Rich Bamberger
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Rich Bamberger
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Rich Bamberger is an award-winning journalist and an authority on crisis management and media relations. Rich directs complex communications campaigns on behalf of Bamberger & Vlasto's clients.
Prior to his work Bamberger & Vlasto, Rich spent a decade at Kivvit Public Affairs creating and managing issue and reputation campaigns as well as handling crisis issues for public companies, private companies and individuals across the country. Before joining Kivvit, Rich was the Communications Director for Governor Andrew Cuomo where he managed the day-to-day operations of the Governor’s press office, directed major events, coordinated message strategy and helped shape media relations for state agencies and authorities.
Rich was also Communications Director for Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, overseeing communications strategy and media relations for the Attorney General’s office.
Before entering the public sector, Rich was an award-winning journalist. During his 17-year career in television news, Rich served as a producer at WRGB-TV in Albany, NY, assignment manager at WFOR-TV in Miami, FL and managing editor of WJBK-TV in Detroit, MI. From 2007 to 2008, Rich was the managing editor of the nationally syndicated news show “Inside Edition.”
On September 10, 2001, Rich became the managing editor of WCBS-TV in New York City and went on to run the CBS coverage of the 9/11 terror attacks, for which the station won an Edward R. Murrow Award. In 2014, Rich spent hours helping to negotiate a hostage situation at a university in Connecticut when the hostage-taker called the WCBS-TV newsroom. The situation ended with no injuries.
Rich has been named to City & State’s Power 100 list of the most influential New Yorkers as well as the PR Power and the Westchester Power lists over the past several years.
Rich lives in Westchester with his wife and three children.
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From the halls of Congress and Fortune 500 board rooms to the busiest newsrooms, our team knows the media inside and out. We have established relationships with print, broadcast and online media outlets in local markets and on the national level. From developing omnichannel campaigns to arranging one-on-one reporter and editorial board briefings, to IPOs and SPAC announcements, to writing powerful opinion pieces, Bamberger & Vlasto gets the right message in front of the right audience at the right time to achieve results.

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