The Pundit Project: Media Training By ThinkProgress
How do I get on TV and radio? How do I make winning arguments once I'm on the air? Learn all the tips to a successful TV/radio appearance from experienced pundits. Participants will be given on opportunity to appear on camera and receive constructive feedback on their performances.
Faiz Shakir is the Research Director at the Center for American Progress and serves as Editor-in-Chief of ThinkProgress.org. He holds a BA in Government from Harvard University and a JD from the Georgetown Law Center. Faiz is co-author of Howard Dean’s Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform. He also authored a chapter entitled “Blogging the election” in The Change We Need: What Britain Can Learn from Obama’s Victory. Faiz has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, and CNBC television, among other places, and has been a guest on many radio shows.
Amanda Terkel is Deputy Research Director at the Center for American Progress and serves the Managing Editor for The Progress Report and ThinkProgress.org, the award-winning top political blog. Amanda has also served as the Center’s Special Assistant for Strategic Planning and has experience on various national and state-level political campaigns and in government offices.
While at ThinkProgress, Amanda has helped guide the site from a start-up nonprofit blog to an award-winning progressive site that drives the debates of the day, focusing on rapid-response research, reporting, and analysis. According to Politico, ThinkProgress has been on "a steady upward climb since launching in January 2005" and is now making its mark on the national political scene.
Amanda's writings have been published by The New York Times, Politico, Salon, The Daily Beast, the Columbia Journalism Review, the Guardian, The American Prospect, and In These Times. She has appeared as a guest on various television and radio networks, including MSNBC, Fox News, and BBC. She was named a New Leaders Council 40 Under 40 Award winner in 2010. She graduated from Colgate University magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in political science. She originally hails from Western New York.
Nico Pitney is National Editor of The Huffington Post. Previously, he was managing editor of ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress.
Jane Hamsher is the Founder and Publisher of Firedoglake. Jane's work has appeared on the Huffington Post, Alternet and The American Prospect. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC and PBS and is the author of the best selling book Killer Instinct. She has produced such films Natural Born Killers and Permanent Midnight and currently lives in Washington, D.C.
