{"id":585,"date":"2006-04-27T07:41:51","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T07:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=585"},"modified":"2025-06-12T16:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T16:27:01","slug":"bookexpo-america-will-feature-journalists-galore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/bookexpo-america-will-feature-journalists-galore\/","title":{"rendered":"BookExpo America will feature journalists galore"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re attending the giant BookExpo America<\/a> convention in Washington, D.C. May 18-21, pay attention to the journalists, book reviewers and other media people who will be there, keynoting or speaking on panels.<\/p>\n

I found these names while paging through the convention program. This list is by no means comprehensive.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thursday, May 18:<\/p>\n

10-11 a.m.–Creating Digital Press Kits, Jess Todfeldt, “Fox & Friends”<\/p>\n

11:30-12:30–How to Prepare for Media Interviews, Jess Todfeldt<\/p>\n

2:30-3:30–Capturing the Baby Boomer Behemoth: Are Publishers Ready?, Hugh Delehanty, Editor-in-Chief, AARP Publications<\/p>\n

5-6 PM, Opening keynote by Tim Russert, Host of “Meet the Press”
\nFriday, May 19:<\/p>\n

10:30-11:30 a.m.–National Public Radio, Meet the Producers panel: Amy Salit of “Fresh Air,” Setsuko Sato of “Talk of the “Nation,” Susan Sweeney of “All Things Considered”<\/p>\n

11-11:45 a.m.–The BEA Interview Series with Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine<\/p>\n

Noon-2: Saturday Book & Author Luncheon with commentator Pat Buchanan, “20\/20” reporter Lynn Sherr<\/p>\n

1-2 p.m.–DC Print Media: Meet the Editors, Carol Memmott, book critic for USA Today; Benjamin Schwarz, literary & national editor, Atlantic Monthly; Marie Arana, editor, Washington Post Book World<\/p>\n

2:30-3:30 p.m.–State of the Thriller, including David J. Montgomery, critic, Chicago Sun-Times<\/p>\n

3-4 p.m.–Fiction Under 40 and the Future of the Novel, Lev Grossman, book critic, Time magazine; Laura Miller, journalist, critic & co-founder of Salon.com; John Freeman, freelance writer & book critic, Jennifer Reese, critic, Entertainment Weekly; Oscar Villalon, book editor, San Francisco Chronicle\u00a0<\/p>\n

4-5 p.m.–Mind Body Spirit Publishing: Marketing Trend Update: Lynn Garrett, religion editor, Publishers Weekly
\n(I won’t be attending this year because of a prior commitment.)<\/p>\n

Note: When you meet journalists at these events, this is NOT the time to pitch. Paul Furiga, a former business journal editor who was my guest on a teleseminar a few years ago on “How to Use Business Journals to Tell Your Story,”<\/a> says events like this are\u00a0crowded and noisy and the last thing journalists\u00a0want to hear is your story idea. Introduce yourself and ask if it’s OK to follow up with a call or email later the following week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re attending the giant BookExpo America convention in Washington, D.C. May 18-21, pay attention to the journalists, book reviewers and other media people who will be there, keynoting or speaking on panels. I found these names while paging through the convention program. This list is by no means comprehensive.\u00a0\u00a0 Thursday, May 18: 10-11 a.m.–Creating\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":4,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[608,205],"class_list":{"0":"post-585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-authors-publishers","8":"tag-pitching","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41685,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/41685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}