James Moore

James C. Moore is a New York Times best-selling author and an Emmy Award winning former television news correspondent who has developed effective communications and presentation strategies for individuals, small to medium enterprises, and multi-national corporations. Mr. Moore’s areas of expertise include business development, startup fund raising, crisis communications, media relations, presentation training, public relations, message development, social media on the web, positioning, strategic communications planning, public affairs, video production, speech and copywriting, and politics. His clients have included governments, universities, corporations, private individuals, and non-profit and non-governmental organizations. A former executive for a global PR firm, he has managed the crisis communications of global product recalls, ongoing international incidents related to immigration and humanitarian crises, media trained executives for network TV appearances, developed marketing and outreach strategies for major universities, managed media around a federal investigation of a public institution, and created branding and messages for startups and emerging technology companies. Mr. Moore has also provided advice and tactics for political candidates and organizations. He works closely with broadcast, digital, and print journalists around the country and has long standing professional relationships with reporters, editors, producers, and cable-show bookers in national media. Mr. Moore has appeared on numerous broadcasts as a media and politics expert, including Morning Edition on National Public Radio, Up with Steve Kornacki, NBC Nightly News, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Ed Show on MSNBC as well as Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, CBS Evening News, CNN, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Hardball with Chris Matthews. He has recently been a contract political analyst on presidential politics for a major cable TV network. Mr. Moore’s written political and media analyses have been published in the Boston Globe, L.A. Times, Guardian of London, Sunday Independent of London, Salon, Financial Times of London, Huffington Post, and countless other publications. He is also a commissioned op-ed writer for CNN. During the technology boom of the past 25 years in Austin, Texas, Mr. Moore has provided consultation to start ups and growth companies. He has raised investment capital, managed business development, strategic alliances, and provided marketing and public relations strategies. Mr. Moore’s media expertise has been recognized with an Emmy from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Dartmouth College National Media Award for Economic Understanding, the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television News Directors’ Association, the Individual Broadcast Achievement Award from the Texas Headliners Foundation, a Gold Medal for Writing from the Houston International Film Festival, and several Best Reporter Awards from the Associated Press, UPI, and the Houston Press Club. -or- www.bigbendstrategies.com