A version of this piece appeared here on April 8, 2015. Achsah Nesmith died last March, at 84. โed. *** From 1977 to 1981, former journalist Achsah Nesmith wrote speeches …
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 โthe Skutnik,โ a Bakshian …
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 weekโs World Conference of the Professional Speechwritersโ Association went. I immodestly said it was a big hit. He asked, โEven virtually? How?โ Good …
There’s been so much focus on exec comms generally over the last couple of crisis yearsโbut 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 …
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