Joshua I. Altman Media Kit
Joshua I. Altman
Joshua is a storyteller, strategist and creative force with more than two decades of experience shaping how people see, hear and connect with big ideas. He leads beltway.media, a bold D.C.-based communications firm that helps brands and organizations cut through the noise. A former multimedia journalist at The Hill, he now works with everyone from scrappy startups to federal agencies, helping them refine their message, elevate their brand and connect with their audience.
Medium bio (155 words)
Joshua is a storyteller, strategist and creative force with more than two decades of experience shaping how people see, hear and connect with big ideas. Today he leads beltway.media, a bold D.C.-based communications firm that helps brands and organizations cut through the noise.
Before founding the firm, Joshua was a multimedia journalist at The Hill, diving deep into federal policy and covering high-stakes election cycles from the front lines. For more than two decades, he served as a member of The Telly Awards Judging Council, a select group of past winners who judge each year's annual competition.
Now he works with everyone from scrappy startups to federal agencies including the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Commerce, helping them refine their message, elevate their brand and connect with their audience. Joshua holds an M.A. in Communication, Culture and Technology from Georgetown University and a B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communications from The George Washington University.
Full bio (200 words)
Joshua is a storyteller, strategist and creative force with more than two decades of experience shaping how people see, hear and connect with big ideas. Today, he leads beltway.media, a bold D.C.-based communications firm that helps brands and organizations cut through the noise.
Before founding the firm, Joshua was a multimedia journalist at The Hill, diving deep into federal policy including energy and the environment, tax and finance, healthcare, immigration, defense and criminal justice, and covering high-stakes election cycles from the front lines.
For more than two decades, Joshua served as a member of The Telly Awards Judging Council, a select group of past winners who judge each year's annual competition.
Now he works with everyone from scrappy startups to federal agencies including the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Commerce, helping them refine their message, elevate their brand and connect with their audience, whether that's customers, investors or the public at large. From reimagining agency websites to crafting magnetic stories, Joshua's work has one goal: to make communications clear, compelling and impossible to ignore.
Joshua holds an M.A. in Communication, Culture and Technology from Georgetown University and a B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communications from The George Washington University.
M.A., Communication, Culture and Technology, Georgetown University
B.A., Journalism and Mass Communications, The George Washington University
beltway.media
Founded in 2014 and based in Washington, D.C., beltway.media is a communications consultancy that provides fractional Chief Communications Officer services to small and mid-sized businesses, startups and professional services firms.
The firm serves clients across all industries, delivering executive-level communications strategy without the cost or overhead of a full-time leadership hire. Its work spans the full communications function: from executive messaging and brand positioning to media relations, investor communications, crisis preparedness and podcast production.
Joshua I. Altman built beltway.media on the belief that high-level communications leadership shouldn't only be available to the world's largest companies with multibillion dollar budgets and closes that gap by making C-level communications leadership available to businesses of all sizes.
- Mission-aligned executive-level messaging and brand strategy
- Proactive media relations and public affairs counsel
- Investor, stakeholder and internal communications
- Content strategy and crisis preparedness planning
- Media training and spokesperson development
- Crisis communications
- Media production, including podcast
- Integrated communications strategy combining written, audio, visual and experiential channels
beltway.media is a Washington, D.C.-based communications consultancy founded in 2014. The firm provides fractional Chief Communications Officer services to small and mid-sized businesses, startups and professional services firms across all industries. Its work spans executive messaging, media relations, brand strategy, crisis preparedness, content strategy and media production. More information is available at https://beltway.media.
Joshua is available to speak, advise and be quoted on the following topics.
Corporate Communications
Building and managing the communications function inside growing organizations.
Public Relations
Earned media strategy, media relations and press outreach for businesses that want third-party credibility.
Communications Strategy
Integrating messaging across platforms, channels and stakeholder groups under a unified narrative.
Creativity
How creative discipline drives better business communication and brand differentiation.
Entrepreneurship
Lessons from more than a decade of building and operating a communications firm in Washington, D.C.
Brand Storytelling
Turning complex ideas into magnetic narratives that audiences remember and repeat.
For interview requests, speaking inquiries or asset downloads, contact Dane Snyder.
High-resolution headshots are available for editorial use. Contact the press office for original files.
Media assets and interviews: DaneS@beltway.media