ABOUT STUART

Stuart Howie is a Canberra communications specialist with unmatched experience across media, and in crafting corporate and government comms. He is expert in helping organisations and their teams discover, shape and tell their stories for maximum impact.

​Government comms

Stuart has developed and led best-practice government comms and media units. He has worked as a senior media adviser with successive Australian governments.

Author and expert

Stuart is the author of the award-winning communications guidebook, The DIY Newsroom. He is sought out as a media and communications commentator and presenter.

Strategic comms

Stuart has run his own communications consultancy. He devised the SMART method and has reorganised newsrooms and communication operations in Australia and New Zealand.

Media

Stuart knows a story. He cut his teeth as a reporter on a small country newspaper. He went on to become an editor and news executive, redefining digital news for Australia’s biggest regional network.

Transform your comms now with The DIY Newsroom

Are you tired of trying to be heard in the Attention Economy? ​Are you wondering how best to navigate the media landscape to communicate effectively, day-in, day-out?
In the DIY Newsroom, STUART HOWIE provides a playbook for individuals, teams and organisations on how to set themselves up to develop and distribute stellar communications.
  • Discover his 5-step SMART Way™ - Strategy, Media, Authenticy, Results, Team.
  • Save time and resources while achieving impactful communication.
  • Optimise your social media efforts for real and authentic engagement.
This book has shipped internationally, and was named Book of the Year in its category at the Australian Business Book Awards.
Video: learn more about SMART approach

LATEST BLOGS: CUTTING-EDGE OF COMMS AND MEDIA

How we lost our brains to social media, and the way back

On social, you have no control. One day you are a global sensation, the next, in the beat of an algorithm, a nobody.

Australia's opportunity to build on positive OECD trust report

In an age of misinformation and disinformation, who do you trust? In Australia, it’s the government. 

VIDEOS: INSIGHTS TO CREATING COMPELLING COMMS

How COVID's helped us craft DIY comms

COVID made us better communicators.  We're using new tools and going direct to our audiences.

Timeless essentials of ethos, pathos, logos

Aristotle mastered the art of making a heartfelt connection with his audiences with a simple three-way technique.

In government,
we trust - really 

The data is in - Australians have never trusted government more. Yes, I'm serious, and let me explain.

THE DIY NEWSROOM™: ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Stuart Howie is a Canberra-based media and communication professional who knows how to make a heartfelt connection with audiences. 
After a distinguished career as a journalist, editor and executive, Stuart left big media to apply his expertise in government communications.
Today, he is known as a communications entrepreneur who helps agencies shape and tell their story for maximum recognition. 
He does that by developing high-performing teams that become trusted sources of government information.
His quality hardback The DIY Newsroom has attracted international attention as a compelling work on how to win in today's Attention Economy.

THE DIY NEWSROOM™: QUOTABLE

Never before have we had so many ways to communicate. But never has it been so complex. We have turned communications into a field of study, as a science and a high art, and elevated it to an industry. ​But still, we are overwhelmed, confused and frustrated. However, there is a better way to simple, strategic and sustainable communications. The SMART Way.

​    - STUART HOWIE, writing in The DIY Newsroom

THE DIY NEWSROOM™: WHAT OTHERS SAY

The DIY Newsroom arrived today. I started reading it when I got home and couldn’t put it down until I finished it. Such a great read. Simple, elegant and immensely practical. The DIY Newsroom is about to be put to good use as I rebuild my new ‘newsroom’ ... I mean marketing team!
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​- Dean Gould, Chief Marketing Officer, Southern Cross University, Gold Coast, Australia
Ready to unlock your content superpowers? Stuart articulates the skills that every storyteller needs today and the blueprint for managers to build the decentralised newsroom of tomorrow.  
- Yusuf Omar, co-founder Hashtag Our Story, and Prince of Mojo (mobile journalism)