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BILL FLANAGAN

Bill Flanagan is Executive Vice President-Corporate Relations for the Allegheny Conference on Community Development and its affiliated regional development organizations. In this role‚ he also hosts “Our Region's Business” on WPXI-TV, WJAC-TV, WTOV-TV and the Pittsburgh Cable News Channel (PCNC)‚ a program the Conference produces in partnership with Cox Television. Bill supervises Investor Relations activities for the Conference and Affiliates‚ including fundraising‚ membership services and educational programming. He oversees organizational communications and serves as Executive Director of Pittsburgh 250‚ the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Pittsburgh region in 2008. Bill's conversation can highlight the ways the city is using its 250th birthday to promote its designation as “America's Most Livable City” (Places Rated Almanac, 2007) and change outdated perceptions. He also can center his discussion on business and personal finance, as well as serve as Moderator for a panel style engagement. ”

MORE ABOUT BILL FLANAGAN: Prior to September 2001, Bill had covered the economy of southwestern Pennsylvania for more than 13 years as Money Editor of KDKA-TV, where he was Pittsburgh's only broadcast reporter devoted exclusively to business and personal finance, and where he hosted “The Sunday Business Page.” Bill came to the region in 1982 as a general assignment reporter for the television station. He also has written about personal finance for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and KDKA-AM. A graduate of Northwestern University (B.S. Speech), Bill has a Master's Degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is a native of Dover, Delaware. Bill and his wife, Ann Devlin Flanagan, have two children.

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