John Youngren Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Senior management, client relations, PR/content oversight and staff operations position for one of the Intermountain West’s most successful and well-regarded marketing, PR and advertising agencies. Currently direct regular communications and marketing efforts for The Downtown Alliance/The BLOCKS, Google Fiber, United Way of Salt Lake, United Way of Treasure Valley, Utah Food Bank, Arctic Circle, The Children's Center of Utah, Modern Display, Joyce University, Utah Clean Energy, Voices for Utah Children and others, plus offer support on varied other advertising/PR accounts, including the Utah Department of Health and Human Services (HIV Awareness), Big-D Construction and the Salt Lake City International Airport. Provide counsel on numerous PR and/or public awareness campaigns across the agency. Work directly with firm principals on all matters of agency staffing, client service, content oversight, operations and business development. Was named AAF-Utah Professional of the Year in February, 2013.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Associate adjunct instructor for PR/Communication/Advertising classes at the U of U on a part-time basis for the past several years. Usual classes include COMM-3630, ABSOLUTE Communication and COMM-3580, Strategic Communication and Critical Thinking.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Directed Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Utah, Regence BlueShield of Idaho, University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business marketing efforts and Park City Chamber/Bureau and Lagoon Amusement Park accounts, among others. Wrote and produced multimedia productions, including special videos, presentations and radio-TV commercials, for Harris & Love clients including McDonald’s and Swire Coca-Cola.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Contributed thrice-weekly freelance TV column, as well as related feature and business articles, to major metropolitan daily. Wrote about national and local media trends, network and syndicated programming and other broadcast industry news and events.

Ogden, Utah

Reporter and regular sports columnist at this Ogden, Utah daily newspaper with circulation of more than 60,000. Left full-time role in June, 1990, but continued as special Salt Lake City correspondent, principally covering University of Utah athletics beat, until November of 1996. Also worked as weekly TV columnist and regular features contributor from 1993-1995.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Co-hosted and produced weekend call-in and interview show, "Sports Saturday,"​ on all-sports radio station in Salt Lake City. Also hosted similar "Sports Sunday" show during summer, 1995.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Conceptualized, wrote and produced TV commercials and videos for a wide range of advertising clients; chief copywriter for various marketing materials, sales packets/presentations and corporate videos.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Coordinated all aspects of advertising, public relations and marketing -- with emphasis on corporate content, editing and managing special events. Served as spokesperson for various BCBSU endeavors, including the Salt Lake City Classic, Hoop-It-Up and the Caring Foundation for Children.