Stephen Majors joined The Ehrhardt Group as a senior consultant and now serves as vice president, where he specializes in media training and crisis management. His 17 years of experience in national and local television news gives him a unique perspective on managing communication with the media.

Majors most recently worked as a Senior Producer for NBC News in its New Orleans Bureau. In that capacity, he helped coordinate and produce the network's coverage of the Gulf Coast after Katrina. His duties included building and maintaining NBC's relationships with public officials and community leaders. He produced stories for the network's broadcast programs and cable entities- NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, CNBC and MSNBC- and contributed regular essays to MSNBC.COM

Prior to his assignment in New Orleans, Majors worked in New York as a Senior Producer for the weekend edition of the Today Show. He was one of two executives who supervised the show's editorial content. In particular, Majors was responsible for coordinating live interviews of nationally recognized figures in politics, law, international affairs, homeland security, business, healthcare and television/film.

From 2001 to 2003, Majors served as a Senior Producer for MSNBC, NBC's cable news network, where he oversaw the editorial direction of several hours of daytime programming.  Majors first joined NBC Universal in 1999 when he was recruited to join CNBC, the business news channel. At CNBC, he was responsible for the launch of the network's first nationally broadcast show, "Early Today".   His tenure at CNBC coincided with the dot.com boom and bust period of the stock market and gave him a firsthand understanding of the dynamic relationship between Fortune 500 companies and the media.

His expertise in media relations is also honed by more than 10 years of experience in local television. Majors served as a TV producer in major markets including Los Angeles, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio. The pinnacle of his local news experience came in Tampa, Florida where Majors helped build a state-of-the art local news department. Within 2 years, Majors was named News Director. During his career, Majors has received individual awards of excellence from the Associated Press, the Society of Professional Journalists and has been a member of broadcast news organizations who have been recognized for group efforts with Emmy awards.

Majors graduated from Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York with a degree in Industrial Distribution. His Master's degree in Journalism was earned at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. He resides in New Orleans with his family.

 

smajors@theehrhardtgroup.com