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Terry O’Reilly is an experienced and influential media executive, who for more than fifty years has worked in leadership positions in the broadcast, cable, satellite and digital industries in the US and abroad.
He presently serves as Chairman of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS), a role to which he was first elected in 2018. During his term, Terry led the organization through a time of strategic change and growth, marked by a reorganization of the Academy’s governance structure, the introduction of
new national competitions (including the Children and Family Emmy® Awards and a standalone Emmy Awards event for Documentaries), the launch of a National NATAS Membership program, and a restoration of collaborative partnerships with its sister organization in Los Angeles (The Television Academy), with which NATAS co-owns the Emmy mark and related intellectual property.
He serves on the Board of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (IATAS), which administers Emmy competitions for media entities around the world.
Terry is also employed by Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation, an operator of public radio and digital media properties in Western Pennsylvania, as its President and Chief Executive Officer. With Terry’s leadership, Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting has grown to become one of that region’s most influential news outlets, and a primary source for original journalism in and around Pittsburgh.
His 50-plus year career in media includes extensive experience in journalism, programming, production and executive leadership, in the US and abroad, with companies such as ABC News, The Weather Channel, Twin Cities Public Television and Westinghouse Broadcasting Company.
Terry is a multiple Emmy Award winner himself, having been so recognized more than two dozen times by the Academy; he was most recently inducted into the Academy’s Gold Circle®, honoring him for 50 years of industry service.
Terry is a visible and well-known advocate for local journalism, and for America’s public media system.
Terry is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame (BA, American Studies, 1976), with post-graduate and executive studies at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, and at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Business.