Bryan Rich
Encyclopedia
Bryan Rich advises major corporate and government
clients on strategic communications and global positioning strategies; he is a renowned expert in applying analytical models for competitive intelligence
, market
and reputation analysis and devising and implementing transformative multi-channel campaigns. His proprietary analytical models have been applied to support US national security
issues including counter insurgency
behavioral analysis and effects-based COIN
strategies. Rich was a keynote speaker at the 2011 Human Socio-Cultural Behavior Conference by the US Department of Defense. Rich was a teacher of digital journalism
at Harvard University
's Nieman Foundation and went on to design strategies for Fortune 100 corporations and has been an executive-advisor to major financial and aerospace companies on issues of global marketing
and reputation analysis. Rich is a senior consultant for the Rendon Group
in Washington, D.C.
and has been key player in Rendon’s real time influence and Strategy/PR practice. He is a a leading expert in data driven open source analysis and strategy development and was founder of Global News Intelligence (GNI), a highly unique open source analysis company that has provided services to Publicis
and WPP and has been used by major defense contractors in support of effects-based analysis in the Middle East
, South Asia
, and Latin America
. Rich has lived and traveled extensively in The Middle East, South Asia, Europe
, Africa
and Latin America. He is a former TV and radio producer whose last work broadcast by Bill Moyers
was an in depth interview with suicide bomb trainer Marwan Zaloum who was assassinated weeks after the interview and Rich was awarded a Nieman Fellow of Journalism at Harvard University for creating and establishing Studio Ijambo in Burundi
; he has been featured in The Washington Post for documentary
work and was the first person on record to obtain with Alexis Sinduhije
(Burundian Presidential candidate and Burundian journalist) Chiara Zanni
and Bill Gentile, voluntary confessions of genocide
in which the perpetrators exhumed and named their victims on camera. Rich was a teacher of digital journalism at Harvard University's Neiman Foundation and went on to become a c-suite consultant to Fortune 100 executives to major financial and aerospace companies on issues of global influence and reputation analysis.
Rich wrote a narrative about his experiences in Burundi entitled "One David and Two Goliaths" and has been featured in the Washington Post, National Public Radio among others. He was the creator of "Our Neighbors Ourselves", a major radio play that rose to international prominence for its popularity in central east Africa, and was written with Maria Louise Sebazuri. Rich appeared on ABC Nightline in 1996 with Ted Koppel
for his work supporting independent media following the Rwandan genocide
. Rich is a songwriter and collaborated extensively with Will Oldham
on a number of music projects, writing some of Oldham's early songs. Rich also worked in the independent movie industry in New York City
on award-winning independent movies like Poison
(Todd Haynes
) and Thousand Pieces of Gold (Nancy Savoka) and Life under Water
with Keanu Reeves
and Sarah Jessica Parker
.
Government
Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...
clients on strategic communications and global positioning strategies; he is a renowned expert in applying analytical models for competitive intelligence
Competitive intelligence
A broad definition of competitive intelligence is the action of defining, gathering, analyzing, and distributing intelligence about products, customers, competitors and any aspect of the environment needed to support executives and managers in making strategic decisions for an organization.Key...
, market
Market analysis
A market analysis studies the attractiveness and the dynamics of a special market within a special industry. It is part of the industry analysis and this in turn of the global environmental analysis. Through all these analyses the chances, strengths, weaknesses and risks of a company can be...
and reputation analysis and devising and implementing transformative multi-channel campaigns. His proprietary analytical models have been applied to support US national security
National security
National security is the requirement to maintain the survival of the state through the use of economic, diplomacy, power projection and political power. The concept developed mostly in the United States of America after World War II...
issues including counter insurgency
Counter insurgency
A counter-insurgency or counterinsurgency involves actions taken by the recognized government of a nation to contain or quell an insurgency taken up against it...
behavioral analysis and effects-based COIN
COIN
COIN can refer to:* Climate Outreach and Information Network*Collaborative Innovation Networks*Counterinsurgency*Coin...
strategies. Rich was a keynote speaker at the 2011 Human Socio-Cultural Behavior Conference by the US Department of Defense. Rich was a teacher of digital journalism
Digital journalism
Digital journalism is a term used to describe journalism originating from the Internet. Technological innovation, which previously allowed the mass distribution of news and information to large audiences, is now giving that power to individuals...
at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
's Nieman Foundation and went on to design strategies for Fortune 100 corporations and has been an executive-advisor to major financial and aerospace companies on issues of global marketing
Global marketing
The Oxford University Press defines global marketing as “marketing on a worldwide scale reconciling or taking commercial advantage of global operational differences, similarities and opportunities in order to meet global objectives.”...
and reputation analysis. Rich is a senior consultant for the Rendon Group
Rendon Group
The Rendon Group is a public relations and propaganda firm headed by John Rendon which specializes in providing communications services both nationally and internationally. The Rendon Group website states, “For nearly three decades, The Rendon Group has been providing innovative global strategic...
in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
and has been key player in Rendon’s real time influence and Strategy/PR practice. He is a a leading expert in data driven open source analysis and strategy development and was founder of Global News Intelligence (GNI), a highly unique open source analysis company that has provided services to Publicis
Publicis
Publicis Groupe is a French multinational advertising and communications company, headquartered in Paris, France. It is one of the world's three largest advertising holding companies . Its current president is Maurice Lévy. Publicis Groupe S.A...
and WPP and has been used by major defense contractors in support of effects-based analysis in the Middle East
Middle East
The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...
