About

Speak to Press Media Training is based on the idea that, with proper training on how to develop and deliver a message, anyone can speak confidently and effectively to the media.

And that expert training shouldn’t cost a fortune.

Longtime Washington, DC public affairs executive Jonathan Collegio founded Speak to Press in 2019 after attending a program at Harvard Business School (HBS).

While absorbing Harvard’s perfectly crafted online prep classes on accounting and economics, he realized that online courses – if carefully thought-out and well-produced, with the end-user in mind – could create learning experiences that rival in-person instruction.

Speak to Press content is largely based on a media training bootcamp he developed to train business executives and political candidates when he owned a PR firm. Collegio spent more than a year honing down that content, and modeling it after Harvard’s online programs.

Collegio came to Washington, DC as journalist, and later worked in senior roles on Capitol Hill, for political parties and candidates, and in both the broadcasting and automotive industries. Collegio was named Public Affairs Executive of the Year by PR News in 2009 for his work managing the television industry’s transition to digital broadcasting, and owned a public affairs firm where he trained people to meet the press.