Hume Johnson - Giving Communication New Meaning

"It's a risk to speak to the press. They are likely to report what you say" (Hubert Humphrey)

That may be true but if you are armed with a strategic communications specialist of the calibre of Dr. HUME JOHNSON, then you can speak to today's aggressive media with all the confidence. DR JOHNSON is a consummate communicator. She has over 15 years of combined professional experience in the media and communications industries, spanning television and radio broadcasting, public relations and strategic political communication. Hume has worked as a Specialist newscaster at Radio Jamaica (RJR) and FAME FM, Anchor/Producer of the Jamaica Information Service’s (JIS) flagship programme, Jamaica Magazine, and since 1997, administered all publicity for Jamaican reggae icon, Tony Rebel.
 
Dr. Johnson has also been actively engaged in the Jamaican public sector as a communications consultant with the Jamaican government and strategic advisor with political parties. For example, Hume served as a specialist speechwriter in the Ministry of National Security, a researcher/writer with author and former Senator and State Minister in Foreign Affairs, Delano Franklyn, and as a youth advisor on a Prime Ministerial Advisory Council (Most. Hon. P.J. Patterson). Dr. Johnson’s extraordinary capacity for strategic communication analysis, her ability to articulate and make lucid complex issues, and her public profile as an excellent broadcaster resulted in her expertise being solicited by the academic community, local community groups, media professionals and political parties. In 2007, Hume was engaged as a political analyst on post political debates coverage of the General Elections, and commentator on public issues on several media programmes, including guest host of radio talk show, Disclosure (HOT 102 FM). She was also invited to deliver a one-day workshop on speech delivery and articulation to fresh men and senior students at Howard University (Washington, D.C.)
 
Dr. Johnson now ranks in the top 5 percent of communication specialists and broadcast journalists in Jamaica. She is currently a Lecturer of Journalism and Communications at James Cook University (QLD, Australia). She teaches Advanced Television, and Radio Broadcasting and Public Relations. Dr. Johnson holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Political Science & Public Policy (University of Waikato, New Zealand), a Masters of Science Degree in Government (UWI, Mona, Jamaica) and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Media and Communications (CARIMAC, UWI, Jamaica).
 
Dr. Johnson is the co-author of ‘Jamaican Dons, Italian Mafias and the chances of a reversible destiny’ (Political Studies, Vol. 56, March 2008), and ‘Performing Protest: The Mass Media as Stage’ (International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, Vol 2, no. 4, 2008). Dr. Johnson has also published on the politics of incivility among the marginalised in Jamaica (Political Studies, Vol. 53 (3), 2005), and resistance rituals among women vendors in the Jamaican informal economy (On the Edges of Development: Cultural Interventions, New York: Routledge, 2009).