Jim Deegan

About

Jim Deegan is a senior media professional who has worked as a reporter, editor, producer and manager in the television, print and digital publishing industries. He has led content strategy and award-winning staffs through numerous changes in the media and information industry. His teams are driven by their commitment to break news daily, tell stories exclusively and dutifully serve the audiences that rely on them. He steered lehighvalleylive.com to unprecedented digital audience growth and led a staff that consistently outpunched its weight class and exceeded goals. He leads LehighValleyNews.com and the news division at Lehigh Valley Public Media, which he joined in 2018 after three decades in the newspaper and digital news industry. He has produced hundreds of shows for PBS39 and received numerous regional Emmy Award nominations as a producer and editor. PBS39 is part of Lehigh Valley Public Media, whose platforms also include WLVR 91.3 FM, an NPR news and information station; and LehighValleyNews.com, a nonprofit local news website that launched in October 2022 and covers Lehigh and Northampton counties in eastern Pennsylvania.