David Helfert
David Helfert is a professor of political and public affairs communication at Johns Hopkins and George Mason Universities in the Washington, DC area. He has also taught at American University and the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. This follows a long career as a television news reporter, media writer-producer in more than 140 political campaigns, communications director in the Texas Legislature, in the Clinton Administration and for nearly 10 years in Congress. Dave wrote Unspinning: The Practice of Political Communication.