Podcast with Andrew Conte, director, Center for Media Innovation, Point Park University, about media deserts
Posted by Elena del Valle on August 13, 2018
Andrew Conte, director, Center for Media Innovation, Point Park University
Photo: Point Park University
A podcast interview with Andrew Conte, director, Center for Media Innovation, Point Park University is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, he discusses media deserts with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Andrew joined Point Park University in 2005 as a part-time professor and founding director of the Point Park News Service. As an investigative reporter at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review since 2001, he has covered a wide range of topics that include rising health care costs, offshore banking and the legalization of casino gambling across Pennsylvania.
He received national and local awards for his reporting, including a Scripps Howard Foundation award for business reporting, the Carnegie Science Award, and first-place honors from the Inland Press Association, the Association of Health Care Journalists, the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors, and the Associated Press Society of Ohio. His latest book, The Color of Sundays: The Secret Strategy that Built the Steelers’ Dynasty, won a Ben Franklin Silver Award from the Independent Book Publishers Association.
To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right hand side, then select “HMPR Andrew Conte” and click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home from the RSS feed. Some software will not allow flash, which may be necessary for the play button and podcast player. If that is your case, you will need to download the file to play it. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the August 2018 section of the podcast archive.
