General Info:
Words matter. Reaching your target audience, maintaining your clients or informing your employees requires excellent words that create impact. Next New Thing Communications provides comprehensive research and writing support for your business communications strategy. Whether you seek candid audits of existing print materials, powerful and personal speechwriting, crisis communications assistance or regular production of newsletters and blogs, NNT supplies high quality on tight deadlines. A unique resource for short-term projects or ongoing campaigns, NNT will help you use your words to become the Next New Thing. Our president Monika Guttman is an award-winning freelance writer, reporter, and communications consultant based in the Washington DC area. As President of Next New Thing communications Monika has worked with numerous business, political, and non-profit organizations to maximize their exposure and visibility and develop detailed and comprehensive communications strategies. Monika has 25 years of experience researching, interviewing and writing a wide variety of news and business articles for daily, weekly and monthly publications. She has special expertise in health, the environment, education, politics, and crisis management. She has written for a variety of publications including US News & World Report, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, People Magazine, Glamour, and Investors Business Daily, among others, and worked in the media relations department at USC. She received a National Press Club award for consumer journalism in 1993. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Monika attended Stanford University and was a fellow at the Casey School of Journalism at the University of Maryland.