RINGE MEDIA 

Ringe Media is an advocacy media firm focused on candidates, political and public policy issues.  

DON RINGE

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.

Ringe has been a media consultant to AARP, the Humane Society of the United States, 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 founded Ringe Media 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 (pro) gun control initiatives in Colorado and Oregon, as well as the Save Our Sealife constitutional amendment in Florida, which banned commercial gill-net fishing.

Since 2004, Ringe has created television spots and internet video media for several land-use issue campaigns for clients including the international Westfield Group, the California-based Kilroy Realty Corporation, and Marymount College, among others.  

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 arrived in 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" for David Wolper Productions.
 


In 1970, he founded Spencer-Roberts Advertising and 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.
 
 

Ringe 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 programming at WNAC-TV, then the CBS affiliate in Boston.
 

Ringe has been an innovator in the integration of traditional and new media in political and educational campaigns.  
 


Ringe’s 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.
 


A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (MS) and Hofstra University (BA), he holds a Certificate in Advanced Advertising Studies from the University of Southern California Graduate School of Business.
 


Don lives in the Santa Monica Mountains with his wife, Jeanne, and their 13-year old daughter, Margaret (home page photographer).