Vital Speeches

Will artificial intelligence make speechwriting easier, or eliminate it altogether?

Cory Booker Candidacy Announcement Speech, Military Park, Newark NJ, April 13, 2019

Pete Buttigieg's lesson: Authenticity isn't not having a speechwriter. It's acknowledging you do. (Or at least not bragging that you don't.)

The annual anthology of the Cicero Speechwriting Award winners showcase exceptional speeches on the subjects you write about every day.

The judges of the Cicero Speechwriting Awards sound like they're describing a concert or a film festival.

Women Deliver, Merck and the African Development Bank are all in search of scribes.

PSA adopts a "Speaker's Guide to Collaborating with a Speechwriter"; hopes speechwriters with it share with their communication bosses and their clients.

Beto O’Rourke Candidacy Announcement Speeches, El Paso, Houston, and Austin TX, March 30, 2019

A recruiter needs to know, because "I want to position the role appropriately." Can you help?

Kirsten Gillibrand Presidential Candidacy Announcement Speech, (outside of) Trump International Hotel and Tower, Manhattan, NY, March 24, 2019.

Carnegie Mellon, Google and the International Monetary fund among those seeking speechwriters.

The Professional Speechwriters Association had the temerity to invite Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to our World Conference. We were moved by her personal reply.

If you're writing for foreign officials, you need to register as a foreign agent. And if you register as a foreign agent, your client relationship could be revealed.

Harvard Business Review: Men who make jokes in speeches are seen as leaders. Women who make the same jokes are viewed as less capable.

The program relentlessly challenges leadership communication professionals to renew their approach and challenge assumptions.

A speechwriter says he is lonely. I tell him to join the association and come to the World Conference. What would you tell him?

John Hickenlooper Presidential Candidacy Announcement Speech, Civic Center Park, Denver CO March 7, 2019

SAP, New York Public Radio, Planned Parenthood and the California Department of Justice need speechwriters.

A college undergrad has been told "the only reason to give a speech is to change the world." A wizened observer sets her straight.

Bernie Sanders Presidential Candidacy Speeches (Plural)

Key performance indicators: HR departments insist, speechwriters resist. But one scribe tries to quantify his contribution.

Jay Inslee Presidential Candidacy Announcement, Seattle, WA, March 1, 2019

Asked and answered, in a speech delivered at the invitation of Dominican Republic Vice President Margarita Cedeño de Fernández.

If this practice prevails, it could lead to more lucrative government speechwriting jobs.