Don Ringe has been the media consultant to many US Senate and gubernatorial campaigns, as well as to presidential campaigns in the US and abroad.

An Emmy Award winning writer, producer and director, Don Ringe's issue advocacy media work ranges across the full public policy spectrum. He has been the media consultant to campaigns on topics including drug and alcohol abuse, national defense, global trade, health care, preserving the rain forests, protecting sea life, expanding gun control, native American rights, defending a woman's right to choice, affordable housing, and internet access, among others.

In 1970, he created a political advertising agency for Spencer-Roberts & Associates, whose most prominent client was Ronald Reagan. He founded Ringe Media in 1978.

His background includes positions ranging from producer to news director at several major market network TV stations. He has written, produced and directed many award winning television programs.

He is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (M.S.), Hofstra University (B.A.) and holds a graduate certificate in Advanced Advertising Studies from the USC Graduate School of Business.

www.ringemedia.com

Blog Entries by Don Ringe

So to Speak: Show Me the Dope!

Posted March 12, 2009 | 01:41 PM (EST)


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so to speak: California Queen'in

Posted February 13, 2009 | 04:00 PM (EST)


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So to Speak: Sue Me California!

Posted February 11, 2009 | 04:07 PM (EST)


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So to Speak: A Pro-Choice GOP in California?

1 Comments | Posted February 6, 2009 | 09:39 AM (EST)


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So to Speak: Big John

6 Comments | Posted February 1, 2009 | 02:22 PM (EST)


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McCain-Palin Agenda Threatens Teens

Posted September 11, 2008 | 02:43 PM (EST)


I produced this public service TV commercial 20 years ago and have updated it to carry today's message about choice in California.

The first time I had a glimpse into the very dark world of child sexual abuse,...

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McWink and McNod

Posted July 14, 2008 | 04:14 PM (EST)


John McCain has winked at so many slivers of the political spectrum that his eyes are now permanently shut. Both of them, stuck together by the spit and sealing wax of too many promises that will never be kept, can never be kept, and will never be kept because they're...

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John's Court: Pulling a Juno

Posted May 14, 2008 | 03:15 PM (EST)


"Talk to your daughter," was the greeting I got when I answered my cell phone the other day. Never a good sign from my wife, she said, "Here, she wants to know if she can see Juno" and promptly handed the phone to our nine-year old, Margaret, before I could...

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This Too Shall Pass?

Posted March 17, 2008 | 01:10 AM (EST)


When I was a kid growing up and trying to navigate my way through what I perceived then to be the catastrophes of life, my mother would regularly offer up two observations. One put me on notice, "You'll live!" and the other put me in my place in the universe,...

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NoJohn.com

Posted March 11, 2008 | 10:22 AM (EST)


For nearly 40 years I have been a campaign media consultant working exclusively for Republicans. My first spot was created for Governor Ronald Reagan in 1970 when I founded Spencer-Roberts Advertising for Reagan's two top political gurus, Stu Spencer and Bill Roberts. I was 23 at the time and went...
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