Chuck Tannert

Background

About Chuck Tannert

I am a seasoned story and content strategist with more than 25 years experience. I've covered a wide variety of subjects in that time, but my expertise lies in the Automotive, Lifestyle, Luxury, and Technology segments. My forte is taking heady material, and turning it into easy-to-understand, engaging and entertaining prose. And I've been able to do it in many forms: Print, Digital, Social Media, Transmedia, Audio and Video, Infographics and social. CORE COMPETENCIES • Innovative content creator with experience in both print and online. • Set and manage overall editorial agenda and strategy, in line with the media outlet’s mission and goals by producing high-quality, insightful and entertaining content and increase audience—and do both within budget. • Creative, self-motivated, and detail-oriented editor and writer with a keen sense of humor, solid nose for news and the hottest trends, and a proven track record for reaching a variety of audiences. • Able to ideate, write, assign, edit, produce, write and direct high-quality content (in many formats—audio, video, text, etc—and on many platforms (print, digital and social). • Maintains extensive network of industry experts, analysts, writers, bloggers, trendsetters and opinion-makers. • Ability to work with visual information specialists to ensure correctness, consistency, and completeness of final graphics and layout. • Collaborative, decisive and a well-respected manager. • A proven record of growing traffic/reach/circulation for a well-known media brand. • Forward-thinking brand ambassador that can represent the quality, character and integrity of a brand or company to clients, consumers and top industry decision makers.