At Denterlein, a leading Boston strategic communications and PR consulting firm, I provide counsel and insight and develop and execute integrated communications campaigns that help businesses and organizations succeed: in public affairs, business development, reputation protection, thought leadership, corporate and crisis communications, media relations, public relations, and more. Drawing on 30 years of experience in newspaper and television journalism and on the strength and experience of our Denterlein team, I work with clients--particularly in the energy, construction, and transportation sectors and #mapoli public affairs, as well as many other fields--to execute on their top strategic priorities in Greater Boston, Massachusetts, New England, and nationally. At the heart of my practice: How can I help you communicate more effectively and memorably across all channels and platforms to help you:- execute on your top corporate and organizational goals and priorities- connect with new business opportunities, clients, partners, supporters, donors, employees, and other key new audiences- create top-quality, CXO-level thought leadership content and commentary- and protect and elevate your reputation.

I work chiefly for and with Denterlein, and from time to time solo or with independent teams, to help your business or organization grow, achieve strategic objectives, and solve or avoid problems by helping you communicate more effectively with all of your audience, including:- Communications strategy and messaging consulting - Crafting CXO-level thought-leadership content, speeches, white papers, and video - Preparing and coaching you for interaction with print or TV media to maximize the odds of the best possible outcome- Stress-testing your organizational strategy by thinking through with you how it will translate to words, messages, images, your brand, your stakeholders' understanding of you, and movement on your highest-priority strategic objectivesI've got some experience-honed savviness as both a strategic communications consultant and as a newsman in understanding what stories and messages move and shape public discussions, why, and how. I listen closely and try always to ask smart questions to understand your goals and needs. At Denterlein or anywhere, I don't tell people about my clients unless my clients want me to. I bring to my work for you three decades of experience in analyzing and explaining complex business, government, and policy issues and proposals in Greater Boston and Massachusetts, in print, in video, and online, under the maximum public scrutiny.Please note, and please don't take offense at this: I "link"​ only with people I know well enough in real life to recommend or comment on substantively for a job or professional opportunity. I don't use LinkedIn as an online Rolodex.

- In-depth reporting, production and live television coverage of 1,800+ daily television news stories for "NECN Business" and multiple other NECN broadcasts for cable television news channel reaching 3.7 million subscribers in all six New England states. Expanded scripts into digital articles for necn.com.- Led NECN's coverage of business/economic issues including: the 2008-10 economic crisis, foreclosure, and housing-market collapse; casino gambling rollout in Massachusetts; the 2013 Marathon bombing aftermath; Market Basket employee walkout of 2014; Boston 2024 Olympics bid; Boston transit system collapse of 2015 and reform efforts, and extensive reporting on energy, air travel, and real-estate-development news. - Multifacted on-air talent, breaking-news coverage of weather, fires, accidents, including for NBC affiliates nationwide. Reported/produced 70+ "Money Saving Mondays" 2-1/2-minute consumer advice segments 2014-15. Reported/produced 20+ 5-minute stories on Boston education, economic, and workforce-development issues for NECN/The Boston Foundation 2008-2010 partnership.- Regular fill-in anchor for "NECN Business" and "Worcester News Tonight" (aired to 150,000 Charter 3 subscribers).- For "This Week in Business" Sunday show, weekly 5-minute commentary/behind-the-news Q-and-A interview for "Business Beat" segment. Regular fill-in anchor for TWIB.- For social media, built @NECNBiz Twitter to 1,800+ followers, @PeterHoweNECN to 3,700+.- Committed, high-visibility ambassador to business/academia for NECN as a frequent MC/panel-discussion moderator for: Suffolk U./Greater Boston Real Estate Board "Building Boston" series, CFO Leadership Council, Northeastern U. Center for Family Business, Skills2Compete Gubernatorial Forum, Law Seminars International, Greater Worcester Chamber, others.- Moved on from NECN as ownership began newsroom/format transformation to launch NBC10 Boston network-owned-and-operated station on January 1, 2017.

- Based on impact and visibility as Business Reporter, promoted to host marquee 30-minute weekly NECN CEO interview show in Sunday night public-affairs programming hour. Collaborating with executive producer, conceptualized, scripted, and conducted 270+ live-to-tape interviews with local, national, and Fortune 500 business CEOs, including leaders of: Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA, Boston Celtics, Campbell Soup, Cape Air, CarGurus, Citizens Bank, Cubist, Cumberland Farms, eClinicalWorks, Eversource, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Gulf Oil, Harvard Pilgrim, Mass Mutual, Massport, National Grid, NECCO, iRobot, ISO New England, Partners HealthCare, Polar Beverages, Putnam Investments, Rethink Robotics, Santander Bank, T-Mobile, UMass, Vertex, and Wayfair.

- Reported and wrote more than 6,500 stories, hundreds for Page 1, as a State House Bureau, Business, Health/Science, City Hall Bureau, and Metro/Region reporter for New England's dominant daily and Sunday newspaper and news website.- Editor/co-editor for four years of "The Globe 100" glossy-magazine supplement on top-performing Massachusetts public companies.- Major areas of coverage included Boston's $14 billion Big Dig (Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel project), transit and transportation, $4 billion Boston Harbor cleanup, broadband/wireless/telecom revolution of the 1990s-2000s, post-1998 deregulation and restructuring of New England electric markets, aviation industry and 2000s transformation of Logan International Airport, Y2K preparations, Microsoft antitrust prosecution, Weld-Cellucci gubernatorial administration and 1994 reelection campaign, Education Reform Act of 1993. Page 1 "rewrite man" byline writer of dozens of major breaking news, weather, and election stories.- Conceived and inaugurated "Starts and Stops" transit and traffic column in 1988 and "Brainstorms" column on patents won by Massachusetts inventors in 1995. Wrote three Globe Sunday Magazine cover stories.- Journalistic excellence awards from: Associated Press Managing Editors, Society of American Business Editors and Writers, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Anesthesiologists, The Boston Harbor Association.