An award-winning public relations professional, writer, songwriter, educator and author, Chuck Whiting founded Whiting Publicity & Promotions in 1993. He has handled publicity for customers ranging from prominent historic hotels and art galleries to business professionals, organizations, musical performers, authors, and visual artists.

Also an educator, Chuck teaches media writing at Middle Tennessee State University and introductory speech communication at Volunteer State Community College. In addition to publicity, he leads day and weekend publicity workshops for businesses and professionals.  Chuck served on a panel of music industry communication professionals  at the Songwriters Guild's 2005 annual business conference.

Chuck also is the co-author/co-songwriter of The Littlest Star: a musical story, a holiday book and music CD distributed internationally by Faithworks and STL Distributors. The book and CD, which feature musical performances by Margo Smith, Denny Jiosa, and Conni Ellisor, have been featured in The Tennessean newspaper's Holiday Gift Guide. He also is the composer of piano instrumentals and vocal tunes in a wide variety of musical styles. He runs a monthly songwriters night at Kazu Restaurant in Nashville called Tunesmithing @ Cummins Station. Visual artists, songwriters, authors and other professionals in the arts have been showcased at an event Chuck created called Arts on the Row. He also oversees a company that assists developing artists of all kinds called Littlest Star Artist Resources.

Before starting his PR firm, Chuck was a public relations professional for Nashville-based Gaylord Entertainment Co. for more than seven years. His responsibilities included coordinating publicity for the Opryland Hotel, as well as handling other projects for the Grand Ole Opry, the Opryland theme park, and the General Jackson Showboat.

Before that, Chuck worked as a reporter and copy editor for Alabama's two largest daily newspapers (The Mobile Press Register and The Birmingham News) and as the newsletter editor for the 11,000-employee Alabama Power Co. in Birmingham.

As a free-lance writer, Chuck has written stories for publications ranging from AAA's Home & Away (circulation 2 million) and AAA Mid-Atlantic to Nashville Life and Business Nashville.

The Mobile, Ala., native earned bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism (with minors in history and political science) and a bachelor's degree in music business. Memberships include the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, the Country Music Association, the Songwriters Guild of America, the Nashville Songwriters Association International, the Tennessee Jazz & Blues Society, BMI and ASCAP.

Chuck has received awards of excellence for communication from the Nashville Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators, the Public Relations Council of Alabama, the Songwriters Guild of America, and the Alabama Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi. He has received awards of excellence for songwriting from the Songwriters Guild of America, Music City Song Festival, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Billboard, J.P. Folks, and the American Song Festival.

Whiting Publicity & Promotions has provided communication services for dozen of hotels, businesses of all sizes, organizations, career professionals, art galleries, authors, visual artists, songwriters, musicians, recording artists, festivals and events. This has provided a number of networking opportunities for our customers.  Following are some of the customers we've worked with.

Publicity is the generation of news coverage on local, regional, national and international levels. An ongoing process includes developing an in-depth PR Plan; writing, editing and distributing press releases to targeted news media operations; developing press kits; arranging on-air interviews; writing biographies; scheduling press conferences; writing speeches and statements; taking photos; organizing events; and developing news media mailing lists.

News coverage provides invaluable exposure to help build credibility, foster teamwork, and boost sales. Unlike advertising, which involves buying blocks of space or time, publicity is earned. News coverage is not limited to one publication. Depending on your news angle, a press release can garner coverage in dozens of publications. (Note: All of our press releases are written in Associated Press Style. We only write and distribute press releases with a strong news hook. We never waste a news reporter's time.)

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