We're passionate about achieving success for our clients. Whether it involves shaping public opinion, influencing policy, or protecting reputations, our clients benefit from our decades of experience and our extended network of specialists, subject matter experts, and journalists. Contact us to see how we can help.
Direct Communications Company's services include:
Crisis Communications. We've helped clients mitigate everything from internationally covered environmental disasters and airline catastrophes, to embarrassing personal indiscretions. Our experience enables us to not only produce a sound strategic plan, but also deliver a successful outcome through swift, disciplined execution.
Media Relations. Over more than two decades, we’ve developed strong relationships with scores of journalists covering a range of beats for influential trade publications and leading news organizations, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Bloomberg, AP, and Gannett, among others.
Content Production. We produce compelling and captivating content in a wide variety of tones and styles. We generate everything from authoritative white papers, to talking points and press releases, to op-eds that are fit for publication in top-tier publications.
Executive Positioning. We help CEOs and executive leaders build credibility and increase their influence by facilitating conversations with top-tier journalists across a range of sectors, including biotech, education, energy, government, healthcare, manufacturing, pharma, tech, and transportation.
Media Training and Coaching. We teach clients how to craft and drive a persuasive message, and we teach proven strategies for maintaining control in every type of scenario, including hostile and combative media interviews.
Ed Patru is the founder of Direct Communications Company, a strategic communications advisory specializing in narrative development, reputation and issues management, and crisis mitigation. Since launching the firm in 2018, he has been retained multiple times by members of the President’s Cabinet, corporate founders and CEOs, university presidents, celebrities, and law firms.
Mr. Patru launched Direct Communications Company after seven successful years as Vice President for one of the nation’s largest privately held public affairs firms. During that time, he earned a reputation as a highly effective communications practitioner and a trusted consultant to executive leaders in a variety of sectors including energy, technology, transportation, and education.
Mr. Patru is a veteran spokesman of numerous high-profile political campaigns. In 2010, he was the chief communication advisor to Connecticut businesswoman Linda McMahon in one of the nation’s most closely watched races for the U.S. Senate. Prior to that, he served for nearly six years on Capitol Hill as a national spokesman and strategist for House Republicans, both on the campaign trail and in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 2007, The Washington Post described him as “the message chief for House Republicans," after he successfully overhauled the message and communications strategy for the Iraq War, one of the most politically treacherous policy initiatives in recent memory. Additionally, he managed media operations for dozens of contested House races, including numerous special elections for Congress.
Mr. Patru is a native Michigander who lives in Northern Virginia. He has a wife and four sons.
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