Vice President of Media
Our clients benefit from my 27-years of experience in covering the seats of government as well as hotspots around the world. The journalism community recognized me with the highest awards of broadcast journalism including the coveted George Foster Peabody Award for Investigative Reporting and three Alfred I. duPont Columbia University Journalism Awards for Investigative Reporting. Both honors are respectively considered the broadcast TV equivalent of the Oscar and the Pulitzer.
I practice the power of storytelling. Every business leader, product, or service must tell a compelling story about the value of his or her brand. People like to hear stories and we know from journalism studies that attention increases when the reader or listener experiences narrative writing.
Businesses must become their own “media outlet” online to gain a competitive advantage. At WrightIMC, we know how to blend media with technology to accomplish that.
Moreover, I also understand how to interact with the news media and how to handle negative issues concerning online reputation management. My journalism colleagues considered me a “web savvy” reporter. For example, our team used optimization techniques to ensure that my reports on terrorism garnered high rankings on the search engines and thus consistently attracted a large online audience worldwide.
I crossed the digital divide from old media to the new media in 2008 and began identifying the top authorities on Search and Web 2.0 applications. This brought me together with Tony Wright who I found to be a remarkably bright thought leader that had deep experience in the years preceding the rise of Google and Social Media.
Tony and I are currently launching three Internet ventures together: frontpagetv – producing online videos; frontpage shopping – showcasing products and services on Internet video channels; and frontpage lawyer -finding prospects for legal services online and converting them into clients. As the names imply, we use a proprietary process to get our clients on the front pages of search engines and social media.
Our ventures and WrightIMC focus on creative solutions for our clients. In that connection, as an Outstanding Alumnus from the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University, I am a regular guest lecturer on creativity and digital media. We use the most popular entrepreneurial class on campus to explore the impact of digital media.
During my journalism career, the following news organizations featured my reporting: the CBS Television Station Group, WFAA-TV (Channel 8 News ABC) in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, 60 Minutes, ABC News Nightline, CNN, and ESPN. Many of my reports received recognition for exposing corruption and providing a catalyst for major changes in public policy.
Our legal clients benefit from my experience covering the criminal and civil justice system. The American Bar Association bestowed the Silver Gavel Award for my series of reports that prompted sweeping changes in the Texas Criminal Justice System; the Radio Television News Directors Association’s Edward R. Murrow Award recognized me for legal reporting, Texas Press Association honored me with its “Freedom of Information” Award; and The Dallas Crime Commission selected me to receive its first ever “Excellence in Crime Reporting Award”.
During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I was an embedded reporter with lead elements of the U.S. Army and remain awed by their service to our country. I covered the White House, Capitol Hill, The Pentagon, State Department, New York State Legislature, and the Texas Legislature.
After my graduation from Texas A&M, I served as a legislative assistant and committee investigator for the late Congressman Wright Patman of Texas. As Chief Investigator for the Joint Committee on Defense Production, I held a Top Secret security clearance and helped direct inquires into abuses stemming from the Watergate scandal.
My political experience also includes work as a field operative in a presidential campaign and managing a campaign for Congress.
I started the endowment for the Alan Stacell Creativity Fund in the College of Architecture at Texas A&M to help support student projects and started the endowment for the Professor Rodney Hill Chair in Architecture. I currently serve on the Dean’s Advisory Council for the College of Architecture.
My wife, Elizabeth, was a staff member for the late Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, school teacher, and is now the cofounder/editor of the HorseridingChannel.com. Both of us were volunteer adult leaders in Scouting and served on the Board for the Edna Gladney Center—the nation’s oldest existing adoption agency located in Fort Worth.
