Kevin Connor Email & Phone Number

Monterey, CA, US

Monterey, California

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Strategic media planningo Develop communications plans to promote the scientific, policy and fieldwork of Conservation International (CI) around the world. o Develop overarching stories from CI’s multidisciplinary work.
• Proactive media relationso Conduct outreach to journalists and bloggers to pitch CI storieso Work to identify and build media partnerships with influential media outletso Develop relationships with influential.
• Tactical media responseo Respond and prioritize opportunistic media inquiries and facilitate interviews, information requests and content requestso Work with the media team to identify, manage and lead crisis.
• Manage Media Relations Coordinatoro Oversee drafting of communications materialso Guide media outreach and pitchingo Assign projects including management and development of media lists, creation of media impact reports.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Promote the work of Conservation International (CI) around the world including on the ground programs and scientific work to further conservation
• Work with CI experts and scientists in Moore Center for Science and field programs develop and execute communication strategy with the goal of promoting CI work around the world to protect nature for human well being..

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Media outreacho Developed new story ideas based on work of Oceana internationallyo Developed relationships with top national regional and local reporterso Generate interviews for Oceana spokespeople.o Build and manager.
• Media reportingo Draft weekly reports about the status of communications efforts.o Lead efforts to produce monthly media reportso Provide assistance in accomplishing communications goals as needed or requested by the.
• Developed media plans for Oceana media promotions and eventso Christie’s Green Auctiono Partner’s Award Gala, SeaChange and Hampton’s Splash fundraiserso World Ocean Day o Holiday Giving Campaign
• Led all Public Service Announcement campaignso Led the “Scared for Sharks,” “Get Sea Turtles Off the Hook,” and “Stop Tuna from Going Fast” ad campaignso Plan strategy and timeline of all organizational PSAs
• Manage organizational efforts with the publication of Ted Danson’s book Oceanao Drafted press materials for book touro Develop internal media plans with Oceana’s global media team
• Manage media for Oceana’s Board of directorso Coordinate press for Oceana board meetingso Handle press related to Board Member’s work regarding Oceana

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Contact press in regards to Oceanao Pitch stories regarding spokespeopleo Lead press campaign around end of year philanthropy campaigno Look for unique and opportunistic stories to pitch journalistso Write press.
• Take point position on Oceana’s Search Engine Optimization goalso Develop relationships with bloggerso Work to get Oceana URLs embedded on other websiteso Use keyword links to increase Oceana’s page rank in targeted.
• Manage Oceana media databaseso Responsible for recording all media hitso Update and maintain a working database of media coverageo Maintain several media information databases

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Reported on Baltimore sports ranging from high school athletics, college athletics to minor league and major league baseball for a major daily newspaper, The Baltimore Examiner (Circulation over 246,000)o Helped launch.
• Found interesting and unique stories outside of main beats
• Tracked down sources and deal with media and PR contacts on a daily basis
• Produced an average of 2-3 stories per day on deadline
• Aided editors in the daily and long term budgeting of the paper

Bel Air, MD

• Awarded First place award for a sports story by the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association in 2005
• Reported on local sports beats throughout county for the bi-weekly newspaper The Aegis and the weekly newspaper The Recordo Served as a beat reporter for high school sports, Aberdeen IronBirds and Ripken Baseballo.
• Responsible for pagination budgeting of the sports section in The Record and assisted in layout of The Aegis and special sports sections
• Aid editors in the proofreading of sports pages