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On Monday we learned that 181 CEOs had signed a “Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation” that broadened core constituents beyond just shareholders. Employees, suppliers and communities are now …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 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 …
We keep hearing that Boris Johnson is the United Kindgom’s version of Donald Trump. Why do they get the rhetorically sophisticated one? Even if the new prime minister’s political agenda …