Title: David Cotrone
Class 12 months: 2013
Title: Director of Public Relations and Communications
Group Title: PRX
1. In a single sentence, what does your job entail?
PR and communications is wide-ranging, however in a nutshell: I assist to establish and obtain publicity alternatives via a mixture of media relations and strategic communications. PRX is a nonprofit public media firm specializing in podcasting and radio. The group gained the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for audio, and Quick Firm named it one of many prime 10 most modern media firms. PRX works in partnership with an unimaginable array of content material creators: The Moth, the Smithsonian, Radiotopia, Futuro Media, Faith of Sports activities, GBH in Boston, and plenty of extra.
2. What deliberate and unplanned occasions linked you to your business and your first employer after Holy Cross? How did you be taught/determine it was a great match for you? Â
I went to grad college in New York proper after Holy Cross, in a artistic subject, thanks partially to a Beinecke Scholarship. As a result of I gained communication expertise via liberal arts, I used to be a match for an internship at a public relations agency within the metropolis and dealing my means up from there. This allowed me to attend grad college and to work on the identical time. Ultimately, I’d mix all my expertise into the profession I’ve now, in public media. At its greatest, public media reaches audiences via belief and human-centered tales. It’s additionally a wealthy service.
3. What have been you concerned in while you have been on campus?
Alternate School Theater. I wasn’t any good at performing or something like that, however I loved the social side of it.
4. What was your main and the way did it have an effect on your profession choices?
My main was English with a spotlight in artistic writing. My purpose wasn’t to turn into an expert author, however to work in a artistic subject or to deliver creativity with me. As I now work in a subject that values the ability of narrative––each private storytelling, tales rooted in journalism, and documentary––I haven’t strayed too removed from that authentic purpose.
5. What are one or two expertise that you simply developed at Holy Cross that you simply use in your work?
Leveraging essential considering and curiosity.
6. What recommendation do you will have for college students on campus immediately?
Take courses in as many alternative topics as doable, together with outdoors your consolation zone. Second: discover mentors. Third: take full benefit of Kimball Eating Corridor whilst you can. On the finish of the day, there’s maybe no larger pleasure than being there when lunch turns over to dinner.