Producer/Writer
Resume:
BOB LANGFORD
Raleigh, N.C. *7605
*************@*****.***
Professional Experience
****-****: Senior Producer/Communications Specialist, Back Home Productions
Produce, direct and write videos. To date, more than 250 videos in 38 states and 17 countries.
Work with C-level executives on set and off.
Develop creative plans and outlines for videos, write scripts.
Calculate budgets and submit Statements of Work.
Oversee creation of print collateral, eLearning modules and PowerPoint presentations.
Seek out and sign clients
Clients: IBM, Lenovo, EMC, Eaton, Brocade, Intel, Clarkston, Sensus, NetApp, Loveland Products.
2005–2006: Managing Editor, Cruise Magazine
Directed editorial content of a national consumer travel magazine.
Calculated and controlled the budget.
Worked with art director on the magazine’s look.
Supervised more than two dozen in-house and freelance writers all over the world.
2002–2005: Senior Producer, Cardiac Productions
Co-founded Cardiac to produce “The Glass Slipper Still Fits: The Story of the Cardiac Pack.”
The award-winning documentary aired nationally on College Sports TV and Mid-Atlantic Sports Network. Sold more than 6,000 copies.
Wrote two series for the National Geographic Channel: “IndyCar Racer” and “Skeleton Crew.”
Directed “Financial Victory,” a two-hour production for Hummingbird Credit Counseling.
1998-2002: Independent Television Producer and Writer
Produced and/or wrote 24 hours of programming for the Discovery Channel.
Series include “21st Century Medicine” and “Hospital.”
1995-1998: On-air reporter/commentator for Raleigh’s WRAL-TV
Produced, wrote and appeared in a daily story for the CBS affiliate in the 24th market.
Weekly segment entitled “Langford at Large.”
1984-1995: Television columnist, editor, Raleigh News & Observer
Wrote three columns per week on local and national television, major Sunday take-outs.
Also served as a feature writer, entertainment editor and features editor.
Directed staff of 15 writers and editors.
1982-1984: City editor and columnist, The Chapel Hill Newspaper, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Directed coverage of Chapel Hill. Supervised six reporters. Wrote a Sunday column.
1980-1982: News director, Village Communications, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Anchored nightly newscast and a daily interview show. Supervised staff of four.
Education
B.A. Journalism, Eastern Kentucky University
30 hours of graduate study, University of North Carolina
Awards, Achievements and Activities
1998-2008: Instructor, Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill. Taught executive MBA candidates how to make more effective PowerPoint presentations.
2005-2006: Podcast Producer and Talent for Educause, a non-profit association that promotes the use of information technology in higher education.
1988: Winner, Penney-Missouri Award for editing the best features section in America.
Winner: More than 25 Telly Awards, two Aurora Awards.
2002-2007: Host, “The Bob Langford Show” a three-hour weekly talk show on 50,000-watt WPTF-AM.
2003: Winner, Media Communications Association’s Silver Reel Award for Best Documentary for “The Glass Slipper Still Fits: The Story of the Cardiac Pack.”
2001: Contributor, “Do No Harm,” The medical ethics program aired on more than 100 public radio stations and won a Peabody, a Gracie and a Silver Reel Award.
2000: Winner, Media Communications Association’s Silver Reel Award for Best Documentary for the “Bionic Breakthroughs” episode of “21st Century Medicine.”
1998-2000: Contributing editor, beer.com. Wrote two personal columns per week on sports and popular culture for one of the internet’s premier daily websites.
1998-2003: Host, “Triangle Visitors’ Channel.” Wrote and hosted a video tour of the Triangle that is seen in 3,000 hotel rooms in Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill.
Guest lecturer: University of North Carolina, Duke University, N.C. State University, Meredith College, Elon University, N.C. Central University, Enloe High School
1980: Winner, Martin Luther King Award for the Reporting of Civil Rights News.
1993-1995: Columnist, Basketball America. Wrote bi-monthly column on basketball on television and the sports television industry.
1999-2000: Columnist, Triangle Lifestyle Magazine. Wrote a personal column for every issue of a monthly magazine distributed in Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill.
1992-1995: Advisor, The Technician, the student newspaper at N.C. State University. Worked with college journalists to improve their writing and editing skills.
1991-93: Columnist, Baseball America magazine. Wrote bi-monthly column on baseball on television and the sports broadcasting industry.
Appeared in the CBS series “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” “The Young and the Restless,” public television’s “North Carolina 400” and many industrial films.
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