NEW YORK, NY -October 28, 2002
Cable Positive, the cable and telecommunications industry's national non-profit organization, has tapped noted author Doug Garr to write a special publication titled " A Community Remembers: A Community Acts", chronicling the cable industry's 10-year commitment to the fight against AIDS through Cable Positive. The special 10 year commemorative publication will be polybagged with the November 25, 2002 issue of Reed Business Information's Multichannel News and is sponsored by The John Evans Foundation and Cable Positive's Joel Berger Fund.
Most recently, Garr, a Manhattan-based writer, received overwhelmingly favorable reviews for his 1999 (Harper's Business) book about IBM's Lou Gerstner entitled: "IBM Redux: Lou Gerstner and the Business Turnaround of the Decade". Kirkus Reviews wrote that it was "a dramatic and well-told adventure story," with Publisher's Weekly's calling Garr's "eye for detail extraordinary," and The New York Times Book Review adding, "his portraits have the whiff of the office skinny."
Garr is also author of "Woz: The Prodigal Son of Silicon Valley," a biography of the cofounder of Apple Computer, and the co-author of The Complete Computer Compendium (Avon, with Mike Edelhart), and Mr. Mint's Guide to Investing In Baseball Cards and Collectibles" (Warner, with Alan Rosen).
He has extensive experience as a speechwriter, as well. He wrote economic speeches for former New York Governor Mario Cuomo during his last administration, and he was the principal ghostwriter of Cuomo's book, "The New York Idea: An Experiment in Democracy" (Crown, 1994). He also functioned as the governor's literary advisor and was the midwife for Cuomo's collected speeches, "More Than Words" (St. Martin's, 1994).
Garr also is a corporate speechwriter who has written for several senior executives and prominent CEOs, including Carly Fiorina of Hewlett-Packard, Bill Harrison of JP Morgan Chase Manhattan, Tony White of Celera, and Dan Warmenhoven of Network Appliances.
As a journalist, he has been a writer and editor since 1971. He was editor-in-chief of Video magazine, and associate editor at Popular Science magazine. His work has appeared in several national publications, including Business Week, Fortune's Technology Review, GQ, Popular Science, Worth, New York, Strategy & Business, and MIT's Technology Review. His essays have appeared in The East Hampton Star and the Op-Ed Page of The New York Times.
Cable Positive is a national non-profit organization that was founded in February 1992 by three concerned cable executives with the mission of organizing cable's resources in the fight against AIDS. Cable Positive is dedicated to unifying the talents, resources, access and influence of the communications industry to raise AIDS awareness; to fund AIDS education, research and care; and to promote a more compassionate climate for people whose lives have been affected by HIV and AIDS. Cable Positive has grown to include supporters from every major cable network, multiple system operator, cable system, hardware manufacturer, trade association, media publication, and affiliated industry vendors and suppliers. Since 1992, Cable Positive has raised more than $9 million in the fight against AIDS. For more information about Cable Positive, call 212-459-1502 or log on to www.cablepositive.org.
