Beth Konrad’s career in communication spans more than three decades covering a wide variety of positions in media, corporate, academic and civic affairs. She has been a reporter, anchor, news director, editorialist, business owner, corporate executive and an advocate for social causes and community development. Konrad teaches Broadcast News, Reporting & Writing Across Platforms and Public Speaking and Crititical Thinking.

In June 2010, The Chicago Headline Club was awarded a McCormick Foundation grant for a Chicago citywide survey on the state of transparency and reporter access. The survey begins in early 2011. Konrad is the project director.

An interview with Konrad, steming from a judge's ruling on Medill's Innocence Project, aired in Fall 2011 on NPR's All Things Considered in a story by David Schaper. A Chicago judge had ordered Northwestern University to turn over to prosecutors 500 emails between Professor David Protess and his investigative journalism students, ruling that they were not protected under the Illinois reporter's privilege law, but as investigators for the defense.

Konrad's broadcasting and reporting experiences include positions with ABC (Chicago and Detroit), NBC (San Francisco), PBS and Post Newsweek (Detroit).  Konrad is the recipient of three Emmys, the National Headliner Award, the Society of Professional Journalists Distinguished Service Award, numerous AP and UPI awards and several community leadership citations. She has a M.A. from Wayne State University and B.S from Indiana State University. In 2005, Konrad was presented with a Distinguished Alumni Award from Indiana State University.  

She is the past president of the Chicago Headline Club, the largest SPJ professional chapter in the country. Konrad is also the faculty advisor for Loyola’s student chapter of The Society of Professional Journalists. The chapter has been recognized as the best regional journalism chapter for 2009, 2007 and 2006. In 2009, Konrad was awarded the David L. Eshelman Outstanding Campus Advisor award.