DIANE TURNER

Biography

Diane Turner is an award-winning publicist and writer with more than 15 years experience in communications and marketing communications. She specializes in entertainment, the fine arts, tourism, education and consumer products.

Her client experience includes Columbia Pictures Television, Mattel, KNBC-TV, the Harriet & Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex, the Orange County Department of Education and many departments and properties within The Walt Disney Company.

She gets results. Her clients have enjoyed volumes of press clippings and broadcast time in leading national and local media that include ABC, CBS, NBC, OCN, McCalls, Sunset Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, Associated Press, KFWB and ABC radios, and Los Angeles Times and New York Times newspapers. She has also garnered publicity in key trade media featuring television, entertainment, theme parks, music, dance, theater, travel and collectibles.

Her expertise embodies creating and implementing public relations and marketing for start-up projects, companies and divisions; strategic planning; extensive media relations, and special events management that include --

• Launching the Disneyland Pigskin Classic Football Game -- receiving a 1993 Orange County Public Relations Society of America award for Special Events and gaining national credibility and participation by new fans, NCAA teams and the media
• Launching Columbia Pictures Television's Syndication Department and firmly establishing the division as viable among the company, its distributors and its audiences within six months
• Creating and launching Mickey Markings, a national success in gaining positive Disney publicity in all mediums and the subject of an Emmy-nominated piece produced by KNBC-TV that was picked up nationally on all NBC stations
• Creating and implementing superior publicity for KOCE-TV that resulted in the 1979 Corporation for Public Broadcasting Award for Promotion of a Fund Raising Event
• Establishing the Luckman Fine Arts Complex as a premier venue
• Regular reviews and front-page Calendar features in the Los Angeles Times
• Placing up to 60 pieces of national and local publicity per performance/exhibit
• Securing the Complex on covers of Pacific Bell White & Yellow Pages (98-99)
• Meeting or surpassing all attendance goals each season (95-96, 96-97, 97-98)

Her writing and project management are just as effective. She has skillfully created instructional scripts for the Orange County Department of Education, industry-praised season brochures and print and broadcast advertisements for the Luckman, innovative newsletters for Bergen Brunswig and Disney, and UC Irvine's School of Engineering web page that was cited by the dean to the entire campus. Turner has also written compelling magazine and newspaper articles, advertorials and feature stories. Special mention includes--

• Co-writing EPCOT, a marketing piece and later a best-selling soft-cover book sold in Disney theme parks
• Editing the Free From Drugs booklet distributed by the Orange County Department of Education and winner of a national award for Sheriff Brad Gates
• Writing a superior piece for Forum Fifty magazine, entitled Slim Cuisine, that resulted in the 1980 Orange County Ad Federation Certificate of Excellence/Best Feature Story

Turner is a member of the Publicist Guild, Public Relations Society of America, Professional Communications Exchange and the Hollywood Women's Press Club.

She is a graduate of California State University, Fullerton with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications (Public Relations emphasis) and a Master of Professional Writing degree from the University of Southern California.

Contact Diane Turner for all your communications and marketing needs.

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