Eleanor McManus: From Senior Producer Of Larry King Live To Top Public Relations Expert CEOs To Hire In Crisis

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Eleanor McManus is a co-founder and partner of the communications firm Trident DMG and of the law firm Galper & Goldberg. A former award-winning journalist at CNN for over 10 years, Eleanor has over two decades of experience providing clients with strategic counsel for internal and external communications, media relations, reputation and crisis management, issue mitigation, and litigation communications.
Eleanor has been named to Lawdragon’s Global 100 Leaders in Legal Strategy and Consulting for crisis communications from 2019-2023, as an “Industry Innovator” by PR News’s “Top Women in PR Awards” in 2021. Business Insider named Eleanor to its list of Top Public Relations Expert CEOs to Hire in a Crisis in 2021 and its list
of Best Public-Relations People in the Tech Industry in 2017.
Eleanor has counseled a wide variety of clients, including high-profile individuals, celebrities and athletes, Fortune 500 companies, among many others. She has also counseled many women during the #MeToo movement helping them bravely tell their stories.
Eleanor has a proven track record of defining and driving communications strategies and regularly works with premier national and international outlets, such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Hill, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News and Fox Business, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC, the Associated
Press, Reuters, Bloomberg, Forbes, Fortune, Vanity Fair, and many others.
Eleanor began her career in 1999 as a booker at CNN, where she worked for over a decade at the cable news channel’s then-highest-rated program, Larry King Live. She rose to become a senior producer and was responsible for planning, booking, and producing exclusive interviews with iconic newsmakers and well-known political
figures, including Presidents Obama, Clinton, and Ford, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, every presidential candidate in both 2004 and 2008, and foreign leaders such as Russian Presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and Vladimir Putin, among many others. She also helped to cover historic events, including the September 11th attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the passing of Presidents Ford and Reagan, President Obama’s inauguration, and the earthquake in Haiti.
Eleanor received Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Awards for September 11th coverage and a 2005 DuPont award for coverage of the tsunami disaster in South Asia, among many others.
Eleanor co-founded Press Forward, an independent group that works to create a safe work environment and elevate the stature of women in the newsroom.
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