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I work with words

reporting the news

sharing health care communications

training young journalists

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Patriot’s Day in Boston. A legal holiday commemorating the beginning of the American Revolution on one hand but for hundreds of thousands of others, it’s a day off to share in the spectacle of the running of the Boston Marathon.

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Professor

See one, do one, teach one. It’s a learning model I became aware of while working for an academic medical center. But it translates well to just about any discipline.

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Political Reporter

I’m a recovering political reporter. If only there was a cure. It started innocently enough as a student at the Columbia Journalism School. Except nothing was simple in the time I spent reporting in New York City.

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Health and Medicine

In my government and reporting days I had the opportunity to follow policymakers as they took the first steps to try and reform an expensive and often unresponsive care delivery system.

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About

I often joke I’ve had a “checkered” career. I’ve gone from journalist to professor to public relations strategist to small business owner back to professor. Each stop along the way has brought unique opportunities – covering everything from local city council meetings to presidential campaigns; training and mentoring young journalists; handling routine media relations tasks to crisis communications challenges.

What connects the dots is my curiosity and the opportunity to channel my skills with words.

At each juncture, it’s been the power of words that drives me forward. With the next challenge: writing a book that combines my years as a political journalist with my interest in how we went from “there” to “here.”

That will eventually take the form of “The Slow Motion-Coup: How the Legacy Media Lost the War on Truth.” Coming one of these days to a bookstore near you. Of course the final chapter is far from clear.

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“Like many in healthcare and media, I was privileged to have Jerry as a colleague. His talent, dedication, and knowledge is unmatched. Strong editorial and strategic ability make him the first person I recommend when asked for the best in communications."

Christine Baratta, Chief Communication Officer at Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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