Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon's Engineering College Hosts News Media To Discuss Coverage of Upcoming G20 Summit
September 18, 2009
Contact: Chriss Swaney
Carnegie Mellon University
412.268.5776
Carnegie Mellon Engineering Dean Pradeep K. Khosla will welcome panel members, and M. Granger Morgan, head of the university's Engineering and Public Policy Department, will moderate a panel designed to give journalists a forum to explain the tools they will use for covering the summit, and what piques their interest when it comes to creating tomorrow's headlines.
Panel members include Howard Fineman, Newsweek's chief political correspondent, senior editor and deputy Washington bureau chief; James R. (Bob) Hagerty, a Wall Street Journal reporter who is a former managing editor of the Asian Wall Street Journal, and former bureau chief of the International Herald Tribune and Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, London, Brussels, Paris and Atlanta; Jonathan Kersting, associate publisher and editor of the Pittsburgh Technology Council's TEQ news magazine; and Dennis Roddy, a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette staff reporter assigned to covering the G-20. The event is open to the public.
When: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Monday, Sept. 21.
Where: Singleton Room, Roberts Hall of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, off Frew Street and Schenley Park.