Don Ringe

Who is Don Ringe?

Don Ringe is a political media consultant, Emmy Award winning journalist, documentary filmmaker and online innovator in both the US and overseas. He is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Hofstra University. He holds a Certificate in Advanced Advertising Studies from the University of Southern California Graduate School of Business.

While attending Columbia University he was hired by David Wolper Productions as noted author Theodore White’s research assistant for the CBS television special, “Making of the President, 1968.” He was also the assistant to the producer of Wolper’s ABC special, “The Unfinished Journey of Robert F. Kennedy.

He began his career as a copy boy at Newsday at the age of 18 while attending Hofstra University. In 1970 he established one of the first political media firms in the country and created the media for the successful Los Angeles Police and Fire Association's Proposition 2, the ballot initiative to re-build the LA city schools after the 1970 earthquake, and a statewide ballot initiative to expand and upgrade the UC Medical School system.