{"id":64,"date":"2022-03-01T02:32:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T02:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brian1.jgndata.biz\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2025-05-15T16:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T16:02:38","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/brianconway.me\/?page_id=64","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/brian1.jgndata.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/BC_Bearded.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82 size-full\" srcset=\"http:\/\/brianconway.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/BC_Bearded.jpeg 600w, http:\/\/brianconway.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/BC_Bearded-300x300.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/brianconway.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/BC_Bearded-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Brian is a full-time independent journalist based in Pittsburgh.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">He is a 2x 2023 Western PA Press Club Golden Quill award winner, in feature and business reporting. And a 3x finalist in the investigative reporting category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">He is a 2018 first prize winner in environmental reporting from the Keystone Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for reporting on lead in Pittsburgh&#8217;s drinking water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">In 2022 and 2021, he was awarded a grant from The Gumshoe Group to support his investigative reporting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">For several years, he served as City Design editor at NEXTpittsburgh. In college, he interned at Al-Arabiya&#8217;s DC bureau, where he helped to produce an interview with then-President George W. Bush in the White House&#8217;s Map Room in the immediate aftermath of the second American invasion of Iraq. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">The president made fun of Brian&#8217;s Pittsburgh accent, calling him &#8220;Bran.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">&#8220;How do you spell that, Bran?&#8221; asked W.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">&#8220;B-R-A-N Bran?&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">In 2022, Brian launched the alt-weekly Pittsburgh Independent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Now, in 2025, he and other independent Pittsburgh journalists are turning the Independent into a collective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:brian.conway@gmail.com\">Get in touch<\/a>, or perhaps <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/brian__conway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">follow Bran on twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Photo by Dustin Dowling \/ <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/machine-crew-media.squarespace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Machine Crew Media<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian is a full-time independent journalist based in Pittsburgh. He is a 2x 2023 Western PA Press Club Golden Quill award winner, in feature and business reporting. And a 3x finalist in the investigative reporting category. He is a 2018 first prize winner in environmental reporting from the Keystone Chapter of the Society of Professional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-64","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brianconway.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brianconway.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brianconway.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brianconway.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brianconway.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/brianconway.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"http:\/\/brianconway.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brianconway.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}