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ABOUT US
KestenMedia now involves the media directories and more. Michael offers his professional services and media expertise on a contract basis to individuals, businesses and organizations. Those services include media training, web page maintenance, newsletter publishing, news releases, news conferences, PowerPoint presentations and video production Background.
Michael Kesten developed his interest in the media at an early age.
The photo to the right (left arrow) Those
early days on the radio left a lasting impression. His first year
of college, Michael worked at the campus radio station, KUOI, at
the University of Idaho. After transferring to the University of
Oregon, he began working at the Oregon Daily Emerald, the student
run newspaper. He reported news for KZEL FM, Eugene, while still
at the U of O.
Upon graduation, Michael worked in radio news at KIHR AM Hood River, Oregon, and KBDF AM - KZEL FM Eugene. He spent 15 years in broadcasting, mostly in television news at KVAL TV Eugene and KOIN TV Portland. For two years in the late 80s, he worked as a managing editor at Conus Communications, the satellite news cooperative in Minneapolis. His long career in news is a benefit to his clients and customers today.
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Communications
professional. Michael Kesten made the transition
from hard news to media relations and communications in 1990 when
he became a media director at the Oregon legislature. From 1997
to early 2002, Michael served as communications director for the
Oregon Trial Lawyers Association, a nonprofit organization. The
idea for media directories grew out of Michael's own struggle to
maintain media lists. He published his first media directories in
1996.
shows Michael at the age of three, standing with his family just
outside their home in Osburn, Idaho. You can see radio station KWAL
(right arrow) next door. Between the ages of three and six, Michael
spent many Saturday mornings as a resident guest on KWAL's "Aunt
Jane" program. The time was spent talking to "Aunt Jane"
about the stories she read on the air and describing for the children
at home his own crayon drawings.