Just confirmed today: Andrea Bernstein, award-winning WNYC radio journalist will moderate the Brooklyn Blogfest panel. Yay. We really lucked out.
Award-winning journalist Andrea Bernstein heads up coverage of transportation, urban planning, infrastructure and sustainability. As Director of the public radio Transportation Nation project, Bernstein works with Marketplace, The Takeaway and seven public radio stations across the country to deepen their coverage of these issues.
In 2007 and 2008, as Political Director, Bernstein covered the Presidential election from the primaries through the debates to election night, culminating her work in the Takeaway series “Counties that Count,” which focused on voter attitudes and opinions in eleven key swing counties across America.
Bernstein joined the WNYC news staff in 1998. She’s covered government and politics for over a decade, and has at various points been assigned to Hillary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg, George Pataki, Eliot Spitzer, David Paterson, and Charles Schumer. She’s also covered rebuilding at the World Trade Center Site and the campaign for the 2012 Olympics.
Bernstein was one of twelve U.S. Journalists to win a prestigious 2007 Knight Fellowship at Stanford University. She has won over three dozen team and individual awards for her work, including the Investigative Reporters and Editors award for radio, the National Press Club award for environmental reporting, and national Murrow and Society for Professional Journalists awards for investigative reporting. In 2009, she became a Hoover Media Fellow.
She was political correspondent for The New York Observer for eight years, and her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Newsday, The Daily News, The Nation, and Salon.com
Also, did you know that thanks to Absolut Vodka this event is FREE??
More surprises are coming.
How many bloggers does it take to fill the Brooklyn Lyceum (Fourth Avenue & President Street)? Come find out at the Fifth Annual Brooklyn Blogfest on June 8 at 7:00 PM when the borough’s most opinionated and dedicated bloggers (and surprise special guests) step away from their keyboards to sound off about how and why Brooklyn remains such a rich source of material and inspiration.
But forget about filling the room. Here’s the real question the Brooklyn Blogfest will answer: How many bloggers does it take to wrap their arms around New York’s most happening borough? So, whether you are a blogger, wannablogger, reader, or media maven, you’ll want to come see for yourself. And meet up with this year’s most tenaciously keen tribe of bloggers as they gather to celebrate all the reasons Brooklyn is such a potent source of runaway creativity.
Since it was founded in 2005, the Brooklyn Blogfest has established itself as the nexus of creativity, talent, and insight among the blogosphere’s brightest lights. This year will be no different as a panel of blogging’s best disect the unique brand of entrepreneurial creativity flourishing here. Also on tap: a video tribute to Brooklyn’s most visionary photo bloggers, special networking sessions for like-minded bloggers (i.e. Blogs of a Feather), the return of the ever-popular Shout-out, when bloggers are invited to share their blogs with the world, and a roof-raising after-party with ABSOLUT® VODKA cocktails, food and music.
“The borough of Brooklyn has always been front and center in the world of blogging,” says Louise Crawford, founder of the Brooklyn Blogfest and onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn.com. “Whether you live by a blog, blog to live, or live to blog, you’ll want to come out on June 8.”
The 2010 BROOKLYN BLOGFEST is sponsored by ABSOLUT® VODKA