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International award winning communications professional with decades of experience.

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Past Work Includes

U.S. Capitol in Spring

A data-driven communications consulting firm

beltway.media is a full-service communications consulting firm that combines modern, data-driven analytics; time-tested communications strategies and behavioral science to connect with audiences and achieve our clients’ goals. We work with each client to develop and execute a unique communications strategy because a one-size-fits all approach doesn’t work and the days of siloing audiences are over.

We focus on language

Our focus is the language your audience reads, sees, hears and how those languages can effectively work together engage the audience with your message.

Read

Copy matters. The often repeated line that ‘people don’t read’ is a myth. Audiences’ attention spans are shorter, their tolerance for bad content is lower and they won’t accept slow load times. But if the page to high-quality content loads quickly, people still read.

See

Humans are visual creatures, our ancient ancestors used visuals to tell stories in caves and we use animated gifs to tell stories online. Visual content is more than gifs, it includes everything the audience sees, including video, web design and the visual aspects of text.

Hear

Auditory language, what people hear, is a critical and often overlooked part of storytelling; and the audience can engage with audio content at times other media are unavailable.

Working with Josh on the development of branding and style guidelines for our start up company, Josh showed a fundamental understanding of design, content, and what "felt right" for our corporate identity. He is an exceptionally talented designer and fantastic to work with! Together we developed a stylish, easy-to-understand, and robust brand for the company.

Kevin M. Costello

Strategy Consultant in Life Sciences
I’ve seen Josh go above and beyond in researching promotion and collaboration opportunities with different brands during the time we worked together. Because of his creative and entreprenuial mindset, he’s also eager to learn new marketing techniques, and he's a fantastic problem solver and a real invaluable asset to have working on any team. It is a pleasure to recommend Josh to others as a consummate and dedicated professional.

Alexis Mayes

IT Program Manager

Joshua I. Altman
Managing Director

Joshua is a creative professional and communications expert with more than 20 years of experience and a background in the public and private sectors. He is the managing director of beltway.media, a D.C.-based creative and communications firm. Prior to launching beltway.media, Joshua worked as a multimedia journalist with The Hill newspaper covering the full scope of federal policy issues and multiple election cycles.

For more than two decades, Joshua’s served as a member of The Telly Awards Judging Council, a select group of past winners who judge each year’s annual competition.

As a consultant, Joshua works with both the public and private sectors including startups at all stages to refine their messaging and connect with their different audiences including customers and investors. At the federal level, Joshua modernized, rebranded, wrote, and relaunched multiple agency websites to optimally engage diverse stakeholders.

Our services include

Content Strategy

Omnichannel Messaging

Media Training

Digital Production

Crisis Communications

Web Accessibility

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