Greta Van Susteren To Keynote NewsTECHForum

Longtime electronic journalist Greta Van Susteren will discuss the nexus of politics and the media in the keynote interview at TVNewsCheck’s annual NewsTECHForum on Dec. 16 at the New York Hilton.

Van Susteren, host and moderator of Gray Television’s Full Court Press with Greta Van Susteren, will explore the growing complexities and polarization of political reporting in an interview with Michael Depp, TVNewsCheck’s special projects editor.

Van Susteren is a veteran of CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC. She joined Gray Television in April 2019 as chief national political analyst, reporting from across the U.S. and providing stations with political analyses.

A former trial attorney, she has received numerous distinctions and awards including being named one of the most powerful women in the world by Forbes magazine, the National Headliners Award and the Sandra Day O’Connor Medal of Honor.

The interview will run from 2 to 2:45 p.m. on Dec. 16.

“Greta has been a major force in broadcast journalism for three decades, and she has interviewed a litany of U.S. and world leaders past and present,” Depp said. “Her insights into the tectonic changes happening between politicians and the press are invaluable, especially as the rules of engagement for coverage keep scrambling and we shift into one of the most polarizing U.S. elections in history.”

The seventh annual NewsTECHForum, set for Dec. 16-17 at the New York Hilton, will bring together engineering, news, production and digital leaders to discuss excellence in news storytelling and news workflow.

Panels and presentations will tackle Technology and the 2020 Election Coverage; Cybersecurity in the Newsroom and the Field; News Strategies for OTT and Multiplatform Production Without the Pain; and New Frontiers in News Storytelling among other sessions.

NewsTECHForum is co-located with the 14th Annual SVG Summit, which gathers
over 1,000 sports video professionals and their technology partners to talk about production excellence in sports television. The SVG Summit is produced by the Sports Video Group and features a technology showcase of more than 75 companies that is open to all NewsTECHForum attendees.

This year’s NewsTECHForum will also feature the second annual Social Media Excellence Awards, recognizing extraordinary engagement and innovation by local TV brands and talent.

To register for NewsTECHForum, click here.