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 Don Ringe is a California-based media strategist with a unique history and an eclectic portfolio. He is an Emmy Award winning writer-producer-director. He has created advocacy media that has helped to elect many US Senators, governors, and Members of the House, and won ballot initiatives in California, Florida, Oregon, and Colorado. He has also been the media consultant to presidential campaigns in the US and overseas. Don has been a media consultant to AARP, the national Business Roundtable, the AMA and the US Chamber's Institute for Justice, among other organizations. He also served on the board of directors of the American Association of Political Consultants for several years. He has created national award winning programs on alcohol and drug abuse for young children and teens as well as a PBS documentary on glass master, Dale Chihuly. Ringe has been a documentary writer-producer-director for shows including "In Search of Ancient Astronauts" with Rod Serling, and "Armies of the Ants", an eco-documentary shot in the Amazon, Panamanian and Costa Rican rain forests. He also wrote and produced “Undersea Oasis,” a children’s TV special on artificial reefs starring Burl Ives. He came to California with an MS from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1969, and began his career as Theodore White's research assistant on the CBS News documentary "Making of the President - 1968." In 1970, he founded Spencer-Roberts Advertising. In addition to creating spots for Governor Reagan, he created the media for the successful Los Angeles Police and Fire Association's Proposition 2, the ballot initiative to re-build the LA city schools after the 1970 earthquake, and a statewide initiative to expand and upgrade the UC Medical School system. Don was the director of special projects at KABC-TV News in Los Angeles, then executive news producer at KPIX-TV in San Francisco, and shortly thereafter, news director and executive producer of public affairs programming at WNAC-TV, then the CBS affiliate in Boston. He founded Ringe Media, Inc. in 1978 with the campaigns of US Senators Ed Brooke and John Warner, as well as Texas Governor William Clements. He subsequently worked on many US Senate, gubernatorial, and House campaigns. Included in those campaigns were successful gun control initiatives in Colorado and Oregon, as well as the Save Our Sealife constitutional amendment in Florida, which banned commercial gill-net fishing. Don has been an innovator in the integration of traditional and new media in political and educational campaigns. His current project is the development of an online social network of shareholders - ShareholdersUnited.com – to create a national grassroots political force for reform of the financial system. His pro bono clients have included the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), Planned Parenthood, and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, among others.
Don Ringe Ringe Media dringe@ringemedia.com 310.924.9747
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