SARASOTA FL — Ronald T. Smith, a lifelong journalist whose career culminated as a senior editor at United Press International in New York, leads JournalistPR LLC. Among ancillary activities, he worked on copy desks at The New York Times and Newark Star-Ledger. He has also freelanced for several prominent magazines.
Mr. Smith also served for a number of years as a Vice President of J. Walter Thompson Company, New York (then the world’s largest agency), managing $50 million in public relations and advertising.
He left JWT to launch Madison Fielding Corp., a public relations firm specializing in media coverage for clients, with offices in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
He’s now the Managing Member of JournalistPR LLC www.journalistpr.com, the only public relations company in the Southeastern United States staffed totally by journalists. The agency adheres to strict journalistic standards, and makes certain its clients have journalists talking to the journalists who are its targets.
One result: It is believed that the agency arranges more major feature articles than anyone else in the Southeast.
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