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…[O]nce you’re launched [as a speechwriter], it’s just like theater or being published, being in a decent production or having a good publisher. After you’ve had a book or two …

The only thing worse than a humorless CEO is a CEO who thinks he’s funny. Notoriously tone-deaf Ryanair chief Michael O’Leary was eventually forced to apologize for having opened a …

Most speechwriters can only dream of the opportunity to write speeches for two candidates squaring off in the same political contest. But Jeremy Larner has actually done it. He wrote …

Brought to you by Dana Rubin, and her New York Speechwriters Roundtable: Princeton University’s president needs a speechwriter to “assist with the preparation of speeches, reports, presentations, statements, articles, daily …

As Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd’s fortunes rose and fell in the late 2000s, his speechwriter kept a diary. Not all of the excerpts Tim Dixon published recently require specific …

This week brings us two tales of speechwriters who attempted to push their influence past their professional bounds. One succeed, the other did not. Lucinda Holdforth has been held back …

Doug Gamble has been injecting what he calls “applause lines, word pictures and anything that gives zip and color” into clients’ speeches for more than three decades. “My job is …

Democratic Orators From JFK to Barack Obama (Edited by: Andrew Crines, David S. Moon and Robert Lehrman (Palgrave, 2016)  You can’t judge a book by its cover—or, in this case, its …

Needing some (rhetorical) distance from the objectivity rigors of this institution, I will be live-blogging the inaugural address—or doing something like it—at my personal blog, Writing Boots. Catch up, by reading the top …

White House Watch: The speechwriting conversation this week was dominated by President Trump’s speech to Congress. After the speech, most scribes agreed at least that it was professionally written and …