CNN’s Chalian To Keynote MFM Conference

David Chalian, political director for CNN, will deliver a keynote address at the upcoming Media Finance Focus conference, scheduled for May 22-24 at The Hyatt Grand Cypress in Orlando, Fla. Chalian’s keynote will occur during the opening general session, which begins at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, May 22.

“2016 marked a significant change in the way campaigns and elections are run in the U.S.,” said Mary M. Collins, MFM-BCCA president-CEO. “As a seasoned political news analyst who now oversees one of the country’s largest multiplatform political news operations, David Chalian will reflect on the impact of this change while providing the media industry’s financial management community insights on the merging of newsgathering efforts to reach audiences in today’s fragmented media environment and his thoughts about what lies ahead for the future of journalism.”

Media Finance Focus 2017, the 57th annual conference for MFM and its BCCA subsidiary, the media industry’s credit association, serves as the primary source of professional education for business and credit management executives in the media industry, including its newspaper, television, radio, cable, online, mobile and other digital media enterprises. A welcoming reception is planned for Sunday evening, May 21.

As CNN’s political director, David Chalian oversees political coverage across all CNN platforms as well as plays an instrumental role in the network’s daily coverage by providing on-air political analysis across the network’s programs.

 Prior to arriving at CNN, Chalian was VP for video programming at Politico where he oversaw all of the video efforts including Politico Live special events coverage and all new video program and product development.

Before that, Chalian was Washington bureau chief for Yahoo News, political editor and on-air political analyst for PBS NewsHour and political director of ABC News.

Prior to joining ABC News, Chalian produced Inside City Hall, a nightly political program for New York cable news channel NY1 News.

Chalian is a graduate of Northwestern University.