Jason Johnson Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Planning and executing high-impact national and regional communications campaigns with Agency leadership and 617MediaGroup's national criminal justice reform clients.• Managing media relations and strategy nationally and in key states for groundbreaking efforts to improve public education, childcare, healthcare, and public transit, and reduce over-incarceration.• Writing and producing top-notch communications materials that move public opinion and get results. Press Releases, Video Scripts, Op-eds, Talking Points, and Voice Overs for campaign videos.

Boston, Ma, Us

Responsible for leading uAspire's public relations matters, including: ● Cultivating media relationships to build interest in and coverage on the issue ofcollege affordability, and uAspire’s role in enabling students to go to and graduate from college● Partnering with journalists to inform and support their efforts to more accurately andeffectively cover the college affordability crisis facing our nation’s young people● Develop external and internal media relations strategies and operations intended toserve organizational objectives in the functional areas of development, program andpolicy & systems change● Seeking out informative, compelling stories about uAspire, its programs, students, advisors,alumni, events, and organizational initiatives, including those taking place at sites inMassachusetts and in the Bay Area of California, and promote those stories to mediaoutlets/Users/jasonjohnson1/Desktop/Cision.jpg

Boston, Ma, Us

Appointed the MBTA's first Community Relations Liaison. The MBTA Community Relations Liaison has a front-line role, attending public meetings and other events representing the T, assisting with the preparation of documents for meetings, collaborating on presentations to the public, answering inquiries, and is the staff member who helps facilitate conversations with members of the public, the media, community representatives, and municipal elected and civic leaders. The MBTA Community Relations Liaison works closely with the MBTA Legislative Affairs Liaison, Legislative Affairs Director and Community Relations Assistant Manager to ensure continuity of internal and external communications efforts. DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:-Responsible for preparing documents for meetings which may include writing media advisories, talking points, press releases, PowerPoint presentations and FAQs. Works with Marketing Division and the Press Office for the MBTA and MassDOT to assist with communication efforts.-Works closely with Community Relations Assistant Manager to plan and coordinate public meetings involving MBTA initiatives including the annual Capital Investment Program.-Prepare remarks for the MBTA General Manager and other officials, drawing attention to new initiatives and positive developments, and advancing the policies and agenda of the T and MassDOT divisions.-Prepare letters of response to correspondence for the MBTA General Manager. -Speak at meetings and may serve as a spokesperson for the Transportation Secretariat with the media and various interest groups.

Boston, Ma, Us

Duties & Responsibilities:Responsible for preparing news releases and briefing material for the General Manager; assist in the preparation of MBTA news events and planning public information campaigns.Prepare remarks for the General Manager, drawing attention to new initiatives and positive developments, and advancing the Board of Directors’ policies and agenda. Serve as a spokesperson for the MBTA with the media and various interest groups.Assist and support the efforts of the MBTA’s Public Affairs Department in handling day-to-day activities, including media inquiries and special events planning and organize special events such as the opening of new stations.Plan and organize Authority public information campaigns such as scheduled service diversions due to repairs or changes in service.Identify newsworthy MBTA activities and events and recommend news conference sites, dates and times.Respond to letters for the General Manager and prepare written documents and reports as requested by the General Manager and staff.Respond to inquiries from customers, vendors, co-workers or media in a courteous and professional manner.

Wrote stories on various subjects for magazines, newspapers and university publications.

Oversaw daily editorial activities: morning story assignments, supervising reporters, coordinating photo assignments, and story importance/order. Helped the online editor select, post and update online content. Edited stories for the DNT print edition.

San Antonio, Tx, Us

Teaching media writing for print, broadcast and public relations.

Helped organize and direct the UMass Boston High School Journalism Program and New England High School Journalism Collaborative, which served minority and general high school students, funded by the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, UMass Boston, and area newspapers.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Journalism Adviser • Oversaw production of the school newspaper, which includes an online news website featuring slideshows, podcasts and digital versions of newspaper editions.• Taught classes in introductory journalism and an advanced class in photojournalism. • Oversaw production of the school yearbook.

San Antonio, Tx, Us

Lecturer • Taught class in public affairs reporting, focusing on coverage of education, health, courts, public safety and government. • Taught class in reporting and news writing for print, broadcast and multimedia platforms.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Demographics Reporter – Produced award-winning enterprise stories on race, health and demographic trends in California and the nation.• City Hall Reporter – Covered the office of San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, Board of Supervisors, and the San Francisco Housing Authority, including extensive coverage of housing authority financial investigations scandal and the administration of HUD Hope-VI, Section 8, and lead hazard cleanup programs. • Metro Staff Writer – Responsible for general assignment coverage of county government, features and produced enterprise pieces charting population growth and development during the dot-com boom of the mid-1990s. Also reported and narrated Emmy-winning multimedia story on at-risk youth, and on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Covered courts, police, and local government for the Herald. Also wrote in-depth enterprise stories on economic redevelopment in urban neighborhoods and the debate over Affirmative Action.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Covered Dallas police, as well as education and local government in the Mid-Cities region.

Ba, Journalism

Masters Degree, Teaching/Education, Certified In English, Journalism, Speech