Dan Rudt - Bio

Life experience is a writer's greatest ally. Dan Rudt draws from years of experience that has helped shape his understanding of people, politics, religion and life.

Rudt is the son of French-speaking, Jewish immigrants who, like thousands of their neighbors, were forced to leave their home in Egypt after the Sinai War of 1956. A child of the '60s, he was brought up across the Hudson from midtown Manhattan in West New York, New Jersey, a town that would welcome tens of thousands of refugees from Castro's Cuba. Rudt's childhood experience was one of a multilingual, multinationality, multicultural America in a time of political and social turmoil.

It was a time, also, when the Rudt family black and white television was tuned, every evening, to the events of the day, provided by the quintessentially professional Walter Cronkite. Dan grew up, closely following the news on CBS, National Public Radio and the daily papers. His fascination for current events ultimately led him to pursue a degree in political science and a career in news, public affairs and communications.

A skilled communicator, Rudt became the midday news anchor in 1989 at then "Business Radio 1580," WPGC-AM in Washington, DC. His time slot soon earned higher ratings than the station's morning and evening drives. In 1991, He went on to host Dan Rudt's Washington Forum, a weekly, call-in public affairs program on WPGC.

By then, Rudt had been hired by the nation's largest producer of radio programming, Westwood One, to produce one of their weekend talk programs. In 1992, Westwood would hire Rudt full-time to produce nationally distributed, award-winning talk and public affairs programs for Westwood's Mutual Broadcasting System and NBC Radio Networks. Among his productions was the award-winning, youth market, public affairs program, The Source Report, and the most listened to nighttime radio talk show in America, the award-winning Bruce Williams Show, which aired on 380 stations and took calls from listeners as far away as Guam.

In 1996, Rudt brought his communication skills to the field of association marketing. First, as Director of Business Development for the National Grocers Association, then as Director of Marketing and Sales for the International Society for Performance Improvement, Dan planned national marketing campaigns and developed and wrote event brochures, email newsletters, advertisements, sales letters and Websites.

In 2003, Rudt became a freelance writer, editor and marketing communications consultant based in the Washington, DC suburb of Rockville, Maryland.

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