Anne Wainscott - Writer-Editor

Anne Wainscott-Sargent brings 14 years of journalistic, corporate and agency communications experience to her writing/copyediting and marketing communications practice.

Ms. Sargent began her writing career at age 18 as a freelance reporter for her hometown newspaper, The Dayton Daily News. She was a working reporter throughout her college years, earning a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism in 1991. She was among a select group of seven journalism graduates across the United States to work as reporters in the Middle East through a program sponsored by the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations. Anne served as a general-assignment reporter for The Gulf Daily News in Manama, Bahrain, in the Fall of 1991.

She then held key writing and PR positions at AT&T and at NCR, where her work received local, regional and national recognition from Women in Communications, Inc. and the International Association of Business Communicators.

Today, Ms. Sargent leads a high-quality writing, editing and marketing practice focused on helping her clients take their message to the next level. Her clients include leading organizations such as NCR Corporation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, EMS Technologies, Mobile Satellite Ventures, FIRST Robotics and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Representative projects include:

Researching and writing features and leadership profiles for CDC's employee intranet portal, CDC Connects.

Directing the corporate public relations effort for wireless and satellite technology firm, EMS Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: ELMG), including developing a company-wide external communications strategy and overseeing news-release approvals for all EMS divisions.

Crafting and executing the next-generation external positioning strategy for Mobile Satellite Ventures, North America's leading network satellite service provider, including writing press releases, marketing success stories, and other materials.

Serving as a senior marketing and technology writer for Teradata, a division of NCR, with deliverables ranging from partner data sheets and success stories to newsletter content for PARTNERS, Teradata's annual data-warehousing user conference.

Ms. Sargent has been a member of the International Association of Business Communicators, the Public Relations Society of America and the Atlanta Press Club. Recent writing awards include the IABC Bronze Quill Award of Excellence for Feature Writing, the IABC Silver Quill Award of Merit for Feature Writing, the IABC Gold Quill Award of Excellence in the overall employee publication category and an Addy Award for brochure copy writing.

Ms. Sargent enjoys tennis, narrative non-fiction writing and travel with her family in her free time. She resides in Roswell, Georgia, with her husband, Jeff, and children, Ryan and Sarah.