Meet the Press
Co-sponsored by the Society for Marketing Professional Services - Seattle (SMPS) and the American Institute of Architects Seattle (AIA Seattle)
Presented by:
Northwest Video Edge, MCW Events, & We Shoot
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Time: Networking / Registration at 11:30 - Lunch served at 11:45 AM - Presentation begins at 12:30 PM - Adjourned at 1:30 PM
Place: Washington Athletic Club, 1325 Sixth Avenue, Seattle
Registration: Click Here
Architects, engineers, and construction companies want to receive positive recognition for their work, but sometimes how to get great media coverage can be a mystery. Join us for a panel discussion featuring key members of the local media to help answer questions such as: How can A/E/C firms work more effectively with the media? What are the hot trends in the media? Does advertising affect editorial coverage? What's the best way to pitch a story?
This luncheon will give you the opportunity to hear from local media personalities from various consumer and A/E/C industry publications and learn how these publications work. Come and learn how you can enhance your relationship with the media that matter most to your firm and potential clients.
AIA members can earn 1.5 LUs for attending this program
Panelists:
Rebecca Teagarden - Pacific Northwest Magazine, Seattle Times
Rebecca Teagarden grew up in a housing development that featured four floor plans repeated hundreds of times throughout the neighborhood—rambler, Rambler, spit-level. Split-level, rambler, split-level. It was there she started dreaming of her "perfect house." Throughout her 30-year newspaper career as a sportswriter, news editor, features writer and, finally, an architecture and design writer for Pacific Northwest magazine, house and home have been her constant passion. Rebecca has owned 11 homes in her adult life—including one she and her ex-husband built by their own hands 16 years ago on 31 acres near Darrington, utilizing solar panels and rain-barrel collection for the water supply. Others have included a 1905 cottage in Magnolia, a 1950s ranch near Mill Creek, a 1970s skinny house in Ballard, and a 1980s contemporary bluff house in Mukilteo. Today, Rebecca and her shiny new husband live in a Japanese farmhouse in Madison Valley designed by George Suyama. For work she is privileged to write about the best homes in one of the best cities for architecture and design in this country.
Jeanne Lang Jones - Puget Sound Business Journal
Jeanne Lang Jones covers commercial real estate for the Puget Sound Business Journal. Jones received several national awards this year from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and from the National Association of Real Estate Editors for her stories on the impact of an obscure federal green card program on industrial property values in Sodo. Prior to joining the Business Journal, Jones worked as a regional Web editor for a competing, short-lived dot com company. Jones has been through two real estate booms and one bust in this market. She spent 18 years in Houston, Texas where there is no zoning.
Shawna Gamache - Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
Shawna Gamache covers architecture, engineering, city government and planning for the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce and writes the paper's SeattleScape blog. Gamache was born in Seattle, grew up in Kirkland and has a Master's degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. She previously covered state government and politics for the Idaho Statesman in Boise.
Barbara Morgan - Washington CEO Magazine
Barbara Morgan is a veteran journalist with deep roots in Washington's business community. Morgan's background in journalism as the longtime editor and vice president of the King County Journal in Bellevue and in previous editorial leadership positions in California provides her with impressive journalistic credentials. She understands business news and how to make it meaningful for the more than 170,000 decision makers who read Washington CEO each month. She sets high standards and is hell-bent for stories that are accurate, fair and insightful. A successful business magazine editor, however, needs more than a journalism background. Passion and vision also are critical elements. An unabashed passion for the role that business plays in building the economy, providing jobs and paving the way for social and political progress. Barbara's stated vision is to make Washington CEO a statewide forum for information, debate and solutions.
Moderator:
Sheila Bacon, Owner "Scribe" (former editor of Northwest Construction Magazine)
Sheila Bacon is a writer living in the Green Lake neighborhood of Seattle. She worked as an editor at McGraw-Hill for seven years, and now contributes almost exclusively to the construction, engineering and architecture industries as a freelancer. She works closely with clients to develop in-house marketing material, web content and publishable feature stories. Her work has appeared in dozens of local, national and international trade and mainstream publications such as Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce, Seattle Business Monthly, AGC’s Constructor magazine, and UK-based Passenger Terminal World.
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