Don Ringe
Don Ringe has spent nearly 40 years as a political media consultant, Emmy Award winning journalist, documentary filmmaker and online innovator in both the US and overseas.
He began his career as a copy boy at Newsday at the age of 18 while attending Hofstra University. He graduated with a B.A. in Political Science in 1968, and went on to receive and M.S. at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1969.
While attending Columbia University he was hired by David Wolper Productions as noted author Theodore White’s research assistant for the CBS television special, “Making of the President, 1968.” He was also the assistant to the producer of Wolper’s ABC special, “The Uniinished Journey of Robert F. Kennedy.”
In 1969 he created one of the first political media firms in the country for Spencer-Roberts & Associates whose primary client was California Governor Ronald Reagan.
In 1972 he became a free-lance documentary producer associated with Alan Landsburg Productions. He wrote and co-directed the NBC Emmy nominated show, “In Search of Ancient Astronauts,” which served as the pilot for the series, “In Search of….” He also wrote and directed “Armies of the Ants,” a television documentary shot in the Amazon, Panama and Costa Rica.
From 1974 – 1978 he was a producer, executive producer and news director of network affiliate television stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Boston.
In 1978 he founded Ringe Media, a communications company specializing in public affairs and political media campaigns, as well as educational and entertainment media. RMI has provided the advertising for many US Senate and gubernatorial campaigns, as well as for Presidential campaigns in the US and abroad. The firm also creates media for ballot initiatives, associations and special interest groups.