Biography
Dennis Redmont
Senior Executive Advisor – Edelman
Experience: a veteran foreign correspondent and news executive; a senior professional with wide experience across the private and public sectors throughout Europe and the United States.
Born in the United States, schooled in the French Lycée, and graduated with honors from the prestigious Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Redmont joined the Associated Press in New York and became the agency’s youngest correspondent in Lisbon, Portugal in 1965.
During his first post in Portugal, Redmont covered the rising tide against the 40-year-old Salazar dictatorship among civil society, decolonization, and many cultural themes. His assignment was recently the theme of a prize winning 13-episode serial on Portuguese public TV about the fight against censorship of Three Women.
During his career, he reported from over 80 countries, covered guerrilla warfare and dictatorships in Latin America, Middle East crises, and three travelling popes, before working as a Rome based executive for the AP for the Mediterranean area, handling news, photos, television and multimedia coverage and distribution for over 25 years.
Fluent in six languages, he has written for magazines and other periodicals besides broadcasting for public and private television networks, commenting on such subjects as European politics and culture and the U. S. presidential elections.
Redmont was head of the Communications, Media and Development sector of the Rome-based Council for the United States and Italy, a business forum and think tank, affiliated with the Center for the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution.
Currently, he works as a strategic consultant for Edelman, a major global strategy and consulting firm.
Recognizing his career achievements, Columbia University’s alumni awarded him the Distinguished Alumni Prize in 2005, citing his “even-handed, unbiased and thorough coverage”.
In 2000, Redmont helped found a new major Italian news agency, AP.Biscom (now APCom), which has wed broadband technology with traditional wire service coverage in a series of innovative strategies to expand AP news to media, private, corporate, government and wireless subscribers.
In 1983 he won one of Italy’s most prestigious prizes, the Carlo Casalegno award for distinguished journalism for coverage of Italy and the Vatican, granted for the first time to a foreign news professional.
In 1978 he was Pulitzer Prize finalist for his Vatican and papal coverage. In 1991 he won Italy’s Solemare prize for career achievement, sponsored by Italy’s Culture Ministry. In 1995 he received the President of the Republic’s medal of the International Prize Ultimo Novecento for the most outstanding foreign correspondent.
He has served four times as president of Italy’s Foreign Press Association (Stampa Estera), which recently celebrated its 100th anniversary.
He was also the Italian adaptor of various editions of the famous “Trivial Pursuit” game.
He is the co-author of “Mass media e nuova Europa” (Mondadori, 2005).
He is adjunct professor at the RAI (public broadcasting) Graduate School of Journalism in Perugia, and at the Business school Sole 24 Ore in Milan and Rome.
Redmont served as a lecturer and a moderator for various YPO events in Italy, interviewing newsmakers in Florence and Rome.