Brian Steffens Email & Phone Number

Brian Steffens is a veteran communicator with executive-level experience in newspapers, magazines, digital media, public relations and news association management. For more than four decades, he’s led change and innovation in photojournalism, color, typography, design, packaging and editing, information graphics, new media/digital initiatives, new product development and new business models.He has been keynote speaker, conducted workshops or training, or consulted with journalists and publishers in Ethiopia, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, China, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Antigua, Dominica, Barbados, Italy, Argentina, Switzerland and France. He has been an advisor to businesses and startups including Newsstand, Zinio, NetClearly, Newsy, San Francisco Examiner, Riverside Press Enterprise, Yamaha and Fujitsu Networking. And he has helped coordinate journalism, technology and start-up presentations/panels at SXSW 2017 and SXSW 2018.Steffens has worked with the American Press Institute, Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Society of Professional Journalists, Society for News Design, National Press Photographers Association, Freedom Forum and its First Amendment Center, Field Newspaper Syndicate and the Kettering Foundation.He has judged the international Society for News Design competition, the national Sigma Delta Chi Awards and numerous specialty media contests.Specialties: Print, digital, written, visual communications; news, marketing, public relations; strategic analysis, planning and partnerships; revenue and expense management; operations development and refinement; and product and business plan development.