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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 …
Next year, let one of those faces be yours.
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
When you peruse the 2021 program, you’ll see that the Professional Speechwriters Association has made full use of the recruiting advantages for holding one more virtual conference before returning to …