Robert Christie

The Outstanding Young Alumni Award, established in 1986, is given for outstanding professional performance, achievements and leadership to those who have graduated in the last 25 years.
While a student at Mansfield, Robert Christie was a news reporter for the campus newspaper, The Flashlight, and President of Mansfield’s chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA). He graduated from Mansfield in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication and began his career at the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS).
He served in a variety of media relations and public relations positions, including managing editor for a 13,000 member newsletter, NATAS News, and editorial assistant for NATAS’s journal, Television Quarterly. In 1997, Christie became a senior account director for Goodman Media. He managed the firm’s corporate accounts, including CBS, NBC and PBS, as well as several Fortune 500 companies.
From 1999 to 2003, Christie worked in corporate communications at SONY Electronics, running the company’s business-to-business public relations function. Christie was named Director of Corporate Communications at Dow Jones & Company in New York in 2003 and was promoted to Vice President of Communications in December of 2007. As the senior communications executive, he is responsible for directing all brand, executive and crisis communications for the company’s consumer businesses based world-wide. He has developed content sharing partnerships with Good Morning America/ABC News, NPR and ESPN, and was responsible for directing the communications strategy for the acquisition of CBSMarketWatch.com and the launches of The Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition as well as the redesigned Journal.
In December of 2007, Christie was selected as one of the top 40 public relations executives in the United States under the age of 40 by PR Week magazine, the leading trade magazine for public relations professionals. Recipients were nominated by industry leaders for demonstrating innovative thinking, strong determination and for achieving tremendous results before turning 40 years old.
Christie resides in Manhattan.

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