Category: News

Lots of executive communication pros we’re talking to are running out of things to tell employees about coronavirus; one of them offered this hard-bitten “Leadership Communications Primer for Numbing Times.” …

I was asleep at 9:00 p.m. but was awakened a couple of hours later, and there’ll be no sleep for awhile. As I have asked myself so many times in …

I quit my job and moved across the country for this speech. It started out with a question I saw written on a white board during my final interview at …

Commencment-speech-a-palooza is taking place on May 15.  Put on by iHeartRadio, Commencement Speeches 2020 will include virtual talks by a couple dozen celebrities, from Hillary Clinton to Pitbull. “High school and college …

We’ve lost hold of the anchoring and orienting forms by which we connect to politics. Guess who to the rescue, for Democrats at least. The day after Bernie Sanders endorsed …

Review of Leading Lines by Lucinda Holdforth (HarperCollins, 2020) If you’re going to read one book about speechwriting this year, then pick up a copy of Australian speechwriter Lucinda Holdforth’s just-published Leading Lines. Her book …

The American Embassy in Poland needs a speechwriter: “Serves as the principal English-language writer for the Ambassador and other senior Embassy officials. Collaborates with the Ambassador to develop original content, appropriately …

Gotham Ghostwriters has introduced the Help Another Writer Out Campaign (#HAWO). “In this moment of economic crisis, we are seeing the freelance writing community respond with its typical reciprocity and …

It was a relatively good week for speeches and speechwriters! On Sunday, Queen Elizabeth gave a widely appreciated televised speech calling on British citizens to show “the quiet, good-humored resolve” they’ve been …

Review of:  FDR on Democracy: The Greatest Speeches and Writings of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, by Harvey J. Kaye (available via Amazon in both print and ebook) In these days of …