Marshall Maher is the United States media manager at the international non-profit group Conservation International (CI). He is a recognized expert on crisis communications and image branding.
Biography Maher is a former reporter at The Quorum Report and former editor of The Daily Texan.
Prior to joining CI in 2005, he was the Washington D.C.-based Communications Director for Congressman Lloyd Doggett (TX-25).
Achievements In February 2006, Maher garnered coverage for a CI-led expedition to the Foja Mountains in Papua in hundreds of U.S. media outlets including NBC Nightly News, ABC's Nightline, The Daily Show, The New York Times, National Public Radio, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and TIME.
In 2001, Maher and The Daily Texan were featured in the international media for his controversial decision to not publish a story in his newspaper about a high-profile alcohol-related incident that took place in Austin, Texas involving Jenna Bush, daughter to U.S. President George W. Bush, who was a minor at the time. Maher discussed his decision with Matt Lauer on The Today Show as well as on CNN, the BBC, and was quoted in U.S. News and World Report and People Magazine among others.
He has also received several first-place awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for his editorial writing.
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