HOST & PRODUCER

"In Conversation with Natalie Bencivenga" welcomes guests from all different walks of life to inspire, educate and activate the audience to take steps to create a more equitable world for all. Topics include politics, pop culture, science, history, art, current events happening in Pittsburgh and much more! 

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This show is currently on haiatius. 

WQED Multimedia and Benci Productions, an independent media company owned and operated by journalist Natalie Bencivenga, have launched "Destination with Natalie Bencivenga", a new series devoted to highlighting immigrant communities and their contributions to Pittsburgh neighborhoods—both past and present.

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Immigrant-owned local businesses, community leaders, and Pittsburghers from all walks of life will be featured on Destination with Natalie Bencivenga. Working through differences and celebrating diverse cultures is at the heart of building strong communities, and this new series uses conversations to build bridges between neighbors who may not have connected before.

Week in Focus is a digital series in partnership with the Pennsylvania Capital-Star in which Natalie breaks down top headlines relating to Pennsylvania politics,  current events, and more.

Originating as an award-winning weekly video series that ran through spring of 2025, Facts Over Fear is now a newsletter and interview series with almost 3,000 subscribers. This series turns the focus away from fear and gets straight to the facts surrounding a wide variety of national issues.

Have you ever scrolled past an article or turned off the news because a story didn't interest you? Maybe you thought, this has nothing to do with, why waste my time?

Natalie's interview series, Dare to Care, ran monthly with Pennsylvania Capital-Star through the end of 2024.

Natalie is a regular contributor to KDKA's new afternoon show, "Talk Pittsburgh," hosted by Heather Abraham, which airs weekdays from 3-4 PM. This segment drills down on a topic that impacts Pittsburgh and how we can educate ourselves around the issue and then be inspired to make positive change! 

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This segment ran from 2023-2025.

Natalie produced and co-hosted NEXTpittsburgh’s weekly podcast with journalist Tony Norman. 

Their warm, thoughtful rapport was built over the years spent together in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newsroom. The award-winning journalists focused on all the news you needed to know – but maybe hadn’t heard about elsewhere, as well as discussions of the state of the media and ways to activate listeners to become engaged with issues that mattered to them. They shared hot takes on local and national issues, politics and pop culture and welcomed a guest each episode to drill down on topics that center justice while illuminating ways to strengthen our communities.

Natalie produced and hosted a weekly interview series with local political candidates and thought leaders on Instagram LIVE in partnership with Pittsburgh City Paper.

"Heating Up" was a digital-first show by socially conscious journalist, media personality and entrepreneur Natalie Bencivenga and climate change activist Leandra Mira. It combined plant-based cooking with conversations around the dining table about environmental activism and social justice. It premiered in August 2021 and ran for 10 weeks.

Co-hosted Pittsburgh Today Live on numerous occasions and was a monthly contributor for almost a decade.