Brad Bumsted

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Brad Bumsted is a prominent journalist in Pennsylvania. Until 2016, he worked for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review . He is noted for writing "reform-minded stories" about the Pennsylvania General Assembly. [1]

In 2005, he was named one of "Pennsylvania's Most Influential Reporters" by the Pennsylvania political news website PoliticsPA. [2] In 2008, the political website PolitickerPA.com named him one of the "Most Powerful Political Reporters" in Pennsylvania. [3] The Pennsylvania Report named him to the 2009 "The Pennsylvania Report 100" list of influential figures in Pennsylvania politics and described him as a "mainstay in the halls of the capitol." [1] In October 2016, Bumsted became Bureau Chief of The Caucus, a watchdog publication on state government owned by LNP Media Group launched in January, 2017. The weekly tabloid has won numerous state and international awards. [4]

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  1. 1 2 "PA Report 100" (PDF). Pennsylvania Report. Capital Growth, Inc. January 23, 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-01-27.
  2. "Pennsylvania's Most Influential Reporters". PoliticsPA . 2006. Archived from the original on 2006-01-09.
  3. Edge, Wally (July 21, 2008). "Most powerful political reporters". PolitickerPA.com . The Observer Media Group.[ permanent dead link ]
  4. "Home". thecaucuspa.com.