Virtual Networking and Knowledge
May 6, 2020 @9:00 am - 10:30 am
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Topic: Crisis Communications: A Panel Discussion
Thom Mariner, Movers and Makers
Robert Ashe, CET-ThinkTV-PBS
Mike Canon, WCPO 9
Kevin Reynolds, WVXU
Ethics Presenter: Andrew Cole, Director of Advancement and Planned Giving, Phi Delta Theta Foundation
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Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Time:
9:00-10:30 a.m. Program
Location: Virtual meeting
Cost:
AFP Members & Students (with valid student ID) – Free
AFP Non-Members – $25.00
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Thom Mariner, Movers and Makers |
Robert Ashe, CET-ThinkTV-PBS. Robert has twenty years of sales experience, nine in advertising sales, and five years’ experience working in the corporate sponsorship area of public television.
Robert is Manager of Corporate Sponsorship for CET & ThinkTV, our region’s public television stations. He works with area businesses and nonprofit organizations on getting their message out to the PBS audience through sponsorship (underwriting). He sees his role as a “relationship builder”, making connections which help everyone succeed. Robert sold advertising for the Cincinnati Business Courier and the Spanish Yellow pages, and sold corporate training for Miami University. Prior to getting into sales, Robert was a Lecturer at Northern Kentucky University, where he taught various communication courses. Robert recently retired from his public service to Delhi Township after spending twenty four years on the Board of Zoning Appeals in the township.
Mike Canan is Senior Director of Local Strategy at WCPO. In that role, he leads news coverage on TV, on the web, on streaming services and on social media. Before returning to WCPO, he worked as senior director of content strategy for the E.W. Scripps Co. In that role, he worked with 10 TV stations to develop and execute their content strategies. He previously served as editor in chief of WCPO.com, the first local television station to launch a paid digital membership. Before coming to Cincinnati in 2014, he spent 10 years at Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers, including the last three as managing editor.
Kevin Reynolds, WVXU. Kevin Reynolds has worked for more than 30 years in the non-profit sector, in both fundraising and marketing. Following positions with the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, Butler County United Way and leading Summerfair Cincinnati for nine years, Kevin joined the marketing team at Cincinnati Public Radio (90.9 WGUC & 91.7 WVXU) in 2005. In the ever-morphing position of Community Relations Manager, Kevin is responsible for public and media relations, station events for members and the public, media partnerships, and produces the astronomy podcast, Looking Up.
This event has been submitted for 1.5 CFRE Credits.