, South Asia
South Asia
South Asia, also known as Southern Asia, is the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan countries and, for some authorities , also includes the adjoining countries to the west and the east...
, and Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
. Rich has lived and traveled extensively in The Middle East, South Asia, Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
and Latin America. He is a former TV and radio producer whose last work broadcast by Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers is an American journalist and public commentator. He served as White House Press Secretary in the United States President Lyndon B. Johnson Administration from 1965 to 1967. He worked as a news commentator on television for ten years. Moyers has had an extensive involvement with public...
was an in depth interview with suicide bomb trainer Marwan Zaloum who was assassinated weeks after the interview and Rich was awarded a Nieman Fellow of Journalism at Harvard University for creating and establishing Studio Ijambo in Burundi
Burundi
Burundi , officially the Republic of Burundi , is a landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. Its capital is Bujumbura...
; he has been featured in The Washington Post for documentary
Documentary
A documentary is a creative work of non-fiction, including:* Documentary film, including television* Radio documentary* Documentary photographyRelated terms include:...
work and was the first person on record to obtain with Alexis Sinduhije
Alexis Sinduhije
Alexis Sinduhije is a Burundian journalist. He founded the Radio Publique Africaine as a means of bringing about peace between his fellow Tutsi and the Hutu in his often war-torn country...
(Burundian Presidential candidate and Burundian journalist) Chiara Zanni
Chiara Zanni
Chiara Zanni is a Canadian actress & voice actress, performing in movies such as BIONICLE: Mask of Light as Hahli, playing the role of Hamtaro in the TV anime cartoon series. Young Joe in Cyborg 009, Hamtaro, Jubilee in X-Men: Evolution, Bon Bon in My Little Pony Tales and Nori, the mermaid in...
and Bill Gentile, voluntary confessions of genocide
Genocide
Genocide is defined as "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group", though what constitutes enough of a "part" to qualify as genocide has been subject to much debate by legal scholars...
in which the perpetrators exhumed and named their victims on camera. Rich was a teacher of digital journalism at Harvard University's Neiman Foundation and went on to become a c-suite consultant to Fortune 100 executives to major financial and aerospace companies on issues of global influence and reputation analysis.
Rich wrote a narrative about his experiences in Burundi entitled "One David and Two Goliaths" and has been featured in the Washington Post, National Public Radio among others. He was the creator of "Our Neighbors Ourselves", a major radio play that rose to international prominence for its popularity in central east Africa, and was written with Maria Louise Sebazuri. Rich appeared on ABC Nightline in 1996 with Ted Koppel
Ted Koppel
Edward James "Ted" Koppel is an English-born American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor for Nightline from the program's inception in 1980 until his retirement in late 2005. After leaving Nightline, Koppel worked as managing editor for the Discovery Channel before resigning in 2008...
for his work supporting independent media following the Rwandan genocide
Rwandan Genocide
The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass murder of an estimated 800,000 people in the small East African nation of Rwanda. Over the course of approximately 100 days through mid-July, over 500,000 people were killed, according to a Human Rights Watch estimate...
. Rich is a songwriter and collaborated extensively with Will Oldham
Will Oldham
Will Oldham , better known by the stage name Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, is an American singer-songwriter and actor. From 1993 to 1997, he performed and recorded under variations of the Palace name, including the Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, and Palace Music...
on a number of music projects, writing some of Oldham's early songs. Rich also worked in the independent movie industry in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
on award-winning independent movies like Poison
Poison (film)
Poison is a 1991 independent film written and directed by Todd Haynes. It is composed of three intercut stories that are partially inspired by the novels of Jean Genet...
(Todd Haynes
Todd Haynes
Todd Haynes is an American independent film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his feature films Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Poison, Velvet Goldmine, Safe, and the Academy Award-nominated Far from Heaven and I'm Not There.- Style and themes :The writes that "Haynes is...
) and Thousand Pieces of Gold (Nancy Savoka) and Life under Water
Life Under Water
Life Under Water is a PBS' American Playhouse TV movie, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Joanna Gleason and Keanu Reeves. It was written by Richard Greenberg and based on his play.-Starring:*Sarah Jessica Parker - Amy-Beth...
with Keanu Reeves
Keanu Reeves
Keanu Charles Reeves is a Canadian actor. Reeves is perhaps best known for his roles in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Speed, Point Break and the science fiction-action trilogy The Matrix...
and Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker is an American film, television, and theater actress and producer.She is best known for her leading role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City , for which she won four Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Emmy Awards...
.
External links
- http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_zaloum.htmland
- http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/102140/1997-One-David-Two-Goliaths.aspx
- http://www.economist.com/node/
- Ease Down the RoadEase Down the RoadEase Down the Road is the name of an album by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. It also features Todd Brashear, Matt Everett, Mike Fellows, Paul Greenlaw, Catherine Irwin, Harmony Korine, Ned Oldham, David Pajo, Bryan Rich, Matt Sweeney, and Jon Theodore....
- http://www.salon.com/news/news960731.html