Craig Kopp Email & Phone Number

Hudson, Fl, Us

United States

St. Petersburg, Fla

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Consulted on the conception and launch of this Jewish Public Affairs podcast which has received the 2020 Steve Marx Innovation Award from the Tampa JCC and Federation. Edit, produce, and voice continuity weekly.

Richmond, Kentucky, United States

Responsible for overseeing WEKU's day-to-day news operations.

Tampa, Florida, United States

Pitch, research, and write legal news stories for this consumer-focused legal website. I have contributed stories on a politician's legal right to lie, the copyright laws on candidates' use of popular music, and the effect of coronavirus on divorce.

Aspen Colorado

As Managing Editor of this small public radio station in the highly-charged and oxygen-thin atmosphere of Aspen, I oversaw a newsroom of three, including two on their first jobs in the business. One story by a newsroom newbee went on to win First Place in the 2019 “Top of the Rockies” awards from the Colorado Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.I also edited all on-air copy and all internet stories, as well as substitute anchored on All Things Considered and Morning Edition and produced my own features, mostly newsmaker interviews, including the Attorney General of Colorado and documentarian Ken Burns.

Tampa, Florida, United States

Used multimedia background and podcasting experience to bring first podcasting course to the University of South Florida. Students learn the basics of this ‘radio-on-demand’ medium including the essentials of compelling interviewing, topic generation and market research, developing a podcast, producing a podcast and marketing a podcast. This popular course showed digital native students that podcasting is really radio on demand and taught them best principles for effective interviewing and production.

Managed all operations of this heritage community radio station in Tampa, Florida. After operating in the red for several years, I put the station's budget back in the black by bringing engineering in-house and coaching this all-volunteer air staff on the finer points of on-air fundraising. I also secured county grants for a new STL tower and new studio boards. I put the station back on a ratings metric to evaluate performance and brought ratings up through aggressive billboard marketing campaigns.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Webinar – Finding Genuine Emotions in InterviewingProduced one hour webinar on how to conduct interviews for radio, TV, print, and internet that pull real emotional reactions from interview subjects. The sold-out webinar audience was made up of media professionals from around the country. Webinar -- The Art of the Two-WayProduced one hour webinar on how to conduct two-way interviews for radio, TV, and print that stand alone as complete stories. This course is based on my years as a TV entertainment reporter who did over 10,000 interviews. Attendees learned how to plan interviews to be more spontaneous and create interviews that have their own story arc. Online Course -- Podcasting for EveryoneUsed radio background and interviewing skills to teach podcasting to media professionals, public relations professionals and other interested professionals in a four week online course for the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. Students learned the basics of the ‘radio-on-demand’ medium, including production skills to create a podcast in four weeks. Each participant finished the course with a download-ready podcast.

Tampa, Florida, United States

Hired on to do local anchoring for All Things Considered and local reporting, I ended up with two weekly franchise features -- "Politifact" in conjunction with the Tampa Bay Times and "Making Sense of the Media" in conjunction with the Poynter Institute. I also substitute-hosted on Morning Edition, substitute-hosted the weekly public affairs show "Florida Matters", co-hosted election coverage, and anchored live at the 2012 Republican National Convention.

Bachelor Of Arts, American History/Journalism

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