Jan 27 2009 - The Wit and Wisdom of Two of America's Best Print Journalist

The Press Club of Western Pennsylvania invites you to lunch and conversation with USA Today's Kathy Kiely and the Washington Post's Mary Pat Flaherty at noon on January 27, 2009, at the Engineers' Building, 337 Fourth Avenue, downtown.

Kathy and Mary Pat began their journalistic careers at The Pittsburgh Press in the late 1970s before moving on to the national scene.

While in Pittsburgh, Kathy covered such stories as the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant and interviewed Jackie Kennedy in a cemetery. After leaving Pittsburgh, her assignments included coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Clinton White House. She also traveled through Pakistan to Afghanistan with a congressman intent on "killing Communists - as painfully as possible."

Mary Pat's Pittsburgh era included coverage of the death of Mayor Caliguiri and an investigation into the organ transplant system, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986. In 1995, while with the Washington Post's investigative team, she was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for an investigation into the D.C. police department.

During the most recent presidential election, both Kathy and Mary Pat were on the campaign trail.

While most of their outstanding work is performed in public, what you may not know is that these two good friends from Pittsburgh's East End are also very funny and their views of the world and of journalism will make you think and make you laugh.

The conversation with Kathy and Mary Pat following lunch will be moderated by Maddy Ross, who edited both in The Press newsroom, when none of them had any wrinkles.

Please join the conversation. Reservations required are $20 for Press Club members and $25 for nonmembers. Tables of ten cost $200. Send your check by January 21 to The Press Club of Western Pennsylvania, Engineers' Building, 337 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222.

Questions? 412-281-7778