Christopher Allbritton Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

Thoughtful Leadership Strategy and Execution. Media Consulting, Speechwriting, Public Speaking Coaching and Public Relations Messaging.

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- Contributing Editor for CNN Underscored.- Foreign correspondent and editor for the Boston Globe, New York, TIME, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, The Intercept, New York Daily News, San Francisco Chronicle, and Newsweek in Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, South and Southeast Asia, and Colombia.- Experienced photographer and photo editor, having shot and edited.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• Leverage strategic communications to inform debates and shape public policy on broad range of issues affecting Latinos, including COVID-19 relief, health care, housing, immigration, income inequality, financial.
• Work closely with program and policy staff to promote their work through earned media and social media campaigns. KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Authored multiple op-eds that appeared in The New York Times and Washington Post, The Hill, and elsewhere in both English and Spanish.
• Led team through a tremendous increase in work to support COVID-19 efforts, resulting in 75 percent increase in the number of significant media hits for UnidosUS in major outlets, including The New York Times.

Washington, DC, US

- Designed a strategic communications plan for Refugees International that enhanced its visibility, promoted its brand, and increased financial support for its work. - Identified priorities and developed strategies and messages for field mission findings to reach target media, policy audiences, and donors.- Ensured all materials, including field reports.

Portland, OR, US

- Manage a team of seven staffers and two consultants across three countries and five cities, setting work priorities, clearing and editing others’ communications products, and managing my own global lead portfolios of Iraq, Palestine (West Bank/Gaza), Pakistan, Bangladesh/Myanmar, North Korea, and Climate Change.- Maintain and expand key media.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

- Advised organizational leadership and program directors to set and implement strategic communication priorities that raised CIVIC’s profile, expanded its thought leadership position, and promoted awareness of CIVIC’s issue across traditional and digital media, targeting both international and national audiences.- Collaborated closely with development on.

New York, NY, US

- Developed and implemented coverage strategy for the weekend edition of the Daily Beast for Web, mobile, social media, and newsletters. - Created quality editorial and visual digital content, applying best practices for search engine optimization and maintaining a consistent voice and tone.- Recruited and managed new writers and regular columnists.KEY.

Bogotá, Cundinamarca, CO

- Taught conflict journalism, focusing on ethics, methods, history, and context.

Toronto, ON, CA

- Led a strong international team of Pakistani, British, and American journalists and developed a network of 15–20 stringers across the country.- Repeatedly broke stories in a highly competitive and deadline-driven environment while juggling multiple projects.- Set daily editorial priorities and identified key news hooks.- Designed and managed budgets.

Stanford, California, US

- Explored the intersection of online journalism and foreign correspondence.

- Planned, assigned, edited, and checked editorial and visual content for every issue.- Managed an international team of four journalists.KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS - Led magazine to its most profitable months, growing circulation to nearly 58,000.

- Founded ground-breaking Back-to-Iraq.com, which legitimized independent digital journalism in covering global conflicts. - Operated independently in Iraq for the first month of invasion after raising more than $20,000 to cover the war.KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS- Pioneered the idea of crowd-funding as a business model for digital storytelling. - Grew audience.

New York, NY, US

- Taught basic and advanced digital journalism.

- Taught basic and advanced digital journalism.

New York, NY, US

- Involved in shaping and editing the agency’s global coverage of stories such as the Algerian Civil War and the death of Princess Diana. - After promotion to National Writer, covered and coordinated newly emerging cultural impact of the Internet, technology and how it related to national and international news. KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS- Wrote some of the.

Ms, Journalism

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Journalism