Andrew Blum is a Connecticut-based PR consultant and media trainer who has directed PR for companies, individuals, consulting firms, PR agencies, professional services firms, book publishers and authors, politicians, lawyers and a range of other clients for almost 30 years. He is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate and a former journalist, having been a reporter, editor and freelance writer for United Press International, The New York Times Syndicate, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune, Time Magazine, ABCNews.com, USA Today International, The Christian Science Monitor and other publications.

Featured Work
As a PR consultant, Andrew Blum of AJB Communications has worked on PR for more than 50 books. Here are two book publicity case studies:

The first book was about financial contagion and came out around the time of Brexit. AJB Communications placed the author on CNN International to discuss Brexit.
https://www.media-connect.com/clients/case-studies/connectedness-contagion-protecting-financial-209.html

The second book was about GMOs, with a foreword by Jane Goodall. AJB Communications placed Goodall and the book on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.
https://www.media-connect.com/clients/case-studies/altered-genes-twisted-truth-204.html

More About Andrew Blum and AJB Communications
The PR philosophy of AJB Communications is two-fold: get the best PR for clients while maintaining good relationships with the media. It’s not always easy to do both smoothly.

As a former journalist, Andrew Blum wrote and edited for UPI, the International Herald Tribune, The New York Times Syndicate, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, the LA Times, USA Today, the Christian Science Monitor and ABCNews.com, among others. He also reviewed books for the WSJ, the ABA Journal, and the New York Law Journal, and has written for Medium.com, and public relations publications.

Blum handles PR, crisis and litigation PR, legal PR for law firms and lawyers, high-profile PR, book publicity, political PR, climate change and renewable energy PR, NGO PR, business/finance/economics PR, commercial real estate PR, op-ed and bylined placements, and media training. His PR work has included local, regional, national and international issues.

AJB Communications has directed crisis, high profile PR and litigation PR in connection with bet-the-company type cases, plaintiff’s cases, defendants’ cases, nationally known politicians, lobbyists and CEOs, the military, law firms, and families and individuals.

AJB Communications also offers a range of other general PR services. An affiliated company offers video production services (identity reels, archives of media appearances, promo videos) and audio production (voice talent casting, recording, audio editing and sweetening).