Bryan Rich

Who is Bryan Rich?

Bryan Rich advises major corporate and government clients on strategic communications and global positioning strategies; Rich founded Newsimaging Inc www.globalni.com that applies analytical models for competitive intelligence, market and reputation analysis and has been used to devise and implement multi-channel global PR campaigns. GNI recently conducted a statistical analysis of gender gap in US media that was widely covered in the US media. This technology marketed as GNI has been deployed extensively to support US national security issues including counter insurgency behavioral analysis and effects-based COIN strategies. Rich was a 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 Rich has been a senior outside consultant for the Rendon Group in Washington, D.C. and has been key player in developing Rendon’s real time influence and Strategy/PR practice. GNI is a highly unique open source analysis system 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. GNI was most recently used by NATO to support its behavioral analysis of Muammar Gaddafi and track the stakeholder imfuences in Libya. Rich 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 obtained unique confessions of genocide with Alexis Sinduhije Chiara Zanni and Bill Gentile, 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 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 with Search for Common Ground 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 and Thousand Pieces of Gold and Life under Water with Keanu Reeves and Sarah Jessica Parker.