Finally, they will offer their predictions about the future sustainability of today’s media outlets and how possible changes might influence organizations such as EWC and others like it.

Panel members are:

• Jeremy Boren, government and politics reporter for the Pittsburgh Tribune

            Review;

• Jon Delano, Money and Politics editor at KDKA-TV, host of the station’s Sunday Business Page, and adjunct faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, and
• Susan Mannella, former legal affairs and government writer and editor at the Pittsburgh Post Gazette and now a member of the newspaper’s editorial board.

Our moderator is Betsy Benson, longtime business writer who is now publisher of Pittsburgh Magazine and vice president of WQED Multimedia.

The issues conversation will be followed by a Q & A during which you will have a chance to engage the panel in a discussion of the issues that matter most to you.

This program is being presented in partnership with the Women’s Press Club of Pittsburgh, a member of the Women’s Voices, Women’s Votes collaborative.

MORE ABOUT OUR PANELISTS

Betsy Benson

Betsy is the publisher of Pittsburgh Magazine, overseeing several publications and pittsburghmagazine.com for WQED Multimedia, where she also serves as a vice president and member of WQED’s senior staff. Betsy joined WQED in 2003 after 16 years as a reporter and editor at the Pittsburgh Business Times. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in print media communications from the University of Pittsburgh in 1987.

Jeremy Boren

Jeremy Boren is a reporter for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He has covered Pittsburgh city government and politics since March 2005. Boren won awards in 2007 from The Press Club of Western Pennsylvania and the Pittsburgh Black Media Federation Before for a series of articles he co-wrote about an illegal kickback scheme involving a Pittsburgh city councilwoman who later resigned her post and was sentenced to prison. Before joining the Tribune Review, Boren covered crime and courts for the Beaver County Times. He is a 2003 graduate of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University.

Jon Delano

Jon Delano is a familiar face on KDKA-TV, having been the station's political analyst since 1994. In September 2001 Jon joined KDKA full time as the Money & Politics Editor and this region's only political analyst who covers national and local issues that affect hometown residents. He also hosts the KDKA Sunday Business Page, a weekly public affairs program, and writes Money Minutes, financial tips that air nightly.
 
Jon's on-air work began in 1991 after fourteen years working in the US Congress. In 1994 he became the political analyst for KDKA-TV and reported from both the Republican and Democratic presidential conventions in 1996, 2000, and 2004.

Jon has been teaching graduate students for over a decade at Carnegie Mellon University's H. John Heinz School of Public Policy & Management. He writes a weekly column entitled "Government Busters" for the Pittsburgh Business Times and is a contributing writer to Pittsburgh Magazine.

Susan Mannella

Susan Mannella was appointed to the Post-Gazette editorial board in 2007 after a career in writing and editing news. She joined the newspaper as a general assignment reporter and over a 12-year period covered education, legal affairs and local and state government.

In 1988, she made the switch to editing. For 13 years, she was in charge of the city desk's evening staff of reporters and editors. In 2001, she was named assistant managing editor for local news, concentrating on government, politics and the paper's bureaus in city hall, the state capital and Washington, D.C.

A Pittsburgh native, she graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a bachelor's degree in English and communications. A mother of two, she lives in Upper St. Clair.