{"id":2604,"date":"2014-04-16T20:57:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T20:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2015-11-16T18:43:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T18:43:07","slug":"bob-mentzinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/bob-mentzinger\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 107: Award-Winning Writer, Editor & Campaign Manager Bob Mentzinger"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show:<\/strong>\u00a0107
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0April 12
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Bob Mentzinger
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Award-winning writer, editor and Steve Woods’ Senate campaign manager Bob Mentzinger<\/a> was born in Paterson, New Jersey.\u00a0\u00a0He grew up spending his adolescent years in Connecticut.\u00a0 Mentzinger graduated from The George Washington University, in Washington D.C. with a double major in Journalism and Political Science.\u00a0 He earned his Master\u2019s in Writing from The John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.\u00a0 After graduating he moved around: Seattle, Boston, Baltimore and Taos, New Mexico; not in that order.<\/p>\n

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TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods (left) welcomed award-winning writer, editor and campaign manager Bob Mentzinger (right) into the studio.<\/p><\/div>\n

Mentzinger told Stevoe that\u00a0had been to Maine prior to moving here, but pursued a job here based on the quality of life Maine offers.\u00a0 Mentzinger moved to Maine in 2003, where he was a top editor at the Kennebec Journal in Augusta for nine years before leaving to manage media strategy for Cynthia Dill’s successful campaign for the Democratic nomination to the US Senate in 2012.\u00a0 Stevoe and Mentzinger\u00a0discussed how they had met during the 2012 Senate campaign and Mentzinger gave his “behind the scenes” take on the whole race.<\/p>\n

As City Editor for the state\u2019s oldest daily newspaper (The Kennebec Journal), Metzinger\u2019s work led to federal corruption indictments against officials in the town of Chelsea, and a multimedia investigation he supervised illustrated shortcomings in the regulation of Maine\u2019s drinking water.\u00a0\u00a0 In 2013, the Maine Press Association named Mentzinger the top editorial writer among all Maine daily newspapers in 2012-13.<\/p>\n

Because of his intensive contacts and proven experience crafting a persuasive message, companies and organizations across Maine have used Mentzinger\u2019s writing to build membership, raise capital, sell products and services, and win campaigns.<\/p>\n

Most recently, until March 31, 2014, he served as managing editor of The Times Record in Brunswick.\u00a0 Here he was responsible for all journalism aspects of community-focused afternoon newspaper and its affiliated digital properties.\u00a0 In re-starting his public relations firm in the run-up to the 2014 elections, Stevoe named Mentzinger his Senate campaign manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Woods host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe welcomed award-winning writer, editor and newly named campaign manager Bob Mentzinger to the studio. The two discussed the current state of journalism and how journalism is a key component of democracy. Mentzinger and Stevoe also talked about Mentzinger’s prospective on the 2014 election. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}