political-communications
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David E. Johnson and the trouble with being noticed
He helps authors get into the conversation and companies survive it. For Strategic Vision PR Group founder David E. Johnson, the difficult part of publicity begins after someone pays attention.
B.R. McConnon III and the politics of showing up
He built DDC around the work of turning people into advocates. A golf tournament, an Irish leadership program and a 26-year company story reveal the habits behind the business.
Ronald W. Wong and the people missing from the room
From California’s appointment rooms to multilingual campaigns and documentary film, Ronald W. Wong has built a career around a practical question: who has been left out of the conversation?
Darcy Palder and the trouble with first impressions
Before her work at Meta, Darcy Palder reported on politics, helped defend a bus route and studied in a city in revolt. Her own writing keeps returning to a deceptively difficult question: who gets to speak for whom?
Jonathan Rosen and the business of being heard
At 26, Jonathan Rosen helped start a communications firm with a plan to pay the rent. Two decades later, Orchestra brings hundreds of specialists together around a question he first encountered in politics: how do you get people to care?
Phil Singer and the art of getting ahead of the story
A campaign spokesman learns quickly that the next question is already on its way. Phil Singer took that lesson from national politics into Marathon Strategies, where research, reputation, and the public argument share a desk.
Ken Spain Learned Politics in the War Room. Now He Helps Companies Survive It.
The Narrative Strategies CEO built his career where campaigns, companies and public opinion collide. His enduring lesson is disarmingly simple: prepare early, understand the audience and never let somebody else write your story first.
The Persuadable Middle Is Where Gunster Goes to Work
A 13-person Washington firm sells a complete campaign loop: find the movable audience, test the language, recruit the validators, then put the message everywhere. Its most famous work also shows why persuasion is easier to sell than to measure.
The Newsman Who Rehearsed the Ambush
Brent Boynton spent decades deciding which answers made the evening news. Then he built a practice that taught nervous people how to survive the question before the camera ever arrived.
The Little Agency That Buys a Very Big Megaphone
A compact Charleston shop has learned to make statewide campaigns feel local, turn media buying into measurement, and treat a collapsing building as a scheduling problem.
Longwell Partners and the Strange Power of Hearing One Voter Clearly
The Washington communications firm found its sharpest political tool behind a two-way mirror: stop guessing what voters believe, listen until they tell you, then let people like them carry the message.
Climate Change Had a Vocabulary Problem. Climate Power Put It on the Electric Bill.
The six-year-old advocacy shop learned that a historic climate law could still be politically invisible. Its answer was to stop leading with the climate - and start with the bill on the kitchen table.
Paschal Roth knows a good argument needs an audience
California’s public health officials had evidence. They needed political attention. Paschal Roth’s work shows how a specialist communications firm helps an overlooked issue find its audience - and what that work actually costs.