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Edelman D.C.’s Earned Media Strategies team, a group consisting of former journalists and earned media specialists, has an exciting opportunity for a Media Supervisor, Energy Transition, Earned Media. This role will lead and execute media relations for our energy clients. The Edelman DC Earned Media Strategies team centers its approach around strategic and creative storytelling. We understand that to generate coverage in today’s media landscape, we must grab a reporter’s attention by approaching media relations with a reporter’s mindset, offering newsworthy story ideas.
In this role you will work in collaboration with account teams across Edelman’s energy pillars and should have an exceptional understanding of the energy media landscapes and the top related stories in the news. This is an opportunity for a team player who has experience serving as the day-to-day contact and manager of media relations campaigns, is driven by the promise of delivering powerful stories to media and has an audience centric mindset.
Ultimately this role is for you if you are a creative, outside-of-the-box storyteller and leader who lives and breathes energy media, and an avid consumer of the energy news cycle, and with a constant sense of what’s trending in energy news. You possess the confidence to counsel clients and executives on effective earned media strategies and partner with colleagues in other departments (account teams, paid, social, etc.) to develop and execute multichannel media strategies and be familiar with all types of news media outlets.
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