Steven
has been a television producer, a newspaper features writer and
columnist, a radio newscaster and reporter, a weekly radio talk-show
host, a television news anchor and an NBC affiliate news division
manager. He directed a nationwide television and radio public
information program in Kiev, Ukraine. He managed a Washington-based
television news service, and served as bureau chief in its Moscow office
during the final months of the Soviet Union in 1990-91. He was the
American representative in Moscow for a US-Soviet newspaper joint
venture between the Literaturnaya Gazeta and the Sun World
Corporation.
Steven has worked with
international media and clients including CBS, BBC, Krieble Institute,
New York Stock Exchange, Transcom Communications, Hill & Knowlton, Gavin Anderson & Company, The PBN Company, East-West Films,
Cardean University, and About/Primedia. He has worked with
social and economic reform programs including VISTA, Head Start, and the
United States Agency for International Development.
Steven is president of
Educare Research inc,
a nonprofit organization providing free learning resources to
international independent educators and students. He has a PhD in Education with a specialty
in transcultural learning, and conducts international multicultural
research. He received a B.A. in
Journalism and an M.A. in Business
Communications.
Steven teaches courses in
Cross-Cultural Marketing, and Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC)
for UCLA Extension. He has taught courses in
Marketing, and Marketing Communications for the
International Program at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and courses in
Marketing and Global Economics for Antioch University. He has
also taught online MBA courses in Public Relations, Managerial Marketing, and Global Business for Ellis
University.
Steven R. Van Hook is the
founder of Worldwide Media Relations based
in Santa Barbara, and publishes the AboutPublicRelations,
HowToMarketing,
HowToSail,
and HowToTeach
webzines. He's a USCG
sailboat captain, sailing instructor, chaplain, and officates
weddings out
of Channel Islands Harbor in California. |