Lexi Belculfine, MBA

Lexi Belculfine, MBA
Assistant Vice President & Managing Director
Center for Media Innovation

 

Lexi Belculfine (BELL-cue-fine) joined the Center for Media Innovation as Assistant Vice President & Managing Director following a distinguished journalism career across Pennsylvania focused on local news, digital strategy, audience and product development, newsroom leadership and sustainability.  

At the Philadelphia Inquirer, Belculfine oversaw daily operations of its website and app, led a team of digital strategists focused on audience habit, and led its newsletter suite during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 presidential election. 

In 2016, Belculfine launched The Incline, a digital news start-up covering Pittsburgh. There, she covered the Tree of Life massacre and the 2016 presidential election. As founding editor of The Incline, she spoke at the opening of the Center for Media Innovation. 

Belculfine, who grew up in Beaver County, also worked as a copy editor and reporter at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where she covered Pittsburgh and Allegheny County governments, criminal and civil courts, and crime and breaking news.

She earned her undergraduate degree in print journalism at Penn State University. Belculfine served as editor-in-chief of the 20,000-circulation student-run Daily Collegian, covering the Jerry Sandusky scandal and the death of Joe Paterno. 

Questions about the future of journalism that sat in the intersection of product, business and leadership led her to earn an MBA at the University of Pittsburgh, where she also worked. During that program, she completed a research practicum on the impact of artificial intelligence on local newsrooms in America.
 

Belculfine is most proud of having spoken at SXSW, launching The Incline, climbing Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, and being a member of the Online News Association’s Women’s Leadership Accelerator.

She lives in Ingram Borough with her fiancée and their two pitt-bull mixes, Atlas and Eros.

 

Education

• MBA, University of Pittsburgh
• B.A., Print Journalism, The Pennsylvania State University

Professional Experience

• Senior Editor; Deputy Managing Producer & Mobile Editor — The Philadelphia Inquirer
• Founding Editor — The Incline
• Reporter; Copy Editor — The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• Senior Director — University of Pittsburgh

 

 You may reach her at lexi.belculfine@pointpark.edu.