Eric Seidel

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Gender	Male
Industry	Consulting
Occupation	Founder/CEO The Media Trainers, LLC
Location	Atlanta, GA, United States
Introduction	Over 25 years of local and network news experience: Understands how media work and how to work with the media; conducted 500+ customized media training workshops/consulting sessions for 90+ clients. Over a decade ago, Seidel founded The Media Trainers® taking more than 25 years of experience in the newsroom to corporate boardrooms. He’s worked with 100s of executives, primarily in Fortune 100 companies: Comcast, Lockheed Martin, Coca-Cola, Southern Co., Raytheon, Mirant, and UK-based defense/aviation companies, BAE Systems and GKN Aerospace Services. During his broadcast career, he hired and developed syndicated radio hosts Sean Hannity and Clark Howard. Also, led the Southeast’s largest and most highly honored radio news staff at WGST, Atlanta, capturing the Int'l Programming Award, a national Society of Professional Journalists Award, and several RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Awards. A graduate of the renowned University of Missouri School of Journalism, Seidel's career has taken him to Philadelphia and CBS O&O WCAU Radio; Atlanta and the fore-mentioned WGST Radio and Washington, DC, where he worked at WJLA-TV and as CNN's Supreme Court Correspondent