ANDREW MARTON (817) 319.

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am12a0a18@westpost.net

EXECUTIVE PROFILE PUBLIC / MEDIA RELATIONS PROFESSIONAL PUBLIC RELATIONS / NON-PROFIT INDUSTRY Diverse Media Experience * Inspiring Change HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS:

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* Proactive member of media and communications with 20+ years experience in prom oting other people's, company's, and product's stories. * Strategist with a passion for working with community organizations and media r esources to encourage positive impact. * Solid talents in effective verbal and written communication with ability to ma nage multiple projects, as well as having a thorough understanding of editorial and media relations. * Expertise in interpreting research; media relations management; creative direc tion; managing information; crisis communications; and internal communications s upport. * Known for enthusiasm, integrity, professionalism, positive attitude, loyalty, and ability to communicate effectively with all parties involved. * Masters in International Affairs/Media - Columbia University * Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service - Georgetown University * La Sorbonne and Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris Investigative Research * Journalist / Writer * Media Communications * Relationship Development Published Author * Branding * Public Relations * Philanthropy / Comm unity Involvement Excellent Communicator * Public Speaking / Presentations * Coalition Bu ilding * Bi-Lingual in French ________________________________________ SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS: Covered, reported, and wrote on a wide horizon of fine, performing, and visual a rts issues, personalities, and organizations. Revealed the essential players and organizations in various arts fields and presented in the greatest detail what their financial and artistic profile was. * Impact: My coverage occasionally spurred some of the organizations to positive ly change or improve their practices. Many of these articles also acted as a tan gible lure to a greater audience of readers (consumers) of the newspaper itself. Took on and produced in-depth pieces on some of the more complex and occasionall y controversial subjects covered in the paper. The effect of this often exhausti ve examination of a particular organization, or prominent player within the orga nization, was to cast a needed spotlight on the various financial and non-busine ss practices of the group in question. * Impact: In some cases, the cumulative effect of my work compelled various orga nizations, or their main actors, to change their internal financial and artistic practices. Adapted and applied my reporting and writing and media skills to the widest poss ible range of subject matter. Showed great versatility in tackling subjects that went from "soft" features on travel, to harder subjects such as the possible di ssolution of a long-standing arts organization. * Impact: The same kind of hard-nosed gathering of a story's facts, and its very readable presentation, was brought to all manner of stories -- ensuring the rea

ders would receive the most comprehensive and often uplifting information-sharin g experience. Secured interviews with some of the most prestigious and powerful political lead ers of that time, interviews vital to the completion of the political-economic r eports I assembled on those particular countries. * Impact: Those interviews helped reveal various aspects of the political leader s not previously understood or appreciated by the readers, as well as garner ext ra prestige to my magazine -- a by-product that expanded its audience and its bo ttom line. ANDREW MARTON Page 2 PUBLIC / MEDIA RELATIONS PROFESSIONAL PUBLIC RELATIONS / NON-PROFIT INDUSTRY Diverse Media Experience * Inspiring Change PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Independent Writer, Dallas / Ft. Worth, TX 2010 - Present Free-Lance Writer * Writer, blogger, and vod-caster for various public-media relations, journalist ic, and arts organizations. * Worked on a series of public-media relations and promotional campaigns for Con cussion media, as well as generated advertorial promotional content for Texas Mo nthly. * Traditional articles and multiple blogs published in D-Magazine, the Dallas Ob server, Fort Worth, Texas magazine, as well as DFW.com and DFW.com Ink edition. * Produced and presented numerous vod-cast segments involving various artists ex hibiting works at Fort Worth's William Campbell Contemporary Art Gallery. FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM, Fort Worth, TX 1999 - 2010 Senior Writer * Responsible for paper's entire coverage of Metroplex cultural-arts scene. * Produced, on tight deadlines, hundreds of articles-profiles-in-depth-reports o n various arts and human-interest-related subjects. * Mentored-edited other writers. * Kept the paper current on any breaking news developments in the national and l ocal arts world. * Arranged photographic-design content for all stories. * Interviewed panoply of sources. * Maintained steady contact with sources for future stories. * Kept managing editors apprised of all goings-on in my fields of expertise. Independent Writer, Washington, DC 1988 - 1999 Free-Lance Writer * In charge of any and all feature/arts/human interest stories containing any lo cal or national aspect. * Wrote on a wide variety of topics including travel, film, food, business, and profiles of the influential and their powerful institutions. * Produced consistently high quality news anchor copy for CNN. For People, cover ed all aspects of Washington, D.C.'s political and social scene. Proposed story ideas and sought out difficult-to-reach sources. * Convinced editors of validity of story proposals. * Wrote and edited articles, while submitting stories in a timely manner.

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INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR MAGAZINE, New York, NY 1982 - 1988 Associate Editor * Covered all aspects of Wall Street and some of its most complex financial inst ruments and products - including the commodities and financial futures markets. Produced dozens of monthly articles including comprehensive political-economic r eports on France, Spain, and other European nations. * Dispatched overseas to provide political-economic profiles of France, Spain, T urkey, and Jamaica - and secured interviews with those nations' economic and pol itical elite. * Kept current with countless developments in the investment banking and commodi ties-financial-futures markets; Maintained steady contact with sources; Proposed small and in-depth stories; Traveled extensively to cover those stories, submit ting them on time.

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PUBLISHED WORK AND AWARDS: The Muffin Lady: Muffins, Cupcakes, and Quick Breads for the Happy Soul by Linda Fisher and Andrew Marton (1997, REGANBOOKS) * 4 national awards from the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors and the University of Missouri Journalism School (the Missouri Lifestyle Journal ism Awards) * 5 regional prizes from the Houston and Dallas Press Clubs * 2 local Amon Awards * Scripps Howard Foundation journalism scholarship EDUCATION: Masters in International Affairs/Media - COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service - GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LA SORBONNE AND INSTITUT D'ETUDES POLITIQUES, Paris * Languages: Bi-lingual in French, working knowledge of Spanish and Italian