User:NewEnglandDoug

NewEnglandDoug is the Wikipedia account name for Douglass Taft Davidoff, a resident of Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA, and a public relations consultant with an office in Stamford, Connecticut, USA. He was a newspaper reporter before entering the public relations profession.

Born in NewYork City on June 16, 1957, NewEnglandDoug was raised in Westport, Connecticut, and graduated in the Class of 1975 from Staples High School in that town. He attended Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA, where he participated in the freshman Twentieth Century America interdisciplinary studies program, served in several positions for the daily Duke Chronicle including news editor, sang in the Duke Chorale and Chapel Choir, and graduated with a degree in history in 1980.

NewEnglandDoug worked for the Cary News and the Raleigh Times in North Carolina before moving in 1983 to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he lived for 23 years. He worked for The Indianapolis News, the Hudson Institute, the Indiana Housing Finance Authority, and the Indiana Democratic Party staff before opening his own public relations firm. First named "Davidoff Public Relations," it was renamed in 2007 to "Straight Talk Public Relations."

NewEnglandDoug relocated to Chicago in 2006 and worked there for Canright Communications and Meadville-Lombard Theological School. In 2009, he moved to Massachusetts and reactivated Straight Talk Public Relations. Inn 2015, he relocated again, returning to his childhood home region in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Although again back in the orbit of New York City, he resolutely prefers to look the other way, toward the New England region and its mountains, rivers, coastline, and small towns.

NewEnglandDoug blogs at www.DouglassDavidoff.com and tweets at @DougTweets.

In business, he blogs at www.StraightTalkPR.com, www.ContentWordshop.com, and www.NIMBYmonitor.com. He tweets @DougSTPR, @ContentWordshop, and @NIMBYmonitor. He also writes about his experiences with Apple computers and mobile devices @MyLifeWithApple and www.LifeWithApple.com.

His home email is douglass.davidoff@gmail.com and his office email is Doug@StraightTalkPR.com.