Chris Talbott Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

Award-winning owner of a full-service ideas-for-hire boutique journalism and public relations agency with a focus on combining new and traditional techniques in newsgathering, public relations, crisis communications and messaging. Services include content development and strategy, media training, crisis consulting, production oversight, onsite facilitation, script and speech preparation, writing, editing and research. Former editor of CMA Close Up with entertainment clients including Chris Stapleton, Blake Shelton, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, and every major music label. Recent journalism assignments have included covering the Seattle Seahawks and Mariners for The Associated Press and everything from COVID to the business of arts and culture for The Seattle Times.

Greater Seattle Area

Media relations representative and science/medical writer for UW Medicine, September 2022-October 2024. Responsible for finding, developing, distributing and pitching news of high media interest from one of nation’s most unique public health institutions. Duties included writing health and research news for a general audience, building relationships with national and local media, responding to media requests and emergencies, media training, and assisting with crisis comms and spokesperson duties as needed. Beats included the Dog Aging Project, mental health and addiction, rehabilitation medicine, pain and anesthetics, DEI topics and bioinformatics. Highlights included forging partnership between the DAP and country star Miranda Lambert’s MuttNation and producing three of top six most-viewed releases of 2023. Position ended due to reorganization layoff. Staff writer for UW Magazine, January 2022-September 2022. Wrote a number of stories highlighting the people and work of the university, including the Fall 2022 cover story, before promotion.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Worked as one of two music writers overseeing the all-genre, multi-format global music report for the world's largest news organization, a sports writer covering major college sports, a news reporter on a variety of beats and breaking news, and a desk supervisor responsible for oversight of multiple-state reports.