About Wenzel Strategies

 Wenzel Strategies is a public opinion research and media/communications consulting company based in Columbus, Ohio. The company is headed by President Fritz Wenzel, an award–winning journalist who has wide experience in the fields of strategic and investigative writing, general research, public opinion research, journalism, media, and political and media consultation. Wenzel Strategies specializes in marrying the fields of research and communications to produce high quality documentation and strategic communications products for government, non–profit, business, political and lobbying clients. The firm was founded in 2005.

 Mr. Wenzel has wide experience in the fields of public opinion research, journalism, media, and political and media consultation, and is an accomplished public speaker. He has presented at more than 130 conferences and meetings, including the United States Senate, the national Committee for Economic Development, the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet (at George Washington University), the Election 2008 Lecture Series at the Washington Center in Washington D.C., political briefings for the Japanese and Argentinean embassies, the Ohio Association of Elections Officials, the Ohio Republican Party, the National Association of Community Schools Authorizers, the Ohio Council of Community Schools, and the American Speech–Language–Hearing Association, among many others.

 For several years, he worked for Zogby International, a public opinion research firm based in Upstate New York, as a leader in developing its political and cultural polling and in revamping and managing its worldwide communications department.

 Mr. Wenzel is a skilled journalist, having worked for 25 years as a news and political reporter for the Portland Oregonian, the Toledo Blade, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspapers. He has also worked as a television and radio reporter, news anchor, and a local and national talk show host, and has appeared on national television and international radio networks, including ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, C–SPAN, the Mutual Broadcasting System, XM Satellite Radio, Air America, the Premiere Radio Network, the USA Radio Network, the Salem Radio Network, the ABC Radio Network of Australia, Sky Radio News and BBC Radio in the UK, among others. He has worked as a press secretary in the U.S. Congress, and as a political and media consultant for candidates for federal, state, and local offices.

Mr. Wenzel was educated at Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon, majoring in electronic and business communications.