Member of the Month: Bridge View Media

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Bridge View Media is a strategic communications consultancy that helps you understand what you need to say and how to say it, so you can connect, communicate and engage with your audience.

Our expertise is in strategic story and audience dynamics.

Our services include:

  • Strategic Communications: We give you a clear and concise way to talk to the world about what you do, and a strategy for implementing that communication.

  • Communications Training: We give you the skills and training to have those conversations.

  • Media Design: We analyze and execute the most effective way of reaching your audience.

  • Audience Dynamics: We define the audience whom you want to reach.

Managing Partner Nora Barry is a communications and story strategist who has worked with top technology, life sciences and media companies, including Lenovo, Red Hat, IBM, Ellucian, Astra Zeneca, Spark Therapeutics, and Hallmark, among many others. Early in her career she worked in marketing communications for AT&T, Avaya, Lucent and Verizon. She has written for The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Forbes, and Inc. Magazine, and has been a contributing author on a number of books. She is the author of The Strategy of Story: Why Story Works and How You Can Make It Work for You, published in the fall of 2023.



Managing Partner Michael Adams is a 25 year veteran of network and cable news and sports. He began his career as an Executive Producer for CBS news and led the production of a number of Super Bowls, PGA tournaments, political conventions and was the lead global producer for a Papal Visit. Michael moved into the C-Suite at Tribune, where he launched the first regional 24 hours news channel, and then Knight-Ridder in Philadelphia, where he was the first to put cameras in a print newsroom. Prior to launching Bridge View Media, Mike created both a venture capital fund and a strategic advisory firm that worked with consumer products, online education, finance, and technology firms.

Q&A with Nora and Michael:

What is your favorite spot in Philly to disappear for some alone time? Penn Treaty Park

What is a non-profit that you support? Other than CCBA? The Athenaeum

What is your favorite place you have traveled to? Venice, Italy

What was your first concert?  Bruce Springsteen!

What is your best networking tip?  Focus on creating a good story to tell about yourself—and ask others for theirs.