Meet your mentor
White House speechwriter Stephen Miller has used his position as a trusted and convicted policy articulator to become a broadly influential policymaker. Isn't that what everyone wants to do? “Mr. …
How to Be an Ethical Speechwriter
I HATE TALKING ABOUT ETHICS IN COMMUNICATION, because I either come off as crusty, or naive. But George Washington University's new Project on Ethics in Political Communication came calling. In …
Exec comms jobs great and small
Nissan seeks a corporate narrative and executive communications manager. The company describes the France-based job this way: “Overseeing the company’s corporate narrative, you will serve as the reference point in Nissan …
Chez Sorensen is for sale
Ted Sorensen was never for sale, but Chez Sorensen is. The late Camelot scribe’s Westchester, N.Y. estate is called Serendipity, and though Google won’t tell us why, surely every speechwriter shares …
Manhattan Borough prez seeks speechwriter
Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer is seeking a speechwriter to be “responsible for copy for various outreach purposes, particularly brief remarks and long-form speeches (on topics high and low); policy …
Hate Has No Place in America
Good morning. My fellow Americans, this morning, our nation is overcome with shock, horror, and sorrow. This weekend, more than 80 people were killed or wounded in two evil attacks. …
No more secrets
Speechwriter comes out of closet (again). Kathleen Wyatt is an executive speechwriter at Shell, in London. On the company blog, she writes about recently coming out as gay—for the second …
“An Effort to Understand” isn’t my book, it’s our book; and I need your help
I need your help, with our book. I’ve written a book called An Effort to Understand (you might recognize that line from Robert Kennedy’s Indianapolis speech after the assassination of …
The Father of Australian Speechwriting Is Dead
The father of Australian speechwriting died last week. Graham Freudenberg wrote for Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and many other Labor Party leaders. Eulogized on Twitter by a longtime colleague as a …