CSM Strategies is a boutique media and digital strategy firm operated by founder Joe Newman, a veteran public interest communicator, visual storyteller and former newspaper reporter and editor.

Joe has spent the past 15 years in Washington DC developing messaging and rapid response strategies for nonprofit advocacy groups, including Rethink Media, Project On Government Oversight and Public Citizen. Prior to moving to Washington, DC, he worked as an award-winning journalist at the Orlando Sentinel, St. Petersburg Times and The Palm Beach Post.

Most recently, he worked with nonprofit organizations in the democracy movement to develop data-driven communication strategies focused on protecting, strengthening and expanding voting rights. He also teaches an introduction to nonprofit communications class for the University of Florida’s School of Public Relations.

He is the owner of f8photographic, which helps organizations document important events, moments and milestones and organizes immersive workshop experiences for photographers. He is also the founder of Focus on the Story, which organizes the annual Focus on the Story International Photo Festival in the nation’s capital.

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