Company
People Media raises awareness, educates target audiences, changes minds and helps influence key consumers.
With its unique blend of products, services and consumer-driven events People Media helps organizations conduct research, raise awareness, tap demand, build brands, and conduct issues advocacy to reach strategic objectives. We're also adept at handling the crisis and issues that come up along the way to marketing and communications success.
People Media meets its clients' communications needs with energy to build successful campaigns and the experience and know-how to deliver outstanding results.
We provide outstanding services delivered by a team of experienced, accomplished professionals.
Tap People Media's vitality to make your results a reality.
People Media Ventura County
2625 Townsgate Road, Suite 2330
Westlake Village, California 90071
People Media Los Angeles
333 South Grand Avenue, 25th Floor
Los Angeles, California 90071
People Media Key Personnel:
People Media Group has a team of valuable, experienced professionals.
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Wendy P. Basil
Andrea Schepke
John G. Lockhart
John G. Lockhart is the President of People Media Group. From 1992 to 1994 John was senior vice president and manager of Porter/Novelli's health care practice in the Western region. John's years of experience include work with a number of companies in a variety of industries, including Gerber Products, Baxter Healthcare, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Amgen, Nestle, Mentor Corporation and Johnson & Johnson
John is also an expert in issues and crisis management, having worked with a medical device manufacturer during an FDA recall, the Seventh-day Adventist Church during the Branch Davidian crisis in Waco, and a major Japanese consumer electronics company and a large HMO on employer issues. John has also worked with several consumer product companies on product tampering issues.
In addition to work for clients at Halsted Communications, John has served as a board member for the American Cancer Society, and the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation.
John has a degree in journalism from Marquette University and a certificate in advanced management from the University of Southern California.
Wendy P. Basil
Wendy P. Basil,received her MA in Communications Management from the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California and has served clients in a variety of industries with their public relations, marketing and research needs. She has won a number of writing awards as a freelance writer and has headed teams that have won industry awards for product introduction, media relations, community relations, special events, proprietary publications and crisis management.
Wendy heads client service at People Media Group and counsels clients on product and corporate positioning. She is a crisis specialist with over fourteen years of experience in health care issues. Health care and nutrition issues are often linked. Wendy's food experience covers a diverse group of clients from fast food franchisers (Baskin-Robbins, El Pollo Loco) to growers collectives (Sunkist, Almond Board, California Kiwi) to blue-chip food corporations with household names (Nestle, Johnson & Johnson, Gerber Products).
Wendy serves on the board of directors for the American Cancer Society in Southern California and on the state level. She is also on the board of PAWS, a group which helps AIDS/HIV patients and their pets. In the past, she was worked closely with AIDS Project/Los Angeles, Rebuild LA, CARE and Healthy LA 2000.
Andrea [Hanson] Schepke