WHO WE ARE
ABOUT PHILLIPS MEDIA RELATIONS
Phillips Media Relations is a highly specialized media relations, media and presentation training, and crisis communications firm specializing in nonprofits and government.
The firm was founded in 2004 by Brad Phillips, an experienced broadcast journalist and media relations professional. He leads all of our media training workshops and oversees all of our media relations efforts.
Our clients have included the Smithsonian Institution, the American Medical Association, the U.S. Peace Corps, NOAA, the Institute of Medicine, and dozens of others.
We are passionately committed to achieving real results for our clients, responding quickly to client requests, and providing superlative customer service.
When 20 of our clients were polled anonymously by the independent research firm, Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), Phillips Media Relations earned:
- 99 percent for staff attitude, courtesy and professionalism
- 97 percent for following through on commitments reliably
- 96 percent for final total costs corresponding closely to client expectations at the beginning of the transaction
Phillips Media Relations is an approved government contractor, whose schedule can be viewed on the GSAAdvantage website or by clicking the GSA link on the homepage of this website.
ABOUT BRAD PHILLIPS, PRESIDENT
Since founding Phillips Media Relations in 2004, Mr. Phillips has helped thousands of spokespersons prepare for media interviews, including nonprofit leaders and executives, politicians, scientists, physicians, academics, authors, educators, and many others.
His firm has placed stories and trained spokespersons for interviews with every major print, broadcast and on-line outlet in the United States. Over the course of his career, Mr. Phillips has placed stories and prepared spokespersons for interviews that have been seen by more than one billion people in over 100 countries.
Mr. Phillips began his career working for ABC's Nightline with Ted Koppel, where he contributed to broadcasts about everything from the declining national savings rate and school shootings to domestic politics and terrorism.
He then moved to CNN, where he produced two weekly programs: the media analysis program, Reliable Sources, and the political roundtable, The Capital Gang. He was also a contributing producer to the Sunday public affairs program, Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.
Mr. Phillips has worked with and produced programs for reporters including Ted Koppel, Wolf Blitzer, Cokie Roberts, Chris Wallace, Aaron Brown, Bernard Kalb and Howard Kurtz.
Immediately after leaving journalism, Mr. Phillips led the media shop at Conservation International, where he placed stories seen by more than half a billion people worldwide.
Mr. Phillips is a member of PRSA, the Public Relations Society of America.