February Chamber Breakfast -- Getting Your Name/Business in Print

Start your Valentine's Day off with a delicious J. Gilbert's breakfast!

Join us Thursday, February 14, 2013 from 7:30 until 9:00 am at J. Gilbert's for our monthly Chamber Breakfast, sponsored by Middleburg Bank. This month's breakfast will discuss working with the media and how to get your company's name in print. Featured panelists include staff from:

• The Washington Business Journal -- Jennifer Nycz-Conner

• The Sun Gazette -- Bruce Potter, Regional Vice President of Northern Virginia Media Services, which publishes the Sun Gazette weekly newspaper serving McLean, Great Falls, Vienna and Oakton.

Bruce Potter is regional vice president of Northern Virginia Media Services, which publishes the Sun Gazette weekly newspaper serving McLean, Great Falls, Vienna and Oakton.  The group produces five weekly newspapers in all, reaching more than 170,000 Northern Virginia households.  Bruce has more than 27 years of experience in the media industry, including 14 years as a reporter and editor for the daily newspapers in Richmond and a stint as assistant business editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch.  He grew up in Richmond and earned a bachelor’s degree from Washington and Lee University and an MBA from University of Richmond.

• The McLean Connection -- Kemal Kurspahic, Managing Editor of Connection Newspapers

Kemal Kurspahic is a managing editor for The Connection Newspapers. He was the editor-in-chief of the Bosnian daily Oslobodjenje in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina, 1988-94. Under his leadership the paper published every day from an atomic bomb shelter during the siege of Sarajevo, maintaining high professional standards and Bosnian culture and tradition of ethnic and religious tolerance in the midst of terror.

Kurspahic received numerous awards for his contribution to press freedom and human rights, including the World Press Review’s International Editor of the Year and the Bruno Kreisky Award for Human Rights in 1993; the International Press Institute’s World Press Freedom Hero in 2000, and the South Eastern Europe Media Organization’s Dr. Erhard Busek Award for Better Understanding in the Region in 2003.

Rob Engle of Engle & Co. will moderate the panel. Mr. Engle will also discuss how to write an effective press release; and one that is well received by the media.  With over 30 years experience in working journalists and editors, he will share insights in the placement of positive publicity, as well as mitigating potentially damaging media exposure.

Our Non Profit Spotlight will feature Glenn Yarborough, Commander of the American Legion, Post 270.