Beth Konrad

Beth Konrad’s career in communication spans more than three decades covering a wide variety of positions in media, corporate, academic and civic affairs.  She has been an award winning TV and radio reporter and anchor, a ‌news director, editorialist, business owner, corporate executive and an advocate for social causes and community development. Konrad has worked with major media outlets in Detroit, Chicago and San Francisco. She teaches Broadcast News, Reporting and Writing across Platforms, Interviewing, Introduction to Communication and Public Speaking-Critical Thinking.

Her broadcasting and reporting experiences include positions with ABC (Chicago and Detroit), NBC (San Francisco), PBS and Post Newsweek (Detroit).  

Konrad is the recipient of three Emmys, the National Headliner Award, the Society of Professional Journalists Distinguished Service Award, numerous AP and UPI awards and several community leadership citations. She has a M.A. from Wayne State University and B.S from Indiana State University. In 2005, Konrad was presented with a Distinguished Alumni Award from Indiana State University. She is the past president of the Chicago Headline Club, the largest SPJ professional chapter in the country. Konrad is also the faculty advisor for Loyola’s student chapter of The Society of Professional Journalists. The chapter has been recognized as the best regional journalism chapter for several years. In 2009, Konrad was awarded the David L. Eshelman Outstanding Campus Advisor award.

Konrad is a noted spokesperson on numerous journalism and freedom of information issues and has made appearances or participated in interviews on NPR’s All Things Considered, ABC 7 Chicago, WMAQ NBC 5 Chicago, The New York Times and the Associated Press.

Konrad is also experienced in Public Relations and Public Affairs. She was the founder and president of Konrad & Moore, Inc., a communications consulting firm in Chicago and Detroit from 1995 to 2006. She was also a Senior Vice President and Director of Public Affairs for First Chicago- NBD, (now Chase) from 1988 to 1995.