Category: News

2020 presidential candidate Tom Steyer seeks a speechwriter with three to five years’ experience to handle “speeches, op-eds, statements, talking points, social posts, web copy and political video scripts.”

Speechwriters and their clients ought to listen to this fine interview of City of London Corporation speechwriter Sam Cooper, by surgeon and academic Roger Kneebone. For a lay audience, a lucid …

Speechwriter: In early July, I wrote the following on my personal blog, Writing Boots. Re-reading it with speechwriters in mind, I wondered if a member of an ill-defined craft does need to do …

• Speechwriter runs for Congress. Former Kathy Sebelius speechwriter Abbie Hodgson is running as a Democrat in Kansas’ 2ndcongressional district, which includes Lawrence, Topeka and Leavenworth. “I have always been someone …

Chicago’sCME Group seeks a senior speechwriter to write speeches for “senior executives at CME to include the Chief Executive Officer and other C-Suite Executives. Working as an integrated part of the Corporate …

A new book, Speechwriting in Theory and Practice devotes one chapter to the Greeks and the Romans—and what they mean to you, the average speechwriter. Here's an excerpt from that chapter, which …

A politician friend of mine got worked up enough to write me a longhand letter this week: “I’m writing because my naiveté was crushed last evening. I said a few …

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is hiring a speechwriter (we kid you not). “The speechwriter will work closely with the agency’s Bureau of Communications, Press Office, and cabinet to plan …

Review of Speechwriting In Theory and Practice, byJens E. Kjeldsen, Amos Kiewe, Marie Lund and Jette Barnholdt Hansen (Palgrave, 2019; 212 pages) Speechwriters have hoped for a long time to …