AR&D Reinventing Local Media

Bob Kaplitz is a principal and Senior Station Strategist for AR&D, which he joined in 1980 after a distinguished career in broadcast journalism, which included reports on the CBS Evening News and recognition by RTNDA as Best TV Investigative Reporter in the U.S. and Canada. He's consulted TV stations and media groups in markets including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, Detroit, Cleveland and has spoken abroad in cities as far flung as Sydney, Australia and Hong Kong.

Bob also lectures on international advertising and new media to MBA students at the University of Dallas Graduate School of Management. The Dean of the business school recognized him multiple times for excellence in teaching.

He’s also spoken on viewer behavior to the National Press Photographers Association, the National Association of Broadcasters, and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

He’s also served as vice president of new media for the DFW American Marketing Association where he pioneered the creation of video interviews with some of the country’s leading marketers.

He’s author of Creating Execution Superstars with Budgets Cut to the Bone — a 160 page handbook for thriving in the downsized economy. Bob Dotson, national correspondent for NBC News' Today Show calls the book "a roadmap to better times."

Bob has been nominated several years in a row by the DFW Interactive Marketing Association to judge some of the country’s most innovative marketing campaigns.

Bob shot and produced a short movie, Save a Treasured Home, to help preserve a Dallas landmark designed and built by a disciple of the famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

Bob studied journalism and marketing at the acclaimed Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications where he received a Masters degree which followed a degree in psychology. One of his mentors was Dan Rather.

He’s also studied innovation at the Center for Creative Leadership and was certified as an Innovation Leader at Synectics, a global consulting business that helps businesses create breakthrough ideas.

He’s written articles on news management for Electronic Media and media reviews for the Dallas Morning News.

He’s conducted global webinars for a London-based firm specializing in international marketing solutions. At their Los Angeles conference for marketing executives, Bob was rated as one of their top speakers.

Bob has advised a remarkable range of people on building personal brands, which is important to everyone’s success. They range from network correspondents to the Tony Award winning star of the Broadway hit Jersey Boys to a notorious girlfriend of President Clinton to Princess Diana’s former chef at the Royal Palace.