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Meet Jerry Amernic
Jerry
Amernic is a writer and consultant. He has written five books
and is a contributor to newspapers, magazines and trade
publications. In Canada he has been a Sunday columnist with
The Toronto Sun and a feature correspondent with The Toronto
Star, Ottawa Citizen and National Post.
Jerry's first book 'Victims: The Orphans of Justice' was an
eye-opener into the criminal justice system. He later wrote
two B 2B
books for U.S. publisher Community Communications before
venturing into fiction with the Canadian and U. S. release of
his
debut novel ‘Gift of the Bambino,’ which has garnered strong
reviews and been optioned for a screenplay.
His more recent book ‘Duty – The Life of a Cop’ is a
best-seller that continues to
attract attention and to be excerpted in major newspapers.
Jerry’s comments and views on current events and issues appear
frequently in the media.
On the
corporate
side,
Jerry brings a strong media background to corporate
communications. He has served as public relations/media
relations counsel to companies from various sectors:
technology (IBM, Nortel, NCR, Honeywell), financial services
(Investors Group, Bank of Montreal, PricewaterhouseCoopers),
healthcare (Extendicare, S t. Michael's Hospital), to name a
few.
He has more than twenty years of experience in Public
Relations and possesses keen knowledge of the corporate sector
and the media. He has been a Senior Consultant with two major
Public Relations firms, an associate to several public
relations and communications marketing firms, and has trained
consultants at such agencies as Hill and Knowlton, Cohn &
Wolfe and GPC.
A former
instructor in the Journalism, Public Relations and Corporate
Communications programs at Humber College and Seneca College,
he is also an executive media trainer and public speaker. Find
out more about
Jerry's speaking topics.
Photos of Jerry Amernic by
Diana Trepkov.
What's on
Jerry's mind? Read his Blog -
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