As Election Day approaches, we know it can be confusing to navigate the misinformation around federal, state, and local elections and candidates. Join us for a discussion on how to “navigate the noise” and find factual information to help you make an informed voting decision.
Our speakers:
Pat Maday, Vice President at Frank N. Magid Associates, Inc. and leader of The Magid Institute™, and the former News Director of WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh.
Deepak Puri, Co-Founder of Democracy Labs and Silicon Valley exec.
The event will be moderated by Mark Hayes, Executive Director of Varsity Connects, former journalist, and CommonBondz Board Member.
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Pat Maday is Vice President at Frank N. Magid Associates, Inc., a consumer research and consulting company, and leader of The Magid Institute™.
He joined Frank N. Magid Associates, Inc. in January 2005 after more than 16 years in broadcasting. His experience includes everything from the assignment desk to producing daily news reports, newscasts, documentaries, and investigations.
Pat earned his management stripes at the Cox-owned NBC affiliate in Pittsburgh, WPXI-TV, where he was executive producer and assistant news director before becoming news director in January of 2002. During his time there, the station won many awards for its coverage of the crash of Flight 93 on September 11, as well as the trapped coal miners a year later. Long known as one of the most competitive markets in the country, Pat was a key component of the station’s rise to the top of the Pittsburgh market in 2000, and the station’s strength continues to this day. He also developed and managed the company’s Web sites, both a station- and a city-oriented product.
Before moving to Pittsburgh, Pat rose through the ranks in his hometown at WDIV-TV, the Post-Newsweek station in Detroit. There, he spent five years as an assignment editor before spending nearly five more producing. He has won several awards for his work and is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
Deepak Puri is an engineer and Silicon Valley exec with over 18 years experience at Oracle, Netscape and VMware. He co-founded Democracy Labs after the 2106 Presidential election with the mission to apply innovative technology and storytelling to progressive, social justice and voting rights causes.
DemLabs is a nonprofit and shares details on free and affordable solutions. Candidates and advocacy groups can have a bigger impact, faster with less money by using apps that are widely used in the business sector. Deepak publishes a daily blog with over 2,000 case studies at www.thedemlabs.org on topics ranging from geo-targeting, canvassing, video creation, list building, fund raising, relational organizing, AI and mapping.