HONOLULU, HAWAII – Communications Pacific (CommPac) has hired national award-winning newspaper columnist, author and screenwriter Charles Memminger as a senior writer. He will work on a variety of projects and accounts, using his unique background as a long-time Hawaii resident familiar with the Islands’ lifestyle, culture and business community.
“We are delighted to have Charley join our team,” said Kitty Lagareta, CommPac CEO. “He is an extraordinary talent and brings us great breadth and depth of experience as a communicator.”
Memminger has written for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Honolulu Advertiser, Honolulu Magazine, Hana Hou and Hawaii Reporter. His work has also appeared nationally in Newsweek and Better Homes & Gardens, among other places, and has also been distributed by the New York Times News Service. He has won a number of Hawaii journalism awards, and the National Society of Newspaper Columnists twice named him the top humor columnist for U.S. newspapers under 100,000 circulation. In 2010 he took third place nationally in humor for newspapers over 100,000 circulation.
Memminger was a staff writer on the final season of the TV show “Baywatch Hawaii,” after becoming the only Hawaii writer to win the Maui Writer’s Conference international screenwriting competition. He has had two books of humor essays and columns published in Hawaii; St. Martin’s Press will publish his novel “Kahala Road,” a “light tropical thriller,” in 2013, with a sequel to follow.
Memminger has also served as a public relations consultant to the Corrections Corporation of America. He has appeared on Hawaii TV and radio and, earlier, he worked as a reporter for newspapers in West Virginia and Guam (Pacific Daily News). He is a graduate of Aiea High School and Oregon State University.
Communications Pacific is Hawaii’s leading integrated communications company, offering public relations, marketing and community building, including land use and real estate projects and other issues. Hawaii’s “go to” communicators, CommPac is a trusted advisor to clients and partners. It strives not only to bring clients success, but also, in every way possible, to strengthen communities, the economy, and the social and cultural fiber of these Islands. For more than four decades, CommPac has provided strategic – and creative – communications counsel that gets results. It is a member of IPREX, one of the largest international partnerships of independent communications firms in major markets around the globe, providing clients with global reach while working with the local expertise of its award-winning partner firms.
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