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Nolan J. Walters
Nolan Walters has spent his entire life in the communications business — as a journalist, graduate school teacher, director of programs for a national journalism foundation, and now, as director of communications for Van Scoyoc Associates.

“I am endlessly fascinated by the act of conveying information from one brain to another, regardless of the medium,” he said. “It has to be one of the most complex, important, and misunderstood human activities.”

At VSA, Mr. Walters’s duties touch on all aspects of the firm’s communications, from proposal writing and presentation materials, to press relations and consulting on behalf of clients. He is the principal contact for media interested in the company.

Mr. Walters joined VSA in 2008, following almost eight years as program director for the National Press Foundation, a nationally recognized educational foundation for journalists. There he created and conducted multiple programs and seminars in a variety of formats and on a broad range of topics.

He conceived and operated programs to orient journalists newly assigned to cover Washington, a national seminar on how best to access and use Internet-based resources about Washington, cooperative programs with universities and well-known organizations such as the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and dozens of in-depth programs on complicated topics ranging from violent weather and health care, to international affairs, business, and education.

Mr. Walters conducted programs throughout the United States and abroad in such countries as Canada, Spain, and Kenya, working directly with hundreds of journalists working in all media.

For more than a decade, Mr. Walters taught graduate-level writing classes for Johns Hopkins University, primarily at the university’s Washington center. He taught journalism, nonfiction techniques, workshops, and even a writing class especially for intelligence analysts.

Mr. Walters’s work in education followed a 25-year career as a reporter and editor, with the last 15 years as a correspondent in the Washington bureau for Knight Ridder Newspapers, then the country’s second-largest chain of newspapers. There he covered all aspects of the federal government, politics, social trends, presidential campaigns, and wars.

Mr. Walters came to Washington on behalf of the company’s Georgia newspapers, after working for various newspapers in that state and in Kansas. He holds a master of arts degree in English literature, with a focus on Old English poetry, from the University of Georgia.

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