Eric Easter Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc

We're an original content studio telling true stories across a variety of platforms about global culture, technology, travel, lifestyles and innovation.Up now: 99Days, a "documentary"magazine on writers writing on right now on Medium.com"Talk Back" - a podcast and documentary on the the unusual and extraordinary history and impact of the "comments" section on journalism and journalists: In pre-production "The History of R&B" - 8-part docu-series

Ny, Ny

Funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Black Public Media (formerly National Black Programing Consortium) funds, commissions and acquires film and video projects about African Americans and the African Diaspora for distribution on PBS and other public media. Its new initiative NBPC360 provides a range of incubation and funding opportunities for emerging media makers across a wide range of platforms.

Washington, Dc

Led Black Heritage Network's transition from a cable play to a premium subscription streaming channel focused on discovery, scripted and unscripted non-fiction. Directed its strategic planning, content acquisition, content creation, partnerships and subscriber development, greatly increasing its offerings of global and short-form documentary content, and raising subscriptions levels by 1200%

Chicago, Il

- Led the direction of company into new digital platforms and strategic partnerships including YouTube, Google, TVOne, Zinio, Bondi, Brightcove, VH1 and others. Initiated efforts to move company into "born digital" content creation. "Recontextualized" archival assets into viable digital content across new platforms.-Created and led the company's editorial, new business and sales operations for digital and successfully launched EbonyJet.com, a new brand featuring original content and distinct editorial team that attracted new users to the brands, created a base of digital only advertisers and gained four-digit increases in revenue from prior efforts. Initiated and implemented the digitization of 60 years of content from the company's major assets including Ebony, Jet, Negro Digest and Ebony, Jr.- Founding Editor in Chief, Ebony.com (formerly EbonyJet.com)

Led public, social media and positioning outreach for publisher of washingtonpost.com, newsweek.com, Slate and budgettravelonline, Worked closely with marketing, product and editorial teams on strategic audience development and integration of social tools to guide public interaction and shift media perception of company from "old media" to new media innovator.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Led not-for-profit organization providing training and pro-bono counsel to the arts and entertainment community in digital rights management, copyright, intellectual property and the impact of digital technology on content creation and ownership.

Chief creative officer and founder of multimedia firm specializing in niche publishing, targeted digital media and targeted outreach for political and corporate clients, including Sara Lee, Mark Warner for Governor, Howard Dean for President, Doug Wilder for President, Lokole Party of Zaire and more.

Greater Chicago Area

In collaboration with actor Edward James Olmos and journalist Manny Monterrey, I oversaw the planning and creative infrastructure for AMERICANOS, a book, national photo exhibition and HBO documentary on the experience of the American LatinX community, inspired my own project, Songs of My People.

Washington, Dc

Launched, published and edited 50,000 circ. alternative monthly on politics, global culture and the arts featuring writers William Jelani Cobb, Greg Tate, Karen Good, Biran Gilmore, Kenneth Carroll, Kevin Alexander Gray and more. Served as Associate publisher and columnist for Black Film Review, a global scholarly quarterly on African diasporan filmmaking.

Washington, Dc

Created, produced and co-edited the historic best-selling book and international exhibition, "Songs of My People" traveled by the Smithsonian and sponsored by Time Warner, Kodak and the Hitachi Foundation.

Chief spokesperson and media strategist for the Rev, Jesse Jackson. Coordinated national and international media relations and outreach. Traveled extensively throughout the US, Africa, Europe, Soviet Union, Armenia and the Caribbean and coordinated global disaster relief (Hurricane Hugo, Hurricane Gilbert, Armenian Earthquake) and issue-oriented grassroots organization in cooperation with ANC, ANC exiles and others.