Dave Simpson Email & Phone Number

Jackson, WY, US

Jackson, WY

• Brand communications, public relations and integrated marketing — outdoor sports, active lifestyle, adventure travel.
• Establish and direct client strategy for public relations, integrated communications and paid media.
• Lead multiple account teams charged with delivery of goal- and sales-focused results, including annual planning and ROI-led reporting.
• Experience across many different aspects of communications, including branding, brand communication strategy, public- and media-relations, content development, social and digital media, paid media, crisis.
• Extensive network of media relationships with national and regional print, online and broadcast journalists.
• Extensive experience in team leadership and business development.

Jackson, WY

• Directed and managed cilient public-relations and communications strategy, including message development and brand positioning.
• Oversaw all media-relations efforts, including targeting appropriate trade, endemic and lifestyle media, managing contact lists, creating press kits, press releases and other media material, directing media tours and.
• Clients included outdoor and outdoor lifestyle brands and travel and tourism properties.

Jackson, WY

• Wrote and edited copy for a variety of commercial clients and businesses, including projects for public relations, marketing collateral, advertising, fundraising and web.
• Freelance editorial work, including projects for outlets including the Salt Lake Tribune.

Jackson WY

• Oversaw the entire news production and graphic design production process for weekly and daily newspapers. Directed and edited 35-plus stories per week.
• Reported and wrote news and feature stories. Supervised nine-person editorial team. Worked with staff to improve writing and reporting skills.
• Established and maintained contacts with a wide range of community members, special interest groups, local, state and federal agencies.
• Directed coverage of controversial issues, balancing readership needs with the interests of a wide range of sources and readers.
• Winner of numerous National Newspaper Association and Wyoming Press Association awards for excellence in reporting and writing.

Jackson, WY

• Reported and wrote extensively about public lands, outdoor recreation, wildlife and natural resource issues in and around Jackson Hole and Grand Teton and Yellowstone Parks.
• Covered growth and planning issues, town and county government, and state and national political issues as they pertained to the Jackson Hole area.
• Delivered 8 to 12 stories per week.
• Developed wide sources and contacts in the Jackson community and in Wyoming politics.
• Winner of several Wyoming Press Association awards for reporting/writing excellence.

Jackson, WY

• Outdoor equipment retail sales and special event coordination.
• Skied 60-plus days per winter.

Greensboro, NC

• Learned all aspects of reporting, writing and newsroom operation, including working as a general-assignment reporter, in a school credit-based journalism program that I coordinated between this metro-area newspaper and.