Lisa Fleisher and Matt Katz - Hall Public Forum
Channel: hall1nstitute
Date: 18/07/2011

This edition of The Hall Public Forum was streamed live on Thursday June 21st, 2011 at 10:00 AM.

Hall Institute Communications Director Rich Lee sat down with two New Jersey journalists who cover the state for papers based out of the state:  Lisa Fleisher of the Wall Street Journal and The Philadelphia Inquirer's Matt Katz.

About our guests:

Lisa Fleisher is the New Jersey news reporter for The Wall Street Journal, covering Gov. Chris Christie, politics, education in the Garden State.  Previously, she had worked as a statehouse bureau reporter for the Star-Ledger.  She's been noted for her use of social media in concert with traditional reporting.

You can follow her on Twitter @lisafleisher, read her blog at http://lisafleisher.com/ or read her work in the Wall Street Journal.
http://online.wsj.com/search/term.html?KEYWORDS=LISA+FLEISHER&bylinesearch=true

Matt Katz has covered municial government, education, and crime in New Jersey since 2000 and now covers New Jersey and has worked as the Philadelphia Inquirer's beat reporter for Camden, NJ.  Matt now covers New Jersey governor Chris Christie for the Inquirer's Trenton bureau.

In 2010, he won a Livingston Award for international reporting for his series "Mired in Afghanistan," which appeared in the Inquirer.  http://www.philly.com/philly/news/special_packages/104077639.html

Matt blogs at Matt-Katz.com, you can follow him on Twitter @mattkatz00, or read his Inquirer blog The Christie Chronicles.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/christie_chronicles/?c=r