About
About
George Sells is the owner and founder of George Sells Media, a boutique, all-encompassing communications, marketing, and media agency. George is an experienced communications and PR pro, with time spent running marketing and communications for a large urban school system. He is also an Emmy Award winning producer and journalist who spent more than two decades in television and digital news. He has worked in markets including St. Louis, New York, and Los Angeles.
George Sells Media is a consulting firm with deep experience in all facets of school public relations as well as broader communications, marketing and PR. We can offer support for school districts and other groups in need of communications guidance and expertise, as well providing a suite of supports for smaller schools and districts that lack a communications department, but need to communicate!
George has been sought as a speaker on crisis communications by groups like the National School Public Relations Association, The Council of the Great City Schools, and the Missouri School Boards Association.
Media relations work has been a staple of George's career, both at SLPS and for clients such as the Missouri Foundation for Health. His news media background informs the work from all angles; earned media, crisis communication, video production and writing.
Clients include the St. Louis Community Foundation, SMJ School Communications, the Kirkwood, MO school district, the Missouri Foundation for Health, KMOX radio, and the New Orleans Saints.
Also George Sells Media is the owner of the "Memoir" brand of biographical content. These are the stories that need to be told. Legacy videos about loved ones. Recruitment videos for students seeking a college scholarship. Profile videos of business leaders. Let Memoir tell your story.George Sells Media is a consulting firm with deep experience in all facets of school public relations as well as broader communications, marketing and PR. We can offer support for school districts and other groups in need of communications guidance and expertise, as well providing a suite of supports for smaller schools and districts that lack a communications department, but need to communicate! George has been sought as a speaker on crisis communications by groups like the National School Public Relations Association, The Council of the Great City Schools, and the Missouri School Boards Association. Media relations work has been a staple of George's career, both at SLPS and for clients such as the Missouri Foundation for Health. His news media background informs the work from all angles; earned media, crisis communication, video production and writing. Clients include the Kirkwood, MO school district, the Missouri Foundation for Health, KMOX radio, and the New Orleans Saints. Also George Sells Media is the owner of the "Memoir" brand of biographical content. These are the stories that need to be told. Legacy videos about loved ones. Recruitment videos for students seeking a college scholarship.
If it’s the cutting edge of tech that you like, George built the foundation for an organization set to gather news in virtual reality and 360 video around the nation. He identified and developed best practices for gathering, producing, and editing news in the VR space, and doing it in a time frame acceptable for daily news coverage. Part of this process involved shooting, producing, editing, and publishing stories himself. Sells produced nearly 50 VR/360 stories on his own, and received MANDT VR's first Emmy award in the process..
He also identified and hired reporters in multiple US markets, trained them in VR, equipped them with the right gear and the began the process of having them produce material.
While this was going on, he identified a need for some broadcast groups to learn VR news gathering for themselves. Sells put together a consulting plan that would allow broadcasters and other digital creators to enter the VR space efficiently and affordably. He ran business development for this wing of the company.
As part of an emerging VR startup, Sells was also involved a variety of other company projects. These include the implementation of content procedures for an OTT app developed for Podcast One, writing of pitch deck material aimed at a variety of major clients, and testing of cameras and live stream technology for a number of projects.
Prior to that, as Public Information Officer for St. Louis' top prosecutor, Sells was involved in crisis communication at the highest level as well as vital reputation management activities for the ag