Rex Granum
Rex Granum is a veteran communicator with extensive experience as a network news executive, public affairs spokesman and newspaper reporter. He offers strategic, crisis and issues communication counsel to clients of Prism Public Affairs, as well as advocacy writing and message development.
Prior to joining Prism in 2003, Granum was an executive with ABC News for 22 years. From 1995 to 2003, he was the ABC News director of television news coverage for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and London bureau chief. He was responsible for the management, news coverage and operations of the London, Moscow, Jerusalem, Paris, Bonn and Johannesburg bureaus.
Granum was the Atlanta-based bureau chief, Southern bureaus, for ABC News from 1986 to 1995, with responsibility for the Atlanta, Miami and Dallas bureaus and the coverage of 14 states plus Central and South America. Before that, he was the deputy director and later director of news coverage for ABC News in New York from 1982 to 1986, and national editor on the Washington assignment desk in 1981 and 1982.
Granum started out his career in 1972 as a reporter with the Atlanta Constitution. In January 1976 he joined the presidential campaign of Jimmy Carter, serving as the campaign press director. Later Granum was White House deputy press secretary for the four years of the Carter Administration, serving as the backup spokesman for the daily White House briefings. He had daily repeated interaction with the White House press corps and extensive involvement in preparation for presidential news conferences and all presidential trips.
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