Adriel Bettelheim

Adriel Bettelheim's Courses

Breaking into Political Writing – Washington DC (Seminar on September 23)

Adriel Bettelheim
Adriel Bettelheim is an editor at Congressional Quarterly, where he oversees coverage of health care, energy, the environment, entitlement programs, and government regulation for CQ Weekly magazine. He also steers Congressional Quarterly's contributions to Politifact.com, a political web site jointly operated with the St. Petersburg Times that fact-checks the truthfulness of presidential candidates' claims and advertising. As a Washington-based reporter and editor for Congressional QuarterlyThe Denver Post, Adriel has covered presidential campaigns, power shifts in Congress, Supreme Court confirmation battles, the enactment of the Patriot Act, and the overhaul of Medicare. His reporting has been recognized with a Sigma Delta Chi bronze medallion and awards from the Colorado Associated Press editors and New York State Publishers Association. He is the author of Aging in America: A to Z, a reference book about the politics surrounding aging issues.

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CQ's Adriel Bettelheim is an expert in the mainstream, daily news business and the congressional and specialized, committee inner workings. Bettelheim, a published professional, knows his beat: Washington, D.C. From key, political players to a changing industry, Bettelheim discusses journalism and is accessible to both yeomen and more accomplished journalists. -Kevin Spence