Andrew Graham
Media Strategist
New York, NY
I’m a media strategist in New York, NY with a specialty in globalization, financial services, and energy/the environment. I do a lot of public relations and writing on behalf of companies and executives; that’s a fancy way of saying that I spend all day in front of a MacBook Air reading and writing the news, and sometimes companies pay me for it.
I’ve created and responded to breaking industry news for financial services companies, hedge funds, law firms, enterprise technology companies, and multinational manufacturing companies.
I also have acquired somewhat of a specialty in helping B2B companies use new media in the right ways. I’ve launched corporate blogs and written institution-wide content strategies, and I actively manage content online for a handful of companies. My work has been covered in PRWeek and on Mediabistro.com, and I currently work as a consultant to PR firms as well, launching groundbreaking industry research and supporting new-business initiatives that center on new media.
Overall, I self-describe as a media professional. Journalism is one of the only institutions I can name that works far more often than it doesn’t, and being in the midst of important business stories is incredibly gratifying — this is why there’s so much news being fed into my Google Reader that I’m usually a few hundred headlines behind in reading it. In addition to my corporate work, I supported the launch of Green Technology Daily, a news-driven web site focused on environmental issues, in 2009.
My academic background includes a certification in global affairs from New York University, and well before that an undergraduate degree from Illinois State University and a semester of post-graduate work at Negocia la Grande Ecole du Commerce, a business school in Paris, studying intercultural communications.
I spent four years as a reporter and an editor at an independent newspaper in Central Illinois, and then worked in investor relations in New York for a few years after that. I’m always open to new opportunities, and my resume can be downloaded here.
(This page was last updated August 12, 2010. Image via Random Night Out.)
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