President Carter: ‘Open and Eloquent in His Own Way’
A version of this piece appeared here on April 8, 2015. Achsah Nesmith died last March, at 84. —ed. *** From 1977 to 1981, former journalist Achsah Nesmith wrote speeches …
Aram Bakshian, speechwriter to three Republican presidents, is dead
Longtime presidential speechwriter Aram Bakshian died Wednesday from pancreatic cancer, at 78. Bakshian wrote for Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan. Perhaps his most lasting contribution was “the Skutnik,” a Bakshian …
Executive Communication Summit, Illustrated
Next year, let one of those faces be yours.
Speechwriters! Calling on Your Support for a New Anthology of Women’s Speeches
Seventy-six years ago this month, Helen Gahagan Douglas squared off against Joseph McCarthy and the Red Scare in a historic speech on the floor of the US House of Representatives. …
A Communicator’s Gift, for the Holidays
Every holiday season a hotshot PR guy we worked with used to send a barrel of popcorn for the holidays. Another consultant used to donate, in our name, to the …
Speechwriters, visible
The seed of the idea for an online store for Professional Speechwriters Association-branded gear began to grow at the very first PSA World Conference, back in 2014. The swag we …
The Last Virtual PSA World Conference, Visually Recalled
A friend of mine asked how last week’s World Conference of the Professional Speechwriters’ Association went. I immodestly said it was a big hit. He asked, “Even virtually? How?” Good …
Speechwriters’ Census 2021
There’s been so much focus on exec comms generally over the last couple of crisis years—but less on speechwriting, specifically. The Professional Speechwriters Association wants to take major stock of the …
Introduce Your Communicators to the Communicator’s Communicator
From the Desk of David Murray, Founder and Executive Director of the Professional Speechwriters Association and the Executive Communication Council, and author of the critically acclaimed new communication bible, An …
Exec comms is from Mars, internal comms is from Venus
The Executive Communication Council convened an Employee Communication Summit to help internal comms folks and exec comms folks work together better. Last week, conference co-chair Sharon McIntosh and I saw …