Gary McCullough

Gary L. McCullough

Born in . . . Joplin, Missouri, raised in Olympia, Washington. Married and has six children. Spends a majority of his free time watching his children on the football or baseball field, or at a gymnastics or swim meet.

Traveler . . . Austria, Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, Cayman Islands, China, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Korea, Mexico, Poland, Puerto Rico, Russia, Saint Lucia, Slovakia, South Africa, United Kingdom, and the Virgin Islands.

Musician . . . toured as guitar player with Up With People.

Hobbies . . . snow skiing, SCUBA diving, sports photography, paintball, and racquetball.

Activist . . . went to work for the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue in 1989. Arranged first interviews for jailed cell-mates by keeping details of media interview times and phone numbers written with soap on his jail cell's concrete floor. He has been arrested for peaceful sit-ins (called Rescues) in front of abortion clinics over 30 times.

Media Experience . . . radio network news anchor, Milwaukee morning drive host, nationally syndicated talk radio producer, New York radio station general manager, television talk-show producer, and White House media consultant. Over the past twenty years Gary has been a guest on every major radio and television news network.

Memorable Moments . . . wedding to Melody Reece of Lakewood, California; knocking a few chunks off the Berlin Wall; rescuing unborn children from abortion in Poland; going undercover inside Refuse & Resist in cooperation with Maryland State Police, shark diving off the coast of the Dominican Republic; protesting in China; and playing catcher at the births of his children.

Speaker . . . from Durban, South Africa, to Dublin, Ireland, Gary has responded to invitations to address international leaders, political & cultural activists, and college & high-school students, on the merits and methods of using the mass media to reach objectives. Gary was the press agent for the family of Terri Schiavo and created a firestorm of press attention that led the governor of Florida to intervene in 2003, and the President and Congress to do the same in 2005.

And now . . . Gary McCullough is the director of the Christian Communication Network. Since 1989 -- Gary has taken his jail-floor media book and turned it into the nation's most recognized religious newswire, Christian Newswire. In 2006 to serve the needs of secular newsmakers he added Standard Newswire.

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